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0.998427 | House plants are fairly self-sufficient, but they do need certain care from people to survive. With a few Arduino sensors and a little programming, you can take the guesswork out of watering your plants.
House plants can provide a little corner of peace and tranquility and give a living space a more cheerful feel. However, after plants are taken from their natural environment, they need certain help to be able to survive and stay healthy: watering, light, nutrients, and so on.
With the goal of keeping your plants from dying because of neglect or simply because you forgot to water them, I'm going to focus in this article on using Arduino to design systems that allow you to understand better what your plants feel and, at the same time, make gardening a simpler task.
Getting your Arduino to water the plants on time will require some attention to a very important programming topic: time control. With these skills, you won't be able to travel to the past in a DeLorean, but you will be able to control which day and at which time a specific action will be carried out. This setup will allow you to establish a specific schedule for watering your garden.
To accomplish this, I'll turn to a device that lets Arduino know the day and the hour at which the code is being run. Its name is RTC , the Real-Time Clock, which is a computer clock that communicates with your Arduino by means of a protocol not used in this project until now. Thanks to a little button battery and a few dollars, your Arduino can keep time even when you haven't powered it on.
As shown in Figure 1, only four wires are needed to connect the Arduino. The I2C is a serial bus communication protocol accessible in Arduino via analog input pins 4 and 5, corresponding to the SCL pins (clock line) and SDA pins (date line). The other pins are supply and ground.
Figure 1: The RTC module supplies the date and time.
Thanks to Arduino's OneWire library, working with the I2C protocol isn't going to be difficult. You don't need to understand it in depth, because it involves a simple serial bus based on the master/slave structure, but when I describe the programming later, you'll see its function in greater detail.
For a second example in this article, I'll need to use sensors that provide data about the status of the plants. The temperature and humidity sensors used in other situations, won't work here. Keep in mind that the sensors need to work in special conditions, because I'll be measuring these parameters inside the pot or in the soil. For this, I'm going to use the probe shown in Figure 2: a digital temperature probe specially designed to work in these adverse conditions.
Figure 2: Ground temperature-measuring probe to use with 1-Wire.
The only snag with this sensor is that it doesn't function as a normal digital sensor unless a protocol called 1-Wire is used. The interesting thing about this protocol is that it lets you use multiple sensors connected at the same time to only one digital pin.
I'm going to use only one sensor, which has three pins: supply, signal, and ground. In terms of hardware, I'll connect it as if it's going to interface with another digital sensor, supplying it with 5 volts and with the signal connected to a digital Arduino pin. The only difference is that it's going to be necessary to place a 4k7 pull-up resistor between 5V and signal to power the device correctly.
However, with software, it's a different story. I need to communicate with the sensor in a specific way, and for this I'll use a combination of libraries for Arduino that let me communicate with devices by way of the 1-Wire protocol.
You'll need to download two libraries. The first is called OneWire , which permits Arduino to establish communication with devices designed to function with the 1-Wire protocol. The second library is DallasTemperature , which makes the exchange of information between devices via the 1-Wire protocol simpler and friendlier to use.
To work with these libraries, you just need to download, extract, and rename them OneWire and DallasTemperature. Once you're ready, you can copy them to the libraries folder that you'll find in Arduino's IDE. Once you've completed this process, you can see upon opening the IDE that the two new libraries have been added.
Listing 1 shows how easily you can call up the temperature on the probe and print the result to the serial monitor. The only thing left is to create a class to work with it in code, as from a servo, using already-defined functions in the library that calls up the data on the sensor.
Arduino's new Yún is a complete computer-on-a-chip, with WiFi access and a working version of Linux. We show you how to use Yún to manage a remote temperature sensor.
A greenhouse environment has to be just right. The temperature can't climb too high or sink too low, and the plants need water. Why not put your Raspberry Pi to work as the gardener?
We use the ESP8266 chip which gathers temperature data from a sensor and then forwards it via REST to a Raspberry Pi, where it's stored in a database.
XBee modules let you take multiple sensors and build relatively uncomplicated wireless networks that a Raspberry Pi can then connect together. | 2019-04-22T20:12:28 | http://www.raspberry-pi-geek.com/index.php/Archive/2013/01/Automated-plant-watering-with-Arduino |
0.628681 | Where do I need to go for...?
You can reach your study adviser in several ways. You can ask a question by email or make an appointment for a personal meeting.
The email address of your study adviser can be found below.
If your question is of a more complicated nature, make an appointment with your study adviser. He or she will reserve a 30 minute time slot for your meeting. You can plan your meeting yourself via the online timetable.
You can reach your study adviser by telephone: +31 20 525 7100 (ESC service desk). Direct numbers to your study adviser can be found below.
The study advisers are located at the Education Service Centre (ESC) on the 1st floor of Science Park 904. Please notify the service desk of the ESC of your arrival for an appointment. They will let you into the waiting room, where you will be met by the study adviser. | 2019-04-19T12:46:03 | https://student.uva.nl/log/shared/studentensites/fnwi/esc-gedeelde-content/en/az/study-adviser-esc/contact/contact.html |
0.999793 | Ask Ellis: Should people over the age of 50 redo their resumes?
Question: I'm over the age of 50, should I leave some of my early jobs off my resume in order to appear younger?
I recently saw a report on the PBS NewsHour ("Brutal Job Search Reality for Older Workers") that showed how hard it is for those of us over 50 to find jobs. Several of the people interviewed said they were leaving things off their resume in order to appear younger, at least on paper. Some of my best jobs were those I did 30 years ago, should I leave them off so I don’t seem quite so old? Does this really work?
Watch out for the media when it comes to anything about job markets. In good job markets, in bad ones - they're always looking for a story, and usually that story is negative. And not necessarily accurate. Even with PBS. Even with The New York Times. The story is frequently only partially true (maybe if you've worked in an industry that's disappeared and you need retraining), and, of course, the negatives are what gains viewers' and readers' attention. Would you watch something that said "It's really great out there; get going!"? No, if you're feeling vulnerable, you'll look for negatives items that confirm your worst fears.
Yes, it's tougher for older job seekers to find work, but that's not necessarily because of general attitudes. It has to do with, as most searches do, the right targets. For example, large corporations tend not to hire older (meaning over age 45) employees because they perceive them as too expensive. Unfortunately, older job seekers frequently take that as an indication that their skills aren't in demand, or that the market is shutting them out.
Not true. What about smaller organizations? Smaller organizations, which are definitely a better target for older employers, will value variety of skills over depth in one niche area. Of course, that's a generalization, but I've found this to be the case in many instances with older job applicants.
About the resume. Resumes are not supposed to be exhaustive records of everything you've done. They are marketing documents, where you can select what sells you best. That may include leaving off jobs from 30 years ago, leaving off education dates, and possibly functionalizing a resume to accent the skills you want to highlight. There are so many ways of repackaging yourself - including how you look, how you behave, how much energy and enthusiasm you show.
It's doable. Great search technique and appropriate targeting will solve the issue. And stop watching TV reports about the job market. Ignore the articles, too. They don't help, and they're mostly wrong. | 2019-04-19T09:16:24 | http://www.isothefunforeverjob.com/ask-ellis/ask-ellis-should-people-over-the-age-of-50-redo-their-resumes |
0.999964 | Why do they dislike having final stages that can change the race placings? Pretty much everyone on here thinks the 1989 TDF finish was one of the most exciting and amazing ever. I've never heard of anyone who didn't think the final placings coming down to the final day was super exciting. So why have none of them ever done it again? Why is the final stage almost a "waste stage"?
I don't know for sure but maybe they like the ceremonial aspect of it.
Because the 1989 TdF was essentially neck-and-neck with Fignon and Lemond. Most times, by the end of a long stage race, the winner is usually several minutes up on the next closest guy, and it would be extremely hard/impossible to make up, unless something went very wrong for the guy in 1st place.
I'm sure if Ulrich was say, 20 seconds down on Lance coming into the final stage of a TdF, he would be trying to win.
I believe that Ullrich said he would do exactly that, before the final Time Trial in the 2003 Tour de France. Unfortunately for him he crashed in the Time Trial, and lost his chance to gain time on Armstrong.
Is that the one where Lance had a bout of dehydration?
Amongst other things, yes. The one where it wasn't sure that he'd win until the final Time Trial. The most exciting of his Tour victories.
Don't forget, grand tours are just as much about tourism as they are about bike racing. Having the final stage roll up main street in Paris or Milan is a great show, but a logistical headache. The spectacle draws tourists and ensures publicity. Blocking off the city for a time trial, which takes all day, isn't necessary - you'd want the race to be as quick and predictable as possible.
From an event planner's point of view, the mountain stages are for the hard-core fans who travel to ski resorts in summertime just to see the race, and the ceremonial city-finish stage is to bring the race (and sponsors) to people who've never seen a bike race before.
there are three weeks to win a GT.
The final stage is a celebration.
What annoys me is that the not-Grand Tours also see no real racing on the last day.
Georgia and California are the best examples I can offer. When Floyd was 4 seconds behind Tom D in 2005, they just rode into Alpharetta with nary an attack as if it's some unwritten code. And maybe it IS an unwritten code in the Grant Tours. But in the 6 day specials, that's boring.
close. it was the same tour, but the dehydration episode was in the first TT (which ulrich dominated). the last TT was the one in the rain, where ulrich crashed. lance didnt win that stage, but rode cautiously to preserve the yellow jersey.
Most grand tours seem to have a climactic TT as the second to last stage, which basically has the same potential for drama as the '89 tour since the GC is traditionally not contested on the last day.
Georgia and California are the best examples I can offer..
2007 tour of california result was a disgrace.
See the Eneco tour last year from some last day antics. I believe that was the one where Georgie got bumped off.
Typically the final stage is set in a major city for several reasons so it has to be a sprint finish or perhaps an ITT. If it is a sprint stage then the GC riders are at a major disadvantage as GC riders aren't sprinters and the sprinters want to win the stage. Armstrong and Ullrich were never going to beat McEwen or other sprinters for the stage. At some point they'd be racing for the same time as everyone else. However, I think the bigger issue is that sprint finishes are dangerous and the GC riders don't want to crash out on the final day racing for sprint bonuses. Crashing out the GC leader is considered really bad form and would be even worse on the final stage. If the final stage is sprint it is okay for it to be ceremonial.
As for why the final stages are held in major cities, look at the TdF. The TdF brings too many fans, officials, dignitaries, press and the teams themselves to house in any small city's hotel accommodations. The finale brings too many big wigs (government officials, cycling big shots, and the like) who are not going to sleep in their cars (like some of the fans on the mountain stages if hotel rooms are short). In Paris the government guys sleep at home. In the TdC they need hotels. Only a big city has the kind of hotel room that such a race needs. In addition, the finales of most stage races has large press coverage. The telecommunication needs of a really large press pool demand a big city. The simple logistics of the finale of major races demand a large city.
Sprint finishes are preferable to ITTs in major cities for a couple of reasons but mostly because ITTs take a lot of time and block traffic along the route for hours. Conversely, a stage race passes through and the course is opened up to cars. It must be noted however, that many of these final stages are circuit courses that use a small section of the city and have minimal impact on the rest of the traffic in the city. Circuit courses are also more exciting for fans, especially casual fans, to watch as the peleton comes by multiple times. They focus the races negative impacts on a smaller section of the city than a road or ITT course would.
Great post Trevor. What he said! | 2019-04-19T23:02:46 | https://www.bikeforums.net/33-road-bike-racing/305146-question-about-protour-grand-tour-final-stages.html |
0.999408 | New York Times Declares Cap and Trade Dead. So How Come It's Not?
I consider the New York Times to be the paper of record in the United States, as many people do. But its coverage of climate issues in particular has been frustrating lately. For evidence, look no further than this recent piece: Tracing the Demise of Cap and Trade, which purports to explain how what was just a year ago the Democrat's "energy policy of choice", is now dead. But the story leaves out one little detail: it's not.Which is the perplexing part--there's really no evidence that the cap and trade system is by any means "dead", despite the messages from conservative think tanks quoted in the piece who would love to take credit for killing it. And just because Lindsey Graham declared cap and trade dead a couple weeks back doesn't necessarily make it true.
So let me tackle this piece of what appears to me to be misleading reporting by saying this first: cap and trade is not dead. Yes, the economy-wide mechanism designed to price carbon across the board, like the one included as the centerpiece of the climate bill that passed the House of Reps last summer, seems increasingly unlikely to be a part of the new Senate bill. But according to details that have leaked out about that very bill (Kerry-Graham-Lieberman) reveal that it's simply made up of smaller, industry-specific cap and trade systems. One that requires utilities to pay for carbon pollution permits from the get go, and one that will likely target the manufacturing sector and be phased in later.
But the New York Times piece never addresses this fact--that a cap and trade system is still (probably) very much the core of comprehensive energy reform, along with an additional gas tax. Perhaps including that fact would disturb the more dramatic 'rise-and-fall' narrative the Times' John Broder paints in broad strokes. And it's a narrative that also gives credence to the same folks who shouted 'cap and tax!' at the top of their lungs, and quotes a conservative pundit who says, yup, that's what it was.
Today, the concept is in wide disrepute, with opponents effectively branding it "cap and tax," and Tea Party followers using it as a symbol of much of what they say is wrong with Washington.
Mr. Obama dropped all mention of cap and trade from his current budget. And the sponsors of a Senate climate bill likely to be introduced in April, now that Congress is moving past health care, dare not speak its name.
But he never quotes anyone from the other side of the argument, except for the president of EDF, who again is talking about an economy wide cap and trade--a distinction the Times doesn't make. And he never cites the polls that reveal that a majority of Americans still support the sort of energy reform cap and trade institutes. He cites Kerry saying that he doesn't even know what cap and trade means, or something along those lines. I also haven't seen any evidence that a majority people buy into the 'cap and tax' nonsense, either.
Yes, a group of opponents to energy reform grew very loud, and very effective at branding cap and trade as an energy tax. But the story here isn't that the cap and trade policy idea for mitigating climate change has been discredited or has died--it's just that loud, catchphrase spouting opponents have driven energy reformers to ditch any association with those three words. If it were about semantics, the article would be right on. But since it presents itself as analyzing policy ideas, it's not. And yes, there's a difference.
Obama's Cap and Trade Would Generate $645 Billion in "Climate Revenue" | 2019-04-22T13:34:33 | https://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/new-york-times-declares-cap-and-trade-dead-so-how-come-its-not.html |
0.999951 | Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”, published in 1818, tells the story of a young scientist who comes upon the secretes to create life. “This novel is a speculative narrative that asks: what would happen if man created human life without the biologically and relationally necessary woman and with indifference to God?” (Hogsette). In “Frankenstein”, Mary Shelley seems to question the wisdom in such a pursuit of knowledge and sends a precautionary warning to those who read it. She warns the those who seek knowledge and secrets might attain them, but lose everything they treasure ad care for in the process. Throughout the novel, Shelley portrays the theme of the danger of knowledge in the characters of Captain Walton, Frankenstein, and the creature.
Paragraph I: The first character that Shelley introduces that shares this passion for knowledge and the unknown is Robert Walton. At the beginning of the story, Walton begins by writing to his sister and informs her of his yearning to seek out the unknown. Walton expressed to his sister how she cannot imagine the benefit that he would, “confer on all mankind to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite; or by ascertaining the secret of the magnet, which, if at all possible, can only be effected by an undertaking such as mine.” (Shelley). This quote exemplifies from Walton’s letter how passionately he sought out after knowledge. After Walton finds Frankenstein and brings him aboard, he explains hi pursuit to Frankenstein. Walton expresses that he would sacrifice, “my fortune, my existence, my every hope, to the furtherance of my enterprise. One man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race” (Shelley). This quote foreshadows the dangerous path Walton is treading upon. Once compared to the story of Frankenstein, the reader can understand that the dangerous road Walton was on, could ultimately lead to a similar result as Frankenstein’s. Thankfully, Walton heeded the advice of Frankenstein, and was spared a possible dreadful ending.
Paragraph II: Mankind, since the beginning, had always had a great thirst and craving for knowledge. This thirst for knowledge, though it can be a blessing and beneficial, can become a dangerous endeavor. Mary Shelly portrays how dangerous the pursuit of knowledge is in Victor’s quest by how he tries to go beyond what is capable of human limits and his attempt to bring something back to life. Unfortunately, for Frankenstein his pursuit of knowledge would lead to his demise. “The problem central to Frankenstein is the belief of its central character that he can perform the ultimate usurpation, that of God. There is an extreme vanity and egotism acting as the motivating force for Victor’s work, as opposed to a disinterested desire to further the interest of the human race in general.” (Bond). As he in knowledge and intelligence grew, so his infatuation with the human frame and discovering the secret to create life. At last, when Frankenstein came upon the secret that led him to begin the construction of a creation, he worked continually. Not for a moment did Frankenstein step back to rationalize what he was creating. He was blinded to all except the thought of success and creating life. As a result, Victor’s creation was born. As the monster came to life, only then did Victor understand what he created. He abhorred his own creation, and could not lay eyes on it for fear and horror. | 2019-04-22T14:54:54 | https://michigansciencecenter.net/mary-shelleys-frankenstein/ |
0.999982 | Thai Police Make Arrest Possibly Linked To Deadly Shrine Bombing : The Two-Way Authorities say it's too early to say for sure if the unidentified suspect, who they say was found with bomb-making materials, had anything to do with the attack on Bangkok's Erawan shrine.
A Thai Royal Police handout photo taken with a mobile phone showing an unidentified suspect, who police say may be linked to the Aug. 17 shrine bombing.
Police in Bangkok say they have arrested a suspect that they think was involved in the deadly shrine bombing earlier this month that killed 20 people and wounded more than 120 others.
A foreigner was taken into custody today, Gen. Somyot Poompanmoung, the head of Thailand's national police force, told reporters.
He said authorities had also "seized a lot of evidence, including bomb-making materials." Somyot added that it was too early to say for sure that the suspect was involved in the Aug. 17 bombing of the Erawan shrine in central Bangkok.
Asked about a motive, however, he offered: "it's a personal grudge ... not international terrorism." He did not elaborate or give a clear explanation, The Associated Press says.
The New York Times reports that: "The arrest on Saturday was made at an apartment in a predominantly Muslim neighborhood in the northern suburbs of Bangkok."
Meanwhile, national police spokesman Prawuth Thavornsiri said in a televised statement that the bomb-making materials matched those used in the attack on the shrine.
"Our preliminary investigation shows that he is related to both bombings," Prawuth said, as he showed photographs of detonators, ball bearings and a metal pipe that police said could have been used to make another bomb.
Prawuth also said police had found "a number of passports from one country," but he declined to say which country.
"Earlier, Prawuth said that authorities had not yet determined his nationality and dismissed Thai news reports saying he is Turkish. Images of a Turkish passport with the apparent suspect's picture were posted on social media.
"'The passport you see is fake,' said Prawuth, referring to the online photos. 'We don't know if he is Turkish or not.'"
"Photos handed out by the police show a man with short dark hair and a beard and wearing a yellow shirt and trousers sitting handcuffed at the house.
But he may not be the prime suspect who was seen on security camera leaving a backpack at the busy shrine shortly before deadly the blast earlier this month."
"ThaiPBS reported that the suspect first rented room 412 on July 21. A police source who declined to be named told the news agency [Deutsche Press-Agentur] that the tip came from the landlord, who grew suspicious because the suspect did not speak Thai and rented five rooms on the same floor of the building," The Bangkok Post writes. | 2019-04-19T11:23:49 | https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/29/435786206/thai-police-make-arrest-possibly-linked-to-deadly-shrine-bombing |
0.999029 | Worried about foul smell after eating onion and garlic?
After eating certain foods such as garlic and onion, people usually suffer from side effects like bad breath. The best way to avoid garlic breath is to of course, avoid it in everything that you eat. However, this is not so simple if you like it or want the benefits of the medicinal properties from them.
Therefore in order to get rid of the smell of garlic on your breath, there are certain things that you can undertake.
1. Eat the right follow up foods.
A well known solution for eliminating bad breath after garlic is to eat some fresh parsley. Also by eating mints or drinking a cup of strong mint based tea can help to get rid of the lingering smell of garlic. Eating various vegetables such as mashed potato, mushrooms and carrots will help to get rid of the smell of garlic. Therefore, if you are having a meal in a restaurant or entertaining at home, serve the food which has garlic included in it as a starter, then follow with these vegetables.
One of the fastest ways, however, in getting rid of the smell of garlic on your breath, is to chew on a piece of strong chewing gum. There are certain gums available nowadays that are of a very strong flavor. The gums are also sweetened with a product called xylitol, which will provide your mouth with the feeling of being fresh and cooling. You will certainly be amazed at how fast these particular gums eliminate the smell of garlic on your breath. The gum also has an extra ingredient which helps to fight bacteria which causes odor, which in effect causes good dental health.
Drinking a cup of green tea will help to get rid of the onion smell. Drinking lemonade or eating a piece of lemon can sometimes help to eliminate bad breath after eating. It is advised however, to prepare your own lemonade, as store bought lemonades tend to contain a great deal of sugar and preservatives which are not ideal for your teeth.
Another solution, which is effective, however, probably not the best suggested, is to drink a glass of alcohol, preferably vodka as it has no after smell. This is because alcohol contains an ingredient which kills bacteria in the mouth, resulting in the elimination of bad breath. However, if you are driving then do not drink alcohol under any circumstances.
It is always advised to carry with you at all times a small toothbrush and toothpaste, so that you can brush your teeth after meals. You will be more confident in the fact that when eating garlic, you then have the opportunity to get rid of the smell afterward. As the smell of garlic can also seep through the pores of your skin, it is advised to freshen up with your favorite perfume or cologne.
Like garlic, onions when eaten, break down into volatile sulfur compounds. Therefore onion breath is a result of the sulfur escaping from the body. These such volatile sulfur compounds do not get through your digestive system as do all other foods, therefore these compounds go directly into the blood stream. Therefore in order to get rid of the smell of onions on your breath, it is advised to brush your teeth directly after consumption. | 2019-04-19T04:45:34 | http://www.rewaj.pk/worried-about-foul-smell-after-eating-onion-and-garlic/ |
0.99993 | What is ERW, DOM and Chrome-Moly?
ERW stands for Electric Resistance Welded. This is a mild steel tubing that started out as a flat sheet of steel, formed into tubing and welded. DOM stands for Drawn Over Mandrel and it is actually ERW tubing that has gone through a second process that shapes and smoothes the tubing so that the walls are more uniform. This in turn makes the tubing stronger than the original tubing. Chrome-Moly is an alloy of steel which incorporates both Chromium and Molybdenum in the process. Please don't confuse Chrome-Moly with Chrome finish. All our roll bars are painted Black.
What type of tubing should I use in the manufacture of my roll bar or cage?
The answer to this question is usually found in your rule book. All street, street/sport and race roll bars are made with 1.75"x .120" DOM. Roll cages are made with either 1.50" x .120" or 1.75" x .120" DOM tubing (depending on the weight of the car).
When can DOM tubing be an advantage over ERW?
DOM is now required for a roll cage by most organizations.
When should I choose Chrome-Moly?
Autopower no longer offers Chrome-moly tubing.
I've heard that Chrome-Moly is lighter than ERW or DOM. Is that true?
No. Size for size, all steel weighs roughly the same. What is true is that Chrome-Moly is stronger than DOM and DOM is stronger than ERW. Therefore, some sanctioning bodies allow you to reduce the size of the tubing as you go up in strength. For instance, a sanctioning body may specify that you may use 1¾" x .120" ERW or 1½" x .120" DOM, Seamless or Alloy. The strength would be about the same between these two sizes/types of tubing but you may save about 10-15 pounds using the smaller size tubing. The tradeoff is cost. Here are a few examples of tubing sizes and weights per foot.
Can I get my roll bar or cage painted another color?
Autopower gives you two options: painted in black or no paint at all. If you would like your roll bar to be painted another color, powder coated, or chromed, we suggest that you order the bar without paint and then arrange to have the bar finished after you receive it. There is no charge for this special order request, however, Autopower does not guarantee that they will remember to not paint the bar or cage.
What does "Truck Freight Collect" mean?
Truck Freight Collect tells you the part is shipped by truck and freight charges will be collected upon delivery. We recommend that you ship to a business address as someone needs to be available to receive your part when the shipper arrives (usually between 9 AM and 5 PM). All shippers are a little different as to how they collect the monies owed. As we use several different shippers, and your product may be consigned to a third party shipper, we cannot tell you exactly what payment method is accepted. Most trucking companies will call before coming and you may then ask them the exact invoice amount and what payment methods they accept. Please don't ask if you can pay for the shipping in advance if you don't like hearing "NO".
Cost of freight shipping depends upon where you live. For shipments of roll bars: within Southern California, we use Hollywood Delivery Service at a cost of about $45-$70. In Northern California we use Pilot Freight at a negotiated flat rate of $99. All other parts of the continental USA will be between $130.00 and $160.00 depending on where you ship to compared to the trucker's normal route.
Autopower ships full cages on pallets and the shipping charge will depend upon the zone that you ship to. There are four zones: California, Zone A, Zone B and Zone C (see chart). California shipments will be between $128 and $163. Zone A will be between $150 and $185. Zone B will be between $170 and $205. Zone C will be between $185 and $220.
If your delivery is attempted and no one is there to receive it or pay for it, you will be charged a storage and redelivery fee.
Some of our smaller roll bars can ship by UPS. We can prepay the freight on these shipments and the cost is $69.95.
If you live near San Diego, California, you may save shipping costs by picking up your Autopower items direct from the manufacturer. If you would like this option, choose "Pick Up at Autopower" on the shipping selection. If you live outside the continental USA, then please ask us for an estimate of shipping charges.
I don't have a business address to ship to, what now?
If you don't have a business address you can ship to, we can ship to a residence and the trucking company will call you before delivery, but you will still need to be there to receive and pay for the item.
My roll bar came in scratched up. What can I do?
I'll tell you right now, expect the roll bar or cage to arrive scratched. We try to protect the bar using plastic around the painted tubing, but as the bar rides in the truck, the vibrations will eventually wear out the plastic wrap. Most of the time these scratched areas will be hidden by roll bar padding. If you want a real nice paint job on your bar, please order it unpainted and have it painted upon arrival. Sometimes in Autopower's attempts to get the bar to you sooner, they wrap it in plastic before the paint is dry. Then when you take the plastic off, the paint peels off, too. Sorry, as I said, expect the paint to be messed up. The paint is there mainly to protect the tubing from rust while in transit.
Are your roll bars and cages legal for racing?
Most of our bolt-in roll bars and cages meet the SCCA, NASA and IMSA rules. Many road race sanctioning bodies follow the SCCA rules or they are not as strict. Please consult your rule book. Legality will depend not only on the design of the roll bar or cage, but also on the type of tubing used. Legality will also depend upon your class! Our weld-in cage kits are legal for most classes in NASA, SCCA, IMSA, Lucky Dog, ChumpCar, LeMons, Drag Racing and Circle Track, but again, check your rules. If you have any questions regarding your rulebook, you can call us at 1-925-254-7223 and we will be happy to consult with you.
Are your roll bars or cages NHRA legal?
The bolt-in roll bars and cages offered on our Web site are not NHRA legal. There are many reasons why these bolt-in roll bars and cages are not NHRA legal. A few are: size of tubing, telescopic rear braces, and size of foot pads. There may be more reasons. Many import drag racing organizations will accept the Autopower bolt-in roll bar or cage. Almost all organizations will allow you to have the roll bar or cage installed if your car class does not require you to have one. Please check your rule book.
We now offer a weld-in cage by Autopower that is NHRA legal for certain classes. These kits have part numbers that start with "33" and can be found on our Web site. Check your rule book for your class to determine if one of these cages will work for you.
Does the tubing in the U-weld Cage Kit come notched?
No. The tubing is square-cut a few inches extra long to allow for a tighter, more custom fit.
I ordered a U-weld Cage Kit. Where's my roll bar?
Autopower U-weld Cage Kits are designed to add on to an existing Autopower roll bar. U-weld Cage Kits do not come with the roll bar. Please order the full weld-in cage kit with the part number starting in "33".
I ordered a Weld-in Cage Kit. Why did it come unpainted?
Because Autopower knows you have to weld the tubing, why waste time and money to paint the cage and then make you sand it all off.
Why do you charge my credit card at the time of purchase instead of when the roll bar/cage is shipped?
Roll bars and cages are special order items. Roll bars and cages may not be returned for any reason.
Do the Autopower roll bars and cages fit well?
Autopower designs each roll bar and cage to fit the model range of each individual car. For instance, Autopower manufactures a different roll cage for the 1984-1991 BMW E30 325, the 1992-2000 BMW E36 325 2-door and the 1992-2000 E36 325 4-door. These roll bars and cages were designed to have the full interior left installed. All roll bars/cages are designed to fit as tightly as possible leaving room for all car components to function normally and for production tolerances. If you have modified your car by removing things such as the headliner, the roll bar/cage will not fit as tightly in your car. Your model year may also come with factory changes that may make your cage appear to be not as close a fit as you would like. We guarantee the roll bar/cage to fit, not that it is aesthetically pleasing to your eye.
The new Autopower weld-in cage kits (with part numbers starting with "33") come with the tubing cut a bit long. This allows you to fit the cage to the car tighter with less of a gap between the cage and the roof.
A Complete List of Autopower Roll Bar and Cage Applications.
OK, the roll cage has arrived but there is no way it is going to fit in my car.
First, read the number stamped on the foot pad on the driver's side of the roll bar. Match this number up with the number associated with your car on our Web site. If the numbers don't match, call our toll-free number, 1-800-949-5712, and tell us the story. Everyone makes a mistake now and then, you may have received the wrong bar.
If the numbers match, (sometimes one digit is left out of the stamped number compared to the number on the Web site) you are probably just not used to how tight these cages fit. Unwrap all the tubing and take some measurements to assure yourself. Try to fit it in the car, if this fails, call us, we will be glad to walk you through it.
Do I need to have a professional install my roll bar or cage?
Most of our customers install the bolt-in roll bars or cages by themselves. Because no welding is required (except for door bars), all you need are simple hand tools such as a drill and wrenches. Please see our sample installation page for an idea of what could be involved. There may be some tricky areas of concern such as wiring harnesses, fuel lines and brake lines that might have to be moved. Warning: check to be sure you know what you are drilling into or welding on before you start. You may find that there is a hidden wiring harness in a channel under the mounting plate. You might have to cut panels and carpet. You will have to remove and reinstall) seats and interior panels on most applications. U-weld cages, the Spec Miata cage and some roll bars require welding and/or notching with the required tools and expertise in these areas. If you have any questions at all, do not proceed. Ask an expert or call us on our tech line: 1-925-254-7223 or Autopower at 1-619-297-3300. If we don't know the answer, we will attempt to find out what you need to know.
The cage has arrived but some of the parts are missing.
Most of the time the parts are there, they are just hiding from you. Before taking delivery from the trucker, make sure that all pieces are there and that there is no obvious shipping damage. If there is shipping damage, refuse the shipment, or if minor, note the damage on the trucker's receipt. Scratched paint is to be expected and not a reason for refusal. If it looks like it has been run over by a fork lift or been dropped from a 20 story building, then that is a reason for refusal!
If you suspect that there are pieces missing from your shipment, but there was no evidence that the piece fell off the package, accept the shipment and then unwrap the roll bar/cage. Usually you will find the pieces hidden by tape and the nuts 'n' bolts package. Assemble the cage outside the car to assure that you have all the parts and that you understand how the cage will be assembled inside the car.
I am ready to install the cage but the instructions do not help me.
Yep, Autopower's instructions are very basic. Maybe our sample installation will help you.
How long should I expect for the bar/cage to be manufactured?
3-4 weeks for manufacture plus transit time of 1-7 days depending upon where you live. Autopower accepts rush orders for an extra $95.00. Autopower will then bump your order and produce it within 2 weeks and it will come without paint. Orders may also be expedited by shipping a faster/more expensive method. | 2019-04-24T20:06:52 | https://www.ioportracing.com/faq/rollbar.htm |
0.99992 | Getting a CCTV camera for your premises, home or office, does not depend on the expensive items you own. Security of your possessions and your loved ones is an important aspect that cannot be overlooked.
When it comes to home security or business security, the first feasible option that tops the list is the CCTV or the Closed Circuit Television Security system. Anyone who owns a house or business can benefit from a CCTV camera. A CCTV camera allows videotaping a particular area inside a room or the premises of the building. In several cases, the CCTV cameras offered by Eurovigil can be linked to warning systems inside the home or can even alert the police or other emergency contacts.
You can view the videotape recorded by the CCTV camera immediately or at a later instant of time. The task of installing a CCTV camera can be daunting but knowing a few things like how to install CCTV camera, how to connect CCTV camera and how to setup CCTV camera, the task can become simpler and effective.
The idea of drilling holes in the walls and ceilings to let the cables and wires run through is a daunting task, but nowadays, the CCTV surveillance system comes in packages that make setting up the system a breeze.
Having a sketch of the home or office which needs to be secured using the CCTV camera system and finding strategic locations to place your CCTV cameras is the first step towards installing a CCTV camera system. Buying the right camera is the next step.
Choose a high broad angle location for your CCTV camera close to a power source and a comfortable position for the monitor. Once you position the camera, attach it to a reliable power supply to activate it.
Once powered, attach your CCTV camera to your VCR or connect the wireless camera to your computer to view the videotape. Once done, the CCTV camera security system is all set to go.
There are different ways to connect a CCTV camera to your monitor. You can do so by using a coaxial cable, or the latest wireless CCTV cameras can be connected to your computer or television using the Wi-Fi or Bluetooth facility or even a pen drive or any other flash memory devices.
Consolidating the surveillance system: Creating a central hub for all the CCTV cameras in a place where you can run wires from anywhere in the house or office is an ideal way to set up a hub. Using Siamese wires can make things easier and easy to handle. One DVR should be enough for all your CCTV cameras. Give one video port for each of the cameras for a more effective system. Hide all the wires neatly, and the system is ready to function. Alternatively, one can call the Eurovigil security specialists to help in setting up of the surveillance system.
As Eurovigil offers you a wide range, its team of experts perform a risk assessment of your premises and based on that not only suggest, but also help you in setting up the CCTVs suitable for your home/office. Once the setup is complete, it protects you 24 x 7. | 2019-04-26T00:51:58 | https://www.eurovigil.in/blog/use-cctv-camera/ |
0.999995 | How does this work? If I get a 3rd party insurer/agency to provide/issue a bid bond, I assume I have to pay for that. If I do not win the job will the 3rd party refund what I paid for the bid bond? I assume not but I had someone tell me I would get a refund.
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0.999999 | Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Documentarians"
What does The best documentarians leave their preconceived notions at the door mean?
A "documentary" is a genre of movie/TV show (ドキュメンタリー) So, a "documentarian" is someone who makes a documentary. "Preconceived notions" = prejudices, biases, etc. "Leaving (something) at the door" = English expression. It means to abandon, throw away something intangible before starting something. ("something intangible" examples: ideas, hopes, worries, prejudices, biases, etc.) Example: Leave your opinions of "right" and "wrong" at the door when learning about life in concentration camps. So, The best documentarians abandon their prejudices before starting a documentary. They try to not let their personal feelings taint the objective truth.
Example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "preconceived" | 2019-04-22T13:03:44 | https://hinative.com/en-US/dictionaries/documentarians |
0.999345 | Can I save my home by filing for bankruptcy?
Since the Great Recession of 2008, many individuals have had problems keeping up with their mortgage payments. In some cases, mortgage lenders have cut deals with borrowers by modifying the loan or agreeing to a short sale. However, most homeowners are tied to the terms of the mortgage contract and the provisions regarding default and foreclosure.
What is a mortgage foreclosure?
A foreclosure occurs when a homeowner fails to make full principal and interest payments on a mortgage. If a borrower misses a payment and does not pay it within one month, he or she is in "default." The lender will notify the borrower that the payment must be made in full. If the mortgage remains delinquent after 3 to 6 months, the lender can initiate a foreclosure proceeding, which allows the lender to evict the homeowner, seize the property and sell it at a public auction.
Ultimately, a foreclosure will cause long-lasting damage to your credit rating. There are alternatives to foreclosure, including loan forbearance or a deed in lieu of foreclosure, where title to the property is signed over to the lender. However, if these arrangements are not available, a borrower may be able to stop the foreclosure process by filing for bankruptcy.
The new bankruptcy laws make it difficult for an individual to file a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy. However, a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy petition may enable you to set up a plan to pay the mortgage payments that are in arrears. The homeowner and lender can agree to a time period for the repayments to be made, but the delinquent payments must be made simultaneously with the current payments. Provided that all of the required payments are made according to the repayment plan, you can avoid foreclosure. In some cases, a Chapter 13 filing may also eliminate payments of second and third mortgages as bankruptcy courts may deem these to be unsecured debt, depending on the amount of equity in your home.
Although a bankruptcy filing may stop a foreclosure, it is not a silver bullet, and it can seriously damage your credit score. If you fail to make payments that have been agreed upon, the lender can still foreclose on the property. Ultimately, deciding to go bankrupt is a serious decision that requires the advice of a qualified attorney. | 2019-04-24T22:15:29 | https://hermandpadgett.com/lawyer/2016/02/18/Personal-Bankruptcy/Stopping-Foreclosure-with-a-Bankruptcy-Filing_bl23432.htm |
0.999989 | Counter-protesters chant in opposition to members of the National Socialist Movement and other white nationalists who were rallying in Newnan, Georgia.
WASHINGTON - Ten people were arrested on Saturday when a rally attended by a handful of neo-Nazis was met with hundreds of counter-protesters in a usually quiet Georgia town, local media reported.
Hundreds of police officers were deployed in Newnan, Georgia -- around 65 kilometres southeast of Atlanta -- ahead of the event organized by the National Socialist Movement, one of the US&39;s largest neo-Nazi groups.
There were fears the event could escalate into a repeat of the violence that stemmed from a white supremacist rally last August, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
However, only a few dozen far-right members showed up, among them the movement&39;s leader Jeff Schoep.
"We&39;re against illegal immigration. We&39;re standing up on a pro-white platform. And we&39;re trying to get our message out," he said.
According to local media, the ten arrested at the rally, held in a downtown park, were counter-protesters.
"The Rally has ended, it was very peaceful for the most part. No injuries to any public safety or protesters. We had a handful of arrests," the Coweta County Sheriff&39;s Office said in a statement.
On Friday, locals covered the surfaces and paths of Greenville Street Park with chalk messages and drawings representing love and peace.
"Today we&39;re standing together to unite a group of people against this hate group. We&39;re showing them that we don&39;t support this. It&39;s not welcome here in America," counter-protester Robert Allen said during the rally.
The event came a day after neo-Nazis in Germany, which is witnessing a revival of far-right and ultra-nationalist groups, marked Adolf Hitler&39;s birthday with the start of a two-day festival. | 2019-04-26T10:14:12 | https://www.enca.com/world/ten-arrested-as-southern-us-neo-nazi-rally-clash-with-protests |
0.999999 | Please PAUSE the "How to Draw a Cat (Stretching) Playing" video after each step to draw at your own pace.
Step 1: Draw a circle near the bottom of the paper as a guide for the stretching cat's head. First make four small marks to indicate the circle's width and height. Then connect the marks using curved lines to form the rest of the circle. If you're struggling drawing the circle, trace the outer rim of a coin, a button or any other object with a circular edge.
Step 2: Draw a curved horizontal line across the head. This construction line will help you place the cat's facial features later.
Step 3: Outside of the head, on the left side, draw a short, angled line as a guide for the cat's muzzle. This line should be similar to the letter C but more angular.
Step 4: Above the construction line, near the right side, draw a triangle-like line as a guide for the first ear. On top of the cat's head, draw a thinner triangle-like line as a guide for the other ear.
Step 5: To the right of the head, draw another circle as a guide for the front part of the cat's body. First make four small marks for the circle's height and width, then connect the marks using curved lines. This circle should be almost twice as big as the head, and their edges should touch. | 2019-04-24T06:56:05 | http://www.how2drawanimals.com/8-animals/297-draw-cat-stretching.html |
0.999999 | Base ten decimal system unsigned (positive) integer number 41 converted to unsigned binary (base two) = 10 1001 How to convert an unsigned (positive) integer in decimal system (in base 10): 41(10) to an unsigned binary (base 2) 1. Divide the number repeatedly by 2, keeping track of each remainder, until we get a quotient that is equal to zero: division = quotient + remainder; 41 ÷ 2 = 20 + 1; 20 ÷ 2 = 10 + 0; 10 ÷ 2 = 5 + 0; 5 ÷ 2 = 2 + 1; 2 ÷ 2 = 1 + 0; 1 ÷ 2 = 0 + 1; 2. Construct the base 2 representation of the positive number, by taking all the remainders starting from the bottom of the list constructed above: 41(10) = 10 1001(2) Conclusion: Number 41(10), a positive integer (no sign), converted from decimal system (base 10) to an unsigned binary (base 2): 10 1001(2) Spaces used to group numbers digits: for binary, by 4. | 2019-04-19T08:17:54 | http://binary-system.base-conversion.ro/converted-positive-unsigned-integer-from-decimal-system-to-unsigned-binary.php?unsigned_integer_number_base_ten=41&unsigned_binary_base_2=101001 |
0.998005 | How much does a Course Coordinator make in South Dakota, United States?
The average course coordinator salary in South Dakota, United States is $62,763 or an equivalent hourly rate of $30. This is 9% lower (-$6,005) than the average course coordinator salary in the United States. In addition, they earn an average bonus of $1,475. Salary estimates based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in South Dakota, United States.
An entry level course coordinator (1-3 years of experience) earns an average salary of $45,014. On the other end, a senior level course coordinator (8+ years of experience) earns an average salary of $77,450. | 2019-04-21T06:38:14 | https://www.salaryexpert.com/salary/job/course-coordinator/united-states/south-dakota |
0.99867 | The San Francisco 49er fan base is seemingly divided when it comes to celebrating the newly restructured base contract of quarterback Alex Smith. Smith was selected by the 49ers with the very first pick of the 2005 NFL draft out of the University of Utah and was thought to be the next great hope following in the legendary footsteps of historic marvels such as Joe Montana and Steve Young.
There are some sports columnists that side with the fact that Alex Smith hasn't had his true day in court so to say; in that he hasn't had the proper amount of time needed to build a case for his true identity. That identity is to be the true number one overall draft pick savior he was intended to be back in 2005, but as of yet is still waiting to materialize.
I think in Alex's mind he still has some unfinished business to attend to as a 49er? He has stated on several occasions that he has compassion for the organization in picking him at number one in the 2005 NFL draft and that he wants to prove he is still deserving of that.
This sense of profound loyalty is baffling for some and accepted by others. Alex Smith's original contract as the franchise's new quarterback was for $49.5 million dollars, of that money about half is now in his pocket with four straight losing seasons to show for it. General Manager Scot McCloughan from the very beginning stressed the immediate need for Alex to consider restructuring that contract if he were to keep wearing a 49er uniform. There would be no spot on a 2009 49er roster for the beloved franchise quarterback if he was unwilling to make a personal sacrifice for the team.
Alex was scheduled to earn a base salary of $9.625 million. After Alex conveyed his willingness to stay and trim his contract, the 49er hierarchy embraced Alex and promised him a shot at the starting position via training camp. In all Smith pocketed $26.3 million dollars over his first four seasons as the perceived leader of this offense.
Taking in a piece of humble pie he willingly stated that taking a personal pay cut was not a deadly blow to his ego, but an opportunity to show 49er fans that he wishes to complete the job he started out to do and that is to be the coveted director of this San Francisco 49er offense.
Smith's original contract would have meant a staggering salary cap figure of $12,291,666. Following his restructuring Alex's new deal saves the 49ers around $6 million on the salary cap. His new deal is believed to be worth approximately $6.5 million over his remaining two seasons. He also can make another $2 million annually in incentives that have been laid out as goals for him to achieve.
Looking back four seasons ago after Alex Smith was drafted on what were known strengths in describing his character in relation to his competitor in Aaron Rodgers who is now a stunning success story in Green Bay, one has to wonder if the brains of our business knew what they were doing.
The contradictions are many especially when you consider how adamant then head coach Mike Nolan felt about Alex and his perceived character and then turned on him by ridiculing his "toughness," and inability to play through what was then a serious injury.
I feel the first mistake in drafting Alex was the pure based fact that he came from the University of Utah's spread offense at the tender age of 20. Forcing Alex to take the reins of the 49er offense at age 21 was a throwing in of the towel so to say on a season mired with ignorant gestures from ownership and management. I can still remember the orchestra or should I say circus of quarterbacks back then in Tim Rattay, Ken Dorsey and Cody Pickett.
Alex Smith was cast in this buzz saw activity. A seemingly long endless drought of one failure of a quarterback right after another since the waiving of veteran Pro Bowler Jeff Garcia, had Alex been afforded the opportunity to stand behind a Jeff Garcia for an extended period of time his development probably would've been far better than where it is today.
Now we have flashback of training camp a few seasons ago in the form of Alex Smith once again battling Shaun Hill for the starting position with newly signed veteran quarterback Damon Huard standing on the sidelines, poising in the role that Trent Dilfer did as this competition heats up. Smith, will turn 25 in May. He has played in just three healthy games over the past two seasons for the 49ers.
It has been a minefield of injuries and setbacks for the promising star stud we thought we were getting in that he sustained a shoulder separation early in the 2007 season before then opting for season-ending surgery later in that year. This is the season where Alex Smith actually played through some vividly painful moments in that he was seen grimacing in excruciating pain and was later ridiculed by Mike Nolan as being too soft.
Communication between Alex Smith and Mike Nolan was obviously non-existent in that neither of them had the right compatibility with one another in coming clean with the true ramifications this injury entailed. It then became a game of finger-pointing and self-imaging with one blaming the other over the means of dialogue that each thought they had with one another.
And now just this past season in 2008, Smith lost the quarterback competition to J.T. O'Sullivan in training camp who was brought in under then offensive coordinator Mike Martz as a former pupil of his. Then, if that wasn't enough he sustained a mysterious fracture within his maligned right shoulder just before the start of the regular season.
Smith never had the benefit of watching a veteran legend like Aaron Rodgers did for two seasons behind Brett Favre. He never had the consistency of receiving instructions from the same offensive coordinator in that he'll be on his own with new 49er offensive coordinator Jimmy Raye.
In fact Alex Smith has had to deal with an endless carnival of offensive coordinators which with Raye would tally number five. It wasn't until 2006 under Norv Turner that Smith indicates that there was hope in that he completed 257 of 442 passes for 2,890 yards with 16 touchdowns and 16 interceptions. But as Norv Turner said goodbye the sky seemed to fall right on top of Alex Smith.
Now upon his restructuring which was delayed a bit because he just recently was married to former Oakland Raiders cheerleader Elizabeth Barry on Feb. 21st, in San Francisco. They enjoyed their honeymoon in the Maldives which is a group of islands located in the Indian Ocean. Smith is now eager for redemption.
But obstacles remain in place. He must gain the trust and respect of his teammates all over again, deal with yet another offensive playbook that is Jimmy Raye's but closely resembles that of Norv Turner's and he has to be a heck of a lot more durable by way of avoiding injury.
I can still see the horrific nightmare on September 30th, 2007, when a devastating sack by Seattle Seahawk Rocky Bernard sent Smith's upswing career right into a nose dive. It was from this injury on out that sent Mr. Smith into complete isolation and deep exile from the team and its fans.
What was then remains now, an offensive line that cannot pass protect. What was Mike Nolan's main objective in solidifying an offensive line regarding Pro Bowl talent turned out to be yet another joke? Smith's right shoulder remains as much in peril as it did back in early 2007. The coaching staff remains a mystery; there really isn't a real proven quarterback mentor that can help Smith who is currently on the 49er roster?
San Francisco 49er quarterback coach Mike Johnson has had some success while in Atlanta tutoring Michael Vick and in San Diego with Doug Flutie but does he have what it takes to turn an emotional corner in Alex Smith's career thus far?
No one yet knows how the relationship will be between Jimmy Raye and Alex Smith as far as the playbook and terminology. One thing we do know is that Norv Turners principles are similar to those that Jimmy has especially where Jimmy has coached under Norv already. The competition between Shaun Hill and Alex Smith within this upcoming training camp will hold the same interesting scenarios as there was back in 2007 where Trent Dilfer awaited as the veteran presence in the background.
Now there is Damon Huard a battle tested veteran but not with the same clout of a former Super Bowl quarterback as Dilfer was. Alex Smith will either be the starting and or second tier quarterback on this roster and that seems to be kosher between two good friends in Hill and Smith.
Shaun Hill was even a member of Alex Smith's wedding party as a groomsman and is comical when describing the competition that exists between the two as they prepare to fight for the coveted position of leadership. Smith has only played in 19 meaningful games thus far into his career.
Now some would say that he is a bust. What can Alex Smith possibly do to eradicate those perceived thoughts? I'll be honest I think right now he is a bust, but that is based upon my analysis and observations of him as the seasons have passed by. I will give him the benefit of the doubt that he hasn't had the supporting offensive line to help him.
But his flaws as a quarterback are well documented. His inaccuracy and tendency to overthrow and under-throw to his receivers, his ability to sense the pass rush and know where the rush is coming from, his tendency to not secure the football and prevent fumbling and his inability to improvise and make third down conversions.
Remember the San Francisco 49ers have compiled an 11-19 record in games Alex Smith has started in his career. Shaun Hill is 7-3 as a starter. He has earned the right to stay unless Smith can justify that change is necessary. Not playing behind a veteran like a Jeff Garcia and injuries have had a profound effect on his ability to perform at a high level.
His signing a restructured contract for less and wanting to be in San Francisco says a lot to some and I must concur. But as I grow older so does the expectation to win. Knowing what we were back in our dynasty and coping with what we have now creates more white hair then one can ever control. I feel Alex Smith's window is almost closed. This has to be the year we know for sure.
Comment: Sydney, Your analysis hits right on point. As a49er fan I would say that most fans don't have the patience to see Alex play because we have lost hope in Alex. Alex hasn't really proven himself, other problems you mentioned are offensive line and to add wide receivers an offensive play calling. So surely we can't blame everything on Alex. I hope Alex proves us that he is that fresh an coming outof Utah and changes this team around. Come on Alexthis your time to prove the fans wrong.
Comment: The key is look at the lack of gravitas with the offensive coaches. Where is Mike Johnson qualified to work on the proper techniques and fundamentals that a QB needs to be continually reinforced on. From the top down, the 49er organization has become a joke. The face of the franchise, Jed the boy-king, whose qualificaton according to him is that he sat on Jennifer Montana's lap, is a joke. Scot McCloughan, aka McSpineless, who desparately needs a Bill Parcells/Ron Wolf type above him, is a joke. Last but not least, the reverend Mike, who is more qualified to be preaching Sunday school in Waco than being a head coach in the NFL, is a joke. Sadly enough, 49er fans must brace themselves for many more years of stumbling incompetence.
Comment: I'm looking forward to seeing Smith compete for the starting spot. He ran in to some unfortunate cicumstances, and i like the position he's taken in wanting to prove something. it shows some character in the guy. The guy does have a good arm, and if he polishes up his accuracy he could become a legitimate starter. either way it's going to be a healthy competition. i like both guys behind center, but find myself rooting for an A.Smith comeback.
Comment: Even in Alex Smith's "best years", he was mediocre. After this year, he can take his money and live a comfortable life outside of football. Recent rumors have the 49ers giving Denver and #1 and #3 in this years' NFL draft, a #2 in next years draft, and Alex Smith thrown in. That's a pretty steep price to pay for Jay Cutler. The 49ers have too many draft needs to justify such a trade. Why not draft either Andre Smith or Michael Oher at #10 and take Pat White in the 2nd round? Unlike Alex Smith, Pat White could operate under center as a college QB. Pat White has been a winning QB in four bowl games, he has been MVP in the Fiesta Bowl and Senior Bowl, he was arguably the best QB at the NFL combine, his completion percentage was about 64%, his ability to run the ball is unequaled, and his character cannot be questioned. Pat White is athletic, he is intelligent, and despite his size he has a much stronger arm and catchable pass than Shawn Hill. If the 49ers can draft a so-so Kentwan Balmer at #1, why can't they draft a football player with so much more potential at #2? | 2019-04-18T22:26:58 | https://www.49erswebzone.com/commentary/723-coming-to-terms-with-smith/ |
0.999983 | As a coach for dental practices, one of the major areas of stress that we see in the daily operations is the way the team handles last minute emergencies. What usually happens is a patient calls with a concern and they are squeezed into the schedule between regularly scheduled clients. The result is serious time management issues that diminish the patient care and cause stress.
There will always be some emergencies that can’t be avoided completely because of accidents, trauma, and unpredictable dentistry. Identify the reasons your clients are experiencing emergencies. Ask yourself; is there anything I could have done to prevent this pain and suffering? The reactive approach that you implement for the emergencies that you can’t prevent should be predictable.
Analyze your past months history of emergency clients. Count the number of emergencies in the month and divide by the number of days worked. You will have a number that is manageable, disruptive, or downright stressful. Look at the kind of client that is calling; is it an active client, new client, or someone whose last visit was four years ago and they want to re-enter the practice.
Determine the reason for the emergency and look at re-occurring patterns. What are the three most common reasons you have emergencies. Have the team participate in a group discussion on the reasons for emergency visits on a daily basis. Classify them into the top three and ask yourself; are they valid reasons? Are the emergencies because of dentistry that you diagnosed that was not accepted by the client? Are the emergencies because we observed or watched the condition until it broke? Do your clients think you are a walk-in clinic?
Using your treatment philosophy and team member’s input, develop a practice definition on what is a “true” emergency. There are a lot of times that we assume all concerns need to be treated the same day, when in fact most are not what you would call true emergencies. Once the team has developed a practice criterion, they can begin telephone interviewing skills and listening to confirm the emergency condition and whether it falls into the practice philosophy of same day treatment. An example of conditions that warrant scheduling a client the same day may be the answers to the following questions.
• Is this a trauma or accident case?
• Is the client suffering from hot sensitivity, up all night, swollen, and constant throbbing?
Using forms and telephone checklists will help to develop a system for telephone skills and questions. | 2019-04-22T08:02:43 | https://tgnapracticemanagement.com/tuesday_newsletter/handling-dental-emergencies/ |
0.999097 | The main reason I decided to experiment with non user-visible stories was to keep stories short. That part worked great; as long as they were short, I breezed through the stories and was eager to start the next. But then one particular story — I'm looking at you, story 19! — turned out to be a lot more work than expected. As the story dragged on, I lost my motivation... and then it took even longer to get it done. I would like to avoid this situation in the future, if possible.
But how? By adjusting my process, of course! Ideally, I should be able to complete each story in one sitting; and now that stories don't need to be user-centric, there is no reason not to make them as small as needed. If they aren't, then the plan needs to be refined. Thus, this time, I am going to break something even more fundamental than the user-centric nature of stories: the fixed-length iterations! How naughty.
This iteration will end in one week, or when a story drags on for more than a day, whichever happens first. If it is the latter, I will have the opportunity to adjust the offending task, by dividing it into smaller chunks.
Alternatively, I could rethink my design so that the offending task is not needed, or vastly simpler. Or just different. Or more fun to code.
I mention this possibility because I stumbled upon a post from a writer explaining how she quintupled her productivity by optimizing her process, and she found out that she was more productive when writing scenes she was enthusiastic about. Well, I was enthusiastic about Story 20. And hated Story 19. I'm not sure why.
In order to figure it out, from now on I am also going to write down the best and the worst story of each iteration. Hopefully, a pattern will emerge. Although, to be honest, even if I had an easy criterion to distinguish stories which are going to be fun from those which are going to be boring, I don't really know what I could do with that information. Sure, some stories are less pleasant than others, but they still need to get done, right? Unlike passages in a book, if the code is boring to write, it doesn't mean the user won't enjoy the result. Who knows, maybe I'll find a different software organization which minimizes annoying tasks?
As yet another crazy departure from conventions, I'm dropping story numbers. They haven't been very useful so far.
Setup continuous compilation (using Substrate to detect when the source files change).
Use signals to propagate errors.
Implement an InputNode which can bake itself.
Implement a Gui which links the input nodes with the input pane widget.
As promised, I am going to play with my process. Unlike what I promised, I am not going to waste an entire iteration on this. I am going to waste several!
I have already tried one change: scheduling optional stories. It didn't work, but I'm glad I tried. I am not on a tight schedule, so I can take the time to experiment and see what works. I even tried the Spiral idea of trashing all my code and starting from scratch using my newly accumulated experience: that's what I did on the very first iteration, when I decided to drop everything and start fresh, Agile-style this time. What should I try for the next iteration?
Well, is there something from the last iteration which could be improved? Let's see, was there anything at all which went wrong? Let me think. Oh, right. Maybe the fact that I totally failed to produce anything at all?
Yeah, during the past iteration, I didn't accomplish much. Or rather, that's what you would think if you only looked at the number of stories I completed: zero. And indeed, when I run Substrate, it looks exactly as it did two weeks ago. But that is only part of the picture! Sure, the look didn't change and there are no new buttons to click on, but I did spend a lot of time working on Substrate, trying out new architectures and comparing design approaches. Even as I worked, I felt like I was wasting precious time, because days went by and my metric wasn't improving.
Well, screw the metric. Screw the users, I mean. Erh... that's not what I meant either.
This iteration, I am testing a variant on story descriptions: instead of focusing on user-visible features, I am going to focus on developer-visible features. If code needs to be written, then I don't care whether that code is producing buttons, menus, bells, or whistles: by golly, this code is going to be divided into small story-like chunks and assigned to an iteration!
This iteration is still about geting Substrate to interact with external files, but the steps to reach this goal are more detailed. Stories 18 and 20 have no user-visible impact.
Story 10 (1 story point): I can save the current project. Use a version number in case the format changes.
Stories 11 to 16: Postponed.
Story 17 (1 story point): I can reload and run the entire project.
Story 18 (1 story point): Simple filesystem-backed key-value store with one file per key.
Story 19 (2 story points): The project reloads when the filesystem copy of the store changes.
Story 20 (2 story points): Specialized store interface for strings, integers, and string arrays.
Story 21 (1 story point): The project stores the active input tab.
p.s.: Don't take the title of this post seriously. The only user Substrate ever had, so far, is myself.
If, like me, you have never heard of the Spiral model of development, here is a summary: it is a bit like Agile, except that all the code is thrown away at the end of the iteration. Also, the scope increases each time, so the iterations grow longer and longer.
Yes, I know this sounds like a terrible idea, but that's only when compared to Agile as a reference point. From that angle, Waterfall is the model where you only get one, very big, very long iteration, and hope to get it right the first time. When put in the context in which it was invented, doesn't the Spiral idea of starting with a smaller version of the project seem like a great improvement?
Not throwing away the code all the time sounds like an even better improvement, but when I first heard of the Spiral model (just a few hours ago), I thought the opposite. Throwing code away! What a novel and intriguing idea! Should I try? Maybe? Being in an Agile team doesn't guarantee good design, after all. And changing a bad design is sometimes a large endeavor. With Substrate, for example, I haven't been able to implement any story at all this iteration, because I was busy refactoring the entire application to use MVC.
Instead of being forced to either drop all the existing code or keep all of it, I suggest we should be allowed to do either. And those two possibilities are just two ends of a continuum: using version control, we can easily revert to a number of intermediate steps between the two extremes, whichever is most convenient.
Let's start with an empty project, in the middle of Design Space, the space of all possible designs.
We discuss the product idea, draw a bit of UML, and end up with a particular design (a particular point in Design Space).
A few iteration go by, moving the project toward the goal established in the design.
While implementing new features, suppose we come up with a new design for the project. Could happen! Otherwise, we would still be doing big design up front and it would work great. The goal is moved a bit to the left.
Since we are using iterations, we adapt to this unexpected change without a sweat. We just start writing the new code with the new code in mind!
But what if the new design was very, very different from the first?
In that case, starting from scratch is less work.
But this is not an all or nothing decision. Yes, you can start from scratch, but you can also start from any other past point. Just pick the one which represents the least amount of work!
Now, as I said, I only heard about the Spiral model today, so there are still many rough corners in my generalization of it and Agile. For one thing, going back in time means removing some features, and if those features have shipped already, maybe you don't want to remove them. Feature Space is not necessarily aligned with Design Space.
The other big problem is that history is linear, while Design Space is multidimensional. When your goal changes its position, it probably won't move across all the dimensions, only some of them. So while it is true that some of your code can be thrown away, most of it probably shouldn't; in order to reach the commit you want to restart from, you will have to throw away some commits which are still good, just because they were submitted after the restarting commit. I recommend using a history-rewriting tool such as git, but when I tried, solving all the merge conflicts was still a lot of work.
Ideally, each new feature could be implemented on a bare-bones version of the application, containing only the elements on which the new feature builds. In that setting, implementing the new feature is much easier, because there are no unexpected interactions with the other features, the codebase is small enough to be understood all at once, and the debug-edit-compile cycle is fast. Theoretically, using feature branches, maybe this ideal could even be reached!
The problem, of course, is that the unexpected interactions bite back once we try to merge all of the feature branches into a complete product.
I think I am going to try anyway. If I can afford wasting an entire iteration redesigning my code, maybe I can also waste one redesigning my process? | 2019-04-18T11:27:55 | http://gelisam.blogspot.com/2012/03/ |
0.996063 | Would it surprise you to know that Leonard Nimoy, who played Star Trek's coldly logical Mr. Spock, was a warmly romantic love poet in real life?
Leonard Nimoy passed away on February 27, 2015 at age 83. He was a man of many, varied and considerable talents. As an actor he ranged from Star Trek's inscrutable Spock, to Tevye in the musical Fiddler on the Roof, to Vincent Van Gogh in the one-man stage show Vincent, for which he wrote the screenplay. He also appeared in plays such as Oliver!, The King and I, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Camelot, Twelfth Night, The Man in the Glass Booth, Caligula, and Sherlock Holmes, and in TV shows such as Dragnet, Twilight Zone, Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Rawhide, Mission: Impossible, Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons and Outer Limits. He earned four Emmy nominations: one for best supporting actor in the 1982 TV film A Woman Called Golda, and three for Star Trek. In 1997 Nimoy narrated the documentary A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, about the various sects of Hasidic Orthodox Jews. He also directed three of the best-selling movies of all time: two Star Trek blockbusters and Three Men and a Baby. Nimoy was an accomplished photographer who at one time considered a career in photography. His SHEKHINA is a stunning photographic study of women which visualizes the feminine aspect of God's presence. His Full Body Project celebrates and pays homage to full-figured women. Nimoy was also a vocalist and songwriter who released five albums on Dot Records and appeared in music videos with the Bangles and Bruno Mars. He was also a fine writer, screenwriter and poet. He really was a renaissance man, a gentleman, and a truly good and decent person who will be sorely missed by his legions of fans and admirers.
Leonard Nimoy's seven published poetry collections were You & I (1973), Will I Think of You? (1974), We Are All Children Searching for Love: A Collection of Poems and Photographs (1977), Come Be with Me: A Collection of Poems (1978), These Words are for You (1981), Warmed by Love (1983), and A Lifetime of Love: Poems on the Passages of Life (2002). His first autobiography, I Am Not Spock, came out in 1975. It was followed, somewhat contradictorily, by a second autobiography, I Am Spock, in 1995.
"I have always been and shall always be your friend."
"I am not Spock. But given the choice, if I had to be someone else, I would be Spock."
"If someone said, 'You can have the choice of being any other TV character ever played,' I would choose Spock. I like him. I admire him. I respect him."
"Spock is definitely one of my best friends. When I put on those ears, it's not like just another day. When I become Spock, that day becomes something special."
"My folks came to US as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien."
"I object to intellect without discipline; I object to power without constructive purpose."
"What I'm exploring now is the subject of my own mortality." | 2019-04-20T14:45:43 | http://thehypertexts.com/Leonard%20Nimoy%20Poet%20Poetry%20Photographer%20Photography%20Picture%20Literary%20Bio.htm |
0.999991 | A good question that occasionally pops up on social media is "should I take a TEFL course in Thailand or in my home country (USA, England, etc)?
I've noticed that the question never really gets a decent answer, so I turned to a dozen or so of Thailand's TEFL course providers and asked them for their input.
First off, I didn't want this article to be crammed with ‘marketing speak' - but a fair question deserves a fair answer.
So here are ten reasons put forward as to why taking the course in Thailand could be a good move.
You'll familiarize yourself with the language difficulties that Thai students have.
I took a TEFL course many years ago at a language center in Birmingham. I can still picture the group of ten students that were the ‘guinea pigs' for our observed teaching practice sessions.
There was a smashing fellow from Iran, who could barely string a four-word sentence together. There were a couple of Scandinavians, who were almost native speaker fluent - and a bunch of French and Spanish students who fell somewhere in the middle.
As a teacher you had to prepare a ‘one-size-fits-nobody' lesson plan and just hope for the best.
Some students found the lesson ridiculously easy, whilst other students (particularly the Iranian guy who just sat in a corner eating his pen) struggled throughout.
At least with a classroom full of young Thai students, all of your participants have more or less the same language ability. And you'll soon become familiar with common student errors.
"I go to shopping" anyone?
I've been here over 20 years and I'm still learning. I've committed major errors in Thai classrooms and the consequences have haunted me for days afterwards.
Many Thailand TEFL courses include a Thai culture component, which is valuable even though you might have read an outdated guidebook and think you know it all.
Thai culture can be an extremely complex animal.
Thailand is a relatively safe place to travel and study in and of course it's a nice environment.
Although the front pages of Thai newspapers are often splattered with photos of grisly murders and horrendous traffic accidents, these incidents very rarely involve foreigners. Thailand is still a relatively safe country to walk around in, especially for single females.
However, like anywhere else in the world, have a few too many sniffs of the barmaid's apron and stagger around unlit areas acting like a prat and trouble probably won't be that far away - so yes, you'll need to bring common sense with you.
And of course Thailand is probably a nicer place to study when compared to doing a month-long course in the rain and cold of an English January. I think we can all agree on that one.
Trainees are in a situation where they can research job opportunities and perhaps even attend interviews.
Although TEFL courses are hard work and don't allow trainees much in the way of free time, you'll be here in Thailand and you'll be 'on the ground'.
Job opportunities are sure to pop up and you could be first in line to grab them with a personal phone call or even a knock on the door.
Opportunity to mix with teachers who are in the same boat.
I always love the camaraderie and the social aspect of studying and participating in group courses.
And with a group of TEFL course participants, you all have the same objective - to secure a decent teaching gig. On a TEFL course in Thailand, most participants will share the goal of eventually working in Thailand.
Even your peers can be a valuable source of job and Thailand information.
Perhaps you may have someone on the course who has already lived in Thailand for a length of time and has only just decided to train as a teacher. Perhaps they know of job opportunities in their own town or city?
To quote one of Thailand's TEFL course providers directly - "for the more serious teachers, the challenge of being in an ESL or EFL class in Thailand makes their learning to teach more effective because Thailand has never been colonized by an English speaking nation. Therefore teaching Thai students English as a foreign or second language is in the truest sense of the term what the job demands, especially due to the low level of English exposure. So you can see first hand how the teaching methodology, techniques and principles work or do not work"
Every time I've watched a video or been there in person to see a trainee teacher conduct an observed class, the Thai students have always had fun.
They always look extremely grateful for the opportunity to study with a friendly foreign face. A face they've never seen before.
New teachers are understandably nervous when they stand up in front of a large group for the first time with the eyes of the world on them - but young Thai students are never going to sit there with arms folded and insist on being entertained.
From what I've seen of this whole business, if I could choose my first ever group of students - they would be Thais. They are easily pleased. And for a teacher whose hands are shaking and whose knees are knocking - that's never a bad thing.
When I took my TEFL course, I was fortunate to have my parents' home to use as a crash pad. The only expenses I had was the daily bus fare to and from the training centre and some money for lunch in the school canteen.
For many trainees this is probably not an option so they will need to factor in the cost of accommodation, meals and also transportation. Thailand can be great value for money on all those fronts!
Trainees can sometimes be westerners living in other Asian countries such as Japan or Korea, where the cost of living is much higher. Not only does Thailand offer a nice break from the hustle and bustle of Tokyo or Seoul but renting accommodation and feeding yourself are generally cheaper too.
I always think this is a great idea. Why not take in a week or two of pure relaxation before you start your training course or better still, finish the program and treat yourself to a few weeks of travel in Thailand before you take up a teaching job?
Obviously much depends on your financial situation in these cases.
I have a question concerning credentials as an educator. I am an elementary school teacher with a bachelor’s degree in History/Education and a Master’s in Elementary Education. As I teach in multi-cultural city, we are also required to get an ESL (language cert) as well.
As an experiences teacher, would I have a greater opportunity to begin higher on the salary scale or do foreigners start at the same level?
Would a TEFL certification be necessary as I have had intensive training in language learning?
As I am still paying dearly for my education and probably for a long time to come, I want to see what it is worth in Thailand! Cheers!
This is a great topic for an article and many will take value from the points made.
For me, there simply cannot be a 'best place to do a TEFL course'; as seductive as it is to buy into the idea, the reality is that eveyrone reading this article will differ in their goals, values and requirements. For example, when I chose my course it was important to me to spend the least amount of time on the course and the least amount of money, because I already had experience teaching efl and knew that the 'real' learning would come from the actual job. That's not at all to knock a proper teaching methodology or endorse 'winging it' but let's be real- how many of you teachers think a 2 or 4-week course can prepare you properly? In the last century (towards the very end of it!) I prepared for my profession by 2 years of full-time intense study and examinations and yet, on making the grade, I still found a big learning curve to meet in actual practice.
In my view the bigger need, and perhaps a gap in the market, is for newbie teachers -perhaps those in their first year of two after the course- to have access to mentors to help them on their difficult journeys trying to make sense of what they have learnt on their courses in the face of often startlingly different realities in the classroom.
In regard to taking the TEFL course in Thailand. I would also like to know if one comes to Thailand on a visitors visa and then the school/employer then helps change the visitors visa to that of a work visa?
Beautiful post, how about VISA issues? Can one just do this with a Visitor Visa and then switch to a working VISA, once we secure a job?
Additionally, what does one do with their flight(s)?
Thank you for the elucidating article! Which TEFL program do you recommend in Thailand? There are tons of them online, and it's hard to know which ones are legitimate. | 2019-04-21T08:42:15 | https://www.ajarn.com/blogs/ajarn-street/home-or-away |
0.999932 | I have made a number of small corrections to the article. I like it; it is short and to the point.
You can see my corrections just by clicking 'article', then 'revisions', then 'compare selected versions'.
this is a nicely written article which provides a broad overview of the topic in a clear and compact manner.
"It has been argued that the only stable mode of transmission is the synchronous mode (Abeles 1982, 1991)."
The notion "stable mode of transmission" is maybe unclear at this point. I would rather say something like "the only firing mode that allows a (stable) transmission of information". Asynchronous activity --the ground state-- can be stable, too (Tetzlaff et al., 2002), but it can hardly serve as a signal carrier.
"This was shown ... in the slice."
"Slice" of what? Rather say "in-vitro in cortical slices."
"With the synfire memory capacity described above"
"With the synfire memory capacity described below (Sec.4)"
"As pointed out by Maass,..."
Can you provide the full reference?
Tetzlaff, T. and Morrison, A. and Geisel, T. and Diesmann, M. (2004), Consequences of realistic network size on the stability of embedded synfire chains, Neurocomputing 58-60:117--121 .
Heterogeneity in synaptic potential sizes is not the optimal solution for this problem, because due to the large number of synapses a plausible variability in synaptic weights would largely average out (in contrast to a heteorgeneity in membrane time constants or thresholds).
Fast oscillatory modes can be dampened by distributions of delays not only for inhibitory but also excitatory connections. Of course, the delays of the connections between two consecutive synfire layers must be approximately identical (this may be justified by some learning rule based on spike timing). Connections between different pairs of layers can, however, have different delays.
"Such learning rules ... are dubbed STDP."
"...are dubbed spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP)."
What exactly is meant by "A statistic based on the most prominent peaks in cross-correlations"? Could you add a label to the x-axis here?
The article is highly readable and balanced. My comments below are only concerned with technical details of the dynamics.
In "Activity in synfire chains"
"It has been argued that the only stable mode of transmission is the synchronous mode (Abeles 1982, 1991). This was shown to be true theoretically (Hertz 1997), through numerical calculations (Diesmann et al. 1999), simulations (Abeles et al. 1993, Gewaltig et al. 2001, Hayon et al. 2004), and in the slice (Reyes 2003)."
I suggest to add sentences like the following here: "A minimal number of neurons in each pool is required for stable propagation of synchronous spiking. Tetzlaff et al. (2002) showed that above a maximal number of neurons the ground state of asynchronous activity becomes unstable and synchronous activity emerges spontaneously."
In "Memory capacity for synfire chains"
"Even when only one synfire chain was embedded in such a balanced network, the network went into a mode of synchronous oscillations (Tetzlaff et al. 2002, Aviel et al. 2002)."
The Tetzlaff 2002 reference is not accurate here. Replace by "Even when only one synfire chain was embedded in such a balanced network stable propagation is challenged by modes of synchronous oscillations (Aviel et al. 2002, Mehring et al. 2003)."
Mehring, C., Hehl, U., Kubo, M., Diesmann, M., & Aertsen, A. (2003). Activity dynamics and propagation of synchronous spiking in locally connected random networks. Biol. Cybern., 88(5), 395�$-1òó408.
"In particular, using dispersed thresholds, synaptic potential sizes, and delays for the inhibitory neurons was very useful for avoiding global synchronization."
"In particular, using a biologically plausible heterogeneity in the number of incoming synapses was found to be more effective than dispersing any other parameter."
This page was last modified on 9 October 2007, at 09:37. | 2019-04-19T00:18:56 | http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Talk:Synfire_chains |
0.999997 | While most students are eating watermelon on the beach or near the swimming pool, others are sweating on an exam or need to catch up on schoolwork during the summer. Life is hard.
What are some typical exam terms and phrases?
You will find the same words in almost any exam.
Describe means to give details, and examine means to look at something more closely, usually to find the answer to a problem.
Explain is to give a reason for something, and describe is more generally to tell about something.
Discuss usually means giving arguments for and against an issue (why something is good or why it could be bad), whereas if you give your opinion it could mean you argue only one side of an issue.
Determine means to decide about something, whereas compare is to look at two things to see whether and how much they are the same or different.
Evaluate means to examine the merit of something, or how valuable something is. Summarize is to tell in short.
Examine means to look at something more closely, usually to find the answer to a problem. Give reasons is to tell why you think something is the case.
Evaluate means to look at both sides of an argument. When you give arguments for an issue, it means you give reasons why you think something is the case.
Assess is the same as evaluate, to examine how good or valuable something is. Ranking is the same, but with different possibilities that you have to put in a certain order, say from good to bad.
What’s the purpose of this text?
The purpose means the reason it was written. What does the writer want to tell us?
What’s the main purpose of this text?
The text can have more than one purpose. For instance a text about rubbish can start with an introduction which sketches a short history of how people dealt with rubbish in the past until now. And then the rest of the article can be about what we should do to diminish (= make smaller) our waste deposits now. Several examples of good and bad ways to deal with waste are given. This text will mainly deal with an examination of what the best way is to deal with rubbish. So that’s the main purpose.
To what extent do you agree with Mr X’s theory that is mentioned in the text?
To what extent means how much of something, or how far. In the example the issue is how much you agree with something that is said in the text. The question could also be: To what extent has Mr X’s theory been proven? Or to what extent is it true that colour blindness is inherited?
What does this or that word in line 13 refer to?
“Refer to” means about what is it talking. Let’s say you’ll read a text like this: “Putting a scary picture of a person with lung cancer doesn’t help convince people to quit smoking. On the other hand, raising the prices of tobacco does.” And the question is: what is “does” referring to? Answer: to help convince people to quit smoking.
Question: what does “them” refer to? Answer: to braces.
What can you infer from lines 5 and 6?
Infer means read between the lines. So you’re looking for information that is not literally given in the text, but that you can understand when you think logically. Let’s give an example. Let’s say you read the following: “Helena wanted to be treated only by a female doctor, because that made her more comfortable. Her doctor told her she should drink less coffee.” What can you infer about Helena’s doctor? That she is a woman.
Another example: The swimming pool is open from 7 am to noon. Yoshi and Anton went swimming. What can you infer from this? That it is sometime between 7 o’clock and noon.
It’s also possible to infer things from information that is not written in a text. For instance, if archeologists dig up antique human bones and they find DNA of a certain grain in the same place, they can infer that this person used to eat this kind of grain.
Don’t mix up infer and refer!
What are the implications of Ms Y’s proposal to change our education system?
= What does Ms Y’s proposal mean for the future of our education system? Or: What are the consequences of Ms Y’s proposal?
Most importantly for exam questions, do answer the question! Many students think that the longer answer they give the better it is. Not true! Your examiner will only look for relevance and will judge the contents of your answer. It doesn’t help either if you repeat yourself, but in slightly different words. Don’t give more facts than asked for and don’t add your own opinion when nobody asked for it. And vice versa: don’t give only facts when you’re being asked for your opinion. You will gain points for answering the question, but lose points for giving information that is irrelevant.
Now you can do a quiz to test your knowledge. | 2019-04-22T18:04:15 | https://englishwithasmile.org/2013/07/07/some-common-words-that-you-need-for-exams/ |
0.999101 | California voters are divided on whether they believe local officials should help, hinder or stay out of the way when federal ICE agents go after those accused of minor offenses, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted for Eyewitness News.
Poll results show that when it comes to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials taking custody of immigrants accused of violent crimes, a majority statewide (54 percent) say that local officials should work to help ICE. Just 11 percent said local California officials should try to stop ICE in such circumstances, and 24 percent said local officials should stay out of the way.
Voters are much more divided in cases when ICE agents are trying to arrest immigrants for non-violent crimes. According to poll results, 29 percent said local officials should help ICE, with Republicans four times more likely as Democrats to say so.
Results also show that 25 percent said local officials should try to stop ICE, with liberal voters four times as likely as conservative voters to say so. Lastly, 34 percent said local officials should stay out of the way. Similar results were seen in cases where ICE agents go after immigrants accused of immigration violations only.
- 11% say it's one of the nation's top priorities.
- 14% say it's a high priority.
- 14% say it's a priority.
- 19% say it's not a priority.
- 40% say it's a distraction.
Separately, voters by 5:1 are opposed to a section of Northern California cleaving off from the rest of the state, becoming America's 51st state, and taking the name of Jefferson.
Republicans, conservatives, men and young people are slightly more likely to favor cutting the state in half, but majorities across the demographic spectrum oppose the publicized plan.
"Should officials in California who become aware that Immigration Customs and Enforcement agents are about to take immigrants into custody actively work to help ICE do so ... actively work to stop ICE from doing do ... or stay out of the way...in each of the following situations? When ICE arrests immigrants accused of violent crimes?"
"When ICE arrests immigrants accused of minor non-violent crimes?"
"When ICE arrests immigrants accused of only immigration violations?"
"President Trump came to California to look at prototypes of the kind of border walls that Trump wants to erect between the United States and Mexico. Is building a wall between the United States and Mexico..."
"Should California secede from the United States and become its own country? Or, should California remain a state in the union?"
"Whether or not California should secede from the United States, should the Northern, rural part of California secede from the state of California and become its own state, with the proposed name of Jefferson? Or should the northern, rural part of California remain part of California?"
SurveyUSA interviewed 882 registered voters March 22, 2018 through March 25, 2018. A larger group, 1,100 adults, were asked questions about whether California should secede from the union and whether a section of Northern California should split off and become the state of Jefferson. | 2019-04-23T00:02:19 | https://abc7.com/politics/poll-california-voters-weigh-in-on-local-officials-helping-ice/3279638/ |
0.999999 | Consider the following scenario: Kathy manages a team of ten, she is white, nine of her teammates are white and one is black. Several teammates, including her black colleague, are often late to work. She addresses the attendance issue with her white colleagues but never addresses it with her black colleague despite thinking she should. Now, let's consider Mr. Joe a white male English teacher at a diverse high school. As a high school teacher he frequently redirects students in class when they are off task. Reflecting on his practice, he admits that he is quicker to redirect his white students when they are off task allowing his students of color to remain unengaged in class learning. | 2019-04-22T12:37:34 | https://www.riedk12.com/ried-blog/tag/White+Privilidge |
0.999019 | Every day is the day that turns somebody’s life around forever.
By the end of this email, you’ll know the answer.
One evening, not many years ago, a young housewife realized she didn't have enough cash on hand to buy some of the groceries she needed for the rest of the week.
As a stay-at-home mother and wife, she was entirely dependent upon her husband for income. So, when he arrived home from work that evening, she asked him for an extra 10 dollars.
Hearing the question, he turned to her with visible irritation. He heaved a sigh, rolled his eyes, and tauntingly sneered, "What for?"
She was stung by the contempt in his voice, and by the humiliation she felt at having to grovel for a measly 10 dollars. And in that instant, she made a decision: She would never ask another person for money, ever again.
Today, this same young woman is the vice president of a prestigious company, pulling down a hefty six-figure salary, with a string of promotions behind her and many more sure to come.
Indeed, she has never asked anyone else for money since that fateful day. And she never will.
In hindsight, it's easy to recognize just where, when, and how a success story started.
your unrealized goals, dreams, and wishes?
We're all looking for a transformation in some area of our lives. It could be something as simple as shedding a few extra pounds. Or as significant as finding a whole new career path.
No matter how big or small your current dreams may be, if they're ever going to become a reality, it will be because of one critical day in your life's journey.
The day when you hear the idea, experience the episode, or are hit with the realization that somehow, mysteriously, makes all the difference in the world.
The day when you finally get that elusive "missing piece" you've been waiting for — the thing that suddenly empowers you to actually do the thing you've only dreamed of doing up until now.
The day when you take a seemingly insignificant step that winds up setting you on a completely new path ... and ultimately leads you to your goal.
Just one day. That's all it takes to turn any "what if?" — what if I were richer, happier, thinner, healthier, more successful, more organized — into what IS.
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Leave it to chance, and it could come next week, or never at all.
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His own life-changing day arrived nearly 40 years ago, when a Girl Scout rang his doorbell, selling cookies for two dollars a box.
At the time, Jim didn't have two dollars — not in his pocket, not in his bank account, not anywhere. He was flat broke, and so ashamed of it that he lied to the girl, telling her he'd already bought a few boxes from someone else.
As he closed the door, his shame intensified. Here he was, a grown man with a family living in the Land of Opportunity, so broke he didn't have two dollars to give to a good cause, and so pathetic that he'd actually lied to a Girl Scout!
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Many years, millions of dollars, a hugely successful business enterprise, and millions of devoted students later, Jim thought back through the course of his life and realized that all of the success he had experienced up to that point had begun at that precise moment, so many years before.
But what was it about that particular day? He'd been broke before that. He'd been driven to desperation before that. He'd even resolved to change things before that.
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0.997622 | What about the memory test Trump aced? It's not for everyone Jackson said he will work with Trump to exercise more over the coming year, to eat better and lose between 10 and 15 pounds. Donald Trump rubbished the rumours over his mental instability by calling himself "a very stable genius ". "So, Mr.
Joel Embiid thanks fans for making him All-Star starter The top three vote receivers in the frontcourt and top two from the backcourt were be named starters. ET on Sunday, Feb. 18 at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles and will be broadcast on TNT and ESPN Radio.
David Turpin also faces a count of lewd act on a child.
All of the siblings were found to be severely malnourished, Hestrin said.
Another sibling had escaped with her, he said, but got scared and turned back. The girl initially escaped with another sibling, but that sibling became frightened and returned home, he said.
The husband, 57, and wife, 49, are charged with torture and child endangerment after police found their children appearing "malnourished and very dirty" and three of them chained to furniture at their home in Perris. A 12-year-old appeared to be the size of an average seven-year-old.
Experts say it may have been easier for the parents to shield their children from scrutiny because they were home-schooled. Their ages range from 2 to 29.
Child Protective Services received thousands of calls from people who want to help the children and adults. All the children's names begin with the letter J, according to court documents that didn't provide their full names. They're both being held at the Robert Presley Jail in Riverside and are facing 94 years to life in state prison if convicted.
He said investigators were working hard to prepare the torture case for prosecutors.
Louise Turpin's sister says the mother of the 13 malnourished brothers and sisters would "laugh it off" when they looked "skinny". "Our clients are presumed to be innocent, and that is a very important presumption".
"I feel they were model Christians", she said.
As an engineer, David Turpin had worked at Lockheed Martin, the defense contractor confirmed on Tuesday, leaving in 2010.
Investigators found the rest of the Turpins' children - including seven adults - inside a filthy home, with some shackled to beds with chains and padlocks "in dark and foul-smelling surroundings", the sheriff's department said.
He said the victims were chained for weeks or even months at a time, not released even to use the bathroom.
Their bankruptcy lawyer, Ivan Trahan, said he never met the children but the couple "spoke about them highly". "What we would like the public to know is that our clients are presumed to be innocent", said defense attorney David Macher.
The kids' horrific ordeal came to an end when the 17-year-old daughter jumped out of a window in the family home and called 911.
As for health care, none of the children has seen a doctor in more than four years, Hestrin said, and none of them had ever seen a dentist. When the girl who escaped was asked if any pills were in the home, she did not understand what medication was.
The number of US children educated at home has doubled to about 1.7 million, or 3 percent of the nation's school-age population, from 1999, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
In addition to raising them largely in isolation, the parents may have been able to hide the abuse by functioning while other families slept.
Most of the Turpin children suffered from severe caloric malnutrition, and several have cognitive impairment as a result of abuse, Hestrin said.
He said it was not clear how long the family had been held in such conditions but it appeared to have been for a "prolonged period".
David Turpin had been homeschooling his children at the residence, which he called the Sandcastle Day School. Neighbours have told local media that the Turpins rarely came outside.
Flores emphasized that she never witnessed any abuse of the children while she lived in the home.
The children were fed little, on a schedule, but the parents bought food for themselves and did not allow the children to eat it, he said. Many didn't know what a police officer was.
"This is depraved conduct", Hestrin said. "It breaks our hearts". And during this time, despite being kept in separate rooms or chained to furniture, the children were allowed to keep journals of their own.
The city could find no records of fire inspections, Perris Assistant City Clerk Judy Haughney said in response to a public records request by AP. | 2019-04-24T16:42:23 | http://quoteslay.com/2018/01/court-hearing-set-for-california-couple-charged-with-torture/ |
0.999998 | Why do some feel their public imposition of personal values is justified on this issue?
The Canadian province of Quebec has become the latest jurisdiction to pass legislation legalising assisted suicide. Despite some legal ambiguity regarding the relevance of an allegedly contradictory federal Canadian law, it has been celebrated by local lawmakers and euthanasia activists around the globe. Not surprisingly, however, there remain dissentients.
Since Daniel Defoe's The Political History of the Devil, many a famous rhetorician has uttered confirmation of life's two inevitabilities: death and taxes. Mortality, in other words, is a reality we must all face - like taxes. Some of us fear our demise whereas others accept the inevitability. In each and every case, however, it is a highly personal matter and experience, perhaps the most personal of all. Why, then, do some feel their public imposition of personal values is justified on this issue?
From my own experience of the debate, most who disagree with laws such as the one passed in Quebec fall into one of two categories. Either they think that euthanasia is immoral, or that it leads to a slippery slope.
I will first address the "immorality" category. Opponents of assisted suicide claim we have a formal "right to life", as described in the United Nations' charters of 1948 and 1966, which declared that "all human beings should have a right to life and the protection of it".
To the untrained eye, this initial declaration seems like the strongest one could possibly propose. However, is "human being" the best term to use here?
Unrecognised by some right to life activists is a great irony: They are quick to demonstrate strong convictions regarding the so-called 'unnecessary' deaths of people on their deathbeds, yet are comparatively silent on the many, many more unnecessary and uncontroversial deaths of people living in poverty.
A brain-dead patient in hospital can technically be argued to be a human being, despite most of us accepting that the person themself is dead. If you are reading this, you are likely such a person. A person can think, can interact with their environment, can be self-aware, and aware of themselves existing over time. What is left of someone who is brain-dead who can do none of those things?
It's truer for us to say that we value personhood, not mere technical membership to our own species. So perhaps we should adopt a less technical interpretation, like that put by Rev Joseph Tham, who wrote, "every person has inherent dignity that should be recognised and respected in any condition of health, infirmity or disability".
Though this explicitly states that a person has no less or more moral status courtesy of their capacities. This is problematic when a person suffers a severe stroke and loses the mental capacity to communicate, understand their surroundings, have a sense of self or the future, and ultimately are not themselves (as is sometimes said of end-stage dementia patients).
We can also question the notion of whether it is respectful or dignifying to refuse to respect someone's personal decisions in what is such a personal matter.
"A 'right to life' cannot be meaningful if one cannot exercise that right in ways which make it, in the full sense, a 'life'. Said differently, what good is a life you don't have power over? Or one in which you suffer unbearably, hopelessly, and without any or much enjoyment? These might fall under the literal definition of a 'life', but to say that they all, irrespective of their features, have the same quality is to deny the factual differences. To further say that individuals must accept what others [like Rev Tham] ascribe to them as the values which constitute a life - or, as is sometimes said, a life worth living - is to say that you know how to live someone's life better than they do. While we might be able to argue for this in the case of children, how can we reason the same for a fully mature, capable adult of sound mind? Simply, we can't."
If we wish to live in truly moral, pluralistic societies in which we accept each others' personal choices, then we should make those choices legal. We need not all agree with everyone's personal decisions, but only acknowledge that it is their decision to make.
Unrecognised by some right to life activists is a great irony: They are quick to demonstrate strong convictions regarding the so-called unnecessary deaths of people on their deathbeds, yet are comparatively silent on the many, many more unnecessary and uncontroversial deaths of people living in poverty.
"Every year, an estimated 9.7 million children under the age of five die from largely preventable causes," UNICEF says. And that's only counting children under the age of five.
So why are right to life advocates so fixated on euthanasia laws when millions of people are dying around the world from easily treatable and preventable causes?
What's more, these millions of people will have a much longer life to live - and healthy, full lives at that - compared to those waiting for an end to their suffering in palliative care. If right to life advocates were true to their own beliefs, they would exhibit a far greater interest in helping the millions who die each year from easily preventable causes.
Finally, let us examine the so-called "slippery slope" argument. Some opponents of euthanasia and assisted suicide laws argue the acts themselves aren't necessarily immoral, but that in legalising them, we risk abuses.
However, those who fear a slippery slope should have much more to fear from the informal systems which already exist - where euthanasia and assisted suicide is illegal but still practiced covertly. Without formal regulation or systems in place, anyone who thinks a slippery slope is possible must surely prefer a less slippery, i.e. regulated and open, slope.
That is, if such a slope exists at all. Evidence shows that no slippery slope has developed in jurisdictions like the Netherlands, where euthanasia has been effectively legal for more than two decades. Data from the Netherlands and Belgium shows that the number of patients requesting euthanasia or assisted suicide actually decreased, not increased, after legalisation.
Opposition to voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide laws in Quebec and elsewhere is philosophically and empirically misplaced. If we wish to live in societies which are truly moral and pluralistic, we ought to welcome responsible efforts to legalise personal choices. This doesn't mean we must agree with every decision, we simply need to respect people's right to make that decision. Further, as these decisions won't directly affect us, and we have no need to worry of a slippery slope, we can rest easy and let others rest in peace.
Tom Burns is a Melbourne-based writer who studies bioethics and neuroscience. His work has been featured online and in print in Australia and abroad.
Tom Burns is an Australian writer who studies bioethics and neuroscience. His work has been featured online and in print in Australia and abroad. | 2019-04-24T08:20:54 | https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/06/misplaced-moral-outrage-over-eu-201461713357393377.html |
0.999651 | I couldn't find the answer in the manual and via google, so here's the question: I would like to connect the V6 (great product, BTW) to a camera without a hot shoe but with a PC sync port, and have the V6 radio-trigger an RF60. The camera would trigger the V6 via the cable, and the V6 (set in transceiver mode) would trigger an RF60 flash. Can this be done by connecting the camera to the V6 using a PC to 3.5mm jack cable? Let me know if I didn't formulate the question clearly.
Yes, triggering a V6 in Tx mode (as a transmitter) through the 3.5mm port is possible. | 2019-04-23T05:01:13 | http://www.cactus-image.com/community/discussion/639/can-the-v6-be-triggered-by-the-3-5mm-jack-port |
0.998451 | Passages are metaphorical and literal. Earth Day marks the anniversary of my father's passing and every year I look back at aspects of his legacy. One of his proudest was donating land that he owned for many years to the Santa Monica Land Conservancy for a wildlife corridor. A builder and a street smart wheeler dealer found his true grit by making way for bobcats, mountain lions and deer to roam freely on his property from one mountain range to the other by donating his land. After holding on for 25 years, he let it go.
Two wildlife crossings could give the species a long-term chance at survival in Southern California, a study suggests.
For humans, Southern California’s freeways link distant communities that are otherwise separated by rugged mountains, vast deserts and inland valleys.
For mountain lions, however, those multilane speedways are concrete killing fields that divide animals into isolated genetic pools, researchers say.
Unable to surmount these near-impenetrable barriers, mountain lions and other wildlife are left to mate with their own offspring. That inbreeding can lead to sterility and other physical ailments that threaten the species’ continued survival in Southern California.
Restricted territory has also caused adult males to kill younger mountain lions, as happened to at least one lion between 2001 and 2003. Others have been poisoned by human-laid traps left for smaller animals.
Of particular concern to conservationists are Highway 101, which prevents mountain lion populations in the Santa Monica Mountains south of the freeway from mating with cats in the Santa Susana and Sierra Madre mountains to the north; and Interstate 15, which separates the Santa Ana and Palomar mountains.
Fortunately, a potential long-term solution is on the horizon.
An effort is already underway to fund construction of a wildlife crossing bridge over each highway — landscaped with native vegetation and with features such as sound walls, irrigation and fencing — to allow cats looking for mates to move back and forth freely.
According to a report by the National Park Service, UC Davis and the Nature Conservancy, experts have identified locations along both freeways that offer the best opportunity for a wildlife crossing. One would connect undeveloped land on either side of the 101 in Agoura Hills, while the other would link the grassy slopes buttressing I-15 in Temecula.
In Agoura Hills, a crossing of U.S. 101 would essentially allow the isolated community of 10 to 15 mountain lions living in the Santa Monica Mountains to access a huge swath of Southern California, including the Simi Hills, Santa Susana Mountains and Los Padres National Forest — what proponents call the “promised land” for pumas in this region.
Mountain lions are known to have successfully crossed that highway only nine times in the last 16 years, while most attempts end in death for the animals, the National Park Service said.
To be sure, freeway barriers affect other species, such as bobcats and coyotes, as well. For mountain lions however, the barrier effects of the 101, 405, 5 and 15 freeways are particularly severe. Genetic diversity for Santa Ana mountain lions is already lower than has been measured anywhere else in the West and the Santa Monicas’ population is not far behind.
The few lions of the Santa Monica Mountains commonly mate with each other, including P-12, which mated with an inbred cat and later mated with his own daughter and granddaughter.
The island effect that the highway creates in the Santa Monica Mountains can be illustrated through the story of P-12 — the first mountain lion recorded to successfully cross into those secluded hills since scientists began studying the population in 2002.
According to scientists, P-12 has mated with three generations of his offspring. He first mated with P-13 to produce P-19. He mated with P-19 to produce P-23. He mated with P-23 to produce P-53, and then he is suspected of mating with P-53 to produce kittens P-59 and P-60, born last year.
Scientists have recorded only eight other 101 crossings since P-12 arrived, and all of them were in the last three years, the National Park Service said.
The second crossing came in March 2015, when female P-33 scampered across the highway from south to north near Camarillo on the western end of the mountain range. P-33 was also an offspring of P-12.
The third crossing came weeks later, when that cat’s brother, P-32, also crossed in the same area. He was the first male to leave the Santa Monica Mountains since the study began.
Although the siblings both crossed at locations at the far western end of the mountains near the Camarillo and Thousand Oaks border, their paths were different.
Researchers believe the female puma, P-33, crossed the eight-lane freeway near Camarillo sometime between midnight and 2 a.m. on March 9, 2015. P-32 dashed across the freeway near Thousand Oaks early on April 3, 2015, then crossed State Route 23 near the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and settled into a natural area in the Simi Hills.
The fourth crossing was documented in July 2017, when P-55 crossed the highway from south to north near the Canejo Ridge open space south of the 101. Just 2½ months later, P-55 returned to the mountains by crossing the highway again near where the 101 meets Highway 23, the Park Service said.
The sixth crossing was earlier this year and was far more surprising, officials said, because of the path the puma took.
Mountain lion P-64, a male, used a dark culvert the length of two football fields to cross under the highway into the Santa Monica Mountains on March 1. It was only the third time since 2002 one of the animals is known to have crossed into the Santa Monica Mountain territory and officials hope he will provide some much needed genetic diversity for the population. P-64 has used the same culvert three additional times, officials said.
But the culvert is so remote and fraught with other drawbacks that scientists can’t bank on animals using it regularly, experts said. It can be inundated when it rains and, because of its curved route, animals can’t see from one end to the other.
When mountain lions do successfully cross the highway — either to the north or south — they are still surrounded by danger.
From the Santa Monica Mountains, the cats have been killed crossing the 405 Freeway and Malibu Canyon Road. On the northern side near the Santa Susana Mountains, they’ve died crossing the 118 Freeway.
Though documentation on crossings of Interstate 15 in Riverside County is scant, mountain lions face the same risks there that they do north of Los Angeles.
The Santa Ana and Santa Monica ranges are surrounded by dangerous highways and human development — where the cats also risk death if they ingest poison meant for rats and other pests, death if they’re found by poachers or capture if they’re founds by park rangers.
In Agoura Hills, experts said the best location to set up a crossing would be just west of Liberty Canyon Road, where the Simi Hills stretch down to the northern edge of the Santa Monica Mountains with only the 101 Freeway between them.
Bobcats and coyotes are known to frequent the area, which is full of natural vegetation and seldom used by hikers, the report stated. Other areas had too many people, cars and artificial light or required too much rehabilitation to make them suited for wildlife.
Similar conditions helped experts choose the area along a 6-mile stretch of I-15 just south of Temecula Parkway in Riverside County for that habitat’s crossing. Earlier this month, the Nature Conservancy purchased 73 acres of land along the highway to facilitate a crossing.
The best site would be where the Santa Ana Mountains run up against the highway and are paralleled by the Palomar Mountain foothills on the other side, each hill rising 15 feet above the roadway, the Park Service report stated.
Genetic analyses of 146 sampled pumas showed only seven have crossed the freeway in that area in the last 15 years.
“Survival rates in the Santa Ana Mountains are lower than in most other mountain lion populations through the West, compounding the threat posted to the Santa Ana Mountain’s population by genetic isolation,” the report stated.
Scientists have documented only one crossing of I-15 by a mountain lion wearing a tracking collar, and that one was leaving the Santa Ana range, said Winston Vickers, a wildlife veterinarian at UC Davis. That animal then traveled south and was fatally shot.
Other mountain lion crossings have been deduced by mapping the DNA of the local population. Of the three that scientists believe entered the Santa Ana Mountains from the east, one is dead, another is presumed dead and the third was able to breed, but half its offspring have also died, Vickers said.
“The high mortality rates in our study area mean that the odds are stacked against young males, even if they make it across the freeway,” he said in an email.
Inbreeding will eventually kill off the local population, said Cara Lacey of the Nature Conservancy, and, because mountain lions are among the top predators in the area, that would affect the entire food chain.
An existing bridge closer to the parkway has plenty of vegetation beneath it to accommodate a crossing below road level, but nearby developments and the possibility of encounters between lions and homeless people living under the bridge were considered too risky, experts said.
Now that the best locations have been identified, Lacey said, experts, engineers and public officials will begin studying what kind of wildlife crossings would be feasible.
The day he spoke in front of city and government officials and Santa Monica Land Conservancy delegates and media, I waited for him to make a wise crack or lose his composure like someone we know in office right now. But it didn't happen. He was remarkable and poised. His message was about California and the land and the wildlife was clear, he truly wanted to help protect and leave a legacy. His love of California was illustrated by his actions and making peace with the fact we would not see a secure future in that real estate development but in keeping the land open space.
It takes all kinds to inspire and participate in change, even the most unlikely of candidates. That land did become a part of him. When he no longer owned it, he seemed untethered. The transfer was a source of philosophical comfort but it made him seem a little lost. I want to honor people who make choices that can be painful like losing a piece of your identity for the greater good. I know my father suffered from the dashed dreams of not building his empire on that land when he was young enough to oversee it. By the time he transferred the land, his ability to make the leap in his mind that it wasn't his took some doing just like the animals across that vast freeway. I thank him and I am hoping and thinking the animals thank him too. | 2019-04-26T06:32:21 | https://www.onslowlife.com/2018/06/family-preservation-my-fathers-wildlife-corridor-.html |
0.986269 | Canon 1D X Mark II battery: what are the options?
Which battery does the Canon 1D X Mark II take?
The Canon EOS-1D X Mark II is a professional DSLR that features a 20MP sensor. It is powered by the Canon LP-E19, which is a rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery pack. Lithium-Ion batteries offer a high energy density and low self-discharge, and are nowadays found in many portable electronic devices.
The LP-E19 operates at a voltage of 10.8V and has a capacity of 2700mAh. It can be charged from a standard electrical outlet via the Canon LC-E19 charger (that can be purchased separately, for example, at amazon). The battery pack measures 68mm in width, 34mm in height, and 93mm in depth. It weighs 185g. The LP-E19 has been on the market since February 2016 and sells at good camera retailers, such as amazon, for about $199. Generic alternatives (see below) that are compatible with the Canon EOS-1D X Mark II can be obtained at substantially lower cost.
How many shots can I take with a fully charged LP-E19?
The Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) has established guidelines (click here to download the pdf-document) that manufacturers are supposed to respect when reporting the battery life of their cameras. According to this CIPA-rating, the Canon 1D X Mark II can take 1210 images on a single charge. Given the relatively demanding energy usage of the CIPA procedures, this rated number should be achievable or be surpassed in most practical situations. However, if the environment is cold, the LCD screen is used heavily, or the camera is turned on and off frequently, battery mileage might drop below the rating. Also, as the battery pack ages, its performance will tend to deteriorate.
Canon sells the original LP-E19 pack at quite a steep price. This premium pricing strategy has left room in the market for third party suppliers to offer fully compatible battery packs at much lower prices. Savings from buying generic replacement batteries can amount up to 70 percent of the price of the genuine battery pack.
Indeed, one can easily find a variety of competitively-priced LP-E19 replacements from different vendors at major online platforms (see, for example, here on eBay). All these generic alternatives should work fine with your Canon 1D X Mark II. So why would anybody then buy the more expensive original battery? Well, below are some arguments in favor of the genuine LP-E19, which can perhaps be summarized as "peace of mind".
If you can live without these assurances, then you are in for some nice savings from buying generic replacements for the LP-E19. Unfortunately, the market for generic battery packs is rather fluid, with new trade names popping up regularly while others disappear. Hence it is difficult to keep track of all the suppliers and the quality of their products. That said, in North America, battery packs from Wasabi have gained a good reputation, while in Europe, replacement power packs from Patona have received many favorable reviews. In any case, the existing comparisons tend to find that the cheapest of the generic replacement packs score worse in terms of achieving their rated capacity, holding their charge over time, or allowing for a large number of charge-discharge cycles than somewhat pricier battery packs (or the genuine Canon offer). Thus, the old adage, "If the price sounds too low to be true, it probably is" has some merit with respect to camera batteries also. You can check the current offers and prices for the original LP-E19 and its clones by using the buttons below.
The LP-E19 is the standard power source for the Canon 1D X Mark II. As such it is an indispensable camera accessory. Below are some additional questions and answers concerning some particular aspects of the battery pack and Lithium-Ion power units more generally.
Is there a car charger available for the LP-E19?
Is the LP-E19 available in colors other than grey?
Can I use the LP-E19 in any of my other electronic devices?
No, the battery is specifically designed for use in the Canon 1D X Mark II and other selected cameras from Canon.
How should the LP-E19 be stored? | 2019-04-22T04:05:45 | https://www.apotelyt.com/camera-power/canon-1d-x-mark-ii-battery |
0.998884 | CCSSO meetings are closed to the public and attendance is by invitation only unless otherwise denoted. (Emphasis in original).
Both the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) are made up of state leaders state governors and the education chiefs to be exact, who are accountable to their constituents. They meet together to learn best practices, discuss lessons learned, share information and research and collaborate. Parents can certainly influence these organizations by influencing their Governor or Department of Education chief.
What are these people smoking? They were really proud that they got 2,000 parent comments on standards that are affecting over one hundred million school children with only less than one quarter of one percent of those being published. With that kind of parental involvment, how can citizens expect to influence mostly appointed officials and their minions that meet behind closed doors? If these awful standards and their top-down implementation did not so seriously affect our children and our nation's future, this rhetoric would be comical. Here is yet another reason to continue vigorously opposing Common Core.
Updated 12/2/13 to reflect addition of the word "parent" before "comments" and links in final paragraph.
Gettysburg Address Taught without Context to "Level the Playing Field"
Today is the 150th anniversay of Abraham Lincoln's dedication speech for the cemetary at the Gettysburg battlefield in Pennsylvania. As we remember and celebrate the bedrock principles of our American heritage embodied in one of the most important speeches in our history, it is important to understand what the implmentation of the Common Core standards does to this iconic piece of our history.
["Cold reading"] gives students a text they have never seen and asks them to read it with no preliminary introduction. This mimics the conditions of a standardized test on which students are asked to read material they have never seen and answer multiple choice questions about the passage.
Such pedagogy makes school wildly boring. Students are not asked to connect what they read yesterday to what they are reading today, or what they read in English to what they read in science.
The exemplar, in fact, forbids teachers from asking students if they have ever been to a funeral because such questions rely "on individual experience and opinion," and answering them "will not move students closer to understanding the Gettysburg Address."
Teachers cannot create such a "level playing field" because we cannot rob any of the students of the background knowledge they already possess. Nor can we force students who have background knowledge not to think about that while they read. A student who has read a biography of Lincoln, or watched documentaries about the Civil War on PBS or the History Channel, will have the "privilege" of background knowledge beyond the control of the teacher. Attempting to create a shallow and false "equality" between students will in no way help any of them understand Lincoln's speech.
First, to use one of the most important speeches in American history to try to being about some utopian, left-wing notion of social justice is appalling. Secondly, this appears to confirm what another teacher and former proponent said was the true intent behind Common Core, which is "about leveling out the differences by reducing the opportunity for the brightest and hardest working students to excel." Finally, Common Core is the antithesis of governance "of the people, by the people, for the people" Rather, it is of the government, by corporate special interests, and for profit. Common Core will prevent students from understanding how to perpetuate the republic that Lincoln extolled in that wonderful speech and it must be stopped.
"It's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who -- all of a sudden -- their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were, and that's pretty scary. You've bet your house and where you live and everything on, 'My child's going to be prepared.' That can be a punch in the gut."
A new Facebook group, Moms Against Duncan (MAD), has almost 1600 members since then and the comments on Twitter have been overwhelmingly critical. Conservative columnists and liberal moms have joined together in righteous anger against these thoughtless remarks.
As a brown-skinned suburban mom opposed to Common Core, I can tell you I've personally met moms and dads of ALL races, of ALL backgrounds, and from ALL parts of the country, who have sacrificed to get their kids into the best schools possible. They are outraged that dumbed-down, untested federal "standards" pose an existential threat to their excellent educational arrangements -- be they public, private, religious, or homeschooling.
Duncan's derision betrays the very control-freak impulses that drive Common Core. He presumes that only technocratic elites in Washington can determine what quality standards and curricula look like. He pretends that minority parents and students in inner-city charter and magnet schools with locally-crafted, rigorous classical education missions simply don't exist. A textbook liberal racist, Duncan whitewashes all minority parents and educators who oppose Common Core out of the debate. And he condescendingly implies that the only reason "white suburban moms" object to Common Core is that their children are too dumb to score well on tests that are...a complete and utter mess.
But the tighter we make the noose, the more children like Brennan, who do NOT have those advantages will fall through the cracks. I don't fight the Common Core because I think my child is brilliant, but because I'm tired of these one size fits all educational solutions. We've done that all through Brennan's educational life, and I'm just not willing to take the chance that we're going to do a better job through Katja's just because it's being proposed through a Democratic President rather than a Republican one. This goes beyond politics -- this is about my kids.
So yes, I'm opposed. Not because I don't understand it. Not because I think it will make my children look bad. But because I know that children already look bad -- and by the time they might get it together and look good the way Brennan could, it might be too late.
Because Brennan is just fine, thank you. The kid who would never speak clearly just finished his role in the fall play. The kid who wasn't college material is very much going to college. And the kid who was legally barred from taking honors classes just got a 4.1 GPA this quarter while taking four IB classes. Maybe Arne Duncan should have a talk with him.
Arne Duncan, Jeb Bush, and Don Gaetz need to realize that opposition to Common Core comes from all points on the racial, political, and philosophical spectra and includes moms, dads, grandparents, and activists. Otherwise, they and their bosses will continue to face the "mother" of all backlashes.
Florida education officials must fish or cut bait. Because of the copyright issues and rules from the Common Core Initiative (see quotes), the only way to substantively change the standards to do what Florida officials have promised is to withdraw. There is no other way to have truly specific state standards and assessments, to make the math standards rigorous enough for STEM careers, and make them developmentally appropriate, all stated desires of the governor, the speaker, the Senate president, and the commissioner. Either they must admit they are keeping the Common Core standards with only superficial changes against the will of the people or proceed with standards and tests that are specific for Florida.
"So instead of one centralized curriculum written by the same best and brightest that brought you the Affordable Care Act website Stupid.gov, let's imagine 14,000 departments of education - one for each school district in America..." | 2019-04-23T02:09:14 | https://www.flstopcccoalition.org/blog/2013-11/ |
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0.999718 | Pizza. It is one of the most loved foods on the planet. Who doesn't love the cheese, the sauce, and the crust of a hot delicious pizza? There is no need to spend money at Pizza Hut, Dominoes, Papa John's, or your local pizza shop, when you can make your own pizza at home. With the right ingredients, you can create a delicious homemade pizza to rave to your friends about.
There are two ways to take care of your dough needs. There are many store-bought packages of ready-made pizza dough in your grocer's freezer isle. If you want to save yourself time, grab one or two of these from the store. Another quick and easy option is to buy bagels, hard rolls, biscuits or Italian bread for mini-pizzas. There are also boxes of bread mix that you can use, such as herbs and cheese bread that can easily be prepared and made into a crust.
If you would like to take a healthier approach, you can use a box of wheat or whole grain bread dough as your crust. Just prepare as directed, and then shape it flat and round before baking. There are also some brands that provide ready-made wheat or whole grain crust.
The rest of the ingredients are up to you. Depending on which topping you like to have, your ingredients could be pepperoni, Italian sausage (sweet or hot), black olives, ham, bacon, cheddar cheese, grilled chicken, meatballs, vegetables, mushrooms, bell peppers, anchovies, or whatever you like. The possibilities are endless!
In a mixing bowl, combine dry active yeast to water, salt, sugar, and oil. Stir.
Slowly add the flour to the yeast mixture, stirring it in well.
On a lightly floured, flat surface, knead the dough for about five minutes, or until smooth.
Place the ball of dough onto the greased cookie sheet and shape it into a pizza crust.
Second, add enough cheese to almost cover the sauce. If you like to have extra cheese, try adding it after the other toppings have been placed.
Next, place any extra toppings you would like. Try to spread the toppings evenly so that each slice has a decent amount of each topping. If you have toppings that only some people in your party will like, you can top half of the pizza with what you like, and the other half with what they like.
Remember that your oven should be at 350° Fahrenheit (180° Celsius). You may want to turn it down to 325°F (160°C) for the baking. Depending on how efficient your oven is baking time will take 15 to 30 minutes.
Check on your pizza after 10 minutes to make sure that it is not cooking to rapidly. You will want the dough to cook completely, and you will not want the cheese to burn. When the pizza is done, it will have a nice golden brown crust, and the cheese will be melted nicely. Use your judgment, and don't let it burn!
Take care when removing it from the oven, and try not to burn yourself.
It is best to use a pizza cutter to divide the pizza into slices right away, while the pizza is nice and hot. You can serve immediately, with a heat warning, or allow a minute or two for it to drop to a comfortable eating temperature.
Serve with napkins, and enjoy. | 2019-04-25T00:33:26 | http://www.toptipspot.com/tips/food/howto/make-pizza.php |
0.998763 | 'A gramophone record, the musical idea, the written notes, and the sound-waves, all stand to one another in the same internal relation to one another of depicting that holds between language and the world' ('Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 4.04). - Discuss.
Lots of things to think about here.
You have shown considerable inventiveness in your use of the examples of a sound universe, and the graphical readout. But let's start with the idea that there is a fundamental *difference* between the language-world relationship (if we can call it that) and the relationship of 'depiction' which can hold between any two domains which exhibit a certain structural congruence, whether arising from a set of rules (as in written notes and sounds consequently produced by the orchestra) or a cause and effect relationship (grooves cut in the record in response to a sound input, which can then be used to generate the 'same' sound later).
Your explanation of the difference is that language is itself part of the world. You then explore this by considering what would happen if a musical score was itself 'part of the music', i.e. constructed out of sounds. Then you take this a step further by considering a universe consisting of only of sounds.
As it happens, there is a fascinating account of a 'sound world' in P.F. Strawson 'Individuals: an essay in descriptive metaphysics' Ch. 2. Strawson is concerned with the possibility of distinguishing between a sound-world subject's 'subjective' stream of impressions, and the 'objective' arrangement of sounds, and he raises some difficulties of principle (which actually I think can be surmounted). The aim is to exhibit the minimal experiential structure required for having a conception of oneself as a subject in relation to a world of objects. But let's suppose we could explain the distinction between experience and its objects in a sound world. Then I see no reason why there could not be a language consisting of sounds, which, as they were produced, became objects in the sound world, just as human utterances or writings are objects in our world.
Here is my explanation of the difference between language and other forms of 'depiction'. This will tie in with your claim that language 'summarises and abbreviates the world'.
The limits of musical notation, or any kind of non-linguistic depiction are determined by a circumscribed 'object' in the world - a musical performance, a geographical terrain, a machine-woven cloth. Language, by contrast, is the one and only species of depiction which is limited to 'whatever may (or may not) be the case'.
I look up at the sky and say, 'It is cloudy today.' That is a lot less than all that can be said, of course. In another sense, my statement is completely adequate, just as it stands. (It would be inadequate if 'being cloudy' was not a coherent concept.) Wittgenstein is insistent that the world IS all that is the case, and all that is the case cannot, in principle, go beyond all that can be truly said. That is consistent with the realization that I could die of old age before I had said *everything* that can be said about the cloudy sky.
A musical score, an ordinance survey map, a cloth weaving template are not 'propositions' of language, although they function in a manner in some ways analogous to language.
Your observations about the graphical read-out illustrate the nature of logic, and its connection with a given system of linguistic signs very elegantly. Wittgenstein at one point in the Tractatus considers the intriguing question of possibilities of different 'size of mesh' in his observations about Newtonian mechanics (6.341, 6.342). One might puzzle, though, about Wittgenstein's assertion that "What *does* characterize the picture is that it can be described *completely* by a *particular* size of mesh." If the 'mesh' we choose for our language determines what aspects of the world will become visible to us, how do we ever discover that the mesh is too coarse? Not by somehow bypassing language and making direct contact with the world. So what exactly happens when we come across a phenomenon that the existing language is not adequate describe?
Let's say that I am observing a graphical readout and need to communicate the results to you. I decide on one system of representation which seems to work well, but then run into problems because I encounter situations which my system is inadequate to describe. But this is a limited system of depiction, not language as such.
The case of your 'gentle curve' illustrates another difficulty. However fine the discrimination, there will still be borderline cases. It's not like, e.g. writing a notation for harpsichord music and then needing a new device for 'loud' and 'soft' when someone invents the piano. As I think you have realized, the question of vagueness is the Achilles heel of the whole Tractarian enterprise. | 2019-04-19T00:17:20 | https://electronicphilosopher.blogspot.com/2011/06/wittgensteins-tractatus-proposition-404.html |
0.999753 | Here's my recent essay for The Chronicle of Higher Education. I must admit I was not too happy about the title, and in particular the subtitle of the CHE piece. There is a throwaway line deep in the essay about Facebook, and I wouldn't have selected that as a topic to highlight in the title. Anyway, I am having a Perfect Storm week of long meetings, proposals, longer meetings, teaching, boring meetings, proposals, and random crises, so here is the CHE essay, which may lead to future discussion of the perennial topic of how graduate students and potential advisers initiate contact in certain academic disciplines.
Every year around this time, I get e-mails from prospective graduate students who want to know if I will be taking on new students in the next academic year. The content of their messages varies a surprising amount, as does, I suspect, the responses we give as professors.
Undergraduates who send those exploratory e-mails have typically been advised to do so. I am in a physical-sciences field in which graduate students often apply to work with, and be advised by, a specific professor or professors. It's the departments—usually a committee in consultation with the chair—that decide whom to admit, but advisers have a major role in those decisions. That's why undergraduate advisers recommend that their students write to prospective graduate advisers.
It is useful to send an exploratory e-mail because some professors may not be interested in advising a new student—depending on how many advisees they already have, and on what grant money is available to pay research assistantships.
Graduate-student support can be supplemented, to some extent, by departmental teaching assistantships and fellowships, but faculty members may be asked to make a financial commitment for at least the first year or two of a student's graduate career, especially for international students who might not arrive with sufficient language skills to be teaching assistants.
Although departments try to admit as many of the "top" applicants as possible, there are typically more qualified applicants than openings. The decision about whether to admit particular students, therefore, involves not only their qualifications but also whether a student would be a good match with a particular adviser. E-mail messages from prospective graduate students are a way for them to determine whether there is even any point in applying to work with a particular professor.
What do students write in those introductory e-mails? What should they write? The former is easy to answer, if we can assume that the messages I receive are representative of the genre. The answer to the second question will vary from professor to professor, but I can explain what I like (and don't like) to see in an e-mail from a prospective graduate student.
Most of the messages include some or all of the following: the name of the student's undergraduate institution, major and minor fields, graduation date, relevant research experience, and field of interest for graduate study. Most e-mails ask some version of this question: Is there any point in applying? And then they make a vague request for "more information."
Some students ask about money (tuition, benefits, salary attached to a research assistantship). Others mention details of their personal circumstances (spouses and significant others).
All of those issues, however, are better left for another time: Money is important, but you as a student can probably find out the numbers some other way (via our Web site or an e-mail to a staff administrator). And personal situations are, well, personal. Your first e-mail to a potential graduate adviser should be professional and short.
Something you probably should mention in the e-mail, but most students don't, is whether you are interested in pursuing a master of science, a master's and then maybe a Ph.D., or definitely a Ph.D. That information is critical to my answer about whether I will be looking for new graduate students in the next academic year. For example, I might be looking for a new Ph.D. student, but not a new M.S. student, or vice versa.
I like a succinct e-mail. Your message is not a pre-application, so I don't want to see your full CV or research statement. I will look at those later, if you actually follow through and apply to the graduate program and you have a good enough application for the admissions committee to pass it along. To cover yourself, just in case the potential adviser you are approaching does want to see such detailed information at this early stage, you could provide a link to a Web site where that information is posted. Professors can follow the link, or not.
Some students ask if they can visit, or mention that they will be at a particular conference and would like to talk with me in person there. I always have mixed feelings about those requests. On the one hand, requesting a visit or a face-to-face conversation demonstrates serious intent. Meeting a potential adviser can help applicants with their decision about whether to apply. The encounters can also be useful for me as the potential adviser because I can form an impression that helps me make an admissions decision later in the process.
On the other hand, it's hard to find time for many of those informal meetings, including at conferences. Fortunately, not every potential applicant wants to arrange a meeting before he or she even applies. I can, however, meet a few.
If a potential applicant and a potential adviser are going to be at the same conference in the near future, it's fine to ask if it would be possible to meet. I do not, however, like e-mails in which students inform me that we are going to meet. I have had students write and tell me that they will meet me directly after my talk at a specific conference (without checking with me as to whether that is a good time). I've had others tell me that Monday would be a good day for us to have lunch together, and I've had students ask me for my cellphone number so they can find me at the conference. One potential applicant—in what I hope is not a trend—sent me a friend request through Facebook. I am actually not that friendly, although I do try to chat with prospective students at conferences.
If you do want to meet a potential adviser in person, my advice would be to keep your request general at first, to see if the professor is interested. Or, if you don't want to request a meeting, just try to track down the professor at a conference, such as at a poster session.
E-mail messages from potential applicants typically end with a request for more information. I can appreciate that it's difficult to know how to finish such a message to an unknown professor, but "more information" is too vague.
My department Web pages describe my continuing research and my published work is accessible, so there's quite a lot of information already available about likely research opportunities. I typically respond with a few sentences about research opportunities, but I don't provide much "more" information.
Of course, the questions that students really want answered aren't appropriate to ask, at least not to me directly: Am I a mean adviser or a nice adviser? Do I expect my students to work nights and weekends? Am I a control freak, or do I have a sink-or-swim advising philosophy? Will I scream at them if they don't run a spell checker before handing me a document, or will I merely sigh?
To find out that kind of information, you will have to write to my current and recent graduate students—something I encourage potential applicants to do.
And what about my response to you? Do I even bother? Yes, I always write back, except for the cases that are obviously mass-mailed form letters that start "Dear Sir" and mention a research field that is completely unrelated to mine.
Barring those, why do I answer every legitimate message? I write back because maybe one day the student will be my student.
I don't want to see your full CV or research statement. ... you could provide a link to a Web site where that information is posted. Professors can follow the link, or not.
Also, if a student includes their CV directly in the email, you can choose to read it, or not. It is precisely like choosing to visit a webpage or not.
Nowadays if you write the word "Facebook" on the title, it will guarantee high readership. It is obvious that your piece wasn't centered around Facebook. This highlights how low CHE has gone. Excellent piece, by the way.
Any thoughts on the appropriateness of phoning a potential adviser? I had someone do this a while back. They had sent me email first, but since I wasn't at all likely to take them as a student and my department doesn't admit MS students, (and I've had at least 20 messages about potential students 90% of which I did respond to) I didn't respond. I hate being phoned in general, because it interrupts whatever I'm doing at the time, so I was quite short with this person.
I'm so glad you wrote this! I'm sending out emails to advisors I'm interested in working with this weekend and have been agonizing over what to say. You've made this a much easier process!
Also, if you meet a professor at a poster session be sure to say who you are, that you contacted the professor about grad school, and what you are interested in. It's hard when students walk up at a big conference and say "Hi, I'm John" and then stare expectantly.... That goes for the cold phone call. Please remind me of who you are. If I'm not expecting to chat with you, I might not associate your name (especially since we have never met or spoken).
what about contacting people for potential postdoctoral positions? I'm about two years from graduating, and I'm going to a conference far away from where I currently live. I was planning on contacting PIs to see if they could meet with me during that time.
What do you do when you get a Facebook request? Do you simply reject the request, or do you also message the student back, saying that it is not professional or sth. ?
They had sent me email first, but since I wasn't at all likely to take them as a student and my department doesn't admit MS students, (and I've had at least 20 messages about potential students 90% of which I did respond to) I didn't respond.
I'm sorry, but I am not accepting new students at this moment. Good luck in your search.
Even though I don't know anything at all about your situation, your other commitments, your job, your research field, or your personal life, I can say with absolute confidence that if you think you are so terribly, pityingly busy that you cannot afford 30 seconds to respond to a sincere, non-mass-mail request from a student, then you are delusional. No one in the whole world is that busy. It's laziness and self-pity, pure and simple, and it is an personal insult to this student.
I'm glad the student called you and annoyed you. I hope that if you continue to treat them as if they are morally equivalent to a Viagra spammer, that their next step is to send you a singing telegram that deletes another precious minute from your day.
I'm impressed you write them all back -- I am overwhelmed by this "academic spam".
I too dislike these "Dear Sir, I've been looking at your website..." emails. I stop right there since they obviously did not look close enough to realize I am a woman.
I agree that it was a poor choice by CHE to put facebook in the title. This piece would be an excellent thing to give students who are currently applying, but the title makes it kind of weird.
I do respond to anyone who seems to know who I actually am.
I would be livid if someone phoned me out of the blue. I just don't like talking on the phone and consider it very private.
FSP, did you ever get an email to your FSP address asking for being your phd student?
View from the other side: as a prospective, I emailed about a dozen potential advisors. About half emailed me back. I pursued one who didn't reply by finding him in person and he ended up being one of my coadvisors (together with one who did reply to my email).
I'm in a field where direct contact with advisers varies from institution to institution. In our department, all admissions decisions are made by the faculty as a whole, and prior contact with individual faculty usually is neither an advantage or disadvantage.
Since I am the grad director for the program, most of the requests get forwarded to me to answer. I will often get copies of identical messages forwarded to me from several faculty. Those students go on our mental list of applicants to avoid giving admission to, as they are clearly clueless and going to cause problems.
I have a canned reply I send to everyone (about 3 pages long) that answers all the usual questions, and I often add a sentence or two at the beginning to answer specific questions, in the rare cases where a student has asked something worth answering. Often the answer to the question is a pointer to the specific answer on our FAQ page (but I'm polite about that, as the navigation system on our school's web site is terrible, so prospective students can legitimately have looked for the answer and not found it).
I never look at student CVs sent through e-mail and never will---the time for that is when the student has actually applied, in which case the information is in the grad student application database, where it can be easily found.
"Also, if a student includes their CV directly in the email, you can choose to read it, or not. It is precisely like choosing to visit a webpage or not." The CV in my mailbox bloats my mailbox with lots of junk, and I can't save the message easily without the junk. E-mail attachments are generally evil and should be used only when absolutely essential, 99% of the attachments I get would have been much better handled as URLs to web pages.
Personally, I hate getting the clueless requests to work with me in which the student obviously has no idea what field I'm in. A lot of these e-mails come from India, so I suspect that there are counselors there urging students to spam all US professors.
As an undergrad looking to be a graduate student in the hard sciences next year, all of this is v. interesting, but in general I think I wouldn't have done anything too ridiculous.
My real question is - WHEN should I be writing professors I'm interested in working with? I emailed one in September because I needed to talk to someone for a funding application proposal, and she was very helpful with that but said it was too early for an answer re: advising (understandably), but applications are due early January - should I email professors before that, or after?
Definitely email before the deadline, although there might be some advisers who won't be able to give you a definite answer about whether they are taking on new students if they won't learn about pending grant proposals until later. If you think you might want to work with that person, apply anyway.
Actually I disagree. First we thin the list of applicants. After we get that to a short list, only then do we encourage applicants to interview current grad students. We also ask current grad students to make these into bidirectional interviews.
Well.. I had a student title his email: "Request for Collaboration"
Do you respond to LinkedIn, after you've worked with a student for a couple of years? Even if its only one class?
My students Link me, and I want to link my professors. I don't know what the rules are there. | 2019-04-19T14:35:17 | http://science-professor.blogspot.com/2010/11/getting-to-know-me-and-you.html |
0.999815 | Finding financing for community development projects can be a daunting task. Traditional type lenders may be able to help, but it is more likely that developers in low-income areas will need to look elsewhere for financing. A good place to find financing might be at a community development financial institution (CDFI). How is it different from a traditional lender?
Mainstream financial institutions are banks, savings and loans, and credit unions that act as intermediaries between the capital and debt markets, facilitating the flow of money through the economy. They also lend money to qualifying borrowers. While most financial institutions are required by the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) to invest in and lend to low- and moderate-income people and communities and small businesses in their footprint, they also are required to ensure that all loans they make are safe and sound.
CDFIs also are financial institutions that act as intermediaries between the capital and debt markets and accept deposits from investors and lend to borrowers.
One difference between CDFIs and mainstream financial institutions is in their missions. The latter are in business to make money for their shareholders. CDFIs leverage money to support community development in low-income areas and with underserved populations. Success also is measured differently at a CDFI. While mainstream financial institutions look at their bottom line, CDFIs focus on the "double bottom line," considering economic gains and contributions to the community as important factors, along with dollars and cents.
The concept for CDFIs was developed in the 1960s as a way to address poverty and racial discrimination in both urban and rural areas. The small successes of these early organizations were used to lay the foundation for the current CDFI industry. Finding enough funding to make an impact on a community was hard, and CDFIs struggled. But change was on the way, and in 1994 the Treasury Department created the CDFI Fund.
Charged with a mission to expand the capacity of financial institutions that provide credit, capital and financial services to underserved populations, the CDFI Fund distributes money through a competitive application process. Since its creation, the fund has awarded more than $771 million in capital grants, equity investments and funding for technical assistance and organizational capacity-building to community development organizations and community development financial institutions, making the CDFI industry a force for economic change in low-income communities.
CDFIs work closely with community leaders and nonprofit organizations to develop financial products and technical assistance that will benefit their target market. That's where the services of a CDFI are greatest, since mainstream financial institutions normally can't offer products that have a high risk factor.
Large corporations also can purchase or hire expertise, while most nonprofits do not have the financial resources to do so. In the markets they serve, CDFIs even the playing field and help their customers flourish by offering more than just below-market-rate loans. By looking at the whole project and organization, CDFIs provide technical expertise as a value-added service.
Because they connect with nonprofit organizations working in distressed communities, CDFIs understand and address their needs with customized financial products. Mortgage financing for affordable housing and first-time homeowners, capital to renovate and to build community facilities, microloans for small businesses, and flexible underwriting are among the products and tools offered by CDFIs.
Since most CDFIs are small, they often partner with mainstream financial institutions to offer financing for projects. In those partnerships, the CDFI will take the second position on a loan to ensure that the product is secured and the risk to the financial institution is minimal.
The partnerships are winning situations for all parties involved: the CDFIs, financial institutions and the community. The community benefits through new financial services that are targeted to a specific purpose. The mainstream financial institution may fulfill part of its CRA obligation. The CDFI advances its mission.
Many communities owe their economic and redevelopment success to partnerships with CDFIs. | 2019-04-21T16:38:51 | https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/bridges/spring-2007/not-just-a-financial-institution-measuring-success-by-looking-at-the-double-bottom-line |
0.99942 | Understand cohesive and adhesive forces.
Children blow soap bubbles and play in the spray of a sprinkler on a hot summer day. (See Figure 1.) An underwater spider keeps his air supply in a shiny bubble he carries wrapped around him. A technician draws blood into a small-diameter tube just by touching it to a drop on a pricked finger. A premature infant struggles to inflate her lungs. What is the common thread? All these activities are dominated by the attractive forces between atoms and molecules in liquids—both within a liquid and between the liquid and its surroundings.
Attractive forces between molecules of the same type are called cohesive forces. Liquids can, for example, be held in open containers because cohesive forces hold the molecules together. Attractive forces between molecules of different types are called adhesive forces. Such forces cause liquid drops to cling to window panes, for example. In this section we examine effects directly attributable to cohesive and adhesive forces in liquids.
Attractive forces between molecules of the same type are called cohesive forces.
Attractive forces between molecules of different types are called adhesive forces.
Cohesive forces between molecules cause the surface of a liquid to contract to the smallest possible surface area. This general effect is called surface tension. Molecules on the surface are pulled inward by cohesive forces, reducing the surface area. Molecules inside the liquid experience zero net force, since they have neighbors on all sides.
Cohesive forces between molecules cause the surface of a liquid to contract to the smallest possible surface area. This general effect is called surface tension.
Forces between atoms and molecules underlie the macroscopic effect called surface tension. These attractive forces pull the molecules closer together and tend to minimize the surface area. This is another example of a submicroscopic explanation for a macroscopic phenomenon.
The model of a liquid surface acting like a stretched elastic sheet can effectively explain surface tension effects. For example, some insects can walk on water (as opposed to floating in it) as we would walk on a trampoline—they dent the surface as shown in Figure 2(a). Figure 2(b) shows another example, where a needle rests on a water surface. The iron needle cannot, and does not, float, because its density is greater than that of water. Rather, its weight is supported by forces in the stretched surface that try to make the surface smaller or flatter. If the needle were placed point down on the surface, its weight acting on a smaller area would break the surface, and it would sink.
Figure 2. Surface tension supporting the weight of an insect and an iron needle, both of which rest on the surface without penetrating it. They are not floating; rather, they are supported by the surface of the liquid. (a) An insect leg dents the water surface. FST is a restoring force (surface tension) parallel to the surface. (b) An iron needle similarly dents a water surface until the restoring force (surface tension) grows to equal its weight.
Table 3 lists values of for some liquids. For the insect of Figure 2(a), its weight is supported by the upward components of the surface tension force: where is the circumference of the insect’s foot in contact with the water. Figure 3 shows one way to measure surface tension. The liquid film exerts a force on the movable wire in an attempt to reduce its surface area. The magnitude of this force depends on the surface tension of the liquid and can be measured accurately.
where is the radius of the bubble. Thus the pressure inside a bubble is greatest when the bubble is the smallest. Another bit of evidence for this is illustrated in Figure 4. When air is allowed to flow between two balloons of unequal size, the smaller balloon tends to collapse, filling the larger balloon.
Figure 3. Sliding wire device used for measuring surface tension; the device exerts a force to reduce the film’s surface area. The force needed to hold the wire in place is F=γL=γ(2l), since there are two liquid surfaces attached to the wire. This force remains nearly constant as the film is stretched, until the film approaches its breaking point.
Figure 4. With the valve closed, two balloons of different sizes are attached to each end of a tube. Upon opening the valve, the smaller balloon decreases in size with the air moving to fill the larger balloon. The pressure in a spherical balloon is inversely proportional to its radius, so that the smaller balloon has a greater internal pressure than the larger balloon, resulting in this flow.
Calculate the gauge pressure inside a soap bubble in radius using the surface tension for soapy water in Table 3. Convert this pressure to mm Hg.
Note that if a hole were to be made in the bubble, the air would be forced out, the bubble would decrease in radius, and the pressure inside would increase to atmospheric pressure (760 mm Hg).
Our lungs contain hundreds of millions of mucus-lined sacs called alveoli, which are very similar in size, and about 0.1 mm in diameter. (See Figure 6.) You can exhale without muscle action by allowing surface tension to contract these sacs. Medical patients whose breathing is aided by a positive pressure respirator have air blown into the lungs, but are generally allowed to exhale on their own. Even if there is paralysis, surface tension in the alveoli will expel air from the lungs. Since pressure increases as the radii of the alveoli decrease, an occasional deep cleansing breath is needed to fully reinflate the alveoli. Respirators are programmed to do this and we find it natural, as do our companion dogs and cats, to take a cleansing breath before settling into a nap.
Figure 5. Bronchial tubes in the lungs branch into ever-smaller structures, finally ending in alveoli. The alveoli act like tiny bubbles. The surface tension of their mucous lining aids in exhalation and can prevent inhalation if too great.
Figure 6. Surface tension as a function of surface area. The surface tension for lung surfactant decreases with decreasing area. This ensures that small alveoli don’t collapse and large alveoli are not able to over expand.
If water gets into the lungs, the surface tension is too great and you cannot inhale. This is a severe problem in resuscitating drowning victims. A similar problem occurs in newborn infants who are born without this surfactant—their lungs are very difficult to inflate. This condition is known as hyaline membrane disease and is a leading cause of death for infants, particularly in premature births. Some success has been achieved in treating hyaline membrane disease by spraying a surfactant into the infant’s breathing passages. Emphysema produces the opposite problem with alveoli. Alveolar walls of emphysema victims deteriorate, and the sacs combine to form larger sacs. Because pressure produced by surface tension decreases with increasing radius, these larger sacs produce smaller pressure, reducing the ability of emphysema victims to exhale. A common test for emphysema is to measure the pressure and volume of air that can be exhaled.
(1) Try floating a sewing needle on water. In order for this activity to work, the needle needs to be very clean as even the oil from your fingers can be sufficient to affect the surface properties of the needle. (2) Place the bristles of a paint brush into water. Pull the brush out and notice that for a short while, the bristles will stick together. The surface tension of the water surrounding the bristles is sufficient to hold the bristles together. As the bristles dry out, the surface tension effect dissipates. (3) Place a loop of thread on the surface of still water in such a way that all of the thread is in contact with the water. Note the shape of the loop. Now place a drop of detergent into the middle of the loop. What happens to the shape of the loop? Why? (4) Sprinkle pepper onto the surface of water. Add a drop of detergent. What happens? Why? (5) Float two matches parallel to each other and add a drop of detergent between them. What happens? Note: For each new experiment, the water needs to be replaced and the bowl washed to free it of any residual detergent.
Why is it that water beads up on a waxed car but does not on bare paint? The answer is that the adhesive forces between water and wax are much smaller than those between water and paint. Competition between the forces of adhesion and cohesion are important in the macroscopic behavior of liquids. An important factor in studying the roles of these two forces is the angle between the tangent to the liquid surface and the surface. (See Figure 7.) The contact angle is directly related to the relative strength of the cohesive and adhesive forces. The larger the strength of the cohesive force relative to the adhesive force, the larger is, and the more the liquid tends to form a droplet. The smaller is, the smaller the relative strength, so that the adhesive force is able to flatten the drop. Table 4 lists contact angles for several combinations of liquids and solids.
The angle between the tangent to the liquid surface and the surface is called the contact angle.
One important phenomenon related to the relative strength of cohesive and adhesive forces is capillary action—the tendency of a fluid to be raised or suppressed in a narrow tube, or capillary tube. This action causes blood to be drawn into a small-diameter tube when the tube touches a drop.
The tendency of a fluid to be raised or suppressed in a narrow tube, or capillary tube, is called capillary action.
If a capillary tube is placed vertically into a liquid, as shown in Figure 8, capillary action will raise or suppress the liquid inside the tube depending on the combination of substances. The actual effect depends on the relative strength of the cohesive and adhesive forces and, thus, the contact angle given in the table. If is less than then the fluid will be raised; if is greater than it will be suppressed. Mercury, for example, has a very large surface tension and a large contact angle with glass. When placed in a tube, the surface of a column of mercury curves downward, somewhat like a drop. The curved surface of a fluid in a tube is called a meniscus. The tendency of surface tension is always to reduce the surface area. Surface tension thus flattens the curved liquid surface in a capillary tube. This results in a downward force in mercury and an upward force in water, as seen in Figure 8.
Figure 8. (a) Mercury is suppressed in a glass tube because its contact angle is greater than 900. Surface tension exerts a downward force as it flattens the mercury, suppressing it in the tube. The dashed line shows the shape the mercury surface would have without the flattening effect of surface tension. (b) Water is raised in a glass tube because its contact angle is nearly 0º. Surface tension therefore exerts an upward force when it flattens the surface to reduce its area.
Figure 9. (a) Capillary action depends on the radius of a tube. The smaller the tube, the greater the height reached. The height is negligible for large-radius tubes. (b) A denser fluid in the same tube rises to a smaller height, all other factors being the same.
This result is unreasonable. Sap in trees moves through the xylem, which forms tubes with radii as small as This value is about 180 times as large as the radius found necessary here to raise sap This means that capillary action alone cannot be solely responsible for sap getting to the tops of trees.
How does sap get to the tops of tall trees? (Recall that a column of water can only rise to a height of 10 m when there is a vacuum at the top—see Chapter 11.4 Example 2.) The question has not been completely resolved, but it appears that it is pulled up like a chain held together by cohesive forces. As each molecule of sap enters a leaf and evaporates (a process called transpiration), the entire chain is pulled up a notch. So a negative pressure created by water evaporation must be present to pull the sap up through the xylem vessels. In most situations, fluids can push but can exert only negligible pull, because the cohesive forces seem to be too small to hold the molecules tightly together. But in this case, the cohesive force of water molecules provides a very strong pull. Figure 10 shows one device for studying negative pressure. Some experiments have demonstrated that negative pressures sufficient to pull sap to the tops of the tallest trees can be achieved.
Figure 10. (a) When the piston is raised, it stretches the liquid slightly, putting it under tension and creating a negative absolute pressure P=−F/A. (b) The liquid eventually separates, giving an experimental limit to negative pressure in this liquid.
Capillary action is the tendency of a fluid to be raised or suppressed in a narrow tube, or capillary tube which is due to the relative strength of cohesive and adhesive forces.
1: The density of oil is less than that of water, yet a loaded oil tanker sits lower in the water than an empty one. Why?
2: Is surface tension due to cohesive or adhesive forces, or both?
3: Is capillary action due to cohesive or adhesive forces, or both?
4: Birds such as ducks, geese, and swans have greater densities than water, yet they are able to sit on its surface. Explain this ability, noting that water does not wet their feathers and that they cannot sit on soapy water.
5: Water beads up on an oily sunbather, but not on her neighbor, whose skin is not oiled. Explain in terms of cohesive and adhesive forces.
6: Could capillary action be used to move fluids in a “weightless” environment, such as in an orbiting space probe?
7: What effect does capillary action have on the reading of a manometer with uniform diameter? Explain your answer.
8: Pressure between the inside chest wall and the outside of the lungs normally remains negative. Explain how pressure inside the lungs can become positive (to cause exhalation) without muscle action.
1: What is the pressure inside an alveolus having a radius of if the surface tension of the fluid-lined wall is the same as for soapy water? You may assume the pressure is the same as that created by a spherical bubble.
3: What is the gauge pressure in millimeters of mercury inside a soap bubble 0.100 m in diameter?
4: Calculate the force on the slide wire in Figure 3 if it is 3.50 cm long and the fluid is ethyl alcohol.
5: Figure 9(a) shows the effect of tube radius on the height to which capillary action can raise a fluid. (a) Calculate the height for water in a glass tube with a radius of 0.900 cm—a rather large tube like the one on the left. (b) What is the radius of the glass tube on the right if it raises water to 4.00 cm?
7: What fluid is in the device shown in Figure 3 if the force is and the length of the wire is 2.50 cm? Calculate the surface tension and find a likely match from Table 3.
8: If the gauge pressure inside a rubber balloon with a 10.0-cm radius is 1.50 cm of water, what is the effective surface tension of the balloon?
9: Calculate the gauge pressures inside 2.00-cm-radius bubbles of water, alcohol, and soapy water. Which liquid forms the most stable bubbles, neglecting any effects of evaporation?
10: Suppose water is raised by capillary action to a height of 5.00 cm in a glass tube. (a) To what height will it be raised in a paraffin tube of the same radius? (b) In a silver tube of the same radius?
11: Calculate the contact angle for olive oil if capillary action raises it to a height of 7.07 cm in a glass tube with a radius of 0.100 mm. Is this value consistent with that for most organic liquids?
12: When two soap bubbles touch, the larger is inflated by the smaller until they form a single bubble. (a) What is the gauge pressure inside a soap bubble with a 1.50-cm radius? (b) Inside a 4.00-cm-radius soap bubble? (c) Inside the single bubble they form if no air is lost when they touch?
13: Calculate the ratio of the heights to which water and mercury are raised by capillary action in the same glass tube.
14: What is the ratio of heights to which ethyl alcohol and water are raised by capillary action in the same glass tube?
1 At 20ºC unless otherwise stated.
Based on the values in table, the fluid is probably glycerin.
Alcohol forms the most stable bubble, since the absolute pressure inside is closest to atmospheric pressure.
This is near the value of for most organic liquids.
The ratio is negative because water is raised whereas mercury is lowered.
11.8 Cohesion and Adhesion in Liquids: Surface Tension and Capillary Action by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted. | 2019-04-22T12:36:27 | https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/collegephysics/chapter/cohesion-and-adhesion-in-liquids-surface-tension-and-capillary-action/ |
0.9985 | Can Detroit Build Small? Chevy Tries With Cruze General Motors used to push SUVs and trucks. But now, the leaner, post-bankruptcy GM is turning its attention to small cars to compete with Toyota and Honda. And it's hoping the Chevy Cruze will woo customers with a price tag that starts around $17,000.
Chevy hopes it can gain some momentum in the small-car market with the Chevrolet Cruze. But it will face competition from Ford, Honda and Toyota.
The Chevrolet Cruze -- a small car with a coupelike design, an upgraded interior and lots of air bags -- also comes fully loaded with high expectations.
"I think it goes without saying that Cruze is probably the most important passenger car that both Chevrolet and GM have ever done," says Margaret Brooks, the head of marketing for Chevy's small cars.
But since when does General Motors -- the company that pushed SUVs and trucks so hard for so many years -- care so much about small cars?
"Small cars built by Detroit — by Detroit car companies — were just not competitive," says Jeremy Anwyl, CEO of Edmunds.com. "What the Cruze represents for Chevrolet in particular, but also I think for the U.S. auto industry, is kind of a demonstration that, yeah, maybe Detroit can build small cars."
In past years, GM was fairly content to let the Toyota Corolla and Honda Civic duke it out, while it sold poorly reviewed compacts at deep discounts. That's no longer the case for the new, leaner, post-bankruptcy GM. The Cruze is supposed to be its white knight.
With taxpayers still owning 61 percent of GM and a stock offering in the works, the Cruze is the company's most important launch in years.
For a car that starts at about $17,000, Eric Tingwall, an editor for Automobile magazine, is impressed. "It's not necessarily fast, but it is a turbocharged engine where you get torque down low," he says. That means it takes off nicely from a stop.
GM says some models can get as much as 40 miles per gallon.
Tingwall surveys the Cruze's modern interior, which has 10 air bags and an upgraded stereo. He says the dash looks like the kind you'd find in a more expensive car.
"If you look at the quality and the style here, you won't find anything like that in the Toyota Corolla or Honda Civic," Tingwall says.
But you can also buy a basic Corolla or Civic for less than a new Cruze -- about $1,000 less. And GM may have to persuade some customers to forget about the Cruze's predecessors -- the Cobalt and Cavalier.
"I'll probably never buy another Chevy," says Megan Robison, who now owns a Honda Civic. "I had a Cavalier and I just wanted something more reliable." Next time she's in the market for a car, she says, she'll most likely get another Honda.
Brooks, the Chevrolet marketing executive, admits that the company has some work to do to win back customers. "Certainly if we look back [at] the last couple years -- decades really -- we kind of lost our way a bit with Chevy," she says.
And while many reviewers think the Cruze is the best small car on the market today, that sentiment might not last long. Toyota, Ford and Honda are all due to come out with their redesigned small cars in the next 12 to 18 months.
The story was produced by Changing Gears, a collaboration of WBEZ Chicago, Michigan Radio, and ideastream Cleveland. | 2019-04-18T18:01:25 | https://www.npr.org/2010/10/19/130519794/can-detroit-build-small-chevy-tries-with-cruze |
0.999963 | I don't really get how copyright "harms the wider market, decreases competition, and cuts out any chance of a "middle class" in the market."
If a small record label wants to release an album, what difference does it make to them that the big 4 hold copyrights on their catalogues?
I agree that copyright isn't the only business model, but I don't follow how it harms the wider market. | 2019-04-24T14:20:03 | https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110725/11554415241/getting-past-myth-that-copyright-is-needed-to-produce-content.shtml?cid=896 |
0.999998 | Was a 207-pound mako shark landed by sport fishermen entered into a contest a legal fish?
Was a 207-pound mako shark landed by sport fishermen entered in the Mako Mania tournament a legal fish?
There is controversy brewing over the length of the shark, which has to measure 83 inches from the snout to the fork in the tail to be legally taken for sport, according federal rules.
At stake is first place in Mako Mania and thousands of dollars in prize money.
The shark was landed on the boat Sequester and was the only mako shark weighed into the Mako Mania tournament run by the Greater Point Pleasant Charter Boat Association. The contest was held this weekend.
A tape measure was used to measure the shark and according to the association, the mako measured 83 ¼ inches. The weigh-in was witnessed by a state conservation officer under the hire by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the association said.
However, the same shark was disqualified in the Mako Fever tournament, taking place at the same time on the Manasquan River and run by the Jersey Coast Shark Anglers in Brick.
Mako Fever disqualified the shark for being undersized, according to the tournament's social media account. A video posted on the tournament's social media showed the shark was measured with a straight ruler and the shark was 79 inches long.
A conservation officer was also present at the dock to witness the weigh-in at Mako Fever.
A spokesperson for NOAA, which has final say on issuing citations on the taking of illegal sharks, said the agency's standard practice is not to discuss ongoing or potential investigations.
Sequester is in first place in Mako Mania, but tournament committeeman Bob Gynn said they haven't awarded the prize money yet and have postponed the awards ceremony until a ruling is made on the shark.
"Were yet to make a determination on it and are taking many things into factor," said Gynn.
The owner of Sequester was not able to reached by a reporter.
If Sequester is disqualified, first place would go to the crew of Miss Jenny, which entered a qualifying thresher shark into Mako Mania.
Sequester's shark is not big enough for first place in Mako Fever, which had a 258-pound mako and a 236-pound mako entered by contestants.
Mako Fever's tournament director John Schabel did not immediately return a phone call.
Pete Grimbilas, former director of Mako Mania, said part of the debate is over what is the correct way to measure a shark.
"I see it as two different things. It's either measured along the curve of the shark or straight. I've seen it reported both ways by NOAA," said Grimbalis.
Measuring along the curve of the shark's body would give a longer measurement.
The ocean water temperature was starting to inch up into the lower 60s.
The water got warm enough for a shot of porgies over the rocky bottom on the northern Monmouth County coastline. But, a couple days in a row of south wind and current brought the cold water back.
"It went down eight degrees. It was 63 degrees and now it's 55," Captain William Egerter of the Dauntless said Thursday morning.
He was out in 110-feet of water catching sea bass, ling and winter flounder. Egerter spoke to divers who reported the water was 12 degrees colder on the bottom.
When the temps were warm, the ocean fluking picked up.
Captain Matt Sosnowski of the Norma K III party boat said he observed more bites on the fluking grounds outside the Manasquan Inlet as a result.
The fluke in the rivers has been steady so far this young season.
There are some true doormats lining the bottom of the Manasquan River. Julia Stavalo of Lacey was fishing on the Hat Trick with Mike Caufield Jr. when she hooked into and reeled in a 10-pound, 12-ounce fish not too far from the railroad bridge.
The report was sent in by Mike Caufield Sr.
The fluke fishing also began to pick up in the Sandy Hook and Raritan bays. Tom Buban of the Atlantic Star party boat said he had a good showing of keepers on the morning and afternoon trips.
"The fluke fishing has been pretty good I really have no complaints. We are catching some nice size fluke. Our biggest fish this week went 7 ½ pounds," said Captain Rob Semkewyc on the Sea Hunter in Atlantic Highlands.
The sea bass fishing on the inshore hard bottom in 110 feet or less of water has been good. The cold water made the fish a little finicky this week.
The inshore reefs like the Sea Girt and Axel Carlson are holding the bass but not enough for the larger crowds on the party boats, said Egerter.
"A little boat that can hit a bunch of spots can catch eight or 10 a man on the reefs," said Egerter.
Fishermen have been lighting up the bluefish inshore. Captain Howard Bogan Jr. of the 125-foot Jamaica said the fish were on the surface and hitting on metal jigs.
The night bluefishing is a different story. Sosnowski has been trying on Friday and Saturday nights but said they ended up anchoring on a wreck last weekend and catching ling instead.
There's no doubt a 30-pound halibut is going to pull a little harder than a four or five-pound fluke.
But you're not going to catch that fish in New Jersey waters. But Jeff Gutman, captain of the Voyager party boat in Point Pleasant Beach can take you where there are.
Gutman ran into a patch of big halibut drifting patrons over the Nantucket shoals on his latest excursion to the Rhode Island coast.
Gutman took his fares there for two days at the end of May. The trip focused on jigging cod and haddock, the latter he said they found in good numbers.
"Fish were coming up all around the boat on both bait and jigs with doubleheaders common," said Gutman.
In the middle of day two of the trip, an angler hooked into something much larger off the bottom. It turned out to be a 36-pound halibut landed by Andre Mezzasalma of Virginia.
"We hooked a few more halibut through the day but were unable to get any to the surface," said Gutman.
Captain Dave DeGennaro of the Hi Flier motored southeast from the Barnegat Inlet to the Spencer Canyon on Sunday.
DeGennaro said they found the "right water," which was a "beautiful shade of blue."
The canyon had tons of porpoise and whales and skipjack tuna, which attacked his spread every five to 10 minutes. His group put one bluefin tuna in the boat.
A new fluke contest this year, the two-month long "Flukin Fiesta" contest is underway.
This fluke tournament runs from June 2 to July 29 and offers anglers cash prizes for the two heaviest fluke weighed in. Anglers must use a rod and reel to land the fluke and the contest is open to all New Jersey waters. Contestants can register up until July 28.
The contest is sponsored by the St. Peter School PTA, located in Point Pleasant Beach. The entry fee is $75.
Registration forms are available at participating weigh stations: Elliots Auto Car, Hoffman's Marina, Round Dough with a Hole, Barnegat Bay Marina and Pells Fish and Sport.
Forms can also be downloaded from the contest's Facebook "2018 Flukin Fiesta."
The 40th annual Mako Fever contest run by the Jersey Coast Shark Anglers kick's off this weekend.
The captain meeting is today at 6:30 p.m. at the Manasquan River Club, 217 Riverside Dr. Brick. The entry fee is $500.
New this year is the shark contest will run from June 16-June 24. Participants can also weigh in a thresher shark, though the contest remains a mako first tournament.
The weigh-ins are 4 to 8 p.m. daily at the Crystal Point Yacht Club at 3900 River Road, Point Pleasant.
The captain's meeting is 6:30 p.m. June 22 at Wehrlen Brother's Marina in Brick. The weigh-ins are 4 to 7 p.m. June 23 and 24 at Captain Bill's Landing in Point Pleasant Beach. | 2019-04-18T18:20:54 | https://ux.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/outdoors/fishing/hook-line-and-sinker/2018/06/15/hook-line-sinker-nj-fishing/701378002/ |
0.999795 | SugarCRM is a cloud-based application for handling sales automation, marketing automation, account management and customer relationship management needs. SugarCRM offers features such as customizable home pages, a new-user "wizard" tool for newbies, a shortcut bar, enhanced-view global search functions and downloadable plug-ins.
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SugarCRM Community Edition looks pretty dated. If you don't have a lot of experience with the typical CRM data model concept, it can be hard to figure out how to use the system. The interface could be modernized to make it easier to navigate and find your way around. Another downside to being the Community Edition is that you need to know how to install and maintain the platform on your own server, but this is also a plus if you do have these skills.
It allowed us as a small business to track, bill, and market to our customers and potential customers.
Of course you can't beat free when it comes to software. There are so many open-source applications out there that you can almost always find one that meets your needs in this day and age. SugarCRM has been around a long time and has become a mature CRM with all the basics you'd expect. It even handles customization fairly well. Dashboards are great for tracking the simply stuff and you can build your own as well.
SugarCRM has now split into 2 tracks. There's a paid-for premium version that is typically hosted by SugarCRM. Then there's the Community Edition that's still open-source and free. For years they co-existed side-by-side perfectly fine, but a few years back, SugarCRM decided to stop updating the Community Edition. CE is eternally stuck on version 6.5. And then in April 2018, they've removed it entirely so now you're stuck with the Pro or Enterprise editions which are paid-for.
I learned how to work a CRM. I kept track of all customer records, ranging from revenue and profit and order amount and contact list and order dates and essentially everything related to my job operationally as a purchasing coordinator. Definitely made my life easier.
Very customizable to your needs. Straightforward, no nonsense UI. Easy to read and find things. Sugar is a perfect entry into CRMs that aren't salesforce, because its useful across all industries and departments. Its simple while being complex. You can create functions and layouts that are very specific to your needs, but without it cluttering and looking like there's a lot of information.
Its not very pretty. Sort of looks like it was made in the early 200s and they just kept the look since. People are always talking about professionalism, and this definitely looks less polished than other CRMs. Because of this, some of the information can blend together and be difficult to find if there are long lists of things you are looking for.
One of the main benefits is having the mobile app that SugarCRM provides this helped to get us data and information at our fingertips when needed. Sugar is reasonably priced, has pretty good user-friendly interfaces and requires just a little training to get used to it. It's more suitable for mid-sized companies.
SugarCRM functioned well for storing prospect and customer information.
I was able to load new contacts into the system without much hassle.
Our company is able to adjust the system software to fit our specific needs with ease simply by reaching out to the support team.
We wanted to explore other CRM options it was nearly impossible for me, from a user standpoint, to export all of our information.
We were coming up on the end of our trial and stood to lose all of our data and I couldn't figure out how to export it. Difficult to do filters as well. I didn't like the format for leads to accounts to sales. Pipeline is also difficult to follow.
Starting at $30/user/month - this is by far the best value I've seen on the market for sales and marketing CRM software. It's not Salesforce.com which is a good thing because Sugar is easier to implement, easier to use, a fraction of the price, and does just about everything that higher end systems can do if you're creative and work with a partner to tailor the application to your business like we did.
1. Simplicity - Sugar CRM is clean. It's super easy to get any information you need without needing your IT guy to build you a custom report.
2. Customization - Every business is different and you need your CRM system to adapt to you. Sugar Studio makes tailoring your software easy - even if you're not that technical. Dare I say - even a marketing or sales person could do it.
3. Plug-Ins - There are tons of plug-and-play add-ons to extend SugarCRM in virtually any area - support desk, email marketing, and much more. We use Inbox25 for email marketing and are leaning toward InsideView for integrated list management but there are so many other options to consider.
We are using the hosted, On Demand version which limits our access to source modifications (somewhat). We have been able to work around all of these so far.
If we get to a point where we need more access to modify the underlying program we can always bring the product in-house and customize to our hearts content.
There have been a few minor bugs that we've found - certainly no more than we had in our previous CRM system but Sugar's support team had them resolved - almost immediately!
Sugar seemed like a really awesome CRM with exciting features, but it was very time consuming to make sure everything was in and done correctly that it just became a headache and took focus off of selling.
Sugar had a lot of cool features that I had not seen in other crm's I've used in the past. When they worked, it allowed me to quickly see my month and goals and see what I had in my pipeline still.
Also, it was fairly easy to use while driving in the car between appointments and quickly type in a review of what I met with the accounts about.
Quit often the software features that we nice to have were either not accurate or not working. The idea of having it was nice but it was annoying when I had no idea what was correct with my numbers. Also, it took quite a long time to find certain accounts and many of them were duplicated in the system and you must pay close attention to the account number to make sure it was the right one. Also, putting in tasks and calls were done separately so our management team required that we basically put in one contact with an account twice to make sure it was on our calendar and the pipeline. | 2019-04-18T16:42:17 | https://www.softwareadvice.com/uk/crm/sugarcrm-profile/ |
0.999997 | How do I add my Exchange calendar to my iPhone and/or iPad?
Getting your Exchange calendar on your iPhone or iPad.
1) Go to the App Store and search for Microsoft Outlook.
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3) Log in with your credentials and select the "Calendar" option on the bottom to view your calendar.
There is another way to get your exchange calendar on your iOS device as well.
2) Go to "Accounts & Passwords".
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5) Enter your Exchange Info. | 2019-04-23T02:20:22 | https://support.practicepanther.com/calendar-and-events/import-events/how-do-i-add-my-exchange-calendar-to-my-iphone-andor-ipad |
0.975715 | Jennie Willoughby, the ex-wife of former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, criticized President Trump and others for their continued support of Porter following abuse allegations.
"If the most powerful people in the nation do not believe my story of abuse in the face of overwhelming evidence, then what hope do others have of being heard?" Willoughby wrote in a column for Time.
President Trump has emphasized Porter's claims of his innocence and said false accusations can "shatter" people's lives.
Jennie Willoughby, the ex-wife of former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, slammed President Donald Trump for continuing to support his former aide in the face of what she calls "overwhelming evidence" of his domestic abuse.
In a column published in Time magazine on Sunday, Willoughby said she was "floored" by Trump's defense of Porter, less than a week after Willoughby and Colbie Holderness, another of ex-wife of Porter's, both accused him of abusing them when they were married.
"My friend turned to me and said, 'The President of the United States just called you a liar,'" Willoughby wrote. "Yes. And so he did."
Porter resigned from his White House post on Wednesday after news outlets published photos of black eyes that Holderness, who was married to Porter from 2003 to 2008, said her ex-husband gave her while they were married.
In remarks with reporters on Friday, Trump urged people to remember that Porter had claimed "very strongly" that he was innocent. Trump also tweeted on Saturday that people's "lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. Some are true and some are false."
According to Willoughby, Trump's behavior reveals a tendency many people have to deny abuse. While the #MeToo movement spurred people to come forward to discuss and address abuse, especially sexual assault, Willoughby argued Trump's response to Porter is a major step backwards.
"This is a societal issue, and the tone has just been reset by the White House," Willoughby wrote. "If the most powerful people in the nation do not believe my story of abuse in the face of overwhelming evidence, then what hope do others have of being heard?"
Willoughby, Porter's wife from 2009 to 2013, provided news outlets with a copy of a 2010 protective order she filed against her ex-husband. She told CNN that she lived in a state of "low-grade, constant terror" during her marriage.
Willoughby said she was unsurprised by the White House's hesitancy to admit that a colleague could have a history of abuse.
"Where there is denial, there is underlying fear," she wrote. "Where there is abuse, there is cover-up."
Willoughby ended her piece with a reassurance to other survivors of abuse that they are not alone.
"In light of the President's and the White House's continued dismissal of me and Colbie, I want to assure you my truth has not been diminished," she wrote. "I own my story and now that I have been compelled to share it, I’m not willing to cover it up for anyone." | 2019-04-18T22:21:45 | https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/02/11/rob-porters-ex-wife-slams-trump-for-supporting-former-aid-after-abuse-allegations/23358855/ |
0.998573 | How might we provide a global perspective on the issues that make people relate to each other, regardless of their location? This is what American journalist and film-maker Molly Bingham set out to do when she founded non-profit organisation ORBmedia (Orb), using her background and experience as a photojournalist.
Launched in early 2013, Orb covers eight core topics: food, water, energy, health, education, environment, trade and governance, all or some of which often intertwine in a story, and have an impact on people everywhere.
For example a recent piece from Orb, called 'Money emergency', looks at financial structures and how people around the world get money when they need it most, touching on both education and governance.
A typical story takes about 12 weeks to produce, with data as a starting point, followed by a survey of the communities affected by the topic. Orb journalists then go out in the field, usually in teams of two, where one is focused on text and one on visuals.
They travel to at least three countries to report on each story. "It gives us a different perspective and enriches what we do, we're not just phoning in from our desks," Margaux Bergen, chief development and communications officer for Orb, told Journalism.co.uk.
"[Bingham] really wanted to use technology and data in our reporting in a fundamental way – it's the pen, paper and data.
"In the pre-reporting stage, we layer data to help shape the trajectory of the story. We look for journalists who are willing to put their natural biases aside about the human part of the story and also look at the data."
The organisation prides itself on its social journalism approach, the second step in the process which consists of reaching out to people who have been part of prior reporting, or who are in the Orb network. The team conducts surveys on how they are seeing certain trends pan out in their communities.
"We do [surveys] at almost every single stage of the story to have a connection with the people out there whose lives we are talking about – it's not just experts, politicians, entrepreneurs, it's people who are affected by some of these issues.
"Often we will ask fixers what they're seeing on the ground or to do a survey, and it's a way of taking the pulse of the community at large who may be affected by the story but isn't necessarily the story itself."
Each of Orb's stories are usually simultaneously published in four formats – text, audio, multimedia, data – and translated into four of the world's most widely spoken languages: English, Spanish, Arabic and Portuguese. As it grows, the organisation hopes to expand to ten or eleven languages, making its work accessible to as many readers as possible.
Readers can find Orb's stories on its website, on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, as well as by subscribing to the newsletter. To extend the reach of its reporting, the organisation started putting together what it calls the 'global network database'.
The database has the names and social media details of experts, coalitions, academics and activists working across each of Orb's eight subject matters, and the team is building a separate one for journalists writing about those topics, Bergen said.
This resource has enabled Orb to reach out to people who can spread the word about their reporting or get involved, by asking them to take part in initiatives such as Twitter chats, for example.
"Using the exponential power of their social media contacts we then start to build expertise and audience in that subject matter.
"We know we can't build a massive audience around this global mission, we have to do it story by story and as we do that, we then start to build a platform for Orb and the stories we do."
As a non-profit, Orb is financially supported by foundations, donations and crowdfunding, hoping to also move towards an established membership model in the future.
The organisation is now gearing up to publish a comprehensive piece of reporting at the beginning of September. Having worked on it with some 10 publishing partners, Orb is also aiming to pursue syndication as a revenue stream going forward.
"This next story is the fullest expression of an Orb product," said Bergen. | 2019-04-25T02:33:10 | https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/pen-paper-and-data-orb-media-s-approach-to-global-reporting/s2/a709110/ |
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0.999999 | Fans of E. D. Baker's <i>The Frog Princess</i>, rejoice! Fifteen years after the original, Princess Emma, Prince Eadric, and all the beloved characters are back for another magical adventure from popular author E. D. Baker.<br /><br />Two weeks after Emma's birthday, Prince Eadric — having been turned from a frog into a human again — is still in Greater Greensward. One day, a beautiful princess named Adara arrives at the castle in Greater Greensward for a visit, claiming to be Emma's distant cousin. But Adara has other motives that threaten Emma and Eadric's blossoming romance.<br /><br />Meanwhile, something is very wrong in Greater Greensward. Crops are dying, streams are drying up, and large sections of trees in the enchanted forest are withering -— all because the Fairy Queen has disappeared. Without her, there is no peace in the magical kingdom, and dangerous foes threaten to take advantage of her absence. Only brave, tenacious Emma with her knowledge of the land can restore order . . . but first she must set out on a journey unlike any before.<br /><br />Brimming with lovable characters and page-turning magic, <i>The Frog Princess Returns </i>will bring a whole new batch of readers to E. D. Baker's highly acclaimed, wonderfully popular world of Frog Princess series. | 2019-04-21T20:12:13 | https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/books/the-frog-princess-returns-by-e-d-baker/ |
0.848671 | When was Qudwa created? And why?
Qudwa was officially launched in April 2012. The intention was to create a place where employees can get together and understand each other's differences, specifically differences attributed to gender. The intention was to give employees a chance to learn how men apply certain skills differently to women and vice versa. The objective was to educate employees and prepare them for changes in demographic as more women enter the workforce. The objective was also to understand the differences and leverage each of them using the diverse skill and talent to increase the overall productivity of the workforce without having to waste energy on miscommunication or avoiding interactions due to lack of awareness of proper business etiquette in a diverse workplace.
What exactly does Qudwa do?
Qudwa's activities are based around 4 main areas.
Knowledge Sharing: The Qudwa Team invites a speaker to discuss a topic of interest. The speaker has the freedom of selecting a suitable topic, as long as they spend some time focusing on any aspect of gender differences in relation to the topic. Speakers are encouraged to talk about their experiences and share their personal stories. The speaker has 20 minutes, after which the Qudwa team moderates a 10-minute Q&A session. The audience attending and watching over live streaming has the chance to ask questions about the topic. This encourages the discussion around gender differences.
Skill Building: In these sessions Qudwa selects a soft skill and designs a challenge around it where teams get a chance to focus on the skill and get hands on experience while competing against other teams. Qudwa will base the challenge on a study and highlight the differences in the how men and women approach this skill as well as sharing the best practices for all. The session is intended to make each gender group aware of their tendencies and highlight areas where they can learn from each other.
Networking: There are some sessions focused solely on networking where the audience is given a quick introduction about networking and its best practices, and then asked to network with people at their table. The session aims to break silos and encourage cross-business dialogue. Even though only a few sessions are exclusively focused on networking, it is an underlying theme in all Qudwa activities.
Mentoring Program: This is a very important concept in career development. Qudwa developed a program intended to provide a chance for its members to have an experienced mentor that can help them maneuver and plan their career. More details about the program are available on the mentoring section. This program has since been taken over by the company's women and diversity group.
Why should I attend Qudwa events?
Attending our events gives you the opportunity to network with your colleagues, share your experiences and benefit from others' experiences as well. It also provides you with opportunities to increase your productivity at work by developing your professional skills and learning how to capitalize on the unique qualities and skills existing among your colleagues from both genders. Qudwa is one of the few organizations that is open to all employees at all levels across all business lines and geographical areas.
What are the benefits of being a Qudwa member?
Becoming a member gives you the privilege of staying up to date with all of our events and activities. Our Skill Building and Networking sessions are open to members only.
Becoming a member is also a requirement for becoming a part of the organizing team.
How do I join the organizing team?
The Organizing Team is responsible for planning our Qudwa events throughout the year and introducing new activities and programs. We welcome anyone interested in becoming an organizer, to apply through this form (Join the Organizing Team), which can also be found on our home page. You can also email us at [email protected] if you would like to volunteer at our events.
How often does Qudwa conduct events?
Qudwa conducts events once a month except for the month of Ramadan. Our events are held during lunch time to give the maximum number of employees the chance to attend.
I want to watch the live stream to your events! Where can I find the link?
Currently, we only provide Shahed live stream coverage for our Knowledge Sharing events. If you choose "online" as your attendance preference in our event registration form, you will be sent a live stream link on the day of the event. The link is usually activated half an hour before the event. This link can be forwarded to any employee to watch the event internally.
What do I do if the live stream link doesn't work on my workstation?
The live stream link is usually activated half an hour before the Qudwa event. If you face any issues with the link, please contact IT Help Desk to resolve it.
How can I cancel my registration to an event?
What happens when I don't show up to an event I am confirmed for?
If you cannot make it to an event, you should cancel your registration at least one day before the event in order to avoid a no-show penalty. We try to make our registration process as fair as possible, and so if there are any cancellations prior to the event day, replacements are selected from list of registrants, especially those who requested to be placed on the waiting list. We also encourage interested attendees to show up at the time of the event and try their luck. We cannot guarantee seats. However, in the case that all registered employees have arrived and there are some no-shows, unconfirmed attendees will be able to attend.
How do you select speakers for your events?
There are a few characteristics we look for in our speakers: charisma, inspiration, passion, and confidence.
I want to volunteer in your events!
Please let us know if you would like to recommend a speaker. Please contact us at [email protected]. Make sure to include the following information in the email, to avoid delay in processing: Speaker's name - Speaker's email - Why do you think they would be a good speaker? - Have you heard them speak before? - What inspired you to recommend them?
How do I know if someone is a good speaker to recommend?
I would like to recommend a skill for the Skill Building sessions!
I have a suggestion for Qudwa!
What are the ways I can contribute to this cause?
First of all, convey the message of Qudwa goals and events to whomever you believe will benefit from our gatherings and events. Moreover, participate with us in our activities, i.e., attend our events and volunteer to help in organizing our events. If you are located in a remote location, help us organize a virtual event in your location.
Where can I find the presentations in the Knowledge Sharing events?
Can I view older Qudwa events anywhere?
Currently, we do not provide recordings of our Qudwa events. Fortunately, we provide the materials used in Qudwa events on our website.
You can visit our Networking & Knowledge Sharing webpage to retrieve our Guest Speakers' presentations and notes.
You can visit our Skill Building webpage to access our Skill Building packages (Instruction sheet, presentation, and scoring sheet), which are sufficient to replicate the session.
How can I organize a Qudwa Skill Building event?
Please refer to Qudwa's website. Click here to find out more about Qudwa's Skill Building events. You can decide which one will be suitable for your purpose. Email us at [email protected] and we will help you coordinate and train you to conduct the session yourself!
How can I recreate Qudwa's Mentoring program at my organization?
We have included the details of the Mentoring program in the Mentoring Section under the Activities tab here. These include an overview, the suggested flow, the benefits, and the selection processes of the program. If you have further questions that are not answered on our site, please contact us and we will try to provide further guidance.
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0.999998 | Categorized as: Stories on August 16, 2014.
Every citizen of and ex-pat from Haiti has a story: where they were on the day of the January 2010 earthquake. Many Americans also recall how the horror of that day brought Haiti into the forefront of the world’s attention. . . briefly. Guest post by Karen Ansara, whose family launched a fund to support grassroots rebuilding by Haitians, for Haitians, long after the disaster.
Editor’s note: Our family has a strong passion for social justice, but passion alone gets us nowhere: We must take action that’s carefully tailored to each unique setting. This summer, I jumped at the chance to travel to Haiti and learn from a Haitian-American team about the issues facing this small Caribbean nation, before and after the 2010 earthquake. I found a country whose heart beats strong, long after oppression by colonialists and slavery ended in the 1805 revolution that launched the world’s first black nation; a place whose spirit rises above the rubble after decades of deforestation, poverty, corruption, and natural disasters. To my surprise, I found a tiny nation as patriotic as my own, built—and rebuilt—by pioneers who know exactly what they want to create on their own soil. Visiting fifteen advocacy, human rights, education, agricultural, and livelihood nonprofits and social enterprises, our group saw what can happen when an outsider like Karen comes in, dares to listen, and then lets someone else take the lead.
By Karen Ansara of The Haiti Fund.
Over the last five years, my husband Jim and I have developed “upside down heads and hearts” for Haiti. Before the earthquake struck, we knew very, very little about this country, except for what we had read in the life-changing book, Mountains Beyond Mountains, about the founding of Partners in Health in Haiti. We made one small grant after four storms ravaged Haiti in 2008. Then, in 2009, Jim was presented with the extraordinary privilege to travel to Haiti and meet Dr. Paul Farmer—the protagonist of Mountains Beyond Mountains.
Forty hours after the earthquake, on a sleep-deprived impulse—and after just briefly visiting and working in Haiti—we launched The Haiti Fund in partnership with the Boston Foundation, where we already had a donor advised fund. We had seen on the news the intense suffering not only on the island, but also in Boston, which has the third largest Haitian community in the U.S.
The Haiti Fund turned the Boston Foundation completely “Tet Anba.” It had never had an international initiative before. Every employee was engaged at full-tilt to raise funds to match a million dollar challenge grant in a month.
1/4 of the money would be spent immediately to save lives in Haiti and support Haitians in Boston reeling from the earthquake.
3/4 would be spent on long-term reconstruction and defending human rights in Haiti.
The only problem was: I didn’t know a single Haitian in the Boston area. I didn’t know that Haiti was the first free black nation. I didn’t know most Haitians spoke Creole. I did know that Haiti had suffered under brutal dictators, had had a leftist Priest-President, and I had suspected that the US had meddled in Haiti to protect its business interests. Beyond that, I had everything to learn about Haiti.
To compensate for my ignorance, I thought I knew a few things about international philanthropy—but Haiti turned those things “Tet Anba,” too.
After more than a decade of making international grants, plus completing a course on strategic philanthropy two years earlier, I knew how to identify a problem and develop a theory of change to solve it. I knew how to review a proposal and deploy money to make things happen. But I sure didn’t know much about how to choose in an instant the best organizations to save lives during a disaster or how to change centuries of deep-rooted oppression in Haiti.
The lessons I have learned from my wise Haitian American colleagues, passionate Haiti activists, and funders have turned my preconceived notions about international philanthropy “Tet Anba.” I will share with you just three of many lessons.
1. Focus on partners, not plans.
In “strategic philanthropy,” we (generally outsiders) articulate a problem as we see it. We create an “if-then” equation to solve it: “If we target money here, change will happen there.” We find “thought leaders” and practitioners with solutions on our pre-charted path and we fund them. If we meet our shared goals, we all feel really good about ourselves.
Through “Tet Anba Philanthropy” I have come to embrace that as funders we don’t have all the answers. We seek partners who have lived the problems, and try to look at life through their lenses. In “Tet Anba Philanthropy,” we practice subjectivity, rather than false objectivity, acknowledging that money is power and is never neutral. “Tet Anba Philanthropy” takes sides to empower rather than serve the people.
For several weeks after the earthquake we held public events were attended by hundreds of Haitains. They kept saying that no one was asking them for their help or their opinions – even though Haiti was their homeland and they often supported family there. So we decided we would ask Haitians in Boston to lead… And that’s when the learning really started.
The bottom line: we didn’t start with a plan for Haiti’s reconstruction. We didn’t start with certain NGOs, sectors, or geographies. We just created a space for Haitians to examine their own realities and work together to set their own collective agenda. This was revolutionary for a people for whom sovereignty and independent decision-making has always been so elusive. Simply being heard in Haiti, can be a “Tet Anba” experience.
2. Focus on empowerment, not impact.
The second “Tet Anba” lesson is closely related to the first: so much of the discourse in philanthropy today is about how to ensure the broadest and most measurable impact with our limited dollars. I find “impact” to be an aggressive term. It is about what “we” do to “someone or something” else. It is about the size of the indelible crater we leave after we funders have moved on.
After my Haiti Fund years, I care far less about measurable impact and much more about signs of empowerment. Have our grants helped Haitians find their own voices? Have we enabled and ennobled grassroots leaders—too long dismissed by elites, politicians and foreign interests—to articulate their own visions and celebrate their own collective assets? Have we held these leaders and their organizations to the highest standards of ethics, professionalism, and practice—and given them the tools, training and trust needed to achieve their greatest aspirations for themselves and their communities?
At the Haiti Fund we could probably tell you about the number of irrigation trenches dug, grain mills built, or formerly unschooled children enrolled with our funds. But that’s not the real impact we’ve made. The real impact of this kind of philanthropy is evidenced by whether we have left Haitian organizations prouder and more powerful to work things out together—to improve their communities and society—over the very, very long haul, long after we funders have gone home and stopped measuring.
3. Focus on depth, not breadth.
Because poverty is undeniably multi-layered, I have learned to peel off the layers of the onion in a local context instead of trying to go quickly to scale. It’s not just about lack of income, lack of infrastructure, lack of education, lack of health care, or lack of any particular resource. Poverty may also be perpetuated by entrenched social norms, by structural and internalized oppression, by lack of a political voice or right to hold one’s government accountable. I have seen that all of these layers must be addressed for an individual or a community to move forward. Our goal is not the number of lives touched or specific behaviors changed, but the number of communities transformed—and that requires digging deep into the spiritual, intellectual, social, economic, and physical ecosystems which shape individuals.
When we first established the Haiti Fund I envisioned rebuilding broken urban infrastructure, like schools and hospitals, homes and roads. Based on the deep wisdom of our Advisory Council and incomparable staff, we chose instead to repair a crippled agrarian economy, help Haitian farmers organize to feed themselves and their country, block competitive, cheap foreign food imports, and to hold USAID accountable. We chose to help the most oppressed Haitian children – 200,000 indentured servants – go to fast track primary schools to have a shot at dignity and independent futures. We chose to train teachers to view teaching as a profession rather than just food on the table. We chose to support painstakingly long dialogues, neighborhood by neighborhood, to change social norms against child abuse, domestic violence and corporal punishment in schools. We chose to invest in rebuilding social trust among people who for centuries have been pitted against each other.
When you turn the power dynamics in philanthropy upside down, when your “head is underneath,” you can see the day-to-day needs and dreams of grassroots Haitians all the more clearly.
The Haiti Fund had one mission: To help Haitians rebuild their own country after the January, 2010 earthquake. Having raised and disbursed $2.1 million in grants to the grassroots nonprofits and community-based organizations listed here, The Haiti Fund plans to close on the fifth anniversary, in hope that others will carry the torch for the country their founders, staff, and residents so dearly love. For more information, visit the Boston Foundation website or call 617-338-1700.
Cover photograph courtesy of The Haiti Fund; all other photographs by Suzanne Skees.
LEARN more about the Haiti earthquake and its aftermath here.
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0.998487 | I think that pemmican is great for survival and I feel well after it. I was a little unhappy that it cannot be completely raw, especially fat.
The meat is no problem because it can be easily dry at a temperature below 104 F. Only it must to be good air circulation.
I decided to try it. I had some the organic raw beef fat and raw goat fat (the fat one). The most hard fragments (almost no water) were separated from the rest and was drying at room temperature.
I noticed, that nicely leaving to dry, after three months showed no signs of rancidity. I think it is an appropriate time to recognize that they do not spoil. You can see it in the picture.
I mix them through the meat grinder and warmed in the oven at 40 degrees a few hours. Then the softened fat I have developed as a cake with goat ground meat.
I also experimenting with a little honey and dried fruit in pemmican but with heated fat. I wonder whether this will reduce the durability. I mean water in honey and a little bit of carbs.
I find that fats dried in fridge, ( a fridge with a freezer is usually one that has an auto defrost which keeps humidity low in the fridge, except for a lettuce drawer ) do go rancid, at least they have a bite in the mouth that is unpleasant. I'm wondering if you're doing something different?
to add,, I've always wanted to create a low temp. air free drying unit,,, like placing a bell jar with vacuum in the fridge to dry without the presence of oxygen.
I was drying at room temperature on a wicker shelves. It is certainly not rancid because rancid fat rejects me. I was also pleasantly surprised. But as I wrote. I chose the beef fat separated and goat. Only fragments of these hard part almost without water. Almost no change in volume when dry. There is a lot of saturated fats. | 2019-04-23T14:36:53 | https://www.rawpaleodietforum.com/index.php?topic=8343.0 |
0.999999 | For advanced students - 'Back to the Truth: 5000 Years of Advaita'.
For a comparison of teaching methods in advaita - 'Enlightenment: the Path through the Jungle' .
Q: What is the mind? I have heard many descriptions of what it does and of its qualities etc but I have never had a satisfactory definition of what it is.
A: The mind is a term of convenience rather than an actual entity, applying to processes rather than objects. We say that thoughts arise in the mind and think that this is somewhere in the brain just as some say that emotions arise in the heart. (It was once thought that the mind was co-located with the physical heart rather than the brain, which accounts for the references to our 'soul' being in the 'cave of the heart' and so on. Nowadays, it is probably more common for us to think that the mind is responsible for both.) So the mind is really just the linguistic locus for our thoughts and emotions. In Hindu philosophies, of course, there is more to it than this. Thoughts arise in manas, where the basic, automatic processing takes place. Memory is associated with chitta and discrimination with buddhi. And the process of identifying the sense of I with any of these or with body, roles etc. is assigened to another 'organ of mind', ahaMkAra. But they are all processes and functions rather than physical structures and no dissection of a brain is going to locate any of them.
One of the things that should be appreciated about any description of anything in vyavahAra is that it is provisional only. If it satisfies the curiosity or search for understanding at this point in time, it serves its purpose. Ultimately, all descriptions or definitions about anything have to be discarded because all is brahman and brahman is beyond description.
A: This is Buddhism and not advaita!
However, it can easily be explained from an Advaitin perspective. The quotation is (presumably deliberately!) mixing paramArtha and vyavahAra viewpoints. In reality (paramArtha), there is only brahman; there are no jIva-s to suffer, act, follow a path or become free - 'we' are already complete and perfect. From the empirical viewpoint (vyavahAra), where the mind is deluded into thinking there are separate people and objects, there is bound to be suffering (for the mind), choice and action for the person and a path to lead the mind to loss of self-ignorance. When the mind loses that self-ignorance, it realizes that 'I am brahman' and already free. This event is called enlightenment or nirvANa in Buddhist terms.
Q: It is indeed Buddhism, but yes I expected an Advaitin response. The point is that "I" must/can not help a suffering individual because he doesn't even exist. So why are all the Buddhists through history trying to help there suffering brothers if they know they don't exist?
A: Again, this is a paramArtha-vyvahAra problem The others do not exist in absolutey real terms. But, while there remains self-ignorance in the empirical world, the mind will genuinely suffer. Having been there, the jIvanmukti has compassion and will help if at all possible, even knowing that the Self can never suffer. (Note that I said jIvanmukti and not simply j~nAnI. Only one with the fruits of self-knowledge - peace of mind, love, fearlessness etc. - will certainly respond in this way. Those who were not suffiently mentally prepared prior to enlightenment may not.
Q: Could you say something about practice with reference to bhakti and j~nAna in bringing about enlightenment?
A: Practice is only about mind preparation. So, to the extent that the mind is not fully prepared, practice is useful. Ultimately, however, the root problem is self-ignorance and the only remedy is self-knowledge. And knowledge is itself objective (in the sense of being dualistic) so, since reality is non-dual, it cannot in itself bring about realization. Nevertheless, it is the best we can do. It really does not matter very much if you 'cover the same ground' several times. Different teachers will have different perspectives and you will learn something new. Despite all of the books I have read, covering effectively the same material probably dozens of times, I still learn new things from new sources. The problem with this approach as a 'path' is that some writers will themselves not have understood correctly. If you go to the original material (effectively Upanishads etc.), these are not readily understood - especially if you do not know any Sanskrit! So, ideally, you do need assistance from someone who already understands all this stuff.
Unfortunately, family and friends are most unlikely to be interested. It is surprising but most people seem not to have concluded yet that lasting happiness will never be found in external things, people, events etc. and they will think that anyone claiming this is seriously deluded and try to put them right! Also, however, once you are on this path there is no escape!
I'm not really the best person to ask about bhakti, since it has never appealed as a path. As I point out in the book, the word itself does not really occur in the scriptures at all and there are really only the two paths defined - karma and j~nAna. My early understanding was that bhakti was for the tamassika person, karma for the rajassika and j~nAna for the sattvika. Whatever the case, if you have been following direct path writers (presumably Atmananda, Francis Lucille, Jean Klein? - you didn't say), then j~nAna is the appropriate path. I have also read somewhere that one can regard devotion to the truth as the ultimate bhakti!
'Back to the Truth' attempts to cover all aspects of advaita to some depth but it is not primarily a book of instruction, more like an encyclopaedia (though it is not written in that style). Hope you find it useful anyway and by all means ask further questions if necessary.
Incidentally, there is no problem per se with claiming enlightenment - this is an event in time that occurs in the mind (regardless of what else you may have read, and there are some really confused ideas about what it is)! My next book is all about this angle - enlightenment and the teaching of it in advaita.
Q: (Continuation of question on 'What is the Mind?') From the point of view (or frame of reference) of a seeker, I have difficulty accepting that " the movement of name and form of mithya objects" is as unsubstantial as movements in a dream. Surely the world and its movements (from the heavenly bodies to the minutest thought) has a degree of reality - albeit a dependent one. Even though all is Brahman, they are still movements, so my question still stands. To accept the advaita position would be to deny reason, experience and science.
A: Of course the world has seeming reality from the vyAvahArika standpoint - but then the dream world has seeming reality from the standpoint of the dreamer. It is only when you wake up that you can 'look back' as it were and realize that the dream was all in your mind. This view certainly denies experience and science - both these are subject-object 'activities' in the dualistic world. Advaita is not contrary to reason, however. Indeed, it is one of the precepts of advaita that you must employ reason to verify what you are told or read. From the pAramArthika standpoint, there cannot be any action because there is no 'actor/thing-to-be-acted-on'; there is no 'cause-effect'; there is no time or space; there is no duality.
Q: Thanks for the clarification of the mind as process rather than locus. Elsewhere (with regard to free will) you have said that we cannot will our thoughts. I fully accept this with regard to what might be called “primary thoughts”. Do we have some influence over subsidiary thoughts? For example a thought arises, unbidden, that I will go to town. Do I not then will thoughts such as whether I go by bus or car and what are the advantages of each.
A: I believe some of the other questions are on this topic so look up those answers. The traditional view is that the jIva has limited free will - to choose to do, not do or do differently - within the constraints of his or her mental make-up (vAsanA-s). But it is perfectly possible to believe (as I do) that there is no free will whatsoever. In the example you state, the logical process of 'deciding' is all quite deterministic, based upon your past experience and knowledge of pluses, minuses, frequency and cost of buses etc. etc. It may be difficult but a computer programmed with all of your knowledge on the matter (and your reasoning processes) would come to the same answer. If you decide to choose the opposite answer just for the hell of it, that would be because that consideration was also part of your nature so you can't win.
Q: How does the message of Advaita deal with the possibility of spirits? My own wife claims to see the dead, and some modern so-called, mediums seem to be very convincing. If there is no self and we are just life, "being," is there some accounting for the possibility that the energies we identify as our selves exist somewhere else after the individual mind dies?
A: The bottom line is that there is the reality (paramArtha) and there is the appearance (vyavahAra). The reality is that there is only the non-dual Absolute (or whatever you want to call it) and that is the (beginning and) end of the matter. The appearance - people and the world etc. - has the effective status that a dream has when viewed by the waker. Within it, what is seen is always mistaken because, in reality, there is no duality of subject and object. Traditional advaita does speak of gods, spirits and demons, heavens and hells etc. and all of these may be relevant to any particular person at some time in their apparent life. But, whatever forms this may take are ultimately false. Who we really are was never born and will never die so there is no question of spirits, mediums, heaven and hell etc. having any actual existence.
Q: I've just read your dialogue with Jeff Foster. I think you both have something valuable to say.
Other than the failure to acknowledge this shuffle between the empirical and the ultimate levels, I think that the actual core 'message' of the modern nondual 'teachers' is as sound and as powerful as some of the great zen and dzogchen masters.
A: The difference between the two approaches is that traditional is self-consistent, whereas the neo-advaitin one is not. Neo is actually hypocritical in a sense because it denies the person yet still attempts a dialog with one. Traditional positively acknowledges the person at the level at which the discussion takes place. And only the latter approach can work really because the person firmly believes that he or she does exist no matter what anyone says and education can only lead the person from where he/she is. Furthermore, it is not possible to 'operate from the ultimate perspective' - brahman does not act and there is no space, time or causation in reality (as you, yourself, say). I have never disputed that the 'bottom-line message' of traditional and neo-advaita is the same. Since the bottom-line is non-duality, this is necessarily the case. What is in dispute is whether neo-advaita constitutes a valid method of teaching and, having gone into this in considerable depth, the answer has to be that it does not.
Q: On page 258 (of How to Meet Yourself) you seem to suggest that someone can come to an understanding. Who is that someone? And why is it that so few have? Surely this is dependent on your upbringing and genes as you rightly say we have no control over.
From 224 you suggest meditation as a path to removing the ego which practice do you suggest. Is it possible we might be creating the illusion of a meditator? Is it not suggested that we give up any and all paths? You continue then with religion brings about the destruction of the ego. Where in the Christian and Islamic faith is this apparent? Most religious paths and scriptures are an incomplete instruction book to enlightenment and seem to conflict with regard to explanation,understanding and expression.
Would it be better just to recognize that the ego is an expression of consciousness and can be bypassed not destroyed. Haven't met too many enlightened people but stories about them would indicate they still had egos!
A: One general point before I answer your specific questions: Any attempt to describe the way things 'really are' is certain to fail. Each of the descriptions, metaphors, stories etc. aims to clear up particlular aspects of misunderstanding and there will always be contradictions. Also, 'How to Meet Yourself' was specifically written for those knowing nothing at all about advaita and it does not go into much detail. If you want more accurate explanations, you should go to 'Back to the Truth'. Finally, as my own studies continue, I come across better ways of explaining things and sometimes realize that previous explanations have fallen short or possibly even misled. OK - that's the disclaimers and excuses out of the way!
Who is it who 'comes to an understanding'? It is the person, the jIva, the mind, as we normally understand these terms in vyavahAra. If circumstances in life lead us towards questioning these matters and if our brain is genetically able to reason and comprehend the answers, then it is quite likely that we will end up on a 'path'. A good path, such as advaita, will bring about a gradual removal of self-ignorance. Ultimately, if circumstances are favourable (i.e. good teacher, sufficient time before the body dies etc!) then all self-ignorance will be removed and the Self will fully reveal itself as it were. The reason so few people do is that so few genuinely want to do. We are so programmed to believe that fulfillment will be found through objects, achievement etc.
"...the distinction between j~nAna - the knowledge gained as a result of one's sAdhanA through to enlightenment - and j~nAna phalam - the fruits of that knowledge in the form of peace of mind, equanimity in the face of adversity etc. Thus it is the case that one can have all the knowledge and be enlightened yet still be subject to the sort of disturbances of mind that you describe. According to commentaries on Gaudapada's mANDUkya kArikA (III.40 - 2), it all depends upon the extent of preparation (sAdhana chatuShTAya sampatti) that was done in the past. The seeker who has done none will gain neither enlightenment nor the fruit. The middling student will gain enlightenment but not the fruit. The one who was fully prepared will gain both.
The one who is now enlightened but does not have the peace of mind etc. (the madhyamA adhikArI) must perform nididhyAsana to recover the situation. This will convert the emotional blockage into j~nAna phalam. This practice should take the form of repeatedly listening to, reading or writing scriptures or discussion or teaching. (Alternatively, Vedantic meditation, as per Patanjali yoga, may be practiced.)"
The meditator is not an illusion from the perspective of the person in vyavahAra. This is the perennial mistake made by the neo-Advaitin. It is only from the perspective of the one Self, that there is no person etc. The seeker does not appreciate that perspective by definition (i.e. if he did, he would not be a seeker). It is definitely NOT suggested by traditional advaita that we 'give up all paths'. This is again the stance of the neo-advaitin and is possibly the most damaging idea that there is for the seeker. If the typical seeker takes this idea on board then he is doomed. The intellectual ideas of the neo-advaitin will never bring about enlightenment - and the fact that such a thing as 'enlightenment' is denied meaning only adds to the confusion.
The ego is certainly an expression of Consciousness (as is everything). But what do you mean by ego? It is best to use the term ahamkAra, so that everyone (!) knows what is being discussed. To the extent that we define ego as a 'mistaken identification of the non-dual Self' with something in the mithyA world', then the ego does naturally disappear with enlightenment, because it is then known that 'I am brahman' and not the body/mind/role etc. But, as noted above, such things as desires, preferences, fears etc. may still arise, according to how much preparation was done in the early stages.
Q: Why is there so much misinformation about enlightenment? Can you recommend some reading? What about Patanjali and Christian scriptures?
A: That's an interesting question. From the seeker's side, I think it is simply ignorance. The available information has increased dramatically over the past 50 years, accelerating out of sight since the Internet. But the basic ignorance is still the same. People want something for themselves (as they perceive themselves to be). They want to feel good and get the idea that enlightenment will make them feel permanently good! Unfortunately, from the teachers' side, many seem to see this as an opportunity in the commercial sense and travel about the world making easy money. Whether this is their primary aim is beside the point - many no doubt genuinely believe what they say and may even feel they are providing some sort of service. (This is less easy to argue in the case of the neos since they deny the very existence of others - what are they doing?) But the genuine teachers have always been there and the genuine student will eventually find their way to one - it is usually that way round; these teachers do not usually travel or ask for money.
Patanjali is useful preparation but the final beliefs are dualistic. Christian scripture (and almost certainly others) is most unlikely to help. It has been distorted and censored too much by others with self-interest. The Upanishads are best by far but often too cryptic to appreciate without guidance. Of all the material I have read, the easiest to read and embodying the most wisdom has been that by Swami Dayananda. Read practically anything by him (see Arsha Vidya Gurukulam for books to buy and Arsha Vidya Satsangs and Yoga Malika for free downloads). I did not find his spoken material quite so good - he speaks so slowly, I sometimes forgot what he was talking about by the time he reached the end of the sentence! I am currently listening to the lectures by Swami Paramarthananda on the Gaudapada karikas and this is the most informative of anything I have ever found. But there is lots of Sanskrit and the Mandukya Upanishad is the most difficult by far. There are loads of other mp3 files of his talks though and, on the strength of the Mandukya, I would recommend any of them. You can get them from shAstraprakAshikA Trust - http://www.sastraprakasika.org/ - (order on-line but expensive to post outside India.) There are also ongoing talks on-line at http://www.vedantavidyarthisangha.org/.
The easiest upanishad is probably the kena. The best introductions to advaita are probably those attributed to Shankara, such as vivekachUDAmanI, Atma bodha and vakya vRRitti.
Hope these are useful. N.B. Avoid falling for neo at all costs! It will not take you anywhere useful. Incidentally, you mention 'path' in respect of modern Christianity - what path? As far as I understand it (admittedly not much), the path is 'believe all this stuff and you will go to heaven, otherwise you go to hell'.
Q: (In the dialog with Jeff Foster) in the first four questions, you seem to be trying to establish how Jeff would describe the status of the person. You go on to say; "Appearing to no one" is simply meaningless.
If I'm allowed to change the wording slightly (keeping what I believe Jeff's meaning to be intact) to 'Arising for no one', I would say that this is almost a definition of nonduality. In Zen they might say something like: Firstly, there is me here and the mountain over there, then there is just the experience (it has to be said; for no one) mountain! This is the nondual 'moment', One taste as the Tibetan masters say! The middle of the equation falls away and there is just IS-ness! Of course if there is an experiencer of this, we are back in duality.
Manifestation proceeds and phenomena arise, not for the person, but AS the person, world, thought, feeling, body etc. Any claim to these arisings, is more arising.
As I say I may have misunderstood something here since the comments on both sides were rather brief.
A: Yes, I understand what you are saying but I have to stand by what I wrote. It is simply not possible to talk about seeing or experiencing reality. This must be to confuse dual and non-dual. The point is surely that all that we see, think, feel etc. is objectively perceived by the mind in vyavahAra; i.e. it is a person to whom the <whatever> is arising. From the vantage point of the absolute (if such a thing has any meaning), there is ONLY the absolute; i.e. no 'arisings' whatsoever. The idea of 'manifestation' or 'creation' is just that - an idea in the mind of a person to rationalize what is perceived by the mind; i.e. all within vyavahAra.
Q: OK Dennis, I agree that there is not a major difference in opinion - it may have something to do with our different backgrounds.
My background is in Buddhism, Zen and Dzogchen, primarily the nonduality emphasis in those traditions. I don't have a great deal of knowledge of traditional advaita but I have been influenced by Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Atmananda Krishna Menon and Jean Klein amongst others.
There is not me here and the computer there... there is just the experience 'computer'... a truck rumbles by outside... there is not 'me' hearing the truck.... there is just the experience 'truck'! There is no two-ness in present experience... There is the sound of the truck, then the thought "but I am hearing the truck", there is not a 'me' and that thought, there is just the experience 'thought'.
So, there is not me here observing the computer there - those are two sides of the same ONE experience. All there is is the selfshining display of 'reality' with no observer to be found (that would be more display). That is (as far as I'm concerned) the meaning of nonduality!
Whatever is arising IS consciousness - not me and objects, just what is! No twice-ness, just what is, as it is!!
After the fact (so to speak), we can analyse that ears were needed to hear, the brain was required to process and translate information etc. I'm also not particularly knowledgeable about metaphysics, science and philosophy and I don't really know about the ontological status of 'objects' and 'events' etc. But it doesn't matter - nonduality is the 'shift' from the experience of a separative me to the experience of reality as it is - which includes the experience 'me'!
On a broader note I agree that it is meaningless to think that there could be an experience of the 'ALL'! How could it be known, there would be no distinctions etc. Reality presents AS the particular, but that particular is NOT SEPARATE from the 'all'! So in that sense, every experience is an experience of oneness/Self!
I've had dialogues with Greg (Dr. Greg Goode, Philsophical Counsellor and teacher of Direct Path Advaita) in the past and I love his take on all this, but I also think that he would have no problem with 'arises for no one'.
A: Yes - I recognize the sorts of statements I have heard from Greg in the past - I think he would be happy with what you say. Indeed, I have no real quibble with your full explanation. My quibbles with the neos are twofold (in respect of our discussion). Firstly, speaking like this is fine from one who is knowledgeable in non-dual philosophy to one who is also knowledgeable. It is not acceptable (or does not constitute helpful teaching) when speaking or writing to one who is unfamiliar and trapped in their dualistic problems. Secondly, I believe that many (most?) neos do not actually understand or appreciate what you are saying here.
If you want to ask a question, and do not object to its being included in this section, please email me.
Return to list of questions. | 2019-04-24T08:05:07 | http://www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/q_and_a/q_and_a7.htm |
0.99946 | After welcoming their third child Monday morning, Prince William and Kate Middleton finally announced the little one's name today: Louis Arthur Charles. Though the wait to find out the child's moniker was longer than expected, we already knew the new prince's official title before he was even born.
Royal expert Marlene Koenig told Town & Country that, technically, the child's official title would technically be His Royal Highness Prince Louis Arthur Charles of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
However, if the baby is a child of a royal duke (like Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge), the names are "styled differently" than what's listed above, Koenig added. Just take a look at the current royal kids' birth certificates. Prince George's name and surname are listed as: His Royal Highness Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge.
And Charlotte's are written as: Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana of Cambridge.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have followed tradition (as they usually do) the third time around. Prince Louis will go by the same title as its siblings: His Royal Highness Prince Louis Arthur Charles of Cambridge.
His birth certificate, released this morning, confirmed the baby's full appellation.
Koenig added that royal baby number three will technically be a commoner, since, in the U.K., "the only people who are not commoners are the Sovereign and peers of the realm, [people with titles like] Duke, Marquess, Earl, Viscount, and Baron." In fact, according to a Letters Patent King George V passed in 1917, only the oldest living son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales is allowed to "have and enjoy in all occasions the style and title enjoyed by the children of Dukes of these Our Realms."
That meant George was always entitled to be HRH Prince George of Cambridge, but Princess Charlotte would've been named Lady Charlotte Mountbatten-Windsor, the Independent reports. However, in 2012, the Queen issued a Letters Patent before she was born to ensure Charlotte would also be a "royal highness."
Therefore, Charlotte, Louis, and any future royal siblings, can share the same title as big brother Prince George.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's children, on the other hand, will not have the title of "Prince" and "Princess," according to the Letters Patent of 1917 and the Queen's patent in 2012. Instead, they'll be titled Lord/Lady [name] Mountbatten-Windsor—unless the sovereign steps in to make any changes. | 2019-04-25T05:16:57 | https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a19630331/what-is-royal-baby-3-title-kate-middleton-prince-william/ |
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Vegan protests: 'Un-Australian' activists arrested, PM Morrison says Image copyright EPA Image caption Police forcibly removed some protesters from a busy intersection in Melbourne Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has criticised animal rights activists as "shameful and un-Australian" after dozens were arrested in nationwide protests. On Monday, activists broke into abattoirs and chained themselves up to protest against the meat industry. More than 100 protesters also blocked one of Melbourne's main intersections, before many were forcibly removed. Mr Morrison said the activism was damaging to farmers' livelihoods. "This is just another form of activism that I think runs against the national interest, and the national interest is [farmers] being able to farm their own land," he told radio station 2GB. He later called on state authorities to bring "the full force of the law... against these green-collared criminals". Australia is second only to the US for mea..
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0.999992 | I was in Pottstown, PA and the dirt there was red. What is the explanation behind that?
The red "dirt" may be from a mine fire. The gases from the coal burn in the surrounding porous rock.
Generally speaking the dirt here is regular dirtat least in my kneck of the woods.
I always thought that red dirt was caused by high concentrations of iron in the soil.
When I hear red dirt; I think of the deep South. There you can travel many miles in red dirt territory.
Never really noticed but does the southeastern part of PA have red dirt?
It would certainly correlate with the coal fields, with anthracite coal there is "red ash" and "white ash". The red ash has a high iron content and comes from the southern anthracite field that is centered around the Pottsville area. The northern field is white ash and doesn't have the high iron content.
Actually, fish may be on the right track. Pottstown is in Montgomery County, which isn't NEPA. While there doesn't seem to be any evidence of coal mining there, it was a center for industry including iron and steel.
While it may be fair to say Pottstown has a lot of red soil, that doesn't exactly translate to the entire commonwealth. Coalman and I are in the same general vicinity and I don't have red soil, either.
I don't recall any red soil - but I could be wrong? I just remember mile after mile of red soil down South.
Where we live there isn't enough soil - no matter what color! I agree with Gettingouttahere! Every Spring we grow a new crop of rocks!
About 40 years ago, some enterprising person came up with idea of gluing a rock in a small box and selling it as a Pet Rock. And people actually bought the damn things. You don't have to be smart all your life - just 15 minutes worth.
Keeping in mind that Pottsville is coal country, Pottstown was more of an industrial town.
Georgia has long been known for its red clay soil. I know a woman who has a shirt that was dyed with Georgia clay - a very orangey-red color. | 2019-04-18T19:33:08 | http://www.city-data.com/forum/northeastern-pennsylvania/2086646-why-does-pennsylvania-have-red-dirt.html |
0.999601 | Was Roland de Velville the son of Henry VII….?
The following article is necessarily filled with supposition, inference and sneaking suspicion. The result of smoke and mirrors, you ask? Well, I think it is all much more substantial than that, as I hope to explain in the coming paragraphs.
Today (25th June) in 1545, died a man by the name of Roland de Velville (or Vielleville, Veleville, Vieilleville, and other variations). He crops up at regular intervals in connection with the first Tudor king, Henry VII. Why? Because of a persistent whisper that Roland was Henry’s illegitimate son. Well, his son, but no one can really categorically state he was illegitimate. All that can be claimed is that he was born sometime during Henry’s exile in Brittany between 1471 and 1485, and that when he arrived in England he was soon rumoured to be Henry’s unacknowledged child, born any time from about 1472 on, when Henry himself was only fourteen or fifteen.
Roland was a member of the Breton nobility, an écuyer or esquire who may have accompanied Henry on the invasion of 1485. It is not known whether or not the boy fought at Bosworth, but my guess would be that he was probably too young. However, in 1489 he was certainly old enough to be in Sir John Cheyne’s retinue for the Breton expedition commanded by Sir Robert Willoughby.
The comment has been made that Roland was an ‘almost obsessive’ jouster, and was closely involved with the king’s falcons. It seems probable that he accompanied Henry VII when he went hunting and hawking. He appears to have been tolerated by English aristocrats, who must have been aware that he was favoured by the king. If that were not the case, I doubt Roland would have come even close to tournaments and the like. Roland’s life style would have been expensive, but Henry supported him, granting occasional gifts and allowing him an income from the royal revenues. Roland held no official position, he was simply there, enjoying himself, participating in royal pastimes and generally floating along. As we would all like to, given the chance.
Conjecture about him must have been rife, but that was all it amounted to. Conjecture. Because no one was party to the facts, not even Roland himself. Or so I guess, because his character was such that I doubt he’d have held his tongue and been discreet. He appears to have been of an unruly temperament, headstrong, irksome, arrogant and inclined to indulge in slander. Not at all like his subtle father. Well, rumoured father.
Might Roland have been named after the great 11th-century hero, Roland of Roncevaux? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland) If Henry Tudor really was his father, it strikes me as very much in keeping with Henry’s grand ideas concerning his legendary ancestry. After all, did he not give the name Arthur to his first son by Elizabeth of York?
It was not until the reign of his “half-brother”, Henry VIII, that Roland received any real advancement. From Henry VII he had been given this and that in the way of minor money, and had been kept at royal expense, but there was nothing worthwhile. Except, of course, for being knighted at the Battle of Blackheath in June 1497. But he was still Breton, not English. It was to be 1512 before he received that acknowledgement.
On the death of Henry VII on 21st April 1509, the new 17-year-old king Henry VIII did not exactly shower Roland with brotherly goodies. Within weeks (3rd July 1509) Roland was appointed Constable of Beaumaris Castle on the Isle of Anglesey, and was given, during pleasure, an annuity of £20. After twenty-five years or so of luxury at court, Roland was on his way to Wales pdq, as the jargon goes. Young Henry clearly did not want his awkward kinsman around. Tudor angst required being rid of anyone of dangerous royal blood, and Roland, if he was indeed a half-sibling, would almost certainly make Henry VIII twitchy. Send him away to the sticks, and if he became a problem, an accident might befall him. At least, that is how I interpret it. Especially, perhaps, as Roland was said to greatly resemble Henry.
Hmm, the above portrait of Henry VIII at eighteen (right) doesn’t look like the ogre we now know and, er, love. Indeed, he looks almost identical to his father at that age (above left). But while we know how Henry VII changed as he grew older, remaining lean and almost gaunt, it has to be said that Henry VIII changed a whole lot more, becoming the odious, gross King Hal who was so obsessed with producing male heirs that he was prepared to get through six wives in the process. Did Roland change in the same way? Not the six wives part, of course, but might the Constable of Beaumaris Castle become as awful and bloated as his half-brother the king?
This latter point raises an interesting question. Let us imagine that Roland and Henry were indeed half-brothers. It is generally accepted that for looks Henry VIII took after his maternal grandfather, the Yorkist king Edward IV (who was also tall and handsome, but became gross in his later years). If this were so, how could Roland also look like Edward IV? There was no blood connection. If the resemblance between the two half-siblings were that pronounced as to cause comment, then it has to be wondered if, perhaps, similar tall, handsome, “reddish-golden” looks were also to be found on Henry VII’s side? To my eyes, the first Tudor king and his mother have “Beaufort” stamped upon them. Some of Henry VII’s portraits are interchangeable with his mother. Both have high foreheads and cheekbones, small chins, hooded eyes and a general resemblance to the weasel. Put him in a wimple, and there she is!
What we do not know, of course, is what the earlier Tudors looked like. There are no portraits of Henry’s father, Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, only a reproduction tomb engraving(below left). Nor are there portraits of his father, Owen Tudor. If, indeed, Owen had anything to do with fathering Edmund, there being yet another scandalous royal whisper that Owen’s “wife” (there is no solid evidence that she and Owen ever married) Queen Catherine of Valois, widow of Henry V, had actually been enjoying some hanky-panky with another Beaufort, who for whatever reason declined to marry her. Owen stepped in to make things less embarrassing for her. Tangled webs in every shadow. But let’s suppose that the earlier Tudors were indeed Henry VII’s forebears. They might have been tall and reddish-blond. Well, they could have been, so do not wag your fingers at my screen! The Vikings did NOT steer clear of Wales.
Whatever the reason for Roland and Henry VIII sharing physical similarities—and maybe it was simply coincidence—it could have been with some relief that Roland scurried off to Beaumaris with his neck still attached to the rest of him. Better to be alive, than meet some dark Tudor death because of being regarded as an awkward presence at court. On the other hand, he may well have resented Beaumaris for taking him away from luxury. It was said in 1534 (the year before Roland’s death) that the never-completed castle had deteriorated so that “there was scarcely a single chamber in Beaumaris Castle where a man could lie dry”.
Given Roland’s character, it will come as no surprise that he was a troublesome constable, making all the capital he could from his privileges. Twenty-five or so years at court had undoubtedly given him expensive tastes. But whether he liked it or not, the rest of his life was to be spent at Beaumaris where he began to live (scandalously, of course) with widowed Agnes Griffith, whom he would eventually make his wife. She was a member of the most powerful family in Gwynedd, and had children with Roland. Their descendants were numerous, and included his famous granddaughter, Catherine of Berain, known as the ‘Mother of Wales’. Roland de Velville certainly left his mark in his wife’s homeland.
Roland died at Beaumaris Castle on 25th June 1535, and was buried at the Church of St Mary’s and St Nicholas, Beaumaris. If he was indeed buried there, I cannot find anything about his actual resting place. I have not been to the church, so it does not signify that he is no longer there, just that he’s escaped me. How intriguing it would be (the discovery of Richard III’s DNA being so fresh in the mind) to see if Roland’s DNA could be obtained. That would indeed help to ascertain if he was Henry VII’s offspring.
There is a lot of conflicting information about Roland. Was he of royal blood? Or wasn’t he? Who said what, and when? To whom? Can a Welsh elegy to him, by Daffyd Alaw (1535), be given any credence whatsoever? Well, it claims that Roland was ‘A man of kingly line and of earl’s blood’, which would certainly fit Henry VII, who had been born Henry, Earl of Richmond (he was born posthumously). So yes, Roland could well have been Henry’s son. Why else was he brought to the English court and supported in the way he was? And those who say that such bardic traditions should be ignored as highly improbable should perhaps remember that bardic tradition was how Welsh history was recorded. It was committed to memory and and passed down through the generations. The Welsh are clever enough to train their grey cells!
Historians have been rude about each other where this mysterious Breton écuyer is concerned. That is, if he was even Breton. Yes, I fear the conflicting ‘evidence’ even calls this basic fact into question. Maybe his mother’s family hailed from a corner of France. You see, we do not know her identity either.
It seems that Roland was granted arms that were quartered, indicating the families from whom he was descended. They do not, of course, include Henry. But although these families can be hazarded, they cannot be identified for certain, So, who was his mother? Did she marry someone called de Velville (or other variations of the name in both French and Breton)? Maybe this man believed the boy was his. He wouldn’t be the first to have another man’s child foisted upon him. But, yet again, it’s guesswork. All is vague and uncertain.
And now I will tell you why I think Henry VII did not acknowledge Roland. No, it’s not that Roland simply wasn’t his son, what a boring conclusion to come to. Far more interesting to make the two father and son. What if (ah, those words beloved of fiction writers) a teenaged Henry had fallen passionately, lustfully in love with, and impetuously married, a young, equally passionate and lustful Breton noblewoman? What if it was a secret wedding that never came to light and was soon regretted on both sides? What if Henry was moved elsewhere in Brittany (he was a prisoner under house arrest) and his bride (frightened by her important male relatives, who knew nothing of the secret marriage, was forced to bigamously marry someone “suitable”. Pregnant with Henry’s child, she allowed her new husband to believe the child was his.
Are you still with me? Right, move on to 1485. Henry is going to invade England to challenge Richard III for the throne. To be sure of much-needed Yorkist support, he vows to marry Elizabeth of York, Richard’s niece and the senior unmarried Yorkist princess. He wins at Bosworth and has to honour his vow. Sooo…knowing he is already married, he weds Elizabeth. Another bigamous match, but one that could have catastrophic consequences. Not least bloody rebellion and the chopping of Henry’s slender neck.
Then Roland enters his life much more immediately. The boy’s mother is on her deathbed and fears for his life at the hands of her second husband. She implores Henry to take Roland under his protection. And so he comes to court but cannot possibly be acknowledged by his royal father, who, understandably, doesn’t want any enemies poking around in what happened when he was a young prisoner in Brittany. Nor does Roland even know Henry is his father.
Thus history repeats itself, with Henry VII following in the footsteps of his father-in-law, Edward IV. Another secret wife, a second deceived bride, and heirs who are all illegitimate. Roland de Velville is his legitimate son. The rightful King of England? But can even Henry contemplate disposing of this inconvenient boy…? His own child?
There, is that not a half-decent plot for a historical novel? I thought so too, so I made it the main theme of the fourth book in my Cicely series. The book is called Cicely’s Sovereign Secret. | 2019-04-23T12:19:22 | https://murreyandblue.wordpress.com/tag/secret-marriage/ |
0.998764 | Chocolate Santa's and running: what does one have to do with the other?
Eating chocolate santa's is very nice. The chocolate breaks easily into bitesize pieces and melts slowly in your mouth.
But as soon as the last piece of chocolates enters your mouth, you become overwhelmed by a feeling of discomfort. In the following hours you'll feel bloated and fat, and you tell yourself you'll never eat a whole santa again.
Running on the other hand can be hard. You get sweaty and tired. Your head takes on the colour of a tomato and your hair goes all over the place. But as soon as the last mile is run you become overwhelmed by a feeling of joy. In the following hours you'll feel good about yourself and confident, and you tell yourself you'll do it again soon.
So ask yourself this: would you choose the five minutes pleasure of a chocolate santa and hours of discomfort and feeling fat? Or would you choose thirty minutes of physical exertion and feel good for hours? Would you go for the short term comfort or the long term?
For those who cannot choose there's the possibilty to take both! You eat the chocolate santa, and to prevent feelings of bloating you immediately go for a run.
This was an interesting ready, I never thought about eating it first and then exercising. | 2019-04-19T00:42:49 | http://www.momshomerun.com/2018/11/chocolate-santas-and-running-what-does.html |
0.99859 | Dickens himself would be more interested in an essay about color or baseball. To be surprised is to be mistaken. Revise Your Draft After completing the first draft, read your narrative as to have an idea whether the entire point has been clearly made and whether the experience is recreated through the writing.
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0.992522 | 1. Arrange the following travelers to India in chronological order with the earliest being the first?
4. Maximum copper hoards have been found from which of the following Chalcolithic sites?
5. Which of the following statements are correct regarding Indus Valley Civilization?
(1) Evidence of worship of fire has been found at certain sites.
(2) Image worship was prevalent.
6. Which of the following crops were grown by Indus Valley people?
7. Which of the following statements are correct regarding economy of Indus Valley Civilization?
(1) They exported cotton to Mesopotamia.
(2) They had a standard weights and measures system.
(3) Earliest example of glazed pottery in the world is found here.
8. Which of the following is regarded as the weakest theory about decline of Indus Valley Civilization?
9. Which of the following statements are correct regarding Rig-Vedic period ?
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(1) In Rig-Vedic period, king enjoyed the supreme and unlimited power.
(2) Tribal councils such as Sabha and Samiti became stronger in the Later Vedic Period. | 2019-04-20T02:46:46 | https://www.jagranjosh.com/articles/upsc-ias-prelims-ancient-history-mcq-set-7-1444127189-1 |
0.998631 | Clinton called Russia's meddling in the election an ongoing threat to America: "This is cyber warfare", she said.
"If we don't get to the bottom of it, we're not going to know what to believe, and that plays right into the hands of authoritarians", she said, analyzing the current polarization of American discourse. But that dossier is a disgrace and should not have been allowed to be used, ' he said.
Ingraham said a total of $9 million had gone into the project - the combined total the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid to a law firm that brokered the deal with a firm called Fusion GPS. "It's not tanks and planes and ships, but it is a form of war, and we've never had an adversary who attacked us with so few consequences, and I think that's in large measure because the president is so ambivalent". "He's an experienced lawyer, he knows what the law is, he knows what opposition research is", she added.
'It's inconceivable, it's absolutely inconceivable, it's awful, ' the president said of the larger amount.
"From my perspective, it didn't come out before the election, as we all know, and what also didn't come out, which I think is an even bigger problem.is that the American people didn't even know that the FBI was investigating the Trump campaign because of connections with Russian Federation starting in the summer of 2016", she told Noah.
But Americans, she insisted, should have been made aware that the FBI started investigating potential ties between Trump and Russian entities months before Election Day. That's something that may have influenced some people. He knows what opposition research is'.
Not surprisingly, Clinton misrepresented the original hiring of Fusion GPS by a Republican donor. When the Clinton campaign hired Fusion GPS after Trump won, Steele was hired and worked with Russian officials to come up the infamous and salacious dossier.
The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website, first paid political research firm Fusion GPS for opposition research into Trump in 2015 and ended its relationship after Trump secured the GOP nomination the following year, The Associated Press reported.
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In Starting a Business, India has reduced the time needed to register a new business to 30 days now, from 127 days 15 years ago. Prime Minister Narendra Modi also in the same event stated that World Bank ease of doing business rank did not include GST. | 2019-04-21T08:40:42 | http://newburghgazette.com/2017/11/04/hillary-clinton-defends-funding-anti-trump-dossier-in-late/ |
0.997368 | What is the potential of software within the visual arts?
As a designer or artist, why would I want (or need) to write software?
Software influences all aspects of contemporary visual culture. Many established artists have integrated software into their process. Prominent architects and designers not only use software, they commission custom software to help them realize their unique ideas. The creators of every innovative video game and Hollywood animated film write custom software to enhance their work.
As a comprehensive first introduction to the potential of software development within a broad range of the arts, this course aspires to teach you to engage the computer more directly with code. Programming opens the possibility to create not only tools, but systems, environments, and new modes of expression. It is here that the computer ceases to be a tool and becomes a medium.
In this session, we will cover the following topics: 1) What is Code? 2) Form and Computers 3) Drawing: Define and draw simple shapes; and 4) Color: Change the fill and stroke for shapes.
This session will cover variables and how to store, modify, and reuse data; loops, and how to use Random to get random values from the computer.
In this session, we will cover the following topics: 1) Setup and Draw: Creating programs that run over time. 2) Input, Responding to the mouse and keyboard. 3) Drawing. 4) Make different tools with code. 5) Conditionals, Making decisions in code. 6) Easing.
This session will cover external media, file formats, how to load and display images, how to load and display vector shapes, how to load fonts and display text, and how to handle sound files.
In this session we will begin putting the elements together. We will use longer examples including modes, events, and transitions.
In this session you will learn about types of motion in code, how to create motion with code, transformations, and timers.
This session will introduce functions. We will cover the basics of functions, functions with parameters, and returning values from functions.
In this session you will learn how to define a class, add fields and methods to a class, create an instance of a class, and create multiple instances of a class.
This session will focus on putting the elements together to create work including motion, objects, and arrays. It will also cover collisions.
This is a great introductory primer for visual artists curious to understand how to make coding a part of their visual arts practice.
Rates completed this course and found the course difficulty to be medium.
If you want to learn how to code but get turned off by the idea of writing dull shopping list programs, this course is for you. It's code in the context of art, making it very accessible to artists and designers. The assignments are all based around making interactive pictures you can share on the web. You will learn fundamental coding concepts and with a little effort will take you to the start of intermediate level coding, ready to take on more advanced computer science topics. I Really enjoyed it.
It is amazing to see the other student work in the gallery of this course! Also I can't believe I get to Learn from Casey Raes , the inventor of processing!
I am a complete beginner to coding and I found this course easy to understand. The course starts with basic concepts and makes its way up to more complex processes, which makes it great for beginners and more advanced students as well.
by Martina is taking this course right now and found the course difficulty to be medium.
If you are interested in computers and/or art , would like to be creative - take this course. The lessons are formidable and the tutors fantastic. I've took many online courses in the area of programing, web development etc., but this one is one I love from start to the end. I wish, there will be a part 2 someday.
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This course is awesome, makes visual coding so accessible - five stars. The instructors are clear and knowledgable and the assignments are engaging. One suggestion: in cases where the instructor's code formatting won't correctly in later/current versions of p5.js, it would be helpful to mention that in the comments section.
This is the course to take if you are creative and want to play with technology. The syllabus is good and I love the short format of the lectures.
Excellent introduction to P5 and the concepts of generative art. Well done and thank you to the creators of the course.
by Garry is taking this course right now. | 2019-04-23T18:43:31 | https://www.classcentral.com/course/kadenze-introduction-to-programming-for-the-visual-arts-with-p5-js-3770?review-id=30049 |
0.999587 | Mandela, Terrorist Or Freedom Fighter?
As the world mourns the passing of a true statesman and a legend I want to address an issue that keeps rearing its ugly head here in South Africa.
There is a small minority of people who pop up on every social media site leaving comments about Madiba being a terrorist. I'll leave you to guess the cultural background of this small group of people. For myself I get a bit tired of it and the racism that underpins this view, so here I'm going to look at this argument and expose it for what it is.
At a simplistic level (I use simplistic in the pejorative sense) Mandela was a terrorist by simple virtue of the fact that on 12 June 1964, he and two comrades were found guilty on four counts of sabotage and conspiracy to violently overthrow the government. Mandela had admitted the sabotage but denied the conspiracy to overthrow the government. The rest as they say is history and Mandela spent 27 years in Robben Island and Pollsmoor prisons.
Taken at face value and without any context being applied to the political backdrop of South Africa from the rise of the National Party's minority apartheid govt between June 1948 until democracy in 1994, then Mandela's conviction as a terrorist seems complete.
However, this is far too simplistic!
Gerald Seymour is credited with having coined the phrase: "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" in his 1975 novel Harry's Game. Whilst Seymour was using it in the context of the Northern Ireland troubles it has a pertinence to the apartheid era of South Africa.
Whilst Mandela admitted the act of sabotage he was convicted of in '64 he was living in an age in which he and every other black person were treated like dogs by the white minority govt. It is against this backdrop that any conviction must be viewed.
Most rational minded people recognise that the minority white government of the National Party was an illegitimate government. It was not democratically elected because only an elite minority could vote and it did not represent the majority, preferring to set the country on a path of segregation. Apartheid in Afrikaans translates as 'the state of being apart'. From 1948 until its end, apartheid was a viciously brutal regime that sought to keep the various racial groups separated with a view to serving the welfare of the white minority to the detriment of the majority.
So the context for any conviction of Mandela or any other anti-apartheid activist has to be seen in the context of the denial of their basic human rights. Mandela was denied basic freedoms within South Africa purely because of the colour of his skin. And so it was for the majority of South Africans until democracy was ushered in in 1994. If you were not white you were told where to live and what to do.
At its height, the apartheid government would suppress dissent with violence, regularly slaughtering unarmed civilians including school children. Torture by the police was well documented and the harsh reality of the daily brutality suffered by the majority at the hands of the minority was quite staggering.
Again, being very simplistic about the history of South Africa it is possible to take the view that Mandela was a terrorist, he was after all involved in the setting up of Umkhonto we Sizwe, a militant organization that violently attacked government targets. However, this was all done in a time when civil disobedience was met with brutal punishments. Tough times demand tough action and Mandela set off on a path he believed was right.
To remember Mandela as a terrorist because of his conviction in '64 is naive at best and downright racist and ignorant at worst. Remembering Madiba as a terrorist simply serves to ignore the grace and dignity he conducted himself with during his 27 years in captivity and the attitude of forgiveness he engendered. He spoke highly of his captors despite their brutality and he encouraged South Africa to rise above the pettiness of hatred preferring the road to forgiveness and reconciliation. This is what we the majority remember Madiba for and we refute the title of terrorist!
The sad voices that decry Mandela as a terrorist never acknowledge the brutal violence of their own minority government. They never acknowledge the thousands who died at the hands of their beloved apartheid govt and they never take any responsibility for the mess they left behind. I have often heard these same voices justifying apartheid by likening it to the segregation experienced in the deep south of America in the '50s & '60s. However, the segregation in America was never state sponsored and was never as brutal as apartheid.
No other nation on the planet has ever had such a racially motivate political system specifically geared up to the violent oppression of the majority of its citizens by an elite minority.
Madiba was NOT a terrorist! | 2019-04-19T15:21:56 | https://www.dpfinnie.com/2013/12/mandela-terrorist-or-freedom-fighter.html |
0.999802 | 1. Mix soy sauce, mashed garlic and cornstarch into ingredients, marinate chicken pieces in it for 10mins.
2. Clean brocoli, cut into small pieces.
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0.999999 | The very first robot lawyer that was designed to challenge parking tickets has been wildly successful since it was launched last Fall.
British programmer Joshua Browder, 19, launched the beta version of the bot in London in September. In that month alone, 3,000 people used the service to appeal their parking tickets. By February, it had already appealed $3 million worth of parking tickets.
In April, Browder launched the bot in New York as well. To-date, the bot has successfully appealed between 160,000 of 250,000 parking tickets in both London and New York, giving it a 64% success rate.
The artificial-intelligence lawyer shows how bots can seriously help people settle difficult and costly issues instead of just being used for things like ordering food.
Here's how it works: simply visit DoNotPay and make an account. From there, the chatbot will ask questions about your parking violation, like whether there were signs indicating you couldn't park. If you answer a question that shows you could have a case, the bot will help generate an appeal.
Many companies are investing in bots, most notably Facebook. The tech giant launched a series of Messenger Bots in April to do tasks like order flowers or provide the weather forecast, but like many users, Browder was disappointed.
"I've tried almost all of the bots and have been unhappy — it's quicker to type in a simple webform to order flowers," Browder told Tech Insider. "But there's a lot of potential for these bots to really help people."
Browder plans on rolling out the robot lawyer in Seattle this Fall. But he is also working on bots that can assist people in other ways.
He is currently working on a bot that can help Syrian refugees get asylum. He's working with IBM's Watson platform so that the bot can understand Arabic but write the legal documents in English.
Browder is also working on a bot that can help HIV positive people understand their legal rights when disclosing their medical status. | 2019-04-25T18:27:29 | https://www.businessinsider.com/joshua-browder-bot-overturns-160000-parking-tickets-2016-6?r=UK |
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0.999999 | Was Atlantis a continent, or a city on an island?
Plato described Atlantis in some detail, and said it was destroyed 9000 years before his time.
Reading today what he wrote, we find he described a city of concentric circles each separated by waterways. The problem is most people remember Atlantis being described as a continent, which is vastly different, and are pointing to this discrepancy as being an MMDE.
Of course there is huge debate over whether it existed at all, but that's not the issue here. The fact so many remember being told if it did exist, it was a continent, is what's causing all the fuss.
Rosie, the distinguished mascot from the 1943 US "We can Do It!" war poster, seems different today to some people who are experiencing this as an MMDE.
She's actually called "Rosie the Riveter". People are reporting they remember her smiling, and with a bigger arm muscle than is seen in the poster today.
The war effort required women to work on what was traditionally the work of men, so the character was created by the government - along with her own song and movie! - to encourage solidarity and boost performance.
Three little pigs: "I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house ___"?
The story about the Big Bad Wolf trying to blow down the three little pigs house was first published in the 1840's, but it's thought to be much older than that.
Ask people to complete the line, and you may be in for a surprise. If they answer "Down", they may be experiencing an MMDE, because all references today show it as "In".
The fable continues to the modern day, with the pigs appearing in the Toy Story and Shrek movies and they even feature in a full production stage musical. There's been some controversy over the years regarding their names, but the consensus today seems to be Browny, Whitey and Blacky.
The 1958 version: color or black and white?
First off, those experiencing this MMDE are well aware that TV's from the late 50's and 60's were black and white, so even though that's the knee-jerk explanation for this, it's not what they are saying. At that time, TV's themselves were still rare, so most would have seen the movie in the cinema anyway.
What they remember is the movie being in black and white, whereas today all references show it as always having been filmed in color.
There were posters and publicity shots which are in black and white, and are still easily searchable on the internet, which may have contributed to the idea it was not filmed in color.
Bananas - Which way up do they grow?
Here's a peculiar one - which way up do bananas grow?
Some people are claiming they don't remember them growing the way they appear today, i.e. with the fixed part at the bottom and the fruit pointing upwards, and are pointing to this as an MMDE.
This could get confusing, because therer are some rarer types which do grow downwards. However, the sight of a bunch of "upside down" bananas (as they call them) growing on a tree still hits them as something they were sure they'd have known about.
One reason people seem surprised could be mundane - you always see bunches in supermarkets, grocery stores etc, laid out downwards, so assume that's how they grew in the wild.
Where is the hiking emoji?
This is an unusual MMDE, because it might be fixed at any time, so all we can report is that as at Aug 2018, there was no hiking emoji whereas many people remember there being one.
Reddit shows an example of a report of this, where emojis for many other outdoor activities are plentiful but for some reason the hiking one was not only missing, but the details of what it looked like were very clear too. It was described as a figure with two sticks, brown hair, a red shirt and blue shorts.
Pretty detailed for something which never existed! | 2019-04-24T09:53:42 | https://www.alternatememories.com/historical-events?start=63 |
0.999999 | Should you say HaGomel after a flight?
1) It is doubtful whether ha-gomel may be recited, unless a potentially dangerous situation developed during the flight.
2) Ha-gomel is recited only when the airplane crossed over an ocean or a desert.
3) Ha-gomel is recited after every airplane trip.
He then goes on to say that the general custom today follows #2 above.
For a practical decision, please see a Rabbi.
The basic rule is to say hagomel after crossing an ocean (on water) or a desert (on land) but not after other trips.
http://www.mevaseret.org/mmy/searchshiurim.php?shiur=105 lists various rabbis' views regarding airplane travel. I haven't checked the sources it cites, but if it's to be trusted then Rabbi Sternbuch cites others as saying not to say it unless the flight was "eventful" [whatever that means], the Tzitz Eliezer says to say hagomel after any but a short domestic flight, and Rabbi Moshe Feinstein says to say it after any flight.
As always, for practical guidance, CYLOR.
Update: I've checked the sources of that Web page, but have skimmed them rather than read every word. (That's always dangerous, but) AFAICT the Tzitz Eliezer actually says to say hagomel after going over a desert or ocean [yam, which may include larger seas or what-have-you], unless it's a short domestic flight. I don't see that he says to say hagomel after a long flight that doesn't go over a yam or desert, which is what the Web page implies in his name. Rav Moshe Feinstein is quoted correctly AFAICT. Rav Moshe Sternbuch is quoted incompletely. He actually writes that the custom in South Africa is to say hagomel after any flight over the yam [or, I suppose, the desert?]; he also quotes the Chazon Ish second-hand as saying to say hagomel after any flight, and others (the Belzer rav, the Tchubiner rav) secondhand as saying not to say it.
R. Moshe Feinstein points out a fundamental difference between flying and driving. Flying is inherently dangerous. This is because man cannot survive in the air without the protection of the airplane. Therefore, because it is possible for the airplane's protection to fail it is considered a "dangerous situation". This is likened to the Talmud's case of crossing the ocean. There, too, it is inherently dangerous because man cannot survive at sea without the protection of the boat. Because it is possible for the boat's protection to fail it is therefore considered a "dangerous situation". Thus, flying gets a blessing because it parallel's the Talmud's case where a blessing is required.
Driving, on the other hand, is not inherently dangerous. That is to say that man can perfectly survive on land with or without the protection of the automobile. Thus it is not that the automobile is providing the necessary protection from a dangerous situation. The danger of automobile travel is external to the setting (e.g. a crash). Even though this is more dangerous in terms of likelihood for a fatal incident, the blessing is not based on likelihood of fatality but on inherentness of the danger.
The reason why it works this way is that the blessing is said as a thanks to God for allowing the protection to protect you from the inherent danger. Even if there is only a small likelihood of the protection failing, it still requires thanks. When it comes to a regular drive, though, there was no protection that God allowed to work, because there was never a danger to be protected from. If, however, something would happen on the drive, in which you were saved (e.g. if you survived a car crash) then that would be something to thank God for.
Thus, flying parallels the Talmud's case of inherent danger while driving does not, and this explains why a blessing would be made for flying and not driving.
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Should you say “Bircat HaGomel” after receiving outpatient test results? | 2019-04-23T16:00:02 | https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/8472/should-you-say-hagomel-after-a-flight |
0.970756 | : the exression 'kick on the shins' is common in football and other sports but I guess 'doggone my shins' its more like american slang, probably from baseball or american football but that is a wild shot, any ideas of meaning and origin on the second one?
I'm in the U.S. I've never heard "doggone my shins." But I'm not into sports. | 2019-04-20T15:03:31 | https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/35/messages/1081.html |
0.999998 | An immigrant B visa & work permit would cancel out an Educational visa correct? Or would I retain an Educational Visa and simply add the work permit?
I would like to attend university but would also like to work. What is the typical scenario for this situation?
I am very interested in attending University in Mahasirakham but am trying to figure out how many schools in that area have an EP. Not all school have this correct? Certainly if all schools are funding an English program the search is easy using google to locate all government & private schools. Anyone know how to find out?
The university in Maha does not have an international program. Schools use EP and some universities have an international program. You may not work on an ed visa.
Not sure that's entirely correct. The rules do change all the time though. I studied at Bangkok University (International College) for my BBA. I had the the Non-Imm ED visa for 4 years 2006-2010. I worked from the first year and had no trouble getting a work permit on the ED visa. However, it could be linked to what work you are doing, my job is marketing. I don't think you could get a teaching job on an ED visa, due to the teachers license requirement (unless you already held a degree).
If you want to study around Bangkok I would recommend you look at: Bangkok Uni (BUIC), Mahidol (MUIC), ABAC and if you're loaded Chula.
Hope that helps, good luck to you.
No offense, but I think perhaps you are misinformed.
As far as the visa itself, I do indeed hold a degree currently. The way I imagined it to work is I could have an Ed visa due to the fact that I will be a student, then simply acquire the work permit and use it over the ed visa rather than non imm b. The important thing is that I have the work permit I would imagine, what visa it is sitting on I wouldn't think would matter much.
I guess the bigger question I have is if I do not get an ed visa and go forward with a non-imm. B visa, could I still attend Uni?
I really didn't mean to cause any offense. The only reason I might have sounded over-confident is because I have been asking the program director questions about their international program the past few weeks.
Will attending Uni force me to get an educational visa or does that not matter?
You can enroll at uni if you're here for work purposes but you cannot work if you have educational visa. You should get a Non-Immigrant Visa Category “B” visa before you enter Thailand. After entering, you will need to apply for a work permit.
Ok thank you, so it is ok to attend school while holding a non-imm B. Thank you. | 2019-04-21T12:22:14 | http://teakdoor.com/teaching-in-thailand/87144-ed-visa-vs-imm-b-msu.html |
0.999777 | <nettime> Are computer elites the future?
Subject: <nettime> Are computer elites the future?
I see myself as a member of an elite group, and as with all elite groups the reasons for being a member of that group and the reason for the existence of that group can be questioned. Right now I will not ask those questions (but feel free to do so).
The elite group I'm part of is called the Newtonians. You become a member of that group by owning and using a Newton. The Newtonians share one strong believe: they are holding a piece of the future in their hands.
Two years ago Apple decided to kill the Newton as part of their reorganization (it got 'Steved', as most Newtonians say). For the Newtonians this meant at least one thing: you buy a spare. Some people bought three or four, and some even bought Newtons for their kids.
Since then several things happened. As I see it I might indeed be holding a piece of the future in my hands. But that is not just the superior hardware or software. It is the simple fact that being a Newtonian means that you are part of a computer elite - working with software nobody else can use that offer functionality nobody else has - and that using an orphaned platform means that you have to be able to help yourself. And most of us do and they also help others. As I see it, the future might bring more machine types, and every machine type might create it's own elite. Computers become more and more a part of our daily live - so we learn how to use and manipulate them more and more. So this might create room for diversity. One of the arguments to use MS Windows - everybody knows how to use it - might not be that important an argument in the future.
I shall here sketch the outline of an alternative OS as is used on the Newton, and how the users try to keep it working without support from a big company.
I shall first boast a little about this machine - but not to much so I can continue without much delay to telling what happened after it got Steved. The Newton is a PDA in the true meaning of the word. Because the Newton 2000 I own, can be used as a stand alone machine, all other PDA's seem nice looking toys to me.
Writing an essay on it by hand is no problem (you can also use an attachable keyboard the size of a laptop keyboard, but I never use it). It will learn your handwriting, but I taught it shorthand gestures with the aid of an additional piece of software. I can send and receive faxes on it, do all internet stuff, I can even use it as a webserver so people can log in and grab the info they want. I can start programs (and turn the machine off) by writing a letter. If I write "call John" or "mail John" no matter where on my screen and I write the letter "A" (Assist) in a tiny window on my button bar, my machine finds all the people whose name is "John" and tries to mail them or phone them (the dialing can be done by holding the telephone near the speaker). I can use it as a memo recorder or interview recorder (sound quality from 1k to 6k per sec). GSP possibilities are part of the hardware, it can hold two pcmia cards, has a strongarm 160Mhz risk processor and it fits in my inside !
pocket (if you have big pockets). When I have an appointment the recorded sound of my children's voices jell at me when the alarm goes of.
When it got axed two years ago, a number of things happened. The development of a lot of software has stopped and the support went down. Text to speech is available (English only) but it was never officially released by Apple. Speech to text was on its way, but never saw the light.
I could play Battleship with another Newtonian by using the infrared port, but the only Newtonians I know are on the internet. They are on newsgroups (comp.sys.newton.misc and others), on mailing lists (www.newtontalk.com), on the Newton Webring (newtoncage.webjump.com). Support went down. So people have formed a community to try to take over that what has disappeared. That includes support for software and hardware. Most questions are answered by other users (from simple software questions and testing of new pcmia ethernet cards to questions about crashing machines or specialised programing problems). There are still new software titles being developed - shareware, freeware and commercial. The most recent: Hemlock (Sherlock on the the Newton), Newton prolog a.k.a. the handheld brain, an Open GL 3D-engine and a mod player.
Most of this is done in the spare time of people who have a full daytime job. Some programmers started programming for other platforms like WinCE but out of love for the beauty of the Newton they still code for it, or answer questions of all sorts.
But there already are some shortages, like in a war zone cut off from supplies. Some companies stopped their suport for the Newton and their software titles have been made freeware or open source, but some companies have disappeared without a trace (as with the makers of a tool to link your device to digital camera's).
Some users were smart enough to realize a lot of sites where disappearing - with both software and info. One of them downloaded the most important sites and burned it on CD-roms that can be ordered by him. Others made archives on http and ftp addresses.
There are plans for a site that sells software for companies that want to drop their Newton products. But most software needed to keep our machines working in the future is still being supported and developed.
And then there are the tiny gadgets you need. The makers of a protective sheet for the screen has stopped production. One of the users has found a way to produce his own, and will start supplying other users. Some models need a special dongle to connect to a desktop machine. But with that it is hope and pray you don't loose yours, since nobody makes them anymore. Though there are plans to for a dongle killer - but it is still a bit to expensive.
The Newton is not affected by the y2k bug but somewhere near 2010 the internal clock rolls over. Someone already has made a patch to prevent possible troubles. By then the biggest problem will probably be the LCD-screens: the contrast goes down with age. Maybe Dr Newton - a user upgrading and repairing newtons in his spare time - has by then found a good replacement for it.
By then the possibility exists other PDA's are on the market that have hardware as good as the Newton.
All hopes are fixed on Apple to come with a new PDA. Rumors can be heard about the P1, the domain name www.macmate.com (a site that used to contain rumors about a new Apple PDA) has recently been bought by Apple. But all Newton users gnash their teeth when yet another rumor is heard about the new Apple PDA being a palm-pilot like machine made by 3Com. Apple has the technology to create a PDA that eats other PDA's for breakfast, but refuses to use it.
It is not just the hardware Newton users want. People are complaining they don't have Newton functionality on their desktop machines. The file manager at the heart of the system is a freeform database. Texts, names, dates, etc are stored in soups, where every file has a record called a frame. A frame uses name-value pairs to store data, where the value can be anything: a string, a number, a date, a vector drawing, a binary, a bitmap. But it could also hold an array, or another record (another frame), or an array of frames. On the surface the Newton seems to use the pen and paper metaphor for it's OS, but underneath that surface something else is happening. Most databases use the pen and paper metaphor one way or another. As on a piece of paper, in most databases it is impossible to store a record in a field where one of the fields in the nested record can hold an array of records, but on the Newton you can. In that way the OS makes it possible to create programs that use info !
created by other programs and add their own info to it as separate fields. So a record in the names-database could hold information about all appointments (calender-program) you've had with that person and a link to all e-mails, faxes, calls and texts (at least four different programs) that concern that person.
That is one of the reasons people are trying to develop an Open Source Newton OS (Open Hand). The Gnuton is one of them (www.dstc.edu.au/AU/staff/david-arnold/newton/gnuton/). Dave Arnold - who is working on the Gnuton -states that the hardware parts needed to create a Newton like machine only cost a few hundred dollars. On his site he gives a couple of links to promising PDA's. The initial development he is doing is done for a desktop machine running Linux with a Wacom tablet instead of a keyboard as the main input device.
If the attempts to create an Open Hand Newton are successful, one could imagine a shop where you can buy a PDA and that has a shelve with ROM-chips you can choose from to select the OS that controls the hardware. That is a vision shared by some of the users.
Unfortunately, the people working on the Open Hand projects do not have much info to go on. When the Newton OS saw the light several years back, developers asked Apple to release the API because they saw the possibilities for it to grow as a platform independant programming environment as Java is today, but they never did it. That's a pity, and one of the reasons is that Newton script - a C++ like programming environment for the Newton OS - offers the possibility to perform tasks with a little amount of memory that would be memory hungry in other environments.
Recently Apple made part of their MacOSX server software open source. So Newton users started yet another plea to make the Newton-OS open source, too. But it is very unlikely this will happen. Parts of the Newton OS are licensed to Apple by other companies, the HWR-engines is probably of great importance for a future PDA by Apple and quickdraw is part of the OS (not likely to be made open source).
Computers changed our lives and different types of computers can change peoples lives in different ways. On the Newtontalk-mailinglist one of the topics for discussion was whether or not it is allowed for priests to use a Newton while giving a sermon (the bible is available as a Newton-book with the title "The message"). Some priests said they did, one of person saw his first Newton in church in the hands of the priest there.
A part of my live I have lived half on the streets as a squatter punk. Now I'm back on the streets with this device and sit down wherever I want to write or to work on a program. Sometimes I sit down to write in places like McDonalds. Given my past I'm not really a part of the crowd that goes there, and people can sense that. Their looks tell me that I don't really belong there. But then I take my device out of my pocket and start jotting down notes or pieces of a program. And the attitude of the crowd changes. They can see what I'm holding in my hands, they have heard about stuff like that, they knew it was possible, but they thought it belonged to the years to come. People serving drinks in bars take a glance at the screen to see what it is, to see what I'm doing and they are much more friendly afterwards.
I'm definitely going to buy a spare Newton. And if the future brings a new and better PDA I might consider migrating to another platform to become a member of another elite. But I don't know when that will hapen. | 2019-04-21T06:06:13 | http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9903/msg00125.html |
0.999291 | It's my duty to lead them down the right path. But, which one is that?
I remember clearly the very second my eyes met those of my newborn daughter. The delivery room was dark and my hospital bed was elevated under spotlights. It had been a long and difficult journey to get to this moment. I'd entered the facility about 18 hours beforehand, certain that labor was imminent. After hours of walking around the corridor, contractions that contorted my entire body, and endless tears that poured from my body like a faucet I couldn't turn off, I finally consented to medication that sped the process along. As soon as she entered my arms, I knew something major had shifted inside me.
People talk all the time about knowing for sure when they're ready to have kids. My sister and I had this exact discussion over our monthly siblings dinner last Tuesday. She admitted she didn't feel that "pull." Kids weren't her dream right now, and she was worried they might not ever be. After reassuring her that it's perfectly fine either way, I explained that I never really felt an overwhelming impetus to be a parent. My husband and I simply understood it to be the next step in our decade-long relationship, of which we'd been married for five.
But, that second when she was finally on this side of me, I felt it. I felt a responsibility and a call like none other. I was to be the earthly shepherd to this child, and two years later, to her newborn brother. Now mind you, I'm someone who can't make a decision at a restaurant. I worry I'm going to pick the wrong plate and mess up the entire order. I stress over conversations with loved ones, picking a date night spot with my husband and myriad other miniscule, insignificant choices. The issue isn't that I'm indecisive. Rather, it's the fact that I don't love responsibility. I get nervous when something is entrusted to me. I'm loyal and loving and hard-working to a fault but inevitably, I doubt my own abilities, especially when something else hinges on them.
So now, with two children younger than five under my wing, I've understandably had my fair share of concerns. Who am I, that these perfect, innocent babies are mine to guide along this crazy, uncertain world? How can I be sure I'm making the right decisions and leading them down the right paths? I see two realities in every scenario. There's the reality that exists if I go this way, and then the one that exists if I go that route.
Take our upcoming move, for instance. When we change homes, we change school districts. We change the friends they're going to be in class with. We change our commute times and how long it takes to walk to my parents' house. We change who they go to prom with, who they pal around with, and which teachers instruct them.
There's the reality that exists if we stay where they are. They'll go to the newer school in town, the one that everyone says is more like a private school. Later, they'll attend the same middle and high school that I did. We will remain in our tiny brick cottage by the side of the road. I'll worry every time they go outside about their distance to the street. But, we'll keep our glorious backyard, the one with the blueberries and the muscadines. The one with the swing her papa built, swaying from the pecan tree out back. We'll keep our beloved "neighbor girls" who are only a few years older than my kids. The ones who come over with shovels and ask my daughter if she wants to go digging in the woods.
Then, there's the reality that exists if we go. We'll live with my in-laws for a year and my daughter will start kindergarten at the school where my sister teaches. We'll spend a year fixing up our forever home, and our starter home will be completely erased from their memories. We'll tear the current home down to its studs. We'll install a new HVAC system, new roof, new sheetrock and a new expansion on the right side. Instead of growing up near fruit trees and the road, their childhood will be spent playing in the enormous expanse of woods that fill the back of our property. They'll spend summers running in the fields around our home, flanked by forests and rows of corn. They'll read under the flowering Japanese cherry blossoms and spend hours talking to me at the big kitchen island we're planning to build.
You see the challenge? Both realities sound lovely. Both sound full of charm and possibility. Yet, what unforeseen complications lie dormant just underneath? How can I be certain that the choice I make doesn't negatively affect anyone? The truth is that I can't. To craft a childhood for them simply means doing my best with the knowledge I have. It means making a conscious decision upon waking every morning that I will put joy in their hearts and fill their days with laughter. Someone once told me to create the memories I want them to have. I'm in the privileged position of being able to do that, and that's precisely how I intend to move forward, one faithful step at a time. | 2019-04-22T07:05:43 | https://www.theodysseyonline.com/making-a-childhood |
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0.998892 | I'm so sad - this used to be such an active group and now it's all spam spam spam :( I've been here for almost 6 years and now I think I am leaving, because everyone is gone! Where did you all go??
pregnant and breastfeeding women to increase their intake of vitamin D during the darker winter months The British government has told MORE ....AmericanVistas.com The Department of Health said doctors were reporting increasing numbers of cases of vitamin D deficiency in children. | 2019-04-26T09:38:38 | http://parentingbanter.com/forumdisplay.php?f=4&page=6&order=desc |
0.999954 | Company Description: Raytheon Company, the world's sixth largest military contractor, specializes in making high-tech missiles, advanced radar systems and sensors, defense electronics, and missile-defense systems.
RTN is trading at a discount to only 1.) above. Since RTN's tangible book value is not meaningful, a Graham number can not be calculated. The stock is trading at a slight premium to its calculated fair value of $55.91. RTN did not earn any Stars in this section.
RTN earned two Stars in this section for 1.) and 2.) above. A Star was earned since the Free Cash Flow payout ratio was less than 60% and there were no negative Free Cash Flows over the last 10 years. The stock earned a Star as a result of its most recent Debt to Total Capital being less than 45%. The company has paid a cash dividend to shareholders every year since 1964 and has increased its dividend payments for 9 consecutive years.
RTN earned a Star in this section for its NPV MMA Diff. of the $3,807. This amount is in excess of the $2,600 target I look for in a stock that has increased dividends as long as RTN has. The stock's current yield of 3.78% exceeds the 2.71% estimated 20-year average MMA rate.
Memberships and Peers: RTN is a member of the S&P 500. The company's peer group includes: The Boeing Company (BA) with a 2.3% yield, Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT) with a 4.8% yield and Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC) with a 3.2% yield.
Conclusion: RTN did not earn any Stars in the Fair Value section, earned two Stars in the Dividend Analytical Data section and earned one Star in the Dividend Income vs. MMA section for a total of three Stars. This quantitatively ranks RTN as a 3-Star Hold stock.
Using my D4L-PreScreen.xls model, I determined the share price would need to increase to $68.27 before RTN's NPV MMA Differential decreased to the $2,600 minimum that I look for in a stock with 9 years of consecutive dividend increases. At that price the stock would yield 3.2%.
Resetting the D4L-PreScreen.xls model and solving for the dividend growth rate needed to generate the target $2,600 NPV MMA Differential, the calculated rate is 10.0%. This dividend growth rate is the same as the 10.0% used in this analysis, thus providing a margin of safety. RTN has a risk rating of 1.50 which classifies it as a Low risk stock.
Like most defense contractors, RTN is facing lower spending from governments around the world, most notably in Europe and the U.S. Much of this bad news has already been factored in RTN's price. On the positive side, increased aggression in Asia and the Middle East could fuel higher demand for certain high tech solutions offered RTN. This could lead to near double-digit international growth for missile defense and defense electronics. The company currently has a large project backlog. With relatively low debt, a low free cash flow payout and trading close to my $55.91 calculated fair value price, RTN is a stock that is definitely on my radar.
Full Disclosure: At the time of this writing, I was long in RTN (2.9% of my Dividend Growth Portfolio). See a list of all my dividend growth holdings here. | 2019-04-23T18:26:57 | https://www.dividend-growth-stocks.com/2013/04/raytheon-company-rtn-dividend-stock.html |
0.999578 | Facebook is trying to clean up Messenger. The company showed off a new, redesigned version of the app, which is starting to roll out to users now.
The reason for the redesign is what many users have known for years: Messenger, in its current form, is a bloated confusing mess.
Consider this: The current version of the app has nine — yes, nine — tabs. I ignore most of these, so it's easy to forget just how bloated Messenger has become in recent years, but there can't possibly be a good reason for five different tabs that all show you slightly different lists of the same friends.
"We built a lot of capabilities over the years but it's not as simple as the app was in the beginning of our journey," says Stan Chudnovsky, Facebook's VP of Messenger.
The new version of Messenger will try to clean up some of that mess. Instead of nine tabs, there are just three: chats, people, and discover. (Incidentally, this design also makes Messenger look a bit more like Snapchat.) The chats tab is where you can manage your conversations, people is where you view your contact list, and discover is where you find messaging bots and instant games.
But despite the slightly simpler design, Facebook isn't removing any features from the app. Stories, which Facebook says has 300 million monthly users, are still featured prominently, even though the camera feature has been moved to the top of the app.
There are only three tabs in the new version of Messenger.
The company is also adding a few minor new features, like the ability to change the color of your chat bubbles to gradients, and a new dark mode.
Though Chudnovsky disputed that the changes weren't significant, calling it a "new foundational element," he conceded they had a good reason to play it safe. That's because the Messenger team is very aware that its users aren't necessarily the biggest fans of big changes (and some people still haven't forgiven Facebook for forcing the app on them to begin with).
"Changing the UI of something that 1.3 billion people use, that's really hard to do without making a lot of people who are using your app really upset," he said. "That's why big redesigns generally don't happen, or when they do, they don't go well."
That's also why the update will be rolling out slowly to start. Though Facebook says the update will be launching today, it will take some time before everyone sees the changes in full. | 2019-04-24T16:36:34 | https://in.mashable.com/tech/1108/facebook-is-trying-to-make-messenger-less-of-a-mess |
0.999965 | I am a school psychologist in a district with a new kindergarten student who has diabetes. I don't know what type she has, but the teacher says the student does not take insulin. I've been asked how her diabetes might effect her educationally; for instance, she seems to have fine motor difficulties due to poor circulation in her hands. What other affects might we see and how can they be addressed in the classroom?
Kindergarten students with diabetes mellitus are almost always on insulin, although they are unlikely to take it at school: maybe she's taking it at home. Or maybe she has another disorder, diabetes insipidus, which is another situation entirely.
"Poor circulation" is not expected from diabetes mellitus in a child this age.
"Fine motor difficulties" are not caused by "poor circulation" (and most 5 year olds don't have fine motor skills completely developed).
Children who happen to have diabetes should be treated like anybody else.
Children with diabetes must be allowed to use the restroom and and have access to water when they feel the need.
Some children with diabetes require mid-morning and mid-afternoon snacks as part of their diet. These snacks are part of the medical treatment of their diabetes and must be allowed. Disallowing snacks for children who require them can cause hypoglycemia.
If a child with diabetes feels low (i.e., is hypoglycemic) and performs blood sugar testing at a school clinic, always send another student to accompany the child with diabetes to the clinic. Severe hypoglycemia can cause loss of consciousness.
Diabetes should have no effect on a child's education or performance at school. | 2019-04-20T02:59:14 | http://old.childrenwithdiabetes.com/dteam/1997-06/d_0d_1uq.htm |
0.994296 | Lean is about eliminating waste from any business process, not just manufacturing. However, many organisations that implement a Lean Thinking approach to production often pass over the opportunity to improve equipment reliability and the bottom line. Paul Rodgers, training practice manager at MCP Consulting Group, offers 10 top tips for taking full advantage of this opportunity.
It is simply not possible to create an effective, lean, production process without a robust plan to maintain equipment to the highest possible standards and performance. Yet, our work with certain clients, over the years, has shown this is exactly what occurred!
Paul Rodgers advises revisiting your maintenance plan – look at the risk to the business and make sure you revise and adapt it as you go.
Quality: takes into account parts that do not meet quality standards, including parts that need rework.
Remember, OEE Quality is similar to First Pass Yield, in that it defines ‘Good Parts’ as parts that successfully pass through the manufacturing process the first time without needing rework.
#1. Capture loss event: Capture the event and note data related to start time, end time and perform preliminary activities like volumes estimation, loss categorisation, and high-level root cause analysis.
#2. Validate, Quantify & Classify events: compare the maximum production potential for the day against the actual production achieved. To create an action list, it is necessary to evaluate the loss in terms of financial & commercial, volume impact and any cost in performing maintenance re-work operations.
The owner should ensure Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is performed and all action points are implemented to mitigate the loss and prevent any future occurrence.
#4. Review and Action: Feed this information into your improvement programme and develop strategies to reduce the time lost on any future occurrence.
RCA assumes that systems and event are interrelated. Ensure the lessons learned are shared within the production area. Toyota has the concept of the 100-year fix. Make sure you do not get repeat occurrences!
No.9. Operator Asset Care (OAC): Operators are the best people to look after and improve machinery and equipment assets. OAC is a proven approach to achieving effective machinery and equipment as it is part of Continuous Improvement. Develop the skills and competencies of operators, so that they carry out basic maintenance and set-ups. Assign craftsmen to be responsible for specific specialist pieces of equipment. Operator Asset Care is an essential part of the ‘world class’ approach to maximise the effectiveness of operational assets and processes. It not only addresses maintenance but all aspects of manufacturing operations.
MCP’s range of Continuous Improvement (CI) programmes help drive constant and sustained improvements. These include: Lean Practitioner, Problem Solving using RCA, OEE and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) including OAC. | 2019-04-22T18:56:00 | https://www.mcpeurope.com/10-top-tips-getting-lean-equipment-reliability/ |
0.999053 | Polymer materials are plastics and can be divided into four categories: Thermoplastics, elastomers, thermoplastic elastomers, and thermosets. Flame-retardant polymer materials are plastics that are fire resistant and exhibit a higher level of fire safety.
Flame retardancy plays an important role in fire safety because not only does it reduce the risk of fires breaking out, it also prevents them from spreading. Flame retardancy plays a major role in public transportation. | 2019-04-25T11:45:59 | https://www.rampf-group.com/en-jp/glossary/?tx_rampfglossary_glossary%5Bglossary%5D=108&tx_rampfglossary_glossary%5Baction%5D=show&cHash=c76807553036cea8f7c866114f5f400d |
0.998597 | Detroit's Big Three auto executives returned to Capitol Hill Wednesday to ask skeptical lawmakers for a $25 billion lifeline to keep their crippled industry from collapsing.
The heads of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler appeared before the House Financial Services Committee, making the same plea they made Tuesday to the Senate Banking Committee. But they face stiff opposition from Republicans on the Hill, as well as the White House.
Sen. Richard Shelby, the senior Republican on the Banking Committee, said Wednesday he doesn't believe there will be a turnaround in the troubled U.S. auto industry until its top management is ousted and the manufacturing model sacked.
"I don't think they have immediate plans to change their model, which is a model of failure," Shelby told CBS' The Early Show, a day after the top executives of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler came to Congress to plead for a $25 billion "bridge loan" to avert layoffs and plant closings.
"I wish they would. I know they're in dire circumstances, but somebody has to stick up for the taxpayers."
But Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, told The Early Show that bankruptcy would not lead to a fresh start for the struggling companies and would only hurt others who rely on the industry.
"Bankruptcy would be very disruptive in the long term. Bankruptcy is a favorite spectator sport for politicians and experts who don't have to engage in it. You have a whole network of suppliers, small businesses and others who would get stiffed, to use the legal term, in a bankruptcy."
Frank also said bankruptcy could mean abrogation of labor contracts. "We already have too much union busting," said Frank.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tried to lower expectations for emergency legislation, saying Wednesday that it's the Bush administration's responsibility to save the once-mighty carmakers from collapse.
The Nevada Democrat also said that "no one should be overly concerned" if Congress can't agree on a bill to speed $25 billion in new loans to the auto industry.
Although Reid said he still hopes Congress can reach a deal on assistance this week. If not, he said that it "will still be up to the White House and the Treasury Department" to do the job.
Local dealers also pressed their influence on Capitol Hill, blanketing congressional offices this week to make the argument to legislators that an auto bailout is necessary to prevent pillars of thousands of local communities from crumbling.
Whatever the various arguments about options, Detroit is running out of time.
Facing a less-than-receptive greeting Tuesday, General Motors Corp. CEO Rick Wagoner warned that the failure of the U.S. auto industry could lead to a loss of 3 million jobs within the first year and ripple throughout communities around the country.
"This is all about a lot more than just Detroit. It's about saving the U.S. economy from a catastrophic collapse," Wagoner said.
Dire assessments aside, the rescue plan appeared stalled on Capitol Hill, opposed by the Bush administration and Republicans in Congress who are reluctant to use the Treasury Department's $700 billion financial bailout program to come up with the $25 billion in loans.
"You're asking an awful lot," said Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. "I'd like to tell you that in the next couple of days this is going to happen. I don't think it is."
A Senate vote on an automotive bailout plan, which would also extend jobless benefits, could come as early as Thursday, but it currently lacks the support to advance.
In an op-ed essay in Wednesday's editions of The New York Times, Mitt Romney, a candidate for this year's Republican presidential nomination, wrote: "If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won't go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed."
Romney, who was born in Detroit and whose father was an auto industry executive, wrote: "Without that bailout, Detroit will need to drastically restructure itself. With it, the automakers will stay the course - the suicidal course of declining market shares, insurmountable labor and retiree burdens, technology atrophy, product inferiority and never-ending job losses. Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check."
Rank and file Republicans and Democrats from states heavily affected by the auto industry worked behind the scenes trying to develop a compromise that could speed some aid to the automakers before year's end. But it was an uphill fight.
Automakers were running into bailout fatigue on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers complained that many of the industry's problems were self-made, citing their past reliance upon gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs and opposition to tougher fuel efficiency regulations. Many wondered if the companies would be back for more money in a year.
"A lot of people think you've already failed, that your model has failed, that you're here to get life support," said Shelby.
Chrysler LLC CEO Bob Nardelli rejected suggestions that the automakers should seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection similar to airlines that later emerged restructured and leaner. "We just cannot be confident that we will be able to successfully emerge from bankruptcy," Nardelli said. Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally said the three automakers are highly interdependent.
The financial situation for the automakers grows more precarious by the day. Cash-strapped GM said Tuesday it would delay reimbursing its dealers for rebates and other sales incentives and could run out of cash by year's end without government aid.
Given the concerns, Democrats in the Senate discussed but rejected the option favored by the White House and GOP lawmakers to let the auto industry use a $25 billion loan program created by Congress in September - designed to help the companies develop more fuel-efficient vehicles - to tide them over until President-elect Barack Obama takes office.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other senior Democrats, who count environmental groups among their strongest supporters, have vehemently opposed that approach because it would divert federal money intended to develop vehicles that use less gasoline.
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Chris Darby talks with Michael Morell on "Intelligence Matters" | 2019-04-24T10:13:25 | https://www.cbsnews.com/news/big-3-face-stiff-challenge-on-capitol-hill/ |
0.999176 | We have just spent 3 weeks in Butaritari - one of the most northern islands of Kiribati. Below is some information that might be useful.
- Although Butaritari has air access to Tarawa it has very few facilities and is very quiet.
- There is no mobile 'phone coverage. There is at least one public telephone in the main village.
- The islands are lush and fruit and vegetables are grown locally. There are a handful of very small stores, in which it is possible to buy some canned provisions and sometimes flour.
- The lagoon has fewer obstructions and has clearer water than Tarawa or Abaiang.
- While we were there the climate felt very different to Tarawa with more variability in wind direction and more rain. Winds often came from various directions (including west and north) around large areas of convection that moved past the atoll. These temporary winds were sometimes strong and made lee shores uncomfortable, but never untenable. It often took several hours for the gradient wind direction and strength to return.
- In order to visit Butartari, it was necessary to obtain permission from both Immigration and Customs in Tarawa (the same applies for all the outer islands).
- We submitted a written request to Immigration & then Customs (in person). They each provided us with a letter of introduction to give to the local police on arrival in Butaritari. This stated the length of time we were permitted to stay, and boat/crew details.
- We were directed to hand the letters to local police in Butaritari immediately on arrival. The police in Butaritari were expecting us and waiting for us to report in with them. They wanted to see permit letters and passports.
- Permission to visit one of the outer islands is granted for a fixed period, usually no more than 2 weeks.
- Current policy (6/01/13) is that all yachts MUST return to Tarawa for final outward clearance, and yachts are not allowed to stop at any of the outer islands after making final outward clearance.
- We entered the atoll through South Channel Pass. This pass is deep and easy. There is currently one red buoy on a shoal in the middle of the pass on the lagoon side.
- CM93 charts seem to be reasonably accurate without need for correction. We also used Google Earth charts which we had previously set up. There are some uncharted bommies and shallow areas, particularly in the eastern part of the lagoon.
- The anchorage off the wharf in the southeast corner (Butaritari island) can be rough when the prevailing wind is east or north of east. This is not a great anchorage but gives access to the main village with police station. The old wharf provides a good dinghy landing.
- The best anchorages we found are at the eastern end of the lagoon. There is good holding in places off Natata Islands, but still plenty of coral to wrap around. When the wind goes south of east the anchorage off Kuma village provides an interesting change of location - holding seems to be good here as well.
- The village of Kuma has one small shop. Some fruit and veg is available although this may not always be surplus to the needs of the village.
- Where the lagoon's fringing reefs are wide there seem to be good protection from ocean swells, even at high tides. At low tides it is possible to walk considerable distances, exploring the exposed reefs and islands.
- Some protection from temporary westerly and north westerly winds can be found in the very north east corner. This may not work in stronger and more sustained westerlies.
- There have also been reports from boats anchoring in the very northwest corner of the atoll. We did not explore this area. | 2019-04-26T10:28:36 | https://www.noonsite.com/Countries/Kiribati/northern-kiribati-a-visit-to-butaritari-island |
0.999999 | Olivia - A phobia is this exaggerated fear response that you have when you are encountering a situation or an object or even an animal. Basically a response to a situation which provokes a lot of fear which is out of the ordinary. A lot of times you know that your response is exaggerated and irrational but you can't control this fear, it is awful. You are consumed by anxiety and your trying to do everything you can to get away from this object or the situation which is provoking this fear.
Isabelle - So with a spider phobia then for example what happens to someone if they see a nice big fat hairy juicy spider sat around on their desk?
Olivia - That is their worst nightmare. They all get a sudden spike of anxiety. They might feel dizzy nauseous, they might start sweating if they have to endure that spider if there is no way of getting out and even just thinking of a spider or just looking at pictures of spiders that can also induce anxiety in those people.
Isabelle - For someone who has such an intense reaction against the spider, is this necessarily because they had a negative experience with the spider in the past?
Olivia - There are many causes which could come into play and research still hasn't unravelled all of the causes. They may have had a horrible experience with a spider or been involved in some kind of trauma in which a spider’s also played a role and this manifested in arachnophobia which is a fear of spiders later on, so this could very well be a factor. Or sometimes you develop a phobia because you see one of your parents having the same phobia or because of your genes, you are more predisposed to have a little bit more anxiety than other people and to have this fear of objects or places.
Also a triggering event for one person may not necessarily be a triggering event for somebody else. And this is also where personality comes into play. So for example there is a personality factor called neuroticism. You tend to be a little bit more anxious than other people. You are more likely to have low mood than others generally and are also more likely to develop phobias.
Isabelle - Where do we draw that line between a normal fearand a disorder?
Olivia - When the fear becomes abnormal and exaggerated and when it becomes disorder, you start avoiding places because you don't want to encounter that situation or that object, if it impacts your day in such a serious and negative way. That's when normal becomes abnormal and it becomes a disorder.
Isabelle - For somebody whose fear is impacting their life in that very severe way, what kind of treatments that are out there?
Olivia - The treatments that are available include medication. But your doctor will be able to advise you on that and which medication is ready for you, if you do need it. Also there is cognitive behavioral therapy or talk therapy. Essentially you are seeing a counselor or a therapist and they are trying to, in a way, replace the maladaptive thought pattern with ways of thinking that are more beneficial for you. So for example for people with social phobia, when you're afraid to talk to other people to make contact with other people, often when they have conversations with others afterwards they'll start ruminating about what they said. “Did I say the right thing” or “I shouldn't have said that” and they beat themselves up over it. So one technique of cognitive behavioral therapy for these people is to wait to worry. Instead of worrying about how you performed at that social event then and there, you postpone it and the reason that this is so effective is that our thoughts actually decay, if we don't feed them with energy. So you might realize then when you come to your worry period what you were initially so worried about is and is bothersome anymore.
Another very effective technique is facing your fears. You start small and then you build your way up. One example is if you have a fear of dogs. So your therapist might first get you to just think about dogs. The next thing that you might do is looking at pictures of dogs because this gets you slowly adapted to a dog again. As you’re trying to face your fear you see and your brain senses that you know, yes you are feeling anxious, but you can still cope with that. So your body is able to handle bigger challenges, like actually seeing a dog in real life, so that may be the next thing they might ask you to do.
Isabelle - And for people who do seek treatment, do we have any idea how many of this people can expect to get better? Will they stay better?
Olivia - It really depends on the person and how effective the treatment is for each individual. A lot of times actually people don’t seek treatment which is a problem. Sometimes people can get better and not have anymore symptoms but then the disorder can come back. Sometimes if you have an anxiety disorder, especially if its starting when you are young then that’s when it tends to be more chronic and if you have one disorder then that can increase your risk for a second.
What treatment helps you do is to just become a bit more positive and to manage those things which are so distressing for you and to be able to lead a better life.
Can depression and anxiety be predicted? | 2019-04-25T04:14:10 | https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/what-phobias-feel |
0.999975 | When is the next solar eclipse in Burundi?
The following table listens all solar eclipses, whose path is crossing Burundi. It is crucial that the eclipse path touches the country. Solar eclipses which can only be seen partital are not considdered in the table below. With other words: The following table shows all solar eclipses, whose totallity or annularity can be seen in Burundi.
The next partial solar eclipse in Burundi is in 425 days on Sunday, 06/21/2020.
The next total solar eclipse in Burundi is in 29719 days on Saturday, 09/04/2100.
The next annular solar eclipse in Burundi is in 10996 days on Monday, 05/31/2049. | 2019-04-22T18:09:32 | https://solar-eclipse.info/en/eclipse/country/BI/ |
0.996658 | Justice has a name tonight: Saulius Stombergas. The Lithuanian forward of Tau Ceramica never shot so sweetly as he did Wednesday in scoring 39 points in three quarters to give Tau a 65-90 victory over AEK in Athens in the replay of their Game 1 opener. It took a lot of controversy and another trip to Athens, but Tau now has the 2-0 lead it deserved in this best-of-five semifinal series. Tau played with an admirable righteousness to get that original victory back, but it helped that Stombergas shot with sonar. His 9 three-point strikes in as many attempts set a Euroleague record, but were all the more amazing because of his timing. Every time that AEK got within a few points of Tau, Stombergas was their to knock down a three and keep the home team at bay. Better late than never, this series goes to Vitoria, Spain for Game 3 on Saturday, with a fourth game, if necessary, to be played there on Monday night. "That was the very best game of my career," Stombergas said after. "Our job is not easy even though we lead by 2-0. AEK is a very good defensive team with character, and I think they'll come to our court to play their game." Stombergas was joined in the record book by his teammate, point guard Elmer Bennett, who dished out 13 assists, almost double the total of AEK.
Tau's remarkable string of playoff victories - six in a row officially, three of those in Athens - was extended by the hand of a player who had averaged just 4 points in his previous three playoff games. Stombergas had more than that in the first 5 minutes on Wednesday, and kept getting better by the minute. The first trio of three-pointers fell among his 12 points in the first quarter. The second was all three-pointers sandwiched into 17-8 run that gave Tau full control. But only after halftime did he bring out the real fireworks: two three-pointers that backed off AEK from a 42-49 encroachment; three straight two-pointers, two of them off turnovers, when AEK had the audacity to come back to within 60-54; and for good measure, his ninth three-pointer of the night to end the quarter with 18 points and the evening with 39. All told out of 18 shots - 4 two-pointers, 8 three-pointers and 5 free throws - Stombergas had only 1 miss all night, at the foulline. "And I saved something for Kinder," he said afterward, referring to the team Tau will meet in the Euroleague Finals if it wins one more game against AEK.
Stombergas had a lot of help. Center Victor Alexander had a monster game of 18 points and 13 rebounds, establishing an inside force to balance the outside sniping of Stombergas. Working his way between the two - not to mention up, over and around the AEK defense - was Bennett, among whose 13 assists were several of those laser three-pointer of Stombergas. "From the first minute, we were calm," said Tau forward Fabricio Oberto. "The nervousness was going in AEK's direction. Even in the third quarter, when they drew within six points, we had calmness, and that is where the victory came from."
In theory, AEk was the rested team, having opted out of its Greek League game over the weekend, and Tau an exhausted one, having played Sunday in Spain and then made a hasty trip back to Athens after the decision of the Euroleague judge to void the original Game 1 result - an official 75-74 victory for AEK - because the winning basket had been scored after the buzzer in overtime. But for all of this game, but especially the first five minutes each of the first and fourth quarters, when AEK couldn't make a single field goal, the roles of rested home team and tired visitor seemed reversed.
About the only thing that kept the first quarter from coming out perfect for Tau is that it lasted a half a minute too long. The first good for the visitors was their side of the scoreboard lighting up on the first shot from Stombergas, a three-pointer. Then Tau's defense shook off a series of quick fouls on its big men, two of which sent Fabricio Oberto to the bench after four minutes. Fouls or not, Tau held AEK without a field goal for the first 6 minutes, allowing only two free throws by Betts and one each by Vrbica Stefanov and Demos Dikoudis. Meanwhile, Stombergas was hitting his second and third shots, including another three, to grow a Tau lead of 4-15.
When Betts finally broke the ice by completing a post-up move with AEK's first basket, Stombergas unloaded at the other end with his third three-pointer, which followed an offensive rebound by Victor Alexander. While passing the ball out, Alexander fell on the left ankle of AEK's only sharpshooter, Ibrahim Kutluay, who had owned the first half in both Game 2 and the original Game 1. Now, Kutluay went to the bench, and Tau went to work, raising its lead to 8-21 in the final minute. With 30 seconds left, however, Nikos Hatzis nailed a three-pointer, AEK's first of the game. Then in the final 5 seconds, Bennett fouled Hatzis on another three-point attempt and Tau coach Dusko Ivanovic received a technical foul for arguing the call. Three of the resulting 5 free throws went in and the lead was down into single digits at 14-23 after a quarter.
When AEK tried to shake its sluggishness and pulled within 25-18 early in the second, BOOM, there was Stombergas answering with another three-pointer, his fourth. In the next three minutes, two more went off: BOOM! BOOM! With two baskets in between by Alexander and one each by Luis Scola and Laurent Foirest, it amounted to a 17-8 run that left AEK shaken, stirred and looking at a 24-42 deficit. Only a three-point play in the final 20 seconds by Dikoudis cut the sting a bit and the halftime deficit Tau's total was already more points than anyone could expect in one half of this series, and if Kutluay hadn't done it before, 21 in a half by Stombergas might have been downright unthinkable.
But what was really surprising at that point were the defenses. AEK came out playing its physical style, but after getting Tau in foul trouble, couldn't make many stops, certaily not on Stombergas. Meanwhile, Tau's defense was not only stopping Kutluay almost cold, but was forcing AEK, the most careful team in the Euroleague with the ball, into 10 first-half turnovers.
But if AEK doesn't seem a comeback type of offense, it certainly tried. Problem was that every time it did, Stombergas was there to answer. In the third quarter, AEK cut the lead to 42-49 on a three-point shot by Kutluay and three-point play by Betts. So here came three pointers number 6 and 7 for Stombergas. AEK fought back again, this time courtesy of back-to-back threes by Stefanov, to within 54-60. Tau called a tiemout, and the only surprise afterward was that Stombergas posted someone up for the first basket. Then he finished a fastbreak. Then he blocked a shot and finished another break. Tau was up 54-66, but just to make sure he drained the ninth three-pointer to close out the quarter. Tau was leading 55-69, AEK was in shock and the series was back where it should have been, just a couple days late.
"From the first minute, we were calm, the nervousness was going in AEK's direction. Even in the third quarter, when they drew within six points, we had calmness, and that is where the victory came from." | 2019-04-26T11:55:06 | https://www.euroleague.net/main/results/showgame?gamecode=162&seasoncode=E2000%20%20%20%20%20 |
0.999984 | Consumer tourism is becoming an increasingly important revenue stream and brand builder for BWSs, as vodka producer Black Cow will attest.
Black Cow Vodka - vodka made from pure milk -, is pursuing the alcohol tourism route by opening the doors of its Dorset distillery.
As of April, visitors will be able to take a tour of the distillery in West Dorset which will include vodka tasting and cocktail classes.
They are also launching their new Black Cow Bar + Kitchen, also at the distillery, which provides dining options from locally-sourced, seasonal ingredients.
The kitchen will mark a new direction for the company, and will incorporate the knowledge of Black Cow co-founder and dairy farmer, Jason Barber.
"We are really excited to be opening our doors to fans of Black Cow Vodka, old and new. Since I first created our Pure Milk Vodka four years ago, we have seen interest grow around the world.
"We thought the time was right to welcome visitors to our brand home and introduce more people to the smooth, creamy taste of Black Cow," he said.
Black Cow - vodka with a pasteurised twist - is made in Dorset from the milk of grass grazed cows and distilled from the whey of milk.
Barbers' inspiration came from a desire to diversify the produce from his 250 strong dairy herd and his personal interest in vodka.?
Black Cow was launched by Jason and Paul Archard in 2012. | 2019-04-22T10:11:31 | https://harpers.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/20202/Milk_vodka_brand_expands_with_distillery_tour_and_kitchen.html |
0.996744 | SYDNEY (REUTERS) - It's a winter weekend in Sydney's bustling northern suburb of Chatswood and a three-bedroom family house sporting an endless garden is up for auction. It's priced to sell at A$1.88 million (S$1.89 million) but no buyers bite and the sale is abandoned.
On the same day, in the heart of the harbour-hugging city a two-bedroom apartment with panoramic views fails to sell as no bidders turn up.
Auctions are a bellwether of demand in property-obsessed Australia, where attending sales is almost a national pastime. It is therefore telling that only just over half were successful the weekend last month a Reuters reporter visited some of Sydney's auctions, compared to more than two-thirds for all of last year.
And while that week was the worst since 2012, it wasn't a one off. Auction clearance rates have averaged in the mid-to-low 50 per cent range for each of the past nine weeks.
The recent weakness in the Australian housing market, which has been one of the drivers of an economy that has now grown for 27 years without a downturn, has some economists warning of heightened risks of a recession and even a financial crisis.
In anticipation, some hedge funds are shorting the nation's financial assets and some significant investors are heavily underweight Australia compared to regional benchmarks.
The slack has been partly engineered by the authorities. Curbs on lending to foreigners, foreign buyer taxes and a clampdown on capital flows by Beijing have hurt bubbling demand from Chinese investors, who have been important contributors to the housing boom of recent years.
There are signs of a similar fall in Chinese investment in Vancouver, Canada - which has also been a red hot market in recent years and where the authorities have also intervened by raising taxes on foreign buyers. But a decline in Vancouver's sales is yet to translate into price declines.
In Australia, a government-mandated inquiry into the nation's banks has turned up so many misdeeds that the industry has restrained some lending. Annual growth in housing credit has braked to four-year lows while building approvals have come off a peak and nationwide home prices have started to fall for the first time in six years.
Home values in Sydney, the country's largest city, are down 4.4 per cent compared to June last year, the sharpest fall since 2008 and far away from the 19 per cent growth enjoyed early in 2017, according to property consultant CoreLogic The annual price increases in Melbourne and Brisbane have braked to around 1 per cent, down from double-digit growth last year.
"We have shifted a greater proportion of our assets offshore as an intensifying slowdown in housing is likely to increase downward pressure on the Australian dollar," said Ben McGarry, Sydney-based portfolio manager at A$185 million hedge fund Totus Capital.
He said the fund is "short a selection of Australian retail, construction materials and banking stocks which have benefited from the long bull market in Australian housing," but declined to identify specific companies.
And a unit of UK fund management group Aviva Investors has taken short bets against Australian assets in the credit and currency markets as the odds of a housing-related downturn have increased, a spokesman for the firm told Reuters on Monday. He also wouldn't detail the bets.
The Australian dollar has fallen more than 5 per cent against the US dollar since the beginning of the year.
And there is growing short interest in companies such as building products maker CSR and mortgage insurer Genworth.
Some funds whose policy is to refrain from taking short positions have still reduced their exposure to Australia.
London-based Liontrust Asia Income Fund has 7.5 per cent in Australia, against a benchmark of more than 17 per cent based on the MSCI Asia-Pacific Ex-Japan index, according to fund manager Mark Williams.
"We have a very low weighting in the banks, where if we have any real selloff that's where it would feed through," he said.
And California-based Pacific Investment Management Co (Pimco), one of the largest actively-managed bond funds in the world, says it "is cautious on housing-related investments" in Australia, according to Dan Ivascyn, its group chief investment officer.
A modest cool down would be welcome.
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has long worried that the speculative bubble in the property market could burst like it did in the United States, hammering banks and the economy.
Mortgages amount to A$1.8 trillion, or just over 100 per cent of the country's annual economic output (GDP). That compares to around 91 per cent in the UK and 80 per cent in the U.S.
A stress test by Australia's banking watchdog conducted in 2017 showed that if home prices fell 35 per cent, unemployment doubled to 11 per cent and GDP fell 4 percentage points, Australian banks would lose A$40 billion on mortgages alone.
But regulators have forced them to squirrel away so much capital that the banks would still be solvent, the test showed.
Policymakers have also clamped down on banks' mortgage lending over the past couple of years, including stiff curbs on buying properties for rent.
This has pushed many speculative buyers out of the market, which is good news for prospective buyers.
"I have been waiting for this slide to start," said Arif Hossain, 37-year old biomedical engineer in Western Sydney, who is looking for a four-bedroom house.
"The properties that I am looking for were selling around A$1 million just some months back. They have now fallen below A$900,000 but still there is no sale," he added.
He wants prices to drop to A$750,000-A$850,000 before jumping in.
But such declines could be very painful.
The government estimates Australia's 10 million homes are worth A$6.9 trillion, close to the annual GDP of France and Italy combined.
The value of the housing stock has swelled by A$2.3 trillion in the past five years, a windfall to consumer wealth at a time when wages have stagnated.
With prices now in decline, the wealth effect could easily turn into a headwind. Already, households suffered the largest loss on land and dwellings in six years in the first quarter.
"The consumer was already the weak link in Australia's growth story," says Westpac senior economist Matthew Hassan.
"The housing correction represents additional downside risk to the outlook."
Australia has dodged threats of a downturn during the good times. Beijing helped bail Australia out during the global financial crisis as Chinese stimulus spending drove demand for Australian resources.
Yet, that has left China with a debt hangover at a time when a trade war with the US threatens to throttle its exports. In some senses, Australia is as exposed to China's housing price bubble as it is to its own.
But options for Australia's policymakers are constrained.
The central bank has slashed interest rates to a record low of 1.5 per cent and the government has just committed to a seven-year plan of tax cuts. The latter, though, won't deliver a cent of stimulus until mid-2019, with most of it not due until 2024/25.
"With credit conditions set to tighten at a time when household debt is at a record high and house prices are already falling, the risks of recession and financial crisis have risen," warns Paul Dales, chief economist at Capital Economics.
He sees a 20 per cent chance of a recession without a financial crisis, and a further 10 per cent chance of both happening.
"Put another way, there's almost a one-in three chance that the surge in household debt ends badly," he warned. | 2019-04-18T15:49:15 | https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/going-going-gone-for-australias-house-price-boom-and-some-investors-smell-trouble |
0.998026 | Beach Lane Books, 9781481431569, 40pp.
Lauren Stringer celebrates the coming of autumn in this exuberant, joyful ode to that magical time when the leaves are changing color and the animals are preparing for winter.
Children and animals alike excitedly anticipate yellow time, when the trees release their colorful leaves to blanket the earth, crows raise their voices joyfully from the bare branches, and squirrels busy themselves preparing their nests for winter. This lyrical celebration of the beauty and fun of autumn is sure to become a perennial fall favorite.
Stringer re-creates those last days of autumn when the trees are no longer putting on a fiery show of colors and the leaves are one gusty day away from shuddering to the ground. Short, declarative, yet lyrical sentences set the stage (“The squirrels are too busy to notice, and the geese have already gone.”). Stringer continues to remind readers of the sounds (“Crows love yellow time. They fill still-leafy trees with their voices announcing its coming...”) and the smells (“wet mud and dry grass with a sprinkle of sugar”) of autumn and discusses the changing of the seasons (“Yellow time comes before white time. Every time.”). When the wind begins, everyone is ready: the trees, the children, the crows, and even the busy squirrels that use the fallen leaves for their lofty nests. The watercolor and acrylic illustrations, subtly reminiscent of Lois Lenski’s work, are full of movement and emotion. Stringer’s rendering of the autumn landscape and its diverse inhabitants, round faces lifted to the sky, remind readers of a moment in time. VERDICT This gorgeous picture book is a fine addition to seasonal and classroom collections, but it stands alone for its language and deft artwork. A lovely, evocative read-aloud.
Stringer (Deer Dancer) offers up a poetic meditation on the transient wonders of autumn—aka “yellow time”—finding delight in everything from the smells of the season (“Like wet mud and dry grass/ with a sprinkle of sugar”) to animals not always considered to be lovely in and of themselves (“Black crows fill bare branches/ and raise their voices/ in praise of yellow time”). Rendered in acrylic and oil, Stringer’s paintings burst with bright swaths of sunflower yellow as trees bend and sway in the wind, giving up their leaves in golden swirls and curls as jacketed children revel in the turbulent weather, making crowns from fallen leaves and saving some to press between book pages as mementos of the season. It’s a joyful reminder to make the most of fall when it’s here. Up to age 8.
swoops of yellow leaves against black tree trunks and branches. One by one, children (and a dog) head outdoors and join up with one another, full of anticipation. Wearing sweaters and jackets, this diverse group of children together sniffs the air and watches the trees, waiting for the moment when the wind lifts and— “WHOOSH!”—the leaves begin to fly. The children are joined by others, who all dance and rejoice in the “yellow air.” There are no surprise twists here, just a gentle appreciation of the joys of using your senses to notice the changes outdoors as the seasons turn. From the book’s cover to the endpapers, yellow makes each picture glow, and curved lines repeat throughout the story to reinforce the beauty of the natural world.
Yellow Time (Beach Lane /S&S) by Lauren Stringer is a joyfully illustrated, lyrical picture book about the fleeting days before the wind blows the fall leaves into a "symphony of yellow." It begins, "The squirrels are too busy to notice./ And the geese have already gone./ Other birds have left, too,/ but not the crows./ Crows love yellow time." Yellow Time is a celebration of autumnal leaves, captured in swirling watercolor and acrylic paintings of children and other busy creatures. | 2019-04-18T15:18:45 | https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781481431569 |
0.999997 | This extract is from a chapter set five years before the main action of the novel. Fran has taken Nick, her English husband, from London to British Columbia for the summer. Fran, her sister Sarah, her parents Ireni and Tony, and Nick have driven 500 miles inland from Vancouver for a week-long holiday in a cabin on a lake in the Rockies.
Rab’s cabin had been in his family for two generations; his father and two of Rab’s uncles had built it. In the 50s the family had lived and worked in Cranbrook, the nearest town, but the younger generation - Rab included - had left for Vancouver or Calgary and beyond. Rab’s kids were now adults and none of them had much interest in the cabin on the lake in the Rocky Mountains, so in recent years Rab had taken to persuading his friends to visit the place with their families. It was only usable for two months of the year, Tony said Rab had told him - high summer, June or September at a push, although in June the lake was too cold for swimming and in September the ground might start to freeze. The rest of the year the cabin was on its own, left to settle and shift under its great burden of snow.
It was August now, and the lake was warm, at least, the top two inches of surface water was warm-ish. Whenever anyone jumped in they screamed; they couldn’t help it, it was involuntary. Except Ireni, of course, Fran had forgotten that her mother was, in some essential way, amphibian. Her bathing suit was old, and baggy on her; her skin had a tinge of grey beneath the tan; in the morning listening to her cough was a painful thing: but when she dove into the water in one long slim slice, she left behind herself, she left behind her disappointed family, she left behind the drink.
They quickly fell into a routine, their days governed by the extraordinary trek of the mercury in the thermometer that hung outside the kitchen window. When they got up in the morning, the temperature would start out very low, zero or just above, three or four at most. Tony would get up first, throwing on a fleece over his pyjamas, and he’d start the fire in the old iron stove in the main room where he and Ireni were sleeping. Fran and Nick, in bed on the porch, blankets, quilts, and sleeping bags heaped on top, talked to each other before getting up for the novelty of seeing their frozen breath on the air. They ate breakfast outside at the picnic table, wearing all the warm clothes they’d brought with them, blankets clasped round their shoulders. But then the temperature would start to rise along with the sun - nine a.m. ten degrees, ten a.m. fifteen degrees, eleven a.m. twenty degrees - and by early afternoon the thermometer would be pushing thirty, and they would all be in the lake, the black water a huge relief.
Late at night the silence grew noisy. Before going to sleep in their bed on the porch, Fran would lie next to Nick, and listen hard. There were night sounds - the water always moving a little around the dock. There was an owl, somewhere down the lake, and bats that lived in the roof of the empty cabin next door, and other things that crunched and scattered on the woodchip footpaths. They’d hear a loon from time to time. The cabin had no indoor plumbing, apart from the kitchen sink; there was a shower hooked up in the woodshed - lots of spiders, and occasionally, a frog. And, further away from the cabin there was an outhouse, an outdoor privy, a small wooden building with two toilet seats - ‘Two?’ said Nick, ‘why are there two toilet seats?’ - and an electric light. Lots of spiders in there too, and other things that scuttled and fled, you hoped, when you opened the door to go inside. Fran found going to the outhouse at night truly terrifying, unable as she was to banish endless replays of ‘The Evil Dead’ and ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ from her mind. The stinking black hole of the outhouse - the smell was really quite extraordinary - was dismaying enough in the daytime but at night, well, she avoided going out there if she humanly could, if she could make it through without embarrassing herself. Which usually meant she had to go out there at least once every night.
Nick, on the other hand, didn’t really mind the outhouse. He liked the way that, if you felt like it, you could leave the door open while you sat and look down at the lake. And at night, he could see the moon and thousands of stars in the clear dark sky.
There was nothing around to disturb that darkness. Vancouver was hundreds of miles to the west; Fran told Nick that Toronto was at least two thousand miles due east, maybe more, and there was nothing between here and there except Calgary and Winnipeg and they didn’t really count, Fran said. Even less to the north, you’d have to go all the way over the Pole and back down the other side before you’d find a decent-sized city. And south, well, just the long spine of the Rockies stretching down to Denver, another thousand miles of lakes and trees.
Sarah’s office didn’t call her, and they were all tactful enough not to mention it. They found a rowboat stowed under the cabin, a pair of worn, splintery oars tucked beneath the seats, and took it in turns to row up and down the lake. One evening Fran and Nick rowed the boat down to the end nearest the cabin, where the water was weed-choked and full of rotting trees that had been felled by beaver. Fran lay back in the front of the boat and let Nick steer their course; she dangled one hand in the water and felt like Ophelia, beautiful and a bit loopy. It was strange being here, so far from London, with Nick, with her family. She looked back at the cabin. Sarah, Tony, Ireni: and then Nick, with his own parents now both dead and buried. So few of us, she thought. A tiny family.
‘Look Fran,’ he said, and he raised his finger to his lips to silence her. He pointed.
There was a moose standing in the water. It dipped its head down and looked up at them, chewing. It was enormous and preposterous, tall and heavy-bodied, with a great long nose and spindly long legs, shaggy fur and huge muscular haunches. As it ate, it watched Nick and Fran; as it ate, Nick and Fran watched it. And then a mosquito landed on Nick’s face; he moved to bat it away and dropped an oar into the lake. The moose loped slowly into the trees.
Nick looked at Fran. He smiled. He fetched the oar, then moved forward, toward Fran, rocking the boat. ‘That’s why I came to Canada with you,’ he said.
Each day, Ireni got worse. She drank more, earlier. She spent more time on the lake, either in the water itself or lying on the dock, sunbathing. She kept a drink with her at all times and somehow the glass was never less than three quarters full. Sometimes the girls lay on the dock beside her, room enough if the three of them turned over at the same time. They didn’t talk, but read or dozed. It was fine with Fran that no one wanted to talk; it was a good way to keep the peace.
One afternoon Sarah dared Fran to swim under the dock, through the blackened and slimy pilings, and out the other side. Fran took up the challenge; neither sister could pass up a dare from the other. She dove under, her heart pounding; it’s a mixed blessing of lake swimming that you can open your eyes underwater without being stung by sea salt or chlorine. She was afraid of what she might see - an old tire, a great white shark, a dead body? Instead, she saw a bottle of vodka, swimming from a rope in the cold green water, knocking against the pilings. So that’s what her mother was drinking, vodka and lake, no ice.
On Friday morning Tony got up with even more purpose than usual. He threw on his fleece and laid the fire in the stove. From the porch, Fran could hear him moving around: he was cleaning up, she could hear bottles clinking. Although it was early and still cold, and Nick’s naked body felt warm and sweet, she forced herself out of bed and into her layers of clothing. They weren’t due to leave until Sunday, but her father was making a pre-emptive strike on the mess they had accumulated.
There were a lot of bottles. Fran put the kettle on and watched as her father boxed them up. ‘I’ll take them into town today,’ he said. There was a stack of newspapers and a large bag of plastic milk and juice containers that would need to go to the dump to be recycled. Fran began to lug the boxes up to the woody. It wasn’t until her third trip that she realised what her father was doing. He’d finished clearing out the empties and had started opening what was left, methodically pouring the alcohol into the sink.
He looked at her, but said nothing.
‘You don’t know what it’s like. You don’t have to live with her.’ He took the corkscrew from her hand and continued emptying the bottles.
When Sarah and Nick got up, Fran made pancakes from scratch and bacon and eggs and coffee. They sat outside at the picnic table and ate, their faces turned toward the sun.
‘Dad poured all the booze down the drain,’ Fran said.
Nick had taken to spending most of his days in the rowboat, trying to get a closer look at the moose who appeared in the exact same spot at the same time every day, as though he’d been hired. When the moose was not available - on a break? - Nick did something he referred to as ‘fishing’; he used a rod and a line and a hook he had found under the cabin, but he had no intention of catching anything. He worked hard at casting and reeling in, took pleasure in the sound the line made.
Nick was already out in the boat when Ireni got up that morning. Fran was lying on a towel on the dock, in the sun, reading a novel about a serial killer; all the books in the cabin were about serial killers, which didn’t help much with going to the outhouse after dark. Sarah was in the shade, under the trees, painting her nails. When they heard the shouting all three turned and looked up at the cabin.
A lot of shouting, the words indistinct; Tony and Ireni were inside with the doors shut. It continued; five minutes, Sarah looked at her watch, ten minutes. Ireni’s voice alone, for a while, Tony no longer answering. They sat absolutely still as they listened. Nick stared at the fishing line where it met the water; Sarah concentrated on her hands; Fran looked at the print on the page of her novel; they were like small frightened children once again.
The porch door of the cabin flew open and Ireni ran down the wooden stairs. She was dressed in shorts and a top - most of the week she’d been in either her bathing suit or her pyjamas. She ran onto the dock - Fran rolled out of her way - and dove straight into the water. She surfaced once, and went under again.
The lake was silent. Fran sat up and looked at Sarah. Sarah took off her sunglasses. They were both about to speak, to do something, to say something at last. Then Ireni emerged from beneath the dock, and climbed the ladder out of the lake. She was clutching her bottle of vodka.
Fran and Sarah and Nick watched as Ireni went up the wooden steps to the cabin. There was no more shouting. After a moment, they heard the car door slam, the woody’s engine revving. They heard the wheels spin in the gravel on the steep drive. Then Ireni got the car up, and away.
Fran found her father sitting in the kitchen. She could see that he’d been crying. He sighed, and beckoned her closer, pulled her down so that she was sitting in his lap. She put her arms around his neck and leaned into him.
‘To the liquor store?’ Fran half-hoped her father would say yes.
‘She disappears, yes,’ Tony said, and from his look Fran could tell that it was already happening regularly, and that Tony was already kind of used to it.
And that was it. Ireni ran away from the cabin at the lake. Ireni got in the car and drove away and no one said a word. They spent the rest of Friday and most of Saturday swimming and lying in the sun. In the late afternoon, Nick and Tony drove into Cranbrook while Sarah and Fran cleared up and packed. The men arrived back at the cabin with a crate of beer which they stuck in the lake to cool, while they fired up the barbecue. All four proceeded to drink. They’d spent the week not drinking much - how could they, Fran thought, in front of Ireni? But now she was gone it was as though they’d made a pact: they were going to get very, very drunk that evening. And they did. They ate potato chips and played cards and did not talk about Ireni. Fran threw-up in the kitchen sink around midnight. When they went to bed, Nick put his arms around Fran, Fran tucked her head under his chin, and they stayed that way, wrapped up, limb to limb, all night.
‘We are beset by silence,’ Fran said to Nick in the car on the long drive back on Sunday. Tony was traveling with Sarah in her car. They’d left the cabin at dawn.
Four days later, Fran and Nick flew back to London, back to their absorbing, absolving, working lives. The police had brought Ireni home the day before, tattered and dirty but oddly sober, contrite even. Tony went down to the municipal pound to fetch the woody. He took the car to the car-wash, then drove his daughter and son-in-law to the airport.
Once home, Fran kept in touch with her father via e-mail, brief messages devoid of any real content - ‘I’m fine. Nick’s well, busy with a refit at the restaurant. How are you?’ - phoning on birthdays, Christmas. Ireni began to disappear more frequently.
It was three years before Fran and Nick remembered it had once seemed a good idea to have a baby. | 2019-04-26T13:51:37 | http://www.katepullinger.com/website_archive/index.php/books/extract/a-little-stranger-2007 |
0.999981 | An interesting solution, unfortunately it can only help us going forward in time and not backward.
Now, three question: 1) Since players will inevitably publish their games against the Unchanging Computer (UC), UC's repertoire will become known and prepared for (no matter how vast). Those who test themselves against UC will prepare and their rating performance should naturally improve from the preparation. Is this improvement and resulting inflation a natural or unnatural reflection of true playing strength? Sure, their playing strength has improved because they've learned to play better in certain positions. But is the improvement weighted properly -- their preparation will affect their results against UC more heavily than against the general population.
2) How do you keep the testing pool from being skewed in any way? Do you force all who want to maintain a rating to test against UC each year? Or do you just choose a large number of players over a spectrum of rating levels who seem to hold a consistent rating level over a great period of time and eliminate those whose ratings are erratic or in accent or decline and eliminate those in age groups that are likely to ascend or decline?
3) Couldn't UC show that there is a different amount of inflation at different grades (as you've suggested there might be already with closed tourneys affecting the Super GMs)? Perhaps some year in the future, the 2650s perform at the expected 50 percent against 2650-rated UC, but the 2000s perform at a (much) better (or worse) than expected/mathematically-predicted rate. Must we be prepared to come up with adjustments at different grades?
1. Preparing against UC should be discouraged by the structure of the events. E.g., no prize money, only appearance; anyone who obviously prepares an anti-computer line not invited back. And also just a large enough number of competitors so that most preparation is factored out.
2. I would go with a large number of players, say an elite group in a public tournament; regular games against weaker players on the internet all the time.
3. Yes. I absolutely think this should happen, that adjustments should be different at different grades if that's what the results suggests. My guess is we would see Leko, Topalov, Kramnik, Anand & Carlsen all over 2800, but *less* players over 2700.
You are correct that this says nothing about the past. Perhaps we would need to divide chess ratings into two eras: BUC & AUC (Before Universal Computer, After Universal Computer)!
I disagree that the elimination of adjourned games have lowered the standard of endgame play. I know a few players who claim that they gained a lot of endgame knowledge from the study of their own and friends' adjourned games. But - surprise - these very players actually play their endgames extremely poorly!
I knew a Norwegian player who was rated 2150 in his late fifties (and probably around 2300 in his peak) who had only sporadic knowledge about simple pawn + rook vs. rook endgames and I think he was not atypical.
The explanation? His generation never bothered to learn the basic endgames as they knew that they could always look up what they needed. Rational but not very good for general chess education.
Isn't the idea though that really top class endgame play is probably more rare then it was, as opposed to there being less (or for that matter more) good technique?
Yup - I was thinking of top class endgame play. The point you make Sverre does indeed imply that relative to the rest of their game, weaker players probably have better endgame skills than they did, say, twenty years ago.
Again, I think events can be structured against this kind of thing, e.g. only inviting the same players once or occasionally, appearance fees only (i.e. no prizes for winning), keeping UC's exact set-up secret, inviting enough players that the occasional anti-computer line doesn't make so much difference. Btw, I don't think the software will become widely available, since to be beatable it would have to be based on slightly out of date programming. Fritz 7 maybe! | 2019-04-21T16:35:43 | http://streathambrixtonchess.blogspot.com/2009/10/whatever-goes-up.html |
0.999929 | General safety tips when traveling with kids??
I'm very excited to be leaving for our 7 week trip to Europe very soon! For the first 3 weeks my husband will be with us, but after that it's just me and my girls, ages 11 and 8. We have a busy itinerary, that fortunately includes visiting some wonderful friends along the way.
I've traveled to Europe many times, and we lived as a family in France a few years ago, so I'd say we're fairly experienced travelers. My daughters are very easy going and adapt quickly, and they too are looking forward to this trip.
That said, I seem to keep reading more and more about an increase in pickpockets and group gangs in the major European cities (esp here on Fodors!). My good friend who lives in Paris said theft has gotten much worse over the last few years. I know the basics (money belt, cross body bag, don't leave iphone on a table, etc...), but I'm wondering if anyone has more suggestions? What do to, not do sort of thing? I've been surrounded by Roma before, and was able to push them off (and all my stuff was safe), but if that were to happen to my kid...that would be scary for a child.
Should I let my older daughter carry a purse (cross body)...should she bring her ipod? Any tips on what to do in case of separation, what to tell kids in general about staying safe?? I know it's no different than here in the US (the same speech I give when we go into NYC), but still if others have experience here, especially given language barriers, etc., I'd greatly appreciate it!
Since I'll be alone with my girls for a majority of the trip, I'm feeling much more concerned about safety than when I travel alone!
Well, in each city you should give both children the name, address and phone number of wherever you will be staying - as well as your cell. That way - if anyone is separated they can easily find you.
When you get on the tube or Metro or tram or whatever, make sure all know where to get off - and have a meeting place designated if you are separated. Don't know how mature and reliable your kids are (I rode the NYC subway alone at 11, but knew where I was going).
And just teach them to be aware of their surroundings - and remind them NOT to be nice to strangers - but to ignore them - and scream for help in any doubt.
There are pickpockets anywhere there are distracted and oblivious tourists. if you're an experienced traveler like you say you are and you've been fine up to now, keep doing what you're doing.
Give the kids phones with everyone else's numbers programmed into them. If someone gets separated, they can call. It's also nice to have a "if you get separated from the group, go to " standing order for each destination or whatever..
iPod is fine. Just don't make it a visible temptation. Actually, you might want to reconsider the iPod. Does your daughter become oblivious to her surroundings when Bieber or whatever is blasting through her earbuds? If yes, leave it at home.
Leave the ipod in the room.
We held on to each other while boarding and getting off.
She could carry a purse if she is used to that. It would be handy for maps, small purchases. I wouldn't put any valuables in it.
- Don't touch anything in a public place, such as floors, walls, used gum, empty wine bottle; obviously more important for younger kids.
- I always intend to give them a copy of a business card from whatever hotel we're staying at, but rarely remember to do so. They always have our cell phone number and KNOW THE US COUNTRY CODE.
- The usual city thing about if you get separated, who to go to (i.e., into a store, any old lady). Most people will speak enough English to figure out a kid is saying they're lost.
- I would not let a kid carry their own ipod. If an 11yo wants to carry a purse, fine, but she shouldn't put anyting in it that she doesn't want to lose.
- Anywhere that it was two parents and a kid and we were each pulling bags or otherwise not able to walk side by side, there would be one parent in front and one in back. With you by yourself, have them in front of you. Same thing going through things like metro turnstyles. Crowded areas, especially the younger one, hold hands.
One thing I decided, because we've never had any problems when traveling with our kids. Pickpockets, bad guys, etc. may know that while parents with kids might be more distracted, they are also going to be a LOT more vocal if something or someone is threatening their kid. The only time anybody even approached us with our kids was a bracelet guy at the foot of the Sacre Ceour stairs in Paris. I knew they were there, and warned my daughter, but one started to approach her. Whatever I did or said must have been so savage that the poor guy immediately slunk away. My other theory is that you tend to look more like a local if you're travelling with kids, so maybe just less on the pickpocket radar screen.
Others may have had different experiences, but those were ours.
Also, stress to them not to take ANYTHING to eat or drink from anyone you've known for less than a week--and that's good advice for you, too. I wouldn't let her carry an iPod about, either: carry nothing on the street that you don't want to lose.
I'd have a redundant plan in case you get separated: phone with numbers programmed but also business cards for the hotel. Then if someone runs off with the phone, your kids can still find the hotel.
But the best thing is not to get separated in the first place. Making a plan for what to do if you get momentarily separated on each stage of your journey is important: my spouse and I still do that even though there are just two of us and we're pretty experienced travelers.
Our rule is that if we temporarily lose track of each other, neither of us leaves the floor we're on (if in a building), the shop we're in (if in a shopping area, or the block we're on (if on the street.) Hold hands on the subway or sit so that you're on one side of the car and they are on the other so that you all can see each other at all times.
After having a bag snatched in Rome, we no longer carry bags of any sort except a backpack. Your daughter could keep her stuff in one of those and you or her sister could access it so she doesn't have to take it off. And when you're moving about with your luggage, keep your hand or foot on each bag at all times and wrap the strap around your arm if possible.
Sounds like you've got enough time to really stretch out and see Europe, so have a great trip.
Wow, such fantastic advice..just what I was looking for!! Thanks so much for all your great tips! Now if I could just microchip my kids....!! | 2019-04-19T21:14:38 | https://www.fodors.com/community/europe/general-safety-tips-when-traveling-with-kids-980381/ |
0.996163 | For this assignment, your goal is to implement the Needleman-Wunsch algorithm in Python. You can read more about the Needleman-Wunsch algorithm on Wikipedia. The Wikipedia page contains psuedo-code which you might find helpful.
Write a function that takes two sequences as input, and returns a matrix of scores as we saw in Class 25. You do not have to do the back-tracing, just fill out the matrix.
# The format is always my_matrix[row][column].
Before you calculate any scores, make an empty matrix of the appropriate size using the zeros() function defined below.
Fill out the 0th row and 0th column before you calculate any other scores.
The max() function will return the maximum value from a list of values. For example max(1,7,3) will return 7.
Make liberal use of the range() function.
Use the print_matrix() function to print out your matrix as frequently as possible. Always make sure that your code is doing what you think it's doing!
Remember, in Python, we start counting from 0.
Modify your code from Part 1 to back-trace through the score matrix and print out the final alignment. HINT: For the back-tracing, you'll want to use a while loop (or several of them).
# then update i and j to correspond to that cell.
# Since we traversed the score matrix from the bottom right, our two sequences will be reversed.
# These two lines reverse the order of the characters in each sequence. | 2019-04-25T20:05:54 | https://wilkelab.org/classes/SDS348/2017_spring/labs/lab13-solution.html |
0.999999 | hydraulic and brake fluid to snack foods?
The answer is: it does and it doesn't. It is a toxin regardless of which strength is used. Propylene Glycol is a form of mineral oil, an alcohol produced by fermentation of yeast and carbohydrates. This gives it the designation of carbohydrate when used in foods.
Because it comes in several grades, PG has been used for a variety of uses. Industrial grade PG is used as an active ingredient in engine coolants and antifreeze; airplane de-icers; polyurethane cushions; paints, enamels and varnishes; and in many products as a solvent or surfactant. In all fairness, it should be stated that PG was only added to anti-freeze to replace Ethylene Glycol. It had been a problem because dogs often lap up puddles of anti-freeze.
The form most pertinent to this article is the pharmaceutical grade. This is a much less concentrated form of PG and therefore less problematic. That being stated, it is also the controversial form due to its use in products that are either ingested or enter the body through application to the skin. It is commonly used as a solvent in oral, topical and injectable drug products as well as in foods.
Though the controversy over PG wages on, it is not for lack of research. In fact many studies have been conducted, but results have been contradictory. Possibly this is because the concentration of PG in the formulation studied is not always readily apparent. Regardless, the government agencies involved have deemed it safe: The FDA includes Pharmaceutical grade PG on its Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) list. The World Health Organization also considers it as safe for use.
Studies on dogs and rats, which were fed doses of PG ranging from two to five grams per kg of body weight per day, showed no links to cancer. The results satisfied the Cosmetic Ingredient Review Expert Panel enough to conclude that there was no carcinogenic risk with low levels of ingestion of PG. A low level of PG was defined, and as a result, the panel recommended that only PG with a concentration less than 50% should be used in cosmetics.
Though cancer might not be a concern, it was also found that PG provoked allergic reactions in patients with eczema and other skin allergies, even in formulations of much less than 50%.
The Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) cites skin, liver and kidney damage that can result from contact with PG, and it gives safe handling instructions, calling it a hazardous substance. Though not specified, this is for the more concentrated industrial grade.
mutation. Other research conducted twenty and thirty years ago documented toxic effects after repeated small doses of propylene glycol were ingested or repeatedly applied to the skin. Acute toxicity was found to follow I.V. injection of drugs dissolved in significant amounts of PG.
In Europe, where the authorities are much more cautious about what is allowable in cosmetics and foods, propylene glycol is limited to mostly non-food uses. What food uses are allowed are very limited.
Guys at work go nuts over this stuff. Antifreeze must taste good.
Natural News can be a bit flakey soundy at times.
It is very good! A quick squirt in a bottle of water!
Kramer wrote: It is very good! A quick squirt in a bottle of water!
And I bet it doesn't freeze.
Riskynet wrote: And I bet it doesn't freeze.
It's flavouring for water. How hard is that to understand? | 2019-04-26T04:39:41 | https://www.talktimmins.com/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=13585&p=145918 |
0.999322 | Trump also misrepresented Germany's energy picture, asserting coal and nuclear power are gone from the mix. Coal remains a bedrock energy source for Germany despite its hope to wean itself from that mineral and nuclear plants have several years of life before they are to be phased out.
TRUMP: "Frankly, many countries owe us a tremendous amount of money for many years back, where they're delinquent, as far as I'm concerned, because the United States has had to pay for them. So if you go back 10 or 20 years, you'll just add it all up. It's massive amounts of money is owed." — comments at meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. In a tweet Tuesday, he said: "Will they reimburse the U.S.?"
TRUMP: "Because of me, they've raised about $40 billion over the last year." — remarks about NATO member spending on defense at breakfast with Stoltenberg.
STOLTENBERG: "Last year was the biggest increase in defense spending across Europe and Canada in that generation."
TRUMP: "Why was that last year?"
STOLTENBERG: "It's also because of your leadership, because of your carried message."
THE FACTS: Trump prodded Stoltenberg to give him credit for rising military spending by NATO members, the NATO chief obliged and various officials in the alliance think Trump's tough talk has had an effect. But the overarching move to increase defense spending by NATO countries began under President Barack Obama.
In 2014, NATO members agreed to stop cutting their military budgets and set a goal of moving "toward" spending 2 percent of their gross domestic product on their own defense by 2024. Most NATO members are spending less than 2 percent, though more are moving in that direction.
Stoltenberg estimated European allies and Canada will add $266 billion to their military spending by 2024 and said "this is really adding some extra momentum," apparently meaning Trump's pressure.
Trump has assailed NATO members such as Germany for lagging on their military budgets while he has simultaneously taken credit for progress on that front. He has repeatedly claimed that because of his pressure "billions and billions of dollars are pouring in," which is not true, because there is no such fund for money to pour into.
TRUMP: "Germany is a captive of Russia because they supply (energy). They got rid of their coal plants. They got rid of their nuclear. They're getting so much of the oil and gas from Russia. I think it's something that NATO has to look at."
THE FACTS: He's wrong about coal-fired and nuclear energy and overstated Germany's reliance on Russian natural gas. In 2017, Germany got more than one-third of its energy for electricity from coal and nearly 12 percent from nuclear plants. One-third came from renewable energy. Only 13 percent came from natural gas.
Trump was objecting to Germany's acceptance of a new pipeline project that will bring more natural gas from Russia.
Germany plans to retire nuclear plants by 2022 and intends to reduce its reliance on coal. But Germany has not "got rid" of either.
TRUMP: "We're protecting Germany. We're protecting France. We're protecting all of these countries. And then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia, where they're paying billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia."
THE FACTS: There's no question U.S. military spending constitutes well over a majority of the alliance's overall spending on defense. NATO acknowledges an "over-reliance" on the U.S. What NATO partners dispute is Trump's repeated suggestion that the U.S. gets little in return for its commitment to defend member countries if threatened. Trump does not acknowledge that NATO partners are expected to defend the U.S. if threatened. Article 5, the collective defense portion of the North Atlantic Treaty has been invoked just once — following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. | 2019-04-21T08:57:04 | http://westviewonline.com/editorial/Article.aspx?id=108237 |
0.999979 | The views and landscape are incredible!
The beautiful 145-acre Parc Farm in Great Orme, north Wales, which is worth over £1 million, has been bought for just £1 from The National Trust.
Following a search for a lucky new tenant of the farm - which is home to habitats and species found nowhere else on earth - it's been confirmed that 38-year-old Dan Jones from Anglesey will be taking up residence.
'I couldn't quite believe it when I got the call to say I was successful. I was in shock,' Jones told the BBC.
Jones will be taking on a 'nature first' approach to coastal farming and grazing. He already has experience of farming in challenging locations after being given the role of support shepherd on the slopes of Snowdon two years ago.
'My wife Ceri, son Efan and I are just super excited. This opportunity will change our lives. Y Parc is a dream farm, it is such a beautiful location, the views are amazing and I'm really looking forward to farming in a different way to make a difference for nature,' he continued.
All farmers that applied for the position had to present a clear vision and business plan to The National Trust and a shortlist were asked to undergo a further practical assessment.
If someone told you that you could rent an entire farm for just £1 a year, you would likely think that they were joking, or that the farm must be incredibly run down and in a total state of disarray.
The farm, owned by the National Trust sits on the Welsh coast with vast, beautiful views of Anglesey and grazing rights to 720 acres of rich, green headland.
It's a protected natural area, home to Kashmiri goats, subspecies of silver-studded blue and grayling butterflies and the wold cotoneaster – a plant that can be found nowhere else on earth.
The National Trust were looking for a farmer willing to take on the first 'nature first' approach to coastal farming and grazing which could prove to be slightly controversial. This will involve regularly moving the herds of sheep to graze in new areas of land which will require long hours of herding in all weather conditions and through sometimes difficult terrains. The job will also involve working around Great Orme's 600,000 National Trust annual visitors.
The contract is a 10-year farm business tenancy on the land for just £1 a year and sheep will be bought for them by conservation charity, Plantlife.
'Unless we implement a very specific grazing regime, we will not see these most fragile habitats recover. To ensure a healthy and beautiful landscape, we need the most agriculturally productive pasture land to be grazed less and the least agriculturally productive grassland to be grazed more,' said William Greenwood of National Trust Wales. | 2019-04-19T06:32:48 | https://www.housebeautiful.com/uk/lifestyle/property/news/a984/parc-farm-great-orme-national-trust/ |
0.999979 | What are my treatment options for coronary artery disease?
Treatment of coronary artery disease involves reducing your risk factors, taking prescribed medications as instructed and possibly undergoing minimally invasive or surgical procedures. It is important to see your cardiologist regularly to reduce your risk of heart attack or stroke.
Interventional procedures: this procedure is minimally invasive and involves your cardiologist accessing your heart using a long, thin tube (catheter) that is inserted into a blood vessel. Several types of balloons or catheters can be used to treat the plaque build up within the artery walls. Balloon angioplasty involves deployment of a special balloon at the end of the catheter that is inflated and deflated several times in order to compress the plaque against the walls of the artery. This widens the opening of the blood vessel, so blood is able to flow freely through it. In some instances a mesh-like metal tube called a stent may be placed within the artery to keep it open, which may be drug-eluting, meaning it is coated in a material that allows for emission of a drug over time that decreases the risk of plaque build-up. This procedure is completed either outpatient with patients going home the same day or may require an overnight hospital stay.
Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery: if your cardiologist is unable to open your coronary arteries using a minimally invasive method, you will be evaluated by a cardiac surgeon for CABG surgery. During this procedure, one or more of your blocked coronary arteries is bypassed by a blood vessel graft to restore normal blood flow to the heart. These grafts are created using either the patients own arteries or veins, located in the chest, arm or leg. The graft goes around the clogges artery to create a new pathway for oxygen rish blood to flow to the heart. This requires a 5-7 day hospital stay.
Enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP): for patients who have persistent angina symptoms and have exhausted the standard treatments without successful results, EECP may stimulate the openings or formation of small branches of blood vessels (collaterals) to create a natural bypass around narrowed or blocked arteries. EECP is a noninvasive treatment for people who have chronic, stable angina; who are not receiving adequate relief from angina by taking nitrate medications; and who do not qualify for a procedure such as bypass surgery, angioplasty or stenting. This procedure is outpatient and patients go home the same day. | 2019-04-24T14:10:30 | https://www.vascularhealthclinics.org/coronary-artery-disease/management-treatment/ |
0.998967 | Nearly 300 people have been arrested in London for ongoing protests against climate change. The organizers now promise to escalate their disruption and reach the London metro tomorrow.
When the second day of coordinated protests at five locations in London came to an end, groups of police officers kept activists off the ground and kept them away from demonstrations in Oxford Circus and Waterloo Bridge that had issued Section 14 messages that ordered the crowd to turn around spreading.
Earlier, organizers Extinction Rebellion called on more protesters to help the bridge with their stand-off, which police said they had closed 55 bus routes and would have harassed 500,000 people.
Another 168 people were arrested in the course of today, the Metropolitan Police said, bringing the total arrests to 290 since the protests started yesterday morning. Almost all of them are meant to obstruct the highway, in violation of a police order that tries to limit the protests to the area around Marble Arch.
Tomorrow, the group threatened to focus on subway stations, with the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, saying that he & # 39; extremely concerned & # 39; was about the prospect of the intended transport hubs.
The campaign group said it plans to launch & # 39; Tube services & # 39; to disrupt the need for ecological collapse if the government does not meet its members.
It added: & # 39; Participants will peacefully break the law to stop the tube and then wait to be arrested.
# We offer our sincere apologies to anyone who may suffer as a result of this disruption. In all other circumstances we would never dream of disrupting the pipe, but this is an emergency.
It is not clear how the group intends to disrupt Tube services.
The activists – responsible for a naked protest in parliament earlier this month – want ministers to set a legally binding target to reduce net carbon emissions to zero by 2025.
It turned out this evening that the police met members of Extinction Rebellion several times when they decided to close London.
The police had to postpone arresting protesters because they reportedly had no cells.
The Met has 638 cells that work 24 hours a day. But renovations at the Charing Cross police station, which has 42 cells, are hampering efforts to arrest eco-activists yesterday.
The only other custody suites in central London are in Belgravia, which has 12 cells, and West End Central, which has 28 cells.
The police heard how they & # 39; maximum capacity & # 39; had reached, which led to a break in arrests.
Activists also claimed that officers had told that cells & # 39; full & # 39; goods. Last night, the 204 who were arrested to protest at Waterloo Bridge were all in custody.
On Monday, many activists were surprised when the police were pleased that their demonstration went ahead. Despite the protest that destroyed the motorists, the first arrests were made only after the vandalism of Shell's headquarters.
Roger Hallam, one of the founders of Extinction Rebellion, said the group & # 39; four or five encounters & # 39; with the police before the protests began.
Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Colin Wingrove said: “We need to ensure that we find the right balance between allowing the right to peaceful protest and at the same time keeping the disruption of communities to a minimum.
The mayor said that he & # 39; the passion & # 39; shared among those who protested against climate change and remained & # 39; a fervent supporter & # 39; of the right to peaceful protest, but said: "I am, however, very concerned about the plans that some protesters will have to make tomorrow on the London Underground.
& # 39; It is absolutely crucial to let more people use public transportation, as well as walking and cycling, if we want to tackle this climate disaster – and millions of Londoners depend on the underground network to manage their daily lives in our city .
The police have now banned Protestants from Waterloo Bridge for the rest of the week, but it is unclear how many people are staying there.
Earlier, a Metropolitan Police Service spokesperson said: “On Monday, April 15, at 6:55 pm, a 24-hour condition was imposed which stipulated that demonstrators at Waterloo Bridge should only continue demonstrations in the Marble Arch area.
Police said they had evidence that there was & # 39; serious disruption & # 39; was caused – including 55 closed bus routes and 500,000 people affected.
Approximately 122 people were arrested for the demonstrations of the rapid extinction at five locations in 24 hours, demonstrators using the slogan & # 39; this is an emergency & # 39; – but many commuters get angry at the disruption.
In stunning scenes, demonstrators of all ages were taken away by up to four officers while others clung to the sidewalk because they blocked important bus routes for a second day – forcing employees to walk to their subway stations.
Scotland Yard said that 500,000 people have been hit by the chaos, with now 55 bus routes and major delays on roads around Waterloo and Marble Arch, where police have asked protesters to meet.
On Waterloo Bridge, loud cheering, the ringing of the bells and the whistling of whistles were heard when protesters were arrested and taken to police vans – but many remained, shouted for climate justice and refused to move.
Members of the Extinction Rebellion group in Bristol, who participated in the protests in London, tweeted: & # 39; Escalation day one: swarms. The police arrest at Waterloo Bridge, south side. We have to overload them now! & # 39; They urged at least 30 people to & # 39; arrests & # 39; committing at Waterloo Bridge, without thinning out their other locations.
Demonstrations continued today for a possible fourteen days of action, with the scolding extinction spreading five locations in London, including Oxford Circus and Piccadilly Circus, held by up to 10,000 people.
The rescuer: Jane Augsburger, 54, from Stroud, Gloucestershire, was one of those arrested for criminal damage outside Shell's headquarters on Monday. Photos & # 39; s show the mother-of-one kneeling down grinning and kneeling next to a smashed glass door at the front of the company's office building. The rescuer, a supporter of Jeremy Corbyn, previously lived in the Dordogne in a luxury house with a swimming pool.
The proud parent: Katerina Hasapopoulos, 40, hit Shell headquarters on Monday. Before her arrest, the mother-of-three said: “Shell is already responsible for destroying lives in places such as Nigeria. Shell only cares about profit and I have three beautiful young girls that I want to see grow up to have a future. & # 39; She previously participated in the Stroud City Council to ask questions about climate change.
The highway killer: Simon Bramwell, 46, also from Stroud, is a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and a former builder. He was taken into a police bus after he had thrown himself at Shell's headquarters on Monday. He was part of a group of fanatics who brought the M4 to a halt by protesting plans to expand Heathrow in 2016. fewer birds convinced him to form an environmentally conscious environmental movement.
The jet dismantler: Angie Zelter, 76, was arrested yesterday and taken away Waterloo Bridge after refusing to give way. The veteran protester has been arrested more than 100 times around the world and describes himself as a & # 39; world citizen & # 39 ;. In 1996 she was part of a group that disarmed a BAE Hawk Jet, which prevented it from being exported to Indonesia.
The meter: Dr. Gail Bradbrook, 47, is described as & # 39; the meter & # 39; of extinction rebellion. She became an activist as a result of taking psychedelic drugs. Dr. Bradbrook, who has a PhD in molecular biophysics, said that drugs rewired her brain & # 39; and gave her & # 39; the codes of social change & # 39 ;. She holds & # 39; lunar circles & # 39; in a teepee, where she picks up feet.
The palace robber: Rowan Tilly, from Oxford, was one of the demonstrators who participated in an & # 39; anti-nuclear robbery & # 39; in Buckingham Palace in 1993. The furniture maker compared her civil disobedience with the actions of Gandhi, Martin Luther King and the suffragettes.
The organic farmer: Roger Hallam, 52, became interested in climate change in his forties when an organic farm he ran in Wales went bankrupt due to bad weather. He now wants to bring down & # 39; all the regimes in the world & # 39 ;, starting with Britain.
The actress: Laura Reeves, an actress and artistic director from London, previously lived in New York and worked for the United Nations. In her show roles, there are roles in advertisements for River Island and Nikuma Jewelery. She has also posted photos of vacations in Peru and at the Burning Man festival in Nevada, USA.
A demonstrator blocking the road on Waterloo Bridge together with others was taken into an ambulance when three police waves came in to make arrests. A witness said that a man had hit his head on a police bus and had fallen.
The acclaim went out when a number of others were dragged away and chants from & # 39; We are unstoppable, another world is possible & # 39; sounded. Then a small rave began and campaigners danced for the police and sang & # 39; the power to the people & # 39 ;.
Legal advisers with the bridge group flanked the arrested and told them not to talk to the police, but they urged Protestants to go to Marble Arch. The arrested were positioned next to the south side of the crossing.
Their personal information was collected before being led to police vans parked at the end of the bridge. Earlier, officers walked among the crowd of more than 400 across the bridge, warning that they could be arrested.
This followed a previous order imposed by Scotland Yard in the context of public order. However, Protestants connected arms, sang and tried to drown the police by giving instructions when the mass arrests started.
Scotland Yard had made 122 arrests today, most of them for violation of public order and obstruction of the highway. Although many children participate in the protests, all detainees were adults.
Two officers in yellow high jackets marched along Waterloo Bridge after the order to initiate the arrests. Eco-activists had parked a van over the bridge and planted dozens of trees & # 39 ;.
The only location allowed for the protest was Marble Arch, but activists still gathered on the bridge while many sat on the floor talking and singing songs. A mobile kitchen handed out vegetarian dishes to the demonstrators.
When the police carried out the arrests on the bridge, they were confronted with protesters who refused to move and dragged people to police cars.
Climate change is a bigger problem than Brexit because & # 39; it could literally kill us & # 39 ;, Environment Agency warned head Sir James Bevan yesterday.
He said that building a & # 39; broad coalition & # 39; against climate change can help heal a divided country.
Sir James added that there were similarities between Brexit and climate change in the sense that the time scales of both & # 39; uncertain & # 39; and & # 39; the consequences are highly disputed & # 39 ;.
Sir James, a career diplomat and former high commissioner for India, said the increase in greenhouse gases would lead to rising seas, extreme water shortages, floods, coastal erosion and droughts & # 39 ;.
The Environment Agency, with more than 11,000 employees, is the government-funded body responsible for the protection of air, water and soil quality and protection against flooding.
Chief Inspector Colin Wingrove of the Metropolitan Police said Tuesday afternoon: & # 39; Continuous demonstrations cause a serious disruption to public transportation, local businesses, and Londoners wanting to perform their daily activities.
Four activists chained and glued under a truck on Waterloo Bridge. The campaigners stepped under the truck with blankets and sleeping bags, where they say they will stay as long as possible.
Blythe Pepino, 34, of Hereford, said: “The goal is to maintain the disruption on the bridge to bring the government to the table and talk about the climate crisis.
Ben Moss, 42, from Islington, North London, lent himself to the truck. He said: “We are in an extreme situation, we need to take action, this is my personal action on the moral issue of the climate crisis and ecological collapse.
Roads remained tight over Westminster and the Hyde Park area, with Transport for London warning buses expected to remain in central London at a diversion or curtailment due to ongoing protest blocking roads.
De Met legde ook een voorwaarde op voor 24 uur voor demonstranten om zich alleen bij Marble Arch te verzamelen op grond van Sectie 14 van de Public Order Act 1986, door te zeggen dat er bewijsmateriaal nodig was dat er nu ernstige ontwrichting plaatsvond.
The activists behind the chaos caused by climate change protests this week come from all walks of life – including a failed organic farmer and a baronet's daughter.
The bush craft instructor says 'hearing less birds in our beautiful countryside' – where he goes off the grid for up to 19 days at a time – convinced him to help form 'XR'.
On Monday, protesters vandalised Shell's headquarters, gluing themselves to windows and smashing glass revolving doors in a bid to cause more than £6,000 of damage – to enable them to have a jury trial in Crown Court.
In its first protest on October 31 last year, the group assembled a protest on Parliament Square in London, expecting a 'couple of hundred people' – before 1,500 showed up. | 2019-04-25T08:50:10 | https://whatsnew2day.com/londoners-rage-on-the-second-day-of-the-extinction-rebellion-promotion/ |
0.999761 | Installing FreeBSD base system on laptop with low specifications (Intel 80386)?
I have an IBM Thinkpad 300 notebook in good condition. I would like to run any type BSD (ideally close to FreeBSD).
Will FreeBSD ever run on so low specifications?
The problem it's that you must use the newer versions of FreeBSD since the previous versions are outdated and in EOL (End Of Life).
How do you are pretending to install it? Which media will you use for it? Because there are 2 ways of install FBSD that I'd do: from USB, and from DVD.
This equipment has USB ports?
I have Win 3.1. I would like to format and reinstall something better : BSD (with floppy disk).
No usb is available, just floppy disks for installation.
Still there's 1 possibility: install the cavernary versions of FBSD.
Do you have floppy disks?
Wait: don't give up. I can't remember the times that I reinstalled this OS on my PC because of my ignorance about it. Despite it, I fought. And I was successful installing and using this system on my PC.
With this kind of attitude you won't install it.
You must decide if you'll give up...Or if you will fight.
I won't lie you: this is complex as hell.
Oh, you'll never get FreeBSD on that old thing.... You might as well send it to me. I'll pay shipping.
Let me think about it, I just woke up and haven't had my coffee yet.
You may not to believe me, but I booted old laptop from usb using PCMCIA-to-USB adapter once.... If bios has option to boot from PCMCIA slot, you have chances to boot from USB or CF.
I am a tweaker and I would pull out the hard drive, put a 44pin to 40 pin adapter on it, and install FreeBSD on the drive from another computer. Then reinstall in your laptop.
It helps that I already have the adapter in a bin..Maybe you could borrow one from a friend. These were common 15 years ago.
I just read the specs and you are out of luck. There is no way you will boot FreeBSD off 16MB ram.
"A FreeBSD installation requires a minimum of 96 MB of RAM"
Even if you did some custom configuration I doubt you could get it to go below 64MB.
Since FreeBSD is open source, he can edit its code, and make it specifically for that laptop. But still he needs old code, with all its vulnerabilities...always when he don't connect it to Internet, I think that nobody can attack that relic.
Although, he can extract the kernel and the code that makes the system to run. Then adapt it for that old machine.
My offer to pay shipping is still open.
When I have questions about Thinkpads and need the advise of what I consider the Pros, I go to the Thinkpads Forum. They would be who to ask about how best to utilize your 300. I'm a member there, my screenshots are easy to spot.
This is the Thinkpad Wiki 300 page and another resource I use regularily.
Install DOS on it and be happy!
Better yet how about FreeDOS and OpenGEM. FreeDOS has been going strong for 23 years now.
Why not NetBSD? According to their page you should be able to install it.
Thank you for so much answers.
I was considering FreeDOS to install on the laptop... FreeDOS is opensource. Opengem looks good.
- Is there maybe a BSD that fits only on a single floppy disk to start with base system, and then, next floppies to further install it. ?? (a bit like Windows 3.1).
"Any i486 or better CPU should work"
It is common. Most people in computer science area usually think that i486 machines are just too old. They are sufficient for the garbage dump. It is like if the physician would say to a person in retirement (above ~65-70 years old): "Go outside, you are too old. I am sorry but you are just too old and I can't help you". Microsoft Windows operating system is good at that The hardware is made to be according to the Software. Software rules. This is common and normal, i.e. generally accepted. It is like smoking. People are educated to be dependent. At school, they are used to mostly Apple or Microsoft, and much less Linux. I don't know even a single university that has lab rooms with installed Linux or BSD. University admins are using Microsoft, nothing wrong about that. Or maybe this is completely wrong? Just matter of education. Maybe, in the world, 2-3 universities in Brasil (with Ubuntu) are relying on OpenSource / Free Software foundation. Likely less than 20 universities in the world. Our Education makes us not caring about old computers. Linux is more likely to be found rather than BSD No idea why really. Considering it, Schools and Universities teach how to "smoke" and how to be dependent.
NetBSD has likely still supporting old machines. Google search gives good hopes to get a BSD system. | 2019-04-22T08:25:43 | https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/installing-freebsd-base-system-on-laptop-with-low-specifications-intel-80386.65939/ |
0.999999 | excerpt from her article: TRAINING IN THE CHRISTIAN HOME IN WARTIME.
The loveliest recollection of my early life includes the life we led in common. There were five children, 'the four R's: Rolland, Ralph, Rhea, Ruth, with only four and a half years' span between us and a baby brother, my birthday present on my sixth anniversary.
On Sundays we took as a matter of course that we all would go to church, seven strong, as soon as the baby could go. Mother used to look down the long row of seats, not too comfortable ones, and we always knew by her smile or wee scowl, of her approval or disapproval of our behavior. We used to love the singing, and well do I remember the first preacher who gave children's sermons.
After Sunday dinner and a reading from the big red book of Bible stories, we would beg Father to harness up the horses for a family ride. Sometimes we all four had to pull him from his chair before he had quite finished his nap, and then we would all skip merrily to the stable. The span of horses was bay, 'Bud' and 'Queen,' we called them, as handsome as 'Black Beauty.' Their coats had to be curried until they shone, and the manes brushed until they were silky. And then out came the family phaeton with the fringe hanging down from the roof. We seven filled the carriage. The horses trotted along gingerly down the country lane, and we all felt so cosy and peaceful.
At home again, we gathered around the piano for hymns. Mother used to play with the baby on her lap until he got so tired of watching her fingers he slipped down to her feet to play with the pedals. Later on, as the boys grew older, they had to be urged to join the family sing. Now, they write Mother how they wished their own boys and girls could have kept up the family sing as long as she did. For Sunday suppers we had a huge dishpan of popcorn popped over the red coals of the furnace fire.
We always had breakfast together and then Father, though untrained in the use of the Bible, always planned to read a portion and have prayers before we started to school.
We all learned to work and assume our responsibility in making the household self-sustaining. The boys milked the cow, cared for the horses and chickens. We girls helped with meals, took turns with the dishes, helped with washing and ironing and cleaning the house.
We all joined the church, one after the other, when we were between twelve and thirteen. My Bible I bought with my first earnings. I early acquired the habit of setting aside time for my own Bible reading. I started with the Psalms and marked with an 'x' the ones I liked very much and memorized many of the verses which I considered gems. I kept a file of those verses in a small box.
We each married at about the same age and had our children. Now mother has twenty grandchildren and each one has two or three pals about his or her age.
From my account of my girlhood you can get an idea of my great debt of gratitude to my parents, and the half has not been told. | 2019-04-18T13:17:22 | https://thearchivesproject.com/documents/1101?val=Bainton&via=family |
0.999999 | Who, What, Why: What is 'ungoogleable'?
The word "ungoogleable" has been removed from a list of new Swedish words after a trademark spat. But it raises the question of what can and can't be found with a search engine.
Today Google appears to be the font of all data.
The idea that something can't be found online is strange enough to have spawned its own adjective.
The word "ungoogleable" is in the headlines after a dispute between the search engine giant and Sweden's language watchdog.
The Language Council of Sweden wanted to include "ungoogleable" - or "ogooglebar" - in its annual list of new Swedish words. But it defined the term as something that cannot be found with any search engine.
Google wanted the Swedish translation to be changed to refer only to Google searches, and the Council opted to remove the word altogether to avoid a lengthy legal battle.
The spat raises the question of just what "ungoogleable" means. Or more specifically, are some things still impossible to find with a search engine? And if so, is it a deliberate strategy?
To be ungoogleable might be a blessing or a curse.
A firm that chooses to call itself 367 may be shooting itself in the foot - people searching online will probably encounter a lot of bus routes before they get to the company.
It's a similar story for an academic with a common name trying to promote research. Being called Mark Smith, for instance, might bring up thousands of other Mark Smiths online.
But others may actively seek to be ungoogleable.
The internet, unlike humans, has an almost flawless memory. That is why it's so useful. But it can also be embarrassing.
Imagine the person who has been photographed in a compromising position at university and had the picture posted online. What happens when they try to get a job as a lawyer? For this very reason there are firms that promise to move people down search-engine lists.
Ungoogleability increasingly means privacy, says Cameron Hulett, executive director of digital marketing company Undertone.
"There are firms managing people's online reputations. Ungoogleable is the extreme form - you are not just managing it you are removing it altogether," he says.
Then there are online networks that act like auction sites for people trading in drugs, erotica and other forbidden items.
Websites such as these use software to create anonymous networks. And with questionable sites that are accessible, a search engine might decide to withhold access to users.
But the desire to be ungoogleable goes far wider than that. Prof Ralph Schroeder, from the Oxford Internet Institute, points to democracy activists in China who may need to operate an anonymous website to escape a crackdown on their activities.
Or it might be as simple as a pub quiz wanting to prevent cheating.
Trying to outwit Google's search capability has been popular for a while. A Googlewhack is two words that elicit only one result. The comedian Dave Gorman wrote a book about it after noticing that a phrase on his website "Francophile namesakes" only delivered one result.
Nowadays most people using Google will respond to the promptings of Google Autocomplete. So stumbling upon a Googlewhack is less likely.
Paywalls are another factor. Used by academic journals and newspapers such as The Times and Financial Times they restrict what users can easily find via google.
For some, being ungoogleable is about being unknowable. It's about preserving one's mystique.
Irene Serra chose the name -isq for her band deliberately to make it hard to find online.
As it contains a hyphen, it cannot deliver an easy result. The band have a website but they don't want it to be too easy to find.
"We didn't want to give everything away straightaway," says Serra. "If you want to hear about us you'll need to try just a little bit harder. And then when you do actually find us online we have lots in place."
It also allows them to easily keep control of all the domain names.
Seb Mower, a search engine optimisation consultant, says that even supposedly ungoogleable things can usually be found. Most people use Google in haste. But a bit of thinking can often turn up the correct result.
For instance, the band -isq will appear third in the list on Google if speechmarks are put around the search term.
Where Google really struggles, he says, is to show pictures of text. "If you wanted all the back issues of the Times, none of that information would be indexable."
For some, it seems, being ungoogleable is an unfortunate state of affairs. For others, the ignorance of Google's algorithms is bliss. | 2019-04-20T08:38:29 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21956743 |
0.997661 | In the Bible we read about many who found favor with the Lord. What happens when a person receives favor of the Lord? Malachi 1:9, "But now entreat God's favor, That He may be gracious to us." When God's favor comes in one's life, something wonderful happens.
In the Old Testament we read about a Moabite woman whose name was Ruth. She did not know about the God of Israel but when she married an Israelite she came to know the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It happened that her husband, her brother in law and her father in law died. Now her mother in law Naomi thought of returning to Israel. Naomi then told her daughters in law to go back to their families. But Ruth did not go back but she accompanied her mother in law to Israel.
When she came to this new country, she went to glean in the field of Boaz. There she found favor in the eyes of Boaz and we read in Ruth 2:14-16, "Now Boaz said to her at mealtime, "Come here, and eat of the bread, and dip your piece of bread in the vinegar." So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed parched grain to her; and she ate and was satisfied, and kept some back. And when she rose up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, "Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her. Also let grain from the bundles fall purposely for her; leave it that she may glean, and do not rebuke her."
We see that when a person finds favor in the eyes of God, he/she also finds favor in the eyes of people. Why did Ruth find favor in the eyes of God? The reason why is found in Ruth 2:12 where Boaz says to her, "The LORD repay your work, and a full reward be given you by the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge."
Though she was a gentile she came for refuge under the wings of Almighty God Yahweh. Because of this act of her dedication, she found favor with God. When we come at the feet of Jesus and when we take refuge under His mighty wings, we could also get the favor of God. He not only forgives our sins but also blesses us with His choicest blessings. He will command our boss, co-workers, friends even enemies to bless us. What I like most about Ruth's story is that Boaz commanded his workers that, "let grain from the bundles fall purposely for her; leave it that she may glean, and do not rebuke her."
This is what happens when we find the favor of God in our lives. God Himself will rebuke the devourer and God will purposely make blessings to fall for you. Many believe that living a righteous life is a life of misery, pain and poverty. But misery, pain, poverty and sufferings come from the devil and not from God. Jesus came in this world to eradicate all these things that come under the curse. If you have accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior then you are no longer under the curse but have found the favor of God. And you are eligible to obtain all the blessings of God.
Another girl who found favor with God whose name is Mary. Bible tells us that Mary was a righteous woman. One day an angel of the Lord came to her and said in Luke 1:30-33, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name JESUS. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end."
And Jesus came to this world through Mary so that there could be a solution for our salvation. Today God wants us to be reconciled with Him repenting from our sins and accepting Him as our Lord and Savior. When it happens in your life, you will find favor of God. It is my prayer that you take refuge in God and find favor with God.
When Jesus was about to be born, angels proclaimed about Him that He will save people from their sins.
If you look at the history of mankind, you can find that from ancient times, people have been searching and searching to find a way to get rid of their sins. In different nations and in different cultures they have tried different methods to get forgiveness of their sins. Some have created and made their own gods out of woods, stone etc. They go place to place worshipping nature and the creation of God. But do they really get forgiveness of their sin?
The answer is no! After going on pilgrimage from place to place, after visiting places on pilgrimage after pilgrimages, after doing so many rituals they never get forgiveness of their sin. I remember that from my childhood my parents took me to Church. They followed every ritual with great faith that their sins could be forgiven and can go to heaven. Not only they followed those traditions themselves but they strictly made us to follow also. But at the end we were broken, had no peace, no joy in our lives and more than that our sins were not forgiven. But one day we individually met God and it changed our lives forever. Our sins were gone, our brokenness, our peacelessness, our tears were wiped away by the mighty power of God. How it happened? Not by the rituals but a relationship with the almighty God.
The Bible tells us in Rev 3:20, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me."
Almighty God wants to come and dine with us. He wants to have real conversation with us. He wants to have fellowship with us. If we just invite Him in our lives, He is ready to come in our lives. When He comes, He removes sin from our lives and even the stains of sin. Not only that but He gives us the status of children as we read in John 1:12-13, "But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."
Yes, Jesus came to take away our sins. He gave His precious life on the cruel cross so that we could have forgiveness of our sins. In this Christmas would you humble yourself and invite the creator of this world to come and dwell in you? If you do so, He will gladly come in and bless your life. | 2019-04-23T14:53:02 | http://insearchofpeace.com/15v24issue.htm |
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