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0.999094 | What are the best dream eaters, spells and abilities to get?
I'm playing on normal and am just looking to finish the game, I have this on ps4 but it's board is dead. Trying to finish it real quick before I start 3.
Spirits: This varies depending on play style and what part of the game you're at, but usually, Skelterwild, Lord Kyroo, and Frootz Cat are a good team for general use (with Frootz Cat on the bench). Some people like to swap in Yoggy Ram for Lord Kyroo for boss battles, because it uses Spirit Roar more often. I've never needed to use him, though, even on Critical mode. Keep in mind that you can't upgrade their rank once they're made, so try to make the star rank right away (find Risky Winds forecast to use less pieces).
Spells: All the fire spells are good choices (Firaga, Firaga Burst, Dark Firaga). The Balloon spells are also pretty popular, although I don't use them. Make sure to also have several Curagas in your deck.
Abilities: For the end game, you'll eventually want Superglide for Sora, and Dark Roll for Riku, as those are their best ways to dodge attacks (Sora also has his own dodge roll, but it's not very good). Dark Barrier for Riku is also pretty good to get, as it blocks attacks from all directions. The most essential ones for both of them are Second Chance, Once More, and Leaf Bracer. Fire Screens can also be useful, as there are multiple bosses that use fire (Riku will likely face 2 in a row). You'll also need Lightning Screens and some status blocks if you plan on taking on Julius. | 2019-04-21T00:44:43 | https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/997779-kingdom-hearts-3d-dream-drop-distance/77501299 |
0.999957 | Grey literature is another category - pamphlets, preprints, technical reports -- I am not sure the Internet is any better or worse in its indexing than were the subject based vertical files of my early library career years.
But if the copper is already dissolved in 1m L, then you would have to add 999m L to dilute to 1000 fold.
I'm pretty sure you typically don't see pure metals, sitting around an environmental chemistry laboratory waiting to be dissolved into standards.
Trénoval jsem ve West Side Barbell Clubu, s Metal Millitii, konzultoval tréninkové metody s nejlepšími silovými trenéry u nás i ve světě. Věřím, že základní problém je, že lidé prostě netrénují dost tvrdě.
Tyto metody byly zkoušeny na stovkách cvičenců v posilovnách a výslekdy? Jestli je tu jediná věc, kterou se můžeme naučit od východního bloku, tak je to fakt, že trénují tvrději než my a to je také hlavní důvod, proč nás na olympiádě vždy porazí.
Don't get me wrong, I really like Testament, which has - consistently - some of the most interesting, engaging, and high-quality historical recording releases on the market.
The Keilberth with Furtwängler, and some interesting - if not great - Mahler recordings of Barbirolli with the Berliner Philharmoniker come immediately to mind) of similar quality for various reasons.
This might be a great opportunity for people curious about the Keilberth set, if they haven't sampled it by now, to take the plunge.
But that's wrong, you add 999m L to 1m L of what you're trying to dilute. If you start with pure copper for example, and stuck it in a beaker, then you would have to add 1000m L to dilute it 1000 fold.
It's much easier and cost effective to buy the metals already dissolved in water in nice, guaranteed concentrations, like 10,000ppm.
Prakticky vše, co jste četli v časopisech o posilování je blud a je škoda papíru něco takového na něj vůbec tisknout.
If you did the same thing at Testament's own website, you could get it for £153.86, or roughly 2.32.
That's a lot of numbers, but - hey - I'm a math minor (pure math, though, so financial stuff boggles my mind at times, too). First, Decca made a serious tactical error licensing this set to Testament. | 2019-04-20T08:30:15 | http://ecwa.6404848.ru/22jwdating-ru.html |
0.999932 | For me the key line in her account is this: "By the year 2011, though, I no longer looked to the NRC as an effective regulator or enforcer." What she describes is known among economists as regulatory capture which "occurs when a state regulatory agency created to act in the public interest instead advances the commercial or special interests that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating." I consider it the central problem in contemporary political philosophy (which often relegates it to a problem of application of no concern to the lofty, ideal theorist).
The problem is that when we are faced with phenomena that exhibit both market and government failure, what to do? When the so-called 'externalities' are small enough to ignore safely, the answer 'nothing' may well be satisfactory. (As the resident skeptic, anti-utopian on this blog I am fine with less than perfection.) But when they are really HUGE, systematic problems (nuclear power stations, global warming, financial crashes that wipe out people's pension plans/savings, etc) doing 'nothing' may sometimes be not only immoral (think of lots of genuinely innocent victims), but also (seriously)... imprudent.
Now in earlier blogging (here and here and for background here), I had called attention to how by regular, system-wide drilling (in conjunction, perhaps, with fairly simple instruments that allign incentives), one can develop a shared ethos of the members of an evolving, dangerous and complex system so that they care for the survival, if not flourishing of the system (which can still, of course, allow members of the system to suffer serious costs or worse). This is not utopia: the military, hospitals, flight crews (etc) all depend on training and regular drilling. To encourage drilling exercises is especially significant in systems where there is no shared ethos (or it reduces to "private gains, social cost!") I consider this the start of a response to situations in which there is both market and government failure. | 2019-04-25T12:56:52 | https://www.newappsblog.com/2011/05/a-philosopher-of-science-gets-to-work-on-nuclear-powerand-discovers-regulatory-capture.html |
0.999598 | It is the number of people that will produce the highest per capita economic return given the resources available, and their full utilization. Should the population rise or fall from the optimum the output per capita, and standard of living, will fall.
A country is said to be under populated if it has insufficient people to make full use of the resources available. On the other hand a country is overpopulated if there are too many people and few resources. There will be diminishing returns. | 2019-04-24T20:46:11 | https://dineshbakshi.com/igcse-gcse-economics/developed-and-developing-economies/revision-notes/137-optimum-population |
0.999906 | How political correctness has destroyed Britain and allowed Islamics to run amok.
Douglas Murray says it's five minutes to midnight in Britain's battle against radical Islam.
Murray is the 31-year-old director of the Center for Social Cohesion, a London-based think tank that studies radicalization and extremism in the UK, and he is an outspoken critic of the British government's response to the challenge of radical Islam.
Britain's thinking and its political culture, Murray says, have "gone bad" and it has become afraid to state its own values. Britain has become a society that no longer knows how to draw the line.
He is particularly critical of the government's "Prevent" strategy, set up after the 7/7 bombings to tackle Muslim radicalization by providing a counternarrative. "Prevent," says Murray, is an example of the government attempting to "do theology."
"When the British government comes out after 7/7 and says, 'Islam is a religion of peace,' you can understand the reasons it is saying this - it is trying to reach out - but obviously there is something terribly counterproductive about this," says Murray. "The problem is that the government seems to believe it can do theology. I'm a small government guy and I like government to do as little as possible.
The way I see it is that government can't do many things very well - it doesn't even do taxes very well, it doesn't do policing very well, but the thing it definitely can't do very well is theology, in particular a theology it knows very little about, or is only starting to learn about."
"Instead of getting embroiled in endless wars and debates about a religion which is not our national religion, which after all is a minority religion and has no particular history of any significance in Britain - instead of getting involved in that conflict, which may or not be won by the progressives, you say what you are as a state," he declares.
"A lot of young Muslims have said to me in recent years, 'You ask me to integrate, but what are we integrating into? What is Britain, what are British values?' It's very hard to tell people to integrate if you don't tell them what they are integrating into. It's very hard to tell them to be British if they don't know and you don't know what Britishness is. The fact is that we have been very poor in saying what we are and we have also been very poor is saying what we expect people to be. We've been very good in stressing what rights people get when they come to Britain and very bad at explaining what responsibilities come with them."
"The problem is," he explains, "that the British government has pushed young Muslims into becoming young Muslims when it should have pushed them into becoming young Brits. In other words, the direction of travel it sent them in has been deeply backward."
"Pluralism or multiracial societies seem to me to be good and desirable things," he says. "Multicultural societies, where you encourage group differences, seem to me to be a very bad thing."
For Murray, multiculturalism is a moral vacuum, and "into a moral vacuum always bad things creep."
The Eton and Oxford educated Murray quotes Saul Bellow in his introduction to The Closing of the American Mind: "When public morality becomes a ghost town, it's a place into which anyone can ride and declare himself sheriff."
"Once so-called multicultural societies decided that they didn't have a locus, that they didn't have a center of gravity, anyone could ride in and teach the most pernicious things," Murray expounds. "It didn't matter. It was just another point of view.
"It's an extraordinary situation. We allow absolutely anything. This is the reason the British police used not to investigate certain types of killing, like honor killings. This is a community matter, they'd say. Police have admitted that now. This is why tens of thousands of women from certain communities have been genitally mutilated. We have made ourselves entirely relative and it's time to change that."
Murray says that a few months after the case, while lecturing senior police officers, he mentioned it and was told by one officer that he "had to understand we live in a very multicultural area."
Murray replied to the officer that he was basically stating that to pursue the multicultural dream, he would allow certain minorities to have their lives threatened by other minorities because it would cause too much trouble. "He wouldn't comment," says Murray, "but this was clearly the decision they had made."
"In Islam in Britain we have a bizarre situation where people are spoken of, or spoken to, through clergy," he explains. "If I'm a young man born to Anglican parents, the idea that I can only be accessed via my local vicar is mad, but you now have this weird situation where, as it were, the more religious you are, the more devoted you are to the mosque and to the political organization of certain mosques in Britain, the more likely you are to have a voice."
Murray paraphrases Henry Kissinger's famous comment: "What number do I dial to reach Europe?" by saying that the British government has basically decided what number to dial to reach its Muslim minority, handing over the community's voice to the clergy.
"It's a pathetic, ridiculous idea," he charges. "My belief is that you should encourage people to believe that they are represented in the same way everybody else is represented, by their MP, by their local councilor and so on. An Irish immigrant friend of mine put it to me rather beautifully when he said that the moment when you become most integrated into a society is not when you get special bribes, special rights, special laws etc., but when you have to put up with the same sh*t as the rest of us."
Murray gives what he calls the tragic example of a "very unpleasant sinister figure" from the Muslim Council of Britain, Inayat Bunglawala.
Bunglawala is quoted in Kenan Malik's book From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and Its Legacy as saying that Rushdie affair is what radicalized him, what got him politicized. He says he didn't really go to the mosque that much, hadn't really read the Koran, but that he heard about the novel and he thought, "Why are we being singled out? Why are they only attacking us."
"This is a tragedy," says Murray, "because this was the moment when somebody in a position of power could have said: 'You know what? You're not being singled out; you are being subjected to exactly the same treatment that free societies exact on everyone.' Nobody said that. It was repeatedly given out that there was a justifiable grievance and that's what's still understood today. We should have at that point said at that point in 1989 said that a society where even your deepest feelings can be trodden on is the only society worth living in. We should have said a long time ago and it's still not too late to say it now."
Murray calls Britain a "soft touch" on immigration and welfare, citing the case of Anjem Choudary, a co-founder of the now proscribed Al- Muhajiroun movement, whom he describes as "one of the most notorious loud-mouthed idiots in Britain."
"Choudary has a few children and a wife - he's a qualified solicitor but as far as we know has never sought employment. He receives £25,000 a year in benefits, untaxed, and among other things he and his welfare jihadi friends go and abuse British soldiers coming home from Afghanistan when there are homecoming parades."
"Now this has caused a lot of bitter and understandable resentment in Britain. The thing that people haven't quite realized is the most perverse about this is that a soldier in Afghanistan, starting out, fighting for Britain, receives something like £15,000 a year on which he is taxed to fight the Taliban, whom Choudary and his supporters support. So the British state will currently give you £15,000 if you're willing to fight her majesty's enemies and £10,000 more if you are willing to support her majesty's enemies.
It's probably not the first time in history where one side has paid its enemies and its own men, but it's probably the first war in history where somebody has paid its enemies better than its own men."
MURRAY SAYS that the Mike's Place bombing in April 2003, when two British Muslim suicide bombers attacked a bar in Tel Aviv, killing three people, was a transformative moment for him.
"If you have a problem you export, it does come home," he says. "When those two young men, one of them from Kings College in London, came out to Tel Aviv, that should have been a moment when not just the British police and the British security services, but the British government and the British people woke up, to what they have made."
Asked why is it that many of those Muslims who have committed terrorist attacks in the West have been very much a product of the West, affluent and privileged rather than poor, marginalized and alienated, Murray points to Britain's universities as hotbeds of radicalism.
"The Christmas Day bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a rich Nigerian boy, lived in his father's flat in the most expensive part of London and got radicalized while at University College London," says Murray as an example. "I've said a lot in recent years on the university issue; I've kept on trying to get the universities to wake up to this. My center published a report called 'Islam on Campus' in 2008 which got huge attention because of very worrying findings, like a third of Muslim students saying that killing in the name of their religion could be justified, things like that.
"I have kept trying, the center has kept on trying to explain to the universities that this is their problem. Omar Sheik [a former student at the London School of Economics best known for his role in the kidnapping and execution of Daniel Pearl], Assaf Hani [one of the Mike's Place bombers] and another LSE graduate, Abdulmutallab. The list is now pretty long."
"The only explanation I have for why it hasn't been dealt with is that it goes so much against the narrative that privileged white Western liberals have got, that they can't think their way out of it even when the evidence is to the contrary. If you believe Islamist terrorism is caused by poverty, lack of opportunity, lack of education, Israel, then you need things to fit that. Now you can put up with one thing bucking that trend, but when it happens repeatedly some people just dig themselves in and ignore it even more. In Britain, at any rate, you are more likely to become a terrorist if you go to university."
Again Murray blames a failure to stand up for liberal values. "You are more likely to become a major terrorist if you've gone to university because, among other things, these places have two factors: one you come across the very softest, most apologist form of education you could find; you come across soft liberal Western opinion that cannot decide where to draw lines, cannot decide how to defend itself, cannot explain the superiority of some liberal values and won't argue its case. Then you come across the thing that has taken advantage of this - Muslim groups who week in, week out bring in radical speakers from the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hizbullah.
"Abdulmutallab, the Christmas Day bomber, is sitting in his penthouse in a country that he doesn't know very much and he will probably notice the following. He would notice that you aren't allowed to recruit for the British army at University College London, but he would also notice that pretty well known jihadis can speak on campus. In other words this young man can get in touch with the top jihadis via his Islamic studies society."
Referring to an earlier he comment on how when people see a strong horse and a weak horse, they will always back the strong horse, and how if people see that the state is weak, unbothered even by its assassins, then they will not back the state, they will not back the country they are in and they will not integrate further, Murray says: "You would get a very warped idea about which was strong horse and which was the weak horse if you were Abdulmutallab. After Christmas Day I assumed it would stop, I have to say I'm still waiting for it to happen. I don't know what it takes, in other words. I thought after Mike's place they'll wake up, they must wake up now. I thought that after 9/11, I thought that after 7/7.
After every incident you say, surely they are gong to wake up now. The only good thing is that some people do and everyone that breaks the silence encourages other people to do the same."
MURRAY DOES feel, though, that with the recent election of a new Conservative-led government the situation has improved somewhat, but on the other hand he says he is "very concerned about the Liberal Democrats, the junior partner in the coalition, because of their tendency to harbor rabid anti-Semites, people like Jenny Tonge."
"I'm not a supporter of any of the parties," says Murray, "but the Conservatives do have some people who do get this. [Secretary of State for Work and Pensions] Ian Duncan Smith has stated his desire to stop the welfare culture. He hasn't said this, but it is the welfare culture which has fueled a lot of this in Britain - the situation where you do jihad on the dole.
"Others have signaled they know the right way to go. The new home secretary [Theresa May] banning [radical Muslim preacher] Zaki Naik was a good example. She said entry to Britain is not a right, it's a privilege, so he's not coming in. There are some signs, but to my mind to sort this out now requires a huge degree of political leadership and I don't think there is any of that or much of that around. You have to break through a set of barriers in order to deal with this."
While Murray feels the clock is now showing "five minutes to midnight" and the danger exists of a European city falling to Islam - and in Britain the possibility of "no go areas" in Birmingham, the country's first Muslim majority city - it is not yet too late to turn the situation around, he says.
"There has to be a clampdown," he says, "There has to be severe restriction on it. It seems very obvious to me that a society that does not believe it has anything it needs to protect, that it has no identity to keep, will melt down and end. There is a level of immigration above which you cannot integrate people, and I believe that is what we've seen in Britain."
There is, he adds, also a level at which people can be integrated. "It is generally accepted now that the grandparents of young Muslims today are better integrated then their grandchildren are," he says. "There is something seriously wrong when you are practicing reverse integration like that."
Dealing with immigration is just the start for Murray. He also calls on the government to take strong line on hate speech and incitement, to expel foreign clerics if necessary and not to allow Britain "to remain a retirement for would-be jihadis who then claim European Convention of Human Rights grounds for not going to other countries."
He says that Britain must step out of the CHR. "You have to have a British bill of rights," he says, "which means some of the insanities that now hinder some of Britain's own fight are not allowed to persist. You have to end the era of funding Muslim groups, you take away the idea that you can get special access to Downing Street or the UK government just for being a so-called, self-appointed Muslim leader.
You say no, like the prime minister of Denmark did during the cartoon crisis when the delegates of Muslims came to him to complain. He said, 'No, they will have to learn. I am not seeing them; they will have to learn.
We have a free press and the government does not control that; the sooner they learn that, the better.'" Turning the situation around will be the work of at least a generation, probably more, says Murray. But at the end of the day, he adds, what Britain has to do is to return to a period in which it says: "This is what we stand for, this is what we permit and this is what we do not permit. We are not an entirely relative society. We believe some aspects of our society are better than aspects of other societies. We have allies, and we have friends that we stick beside, and that's nonnegotiable. We don't put up with blackmail."
He also believes that one of the things that needs to be tackled to turn the clock back is the UK's attitude to Israel, which he likens to appeasement. "If it [the British government] continues to feed the lies that have been told, Britain will suffer angst. It is astonishing that the no major politician since [Tony] Blair has understood Israel's right to defend herself.
"They consistently speak about such a right in theory, but whenever in practice, whether it's Gaza or the flotilla, they don't, and they condemn Israel on it. I hate reverting to 1930s quotes, because I don't think history is an endless lesson of repeating the 1930s, but you know [Winston] Churchill's famous description of an appeaser as someone who feeds the crocodile and hopes it will eat him last. Some major leader has to explain in relation to Israel and Britain that this crocodile would eat us next, not last. Therefore it would be a very very stupid thing, for your own security, as well as your own sense of what's morally right, to keep sacrificing Israel in this way."
ARE YOU optimistic that the battle will be won? I ask Murray in conclusion.His answer is not entirely reassuring; the clock, he says, will continue to tick down. "The problem is that it's five to midnight. The reason it's so close is that this is seen currently as being unturnaroundable, and I think it can be turned around because I have faith in the fact that things will happen that will mean that the politicians, eventually, at one minute to midnight, will realize how badly they screwed up and this will have to be rectified.
"I'll tell you why I'm optimistic, which is this. I honestly believe that our values are better; the values of democratic pluralistic societies are better. I honestly think that in a debate between a rigid totalitarian interpretation of my ideology and liberal democracy, liberal democracy has everything going for it and Islamism has nothing going for it. And if we explain ourselves better, we win. If we explain ourselves as badly as we are at the moment, then we lose. | 2019-04-19T20:25:47 | http://thefreepressonline.co.uk/news/1/2023.htm |
0.999398 | What's needed is a new messaging framework that provides a common, interconnected global messaging ecosystem that will fill the gap between person-to-person (P2P) messaging and application-to-person (A2P) messaging over short codes -- while providing a simpler, faster, and safer two-way communication channel for enterprises and consumers.
Unfortunately, the limited supply of short codes -- coupled with a lengthy, complex process of acquiring a code -- is inadequate to meet growing enterprise requirements. Currently, the maximum number of short codes available for use by all enterprises in the U.S. at a given time is approximately 880,000. This number is determined by the number of digits and total combinations possible in the short codes. And, the enterprise needs to set aside weeks for all participating wireless carriers to approve and provision a campaign.
In an ideal situation, when an enterprise decides to use mobile messaging to communicate with its customers or employees, it would be able to do so using a single Web dashboard -- similar to management of many cloud solutions these days. Within the dashboard, an enterprise would create a company profile and register phone numbers (fixed line or mobile) for two-way texting use cases with an independently managed system. Once an enterprise registers, the system would ping two parties that can approve or disapprove the use case: the operator and the DID provider.
A neutral Web administrator would run this independently managed system, with network access provided by interconnection hubs that abide by FCC and CTIA rules and guidelines. This fast and streamlined process would allow an enterprise to speed up its communications and related transactions, providing a way to integrate A2P messaging easily. Operators would be able to support enterprise-to-consumer messaging -- and the system would also make it easy for end consumers to look up the enterprise sender's identity -- fostering end-to-end transparency.
Consumers have embraced mobile messaging as a conversation channel, and enterprises have responded by creating new use cases. This has created a lucrative opportunity for anyone participating in this space -- enterprises, CPaaS providers, and operators -- providing huge revenue potential for two-way enterprise messaging. | 2019-04-26T10:08:52 | https://www.nojitter.com/why-north-america-needs-new-messaging-ecosystem |
0.998451 | Tax jurisdiction gaps and overlaps are inevitable in a world economy powered by constant cross-border flows of capital and income. States have long sought to overcome issues thus created by engaging in consensus building over nonbinding “soft law” norms via the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). But with its most recent exercise, the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting initiative, the OECD is hardening these norms into a genuine global tax regime. It is doing so with model legislation, peer monitoring, and institutions that supplant its more inclusive policy rival, the United Nations, bringing in non-OECD countries as "BEPS Associates". This Article argues that the implications of these developments include building a new international tax organization (or world tax order) to avoid the encroachment of the United Nations as a potential tax policy rival, thus ensuring the continuing global tax policy monopoly of a core set of OECD nations.
I'm still thinking through all of the fascinating institutional changes taking place as part of the BEPS process, and don't have any grand conclusions. International tax governance has become infinitely more complicated over the past several years, with multiple institutions popping up as potential rivals for the OECD's monopolistic grip on global tax policy norms and processes. I welcome the OECD's desire to develop an inclusive forum to enable more effective participation in global tax norm development. However I am wary about whether and how inclusive the proposed institution can be in light of the observation that agenda-setting is such an important aspect of effective participation. BEPS Associates don't quite seem like full partners yet, hence their title unfortunately seems all too apt.
If non-OECD countries set up a new forum, to which they invited OECD countries as Associates, would the major action items be those covered in BEPS? I am not convinced. A serious study of formulary apportionment as an alternative to transfer pricing seems like a topic that a truly inclusive forum would insist upon immediately. That is not to say that formulary apportionment is wonderful or great or a panacea--I am not sure it is. But there are so many calls for it, it seems to me impossible to understand the continued insistence by the OECD to quash the discussion. If it's not a great idea, fine: study it and reveal its weaknesses. If it is a great idea, why suppress it? Perhaps there are good reasons, but in general I favour studying things to not studying them, especially when not studying them looks like an attempt to intentionally thwart progress. Similarly, I would expect such a forum to tackle items of interest especially to "less developed" countries (as far as that term may be adequately defined), such as the longstanding source/residence compromise and the expansion of the permanent establishment regime to deal with services.
If these items were to become topics of attention and study within or because of the new OECD forum, I think I would reflect on this new tax order as a success story in developing the means for effective participation of more countries in the global tax dialogue. If not, I would be less sure that progress has been made. At this stage I have far more questions than answers. | 2019-04-18T18:58:32 | http://allisonchristians.com/blog/posts/thinking-about-the-oecds-new-world-tax-order |
0.999999 | Can you tell us about Fairphone in a couple of sentences, please?
Fairphone is a social enterprise that produces smartphones in order to inspire change in the electronics industry. We started as a campaign in 2010 and with the help of our first phone in 2013, we have defined four areas in which we want to create change: mining, manufacturing, design and life cycle.
Fairphone is becoming fairer, but it is not yet a fully ‘fair’ phone. There are huge challenges for the entire electronics industry to address in supply chains. Our role is to inspire change by being innovative in our own supply chain and by bringing the customer closer to the production process and create demand for more ethical products.
How have issues of modern slavery been integrated into your business model?
There are risks of child labour and different forms of forced labour at different stages of the electronics supply chain. This could be from mining up to manufacturing. Due to lack of transparency, it has been impossible for consumers to know if modern slavery is present in the production of their electronics products.
Fairphone originated as a campaign to raise awareness about the use of forced and child labour for the mining in conflict areas such as DRC Congo. We aim to make the supply chain more transparent by finding constructive solutions to inspire positive change in the industry.
What problems have you encountered in terms of addressing modern slavery on your supply chain and how have you addressed them?
There are problems at different stages of the supply chain that we have identified. Forced labour and child labour is utilized in mining of minerals used for electronic products. Furthermore, there are issues with identity cards being withheld, wages being withheld, people unable to leave their job, forced overtime without payment, and to a lesser extent child labour. It differs per country as to which issues are more prevalent.
In addressing this, we are working to improve our own supply chain systematically. We set up supply chains of fair materials, such as conflict free tin, tungsten, tantalum. In addition, we have integrated, as the first electronics manufacturer, Fairtrade gold into our supply chain. We work with local partners, including refiners, miners, governments and NGOs to improve working conditions and increase livelihood.
In manufacturing, we collaborate with our partners to improve worker satisfaction as well as worker representation. One of the ways we do this is to allow workers to voice their concerns and suggestions for improvement.
Here challenges include the lack of transparency. It is not always clear where materials come from and how they were mined and processed. As a small company, we do not always have the commercial leverage on our supply chain, especially deeper in the supply chain where risks are bigger. Hence, we need to foster partnerships to address these issues.
Being a campaigning organisation do you feel a greater responsibility than larger companies? How have you responded to this?
I think that the responsibility is for everyone. Brands needs to convince consumers, as well as manufacturers, that sustainability and better supply chains are systemic issues that can only be fixed on a systemic level. We simply cannot do it alone. We need to change our consumption patterns just as much as we need to produce differently.
Fairphone has been a leader in your field on other issues - are you planning on releasing a modern slavery report so that you can also become an exemplar on this issue? - If yes explain more if no why not.
Transparency is a key value for Fairphone. We already publish our full supply chain and this entails how we work with our manufacturing partners to improve working conditions. Although we have not summarised it under the term modern slavery, you can find all this information on our website. We will continue to provide transparency on the root causes of labour issues as well as our approach to find solutions in this form.
How much impact do you think a company of your size realistically have on this issue?
We are still a small player, but the most important message that we send right now is that there are more people caring about this. We have shown that there is a market for more sustainable products. This sends an important message.
Have you found larger companies copying any of your actions your lead on ethical issues such as modern slavery?
We do see a lot of interest and you have to imagine that the industry not only consists of manufacturers - there are hundreds of suppliers, smelters, mines and many more that also form a part of a supply chain. Here we see a lot of interest and we have achieved a lot together with them already.
After our Fairtrade gold project for instance there was a lot of interest of other companies how we did this. Now, we are part of a gold covenant with the Dutch government, electronic and jewellery industry as well as NGOs to improve the gold sector.
Are you finding it difficult in maintaining high ethical standards as demand for the Fairphone increases?
In fact, the opposite is the case - the more we grow the more influence we have. Not just through the publicity we can create but especially with other players. The main customers have high demands on working conditions and other standards.
Fabian's colleague, Monique Lempers, Value Chain and Commercial Director, will discuss modern slavery further at the Second Global Modern Slavery & Supply Chain Summit (14 November, London) alongside senior Supply Chain and Ethical Trade practitioners from Twinings, Nokia, JLL, Co-op, Travis Perkins, Sainsbury’s, EDF, GLAA and more. | 2019-04-20T06:47:08 | https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/technology/fairphone-interview |
0.999067 | Finish the lyrics: "I know I'm not that tall,____________. But let me drive my camioneta, camioneta, van into your heart"
on hamburguesa con queso backpack episode, what did steven offer them at the end?
True o False: There is an episode when Garnet has her shades off.
"And can't tu see that she's out of control and overzealous, I'm telling tu for your own good and not because I'm __"
Who are the members of the pizza family?
"Pearl, thank tu so much....."
What book is Steven shown lectura in Sworn to the Sword?
which character in steven universe has arco iris hair,tatoos?
Did tu Enjoy The Grammar Errors On This Quiz?
From what anime is peridot 's new visor from? | 2019-04-23T16:50:13 | http://es.fanpop.com/clubs/steven-universe/quiz |
0.999997 | Q: What filters should I buy?
A: Circular Polarizer (CPL), Neutral Density/Graduated Neutral Density (ND/Grad ND). Maybe UV.
The best advice when buying a circular polarizer or neutral density filters is to buy it for the largest lens filter size. Most Nikon lenses have a maximum filter size of 77mm, so buy it for that size (there are exception, but the common size is 77mm). Then you can buy step-up ring which takes the 52mm, 62mm, 72mm thread up to 77mm allowing you to use the larger filter. Good filters can be expensive so rather than several mediocre filters to cover your various lens sizes, you can carry around one expensive filter with step up rings. The step up rings are incredibly cheap and are much easier to carry around then several filters.
This is one that you don't want to go cheap on. Stick with either a Hoya or a B+W. This filter makes the skies appear as a darker blue, makes whites pop out a little more and cuts down on reflections from the water or glass. Think of it like polarizing sunglasses, as they also darken the image by around a stop (depends on brand and type). They also eliminate sheen on plant life making the colours more vibrant. Everyone should have one of these.
This is like having sunglasses for your camera. It stops down the light allowing longer exposure times. This filter is very helpful when photographing waterfalls and landscapes during sunrises and sunsets. They have different levels of "intensity" such as 0.3, 0.6, 0.9, etc. etc. The best multi-purpose one would be a 0.6, which is also known as a "2-Stop" Filter. The 0.3's are really meant to be added to other filters and the darker you go, the longer exposure time will be needed. A tripod is required for the really darker ones, such as a ND 3.0!
ND filters may be either solid or graduated. Solid ND filters will reduce the light hitting the sensor overall. (For example, if you need to use a large aperture for shallow DOF on a bright day, or if you want to do a very long exposure to capture motion, and you can't stop down far enough.) Graduated ND filters are used for situations in which part of the scene is considerably brighter than other parts, a graduated neutral density filter can be used — for example, to prevent the sky from being overexposed in landscape photography. Graduated ND filters are usually square filters which are inserted into a filter holder, and may be either hard- or soft-edged, indicating either a sharp transition between the darkened area and the area, or a smooth one.
The original purpose of UV filters was to cut haze by filtering UV light. This is more important in film than it is in digital, since UV filtration is built into the camera in digital. Haze is created in the sky when light travels a long distance for those who typically stick to macro photography buying a UV filter is useless. If you want the protection buy a clear filter.
Warning with UV filters - If you notice a green colour spot/cast on your photos, it's caused by an outside light source diffracting against the filter element. Two ways to solve this issue: 1) remove the filter for the shot and 2) compose the photograph differently where the light source doesn't effect the image. Many consider this a deal breaker when working with UV as they could flare up at the worst moment.
Protective (or clear) filters do not have any special coding which can affect the image. These are used purely for protection of the front element.
Sky filters are another type of filter which enhance the blues in the sky. These filters make your photos slightly pinkish but are almost going extinct because of post-processing techniques.
Warming filters add a warming red, orangy tint to your photos, often best for landscape. These filters are becoming rarer as more people are moving away from these types of filters but rather applying them in post-processing. Nearly all photo editing software have this feature. | 2019-04-20T12:47:13 | http://d40xd60.wikidot.com/filters |
0.999971 | Classifying products is a good way for marketers to understand how to market a particular product to its customers. Classifying a product will let them determine the optimal method for distribution, promotion, and pricing. How a product is ultimately classified will determine how it will be marketed and sold to its customers.
There are two (2) main categories of products; Consumer Products and Business Products. Consumer products are sold to individuals to satisfy personal or family needs. Business products are sold to businesses to satisfy their needs or bough by a form to make into other products. The majority of all products or services fall under these two categories.
Unsought Products: Products purchased to solve a sudden problem, products of which customers are unaware, and products that people do not necessary think of buying. These products can include emergency products such as bandages and ointment and automobile parts used to repair a car. These products are not bought until they are needed.
Installation: Facilities and no portable major equipment. Example: buildings, warehouses, forklift, dump truck, crane, large equipment.
Raw material: Basic natural materials that become part of a physical product. Example: sheet metal, plastic, nuts and bolts, fabric, wiring, glass, electronic components, power supply, wheels, glue, wood.
Process Materials: Materials that are used directly in the production of other products but are not readily identifiable. Example: Flour for baking bread, glue for building a television set, oil for manufacturing laundry detergent. | 2019-04-22T20:17:07 | http://acqnotes.com/acqnote/careerfields/classifying-products |
0.998383 | Artificial intelligence in website design? Is that ever going to happen?
Well, some AI website designers have actually been around for a few years now. Does this mean that human website developers and designers have to start looking for new jobs?
What about the companies potentially paying for AI web design? Will they be satisfied with the results? Is there going to be a clear difference in websites created by humans and software alike?
There are certainly many questions about this topic which are left unanswered.
There may be some cost advantages when choosing an AI website builder, but at least for now, human designers and developers can keep their jobs.
Why? Because many beta testers and reviewers have checked out the AI website designers and remarked how terrible the results are.
The Grid was one of the first AI website builders on the scene, so everyone began freaking out about what this meant for the industry. The Grid promised an interface where most of the physical work was taken out of the equation.
All the business owner would have to do is type in the content they want showing up on the site. After that, Grid would compile this information, choose colors, content blocks, pages, and locations. It has an AI “designer” called Molly to which you can speak.
As the beta testers have explained, Molly isn't much different than Apple's Siri, except that Siri answers basic search engine questions or pulls up a music track based on the song title. The same goes for Amazon's Alexa.
Sure, that's artificial intelligence alright, but the most it can do is possibly turn off the lights or order more toilet paper for you.
Molly, on the other hand, is supposed to complete processes that take most website developers days, weeks, or even months to complete. In short, AI website builders are programmed to think creatively, not just to complete one simple task.
The response has been mixed, but it seems like most bloggers, beta testers, and internet users, in general, are split into two camps: Those who fear the robot apocalypse and those who think the AI website builders stink.
The only people who seem to have an optimistic view on AI right now include those who are somehow attached to the AI companies themselves. For instance, if I search for Grid reviews on Google the vast majority of them are basically saying that this technology is not quite there yet.
Some reviewers claim that they'd rather watch this technology fail since it completely removes human creativity and puts it in the hands of an algorithm and computer.
I also checked the results on YouTube too. Since Grid was the most popular rendition of AI website building, I punched in some keywords pertaining to the crowdfunded venture.
One of the reviews is a little less harsh, but it goes through building a website in five minutes using The Grid. Although the reviewer isn't too critical, it's clear that the resulting website looks extremely basic, outdated, and inaccurate.
What About the Final Design and Build Quality?
Reviews are one thing, but what about the actual sites being produced by AI website builders?
Some of the content is so randomly placed that you can't make sense of it at all.
Most of the websites have far too many media queries.
Much of the code ends up being illogical and clunky. For instance, one developer located a questionable number of classes per element in one of the websites.
I'm not going to post any screenshots or links to websites using Grid or other AI builders, mainly because many of them are from smaller, family-owned businesses. There's no need to give them bad publicity just for choosing a certain website builder.
However, you can check out this Reddit thread which compiles a decent list of websites made from Grid.io. There are also some comments in the Designernews thread that aren't mentioned in the Reddit thread.
We mainly talked about The Grid, and that was because it came out with a bang, had a successful crowdfunding campaign, and seemed to be all over the internet for at least a week or so.
Firedrop has focused on building landing pages, which makes much more sense than full websites. It uses Sacha, an AI designer, for accepting your commands and listening to you as you design your page. Once again, the landing pages are very simple, but landing pages are often supposed to be simple, so some of the examples look okay.
The Grid has an AI web designer named Molly, which is supposed to learn as it listens to your voice. As mentioned above, The Grid asks for your content, then it creates the website based on what you have said.
Wix ADI is interesting because all Wix users can take it for a test drive. Therefore, you can keep your current site and maybe see if the AI designer is worth looking into. Wix ADI pulls information about your company from the internet, while also adding information into sections, pages, text, and more.
The technology from Firedrop, The Grid, and Wix ADI might be used for other purposes in the future. Heck, they might eventually evolve into something worth looking into for web design. But for now, your best bet is to stick with a human web designer.
If you're on a budget there are plenty of drag and drop web builders out there such as WIX, Squarespace, Shopify, and Weebly.
All of these are wonderful for removing the need to code, and most of the time you only have to pay a small monthly fee for full access to features and hosting for your website. There are even some opensource options like WordPress that allow you more control, advanced website building tools, and self-hosting choices. | 2019-04-26T10:19:53 | https://ecommerce-platforms.com/articles/ai-website-builders |
0.99984 | What hope for Pakistan after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto?
The assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the first woman to lead a Muslim country, is a serious blow to Pakistan's prospects for democracy and, indeed, its viability as a state. As chaos and confusion set in, we should not lose sight of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's partial responsibility for this turn of events. At the very least, he cannot be absolved from his government's failure to provide Bhutto with adequate security.
Instead, Bhutto had to pay with her life for courageously challenging extremists of all stripes -- from al-Qaeda and the Taliban to the country's religious political parties and military hardliners.
As heir to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the legendary democratic leader who was hanged by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq's government in 1979, Benazir Bhutto emerged as a symbol of resistance at a young age -- but languished in jails and exile in the 1980's. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's legacy was empowerment of the impoverished and defense of ordinary people's rights amid feudalistic politics and military rule. Rather than bowing to the military junta, he embraced the gallows.
Hours before his hanging, Benazir Bhutto was allowed to see her father for the last time, writing in her autobiography: "I told him on my oath in his death cell, I would carry on his work."
Benazir Bhutto largely lived up to the promise.
Her first stint as prime minister (1988-1990) was brief and disorganized. Lieutenant General Hamid Gul, the former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief, confirmed that he sponsored an alliance of right-wing political parties to stop her from getting a parliamentary majority. Information about Pakistan's nuclear program and ISI operations in Afghanistan were out of her domain.
Her second term in office (1993-1996) was longer and better, but her government again fell early, owing to charges of mismanagement and corruption. In reality, machinations by the intelligence agencies also played a part. The military had developed an entrenched distrust of her, given her position as a popularly supported pro-Western leader who wanted peace with India.
After almost a decade in self-imposed exile, Benazir Bhutto's return to Pakistan in October gave her a fresh political start. Pakistan had changed, as military dictatorship and religious extremism in the north played havoc with the fabric of society. A tentative arrangement with Musharraf, together with Western support -- particularly from the UK and the US -- eased her return, which hundreds of thousands of people welcomed, though terrorists greeted her with a string of suicide bombings.
Benazir Bhutto's contacts with Musharraf's military government drew criticism, but she remained adamant that a return to democracy was possible only through a transition in which Musharraf would give up his military post, become a civilian head of state and conduct free and fair elections.
To the dismay of some democratic forces, Benazir Bhutto stayed the course even after Musharraf imposed emergency rule on Nov. 3 and removed the country's top judges to ensure his re-election. Indeed, she even persuaded other important political leaders to participate in the planned Jan. 8 election, which she viewed as an opportunity to challenge religious extremist forces in the public square. She seized that opportunity by bravely traveling throughout the country, despite serious threats to her life, arguing for a democratic and pluralistic Pakistan. | 2019-04-23T21:53:25 | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2007/12/31/2003395066 |
1 | Have you seen the following superhero movies?
Read the text and answer the question.
What’s the main idea of the article?
An introduction of the film Shazam!.
1. What is the movie about?
Billy Batson, the ________of the film, is a 14-year-old boy, who has been in and out of _________. One day, _________another home, Batson _____to the subway and meets a ____, who gives him __________. Whenever Batson says “Shazam”, he ________an _______ man with superhuman powers.
2. After getting his superpowers, how does Batson test his strength?
He tests his strength by breaking the rules. He smashes open a soda machine to get free sodas, tricks his teachers, and even buys beer.
3. Can Batson’s new superpowers fix the problems?
No. When he faces Dr Thaddeus Sivana, a former misfit kid himself, he realizes that his new superpowers can’t fix every problem.
1. What are the differences between Shazam! and other superhero movies?
Other superhero movies have complex, serious storylines about the end of the universe. But Shazam! is a light, funny action comedy about a boy in a superman’s body.
2. Why did Den of Greek webside note ,“Shazam! really feels like the movie we need right now”?
Because it has strong messages about families of all shapes and sizes and the importance of supporting and nurturing young people.
1. However, the makers of Shazam!, which came out in China on April 5, have a different take on the superhero movie.
2. While the film is fun and silly, it also has emotional weight.
eg. While I understand what you say, I can't agree with you.
While they are my neighbors, I don't know them well.
While she was injured and in hospital, she remained cheerful.
3. A major part of the story centers on Batson’s searching for his real mother.
e.g. We all like Tom coming here.
I really can't understand Amy treating him like that.
What kind of superhero movies do you prefer? Give your reasons and prepare a speech to share with your classmates.
What are they doing before their sports events?
Based on the title, can you predict what the article is about?
Main idea: The research led by Dennis Hsu found that music makes us feel powerful. The article analyses the _______ for music’s magical power, and the _________ work wonders.
Read the article carefully and answer the following questions.
1. Does all music make people feel powerful?
Not exactly, music actually does make us feel powerful, but not all songs have the same effect.
2. Why does the author mention former NBA player Kobe Bryant?
To prove that high-power music made people want to take control in social events and come first in competitions.
3. What is a possible reason for music’s magical power?
As for the reason for music’s magical power, Hsu’s team came up with one possible explanation: when people hear music that expresses a sense of power, they mimic these feelings in their mind.
4. What should we consider when choosing music?
When choosing music, we also need to look at the type of music, according to researchers.
1. When watching sports events, we often notice athletes with their earphones on while preparing in the locker room or entering the stadium.
2. It’s commonly said that sports are 90 percent mental and only 10 percent physical.
3. As for the reason for music’s magical power, Hsu’s team came up with one possible explanation: when people hear music that expresses a sense of power, they mimic (模拟) these feelings in their mind.
What type of music would you choose when jogging, jumping ropes, or playing ball games? | 2019-04-23T00:14:02 | http://elt.i21st.cn/teens/jiaoan/article_6962.html |
0.999999 | [Translate to English:] Die umweltfreundliche staubfreie Reinigungstechnologie von systeco ist für viele Unternehmen der Reinigungsbranche zunehmend interessanter.
In general, housing associations manage many properties and homes. On outer facades graffiti paintings are often seen, which must be removed costly. Also indoors the walls and floors pollute very fast. Systeco´s green cleaning machine could already help in many cases.
List of chosen housing associations.
Machinery of all kinds are rented often via rental stations, especially if machines are needed for a special short term work. Smaller machines can be borrowed in a hardware store, bigger machines can be rented from a construction machines renter. | 2019-04-25T12:37:01 | https://www.sys-teco.com/business-links.html |
0.999998 | Blackburn manager Sam Allardyce does not believe David Beckham is likely to be interested in a move to Ewood Park.
Rovers’ prospective new owner Ahsan Ali Syed has vowed to back Allardyce in the transfer market if a takeover goes through and admitted recently that he would love to sign Beckham.
Allardyce feels such a move would be good for the profile of the club, while he also thinks Beckham could still be successful in the Premier League at the age of 35.
However, he doubts whether the LA Galaxy midfielder would be open to a switch back to England after leaving Manchester United in 2003.
'Mr Syed says that he would like to spend it on youth, and then that he would like to sign David Beckham,' Allardyce told Sky Sports News.
'Obviously that’s not actually youth, but that’s like more of a PR signing that would bring a lot of attention to the club. To me it is about whether David is still good enough to play in the Premier League at his age, and he probably is.
'And the other factor is does he want to come to Blackburn and does he want to come back to England? In my experience the answer to that is no. | 2019-04-20T06:53:00 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1305725/David-Beckham-join-Blackburn-says-Rovers-boss-Sam-Allardyce.html |
0.999997 | If England want to succeed at an international tournament, they could do with a man like Sam Allardyce. Why? For a start, he has something significant in common with Portugal coach, Fernando Santos. Speaking on the eve of his team's semifinal with Wales, Santos said: "When they talk about the way we play, that's music to my ears. I'm just focused on the next match. That's all that's important."
England managerial candidate Allardyce doubtless approved of a man who eventually led his country to winning Euro 2016 in the face of criticism that his team was dull to watch. In 22 years as a manager, current Sunderland boss Allardyce has done plenty of defending of his teams' style, having railed against pretension for his entire career.
"The way that they're playing is so good, their fans love it," he said in April of imminent Premier League champions Leicester City "Whereas fans at some bigger clubs might moan about it and complain about them playing 'not the right type of football.'"
Allardyce marked that statement by sarcastically miming the inverted commas in that second sentence. Like Santos, he has his ideas and will stick to them. Long balls, set-pieces and the expulsion of "tippy-tappy" football work for him.
"He finds a way to win, that's what he does," Dean Holden, who played for Allardyce at Bolton Wanderers from 1998 to 2002, told ESPN FC. "He won't copy and paste a Spanish or a French system. Portugal found a way to win with the players at their disposal. They weren't pretty on the eye. All this bulls--- that people talk about being pretty but they won."
Recently retired goalkeeper David Preece was coached by Allardyce at Sunderland during the 1996-97 season when the former club captain was between jobs at Blackpool and Notts County. Preece, these days a columnist on the Sunderland Echo, reported on the Black Cats' escape from relegation last season -- after that survival, ESPN FC sources at the club have said they are worried he will now land the England job.
"The people that say Portugal don't deserve it are probably those who are anti-Allardyce," Preece told ESPN FC. "The national team's problems run deep. If things stay the way they are, then someone like Sam Allardyce who is pragmatic is the right man. And he deserves it more than anyone. He's put the hard yards in."
Allardyce thought his chance of the England job had gone. "Big Sam: My Autobiography," published last year, contains a chapter entitled "England And Sweet FA," detailing deep disappointment at failing to land the role in 2006, when losing out to Steve McClaren in the fight to succeed Sven-Goran Eriksson. Now, with the likes of McClaren fallen by the wayside after his sacking in 2007, he is the sole Englishman with the credentials to replace Roy Hodgson, though there remains significant dissent against his candidacy.
Within the game, though, Allardyce has plenty of admirers, with former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson reported to have advised English Football Association vice-chairman David Gill to consider his friend. "The knowledge that he's got, and he is as seen as a Neanderthal, I think that's very disrespectful," Preece said.
As a pioneer of sports science since developing an understanding when a player with Tampa Bay Rowdies during 1983, Allardyce has never been the dinosaur that detractors label him, and pairs that with an innate grasp of the game. "He judges with his eyes, and will not just listen to computers," said Holden, who believes that man-management and human qualities are foundations to the success of someone he calls a "father figure."
"People find it easy to relate to him," Holden continued. "Players enjoy playing for him. He finds a way of making everyone feel important. You know exactly what your job is. He doesn't ask you to do what you are not good at and he wouldn't pick who he thought he had had to pick."
Hodgson was accused of picking stars like Wayne Rooney on reputation alone and then shoehorning them into positions they were unsuited to.
"Too many managers go in and think 'we have all these great players, we can't restrict them too much,'" Preece said. "You have got to have a structure and this is the misconception about the way someone like Pep Guardiola plays it. There's a method behind it, it's not just freeform jazz, improvised off the cuff. There's still a structure, just a more complicated structure."
England's round-of-16 exit at the hands of Iceland was followed by reports of players bored with life at the squad's high-security HQ in Chantilly. Holden believes that Allardyce, a man who knows how to enjoy himself at the right times, could be ideal for a group away from home for weeks on end.
Holden said: "He's a normal bloke, he knows what footballers are like. We are not monks, you cannot expect them to live like monks for four weeks. He'd have the families around. He would keep it as normal as possible."
As the FA work out the strategy and structure within which the next England manager will work, one suggestion is that the next appointment can mentor a younger man to be his eventual successor. At 61, Allardyce is an elder statesmen happy to pass on the know-how.
Holden is currently a coach at League One club Walsall, and, in 2015, had a brief spell as interim manager of Oldham Athletic. He admits he leans heavily on Allardyce.
"When I was manager of Oldham last year, I had a problem with a player," Holden said. "I rang Sam and he picked the phone up, while walking into West Ham's dressing room, two minutes before he was giving the team talk before a match. No bulls---, no fluffiness, he just gave me the answer, and it was a 30-second phone call."
Allardyce's sometimes abrasive personality is by no means everyone's cup of tea yet it has inspired admiration among those who have worked with him. "People say how arrogant he comes across but I think that comes from being so meticulous," Preece said. "It's more that he trusts in his plan than his arrogance about himself. He trusts in his methods."
The same can be said of Santos. | 2019-04-19T16:57:39 | http://www.espnfc.us/team/england/448/blog/post/2912629/sam-allardyces-managerial-methods-make-him-right-for-england-job |
0.999341 | "The Roles of the Queen and the Governor-General in Australia"
' exercised by the Governor-General, and what are those of the Queen herself? This question is the subject of widespread debate and there are many misconceptions regarding these roles. It must be remembered that the term 'Head of State' does not appear within the Australian Constitution. The roles of the Queen and the Governor-General within Australia today can be categorised into two types, these being constitutional and traditional functions.
In Section I of the Constitution, the Queen is specified as being the highest level of Government within Australia. The position of Governor-General is introduced and defined in Section 2 as being Her Majesty's representative within Australia. The first mention of his role comes in Section 5, which states that he may appoint the times for sessions of Parliament, along with having the power to prorogue or dissolve it. In Sections 32 and 33, the Governor-General is given the authority to issue writs for general elections or for by-elections. Section 57 sets down the guidelines for dissolution of Parliament due to disagreement between the Houses, and Section 58 contains the Governor-General's principal legislative authority: to assent to or withhold assent from a law in the Queen's name, or to 'reserve the law for the Queen's pleasure', along with making recommendations for amendments to a proposed law. Alterations to the Constitution, following a successful referendum, shall also be presented to the Governor-General for the Queen's assent. Section 59 deals with the Queen's power to overrule the Governor-General or to disallow and annul any law he may assent to. Under Section 61,'The executive power of the Commonwealth is vested in the Queen and is exercisable by the Governor-General as the Queen's representative'. The creation of the Federal Executive Council and the way in which the Governor-General acts on its advice is dealt with in Sections 62 and 63, while Ministers of State are named as the Councillors in Section 64. Sections 64, 65, 67 and 72 deal with the appointment of Ministers of State, Civil Servants and Justices of the High Court by the Governor-General. Section 68 names the Governor-General as the Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Defence Force and Section 126 gives the Governor-General the power to appoint deputies if authorised by the Queen.
Looking at the Constitution, it is evident that the Queen herself exercises almost no Constitutional powers, as although she is vested of executive authority, the powers are exercised by the Governor-General as her representative, making him the effective, although not titular, head of state. In practice, the Queen cannot do anything within Australia, nor even visit the nation, without an invitation from the Prime Minister. Also, the appointment of the Governor-General by the Queen on the advice of the Prime Minister is little more than a formal acknowledgement of the 'recommendation'.
Most of the Governor-General's constitutional actions are made on the advice of the Federal Executive Council, such as appointments to official positions and issuing writs and other proclamations. As the Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Defence Forces, the Governor-General plays a purely ceremonial role, acting solely on the advice of the Ministry, appointing the Chief of the Defence Force and the Chiefs of the three armed services, officially issuing commissions to officers and reviewing parades. A non-constitutional duty which is performed on the advice of the Federal Executive Council is the exercising of the prerogative of mercy in the Queen's name.
Along with his constitutional duties, the Governor-General also performs a number of ceremonial duties. Some of these are to open new sessions of the Federal Parliament, to receive the credentials of foreign Ambassadors and High Commissioners to Australia, to conduct investiture ceremonies for awards within the Australian Honours System. The 'unwritten' role of the Governor-General has evolved over the years to also be representative, visiting communities around Australia, receiving and formally entertaining many Australians and representatives of organizations active in the life of the community, accepting patronage of various organizations, partly as a sign of their value within the community, and overall to embody and promote Australian values and beliefs.
The roles of the Queen and the Governor-General are overall intended to be points around which Australians can unite as a nation and as a people. It is obvious that although the roles of the Queen and the Governor-General are relatively small, they, especially the Governor-General, are intrinsic positions within Australian Government, if nothing else, as nonpolitical 'watchdogs' and guardians of the Constitution.
Webster's Federation of a Nation (1998) (CD ROM) Webster Publishing.
"Major achievements during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II"
Queen Elizabeth II this year celebrates her 50th year as the Queen of Australia and many other countries in the Commonwealth. She is only the fifth monarch to have achieved this milestone. The following is a review of some of the major achievements during her reign.
The Queen's reign began on Wednesday, 6 February 1952, when her father, King George VI, died after several years of ill health. The 25 year-old Princess Elizabeth was in Kenya with The Duke of Edinburgh on a Commonwealth tour they had just begun. Elizabeth flew home that day and, although she technically became Queen as soon as her father died, she wasn't officially announced Queen until her coronation a few months later.
During her second decade of reign, there were several firsts. In 1962 the Queen opened a new gallery at Buckingham Palace that displayed items from the Royal Collection. This new gallery occupied the space of the Palace's bomb damaged private chapel and was the first time that parts of the Palace were open to the general public. This gallery proved very popular. While she was visiting Australia and New Zealand in 1970, the Queen introduced a new practice - the "walkabout" - to allow them to meet as many people as possible. During this period she became the first monarch to visit West Germany since World War II.
Her third decade of reign from 1972-1981 saw Her Majesty celebrate twenty-five years as Sovereign in 1977 with "The Silver Jubilee" nationwide tour and many Commonwealth visits. The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh travelled a total of 89600km visiting many parts of the UK and Commonwealth to mark the occasion. It also saw several firsts on the international stage. These included a visit to communist Yugoslavia in 1972, travelling to Japan as the guest of Emperor Hirohito in 1975 and she officially opened the "Queen Elizabeth II stadium" (Q.E.2) in Brisbane on a rainy 10th March 1977. In 1979 she was the first British Sovereign to visit the Middle East, and she visited Pope John Paul II in the Vatican in 1980.
The decade 1982-1991 saw the Queen and Prince Phillip travel to many parts of the world. She opened the Brisbane Commonwealth Games in 1982, at the "QE2" stadium (now the "ANZ" stadium). These games were famous for "Matilda", a giant winking kangaroo statue who now resides at "Wet and Wild Waterpark". Ties with the rest of the Commonwealth were reinforced with visits to Australia, Canada, the Caribbean and New Zealand. A visit by her to China was marked down in the record books as the first time a British monarch had visited the country. She also visited Australia again as part of the celebrations for Australia's bicentenary year in 1988. In 1990 Her Majesty led the commemoration of an event in the Second World War - the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.
In the course of her fifth decade of reign 1992-2002, the Queen has taken part in yet more celebrations. She led celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe in 1995, the arrival of the new Millennium, the 100th birthday of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. In this, her 50th year of Sovereign reign there is expected to be many public events and visits by the Queen and Prince Phillip, throughout the UK and Commonwealth. During her time as Queen she has met more of her subjects and undertaken more official duties than any of her predecessors. With this in mind, this milestone is well worth celebrating. | 2019-04-23T07:31:35 | https://ourconstitution.org/essay_2002_text.php |
0.999994 | Turmeric is a bright yellow colored spice from a popular Indian plant known as curcuma longa. It is widely used in cooking and considered as a holistic medicine offering numerous benefits to health. Though it is popular with ancient medical practices, it is yet to be thoroughly proven by science. When you consume turmeric as a health supplement it is more effective compared to pharmaceutical drugs. It does not cause adverse effects to the extent pharmaceutical drugs do, but turmeric also causes minimal side effects. Hence it is important to seek medical advice before planning to use turmeric as a health supplement. This article highlights some of the side effects caused by turmeric when taken as a health supplement for prolonged periods of time.
When you use turmeric based health supplements for short periods of time, the chances of side-effects would be extremely low. Nonetheless, when it is consumed for prolonged periods of time, some adverse effects may occur and persist. The prescribed amount of turmeric in supplements, to be taken on a daily basis is in the range of 400 milligrams to 3 grams. When you consume beyond the prescribed amount, it may lead to undesirable effects such as nausea, problems in digestion and gas. Your appetite can also get affected due to this. It may lead to stomach ulcer or something more complicated such as bleeding in the stomach. Whenever you find some uneasiness in the stomach while you are taking turmeric as a healthcare supplement, you should stop immediately and seek medical attention.
You may develop skin allergies while using turmeric health supplements. The symptoms may look like red rashes or patches on the skin. Sometimes these rashes can even be itchy. People who are allergic to food that is yellow in color or allergic to food containing ginger may develop these side effects too. If rashes do not diminish on its own, then you must check with a physician to treat them as soon as possible.
Since the interactions of other drugs with turmeric is not known in all cases, consuming turmeric supplements without physician advice may increase acid production in the stomach. It is also not advised to have turmeric supplements along with blood thinners and drugs that are taken to treat diabetes. Women who are pregnant and lactating must also consult a medical professional before using turmeric supplements. In some cases it is known to work against reproduction and may cause allergies if you are suffering from endometriosis, or have fibroids in the uterus. Those who have gallstones or obstructions in the bile ducts should avoid curcumin.
To summarize, if you are suffering from any medical condition or taking pharmaceutical drugs, you must check with a physician before you plan to use turmeric as a healthcare supplement to stay safe from allergies and adverse effects. | 2019-04-26T04:35:05 | https://turmericreport.org/turmeric-information/adverse-effects-of-using-turmeric-supplements/ |
0.9987 | Instructions: Consider the notions above. Defend or challenge this assertion and explain your position.
This belief is true and I agree with who ever said it (the teacher, that's my bet).I say this because paying attention to certain people can either make your life go north or it can make you do a 180° south before you even realize what happened.
It is " expensive" thing to do not because you are paying money but because you are losing potential profit if you had associated, played attention or emulated the the right people. For example if you emulated how the mojority become wealthy your more likely to become weathly than someone who never emulate good influecel people or people with connections. In final words we all like money so let's not waste are money on the attention we give on the wrong people - I know I have to.
I agree with Ruben what he stated is very clear & true to me .
I agree with Ruben. If we watch and study those who making money or making a better life for themselves, we can catch on and do the same and be productive.
I agree with that ,you will always have to watch you surroundings.Because you can't trust everyone that's around you in your presents.Making a big decision on who you choose your friends to be can either help you,also encourage you do the right thing in life."Make a wise decision".
I agree because, you have to watch where and who you put yourself around throughout life, because you never know if one day you might be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
I agree people will always have to watch their surroundings , Because you can't trust everyone that's around you , Making a decision on who you choose to be your friends can benefit you in like or may not encourage you do the right thing .
I agree with the quote because, if you're giving all you're attention to the wrong people obviously you're worried about the wrongs things in life because worrying about them is not gone be beneficial for you at all. Their not going to give you what you need throughout you're life, but you're giving them all they need which is you're attention.
I agree that being in positive environments with positive people is a more wise way to spend valuable time.
There are many examples in life that show the accuracy on this notion. Successful peple tend to create there own circles and unsuccessful people create there's. Which circle you end up with is up to you. If you choose the soncond one you loose a lot of potential earnings which is why I think the quote say its an expensive thing to do. Let's emulate the right people so that we won't those potential earnings.
there is nothing worse than waisting my time on a person that doesn't want to be with you. If they are not having a positive impact on your life, than u don't want them in your life.
I agree with this notion because your life is valuable, and you pay for any aspect that you have in your life. You pay to have great things, and you pay to have a great life so it would be a major waste of time letting all of it be spent on the wrong person. That's why it's important for you to watch your surrounding's because all it takes is one mistake to end your whole future. Therefore it is better to put yourself around people that want and have the same goal that you want to accomplish. This will benefit the two of you because you will learn from one another. If you pay attention to the wrong person you could lose the value that was paid toward learning which is now hard to get back. It's easy to get in trouble, but hard to get out meaning you should think about what you do and who you hang around, it helps before you act.
I agree It's easy to get in trouble, but hard to get out meaning you should think about what you do and who you hang around.
It's funny how so many people are worried about the wrong people. Why do we care about what celebrities do so much. Why are some people so nosey? Everyone is just dying to know what the next man is doing and can barely focus on themselves. Even wondering about a friend, tho you may be close to them you still really wouldn't have to worry about what they do. As they say, "do you". Paying attention to the wrong people can leave you with time wasted. Time wasted on things you could've been taking care of to futher yourself. Don't let the buzz of the bees distract you, close the window.
I agree with Ms.Green statement because its true , everyone worry about what the next person is doing instead of whats going on in there life.
I agree that the most expensive and worst thing you can do is pay attention to the wrong people. Life is too short to waste time on people who are not worth it. Putting your all into a person who is not doing the same for you is "expensive" because time is valuable. You can never get time back, as people we have to treat time as the the most important and precious thing that we have. Spending time on the wrong crowd, family or significant others can lead you down a path of regret because you put time and effort into something negative when you could have been doing something positive.
I agree with Taylor life is too short to spend it with the wrong people. They're are many people who are worth your time people much better. The most important person is yourself and if a person is doing wrong to you there is no reason to listen to them.
Therefore it is better to put yourself around people that want and have the same goal that you want to accomplish. This will benefit the two of you because you will learn from one another.
I agree with arreon because you can learn good things from your friends or somebody's els.
I agree because it is better to put yourself around people thats positive. Because Surround yourself with positive people Can give you energy and help you create the career success you deserve. Successful people surround themselves with positive people . people who are both positive by nature, and positive about their life and career success. Positive people are optimistic, and optimism is the first step in building your selfconfidence and life and career success.
I agree completely with Ms.Hayes. life is to short for a person to be wasting valuable time on unnecessary beings or actions.
The notion of paying attention to wrong people can cause harm in many ways. It can cost time, money, and even sometimes sanity. The wrong people can cause problems in everyday life. They can end relationships, for example when I was younger I would always listen to what they said and it got me in trouble. To this day I don't talk to them, listening to wrong people is always wrong no matter what.
The quote is not true because you can pay attention to the wrong people and get something good out of it or good ideas from what they sad or did.
Paying attention to the wrong people can lead you in the wrong way. Doing the wrong things leading you to the wrong place. People can cause negative things in your life & you don't even know it. Bad things can happen to you & your not even the one doing anything.
I agree with Keonta because paying attention to the wrong people can have negative consequences. You can be a good person in a bad crowd , but just because you were with them something bad can happen to you.
I agree with Arreon because it's easy to get in trouble just hard to get out of.
Time is one of the most precious things. It's something that you can never get back. Paying attention to the wrong people can waste that time. There you'll be right behind them as they go down the wrong path. It'll leave you always wondering "what if..."
I agree with the quote because, if you are giving all your attention to the wrong people then more likely you're are going to follow their bad ways of doing things. Also following those bad habits wl no help you benefit from it.
True, very true. I truly agree with the quote. The most expensive thing someone can do is look people who always do wrong and think wrong. By looking at the errors and mistakes of others people spend no money but other important things. For example, when I look at what someone else have done wrong, I'm investing my time I could use for a better benefit. I am also investing my mind, using it to analyze the case that was made wrong, instead of using it to learn something new with another purpose. at the very end, I lose the opportunity to learn something new, because seeing other people make mistakes I miss the opportunity to experience for myself. And it would teach me more than other's experiences.
I agree with the quote because when you pay attention to the wrong people, you are only wasting your time. Your waisting valuable time on something that is not worth it. Instead you should find people that have a future planned out ahead of them.
This quote is one hundred percent true. Paying attention to the wrong people can and will distract you from staying focused on your main goal.
The quote above is true because paying attention to the wrong people can waste time. That's why we should choose our associates wisely, because time is irreversible. It can also cause an individual to regress emotionally, physically, and mentally. | 2019-04-18T18:55:42 | https://www.englishfury.com/mixedink/life-costs |
0.999956 | TechnicBRICKs: Does the MINDSTORMS servo fits?
Looking at videos like those below (they are not even about major breakthroughs) it makes me believe we need a totally different set of servo motors for LEGO MINDSTORMS. It could be one, two new motors, but not much more for sure.
Relative to the actual status, I mean diversity, different characteristics (e.g. connectivity) and essentially different form factors (more compact, output shaft orientation diversity, double sided output, assembling options, etc).
And some more [1, 2, 3], among many others you could certainly find.
There are so many other types of models we should afford to create easily, and LEGO seems wasting such a great opportunity for long.
If not within the MINDSTORMS range of products, at least it is my belief we should aim for an upper level or different grade robotics line from LEGO.
You may say this wouldn't be in line with LEGO targets and business goals, but on the other hand the possibilities allowed by the LEGO beams and liftarms (or LEGO Technic in general) are really demanding for more. The possibilities are endless!
If we think about humanoid robots currently in the market, we have seen very specialized offers and we are of course talking about a different league (performance and cost wise). Just one single servo for commercially available robots, can go from a few tenths to nearly 500 euros for the most sophisticated and performant ones.
However some of these principles should also apply to LEGO MINDSTORMS in a more contained scale. We might no get the same level of performance because LEGO structures are built of plastics, but we should have comparable level of functions and size, despite at lower speeds and mechanical accuracy (outside of the motors).
Take a look inside an advanced robotics servo.
I know that many things have been accomplished with current NXT servos, but almost always based on continuous circular movements of the motor, associated with linkages, beams, etc.
Many times this demands more creative mechanical and linkage solutions (which is good from certain POV), but also less scalable towards more complex and autonomous robots (which is not so good).
Besides a continuous running servo, I believe we also need more conventional hobby/robotics like servos, up to 90º, 180º or even 360º for different sort of applications. And this is where different and more convenient servo form factors will come into scene. I'd even ask for double sided shaft outputs (as we have seen in the last PF servo motor) with convenient form factors, which is not the case from the current NXT servo.
And what about daisy chain motor linkages? This is also a must, for cabling simplicity sake!
It would even allow the development of a smaller NXT brick, with fewer physical interfaces.
Still dual head servos with next generation NXT.
Convenient and compact form factor servos, with more versatile assembling options (additional pinhole connectivity points like in new PF motors).
Variants on output shaft direction, or possibility to conveniently attach motors to each other with different orientations.
Servo daisy chain connectivity for power and control lines.
Seamless integration between some LPF and LMS active elements.
It doesn't hurt to challenge the LEGO MINDSTORMS engineers... and it is still free to ask.
PS: I've used mostly videos and images from Robotis.com (a robotics solutions manufacturer) as examples, but I could certainly have used some others in alternative or as a complement as well.
Since the day I got my NXT set many years ago, I've been wishing for a smaller-form factor NST motor.
Realize that I didn't mention small because it might not be feasible LEGO-wise for the NXT purposes.
At least one third party firm is on the right track with splitting up sensor and motor connected to one motor port.
Besides the looks this is a perfect solution for almost any servo related Lego problems.
I don't think you need to use an extra sensor port with GlideWheel, to set the PF motor into an exact angle via NXT.
It is indeed an alternative.
Although not the final solution I dream with, for a more friendly set of LMS motors.
IMHO renewed form factor (keeping the dual head) and daisy chain are indeed the main points to address. Almost everything else is already there.
Having done that, you could make NXT brick smaller (or create a specific smaller variant with fewer physical ports) and thus achieve easier integration with Technic.
This is however not the seamless LPF/LMS integration I was referring into the original post.
Xander Soldaat told the GlideWheel has a counting-degrees-sensor.
For the rest; this GlideWheel is a splendid idea since the choice of motor or gearing make a lot more possible than only a NXT-motor.
If it has to be a new all-in-one motor I think a 360º servo with a better encoder will be the best solution.
And if TLC is willing to make it a addressable bus version it would be very great too, of course!
The counting type of sensor isn't very good in counting when it goes faster.
I'm sure it works fine if the medium (or large) motor is geared down and that's what I like about this idea; you're able to make lots of combinations.
Especially when a better type of encoder makes it sure to use only one motor port for each motorized function.
I like to have the sensor ports free for detecting obstacles, in stead of using them for positioning/synchronizing legs.
If TLC wants to compete with the increasing amount of bots, the Mindstorms system should be able to handle lots of motors and sensors at low costs!
A bus system is not bad, is it?
At least it's easy to make it compatible with the existing NXT and PF parts.
Nevertheless at this point, this should be a challenge valid for 3-4 years ahead only.
I agree that the current LMS motors are not ideal. They may allow a small-ish (24mm diameter) rotating part to go into the place where rotation is to be delivered but the bulky motor has to be accommodated. Also, as has been mentioned, the encoder accuracy is not good for large or fast movements. In that way it is trying to be both a continuous motor and a servo motor and I think the 2 functions should be split in the next generation of NXT actuators.
My limited use of the NXT is partly down to the motors. I prefer the ready interface and flexible modularity of the PF motors and receiver, with separate battery box and especially the new servo motor.
Difficulty fitting a lot into a small space is common to NXT, Technic, Trains and functional System models - right across the LEGO theme range. I have a diesel loco with L-motor for power, M-motor for gear change, IR receiver and LiPo battery box and it's a real squeeze, unavoidably over-length for the scale, and that's in 8+wide! LEGO electric parts have a handicap on function density because they always have to have a plastic skin over any metal parts inside. The skin helps reliability (plug and play without calibration) and makes the parts usable by a younger customer base.
How well have we tried using the new PF servo motor with the NXT? I've not seen many pictures of it. We can drive 8 PF servos from an IR link sensor. I tested that two could be controlled independently from a single IR Receiver. This means I can replace the set of [2 NXTs (communicating wirelessly) + 6 NXT motors + 6 Linear Actuators] with [1 NXT + 1 IR Link Sensor + 3 IR Receivers + 6 PF Servo Motors + cranks and links] for controlling a flight simulator Stewart Platform. It's a simpler setup with only 1 NXT.
The next issue is the PF servo motor itself. The torque is good but maybe not enough for robot legs to raise it from lying down to standing up. The control is open loop because separate sensors would be needed for the NXT to see the shaft positions. The form factor provides 2 shaft directions but is not ideal for a robot knee because it sticks out a lot further than a commercial servo. Nevertheless I think the PF Servo is a big step forward for LEGO - I have waited 17 years to do wireless multi-position car steering!
Overall I think the next-gen NXT needs to move towards the PF system. We need a PF receiver that allows 1 NXT to control at least 16 receivers. NXT Bluetooth is limited to 3 channels so would WiFi do it? That way each receiver can have a local power supply (no current limit from central supply) and a remote command (can have NXT computer static or on the mothership).
We also need the signals to flow in the other direction - the WiFi node could have 2 sensor ports as well as the 2 motor ports, with bidirectional comms with the NXT. The V2 PF IR Receiver has better motor drive with the TI drv8833 chip so this chip should be OK for the new NXT system motor drives.
This takes the multiplexer concept and makes it wireless. One programmable NXT (small unit with screen and separate battery box) with up to 16 remote WiFi nodes, each node having 2 motor ports and 2 sensor ports. Nodes may have downloaded commands so that a sensor at a node may control a motor at the same node directly. A node would stop its motors if the comm link failed (to fulfil the RC car loss of control safety requirement).
With this system all current NXT models would be possible. It would also be possible for 1 NXT to control a swarm of mini-bots - fun and educational. 1-NXT football team competition anyone?
This would make the bus virtual and would not waste space and expense on more connectors. It is important to keep the command and control parts small and the actuators an appropriate size and shape for their function. If connectors are used then maybe a version of the smaller 4-way phone plug would be better. The cables would follow PF protocol for actuation; the sensors would receive the 9V and 0V and return either 5V serial comms or PF PWM signals on C1 and C2. PF could be driven directly and a 4-pin encoder sensor put on the motor shaft or any appropriate shaft to measure the position and speed.
Competitiveness for an acrobatic biped robot is down to small command & control, flexible leads and the actuators. Once NXT and PF dovetail more and use the same actuators more readily then the money spreads better so we could have more sizes of each type of actuator e.g. mini-servo because there is a wide range of commercial servo sizes.
For the encoder sensor I suggest the form factor of the PF M-motor and 2M long. As many bit of gray code as possible in that size but at least 128 steps per revolution would be nice (16 steps/rev for NXT motor needs gearing down to achieve accuracy - fast and accurate have been mutually exclusive so TLG need to improve on this).
A stepper motor (new PF and NXT actuator) might also be possible with 2 leads from the 2 ports of a PF IR receiver or a new NXT WiFi equivalent. The drv8833 chip is designed to drive a 2-phase bipolar stepper motor.
I fully support the NXT move towards PFS. | 2019-04-20T13:06:00 | http://www.technicbricks.com/2012/08/does-mindstorms-servo-fits.html |
0.999128 | shows the average property price in a given postcode sector between March 2018 - February 2019. The most affordable place was 'OL1 3' with the average price of £69.2k. The most expensive place was 'OL4 4', £262k.
With the average price of £135k, Oldham is the 15. cheapest city out of 113 England and Wales' cities. | 2019-04-18T13:44:00 | http://www.plumplot.co.uk/City-Oldham-house-prices.html |
0.998894 | Germany: An SPD-Green-Die Linke majority would have been possible Pierre Laurent : "I am calling for a new Popular Left Front" Left Front: a weekend of local responses to austerity Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “A general reorientation of policy is what’s on the agenda.” Greece: Syriza Responds to Daniel Cohn-Bendit’s Criticism Mélenchon wants to "pit fraternity against hatred"
On two occasions last weekend, the national secretary of the French Communist Party was warmly received by socialist militants dissatisfied with President Hollande’s and Prime Minister Valls’ policies..
A busy week-end it has been for PCF National Secretary Pierre Laurent : on Saturday he was welcomed by Deputies Marie-Noëlle Lienemann and Emmanuel Maurel at the conference of their Socialist movement “Maintenant la gauche” (To the Left, Now) in the Essonne département near Paris, while on Sunday he attended the conference of the other Socialist left-wing movement “Un monde d’avance” (Looking ahead to the future) in the Landes, a south-west département. On both occasions the socialist militants responded as warmly to his speeches as did the Socialist Summer Conference he addressed in La Rochelle in late August.
Pierre Laurent’s addresses obviously met these socialist militants’ expectations. If all of them are disappointed with Hollande, they are scattered among several movements or trends within the Socialist Party, and the PCF leader can be “the link between the various Leftist movements,” as a Maintenant la gauche” socialist tentatively said. “Pierre Laurent is more likely to be applauded by socialists than are Moscovici or Valls,” said Emmanuel Morel, leader of the Socialist Party’s left wing.
The French Communist Party’s national secretary made several proposals, like “cutting VAT selectively”, also “denouncing the typically rightist discourse against public spending,” and he criticized the “40 billion euro CICE tax credit to companies supposedly for ”initiative, competitiveness and employment” as being “the biggest waste of public funds that has ever been staged.” And he too, like former presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon who recently gave up the presidency of the Parti de Gauche (Left Party) in order to start a countrywide, grassroots “people’s campaign” in favour of the sixth Republic, argued that “the time has come to set up a sixth Republic based on social rights and on new rights for salaried workers”. Both in the Essonne and in the Landes the audience stood up to applaud his speech. | 2019-04-18T10:15:17 | http://www.humaniteinenglish.com/spip.php?article2554 |
0.999995 | What is a Unicellular Eukaryote?
Life on Earth consists of prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Prokaryotes are single-celled micro-organisms with no defined nucleus; their DNA floats in a circle inside them, and they have no organelles. Eukaryotes can be unicellular or multicellular. Eukaryotes carry a defined nucleus, which houses DNA and organelles such as endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, the Golgi apparatus, and in the case of plants, chloroplasts. Unicellular eukaryotes comprise the majority of species, and have existed on Earth for billions of years.
Unicellular eukaryotes are single-celled micro-organisms with a defined nucleus, mitochondria and other organelles. They include phytoplankton, or algae, and zooplankton, or protozoa. Unicellular eukaryotes originated billions of years ago.
Eukaryotes likely descended from prokaryotes. Mitochondria may actually be an example of an amalgam of two prokaryotes, one consuming the other. The smaller bacterium could have survived after consumption and produced energy while the larger bacterium provided nutrients, and one theory holds that this symbiotic relationship led to eukaryotes. As for genomics, scientists continue to tease out at what point Superkingdom (or Domain) Eukaryota split off from the others, Bacteria and Archaea, as tiny protists prove to be more diverse than originally thought. Examining the microfossil record indicates that ancient unicellular eukaryotes evolved some time between 2 billion and 3.5 billion years before the present day.
Most algae are unicellular plants and are also known as phytoplankton. Phytoplankton, as tiny plants, generate their energy from the sun via photosynthesis. They possess a cell wall. Since they perform photosynthesis, phytoplankton are sensitive to the position of the sun and the length of days, and may bloom or succumb according to seasons. These tiny organisms make up a major part of the food web, particularly in oceans. Even in the Antarctic they thrive and provide food for krill, a keystone species other Antarctic animals rely on to survive. Algae provide approximately 70 percent of all oxygen on Earth. Examples of these plantlike protists include green algae, diatoms, brown algae and slime molds.
Protozoa are tiny, unicellular animals, also called zooplankton. Protozoans function as minuscule animals by feeding, expelling waste and reproducing. Their food may consist of other protozoa, phytoplankton or bacteria; they cannot produce their own food like plants. They provide another essential element of the food web, along with phytoplankton. Protozoans can live in many different types of environments, some quite extreme.
Numerous examples of protozoa exist. Amoebas use their locomotive extensions called pseudopodia to move around. Foraminiferans, which live on the sea floor, secrete calcium-based shells, which form the basis of sedimentary rock and historically served as indicators of oil sources. Radiolarians secrete radial, silicon-based shells. Flagellates, as their name suggests, bear flagella for motility. Trypanosomes mostly reside as symbiotes inside larger animals, although some are disease vectors, such as in the case of African sleeping sickness. Paramecia possess cilia on their surface and stinging units called trichocysts. Other ciliates include blepharisma, stentor and vorticella.
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0.999686 | Rosehip or Prune?: Moving On?
I'm just back from spending a few days with old friends. I had a great time and now I feel like crap. Being alone in this house has become unbearable and I am on the verge of deciding to move away from this unfriendly and unhappy place.
I've been widowed, and therefore living alone, for three years now, and a change has been working in me this last year. For the first couple of years I still felt linked to the Golfer and so, although I missed him and felt lonely without him, I also still felt like part of something - he might not be around any more but I was still his wife. At least, that's what kept me going through those awful months. But actually I lost more than my husband when he died. I lost the connection to the exciting world he inhabited, all the vicarious thrills of his international travel - the crises, the late-night phone calls and emails, the hastily arranged travel plans. My life might have been pretty dull and quiet but I was only a step away from a busy and exciting life, populated by hundreds of people that I never met but that I felt as if I knew.
When he died, inevitably all that disappeared too. I was concentrating so hard on being brave those first two years after his death that I didn't have time to notice how very different, how sparse, my life was now. Part of it was of our own doing - we had always been a pretty private couple - he didn't like to mix business and home life, home was the place he came to recuperate - so we didn't have many friends, only colleagues. Luckily, I had a couple of friends of my own, otherwise I wouldn't have got this far but, as almost all my family and his too, were dead, when he died I was left practically alone in the world. Just me and my son and my little dog. The son had, by a cruel coincidence, gone off to University the same month that the Golfer died so, when I woke up from my stupor of grief a year ago, I was appalled at what my life was now. I went from living in a house with a family and two businesses being run from it, to living alone with just an old dog for company, almost overnight.
So this last year has felt worse than anything that preceded it. I will even admit that I have felt almost suicidal at times. I can now at least bear to be around married friends, I can go to their houses and see their normal lives without wanting to stab myself in the eyes. But I want to live it again, desperately. I might never marry again - who'd put up with a book-collecting aspiring intellectual who never wants to cook another meal but loves playing WOrld of Warcraft? Not an enticing prospect to your average middle-aged guy, you'll agree. But I can at least live amongst friends, and in a neighbourhood where people talk to you and aren't afraid to offer a helping hand.
The friends I was visiting last week live in the town I used to live in before we came to the wild and woolly Highlands. I love going back. People look you in the eye and they love to talk. It's partly nosiness of course, but oh! how I long for that nosiness after ten years of being blanked by the people here.
When I was staying there, at one point we had two new mums, a new dad, and two babies in the house as well as the three of us and my little dog. It was bliss and I wanted it never to stop. I could hardly bear to drag myself back here. But I checked out a house for sale while I was there, and I loved it, and I think, I really think that I am going to do it. I just need to talk to my son and then I think I'm actually going to put my house on the market (and stuff the credit crunch) and that means I could soon be living amongst normal people again, with a social life, and company, and a new life. I cannot wait!
Hi Puddock, how I understand that ache for change, that longing to just be 'somewhere else', amongst kind faces and happy smiles. I do hope so much that you succeed in your wish and manage to get that house. It's ironic that you see some of your qualities, such as being a 'book collecting inspiring intellectual' as though they are flaws that would deter romance. I have to disagree. I aspire to anything that would provide a talking point and the capacity to share in World of Warcraft? with a take away meal is not to be sniffed at. Could be fun!
To be happy away from what once was, without feeling the heart strings tugging us backwards is a step into freedom. Good luck with the future move, it sounds like a most excellent decision for you.
Thanks Steph - I'm keeping my fingers crossed that there are a few guys out there who wouldn't run a mile! One thing's for sure - I ain't changing for a man so it'll be love me, love my blogging and my gaming and my reading (and my dog).
Coming from another side of this. When my husband went missing we had to pack up and leave a month later - leaving everything, friends, home and a place we deeply loved. We (sorry, three Children so I still talk in plurals - it's the four of us rather than the royal We!) moved to be close to family but to a city and area I deeply hate. I've been here five years. Now I'm trying to work out moving on rather than moving back, logistics and possibilities, and what to do when you don't know what to do... so many complications that you don't know about until you're here. | 2019-04-26T02:25:11 | http://rosehiporprune.blogspot.com/2008/11/moving-on.html |
0.999999 | This is a group for any tech professionals or political experts (or ordinary citizens) interested in discussing in a detailed way the potential opportunities for reforming existing democratic institutions; from local organisations to national governments around the world through technology or other practices. Our aim is to improve democracy: we think this can best be done by providing a forum for discussing democracy proposals, ideas, and to foster collaboration between people who would like to participate in democracy reform.
Designing Open Democracy will not presume any form of democratic system to be superior, but is a forum for discussion and practical planning on how such system may be implemented. In addition, this meetup will not be exclusive to any political party, but be a forum for members of various parties, groups and individuals to come together to trade ideas related to open democracy and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses.
This may involve developing criteria and methodologies for evaluating potential implementations (e.g. election softwares or different ways of conducting governance).
TL;DR: We are an advocacy group for promoting greater interaction between relevant stakeholders involved in developing a more unified and stronger democracy.
The core organising team members is Brian Khuu and Simon Gnieslaw and Nick Merange, you can reach out to us via [email protected].
We also have members from various political parties and companies who we often consult for specific updates about various democracy related projects of interests. As well as to collaborate on how to best assist them in achiving a better democracy.
Our online gathering place is in discuss.designingopendemocracy.com, where we can discuss in depth various projects and concepts.
For our slack chat channel at opendemocracy.slack.com. For access, just post a request at our Discourse web forum above.
As mentioned, it is a technical discussion group, so we expect to have detailed discussions about the technical practicalities of different systems and their merits and limitations.
If this sounds like something that’s for you, we look forward to seeing you at one of our meetings!
If you have any questions directly related to us that cannot be answered in our web forum then email [email protected]. We are always looking for new venues and interested groups! | 2019-04-21T11:08:46 | http://designingopendemocracy.com/ |
0.999975 | In one sentence, what was your focus for the year? Our focus this year was on making meaningful and thoughtful connections between the FPPL and the Core Competencies.
Scanning: Data collected during the 2016/2017 school year revealed that seven out of twenty-three Aboriginal Students could not identify two adults that thought they would be a success in life, and two could only name one adult. Through our teacher-focused inquiry last year, in-house survey results indicated that staff engagement and comfort level with Aboriginal curricular content had steadily increased. There was a sense that staff were on-board and believed in the work being undertaken through our inquiry and we wanted to build off of that momentum this year. The hope of course being that as staff gradually became more comfortable integrating Aboriginal content into their teaching, our learners – especially our Aboriginal learners will be able to see themselves reflected in the curriculum. Ultimately, we want our learners to believe their learning is purposeful, to be reflective in nature and to have an idea of where their learning can take them in the future.
Focus: Our focus was to be on something concrete that we felt that staff would feel comfortable delving into with respect to integrating Aboriginal Education into their classrooms. We felt that the FPPL was a logical starting point, as it is an accessible document that could be used in all classrooms. We also felt that we had sufficient resources available to staff through the learning commons that would connect nicely to the FPPL. Again, the hope being that giving staff a tangible entry point into Aboriginal Education would have a positive impact on our students.
Hunch: Our hunch is that the comfort level across staff with respect to Aboriginal Education varies significantly. We feel that our decision to focus on staff was the right choice for our school and want to continue to encourage and empower staff to grow in their teaching.
We believe that the educational experience (with respect to Aboriginal Education) of our learners varies from grade to grade and we want to be able to help staff level out these variances so our students will benefit from the work we are collectively undertaking.
New Professional Learning: This year, the staff at Lena Shaw were given the opportunity to participate in several learning activities that were connected to Aboriginal Education. First, staff were invited to take part in a book club that focused on Aboriginal Issues through the lens of Darrel Dennis in Peace Pipe Dreams. Next, Angela Brown, a diversity educator for the VSB, offered a professional development session that centered on issues related to Reconciliation and links to the new curriculum. Finally, the staff was treated to a powerful after school session with Jo-Anne Chrona, Curriculum Coordinator with FNESC.
Reading Peace Pipe Dreams provided staff with a safe-space to have inspired conversations about contemporary and historical issues that are at the forefront of Reconciliation. The book highlights the importance of Aboriginal Education through a “light-hearted/tongue-in-cheek” discussion of many topical, hot button, political issues. Conversations were deeply compelling, emotionally charged and ultimately fantastic learning experiences. The novel served as a springboard to rich dialogue that served to inform us of some deeply rooted anxieties surrounding knowledge, sensitivity and an all-around understanding of Aboriginal Issues in general.
Angela Brown’s professional development session at our school was a fantastic opportunity for staff to further their understanding of underlying systemic inequalities within our schools and society at large. We were invited to explore how discrimination, on the basis of sexism and racism to name a few, truly permeates and to overcome its detrimental consequences is an active process of awareness and understanding.
Finally, Jo-Anne Chrona gave a powerful presentation on the creation of the FPPL. Jo-Anne articulated a rationale for the “why” component of Aboriginal Education that really seemed to resonate with all of the staff who attended. The session was inspirational and grounded for many the importance of this work and how crucial it is for teachers to believe in what they are doing in their classrooms. The session was a buzz with a lot of critical reflection among staff who recognized that they have holes in their own knowledge of Aboriginal Issues that they would like to see filled going forward.
Taking Action: The actions our team took on were intended for staff to be given a wide-range of learning opportunities related to Aboriginal Education that would make them critically reflective on their practice and see the value this could have on their students. The book club and professional development activities coupled with our experiences last year have served to ignite an ongoing dialogue of what this can look like in our school and in our classrooms. The outlook is positive with a clear recognition that there still remains a lot of heavy lifting to be done.
Checking: We reached out to staff through an anonymous survey and asked them to respond on their current/feelings and attitudes toward Aboriginal Education considering the professional activities we offered. There was a sense that teachers were appreciative and inspired to both incorporate more aspects of Aboriginal Education in their teaching and also focus on themselves as learners and begin to examine their own understandings of issues that might be holding them back. That said, there are still voices of concern that emerge out of a fear that they might be “doing something wrong” or “being unintentionally insensitive” through their teaching. What is promising is that staff felt comfortable enough to share these anxieties and they should be taken as indications that a lot of deep thought is being put into how to do this work in a way that is authentic, effective and meaningful.
Staff have also indicated that they are reading Jo-Anne’s blog, exploring the resources on the FNESC website and incorporating ideas like learning and talking circles, alongside the FPPL into their classrooms on a much more frequent basis.
Reflections/Advice: I think some of the more overarching learning from this inquiry really is that we have come a long way, but there is still much more work to be done. Staff are feeling more comfortable with Aboriginal Education and are starting to play around with ways in doing so that are authentic to them. We have also learned that there is still some uncertainty and even a bit of anxiety surrounding staff’s understanding of Aboriginal Issues. Conversations related to the book club and survey responses really highlighted this issue.
Going forward, it might be worthwhile to engage in some more round table lunch-time sessions where teachers engage in a book-club style discussion related to contemporary Aboriginal Issues and how they cast a spotlight on injustices of the past. Teachers are beginning to feel empowered on how they could integrate Aboriginal Education but it may also be worthy to explore in more the detail the question of why this is so important. | 2019-04-24T08:12:54 | http://www.noii.ca/lena-shaw-elementary-sd36-surrey/ |
0.999879 | Many people think that the role of government is to protect "the little guy" from corporations. Free-market economists disagree. It is the role of competition to protect the little guy from corporations. The problem is one of information. How do you discern the proper amount of protection? After all, you can completely protect consumers by preventing corporations from selling anything, and workers by preventing corporations from employing anyone. Set the protection level high enough, and that's what you get even if that's not what you meant.
Free-market economists believe that government cannot ever set the protection level correctly. The information cannot flow to the government quickly enough to adapt to changing workers, economic conditions, technology, procedures, and the market for safety. People's desire for protection also changes over time and their life circumstances. There is no one correct level &emdash; any one level set by the government will be wrong for some people.
Does that leave "the little guy" screwed?
No. You see, it is corporations themselves that have the information necessary to set the protection level correctly for their market. They won't volunteer that information. Instead, they will reflect it in their prices. If they are not protecting the consumer, competition will force them to charge lower prices. If they protect the consumer more, competition will allow them to charge higher prices.
Does that mean that consumers have to have perfect information in Libertopia?
No. Probably only 10% of consumers take the time to compare prices, quality, etc. These people are admired, though, and less diligent consumers listen to them. Over time, their information distributes itself among the less concerned shoppers. If a company is charging too much for too little protection, it will have lowered sales.
Free-market economists aren't in favor of less consumer protection. They're in favor of a different kind of consumer protection -- one which they believe generates a greater diversity of results which better matches the needs of individuals. | 2019-04-22T04:39:43 | http://blog.russnelson.com/economics/consumer-worker-protection |
0.999995 | „You are healed." Allegra nodded. "You are no longer a Silver Blood." She paused. "But you are no longer a vampire either."
Everybody's waitin' for me to arrive.
We'll be lookin' flashy in my Mercedes Benz.
I can go for miles if you know what I mean.
I'm comin' up so you better you better get this party started.
„you know this means that what we did-what we almost did in Paris-"
„And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew.
Context: Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along, you'll start happening too!
We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks. | 2019-04-18T23:01:31 | https://citacoes.in/citacoes/1112023-kathy-reichs-youll-start-talking-and-pretty-soon-well-all-st/ |
0.999392 | This morning, while watching the BBC, I was outraged by the story of Berivan, a 15-year-old Kurdish girl jailed for 8 years in a high security prison in Turkey - on charges of supporting a terrorist organization. Of course, the charge - "supporting a terrorist organization" caught my attention and sent me digging deep into the story. I wanted to find out how the little girl was supporting a terrorist organization. Was the minor a terrorist recruit? Did the 15-year-old attempt to blow up an aircraft or a public building in Turkey? Further reading led me to even more outrageous stories - which confirm the fact that the government of Turkey jails Kurdish children for supporting anti-government protests in south-east Turkey.
According to the BBC, there are currently more than 340 Kurdish children behind bars in Turkey, on charges of supporting a terrorist group.
In April 2010, the Turkish High court sentenced 15 Kurdish children for throwing stones at police officers and for participating in anti-government protests - in support of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) - an organisation listed as a terrorist group.
Does the participation of minors in anti-government protests and "chanting illegal slogans" in support of the PKK, justify "exceptionally harsh" anti-terror law that jeopardize the welfare of children?
Talking to the BBC, a Kurdish child said: "They're always unfair to us; they don't want us to speak our own language - we want to speak our own language and use our own flag. We don't want to be ruled by others".
Turkey is party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and has a legal obligation under international law to protect the rights of children. Mindful of this obligation - why is the government of Turkey unwilling to amend such a flawed law that puts children ( from a minority ethnic group ) in jail? Why are children held in high security prisons - together with hardened PKK militants?
If you ask me - Turkey should amend the harsh anti-terrorist law that jails children for supporting anti-government demonstrations. While it true that the PKK is outlawed for threatening the "indivisible unity" of the Turkish Republic - it is also true that Kurdish children held in high security jails are not PKK militants and do not pose any real threat to the national security of Turkey. The children are simply victims of the long-standing conflict between the government of Turkey and the PKK.
The European Union (EU) and the international community should mount pressure on Turkey to quickly end the shameful practice of throwing children into adult high security jails - in the name of fighting Terrorism.
Help sign a petition to push for the release of Berivan and all Kurdish children in Turkish jails, here.
*Photo from PressTv: Berivan, a 15-year-old Kurdish girl who is jailed in January 2010 for throwing stones at police officers and chanting illegal slogans. | 2019-04-23T04:56:56 | http://www.zuzeeko.com/2010/05/turkey-jails-children-for-supporting.html |
0.999577 | A fable says that a wise women solved a king's dire problem and the king said she could have anything she wanted in return. She demurely asked only for a chessboard with 1 grain of wheat on the first square, 2 on the second, 4 on the third, 8 on the Fourth and so on up to sixty-fourth square.
Calculate the missing terms in the arithmetic sequence, if a1 = 6, and a5 = 66.
Kim's starting salary was $40,000 per year. Each year we receive a cost of living adjustment (COLA) of three percent of our original salary. Write a sequence showing my salary for my first five years of working here.
Determine the amount required in an individual retirement account for an individual who retires at age 65 and wants an income of $2000 from the account each month for 20 years. Assume that the account earns 9% compounded monthly.
A company is offering a job with a salary of $30,000 for the first year. Suppose that during the next 39 years, there is a 5% raise each year. Determine the total compensation over the 40 year period.
A ball is dropped from a height of 16 feet. Each time it drops h feet, it rebounds 0.81h feet.
A city of 250,000 people is growing at a rate of 1.3% per year. Estimate the population of the city 30 years from now.
A company buys a machine for $135,000 and it depreciates at a rate of 30% per year. (In other words, at the end of each year the depreciated value is 70% of what it was at the beginning of the year) Find the depreciated value of the machine after 5 full years.
A = 100 (1+ 0.12/12)1 + ..................+ 100 (1 + 0.10/12)60. Find A.
Q 4: A deposite of $50 is made on the first day of each month in a savings account that pays 6% compounded monthly. What is the balance at the end of 2 years? | 2019-04-18T11:17:18 | http://kwiznet.com/p/takeQuiz.php?ChapterID=12069&CurriculumID=49&Method=Worksheet&NQ=10&Num=3.14 |
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0.999959 | Questions about knowledge often arise in dialogues I have with friends. Yesterday I found myself involved in one such dialogue. Our examination began by trying to establish, with a level of certainty, what we could know about the room we were occupying. As our discussion progressed, we considered the question of knowledge from the point of view of other creatures. What, for example, can an insect know with certainty about the world?
The water bug is an insect that can walk on water. From his point of view, water is a solid object that can be walked upon. But from our point of view, water is not solid. We sink in water. The bug's senses tell him water is solid and he constructs a story of reality based on this information. But surely we humans can know more about the world than a bug. Surely our senses are more accurate.
Perhaps not. I asked my friend to consider the table we were sitting next to. I suggested that we could both walk on it because it is solid. We could certainly sit on it. But, I asked, are my senses telling me about how the table really is? Or am I like the water bug, merely creating a story about the world that fits the way it appears to me? What exactly is the table?
My wise friend has knowledge of the science you moderns call "physics". He explained that the table is comprised of many trillions of atoms. It seems my predecessors, the "atomists" were correct. He went on to explain that atoms have, as part of their constitution, a cloud of electrons, which have a negative charge, which means they cannot be pushed together. The point that emerged from our discussion is that the electrons in my hand repel against the electrons in the table. That is why I cannot push my hand through the table. That is why the table "feels" solid. In actual fact, the atoms that comprise my hand do not actually touch the atoms that make up the table.
So, my friends, it seems that we are like the poor little water bug. We create a view of reality that fits what our senses tell us, but this view does not exactly match how things really are in the world beyond our minds. After having come to this realization, we discussed optical illusions, hallucinations, and cognitive peculiarities such as change blindness. Each of these phenomena give us reason to believe that our senses can fool us into either thinking that something is there when it isn't, or that something isn't there when it is. An argument emerged from our discussion.
This argument lead us quickly to a deduction about whether our senses can give us knowledge.
And at this point our discussion came to an end, both of us uncertain about what, if anything, we can know about the world. | 2019-04-20T22:56:22 | http://socrates-21c.blogspot.com/2018/03/knowledge-and-certainty.html |
0.998301 | Implementing password resets is hard. The problem comes down to how we authenticate a user who forgot the common secret(s) we shared. We all know, that "password reset questions" are often just weak "password bypass questions," and can not be used to authenticate a user reliably.
Let's talk about resetting passwords. In my opinion, password reset questions should never be considered as an authentication mechanism. Let's call them a rate-limiting tool: They prevent an attacker from flooding a victim with password reset e-mails. But this is about all they are good for.
So what else can we do? SMS or automated phone calls can be a reasonable option for some sites, but NIST in recent guidance regarding two-factor authentication pointed out that it is certainly possible for an attacker to obtain access to someone's SMS traffic. To do so, an attacker has to convince a phone company to add a new phone to the account. The process usually involves answering some questions similar to password reset questions, or some social engineering. The phone/SMS authentication isn't any better than the weak password reset questions we try to get rid off.
There is another method I have seen implemented a couple of times. I call it "password buddy". When you set up an account, you select a few individuals that may approve password resets on your behalf. In a corporate environment, these may be coworkers or your boss. But it could also be a family member. For this to work, both parties need to have an account at the same site.
Answering the question will trigger an email or SMS to the user with a one-time code. The purpose of the code is to prevent a DoS attack where someone starts the password reset but doesn't complete it, in effect locking out the user.
A password buddy may use their access to reset your password. This is why we still send an e-mail to the account holder, and we still ask password reset questions. At least we are not worse off than before.
Same as above, but instead of your buddy turning against you, an attacker is taking over the buddy's account.
An attacker could social engineer your buddy into approving the password reset. To do so, the attacker needs to know who the person is. It should also be more difficult to impersonate you to a person you know very well as compared to some anonymous help desk.
What if your password buddies aren't available? This is why you pick a couple. Let's hope one of them is available in time.
If there is something else that doesn't work in security, then it is central "anonymous" help desks. They can almost always be social engineered. The idea behind this system is that you authenticate to someone who you work with daily, maybe you can even just walk over to them and ask them for help in person. Or a family member that knows you very well. | 2019-04-23T15:07:02 | https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Password+Buddies%3A+A+Better+Way+To+Reset+Passwords/21547 |
0.999913 | Infantry can be zeroed for 150 and 300 meters. Carbine is stuck with 75 meters.
What's the reasoning here? It always struck me as a little odd that the short-barrel, low zeroing variants, that also recover from spread slower (all more aggressive/CQ traits), also got the more ranged optics.
Probably just a slight realism thing. Iron sights on those old bolt action rifles have traditionally been quickly and easily adjustable. Add-on optics, not so much. IRL, I think irons are also considered a better long range aiming device than the attachment that amounts to an RDS in-game. As such, the carbine, especially with the superior moving ADS, is intended for closer range support and trench clearing (as well as a bolt action can trench clear, but hey they totally did that in WWI) where the infantry variant is meant to represent a rifle for the typical 200-300m+ engagement ranges it would've been used for. The recoil and spread decreases are probably just to allow for more rapid follow up shots on the targets in the longer ranges the infantry variant is meant for while the carbine variant, meant for closer ranges, doesn't need improved spread or recoil recovery. | 2019-04-18T22:35:48 | http://forum.symthic.com/battlefield-1-general-discussion/10937-infantry-and-optic/index2.html |
0.998709 | One can have a progression and it is called a Sequence.
One can sum the terms in a sequence or progression, and this is called a Series.
Why those terms like that; or why those two different terminologies? Was it decided just to pick a word Series so as to avoid the need to use Sum Of the Terms in a Progression?
Ehm, not sure I understand your point, but quite often we the humans find it convenient to use one word which might have a more complex analytical meaning which can be expressed with more than one words. The word series is only one word instead of the 5-7 words "Sum of the terms of a sequence". I find the whole thing similar to for example we use the world "circle" and we all understand what we mean, instead of expressing it analytically as "the set of points whose Euclidean distance from another given point , the center of the circle, is constant"
the fifth , sixth , seventh or whatever term is the 5th ... HARMONIC and so on .
A sequence is a list of terms. A series is a sum of terms. These are two different concepts, so you need two different words.
That matches the concepts to each of the given words, so this must be through use as definition.
I'm not sure if this means that things are now cleared up.
"Progression" and "sequence" are synonyms, so we have two words that mean the same thing. An arithmetic progression is also called an arithmetic sequence. Similary a geometric progression is also called a geometric sequence.
In my lexicon, "sequence" would include arbitrary lists, either with or without a finitely expressible rule while "progression" would indicate the existence of a finitely describable pattern.
While synonyms according to wikitionairy, series and sequence derive from different Latin verbs.
"Borrowed from Latin series, from serere (“to join together, bind”)."
"From Middle English sequence, borrowed from French sequence (“a sequence of cards, answering verses”), from Late Latin sequentia (“a following”), from Latin sequens (“following”), from sequi (“to follow”);"
From this etymology "to join" versus "to follow" an author could distinguish a stronger relationship among members of a series from the looser or weaker relation among members of a sequence or at least the notion that "members of a sequence follow one another". Given that distinctions among Latin terms are mostly lost in modern English, the OP is correct to rely on procedural definitions inherent in specific knowledge fields to distinguish usage in publications.
In mathematics parlance, series and sequence are not synonomous. A series is a sum of terms from some sequence.
Understood. The word origins also support your statement, as I was attempting to relate, however poorly.
I was clarifying what was in wiktionary. What you wrote was fine.
posts #7,8,9,10,11, are saying that Series to mean the summation of terms of a Sequence, is a definition. Post #8 was helpful in that making the distinction between "follows" and "joins".
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0.999999 | I'm thinking about buying the new MacBook Pro with 4 USB-C ports.
I want to attach two screens, mouse and keyboard and ethernet to the MacBook Pro while using the fewest number of USB-C ports possible.
Best case would be a hub to which all devices are connected with a single connection to the MacBook Pro, including power supply. Worst case if attaching the MacBook Pro to the devices would require me to use all four of USB-C ports.
I can attach the monitors with two cables as a last resort, leaving me with two ports for the remaining peripherals.
Would daisy chaining work with a hub or does it require the first monitor to be directly attached to the MacBook Pro?
Does some kind of hub exist supporting attachment of all listed devices with a single upstream connection to the MacBook Pro?
We have a brand new Late 2016 Macbook Pro and 2 Apple/LG 21.5 USB-C 4K monitors. Daisy-chaining/MST does not work. We are using the monitors and nothing else with the original cables. Only way to get it to work is to connect each to individual USB-C ports on the MBP. Sad but true.
Multi-Stream Transport (MST), also known as Daisy Chaining, is a new connection specification that allows multiple monitors to be connected in series with the video signal being passed from the computer to a monitor, and then from the first monitor on to the second monitor and so on. This differs from the traditional configuration of having a separate video cable run from the graphics adapter to each monitor in parallel. This simplifies the video wiring in most situations, but does have some specific configuration requirements to enable it.
I've been searching Apple's specs page on the new MacBook Pro's and I haven't found anything that specifically states they support the Display Port 1.2 spec. Though the Intel HD Graphics (15" MBP) supports it as does the Intel Iris Graphics 550 (13" MBP).
As noted in the comments, this has been tested and found that Apple doesn't support MST daisy chaining. Therefore, the only two options at this time is to use 2 direct TB to DP cables (first option above) or daisy chain the monitors with a third TB device (like storage) between the two monitors if you have that OS requirement.
I'm not sure if this answers the question but I'm testing this out right now with a new MacBook Pro Touchbar 13" with 4 USB-C ports.
I'm able to get two monitors working, one through HDMI on the Minix (Dell U2415) and one through DisplayPort (Dell U3014) using a USB-C to DisplayPort cable. I CAN daisy chain from the Dell U2415 to another Dell U2415 for 3 monitors but they will only mirror and not extend the display.
From what I've read, it's a MacOS limitation and not a hardware limitation. Evidently, if you bootcamp into Windows you can daisy chain on DP 1.2 with no problem.
I started typing this and then got sidetracked with a bunch of things so hopefully this is coherent.
Okay, after some further research, I want to share my findings.
Is it possible to have a single-connected hub to which all monitors (DP or HDMI) and peripherals are connected?
Apparently not. I have not found any product which supports more then one DisplayPort or more then one HDMI port. In fact I was unable to find any hub or dock that supports more then one display device via HDMI or DisplayPort.
But there is such a device, if one display has a native USB-C port and the other display has a DisplayPort. Then one can go with the Thunderbolt 3 Express Dock which seems to be the only device supporting two display devices, but with the said constraints.
buying a DP-monitor and a USB-C monitor (while for the latter there is not so much to choose of, in fact I'm only quiet certain about the LG Ultrafine display promoted by apple) and the above mentioned hub.
buy an arbitrary USB-C hub for the the peripherals, use fitting adapters for both display devices and (unless the chosen usb-c hub is "with power delivery") use the last port for power supplying the macbook.
There are several USB-C hubs out there with at least one HDMI-port and which are connected to the macbook via one USB-C port and are able to supply the macbook with power. Those hubs are labelled as "USB-C hub with power delivery". Unfortunately some of them are only said to support mirroring, so support of screen expansion is uncertain.
A hub that does support it does seem to be the best bet, since those hubs are reasonably priced, one can basically choose of every available display on the market and a maximum of two ports need to be plugged into the macbook to connect the devices in my question (five).
One such device is a HooToo deivce, which - together with a standard HDMI-cable and a USB 3.1 to displayport cable - should do the trick.
As said by a commenter, it's not really sure that ne Macbook supports daisychaining, but even if: Apparently there are not usb-c hubs with support for DisplayPort and even then it would be unclear if this combination would work with daisychaining.
I am working on this same problem, although I plan to get the two-port MBP. There are several USB-C to DP adapters, that supposedly support MST, however, as it was mentioned already, it is not currently clear whether the MBP itself supports MST, let alone whether it will support it in a combination with some adapters.
The above is a rather expensive solution, at €59 for each of the adapters, but at least, in theory, they shouldn't ruin the USB-C ports on the MBP itself, as some of the knock-off cheap cables are rumoured to do.
"buy any USB-C hub "with power delivery" and a HDMI-port; use this for the first screen and the peripherals, and connect the other screen with a fitting adapter (e.g. usb-c to hdmi, usb-c to displayport)"
With the twist of using dell da200 adaptar that has a ethernet port, and using the charger on the 3rd usb-c providing a cheaper solution.
OWC supports hdmi and usb-c, so could you not connect both at the same time and then if the monitor has usb-c daisy chain, connect other monitors to the monitor too?
Using traditional TB to daisy chain... my current 2013 MBP tapped out at 2 daisy chained TB displays but maybe the new one will be able to push 3?
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Why are two identical external monitors displaying at different resolutions? | 2019-04-25T17:51:36 | https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/259296/connecting-multiple-devices-to-the-2016-macbook-pro-with-touch-bar |
0.99955 | Anonymous - What is the difference between womanism and feminism?
Muhammad Rasheed - Womanism is specifically Black women's rights advocacy in the fight against misogynoir (anti-Black + anti-female).
After decades of investing energy/resources into the feminist movement, only to find themselves ignored by the movement they believed in due to anti-Blackness and racism, the womanism concept was developed and built upon by Black women activists and Black women thought leaders to address their long neglected needs in a formal advocacy space.
By contrast, feminism is the woman’s rights advocacy movement that has traditionally expressed itself as the female arm of the white racist aristocracy, with the Caucasian female using a focused political agenda towards the goal of wrenching an equal amount of the patriarchal Western world’s wealth & power monopoly from her white male dominant counterpart for her own usage.
Paul Haas - I tend to freeze in high stress situations unless I already have a plan.
My plan for the situation in the cartoon is to start filming with my cell phone. If I am the first to film, I would start narrating the encounter loudly enough for the cop and the victim to hear.
My phone is set up to start uploading videos as soon as I finish them. What are good live streaming applications for this problem? I don't want the cop to be able to destroy the video.
Paul Haas - If I am the second or later to start videoing then I plan to video from the opposite side of the first videographer. That way they will be in my video should the cop start targeting them, and I in theirs.
I would like to see more cartoons illustrating common unhelpful liberal behavior with discussions on potentially more useful behaviors. So I can have a preformulated plan ready.
I am sad to admit that I have committed far too many stereotypical white liberal unhelpful actions. The worst feeling is when I am telling myself “don't do that” or “do anything but that”, and then I helplessly watch myself doing the thing I know is wrong.
Most recently, I met a black professional woman who was working in the same field I was a couple of decades ago. I didn't recall even meeting any black females in my field back then.
One track of my mind was repeating to myself "keep the conversation going, and don't focus the fact that she has an unusual, and probably in many ways unpleasant history”. Unfortunately, I can not follow my own advice under stress. The extreme stress was caused by anticipating myself doing the wrong thing. The rest of my mind was filling with inappropriate questions. I managed not to ask about the likely forms of abuse and discrimination, but I didn't have enough brain left over to keep the conversation going.
I was living what could easily be one of Mr Rasheed's cartoons. And it was definitely not a flattering character.
Mohammed, if you are curious about what might be going through the head of an extremely unhelpful white liberal while they are being extremely unhelpful, I have a lot of experience. You may feel free to use my history in your cartoons with or without attribution. Because I seem to repeat the stereotypical mistakes that other white liberal men make, it is as if you already have.
Amy S. Cohen - You're a man. How would you know how women at a match would react? I've never been to a match since I've been too busy earning a living but I've known a few who have gone and they'd NEVER stand by and ignore what the sister was experiencing OR react that way. Not ALL white women are like this just like not all black women behave in some stereotypical manner.
Sharon Gaulke - usually scroll right past these cartoons. Not because of black or white or the message but because I have to squint to read the novella that goes with them. | 2019-04-18T21:07:21 | https://www.mrasheed.com/2019/01/that-ole-unspoken-but-understood-clause.html |
0.998108 | "That book made me laugh."
Translation:Buku tersebut membuat saya tertawa.
If you wanna make this sentence slightly less formal, you can say "Buku itu membuatku tertawa."
yeah I was looking for that translation.
In the absense of aformentioned reference about this book, a better translation would be: "Buku 'itu' membuat saya tertawa". | 2019-04-20T20:13:28 | https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/28482659/That-book-made-me-laugh |
0.99758 | Is Mayweather Now Number One Pound For Pound Once Again?
After nearly two years out Floyd Mayweather on Saturday evening made his long anticipated return against fellow pound for pound great Juan Manuel Marquez and remained undefeated in impressive fashion. Whilst Marquez was game he simply has no answer to the speed and skill of Mayweather. What was surprising wasn’t the fact that Mayweather won, he was expected by many to beat the smaller man, it was the manner in which he defeated him.
Marquez has lost before but he has NEVER been beaten like this, the defeat to Mayweather was more decisive than any of his previous losses put together. It could be argued that Marquez is unlucky not to have been coming into the fight with Floyd with an undefeated record as each of his prior losses could be viewed as controversial.
Prior to his loss to Mayweather the only fighters to defeat the brilliant Mexican were Javier Duran (disqualification loss in his pro debut) Freddie Norwood, Chris John and Manny Pacquiao, all were close fights, close enough to be disputed. There was no disputing this decision Floyd was Judge, Jury and Executioner and Marquez (50-5-1) was gracious enough to accept this and acknowledged that despite his best efforts the man they call Money was just too good.
Whether you love or hate him and despite fighting a smaller man what cannot be argued is that his performance was outstanding considering that Floyd was coming off a two year layoff, which brings me to the purpose of this article. For the past two years, because of his absence due to premature retirement Mayweather has been absent from all Pound for Pound lists, even when he announced his return back to the squared ring, most critics refused to place him back on the list until he actually competed. I am not arguing whether this is right or wrong I am simply asking where does he now stand after returning to defeat the number two fighter on the list?
Floyd fans would argue that he has never been beaten, he retired as the best and came back as the best and his performance over Marquez merely emphasises this.
On the contrary Pacquiao fans would argue that since Mayweather retired, the Pacman has taken over the mantle as pound for pound best by stepping up and defeating stellar competition and until this impressive streak ceases to continue he should remain as number one.
Both have good points, when looking at their common foes, again both would have differing opinions, Pacquiao has remained active and beat De La Hoya and Hatton in more impressive fashion than Mayweather, who would argue that he beat Marquez in more impressive fashion than Pacquiao, beat Hatton when he was undefeated whilst fighting De La Hoya at a weight he has never fought at.
Pacquiao may have beat a faded Hatton and a weight drained De La Hoya, but Mayweather beat Marquez with a distinct weight advantage in a division that he has never fought at.
These are just a few of the many arguments that arise when these two great fighters are mentioned in the same breath. As I mentioned both have good points, but which has the greatest argument to claim the title as the world’s best. Fight fans which is it, Pacman or Pretty Boy?
Is the fact that Mayweather has returned and beat the man who gave Pacquiao so much trouble enough, or must he first beat Pacquiao to regain his title as boxing’s best?
The question is a difficult one to answer and will lead to many disagreements between boxing fans but what will be agreed is that to put the issue to bed Mayweather and Pacquiao MUST fight each other and soon this is the only way we will really know who is numero uno. | 2019-04-25T08:26:00 | http://www.ultimateboxingresults.com/articles/details.asp?art_id=475 |
0.998466 | I am looking to created a webinar system using wordpress built on blockchain technology.
1. Allow me to allow separated users to use the installed WebinarIgnition Plugin.
3. Allow each user to create and start automated or live webinars.
5. Allow each user to choose from predefined and preconfigured webinars to launch.
6. Limit a user permissions and allow certain webinar customization features given their permission level.
8. Have multi language function using WPML if possible.
9. Have an option for pre-configured/evergreen/automated webinars to show a configured chatbox that has preset and triggered (fake) message chat to fake the audience to make them think people are interacting live (like an automated bot that we can setup in the backend.
10. Depending on the user level, When a user first activates a webinar that is newly created or has been created already but has been edited, the webinar will be put into a content approval section where only admin or moderators can approve it. | 2019-04-20T04:58:17 | https://www.freelancer.com/projects/php/wordpress-platform-using-webinarignition/ |
0.999999 | Which of the following less-than-believable items would you guess are actually true? 1) That Bridget Fonda, Bill Pullman, and the legendary Betty White would sign on for such a project. 2) That a movie based on such a far-fetched concept could make money. Or 3) That a member of the order Crocodilia could be found on any lake within 700 miles north of the Carolinas.
The answers are: 1) Yes?Fonda, Pullman, and White (plus Oliver Platt and Brendan Gleeson) played the major roles in the movie. 2) Yes, it earned money—nearly $32 million, enough to spawn Lake Placid 2 in 2007, Lake Placid 3 in 2010, and Lake Placid 4 in 2012. And 3) Yes, members of the order Crocodilia have lived recently in the north woods. All bets are winners!
That was two decades before “Lake Placid South” (Lake Placid, Florida) came into existence, so rest assured, the story applied to Lake Placid in the Adirondacks. The tale in the Times began in early 1903 when the Stevens brothers, proprietors of the famed Stevens House, learned the answer to that age-old question, “What do you give someone who has everything?” The obvious answer: a reptile from the tropics, which is what a friend gave them as a gift.
A young alligator became the newest addition to the hotel’s amenities (deterrents?), housed temporarily in a hotel bathtub. Around May, when ponds were open and the snow was melting, the brothers made a decidedly non-tropical decision, releasing the gator into Mirror Lake. Frigid nights brought ice to the lake’s shallows, leaving only the slightest hope for the gator’s survival.
A few weeks later, on a warm, sunny day, appeared the oddest of sights at Mirror Lake—an alligator catching some rays on the beach. Because of its size, it was no threat to humans, and the Stevens had a new attraction for patrons and curious northerners who, in the summer of ?03, hoped to glimpse the elusive newcomer.
Though the whole story seems like a once-in-a-lifetime tale, especially for those of us familiar with Adirondack wildlife, the Mirror Lake gator was not as unusual as you’d think. Similar incidents have occurred from Malone to Keeseville, and Ausable Forks to Ticonderoga.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, it became fashionable to have exotic pets, and many small alligators were among those carried home from Florida to the Adirondacks. Most of them were less than two feet long. Some escaped from their owners, while others were released into the wild.
It’s unclear what became of the survivors, like the Mirror Lake alligator or the many pets kept by private individuals. Or the one at the Lake Placid Club in 1933. That’s another tale that defies belief. George Martin, the swimming instructor at the club, captured (with help) a seven-foot alligator from southern Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp. They wrapped the reptile’s huge jaws in wire and prepared to take him north.
How do you transport a 7-foot alligator 1,000 miles? By George’s reckoning, you crate it, lay the crate on the car’s running board (most cars had them back then), lash the gator’s tail to the car’s rear fender, and hit the road. Though the wires around his jaws were snipped, the animal refused to eat, but they did make frequent stops at gas stations to water him down. He was christened “Mike,” and the club made plans for a facility where the animal could spend the winter. In the meantime, he was kept among Jacques Suzanne’s menagerie about a mile south of the village.
On a few occasions in the North Country, folks have unexpectedly stumbled upon alligators, and it’s hard to imagine the shock of the moment. Unfortunately, the reaction was uniform: kill it. A young boy from Malone, startled with his find (an 18-inch gator), dispatched it with a rock.
Another alligator’s death begs the question “Why?” The story was reported in the Wells area in late October 1957. Two bow hunters were hoping to bag a buck, but they spied an alligator treading water near a beaver dam. One of the men put an arrow into the gator just behind the head, killing it. It was assumed to have been a released pet doing pretty well on its own. No one knew how long it had been there, or if it had denned and somehow survived the previous winter.
Back in 1924, a young gator in Keeseville survived as a pet for three years until a couple of barn cats settled a longstanding feud, dragging it from its tank, killing it after an intense battle, and partially devouring the carcass before the owners drove them off.
But not all the alligators in the Adirondacks met tragic ends. Some were part of a traveling show associated with the Seminole Indians of Florida. Virtually every Florida carnival and sideshow featured alligator wrestlers, and among the best was George Storm. In the 1950s, a complete Seminole village was set up at Michael Covert’s hotel in Wilmington, and part of the daily show that summer was Storm performing his specialty.
Considering the unknown fate of Lake Placid’s alligators, their known proclivity for longevity, and the movies by the same name, it might be a good idea during the Ironman Triathlon to count swimmers going into Mirror Lake as well as those coming out. Just in case.
Photos: Poster from the first Lake Placid movie- the Stevens House as it looked when it hosted the alligator. | 2019-04-19T01:23:00 | http://www.newyorkhistoryblog.com/2012/12/the-real-lake-placid-alligators-in.html |
0.998083 | Around the world, states are using the language of refugee law not to address the suffering of people fleeing war, violence and deprivation, but to find ways to avoid helping them.
Who is a refugee? On the surface, it seems that the answer is straightforward: According to the UN's 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is someone who has been forced outside his or her home country by conflict, violence and persecution, and who is unable to return due to the well-founded fear they will be targeted as a result of their ethnicity, beliefs or social identities.
Part of the reason the Refugee Convention was drafted was in response to the extreme suffering to which people fleeing violence and persecution are often exposed. In order to protect refugees, the convention sought to establish their rights and to outline the obligations that states have to protect them.
But in 2017, while the global legal consensus on the rights of refugees remains intact, the humanitarian spirit that led to the convention appears to be in short supply. Around the world, states are using the language of refugee law not to address the suffering of people fleeing war, violence and deprivation, but to find ways to avoid helping them. By confining their international obligations only to those who fit the narrow definition set out by the UN convention, states can then set out about forcibly preventing the arrival of anyone else seeking refuge.
And so we have the spectacle of leading member states of the international community, including traditional champions of international humanitarian law, jumping through rhetorical hoops to close their doors to as many desperate arrivals as possible. By seeking to draw a line between "legitimate" refugees and other migrants, governments in some destination countries also seek minimize their obligations and keep their borders closed.
From a humanitarian perspective, this approach is an abrogation of the very purpose of creating international refugee law in the first place: namely, the prevention and alleviation of suffering for some of the world's most vulnerable people. Doctors Without Borders delivers emergency medical care to people who have been forcibly displaced by violence, conflict and persecution in more than 60 countries around the world. We do so not according to legal definitions of who should receive care, but according to the humanitarian needs we witness first-hand.
In Mexico, that means we treat victims of abuse, sexual violence and torture at the hands of gangs along the country's underground migration route. Regardless of the circumstances that led these patients to leave their home countries and risk their lives along one of the world's most notorious travel zones -- and our own data indicate that many felt they had no choice if they wanted to escape targeted violence and persecution in places like Guatemala, Honduras or El Salvador -- we see their suffering, and their lack of alternatives for care, as a mandate to provide humanitarian assistance.
In Libya, and through our search and rescue operations on the Mediterranean Sea, we treat victims of abuse, violence and neglect who are caught in a grim migratory netherworld run by people smugglers; in Bangladesh, we provide care to vulnerable members of the Rohingya minority trapped in stateless limbo on the border with Myanmar, where many are unable to access basic healthcare.
We don't know how many of these patients would be considered "legitimate" refugees, legally deserving of care and protection from members of the international community; we know only what we see when they enter our clinics: the marks of abuse and torture, the indicators of malnutrition, the exposure to disease. We treat them according to their needs, and seek to alleviate their suffering to the degree we possibly can.
On June 20, the world marks World Refugee Day, an observance created by the United Nations in 2000, one year before the 50th anniversary of the Convention on the Status of Refugees. It is an occasion intended to draw attention to the collective plight of the world's refugee populations. In 2001, the first year it was formally celebrated, that population was roughly 12 million people; in 2016, the year of the UN's most recent estimate, the official number of refugees worldwide had increased to 22.5 million, and is still growing. That in turn is less than half of the 65 million people currently estimated to be displaced overall, the largest number at any time since the Second World War.
World Refugee Day is an important opportunity to focus attention on the challenges faced by people seeking refuge. But it will also be a hollow event, one that fails to honour the humanitarian intentions of the convention it celebrates, if it remains focused only on those who have successfully managed to claim refugee status in host countries, rather than on the larger spectrum of needs experienced by those who have been displaced.
If we are truly serious about celebrating the legacy of our efforts to protect refugees and to alleviate their suffering, then we cannot let legal definitions determine the scope of our humanitarian action. The spirit of World Refugee Day is to recognize the challenges faced by some of the world's most vulnerable people. A good place to start would be by being honest about who refugees really are, what their challenges are and what we can do to help them. | 2019-04-25T00:06:06 | https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/stephen-cornish/world-refugee-day_b_17209490.html?utm_hp_ref=ca-blog |
0.998807 | U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has tentatively agreed to a plea deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller that would avoid his going on trial next week, ABC News reported on Thursday.
REUTERS: U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is close to reaching a plea deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
"It's close but not there yet," one of the sources said of negotiations in the second case against Manafort arising from Mueller's investigation of U.S. intelligence agencies' conclusions that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election, which Moscow denies.
If Manafort decides to cooperate with Mueller, it would be a blow to Trump, who last month praised his former aide for not entering into a plea agreement, as the president's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen had.
Writing on Twitter on Aug. 22, Trump said: "Unlike Michael Cohen, he refused to 'break' - make up stories in order to get a 'deal. Such respect for a brave man!"
Jury selection is scheduled to begin on Monday in Manafort's second trial in federal court in Washington on charges including conspiring to launder money, conspiring to defraud the United States, failing to register as a foreign agent and witness tampering.
Mueller is investigating Russia's role in the 2016 U.S. election and whether Trump's campaign colluded with Moscow to help him win. Trump has denied colluding with the Russians.
Rick Gates, Manafort's former business partner and the campaign's deputy chairman, pleaded guilty to lesser charges in exchange for his cooperation, later testifying against Manafort in Virginia. Gates may be a prosecution witness in his Washington trial as well.
Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who is representing Trump in the Russia probe, previously told the Politico news outlet that taking a plea deal to avoid a second trial would not crush Manafort's chances of receiving an eventual presidential pardon. Trump has not said whether or not he would pardon Manafort, but he has not publicly ruled it out.
In the Virginia trial, prosecutors said Manafort hid from U.S. tax authorities US$16 million he earned as a political consultant in Ukraine to fund an opulent lifestyle that included purchasing multimillion-dollar properties, an ostrich skin jacket and other valuables.
Later, when former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted from power and fled to Russia, much of the consulting business dried up. Desperate for cash, prosecutors said he lied to banks in order to secure US$20 million in loans.
Manafort worked for five months on Trump's 2016 campaign, including three as chairman. He resigned in August 2016 following a news report linking him to payments from Yanukovych's pro-Russia political party.
Manafort's second trial is expected to delve deeper into Manafort's Russian connections including to Konstantin Kilimnik, a Ukrainian-Russian political consultant who was indicted along with Manafort and who Mueller's team has linked to Russian intelligence.
Prosecutors have said Manafort and Kilimnik conspired to tamper with witnesses, an allegation that later led in June to U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Columbia Amy Berman Jackson revoking Manafort's bail and ordering him jailed. | 2019-04-21T16:25:08 | https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/ex-trump-aide-manafort-close-to-plea-deal-with-mueller---sources-10720146 |
0.999994 | If your child disappeared, how long would you hold out hope of finding them alive?
No parent wants to accept that their child may be gone for good, but after a certain point it becomes hard to hold out hope.
In a new interview, Gerry McCann, father of missing girl Madeleine McCann, says he still believes he could be reunited with his daughter someday.
"Kate was screaming, ‘Madeleine’s missing, she’s gone.'"
Gerry and Kate McCann from Leicester, England took their young children - three-year-old Madeleine and her two-year-old twin siblings - on a group vacation to Portugal in 2007.
The McCanns stayed at the Ocean Club apartments in Praia da Luz, and spent most nights eating with the other parents in their group at a nearby restaurant.
But on the night of May 3, Kate returned to their apartment from dinner to a horrible discovery: Madeleine had vanished without a trace.
In a new interview with BBC Radio 4, Gerry described the painful moment he first realized his daughter was gone.
"Kate was screaming, ‘Madeleine’s missing, she’s gone,'" he said.
Even in the first minutes of Madeleine's disappearance, Gerry says he believed his daughter had been abducted, and the realization left him feeling helpless.
"I think I remember just being in the bedroom distraught, the two of us," he said.
But despite his dark thoughts, Gerry says is still "convinced" that Madeleine is alive.
"It’s almost like an instinctive reaction... it’s just a feeling... but I do feel we will be reunited," he added. "I just want to hug her and hold her and cry... a lot."
"We're not the ones that have done something wrong here."
The hunt to find Madeleine has continued nonstop since the night she went missing, and has grown to involve police departments in Portugal, the UK, and countries around the world.
But the initial investigation by Portuguese investigators, which targeted tourists in the McCann's own vacation group, made little progress.
At one point, the McCanns themselves were treated as suspects in their own daughter's disappearance. They even pursued a libel case against a Portuguese detective who questioned their version of the night's events in a book.
“Once the spotlight had turned on us I said to Kate we needed to leave," Gerry remembered. "That whole journey to the airport was just like something out of a horror movie. A nightmare."
Portuguese detectives eventually named four suspects in Madeleine's disappearance in 2013, but after being interviewed by police no charges were filed against any of them.
The McCanns often described their frustration with the Portuguese investigation, and Gerry complained they were too slow to respond the night Madeleine went missing.
"I remember asking the police to get helicopters and heat seeking equipment and the thought somebody could be across the border into borderless Europe, driving her. Or Africa – the ports are a couple of hours away. I remember thinking ‘get the borders closed,'" he recalled.
After the Portuguese case stalled, police from Scotland Yard took over, launching what they called Operation Grange.
British police have since interviewed 60 people while following more than 560 leads. They have also helped investigate almost 9,000 Madeleine sightings in more than 100 countries (almost all of which have been ruled out).
Scotland Yard has claimed that Madeleine's case has all of the signatures of a planned abduction.
The McCann's have their own theories, including that someone might have seen a note describing when they would be out to dinner, and planned to abduct Madeleine at that time.
There were also reports of burglaries and fake charity scams near the apartments that police believe could be linked to the abduction.
For years, the most substantial lead was a man seen carrying a child in pajamas towards the ocean just as Madeleine was reported missing.
An artist's impression of the mystery man was even released by police. But they now believe he was probably an innocent parent, who had picked his child up from the resort's nursery the night of the abduction.
While a small four-person team continues to investigate Madeleine's disappearance in Portugal, they are waiting for more funding from Britain's Home Office to continue the search.
So far, police have already spent more than $15 million on the case, but they warn that if their application is denied the trail could turn cold forever.
Whether the funding is approved or not, the McCanns will continue to hold out hope for their daughter - who would be 15 today - to return to them.
Gerry revealed that Madeleine's childhood room is also waiting for her, with glow-in-the-dark stars still stuck on the ceiling, her clothes hanging in the closet, and unopened birthday presents waiting to be unwrapped.
Do you remember when Madeleine first disappeared? Do you believe she could still be alive today? | 2019-04-19T03:22:39 | https://www.shared.com/madeleine-mccann-parents/ |
0.999999 | Fixed Point of Circles Orthogonal to the Given One: What is this about?
Given a circle C with center O and a line m, not intersecting C. There exists a point Q such that, for every P on m, PQ equals the length of the tangent from P to C.
In other words, a circle centered at P with the radius equal to the length of the tangent from P to C passes through a fixed point Q. Q is a point of concurrency of all circles orthogonal to C and center on m!
The proof requires a few applications of the Pythagorean proposition.
(1) r2 + PT2 = OM2 + MP2.
(2) OM2 + MP2 = r2 + PQ2.
Now a comparison of (1) and (2) yields PT2 = PQ2. Hence, PT = PQ.
It is surprising how the same fact acquires an aura of familiarity if looked at from a different angle. In a discussion that involves orthogonality of circles, one thing that most certainly comes to mind is the coaxal circles theorem: circles in an Apollonian family are all orthogonal to circles through two fixed points (and vice versa.) The circles in the latter family have their centers on a fixed straight line - the radical axis of any two circles from the Apollonian family.
Thus it is obvious that, along with Q, there is a second point common to all circles with the center on m orthogonal to C. This point is the reflection of Q in m.
Let Q be the intersection of any pair of circles orthogonal to both C and m. Invert with respect to Q. Then these two circles invert to a pair of intersecting lines. Call the point of intersection R. The inverse of C is a circle perpendicular to both of the lines, and so with centre on both lines. That is, it is a circle centred at R. Similarly the inverse of m is a circle centred at R. Then any circle perpendicular to both m and C must invert to a circle or line perpendicular to each of the two concentric circles, that is, to a line through their common centre at R. So any circle orthogonal to both C and m must pass through both Q and R', the inverse of R.
This proof shows that there are 2 such fixed points. Note that I have nowhere used the fact that m is a straight line, so that the proof holds for a general pair of nonintersecting circles.
R. Honsberger, The Butterfly Problem and Other Delicacies from the Noble Art of Euclidean Geometry II, TYCMJ, 14 (1983), pp. 154-158. | 2019-04-23T21:21:57 | http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/Geometry/FixedTangentPoint.shtml |
0.999851 | While no stranger to revelling in Liverpool victories, Klopp drew a distinction with celebrating another's disappointment.
"I can not help that". I am not sure what that says about us, it says something more about the other person.
"It's only January and teams, including Liverpool and Manchester City, will drop more points". For me that's not allowed. You have to do your own things, to work out and show your best performance.
"It's the only way I know, that after a negative result we need to focus on the way we play and the mentality".
"For supporters it is a little bit different, for people involved I don't understand. But how can I criticise if I don't understand it?".
Jurgen Klopp has admitted that he is disappointed Liverpool FC were unable to beat Leicester City on Wednesday night.
However, Liverpool then appealed in vain for what looked a clear second-half penalty when Naby Keita went down under a challenge from Ricardo Pereira.
"The situation was like everybody saw". "When we were warming up it started snowing, but the pitch was completely OK". Now we have a few days to prepare for West Ham and then we go again, then Bournemouth and we go again and all that stuff. The pitch was hard. "The first half we had 80 per cent of the ball so only one team suffered and it was us", said the Reds boss.
Liverpool are set to avoid punishment for their ground staff selectively clearing snow off the Anfield pitch during Wednesday's 1-1 draw with Leicester City, sources have told ESPN FC. "It was another hard start to the game".
He said: "There was no plan, nobody told them, I can swear, to clear only our side or our box".
"I've heard people say their was an issue with sportsmanship, but it's to their advantage as well, if their box is clean it's better to defend as well".
The evening had started in flawless fashion for Liverpool as Mane scored their fastest league goal in almost three years, with just two minutes on the clock, only for Maguire to level in first-half injury-time. "That's how it is, we can not change it".
Liverpool defensive duo Joe Gomez and Trent Alexander-Arnold are still not ready to return from injury, manager Jurgen Klopp has confirmed.
"I think we have an intriguing title race, I really do", the Sky Sports pundit said.
"I'm not concerned about tweeting or Instagram because I can't control it".
"We are employed by Liverpool, a club with big dreams", he added.
While it's a amusing tweet and we're well in favour of footballers having fun on social media, it's just a bit daft from Walker isn't it? | 2019-04-25T20:04:08 | http://middleeast-armscontrol.com/2019/02/liverpool-boss-jurgen-klopp-explains-leicester-snow/ |
0.999838 | A few more days and it's Christmas! I finally had time to do a Christmas nail art design. Hopefully I'll be able to do another one within the week. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
This freehand nail art is not fancy at all. It is a simple abstract design that mimics a pinwheel. And since it's Christmas, I just played around with the colors red and green. It seemed easy to do when the idea was still in my head. But working with a small canvas like our nails can deem very challenging at times. And not being able to paint my nails as often added to the challenge.
As I mentioned, I named this Christmas Pinwheel simply because it was the inspiration for this nail design. I know that the actual pinwheel would probably be more swirl-y. But we all know that curve lines are harder to paint on the nails. So perhaps I should have titled this "Christmas Pinwheel ... Sort of?" to be more accurate?
The idea here is to paint small triangles all around the edge of the nail and leaving a small gap where all the triangles will meet. I alternated the colors of the shape between red and green. An option is to have one nail painted with all red triangles and alternate between nails with green. Come to think of it now, this probably is an easier way to this design!
I used a neutral nail polish color for the base and a darker shade of red and green acrylic paints for the nail design. A white background would make this nail art bolder to look at. But if you like a more subtle or vintage effect, you may want to go for an earth tone base.
Use a dotting tool with a very small ball tip for a more manageable painting of the triangles. Although a detailing nail art brush will give more precision, it is harder to control and can prolong the time to complete the design.
Do NOT paint the triangles red and green alternately one nail at a time. That would be time consuming. If you started painting with a red triangle on one nail, go on and do the same with the other nails before switching to the next color.
Make sure the acrylic paint you will use is opaque and has a very good consistency so that you only need to paint only 1 layer.
Isn't it amazing that nail art needs you to be creative not only for the design but also on how you will execute the idea? I have been doing nail art for years and still I'm learning new things as I go along.
I hope you like this simple freehand Christmas nail art design. Do you already have an idea how you'd wear your nails for the holidays? Perhaps some of my designs can inspire you. Just head over to my nail art gallery to browse my previous Christmas nail art ideas.
Very festive and sounds easy to recreate! Merry christmas Rins!
this is a cute design, i have to think of candy!! | 2019-04-26T14:05:22 | http://www.rina-alcantara.com/2013/12/nail-art-christmas-pinwheel.html |
0.999694 | Your pup's health can depend a lot on the food she eats. This is why it's so important to feed her a well-balanced diet. With so much information out there, knowing what your dog really needs isn't easy. So we've asked our in-house veterinarian, Dr. Leslie, to help us sort it all out.
Q: What ingredients should I look for on the label?
Dr. Leslie: Ingredients used in pet food can have tremendous variability in quality — one food's chicken is often not another food's chicken. Often, too much importance is given to the ingredient list. What really matters in terms of objective quality on the pet food label is the Nutritional Adequacy Statement (NAS).
Q: Why is the NAS, which comes from the Association of American Feed Control Officials, so important?
Dr. Leslie: The NAS states whether or not the food meets nutrition standards for a specific life stage, how long it can be fed and whether or not it was also fed to a population of dogs to further demonstrate the food's ability to support health.
When looking for a high quality food, not only do pet foods need to deliver the adequate levels of each nutrient, but the body must be able to utilize those nutrients. The NAS for food can be substantiated by having passed a feeding trial to understand if dogs demonstrated healthy body systems on a specific diet.
Products that did not pass an AAFCO feeding trial or were not formulated to be complete and balanced will state "for intermittent and supplemental feeding only" or will be labeled as treats or snack.
Q. How important are the feeding recommendations on the package?
Q: How should one handle transitioning a dog to a new food?
Dr. Leslie: To avoid any tummy upset, it is best to slowly transition from one food to the next. Some dogs have stomachs of steel and never seem to have any problems with diet transitions, but some dogs need to allow their bodies and the helpful gut bacteria time to adjust to a new food.
Each day, increase the amount of new food by 10 to 15 percent, and decrease the amount of old food. If you notice soft stool, flatulence or gurgling belly sounds, hold off on further transitions. If you notice vomiting or diarrhea, stop the diet transition and speak with your veterinarian. Most commonly, dogs will be fully transitioned onto a new diet in seven to 10 days.
Q. How can a good quality food improve my dog's health and well-being?
Dr. Leslie: Ensuring your pet receives a complete and balanced diet will support normal musculoskeletal growth, skin, nervous system and cardiovascular system, and that will ensure your pet has her best chance for an excellent quality of life.
Lots of dogs have different nutritional needs. If you're working on your best friend's figure, try Nature's Recipe® Grain Free Easy to Digest Chicken Sweet Potato & Pumpkin Recipe!
Photo Credit: "Gibby's Dinnertime" by scott spaeth via Flickr. License info. | 2019-04-25T10:04:09 | https://www.naturesrecipe.com/world-of-wag/articles/the-dish-on-canine-nutrition |
0.996323 | A ratio spread is a neutral options strategy in which an investor simultaneously holds an unequal number of long and short positions. The name comes from the structure of the trade where the number of short positions to long positions has a specific ratio. The most common ratio is two to one, where there are twice as many short positions as long.
Conceptually, this is similar to a spread strategy in that there are short and long positions of the same options type (put or call) on the same underlying asset with the same expiration date. The difference is that the ratio is not one to one.
Traders use a ratio strategy when they not only believe the price of the underlying asset will not move much before expiration but more convinced it will play out the way that traders using a simple spread trade. The benefit is that it also uses the extra short positions to further finance the long position, theoretically reducing the cost of the strategy and possibly resulting in a net credit.
The drawback, however, is that the potential for loss is theoretically unlimited. In a regular spread trade (bull call, bear call, bull put and bear put), the long options match up with the short options so that a large move in the price of the underlying cannot create a large loss. However, in a ratio, there can be two or more times as many short positions as long positions. The long positions can only match with a portion of the short positions leaving the trader with naked or uncovered options for the rest.
A simple 2:1 ratio spread using calls could involve the purchase of one call option with a strike price of $45 for $300 and writing two call options with a strike price of $50 for a $150 each or $300 total. The net cost to this trade, before commissions, would be zero. However, with three options involved, commissions must be considered.
This would allow the investor to capture a gain on a small upward move in the underlying stock's price with maximum profit achieved when the underlying is at the higher strike price at expiration. The two short options expire worthless and the long option is five points in the money and valued at $400.
However, any move past the higher strike price ($50) of the written options will cause this position to lose value. Theoretically, an extremely large increase in the underlying stock's price can cause an unlimited loss to the investor due to the extra short call.
Of course, for a put ratio spread, the parameters are mirror images with one long put at the higher strike price and two (or more) short puts at the lower strike price. The lower the price of the underlying asset below the lower strike price at expiration, the worse the loss becomes.
A reverse calendar spread is a type of unit trade that involves buying a short-term option and selling a long-term option on the same underlying security with the same strike price.
A vertical spread strategy uses purchases and sales of the same option type (put or call) and expiration, but with different strike prices.
A bull spread is a bullish options strategy using either two puts or two calls with the same underlying asset and expiration.
Butterfly spreads are a fixed risk and capped profit potential options strategy. Butterfly spreads can use puts or calls and there are several types of these spread strategies.
A bear spread is an option strategy seeking maximum profit when the price of the underlying security declines.
A bull put spread is an income-generating options strategy that is used when the investor expects a moderate rise in the price of the underlying asset.
What is a Bear Call Spread?
Which Vertical Option Spread Should You Use?
What is a Bear Put Spread?
What Is A Bull Put Spread? | 2019-04-26T02:43:02 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/ratiospread.asp |
0.999984 | HOW LONG DOES A TUNING LAST?
There are a number of factors that determine how long a tuning lasts. Has the piano been tuned frequently, or was the last tuning the first one in many years? Other factors incude the amount of use the piano gets, how well the tuner sets the tuning pins, the type of repetoire that is played, the severity of humidity changes in its environment, the condition of the piano, the torque on the tuning pins, and the tolerance level of the player to out of tune notes. Generally speaking it may take several months for most people to hear that their piano is going out of tune, although the process is ongoing due to the above listed factors.
To understand why a piano goes out of tune, it is first necessary to remember that the instrument is alway under stress. The 230 or so strings are stretched at average tensions of 100 to 200 pounds each, so the cast iron plate along with the wooden frame carries a tension load of 18-20 tons. This is the reason why a piano that hasn't been tuned in years will be quite flat in pitch. The tension of the strings will want to equalize themselves at a lower tension.
The soundboard is fastened within the piano frame with nowhere to go and thus is sensitive to changes of humidity and temperature. In dry conditions , the moisture in the soundboard passes off, and the board shrinks, the strings have less tension exerted on them by the soundboard resulting in a drop of pitch. The opposite occurs, of course in moister conditions. This wouldn't be so bad if all the notes would move equally out of tune. However strings that pass near the centre of the soundboard can move much more. This is because the degree of movement is more pronounced in the centre than on the edges. This is quite apparent when playing wide intervals like P5ths and P8ths across the bass/tenor break. High treble strings because of their short length will go out of tune quicker than some longer strings.
This flexing of the soundboard is a continual process, not just a seasonal one. The soundboard is slowly rising and falling short distances each day and therefore suffering variations in its ability to hold the strings up to proper pitch. So a piano will start to go out of tune soon after a piano tuner leaves. However, as mentioned before, this is not too noticeable for awhile.
When a piano string is raised to pitch, the additional load on the piano's structure causes the pitch of previously adjusted string to change somewhere in the neighbourhood of 1/3 to 1/4 of the amount it was raised by. Thus the only way to achieve a fine tuning on a piano is to have the tension of all strings very close to their proper place. This is why something called a pitch raise must be done on a piano that is not close to pitch due to lack of tuning or humidity shifts. A pitch raise is basically a quick tuning pass to bring the strings close to pitch where a fine tuning can be done.
when is the best time of year for tuning?
when should i tune my piano next?
It all depends on the combination of how fast the piano goes out of tune, how much out of tuneness the ear can handle, and on one's budget. Ideally it's best to tune the piano every six months.
What can I do to keep my piano in good tune?
As you can guess the best way to keep a piano in tune is through frequent tunings and a stable environment , temperature and humidity wise. If your piano is going out of tune quite badly, it's best to examine humidity conditions in your house. A humidifier can be installed on the furnance or a humidity control system can be installed in the piano. Notice I'm talking about lack of moisture since I deal with pianos on the Canadian Prairies. We really don't have a problem with excessive moisture unless there's a flood! The best humidity level for wood is 42% relative humidity. 15% on either side is acceptable. To track humidity changes in your home, a relatively inexpensive hygrometer can be purchased. The important thing to remember about a stable enivironment for the piano, is that it not only keeps the piano in more acceptable tune but more importantly it helps protect all the wooden parts, and glue joints.
Regulation is the adjustment of the moving parts within a piano to compensate for wear, the compacting and settling of cloth, felt and bucksins, as well as dimensional changes in wood and wood parts due to changes in humidity. If you notice a deterioration of the piano's response in regards to poor legato touch, decreased dynamic range,uneven chords, loss of subtlety in phrasing and an inablility to play quick passages or even repetitions, the piano is probably in need of regulation or you are in need of practice. I say it's best to blame the instrument! Some visual clues include an uneven key and hammer line.
the action- mechanical part of the piano that transfers the motion of the fingers on the keys to the hammers that strike the strings. It is composed of over 9,000 parts which require adjustment to critical tolerances to be able to respond properly to a pianist's will.
the trapwork- the system of levers, dowels and springs that connect the pedals to the action affecting sustain and dynamics.
the damper system- stops the vibration of the string when you release the key and is controlled by the key and pedal systems.
Frequency and type of regulation is dependent upon amount of use, climatic conditions and the quality and age of the piano, and the wishes of the player. In an upright piano, there are 44 steps in a full regulation. In a grand, there are 54 steps in a full regulation.
Voicing can be defined as tone building. Most people will think of voicing as adjusting the tone of the hammer. There are many other factors that will influence the tone of the piano, such as the condition of the soundboard, the design of the piano, the regulation of the action, and the condition of the strings However to keep this brief, attention will be solely on the hammer. Piano hammers wear through prolonged use and the felt is flattened, compacted,and grooved from hitting the strings resulting in a harsh tone. To achieve a proper sound the hammer must be egg shaped. Worn hammers are reshaped by filing away the outer layers of felt to bring back the original shape. There is no need to replace hammers unless filing has been done over many times and the hammer is much smaller and cannot produce an acceptable tone.
How can you tell the piano needs voicing?
Voicing can be likened to tuning as an ongoing process. It changes continuously. In most concert tuning situations when I have to check the piano in between rehearsals, I can easily spend more time voicing the piano than tuning it. This is because the artist can play so forcefully making certain notes of the piano sound harsher than their neighbours.
Can I tune my own piano?
Tuning actually is more difficult than it appears to be. Most technicians say that it isn't until they tuned at least a thousand pianos, that they begin to tune well. Even with the use of computer tuning devices and programs, the tuner must manipulate the tuning pin properly in order for the string to stay in tune. This is perhaps the most difficult part of the tuning process. It's not rocket science, but it takes much practice and time to achieve.
It's best to place the piano away from sources of heat such as hot air registers. The piano should also be placed away from direct sunlight. In the past, piano owners were advised not to place the piano by an outside facing wall. However, with modern insulation, this does not present a problem.
What piano make is the best ?
This question is as difficult to answer. Just like any other product where there are many competitors, there are a wide variety of choices to suit a wide variety of preferences, and budgets. It is best to try to play as many pianos as possible. Try to determine what tone, and touch you want out of piano. Talk to music teachers and serious pianists about their own preferences. Try some of the links listed in the link page of this site. There are links to many piano manufacturers and other related sites.
What things should I look out for when buying a used piano?
This question could take a lot of space to answer! A similar analogy would be if you were interested in buying a used car. If you are familiar with the workings of the car, and have the equipment to perform some basic tests, then you should be able to judge the condition of the vehicle fairly accurately. Same with the piano. Pianos are machines. They get worse as they age, and they may prematurely age in a bad environment. It's probably best in my opinion to have a technician appraise the piano. This can save money and headaches in the future. Of course, being a technician, I'll advise this! If you want to go it alone, there is one book I would recomend you buy or borrow from the library before you start looking at pianos: The Piano Book by Larry Fine. This book is also recommended for people buying a new piano or for those interested in knowing more about their instrument and how to maintain it properly.
There is one additional thing to be aware of when buying a used piano, particularily a used Yamaha piano. Some dealers in North American have imported used Yamaha pianos from Japan and other parts of Asia. They are referred by technicans as "wet" or "grey market" piano.s The wood in these pianos have not been dried to North American export levels. The piano is also used to a much more humid environment than central North America, and many of these pianos have been heavily used in institutions without any replacement of parts. The result is that these instruments deteriorate fairly quickly. I've included a link below which talks about these pianos in more detail. You can also use this site to check to see if the piano you're buying is a North American market Yamaha or not.
Why does a piano go out of tune after a move?
There are two things that happen to the piano during and after a move. When a piano is moved, especially up and down stairs, its major structural parts will be flexed. Also the wood will adjust to the different environments it will be subjected to during the move. Each house will have a different humidity and temperature which will affect the tuning. It's best to wait about two weeks after the move to tune the piano again. | 2019-04-22T05:57:48 | https://www.derekgibsonpiano.com/faq.html |
0.954713 | Vmware at howtoforge.com linux tutorials.
How to import Howtoforge OVF and OVA Virtual Machine Images in VMware and Virtualbox This guide explains how to import virtual machine images in the vendor neutral OVF and OVA format into VMware and Virtualbox. I will use a ova image from howtoforge.com as example here. The vmware images from howtoforge can be used as basis for test and production servers.
Converting A VMware Image To A Physical Machine This tutorial shows how to convert an existing CentOS VM to a Physical machine. This tutorial covers the cloning of the VM to an unpartitioned HDD and troubleshoot some of the possible errors that you may have booting the OS on your new hardware. To illustrate this procedure I will use VMware Workstation 7 as the handler to transfer the VM installation to a physical HDD.
Upgrade/Migrate VMware ESX / ESXi 4.* To ESXi 5.0 VMware has recently released its new VM hypervisor product, VMware ESXi 5.0. VMware is replacing its current ESX model with ESXi and the biggest change (between ESX and ESXi) is the architecture, as most of you VM gurus are well aware of, but for the people that don't know I will quickly explain.
How To Upgrade VMware ESXi 3.5 To 4.1 Update 1 (Free Version) In this guide I will show you how to upgrade VMWare ESXi 3.5 to ESXi 4.1 Update 1 (Free Version) without going through the pain of reinstalling your host server and then restoring your VMs.
How To Install VMware Player On Ubuntu 11.04/Linux Mint 11 This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Player on an Ubuntu 11.04 or Linux Mint 11 desktop system. With VMware Player you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. on your desktop, i.e., you can run multiple operating systems on the same hardware which saves a lot of money.
Monitoring ESX/ESXi Servers The purpose is to highlight the most important topics related to setting up ESX/ESXi monitoring as well as applications hosted within managed virtual machines (a MySQL database is used in this tutorial).
How To Install VMware Tools On pfsense (FreeBSD) This tutorial shows how to install VMware Tools onto pfsense v1.2.3 which is operated by the FreeBSD OS. It took me days to figure out how to do it, especially with lack of a complete guide in the Internet.
How To Install VMware Server 2 On A Fedora 14 Desktop (Kernel 2.6.35) This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2 on a Fedora 14 desktop system (with kernel 2.6.35). With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the same hardware which saves a lot of money, and you can move virtual machines from one VMware Server to the next one (or to a system that has the VMware Player which is also free).
How To Install VMware Server 2 On Ubuntu 10.10 (Kernel 2.6.35) This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2 on an Ubuntu 10.10 desktop system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the same hardware which saves a lot of money, and you can move virtual machines from one VMware Server to the next one (or to a system that has the VMware Player which is also free).
VMware Server 2.0.2-x On Ubuntu Server 10.04 With VMware Remote Console Plug-in Today I will tell you how to set up a new Ubuntu 10.04 server which runs VMware server 2.0.2-x and the VMware Remote Console Plug-in. | 2019-04-20T17:09:40 | https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorials/vmware/ |
0.999978 | I have written a song which contains a funny line (a 9 word sentence) which a famous comedian spoke in one of his routines (on video). I read somewhere that this kind of use of a single sentence does not break copyright law -- can anyone confirm this please?
More generally, how many (sequential) sentences of someone else's material would have to be used in this kind of way for it to constitute a copyright violation?
It is not so much the quantity of words, but more to do do with their overall importance within the original piece. For example, taking a comedian's catchphrase which was readily identifiable ('short fat hairy legs', for instance) would be more likely to cause problems than quoting several sentences of simple patter. That said, we are all entitled to use the English language to express ourselves, so repeating the same words as someone else's sentence is fairly commonplac, so I doubt that any comedian would be likely to get too upset about a few of his words being re-used, as they ar are fairly used to other comedians pinching their gags. | 2019-04-23T12:00:54 | https://copyrightaid.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=690.htm |
0.907074 | Question: What is the most exciting development in the business world?
Bill George: Well there’s a tremendous amount of exciting things going on in business. I think the breakthroughs in healthcare that I participated in, and what can be done to improve human health; the contributions of technology to many of our businesses, and making them competitive on a global scale. But I would say of all the things, the thing that I’m most excited about is the emergence of great global corporations – companies that can operate anywhere in the globe and take advantage of the best skills anywhere. So I’m not a believer in the criticism outsourcing of those things. I think if we could blend together in a multicultural sense people of all kinds of ethnic backgrounds, religious backgrounds, racial backgrounds, gender and have that kind of unit, we can . . . an organization can make contributions through tough global problems – whether it’s global poverty, economic self-sufficiency . . . I’m a great believer in capitalism. I was a fervent capitalist, and I think the capitalistic model can work if we can be a collaborative capitalism; but what Narayana Murphy of InfoSys calls compassionate capitalism – one that emphasizes fairness, decency, transparency and honesty. But that can be blended in with the principles of capitalism, then I think you have the benefit for using capitalism to create a better society. However there’s a downside to capitalism. And capitalism run amuck can create damage and great harm to people. And that’s why we need authentic leaders running our organizations, not people that are in it for themselves.
Question: What challenge does business face?
Bill George: Well business faces enormous problems going forward. A lot of companies are not adapted to being in a truly global world, and they're still fighting against it.They haven't created a multi-cultural environment.That's certainly one thing. A lot of companies are fighting against governments and not recognizing their problems. A lot of companies are so short-term oriented in their financial orientation and their financial performance that they destroy the very essence of the company.And they don't realize that the only way our share holder value is created is by being customer valued and sustainable customer valued. And so business faces all those risks; and if business pushes beyond the bonds . . . or the bounds of what society is looking for, then I think business will be increasingly constrained. And then we can't let the best side of capitalism which is creating new companies, new jobs, new products and services that can help people really flourish.
But I think moving away from a sense of purpose, or making money the only purpose which we've seen over the last 15 years has become very damaging.Money, if you . . Wealth creation should be the result. It shouldn't be the purpose. The purpose should be creating a product or service that makes a difference in society or in the lives of others, and makes this a better place to live. As a result, if you do that well, then you'll be financially well-rewarded.
Bill George, on compassionate capitalism. | 2019-04-24T06:51:31 | https://bigthink.com/videos/re-what-is-the-most-exciting-development-in-the-business-world |
0.99965 | How long is the travel distance of a pedal of a Formula 1 car?
How long is the travel of the pedals on a Formula 1 racing car?
The break pedal is very stiff and only moves around a centimeter for all teams and drivers. For throttle there is more variance and it's hard to give a definitive value. The clutch is not a foot operated pedal, but a hand operated handle behind the steering wheel. | 2019-04-24T11:52:44 | http://www.metropolitan.fi/formula-1-fact/how-long-is-the-travel-distance-of-a-pedal-of-a-formula-1-car |
0.999999 | There are several options on eBay, search cut resistant socks. One even has toes.
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so, what special tool [ can't be scissors ] did you use to cut / sew these. any one else getting my point?
So I purchased a package of two sets of Kevlar sleeves and sewed one end up to make tube socks as you mentioned. It worked very well and the price was around $20 for the two sets. Its best to order the 24'' length and prior to sewing flip them inside out. Once sewed, flip them back. If you have very large calves the sleeves may not work as well.
P.S. Previously ordered the Tough and Lite from Security Race Products on the December special pricing. Ordered small, but they were to big for the wife so the abouve "sleeves" worked better.
Here is what the Memphis Kevlar butchers sleeves look like. It would be easy to sew the end and make a sock.
Memphis also makes these in Dyneema, slightly more expensive.
Tonight (3/5/19), the APBA BOD voted to delay the date of the new cut gear discipline rule (safety rule 3.D which is using the yellow card system for non compliance for all safety gear) to Nov. 1, 2019. The cut gear safety rule for footwear is still on the books (safety rule 3.C), but with no rule for discipline. Essentially this is pushing the entire rule back a year. If you show up to a race without cut resistant footwear this season (2019) you will not be given a yellow card for non compliance.
This was done because of the lack of supply for cut socks, which was a surprise after the new rule took place. APBA is looking on getting a supplier for the cut resistant footwear for the 2020 season.
Also, since on the topic of safety gear, the APBA BOD clarified that SNELL 2005 helmets have expired as of 12/31/18. This was already in the rule book, but some were unsure of the exact rule and date. Safety rule 3.A will be updated for SNELL 2010 or newer helmets as meeting the safety qualifications for the 2019 season.
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When will the SNELL 2010 rating expire? Is APBA going to the 10-Year motorsport standard or 15-year? Not expiring on the Snell 5-year schedule is very frustrating. They are 1 year premature to make a change like this. APBA is outlawing these at a terrible time, illogically, and still no firm implementation of the logical 10 or 15 year schedule.
Basically, a lot of people are going to be pissed if their 2010 that they have just bought goes out of date in 1-2 years too.
Please pick a path, name dates, make it clear.
Shouldn't a decision this important be big headline news on the APBA website??? | 2019-04-24T00:44:08 | http://hydroracer.net/forums/forum/main/so-mod-pro-buy-sell/469386-cut-resistant-socks/page2 |
0.999979 | Woody Guthrie: Bound for holograms?
My two most productive research interests seem quite different. My current dissertation project investigates the cultural histories and spatial embodiment of holograms and hologram simulations. In my copious free time (cough, sputter), I also maintain a course of study that began well before my grad-school adventure; as a journalist, both in Tulsa, Okla., and at the Chicago Sun-Times, I wrote a great deal about folksinger Woody Guthrie and the revival of his legacy within his home state, and now as a scholar I continue examining the ol' cuss and his peculiar communication strategies. One interest is old, analog, and sepia-toned; the other is shiny, digital, and futuristic.
But — as I explained in my presentation this weekend at the Woody Guthrie Symposium, hosted jointly by The University of Tulsa and the Woody Guthrie Center — there's actually a bit of Venn-diagram shade between the two. What interests me about these emerging "hologram" technologies, especially uses of the tech in pop-music performance contexts, is how the digitally projected characters achieve some semblance of believability, how their creators manage to craft a successful performing persona, and whether these simulations can claim something like Benjamin's "aura" or even Bazin's "fingerprint." This is not far removed, I'd say, from the process human performers go through in crafting their own performing personas — which is what I claim Woody did during his two years on L.A. radio beginning in 1937, as a direct result of his encounter with the new mass medium and its delayed feedback channels. Such is the basis of my paper on the subject, and my talk this weekend.
No one, to my knowledge, yet has proposed that Woody be among the legions of dead musicians resurrected in hologram form. This sounds like both a terrific idea (he'd probably love it) and a dreadful idea. Who knows?
This weekend's symposium was intellectually rich. I spoke at the first Woody Guthrie Symposium in 2012, and this one seemed more well-rounded, diverse, lively. Highlights included Will Kaufman's discussion of Woody as an icon of modernity and Mark Fernandez plumbing Woody's opinions and lyrics about the atomic bomb. Gus Stadler presented an elegant narrative about Woody's awareness of his own body, both in and out of the context of his Huntington's disease. Jeff Place, from the Smithsonian, initiated an illuminating conversation about copyright by playing certain Woody songs side-by-side with the old country music melodies he'd cribbed. Last but very much not least, the inimitable David Amram closed the day with his ever-optimistic outlook and few bars on various woodwinds from around the world.
A day with the Woodygentsia is always a happy day.
All this took place on the campus of The University of Tulsa, which recently acquired — in addition to its own Woody Guthrie holdings and its relationship with the city's Woody Guthrie Center — the archives of Bob Dylan. Add that to the Center's Phil Ochs collection and the university's extensive James Joyce collection, and you've got the heart of what could become a culture-archival center of gravity. More power to it. | 2019-04-22T08:44:46 | https://www.thomasconner.info/blog/woody-guthrie-bound-for-holograms |
0.999999 | ==What do Rovers do?== The Rover programme is built around four areas of development: : '''Personal''' – Grow yourself on a personal level, learn to construct a CV, get your driver’s license and find your spiritual path.<br/> : '''Movement''' – Develop an understanding of the Scout and Cub sections, involve yourself with running a Pack or Troop meeting/event.<br/> : '''Community''' – Review your community and establish how to improve it with an action plan, consider doing a community service project.<br/> : '''Leadership''' – Ultimately develop yourself to become a better citizen and leader in your Crew. Rovers could be described as a fellowship of the open air and service. You’ll find there’s an extensive range of activities open to you, and socially, you’ll be mixing with a group of young adults doing the things you want to do. Every Rover Crew is different, and tailors its activities to the requirements of its members. Outdoor activities such as bush walking; caving, canoeing, ski touring, rock-climbing and scuba diving are all important parts of many Rover Crews’ calendars. In fact, when it comes to Rover activities, imagination is your only limit. Rovers will develop your ability to lead other young people to adventure, and you will appreciate the value of helping other people. The word “service” is synonymous with Rovering. The friends you make in Rovers will be lifelong friends. You will plan and manage your Crew’s activities, and learn the value of teamwork and co-operation. Rovering has so much to offer; you will find the decision to join an easy one to make. | 2019-04-24T09:51:36 | https://scoutwiki.scouts.org.za/index.php?title=Rovers&action=edit§ion=4 |
0.999999 | Fear of rain, thunder, lightning, bugs & dogs. Relief for cramps.
I worked with an eleven-year-old boy who'd been bitten by a pit bull the year before when he was ten. He had developed enormous phobias, and he'd been in therapy and on medication. He was a sweet boy, but his body language showed me that he was cowering with fear. The medication didn't work; nor did other techniques his mother took him to try. His mother brought him to see me, and I told him I'd like to do some tapping on special points while saying certain words about his problem.
First we omitted his fear of rain. He had feared thunder and lightning. The tapping and words removed that fear. His mother said, "Are you sure you don't feel that fear anymore?" The boy said, "Oh yes, I feel happy."
Then we eliminated his morbid fear of dogs - not just pit bulls, but any kind of dogs. After that we eliminated his awful fear of all bugs. He felt uplifted and joyful. His mother was amazed. She told me one week later that they had gone to Disneyland without his medications, and he did splendidly - free from his fears and relaxed.
Not long after that, I went to a fair, and I was walking down a road when a woman came right up to me and with anguish on her face, she said, "Do you have any aspirin or ibuprofen? My daughter has such bad cramps that she can't walk. They just came on suddenly." I smiled to myself that she was guided in my direction, and I told her that I didn't have any aspirin or ibuprofen, but I had something else that we could use: I could tap her with my fingers.
She was ready to try anything, so I went to her thirteen year old daughter and began to tap. Within one round of tapping (less than 30 seconds,) the cramps had more than half disappeared. Within the next 30 seconds, the cramps went away completely. Her parents' faces showed total astonishment. I was thrilled to have a first aid kit in my fingertips. | 2019-04-19T04:44:21 | https://www.emofree.com/children/general-children/rain-article.html?Itemid=0 |
0.999997 | Two glamorous high school friends from Australia have claimed a historic victory at the pinnacle event of world wrestling.
Billie Kay and Peyton Royce have been chasing their dream of being professional wrestlers since meeting in high school in western Sydney a decade ago - signing to World Wrestling Entertainment in 2015.
On Sunday night, the pair, known as The IIconics, were crowned the WWE Women's Tag Team Champions - becoming the first Australians to win a title in the largest wrestling promotion in the world.
'This is more than a dream come true, I don't know how to put it in words, what we're feeling and what this means to us, I don't have words,' and emotional Peyton told Wide World of Sports.
The match, in which they beat out three other tag-teams, took place at Met-Life Stadium, New York's largest, in front of 82,000 screaming fans as part of WrestleMania.
The event, held annually, is the largest event on the wrestling calendar and considered the pinnacle of the sport.
One half of the duo, Billie Kay - born Jessica McKay - burst into tears on the canvas as she was handed the title belt.
Her friend and wrestling partner Peyton Royce - born Cassie McIntosh - hugging her as the crowd, some waving Australian flags, cheered the Sydneysiders.
'When we came into each others' life, we had this one goal. We wanted to do this by each others side and every step of the way, we've done it by each others' side,' Kay said.
Kay, 29, and Royce, 26, attended Westfield Sports High School together in suburb of Fairfield West where they began their wrestling careers.
The pair started out competing in local events across Australia before being signed to the WWE in 2015 after the being given a tryout in 2014 when the promotion toured the country.
While some argue the sport is not an athletic competition in the strictest sense, there is no doubt the show the wildly popular Australians give fans helped them rise to the top of the sport.
In just four short years the duo has amassed a huge following in the United States - wrestling's heartland.
'They're going to be big stars for us for a long period of time,' WWE Executive Vice President, Paul 'Triple H' Levesque said of the pair last year. | 2019-04-23T09:00:14 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6899427/WWE-Billie-Kay-Peyton-Royce-make-wrestling-history.html |
0.999892 | Last of three parts: IP integration strategies; which tools to use and when; developing executable specs; the need for better and different IP characterization; limits of traffic generators.
Low-Power/High-Performance Engineering sat down with Ravi Kalyanaraman, senior verification manager for the digital entertainment business unit at Marvell; William Orme, strategic marketing manager for ARM’s System IP and Processor Division; Steve Brown, product marketing and business development director for the systems and software group at Cadence; Johannes Stahl director of product marketing for system-level solutions at Synopsys; and Bill Neifert, CTO of Carbon Design Systems. What follows are excerpts of that conversation.
LPHP: How do we deal with all of the IP blocks—internally and commercially developed—that are now being used in complex designs?
Neifert: If you attack this as an assembly problem, that’s how you keep up with all of this stuff.
Stahl: I disagree. At the chip level, it comes together. You cannot separate it out.
Neifert: You certainly have to assemble it, though.
Stahl: But if you do not simulate it in an assembled way you cannot optimize performance. If you simulate at the RTL level, it’s too close.
Neifert: You have to do that.
Stahl: But if you run it together at RTL, that’s too low.
Orme: You have to use at least at some level of abstraction before you bring the subsystems together. Otherwise it’s too late.
Neifert: You don’t want to put Linux on that system, though. It will take you forever.
Brown: You need to boot Linux early with the parts of the system that are performance-sensitive, so it can be cycle-accurate. That’s what customers are doing to address what you’re talking about. You have to do systems integration to address things early. It’s a hybrid of abstractions.
Neifert: People run on fast models until they actually care about something in detail. So they may want to analyze the performance in a specific place. Then you go from the fast models to the accurate models. You can use emulators and FPGAs for that.
LPHP: What you’re looking at here is more tools in your tool belt, right? You pick the one that works when you need it, which may be behavioral verification and formal verification in addition to functional verification.
Stahl: Yes. Customers will use whatever they can get a hold of.
Orme: That’s why we work with so many different EDA companies, which all have different approaches.
Neifert: I was talking with one customer who has an FPGA, an emulator, and virtual prototyping. At first they use whatever they can get, but after that—when they’re all available—they self-select depending on their requirements.
LPHP: Do customers really have that much choice?
Kalyanaraman: The tools are there right now at the higher level for architectural exploration, although there is less for performance exploration. A lot of companies are trying to bridge the gap between the individual pieces and when you put it all together. There is some measure between what the performance architect is trying to spec out and what the verification team is trying to do. You can at least try to bridge the gap by understanding what the interconnect issues could be, for example. There is emulation, and there are tools up front that deal with the interconnect. Expanding to the higher level, it would be good to have tool that can get that same kind of capability as emulation up front. At the system level can you detect performance issues?
LPHP: It sounds like we need standards for this.
Kalyanaraman: Today, architects are able to spec things out, but they cannot run anything because they can’t use emulation. That comes later in the cycle. We are able to put all the IPs together. How do we assess the performance?
Stahl: The architect specs out something. If he spends millions and millions of cycles on this spec on a good enough model, it should be correct. Why would you implement something that’s not worthy? But there should be a requirement to do more thorough simulation earlier. And your world should be fairly well explored before you start putting something together.
Neifert: We all have solutions in this space and ways to solve this. They all revolve around running various scenarios so you have an executable spec that’s an accurate representation. At a bare minimum it should include the interconnect, but you also should have the memory subsystem tied in there, as well. Hopefully your highest traffic generators have been flushed out as accurately as possible, as well. Otherwise, when you tie this all together into a real system it won’t work at the performance level you thought it would. The earlier you get that running, as accurately as possible, the better. If you’re waiting for emulation to do it, you’re too late.
Kalyanaraman: One thing that would help is that for companies that make IP, along with they IP they give model signatures. I don’t need the signatures to run a test. But I do need the model signatures so that I can push it through my traffic generator. If you want to operate IP on a certain mode or change a knob, you need to know everything the IP can do and how it reacts to things. Today we are integrating AXI DFM because our common bus standard is AXI. That does not represent the true signature of these IPs.
LPHP: So the IP is not being characterized at the level you require?
Kalyanaraman: That’s correct, but you still need that.
Orme: We’ve been looking at that in conversations with tools providers. What you’re describing is what are the characteristics that have sensitivity on the system. People might say they need X megabytes, but that’s a crude specification. You have to show the characteristics of the profile, and interestingly enough, that can feed directly into verification. Given those characteristics, you can then try out the range you think an IP might be capable of delivering. Programmable IP may have very different signatures, depending on the software its running. And then you can experiment. So if you’re building a memory subsystem, it can support these different characteristics.
Stahl: Writing a generic traffic generator for a piece of IP that is highly configurable is a non-trivial task. If they have a very specific use case, then writing a traffic generator is not all that complicated.
LPHP: So the gist of this is that complexity is forcing IP vendors to characterize their IP in ways they never considered?
Kalyanaraman: That’s the key. Typically, in the SoC integration, the focus is mainly, ‘Let’s get on with working.’ There’s not a clear understanding of the character of the IP and what it does under certain situations. This is why it’s so important that we get very accurate signatures and models. It has to come together as a package so we can plug it in and try it out. We have seen around interconnects some extraction values, but it’s very important we get to the verification engineer what is the number of outstanding transactions. Nobody knows. It has to come from the IP. What is the IP capable of supporting?
Neifert: You can do things with traffic generation, but you can miss things with traffic generation, as well. You can solve a lot of that by using the actual model. Traffic generation is great for a certain aspect, but you can’t catch all of the functionality and make sure you’ve done all the arbitration unless you’re using the real IP. | 2019-04-26T09:07:18 | https://semiengineering.com/experts-at-the-table-performance-analysis/ |
0.999998 | 1. For the cupcakes: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. Line your cupcake pan with the liners of your choice.
3. In a large bowl, combine the cake flour, baking powder, and salt, mixing until combined.
4. In the bowl of your standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar at medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
5. Reduce the mixer speed to low.
6. In a small bowl, combine the milk and vanilla, mixing well.
7. Beginning and ending with the dry ingredients, alternately add the flour and milk mixtures to the butter mixture.
8. In a separate bowl using a hand mixer, beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form.
9. Gently fold the egg whites into the cupcake batter, mixing until combined.
10. Add the chocolate chips to the batter.
11. Divide the batter evenly among your cupcake liners and bake until a tester inserted into the center comes out clean, about 20-22 minutes. Let cool completely before frosting.
12. For the frosting: In the bowl of your standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine the butter, cream cheese, and brown sugar, mixing well until light and fluffy. | 2019-04-19T14:14:54 | http://hausofcaitlin.blogspot.com/2013/03/chocolate-chip-cupcakes.html |
0.999768 | The two primary energy sources we use are carbs and fat. When we exercise we use a combination of both. Yes, low intensity workouts tend to burn more calories from fat than high intensity workouts do because fat requires oxygen. That's why they call it aerobic exercise, which means with oxygen. As your intensity increases it becomes anaerobic, which means without oxygen. At this point your body shifts where it draws its energy from. For instance, when you go from walking to running you are obviously increasing your intensity, right?
When you are walking your body is getting most of its energy from fat and secondarily from carbs. When you are running you will use primarily carbs and secondarily fat. But hold on a minute because there is much more to the cardio story to be told.
In the end, it doesn't matter whether the calories burned come from fat or carbs. The total calorie expenditure should be your focus. You will burn more calories with higher intensity cardio than you will with low intensity cardio and in less time, hence quicker weight loss.
Think about this: If you walk for 30 minutes or you interval train (walk/run) for 30 minutes, doesn't it make sense that you'd burn more calories in that same 30 minutes by increasing the intensity?
Or look at it this way: Which would you rather do? Walk 60 minutes, walk/run interval 30-40 minutes, or brisk walk on varied terrain for about 40-45 minutes? I don't know about you, but burning more calories in less time is a win/win in my book every time!
Of course, some people cannot run or do higher intensity exercise due to certain limitations such as age, arthritis, injuries, etc. In that case you may have to stick with longer duration and lower intensity. But there are various ways to increase the intensity that you may be able to try, such as switch up from treadmill to elliptical or riding a bike now and then or throw some hills or hiking into the cardio mix. The point is, figure out what you can do and work with that.
Let's say you are a person who strength trains 2-3 days a week and does cardio 3-5 days a week. You are eating a healthy diet and are maintaining your weight at 165 pounds, but you'd rather weigh 150. What do you need to do?
You have three options at this point.
1) You can keep doing exactly what you are doing (the same exercise routine) but start consuming fewer calories (eating less).
2) You can keep eating the same way and the same amount of calories and increase your frequency and/or intensity of exercise.
3) Or you can exercise a little more and eat a little less.
IN SUMMARY: If you are looking to lose weight safely and as quickly as possible, you will need to either reduce calorie intake and/or increase exercise intensity/frequency.
If you are looking for generally improving the quality of your life and health, weight training along with either high or low intensity cardio exercise will definitely do the trick!
For more tips and info that can help you get better results from your fitness plan, be sure and check out my new eBook "So You Joined a Gym...Now What? Part II Essential Workout Tips & Secrets for Beginners: How to Exercise & Train Smart." The information in this book will kick your workouts into overdrive, no matter what your level of fitness. Because it matters HOW YOU WORKOUT! This book will show you how. I am currently formatting it so that it will be available on Barnes and Noble's online bookstore and everywhere else ASAP. But for the time-being, you can click on the above link and get it at Amazon.com along with any of my other books.
This month's featured exercise is lying dumbbell triceps extensions. As I stated last month, it's almost time to bare our arms for the summer, so let's polish up those guns with some triceps training!
To see a video go here and watch the first exercise of the workout.
Preparation: Lie on a flat bench, holding dumbbells straight up in the air as shown above.
Execution: Carefully lower the weights to the ears by bending at the elbow, keeping upper arms straight up in the air. Use caution so as not to hit yourself in the face or head with the weights. (You laugh until you do this exercise and realize how easy that would be to do.) So please take my word for it and focus on controlling this move. Repeat for the desired amount of reps.
TIP: Keep elbows straight up with no movement in the shoulder joint. This is a single-joint (elbow) movement, thereby isolating the triceps.
This month's video is in tribute to all the heroes at Monday's horrific Boston Marathon bombings. I am always awestruck at the amazing acts of heroism and compassion during times of tragedy such as these. My heart is heavy and my eyes are tear-filled as I continue to grieve and pray for the victims and their families and friends. May God give them the strength and courage to triumph over this unthinkable atrocity, and may his healing touch continue to shower them with miracles and love. | 2019-04-20T14:36:53 | https://www.straightforwardfitness.com/Straightforward_Fitness_Flash-highlowcardio.html |
0.999999 | What do I do if my bin smells?
No, worms don't have eyes. They are very sensitive to bright light. They will try to hide as soon as they are exposed to light.
The worm's mouth is in the first anterior segment. There is a small protruding lip just over the mouth, called prostomium. When the worm is foraging, this lip is stretching out. The prostomium is used for sensing food.
Once your worm bin has been going for a while, you may notice other creatures like white worms, springtails, and millipedes living in your bin. This is normal, these creatures will not hurt your worms. In fact, they help the composting process. The only bugs that may be present that pose a threat to worms are centipedes. You can tell centipedes and millipedes apart by looking at how their legs are attached to their bodies. Centipedes have only one pair of legs per segment, millipedes have two pairs.
Unpleasant odors in a worm bin may result from too much food waste, too much moisture, or composting cheese or animal products. Control odors by removing excess waste? You can also make sure that drainage holes are not blocked and adding more drain holes or fresh bedding if needed. Always cover fresh food waste with at least one inch of bedding.
You may occasionally notice patches of mold or sprouts in your worm bin. Molds and fungi are a natural part of the composting process, helping to break down the food waste. Vegetables may sprout in your bin because of all the nutrients present. These things will eventually be consumed by the worms and other organisms, but you can keep the mold or sprouts out of sight by covering them with bedding.
Do worms die in the box? It's hard to find dead worms in a worm box, but they do die in the box. Dead worm bodies decompose very quickly, because their bodies are between 75%-90% water. If you find many dead worms you should find out the cause. High heat (above 110 degrees) is fatal to them. Too much salt or acidic food waste can kill them. It's best to change the bedding with fresh materials to solve the problem. Sometimes, partially replacing bedding may solve the problem.
Worms need oxygen to live. The oxygen diffuses across the moist tissue of their skin, from the region of greater concentration of oxygen (air) to that of lower concentration (inside the worm.) Carbon dioxide produced by the bodily processes of the worm also diffuses through skin. Moving from higher concentration to lesser concentration, carbon dioxide moves from the inside of the worm's body out into the surrounding bedding. A constant supply of fresh air throughout the bedding helps this desirable exchange take place. | 2019-04-24T04:18:09 | https://www.gardenworms.com/index.php?main_page=faq |
0.998916 | I received these products for review from Influenster and Shiseido but all opinions are my own.
I've had really good experiences with Shiseido skincare in the past, and I was really excited to be provided the Synchro Skin Liquid Foundation for review from Influenster and Shiseido. I've owned a few liquid foundations before and even though they are not my favourite formula, I like having a variety of foundation styles to choose from, but is this one worth the price tag?
Finish - The initial finish of the foundation is light to medium, and while the product claims you can build upon it with multiple layers, I found it started to look quite heavy if I did. It IS a very blendable base to work with, and I found it easy to layer blush/bronzer/highlight over the foundation smoothly. It has a fairly natural finish, not too matte and not shiny at all, but my results at the end of the day were quite varied.
Wearing the Synchro Skin Lasting Liquid Foundation, the Rouge Rouge Lipstick in Ruby Copper, Inkstroke Eyeliner in Black.
Durability - As I mentioned above, I tried this foundation with multiple primers and with the exception of the Smashbox Photo Finish Foundation Primer, my foundation would break down within about 4-6 hours. It would simultaneously look like it was melting off my face, as well as breaking down and drying up on my face. Only with the Smashbox Photo Finish Foundation Primer did it stay put, but it did fade away quite a bit after 8 hours, which makes it tough for me to trust wearing it and going out after work.
Final Thoughts - The Shiseido Synchro Skin Lasting Liquid Foundation is ok, but the finicky nature of the formula and the trickiness of knowing what to use with it, makes it less likely that I'll buy it again, especially since it's $58 CAD. I currently have a serum foundation by The Ordinary which delivers a similar result for only $6.70, and while I'll forgive a cheaper foundation for it's flaws, something almost $50 more should not be so high maintenance.
On the plus side, I also received some other Shiseido products in my kit, the Rouge Rouge lipstick in Ruby Copper, the Inkstroke Eyeliner in Black, and the Ultimune Power Infusing Concentrate and had positive experiences with each of them. The eyeliner specifically is very easy to apply, but my sample only included a small sample brush and I need to test it with the proper brush to do it full justice in a review. The lipstick is fantastic and I'll definitely be doing a proper swatch of it in the future.
What's your favourite Shiseido product? Let me know in the comments! | 2019-04-22T23:57:32 | https://www.darlingmagpie.com/home/save-or-splurge-shiseido-synchro-skin-vs-the-ordinary-serum-foundation |
0.999999 | They were four solo singers before music magnate Simon Cowell decided to shake things up and knead Jade Thirlwall, Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson and Leigh-Anne Pinnock in Little Mix.
The feisty girl band, which was founded in 2011, became X Factor's biggest export with four hugely successful albums and a handful of prizes, including a BRIT for best British single.
So why are the fierce foursome and Syco separated?
False rumors between fans spun a picture of rows with some say that the foursome split up with Syco to get a new manager – this is strongly denied that this is in contrast to Mixers theories – Cowell left ways with their management, modest, not the other way round.
It is thought that it is the maker of X Factor decided to support the loyal employees who have worked for his Syco label for years, but has said that he will support Little Mix by inviting them to the X Factor final.
A spokesperson for Simon said: "Syco Music no longer works with Modest Management and that's why artists have registered with that management company.
"Of course we wish all artists affected by this decision all the success of the future, making LM5, the upcoming Little Mix album A & R & # 39; d and released on Syco Music, at the request of Syco and Simon Cowell by RCA is maintained. "
Fans say that the girls chose to move to record company RCA because it is the home of MD Stacey Tang.
Jesy hinted at how embittered the split was, and found an Instagram message saying: "They will leave Syco and then tell us what Syco did not get through."
It is thought that the rows started when the girls felt that they did not get enough appreciation for their single, Woman Like Me, with the American superstar Nicki Minaj.
After claiming a writing credit alongside Ed Sheeren, Jess Glynne and Steve Mac, Cowell reportedly admitted eventually.
The girls were appalled, however, because they had to fight for an honor which according to them had to be paid automatically.
All four are supposed to have written a strongly formulated e-mail in which they raise their problems with their label.
A larger line would then have erupted between the label and the Modest management bureau. | 2019-04-25T18:24:14 | https://www.archynetys.com/entertainment/bitter-truth-behind-little-mix-39-broken-down-in-simon-cowell-revealed/ |
0.997167 | The actress Michèle Morgan was born as Simone Roussel in Neuilly-sur-Seine. She is regarded as Grand-Dame of the French film. She left her home at the age of 15 and took acting lessons. Her career took soon shape and she played small roles in three movies in her debut year - „Une fille à papa - Eine Tochter für den Papa“ (35), „La vie parisienne - Pariser Leben“ (35) and „Mademoiselle Mozart“ (35).
It followed soon important productions where she acted besides stars like Raimu, Charles Boyer, Jean Gabin or Pierre Brasseur. To these movies belong „Gribouille“ (37), „Orage“ (38) and „Quai des brumes - Hafen im Nebel“ (38), one of her greatest successes.
Already in 1940 - only 20 years old - she was called to Hollywood where she only appeared in few movies because the US filmbusiness didn't have the flair to bring her into play optimal. She played at Humphrey Bogart's side in „Passage to Marseille - Fahrkarte nach Marseille“ (1944) and other movies but she soon decided - although she got the US nationality meanwhile - to return to France.
Already for her first movie after her return - „La symphonie pastorale“ (46) she was awarded in Cannes.
Her excursion to the USA didn't harm her career, on the contrary. She became a demanded actress in all great film nations and took part in movies like „Joan of Paris“ (42), „Higher and Higher“ (43), „Fabiola“ (48), „Marie-Antoinette reine de France - Marie Antoinette“ (56) and „Le miroir à deux faces“ (1958).
With some of the great French stars she worked together in several movies - with Gérard Philipe in „Les orgueilleux - Die Hochmütigen“ (53) and „Les grandes manoeuvres - Das grosse Manöver“ (55), with Jean Marais in „Aux yeux du souvenir - Treffpunkt Rio“ (48) and „Le château de verre - Rendezvous in Paris“ (50) or with her husband Henri Vidal in „L‘étrange Madame X“ (51), „Napoléon“ (55) and „Pourquoi viens-tu sitard?“ (59).
Michèle Morgan war married with the actors William Marshall and Henri Vidal as well as director Gérard Oury. | 2019-04-23T04:04:45 | http://www.cyranos.ch/sbmorg-e.htm |
0.998159 | When that failed, a GRU "close access" team was sent from Russian Federation to the Netherlands to try to penetrate their cyber defences from close quarters. But not in this case: the Russians were nabbed in a hotel parking lot next to the OPCW office in a vehicle packed with gear created to tap into the agency's Wi-Fi network.
The Dutch government said the Russians were later found with a auto full of electronic equipment in the vehicle park of a hotel close to the OPCW building. Instead, the four were immediately escorted out of the country, he added. "It was a successful operation".
"They were clearly not here on holiday", said Eichelsheim.
'It is quite possible that they did not want to put the relationship with Russian Federation at risk by a criminal investigation against these four people in the Netherlands'.
But a federal indictment announced on Thursday charges that Russian spies waged a long-running campaign to undermine investigations into doping activities by Russian athletes during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. He told US President Donald Trump during a July summit in Helsinki that talk of Russian Federation meddling in the 2016 election was "nonsense".
The Russians were tracked by Dutch and British secret services from their arrival in Amsterdam on diplomatic passports in April, and then seen hiring a Citroen vehicle which they parked outside the Marriott hotel next to the OPCW.
"Western spy mania is gathering pace", a Russian foreign ministry representative told AFP.
Two of the officers were planning to travel on to Switzerland where the OPCW - which was at the time investigating the Salisbury attack and a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria - has laboratories.
Yermakov, Malyshev, and Badin were among the 12 GRU officers indicted in July this year by Mueller, over alleged interference in the USA polls of 2016.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice's announcement, these individuals were part of a campaign to retaliate and delegitimize the global anti-doping organizations who exposed a Russian state-sponsored athlete doping program.
The GRU, Britain said, was nearly certainly behind the BadRabbit and World Anti-Doping Agency hacking attacks of 2017, the hack of the U.S. Democratic National Committee (DNC) in 2016 and the theft of emails from a UK-based TV station in 2015.
"The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has identified that a number of cyber actors widely known to have been conducting cyber attacks around the world are, in fact, the GRU", the NCSC claimed in a statement.
The announcement could further strain relations between Russia and Britain that began to deteriorate with the 2006 assassination of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko with polonium in London.
The US has made similar accusations against Russian Federation for conducting cyber attacks.
"These acts form part of a broader pattern of activities by the Russian government that lie well outside the bounds of appropriate behaviour, demonstrate a disregard for worldwide law and undermine the rules-based global order", it read.
An official said one of the envelops was mailed from inside the United States; it's not clear where the other one came from. All mail delivered on Monday is now under quarantine, and "poses no threat to Pentagon personnel", he said. | 2019-04-23T06:11:07 | http://phillysportslive.com/2018/10/western-nations-accuse-russian-federation-of-global-hacking/ |
0.996308 | There are many myths about how lions and lion dance originated. One myth is also the origin of the Lunar New Year celebrations. The story is as follows: There was a monster named Nian (Chinese word for "year") that came once a year to a village to eat its harvest and people. The villagers always fled to the mountains to avoid being eaten by Nian. One year, a lion showed up and chased away the monster. However, in the following years the lion wasn't there. The villagers made a lion costume and had two people wear it to scare away Nian. In addition to the lion likeness, the villagers wore red, played loud drums, and set off firecrackers, since Nian didn't like any of these either. This is why Lunar New Year is celebrated with all of these aspects. This time the villagers did not have a lion to protect themselves. So, they solved the problem by creating a costume likeness of a lion and two villagers used it to scare “Nian” away. This is the reason the lion dance is performed every Chinese New Year.
A similar myth is that the lion itself was the Nian in the previous story. This time, a Buddhist monk came to the village and told the villagers to wear red and make loud noises to scare the lion away. The Buddha himself went after the lion into the mountains to tame it and teach it Buddhism. They returned, and the lion became the protector of the village. The monk himself became known as the Big-Headed Buddha. From this myth, lion dance serves to bring luck and prosperity.
This myth is more closely related to the history of lion dance than other myths. There was an Emperor who lived during the Tang Dynasty (618-906 A.D.). The Emperor had a dream about a mysterious animal saving his life. When the Emperor woke up, he asked his ministers what the creature was. They told him it resembled the lion, which was a creature from the West. He then had his artists and masons create art and statues of the lion. Due to this, the lion became the symbol of prosperity, happiness and good luck.
The last myth explains the origin of the lion as a creature that lived in the heavens. The lion was very playful and mischevious, but the Jade Emperor decided it caused too much trouble. He ordered the lion's head be cut off as punishment, and cast its body and head down to Earth. However, Kwan Yin, the Goddess of Mercy, took pity on the lion. She revived the lion by tying its head back on with a red ribbon. She also gifted the lion with its horn and mirror. As gratitude, the lion becomes a disciple of Buddhism, and went on a quest to find the Ling Chi grass, which symbolizes longevity and would restore its power. Before it could eat the grass, it bowed three times: to the left (symbolizing Heaven), to the right (symbolizing Earth), and to the center (symbolizing Mankind). It then ate the grass, and fell asleep due to its effects. When it awoke, the lion had regained its power, and returned to Heaven.
There are many more myths and variants that exist which explain the origin of lions and the aspects of lion dancing. Lion dance is strongly correlated with Buddhism. As mentioned in some of the myths above, the Buddha is an important figure in taming the lion. Our team members are not necessarily Buddhist - we focus more on the cultural aspects of lion dance and how we can tie it into our community.
Lion dance dates back to the Tang Dynasty. While we've explored the mythical origin, there are two concrete events from which lion dance possibly stems from. The first is the cultural interaction between Persian performers and China. The Tang Dynasty was a Golden Age where China exchanged culture and art with other countries. Lions are not native in China, and lion dancing was one of the performances in the Persian Nevruz (meaning 'New Day') festival.
The second possibility is that it stemmed from an annual ritual of cleaning the imperial palace. The cleaning was both physical and spiritual; the spiritual aspect involved exorcising demons. Men dressed up as twelve sacred animals made three passes through the palace. The lion was one of these animals.
Lion dancing was also an important aspect of Buddhist blessing ceremonies because it exorcised demons. Buddhist temples were also the origin of kung fu. In 1644 when the Manchurians invaded China, the art of lion dancing was passed on through the martial arts schools, as associating with Buddhism meant death. Thus, to this day, lions are known to represent their martial arts schools.
The relationship between lion dance and kung fu schools reciprocally benefitted each other. Lion dance stances extend and reflect martial arts stances, such as horse stance (default for how performers stand under the lion), which is also a basic stance in kung fu. The quality and duration of the school's lion dancing represented the skill, stamina, and strength of the members of the school. Back then, competitions were held - the lion which performed the best and defeated the other lions earned money and prestige for their school. Blessing ceremonies may have also been sometimes competitive in nature. However, since lion dancers made their living off of winning performances, the history of lion dancing developed a darker era.
In the 1950s-60s, many lion dancers in Asian communities associated with gangs. Fights between lion dance troupes and martial arts schools were common. Performers used hidden daggers to slash at other troupes' lions and dancers and damage them. Some lions had metal horns for the same purpose. There were also some performance stunts which served to purposely attack other lions. Due to this, the Malaysian, Indonesian, and Hong Kong government banned lion dance for many years. Now, lion dance is usually practiced as a recreational activity and performed only for joyous occasions, such as New Year celebrations and weddings.
There are several common routines and rules lion dancers adhere to, all of which have roots in tradition. A performance typically has a minimum of 5 performers: 1 drummer, 1 gong player, 1 cymbal player, and 2 people for the lion. The drumming is a vital aspect of lion dance. Besides its mythological importance, it invigorates the lion and the changes in the beats and patterns help the lion know what part of the routine it is performing. There may also be a big-headed buddha with a fan, whose purpose is to guide the lion around and interact with the audience. He is the comedic effect of the performance.
Awakening - The lion is initially asleep, and grumpily wakes up as the drumming intensifies. It may clean itself and yawn, before it is finally fully awake and standing.
Opening - The lion bows three times (the bows represent the Heaven, Earth, and Man as stated in the myth earlier). If there is an entrance, it will step or jump over the threshhold and walk towards the main stage.
Playing - The lion will play and interact with the audience. This part is improvisational, and is an opportunity for the lion dancers to showcase their skill. For some performances, this is the best opportunity to give the lion red envelopes (if audience members have red envelopes).
Quest - The lion goes on a quest to find its food, which is usually lettuce (representing the long chi grass from earlier), or tangerines or other food. It will usually encounter some sort of obstacle or puzzle, or even another lion, which it must overcome in order to reach the food. In a cai ching ceremony (picking the greens), the food is typically lettuce with a red envelope with money stuffed in it and hung on a string in a high place. The lion must be able to reach the green in order to get the red envelope money; in a sense, this is how the lion is rewarded for its performance.
Eating - The lion will inspect and play with its food curiously for a while, then eat it. It will chew the food three times, then spit it out (once or three times depending on the performers). If it eats lettuce, the act is said to symbolize spreading wealth and prosperity. Being hit with the lettuce it spits out is considered lucky.
Closing - The lion bows three times again.
Sleeping - Having finished its purpose, the lion goes back to sleep.
An alternate routine is the drunken lion routine. It is similar to the one above, but instead of eating, the lion is rewarded with liquor for its feat, which it drinks. The lion then stumbles around for some time before going back to normal and bowing three times.
You may notice that there are some things lions do and don't do. For one, the lion dancer always enters and exits the lion from the lion's left side. Also, when the lion turns around, it always turns to the left. This is due to tradition, though the reason behind it is not clear.
A lot of aspects of the routines are symbolic. But the features of the lion itself are also symbolic of many things. Here is a list of features in lion dancing and lions and their corresponding symbolic meanings.
Lettuce - Represents the magical Long Chi grass, and prosperity. It is eaten, then spat out at the audience to spread the wealth.
Green - The color associated with lettuce and money, so it too represents wealth and luck. Lion noses are often this color.
Red - A lucky color, especially on Lunar New Year. Giving red envelopes containing money to the lion is considered to bring luck to the giver.
The number 3 - This is everywhere. There are three types of instruments in a performance, which each share the same basic shape - the circle. Lions always bow three times at a time. Our music also comes in threes (when the lion cleans the door, or eats lettuce, among other more subtle ones). You may be able to recognize it if you watch and listen closely.
Circle - Symbol of completion and restoration. For this reason, tangerines can be used instead of lettuce.
Zigzag-like walking - Lions almost never walk straight. Instead, they dart from side to side, and back and forth. This is said to confuse evil spirits, which are believed to move in straight lines.
The features below are the symbolic parts of a lion.
The 5 colors - The five colors are yellow, black, green, red, and white. They represent the five directions of the Chinese compass (including center), and the five elements of life (earth, water, wood, fire, and metal). These are the colors lions have most often.
Mirror - It is said that evil spirits and demons are afraid of their own reflection, since they are so terrifying to look at.
Ribbon - The red ribbon on the horn is a reminder to the lion to only do good things. It represents the ribbon Kwan Yin revived the lion with.
Red-Dotted eyes - Every lion must be awakened in an Eye-Dotting (Awakening) Ceremony. In this ceremony, the lion's eyes are dotted with red paint (or traditionally, pig's blood), so that the lion's spirit can foresee both good and evil.
Head and body - In some versions of the myth involving the mischevious lion, the lion's legs were cut off and its head and body were casted upon the earth. This is why lions have no legs, and the dancers must be the lion's legs.
Horn - Represents the phoenix, the symbol of life and regeneration.
Ears and Tail - Based on the Kirin, or Chinese unicorn. They represent wisdom and luck.
Beard and Forehead - Characteristic of dragons, representing strength and leadership. The length of a beard reflects the wisdom and age of the lion. | 2019-04-19T22:13:50 | http://uclaliondance.com/culture.php |
0.999885 | Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq:FB): Is Europe trying to break up Facebook's business?
Is Europe trying to break up Facebook's business?
FB – The clearest warning yet came Thursday, when Germany’s antitrust office ruled that Facebook was abusing its market position.
London (CNN Business) Facebook built a massive advertising business on what it knows about its users. But could the company’s enormous database soon become its biggest problem?
Facebook (FB) doesn’t charge for using its social network. Instead, users “pay” by handing over their data, which Facebook then turns into real money by selling advertisements targeted at specific users.
The German regulator argued that Facebook (FB) controls more than 95% of the country’s social media market, which means users have to choose between its data collection and not using social media.
It said that companies such as Snapchat (SNAP), Google’s (GOOGL) YouTube and Twitter(TWTR) don’t offer the same services as Facebook and therefore can’t be included in the market.
Facebook Inc. shares rose $0.10 (+0.06%) in after-hours trading Friday. Year-to-date, FB has gained 27.65%, versus a 8.22% rise in the benchmark S&P 500 index during the same period.
FB currently has a StockNews.com POWR Rating of C (Neutral), and is ranked #22 of 54 stocks in the Internet category.
This article is brought to you courtesy of CNN.
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0.994212 | Is it possible to create a "profile" using just a few datapoints?
Is it possible to make a profile or something that can substitute for a missing profile knowing just a few data points? I'd like to make something that stands in for a Extended Gamut (CMY + OGV) profile. I know the white point, the black, and the LAB values for the 6 "primaries". I'd like to have a profile for this "space" so that I can use software like PatchTool and/or ColorThinkPro to check a list of colors to find which ones are out of gaumt.
I don't think this is possible without extensive programming on your part. There are various color models that can predict CIELab values from a small set of measurements - Clapper-Yule, Kubelka-Munk etc. Using these, you could simulate a measurements file (CGATS or other format) that contains enough "measured" points for the profile making software to build you an ICC profile. Its accuracy will not be so high, obviously.
I haven't seen a tool that can do this for you. Maybe someone else here known of one.
There are currently 5969 users online. 103 members and 5866 guests. | 2019-04-26T14:35:03 | https://printplanet.com/forum/prepress-and-workflow/color-management/276502-is-it-possible-to-create-a-profile-using-just-a-few-datapoints |
0.996866 | I understand that when an infant dies, there is no funeral service. Why is this and what is the threshold for when there is a service?
An infant who does not live for thirty days is called nefel, and is not considered viable in Jewish tradition.
Obligatory Aninut (status of mourner) and mourning do not apply to the family.
The infant should be given rites of taharah (preparing the body for burial), with specific procedures.
Infant should be given a Jewish name.
The custom is to circumcise the infant during taharah if they have not already undergone circumcision.
There is no obligation for family to be present at interment. | 2019-04-20T11:04:30 | http://jewishvaluesonline.org/question.php?id=260&cprg=%2Fsearch.php%3Fcatid%3D20 |
0.999972 | Inquisitive. Inspirational. Impactful. That’s Impress!ve.
Our story has always been about telling your story.
We’re a team of creatives, techies and logistically-minded individuals that assemble each day in our Melbourne office with a couple of common goals. To provide each of our clients with ridiculously good customer service and a transformative digital marketing strategy.
That, and battle each other in our daily table tennis tournaments.
Impress!ve is a young company with fresh ideas and innovative approaches to search engine optimisation, social media marketing and all things digital. Between us though, we have well over 20 years in the industry. Every single member of our team is ambitious, experienced and brings something unique to the space.
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We’re experts in the field of digital marketing and we’re not afraid to brag about it.
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If you hate jargon and empty promises, that’s great, because so do we. Here, you’ll get a completely transparent and enjoyable experience.
Your success story starts right here with us. We transform businesses around Australia with effective data-driven marketing techniques.
We combine key analytic insights, outstanding user experience, social media expertise and digital knowledge into a core strategy that’s designed for your business.
Results matter. That’s why we put so much weight upon optimising and measuring campaign success, so you keep seeing improvements.
Our innovative strategies and attention-to-detail ensure a smooth deployment of your campaign, and you’re in the loop at every stage.
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0.999979 | Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (June 18, 1812 - September 27, 1891; June 6, 1812 - September 15, 1891, O.S.) was a Russian novelist best known as the author of Oblomov (1859). He was born in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk); his father was a wealthy grain merchant. After graduating from Moscow University in 1834 Goncharov served for thirty years as a minor government official. In 1847, Goncharov's first novel, Obyknovennaia (usually translated into English as A Common Story), was published; it dealt with the conflicts between the decadent Russian nobility and the newly-profitable commercial class. It was followed by Ivan Savvich Podzhabrin (1848), a naturalist psychological sketch. Between 1852 and 1855 Goncharov voyaged to England, Africa, Japan, and back to Russia via Siberia as the secretary of Admiral Putyatin. His travelogue, a chronicle of the trip, The Frigate Pallada (The Frigate Pallas), was published in 1858 (Pallada is the Russian spelling of Pallas). His wildly successful novel Oblomov was published the following year and the main character was compared to Shakespeare's Hamlet who answers No! to the question To be or not to be?. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, among others, considered Goncharov as a noteworthy author of high stature. In 1867 Goncharov retired from his post as a government censor and then published his last novel; Obryv (in English The Precipice)(1869) is the story of a romantic rivalry among three men. Goncharov also wrote short stories, critiques, essays and memoirs that were only published posthumously in 1919. He spent the rest of his days travelling in lonely and bitter recriminations because of the negative criticism some of his work received, which was at least partly well deserved. Goncharov never married. He died in St. Petersburg. | 2019-04-20T23:17:11 | https://www.vamoskitap.com/kitap/oblomov-ivan-alexandrovich-goncharov-9786051808680 |
0.987843 | The company has built not only a large user base, but a very active one.
Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) dominates fixed (non-mobile) Internet traffic in the United States by a commanding margin.
The streaming leader is essentially Lebron James playing against a league made up of mediocre college teams. It's not even the Cavaliers versus a lowly NBA franchise like the Knicks. It's "King" James and his squad taking on Hofstra.
Netflix accounted for 33.81% of aggregate fixed-access Internet traffic in the U.S., according to the most recent Global Internet Phenomena: Latin America and North America report from Sandvine. That puts the company ahead of its five closest rivals combined and more than doubles the traffic percentage for Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) YouTube which ranks second at 14.63%.
If you only consider consumption (downstream) traffic and factor out upstream -- which Netflix, since it's not really interactive, requires little of -- the company's dominance is even higher. On the downstream list, Netflix's 36.48% is more traffic than the next eight companies on the top 10 list added together.
In North America, the dominance of Real-Time Entertainment is due in large part to the continued market leadership of Netflix which saw its share continue to grow, now accounting for 36.5%. Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Video Instant Video at 1.97% of peak downstream traffic they established themselves as the leading paid OTT alternative video service in North America, without yet having a presence in Canada.
Amazon probably has a growing audience but it's still a gnat on the back of the elephant that is Netflix.
The streaming leader has built an impressive business and its paid competitors are so small in terms of the traffic they generate that they aren't really competitors. With its 40.32 million paid members in the U.S. as of the first quarter of 2015, Netflix has clearly succeeded in building a user base, but more impressively the company has managed to create a service that people use.
The streaming leader's closest paid rival, Amazon, does not disclose how many Prime members it has, but Consumer Intelligence Research Partners told USA Today in February that it estimated the number in the U.S. alone at 40 million. Given those numbers a relatively small percentage of members of the service actually use it to watch video, That's fine for Amazon, which still pushes free two-day shipping as the key diver for subscribers, but Netflix has created engagement through video alone.
Because customers actually consume video on Netflix that almost certainly makes them more loyal. Think of it like any other monthly subscription-based service. People often retain gym memberships even when they don't use them because they plan to in the future. The same is true for video streaming services, but at some point people drop services they don't use.
It might take a credit card expiring or a financial crisis, but a subscription product that goes unused is vulnerable to being dropped. Netflix does not have that concern because its customers are very clearly using the service as demonstrated by Sandvine's numbers.
While Netflix dominates in fixed access it only has 3.89% of mobile aggregate traffic, good for eighth place on the list. No other similar, paid rival makes the top 10 at all. This makes sense because the mobile leaders include YouTube, Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) and other brands with short-form, quick consumption content.
The streaming video leader has built up an impressive user base that actively consumes its content. It has no rival within shouting distance and a subscriber base that seems unlikely to cancel their subscriptions any time soon.
In the U.S. Netflix also has a favorable regulatory climate that protects its web traffic even though it's so large. The company has built a monster and it's well-poised to maintain its position or more likely grow in the future. | 2019-04-24T04:15:10 | https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/06/03/netflix-streaming-accounts-for-more-than-a-third-o.aspx |
0.99667 | Prime Minister Theresa May has been told that she has just 72 hours to save her job.
The warning comes from MPs frustrated by Mrs May's handling of Brexit negotiations after an unsuccessful summit last week.
For a no confidence vote to be triggered, 48 letters from Conservative MPs must be submitted to the party's chairman and some have claimed that that threshold could soon be reached.
Brexit supporter Andrew Bridgen told The Mail on Sunday that Mrs May must attend Wednesday's meeting of the Tory 1922 committee of backbenchers or risk making "the letters go in even faster".
He said: "This week Theresa May will find that she is drinking in the last chance saloon and the bad news for her is that the bar is already dry."
David Davis, a possible successor to Mrs May, wrote in The Mail on Sunday that the prime minister had "managed to anger not just Leavers but ardent Remainers as well".
He said that the EU has plenty to lose if the UK crashes out of the bloc without a deal in March, adding: "We should not allow ourselves to be bullied by the EU."
Mr Davis' article continued: "There have been claims that planes will not fly between the UK and EU.
"This is extremely improbable as it would undermine the Spanish and other European tourism markets as well as Mediterranean property markets.
"Furthermore, European flights would still need our airspace in order to fly to the US.
"That should be enough to focus minds on a sensible outcome."
Tory MP Johnny Mercer, who described the government as a "s***show" last week, said he had received "overwhelming" support from within the party after speaking out.
He told The Sunday Times: "I cannot continue to support an administration that cannot function."
Labour has also added to the pressure on Mrs May, proving that, even if she can manage to strike a deal with Europe, that does not guarantee it will please parliament.
Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said the current situation was a "mess of the prime minister's own making".
Writing in The Sunday Times, he said: "To say that things have gone very wrong is an understatement.
"Things could - and should - have been different.
"But at no stage has the prime minister ever reached out to parliament or sought to build a national consensus on our future relationship with the EU.
"If she thinks Labour should prop her up because her own team won't back her, she can think again."
The words come as business warn they will set contingency plans in motion, moving work overseas and axing jobs in the UK, if there is no agreement between the UK and EU by Christmas. | 2019-04-24T02:24:26 | http://ednews.net/en/news/politics/329496-theresa-may-told-she-has-72-hours-to-save-her-job |
0.999992 | Reliance Group has accused its lenders L&T Finance and Edelweiss of illegally invoking pledged shares, calling it 'motivated and unwarranted'. Shares of Reliance Power plunged as much as 59 per cent last week.
Anil Ambani-led Reliance Power has asked the capital market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to ban Edelweiss Financial Services Group from trading in the securities market, suggested a media report. The Reliance Group company in a letter dated February 6 asked Sebi to issue a "cease and desist" instruction for Edelweiss from engaging in "market abuse", which allegedly led to its share price plunging 57 per cent in two days, as per Business Standard report.
The Anil Ambani Group companies' shares witnessed a heavy selling pressure last week after its telecom arm Reliance Communications announced its decision to move the insolvency tribunal for bankruptcy protection. Shares of Reliance Power plunged as much as 59 per cent last week, followed by Reliance Infra (56 per cent), Reliance Communications (54 per cent), and Reliance Capital 32 per cent.
The duo invoked pledged shares worth Rs 552.17 crore in the Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group companies after the announcement of insolvency proceedings by Reliance Communications on February 1.
In its letter, Reliance Power asked Sebi to investigate this disruption of Reliance Group (Anil Ambani's) shares, "which include examination of the dealing room records, including records of phone calls and SMS of all persons at the broking firms where the bulk of the sale transactions took place, and the relevant fund flows", according to a Business Standard report.
In a separate filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange, the Reliance Group has accused its lenders L&T Finance and Edelweiss NSE of illegally invoking pledged shares, calling it "motivated and unwarranted".
The letter alleged that illegal, motivated and wholly unjustified action by the above two groups has precipitated a fall of Rs 13,000 crore, an unprecedented nearly 55 per cent, in market capitalisation of Reliance Group over just these four short days, causing substantial losses to 72 lakh institutional and retail shareholders, and harming the interests of all stakeholders.
The company added that it opted for "liquidation of the collateral as per the agreed contractual terms" after giving a due opportunity for remediation and in absence of a response from Reliance ADAG Group in the face of a sharp drop in the prices of Reliance Group shares on February 4.
Rejecting the allegations, Edelweiss Group said the claims made by Reliance Group are entirely unfounded and baseless. The company said it had acted responsibly at all times, not only in safeguarding the interests of its investors but also in ensuring that market integrity was maintained. The Anil Ambani Group companies have also warned that they would take all appropriate legal steps to protect and enhance the value of all its stakeholders.
Meanwhile, shares of company were trading at Rs 11.05 apiece, up 1.38 per cent, from previous close on the BSE at 2:10 PM. | 2019-04-22T18:27:04 | https://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/reliance-power-asks-sebi-ban-085526817.html |
0.999964 | The innocuous white trails that criss-cross the sky may not be as harmless as they look. In fact, they might have contributed to more global warming so far than all aircraft greenhouse gas emissions put together.
High-altitude clouds like cirrus warm the planet by trapping heat. Contrail “cirrus” does the same thing, but the question is: how much? We know that contrails trap some extra energy in the atmosphere: their radiative forcing trapped 10 milliwatts per square metre (mW/m2) in 2005, according to an estimate by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. That compares with 28 mW/m2 trapped by all of the CO2 released by aircraft engines since the start of aviation.
However, the IPCC estimate only took into account relatively fresh, visible vapour trails that exist for just a few hours. Afterwards they spread out and become indistinguishable from normal cirrus. In this form they may trap energy in the atmosphere for many more hours.
“Only a small part of the problem has been studied,” says Ulrike Burkhardt of the Institute for Atmospheric Physics in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. With her colleague Bernd Kärcher, she set out to discover how much heat contrail cirrus traps.
Using satellite observations of spreading contrails as a guide, Burkhardt built a model that simulated how they form, spread out and dissipate. Then she embedded it in a global climate model and watched what happened. She found that contrail cirrus ended up covering 0.6 per cent of Earth’s surface – an area nine times as great as that covered by line contrails.
Burkhardt then used this figure to produce a more accurate estimate of the total energy trapped by contrails. Her calculations suggest a global figure of 31 mW/m2 – higher than that attributable to aviation CO2.
As the first to build contrail cirrus into a climate model, Burkhardt’s study is “an important leap forward”, says Olivier Boucher of the Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter, UK.
There is a catch, though. “[The measurement] says nothing about what will happen tomorrow,” says David Lee of Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. While a contrail lasts a day, the CO2 released from a plane lingers in the atmosphere for hundreds of years. For example, while contrails – and their warming potential – disappeared from European skies last April when an Icelandic volcanic ash cloud grounded flights, atmospheric CO2 continued to warm the world.
The flip side is that cutting contrails would make an immediate difference to atmospheric warming, whereas emissions cuts take years to have an effect, says Robert Noland of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Planes could avoid creating contrails by flying at lower altitudes, he says, or steering clear of water-rich patches of air – although such measures could prove counterproductive if they make flying more inefficient and lead to a greater increase in CO2 levels. | 2019-04-21T04:56:21 | https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20304-contrails-warm-the-world-more-than-aviation-emissions/ |
0.999999 | Building A Home? Should You Use OSB Or Plywood Sheathing?
The Building Profession is traditionally slow to change and adapt to new methods and materials. One example is the use of OSB sheathing verses the "good-ol" CDX plywood. I still find, in 2011, some builders who have never used nor plan to use OSB. When asked why, their answers seem to boil down to a few false ideas. Without further evaluation many dismiss OSB because they have seen the result of water damage to particle board in cabinet countertops. They remain convinced that OSB is similar and will come to pieces in high moisture. There is also, to some, a question of strength. How could a bunch of wood fibers that are pressed together be as good as the old standby, CDX plywood? I was a bit skeptical myself when I first came across OSB as an option - several years ago. However when I took a look at the product I had to admit it was quite well worth the try. I\'m going to go over a few myths that I have heard regarding OSB - but first let\'s cover a few definitions: Sheathing is used to stiffen a group of parallel framing members to keep them from racking. It is sometimes called a diaphragm. Plywood is a flat sheet of wood that is quite strong because of the way it is made. It consists of layers of wood (thin veneers) which are laminated together in alternating grain orientations. Since wood has a weak direction and a strong direction (relative to its grain pattern) these layers contain wood turned in different directions to gain strength in all directions. CDX plywood is a designation indicating a rough finish and a glue that is okay for exterior use. OSB (meaning Oriented Strand Board) is produced by taking small fibers from smaller, low diameter trees and bonding them with a resin, heat and pressure. These panels achieve excellent strength in all directions. Myths: Myth 1 OSB lacks the strength of CDX plywood. This is untrue. All building codes and dictating standards make no differentiation between OSB and plywood. For sheathing, they are considered structurally equivalent. Myth 2 - OSB will fall apart like particle board. This is untrue. Many have observed kitchen cabinets (many are largely made of covered particle board) which expand and even crumble after exposure to moisture. This would be quite unacceptable for a structural member of a home or building. However particle board is different than OSB in that it is not produced for exterior use. The truth is OSB is designed for longer exposure to exterior higher moisture conditions than even CDX. Myth 3 Plywood is just better than OSB and its what I have always used. I would never suggest anyone changing against their own certainty however my experience is that such considerations do not stand up to evaluation. If one looks one will likely conclude that plywood is not \"better\" than OSB. Factually OSB is made from younger and smaller fibers and are actually faster to product when one includes the growth of the wood. There is great consistency in the product and it is more stable, in dimension, than plywood when exposed to moisture. OSB has proven itself in the industry and is used in about 70% of homes in the U.S. I now specify it in my own designs and on my own projects unless the owner really insists on plywood. When this occurs I always make available the facts but will go with plywood if he or she chooses. Oh, and when folks compare the prices of OSB and Plywood (OSB sometimes costing half as much) this is usually the deciding factor. I believe that all of us should be open to newer and better ways to build our homes and buildings. OSB is one of those methods that I readily endorse. | 2019-04-18T10:45:24 | https://www.engineerdesigner.com/2011/11/09/building-a-home-should-you-use-osb-or-plywood-sheathing/ |
0.996989 | Step 1: Brewer must be powered off, but plugged in. Step 2: Place a mug on the Drip Tray to catch the water to be drained. Step 3: Check if there is water left in the Cold Water Reservoir. If so, lift the brewer handle to drain the water in the Cold Water Reservoir into the Hot Water Tank.
Lift the lid of the water reservoir. Pull the water reservoir straightforward and to the right direction of the brewer. Empty any left water in the tank into the sink. Use the screw-driver, or use your own fingers to open the small thumb screw at the back of the machine, and then lift the rear access panel.
Emptying the water reservoir on your Keurig brewer is a bit different than regular coffee makers. The Keurig coffee maker keeps hot water in a tank inside the .
Here are 3 simple steps using which you can easily drain a keurig coffee maker and get rid of the excessive water problem in your coffee machine. | 2019-04-22T10:00:37 | http://burkeeandwalz.com/favorite-coffee-maker/how-to-empty-water-from-keurig-coffee-maker/ |
0.998479 | Say I have an array of records which I want to sort based on one of the fields in the record. What's the best way to achieve this?
Use one of the sort alorithms propose by Wikipedia. The Swap function should swap array elements using a temporary variable of the same type as the array elements. Use a stable sort if you want entries with the same SortOrder integer value to stay in the order they were in the first place.
You can add pointers to the elements of the array to a TList, then call TList.Sort with a comparison function, and finally create a new array and copy the values out of the TList in the desired order.
With an array, I'd use either quicksort or possibly heapsort, and just change the comparison to use TExample.SortOrder, the swap part is still going to just act on the array and swap pointers. If the array is very large then you may want a linked list structure if there's a lot of insertion and deletion.
if your need sorted by string then use sorted TStringList and add record by TString.AddObject(string, Pointer(int_val)).
But If need sort by integer field and string - use TObjectList and after adding all records call TObjectList.Sort with necessary sorted functions as parameter.
TStringList have efficient Sort Method.
If you want Sort use a TStringList object with Sorted property to True.
NOTE: For more speed, add objects in a not Sorted TStringList and at the end change the property to True.
NOTE: For sort by nteger Field, convert to String.
NOTE: If there are duplicate values, this method not is Valid.
This all depends on the number of records you are sorting. If you are only sorting less than a few hundred then the other sort methods work fine, if you are going to be sorting more, then take a good look at the old trusty Turbo Power SysTools project. There is a very good sort algorithm included in the source. One that does a very good job sorting millions of records in a efficient manner.
If you are going to use the tStringList method of sorting a list of records, make sure that your integer is padded to the right before inserting it into the list. You can use the format('%.10d',[rec.sortorder]) to right align to 10 digits for example.
Skamradt's suggestion to pad integer values assumes you are going to sort using a string compare. This would be slow. Calling format() for each insert, slower still. Instead, you want to do an integer compare.
The TStringList is now sorted, so you can iterate over it from 0 to .Count-1 and read the strings in sorted order.
As i iterates over the TList, we get back the array indexes in sorted order. We just need to cast them back to integers, since the TList thinks they're pointers.
I like doing it this way, but you could also put real pointers to array elements in the TList by adding the Address of the array element instead of it's index. Then to use them you would cast them as pointers to TExample records. This is what Barry Kelly and CoolMagic said to do in their answers. | 2019-04-22T18:17:44 | http://ansaurus.com/question/41733-best-way-to-sort-an-array-in-delphi |
0.999057 | For nearly three decades Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty" lay partially submerged in the Great Salt Lake. Since 1999, as drought has lowered the water level, this seminal work of early land art — a 1,500-foot coil of black basalt rocks — has slowly emerged from its ever-evaporating context. Now it is completely exposed - as un-jettied as the ex-Aral Sea's un-boats.
"The Daily Nation released an image of one of the two suicide bombers who tried to assassinate President Musharraf. The force of the blast detached his face from his head and it flew up and fell off the roof of the nearby police station. He was identified as a bomber from the amount of explosive material on the face."
why does this image make me think of this?
is it just the obvious comparison between two puzzles - part of this attempt to make sense of the insanity - two anonymous faces lifted out of history as a result of an equally impossible set of random circumstances and placed before us as icons of meaning. it is equally possible that both images are fakes - that what they purport to represent is nothing more or less than a manipulative artifice. but if they really were who they are represented to be, where does that leave us, other than mired, still, in this endless, centuries-old bog of superstitious intolerance, fear, and hatred.
Tilos Rádió to go off air?
THE Chairman of the National Radio and Television Commission (ORTT) has said the organization would launch an investigation after a Tilos Rádió broadcaster said Christians should be exterminated.
how's a poor rhino to choose? equal charisma, equal charm, I'd say.
alas, no mp3 samples. plenty more here.
by far and away the most riveting christmas story of 2003 comes from the defective yeti (ew).
"Take this plane to Tucson." The pilot says, "But it's going to Tucson." Guy says, "Act like it's my idea, nobody gets hurt..."
Danny's twin brother Inaina composed the title song which features as the last number on the album.
The song tells the story about living so far away from their parents."
"Congratulations Paul! you have an IQ of 131!
According to the sorts of questions you got correct, we can tell your Intellectual Type is a Word Warrior.
This means you have exceptional verbal skills. You can easily make sense of complex issues and take an unusually creative approach to solving problems. Your strengths also make you a visionary. Even without trying you're able to come up with lots of new and creative ideas."
yourself - go on - I dare you.
Life of Onni, courtesy of helsingin sanomat - the perfect antidote to all that seasonal saccharine disney anthropomorphism. | 2019-04-19T00:27:33 | http://melancholyrhino.blogspot.com/2004/01/ |
0.999985 | Adventists Affirm : Does the Bible Support Women's Ordination?
By the 1970s, however, this established position began to be reversed in favor of ordaining women as elders and pastors.
Initially, the campaign to overthrow the long-standing Biblical position of the Seventh-day Adventist Church was spearheaded by a relatively few, but influential, liberal and feminist thought leaders within the church. But today, as a result of the converging interests identified above, and as a result of a wide range of arguments being employed, an increasing number of church members are not sure about what the real issues are in the debate over women's ordination, nor about the Biblical correctness of the practice.
In this article, I will (1) briefly summarize the arguments that have been employed over the years in defense of women's ordination, (2) identify the crucial issues in the campaign for women's ordination, (3) discuss the role differentiation between men and women, and (4) set forth the Biblical and theological obstacles against ordaining women as elders or pastors.
Since the 1970s, several arguments have been employed in the church in an attempt to overthrow the church's long-standing position against ordaining women as elders or pastors. During this period two major pro-ordination works have come to embody the most reasoned defense of women's ordination: (1) The Welcome Table and (2) Women in Ministry .
The Welcome Table. In 1995, fourteen (14) pro-ordination thought leaders produced the 408-page book, The Welcome Table: Setting a Table for Ordained Women. 5 Published shortly before the 1995 General Conference session in Utrecht , this volume was designed to convince the world church to approve the request by the North American Division to ordain women.
In this work some of the authors argued that Bible passages (like Ephesians 5:22-33; Colossians 3:18, 19; 1 Peter 3:1-7; 1 Corinthians 11:3, 11, 12; 14:34, 35; 1 Timothy 2:11-14; 3:2; and Titus 1:6) which Adventists historically understood as having a bearing on male-female role relations in both the home and the church, are the product of the Bible writers' faulty logic or mistaken rabbinic interpretations in vogue in their day.
1. The Bible is "silent" or "neutral" on the women's ordination issue (that is to say, the Bible is "neither for nor against" women's ordination).
2. The lack of Biblical precedence for women in spiritual leadership (as priests in the Old Testament, and as apostles and elders in the New Testament) and the presence of Biblical prohibitions against women serving in those roles, is due to the nature of the Bible as "culturally conditioned" (that is to say the Bible is the product and a reflection of its unenlightened or patriarchal culture).
3. Ordaining women as elders or pastors is a "power" issue (this argument transformed the Biblical teaching of male "headship" in both the home and in the church into a symbol of male oppression of women).
4. Ordaining women as elders or pastors in the church is a "cultural" issue (in the sense that it has to do with the "cultural readiness" of groups or regions of the world Adventist Church ).
5. Women's ordination has to do with "equality," "capability," and "ability" of male and female (this argument transformed the women's ordination issue into a "fairness," "justice," or civil rights issue).
6. The issue of women's ordination is not theological but "ecclesiological" (by this argument proponents meant that the issue of women's ordination could be settled not by the Bible, but by administrative "policy" of church leaders).
7. The issue of women's ordination is an example of "unity in diversity" (this argument, which deals with pluralism in belief and practice, maintained that just as there is "diversity" in attitudes and practices within the church in such areas as Sabbath observance, worship styles, dress, participation in one's tribe's/nation's war machinery, so also on the issue of women's ordination there should be "diversity"). Some argued that "diversity" or pluralism in theological belief and practice was evidence of maturity, strength, and true unity, not of blind uniformity or lockstep conformity.
8. The issue has to do with the "Spirit's leading" or "progressive revelation" (this argument seeks to make the women's ordination issue a question of "present truth" or "new light"). 7 Not infrequently, the issues of polygamy, slavery, war, and divorce and remarriage were cited as Biblical examples to illustrate God's "accommodation" to sinful human situations in the Bible writers' timesconditions that led God, under His "Spirit's leading," to later "correct" these prior revelations. In this argument, Biblical examples and texts that teach male headship and female supporting roles, within the complementary relationship of spiritual equals in the home and church, were explained away as "culturally conditioned."
When the above arguments failed to overthrow the long-standing Seventh-day Adventist position against women's ordination, some pro-ordination church leaders in the North American Division urged pro-ordination scholars at the Andrews University Theological Seminary to "do something about it [ Utrecht 's decision against women's ordination]." The result was the 1998 book Women in Ministry .
Unlike the authors of The Welcome Table , many of whom seem to put their liberal and feminist commitments above Scripture, the authors of Women in Ministry consciously underscore the claim that their approach to the Bible is different. They disavow the feminist and higher-critical method of their ideological cousins. 10 Although the actual practice in the Women in Ministry book was inconsistent with the authors' claim, at least for the first time a group of church scholars attempted to present conservative arguments to justify women's ordination.
(1) Genesis 1-3 teaches that God did NOT institute headship and submission or male-female role distinctions at Creation. Adam and Eve enjoyed "full equality" of "shared leadership" or "shared headship." Male headship and female submission were introduced by God after the Fall ; even then, this was a nonideal arrangement designed only for the governance of the home, not the of the church or covenant community.
(2) New Testament teaching on headship and submission (Ephesians 5:21-33; Colossians 3:18, 19; 1 Peter 3:1-7) suggests that today Christians should aim at reaching the Creation ideal of "total equality," understood to mean the obliteration of any gender-based role differentiation.
(3) A careful study of the Bible reveals that there was actually at least one "woman priest" in the Old Testament. God Himself ordained Eve as a priest alongside Adam when, after the Fall, He dressed both as priests in the garden of Eden using animal skins. Prophetesses Miriam, Deborah, and Huldah exercised headship or leadership roles over men.
(4) The Bible also reveals that there were actually "women apostles and leaders" in the New Testament. Junia (Romans 16:7), for example, was an outstanding "female apostle," and Phoebe (Romans 16:1, 2) was a "female minister."
(5) The New Testament teaching of "the priesthood of all believers" suggests that women may be ordained as elders or pastors.
(6) When correctly understood, Biblical texts (like 1 Timothy 2:11-15, 1 Corinthians 14:34, 35, etc.) that seem to preclude women from headship responsibilities in the home as husbands and fathers and in the church as elders or pastors, are temporary restrictions that applied only to specific situations during New Testament times.
(7) Careful study of early Seventh-day Adventist history reveals that women actually served as pastors in those days and were issued ministerial certificates. Ellen G. White apparently endorsed the call of such women to the Gospel ministry.
(8) The 1881 General Conference session voted to ordain women. This vote, however, was apparently ignored or killed by the all-male General Conference Committee (comprised of George I. Butler, Stephen Haskell, and Uriah Smith).
(9) A landmark statement in 1895 by Ellen G. White called for ordaining women to the Gospel ministry. This statement could have spurred on the male brethren who were reluctant to implement the alleged 1881 General Conference decision.
(10) Ellen G. White was herself ordained and was issued ministerial credentials.
In two later chapters I will argue that the above assertions are based on speculative and questionable reinterpretations of Scripture as well as misleading and erroneous claims regarding Adventist history. Yet on the basis of such "Biblical, theological, and historical" evidence, Women in Ministry seeks to convince readers of the "new light" of ordaining women as elders or pastors .
Today, Women in Ministry has become the basis for some to see t he campaign for women's ordination as an issue of the "individual's moral conscience." (This argument, which is another way of saying "I'll have my own way, regardless of what others think," offers a moral basis for advocates of women's ordination to go against the decision of the world church on the matter.) The Seminary book is also the reason why some view the question of ordaining women as a "moral imperative" (in the sense that it is "immoral" for the worldwide church to refuse to ordain women as pastors). This argument offers the ethical basis to silence any objection to the practice and to coerce or persecute anyone who objects to the practice).
The Evolving Arguments. Perceptive observers of the Adventist theological landscape will discover that the arguments for women's ordination have evolved, some overlapping, and others contradictory, during the past four or more decades. In recent times there has been a 180-degree change in some of the arguments that had in the past been advanced in favor of women's ordination.
For example, during the initial phase of the church debate, proponents of the practice argued that the Bible was either "silent" or "neither for nor against." But now, since women's ordination is believed to be a "moral imperative," it means the Bible is for women's ordination! The Bible is no longer to be seen as "neutral" on the issue of women's ordination; Scripture is now decidedly for it!
Also, proponents in the past admitted that there was no Biblical precedent for women serving in the roles of spiritual leadership as priests, apostles, and elders in Bible times. But now, under the "Spirit's leading" (or His work of "progressive revelation"), advocates are now preaching the "new light" that there were in fact women priests, women apostles, and women elders in the Bible!
Furthermore, because it was originally believed that the Bible was "neither for nor against" women's ordination, the decision was to be determined by each "culture" according to the "cultural readiness" of the respective divisions. In other words, women's ordination was to be settled by regional administrative "policy," but the decision was not to be binding on all. Yet now, since women's ordination is believed to be a "moral imperative," it would seem to follow that, sooner or later, the practice would be urged as binding upon all, with moves to encourage it in all areas of the world church.
In view of the orchestrated attempt to impose women's ordination on the Seventh-day Adventist Church , and in view of the confusing, sometimes plausible-sounding, arguments being advanced for women's ordination, it is important that we identify the crucial issues that are at stake and find out what the Bible has to say on the issue.
1. Christians must always welcome new light from God's Word, as long as the proposed new light does not contradict an established Biblical truth. For a careful summary of what Ellen G. White taught about "new light," see P. Gerard Damsteegt, "When Is a Doctrine New Light?" at the Web site: AdventistsAffirm.org.
2. In my Receiving the Word: How New Approaches to the Bible Impact Our Biblical Faith and Lifestyle ( Berrien Springs , Mich. : Berean Books), pp. 123-126, I have challenged revisionist reinterpretations of Adventist beliefs and practice of ministry (see also pp. 138-140, nn. 34-44 of my book).
3. See Samuel Koranteng-Pipim, Must We Be Silent?: Issues Dividing Our Church ( Ann Arbor : Berean Books, 2001), pp. 161-189. Cf. C. Mervyn Maxwell's "How Money Got Us Into Trouble," in Here We Stand: Evaluating New Trends in the Church ( Berrien Springs , Mich ,: ADVENTISTS AFFIRM, 2005); Laurel Damsteegt's "Shall Women Minister?", ibid., nn. 28-30.
4. See, for example, my Searching the Scriptures: Women's Ordination and the Call to Biblical Fidelity (Berrien Springs, Mich.: Adventists Affirm, 1995), my articles in Prove All Things: A Response to Women in Ministry (Berrien Springs, Mich.: Adventists Affirm , 2000), and part II of my book Must We Be Silent?: Issues Dividing Our Church (Ann Arbor: Berean Books, 2001).
5. The Welcome Table: Setting a Place for Ordained Women , edited by Patricia A. Habada and Rebecca Frost Brillhart (Langley Park, Md.: TEAMPress, 1995). The "fourteen prominent SDA historians, theologians, and professionals" who contributed essays to the book are: Bert Haloviak, Kit Watts, Raymond F. Cottrell, Donna Jeane Haerich, David R. Larson, Fritz Guy, Edwin Zackrison, Halcyon Westphal Wilson, Sheryll Prinz-McMillan, Joyce Hanscom Lorntz, V. Norskov Olsen, Ralph Neall, Ginger Hanks Harwood, and Iris M. Yob.
6. For a brief evaluation of the pro-ordination arguments by some of the authors in The Welcome Table , see my Receiving the Word , chapter 5, part 2, pp. 126-129.
7. During the discussions that culminated at the General Conference session in Utrecht , some voices heralded the ordination of women as elders and pastors as new light for God's church in the last days. For example, in a letter dated June 1, 1995, given out to delegates at the 1995 General Conference session in Utrecht, the president of a major North American conference, in support of women's ordination, presented new interpretations of "new light," "present truth," and "progressive revelation," arguing that "present truth" represents "truths that were not present in earlier times"i.e., "the prophets and disciples of old" were not privileged to have the "new light" that our (then) twentieth-century progressive culture needs.
8. The 20 scholars whose works are published in Women in Ministry are: Nancy Vyhmeister, Jo Ann Davidson, Richard Davidson, Walter Douglas, Jacques Doukhan, Roger Dudley, Jon Dybdahl, Denis Fortin, Robert Johnston, George Knight, Jerry Moon, Larry Richards, Russell Staples, Peter Van Bemmelen, Randal Wisbey, Daniel Augsburger, Raoul Dederen, Keith Mattingly, Michael Bernoi, and Alicia Worley (the last two were MDiv Students at the time the book was published).
9. The generic phrase "women in ministry," employed as a title for the book, can be misleading. For, the authors' goal was not simply the ministry of women in the church (which has never been opposed by the Adventist Church ), but rather ordaining women as elders and pastors. For an insightful background into how this book came into being and its serious theological and historical defects, see Mercedes Dyer, ed., Prove All Things: A Response to Women in Ministry (Berrien Springs, Mich.: Adventists Affirm , 2000).
10. See Vyhmeister, "Prologue," in Women in Ministry , pp. 3, 5, n. 1. Observe, however, that contrary to the church's official position in "The Methods of Bible Study" document ( Adventist Review , January 22, 1987, pp. 18-20), shortly after the publication of Women in Ministry , Robert M. Johnston (a Women in Ministry author), for example, argued for the use of the historical-critical method. See his "The Case for a Balanced Hermeneutic," Ministry , March 1999, pp. 10-12.
11. Source references from Women in Ministry for each of the following points, are provided in my evaluation of the book in Prove All Things , pp. 179-218; 287-312; cf. Must We Be Silent? , pp. 127-289.
12. Randal R. Wisbey, "SDA Women in Ministry: 1970-1998," Women in Ministry , p. 251. For my response to the unilateral post-Utrecht ordinations, see my "How the Holy Spirit Leads the Church," Adventists Affirm 12/3 (Fall 1998) :28-35.
13. Roger L. Dudley, "The Ordination of Women in Light of the Character of God," in Women in Ministry , pp. 400, 413, 414; Walter B.T. Douglas, "The Distance and the Difference: Reflections on Issues of Slavery and Women's Ordination in Adventism," ibid., pp. 379-398; Nancy Vyhmeister, "Epilogue," ibid., pp. 434, 435.
14. Vyhmeister, "Epilogue," p. 436.
15. See Prove All Things: A Response to Women in Ministry ( Berrien Springs , Mich. : Adventists Affirm , 2000). | 2019-04-23T20:13:42 | https://www.adventistsaffirm.org/womens-ordination-faqs/does-the-bible-support-womens-ordination |
0.999843 | How can people say the Light Laser is better than the Heavy Laser?
Can someone actually make an argument for this? I don't want anything related to "specific" cases, because we all know that in a "specific" scenario, any ogame Ship or Defence is better than the other.
I want to know why the vast majority of ogame players consider the LL better than the HL, when, from my point of view, in most realistic cases the HL is factually superior.
why the banana is better.
LL are faster to produce.
LL are good anti-cruiser fodder.
This is not to say they are superior.
Only that they are useful.
you will want all the defense.
LL costs more crystal? It costs more metal as well, but both have a Metal:Crystal ratio of 3:1. The HL costs 4x more than a LL, and with it provides 4x more Hull, 4x more Shield and 2,5x the Attack Power.
Yes, the attack power is "only" 2.5x better than the LL for 4x the cost, but don't let this fool you. While 4 LLs do have more attack power than 1 HL, the LLs will spread their damage on the enemy ships, while the HL is more focused, for example, against a Light Fighter which is one of most widely used Ships against Turtles, 4 LLs might not be able to take it down in one round of battle because each one of them will most likely target a different ship, while a HL will have enough power to one-shot it in 1 round, removing it completely from the next round. And it also does more damage to the Hull of a Cruiser and even a Battleship, the later the LL can't even get past it's shields.
What most people use to crack turtles are massives amounts of Light Fires, Cruisers and Destroyers (and RIPs but against RIPs, both LL and HL are equally useless). Most people are not going to use any other ships because they are really useless against Defence, unless the difference in numbers is massive, and no one uses Bombers either. And most fleeters are also quite reluctant to even use Cruisers because of how easily they get destroyed.
Against a fleet with Destroyers, LL's fail miserably on their mission. Each time a Destroyer shoots a LL, the Destroyer has a 90%(RF of 10) chance to shoot again which can lead to scenarios where the Destroyer either keeps mowing down LLs or gets the opportunity to shoot down a Gauss or heavily damage a Plasma Turret. While the HF will get one-shot by a Destroyer but serves it's mission as fodder as it stops it from shooting again in the same round.
You can use the Sim all you want, it's only that. A simulator. On the Sim, the LL looks the best against the majority of ships ONE ON ONE, but in a realistic scenari, with ships that people actually use to crack defences with as much profit as they can, they are not as useful as the HL. They don't serve their job as fodder, and to make the attack unprofitable, as good as the HL.
If you want to protect your daily production as a fleeter or miner who fleetsaves, then look no further than a combo of Rockets and Plasma, that's literally all you need.
But if you are a turtle who actually wants to use his defence to gather around some resources, the best combo is RL(to provide cover), HL(to get rid of LF fodder and also provide cover at the same time) and Plasma(to get rid of RIP RF and take out heavy ships).
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Let me preface this by saying I am actually a HL advocate, and thinks HL is both wrongly used and underused.
The main reason is cost/effect ratio. HL costs precisely 4x as much as LL, but doesn't have 4x better stats.
Put simply, for the same cost, LL increases the firepower and resilience of your defence more than HL does.
HL does have a very good feature, which is the main reason why I heavily endorse building a good bunch of HL, and that is their ability to one-shot kill LF/SC far cheaper than gauss or plasmas. A good defence deters heavy fleets through excessive fuel-costs and light fleets through heavy losses. Your ability to cause a lot of permanent damage in round 1 to those light fleets is thus very important to deterring that potential attack.
In summary: LL IS a better unit than HL, that is an undeniable fact when looking at the numbers. Unlike Ions, HL is still important though and should be included in substantial numbers in any defence.
In order to insult me, I must first value your opinion...Nice try though.
Unlike Ions, HL is still important though and should be included in substantial numbers in any defence.
soak up so much damage.
As a turtle, crystal is far better utilised for plasmas and RIPs.
That's looking at the stats alone.
Rapid Fire also plays a huge role, namely with Destroyers which is the ship that's most used to crack turtles after RIPs. And as you stated like me, their ability to one-shot LFs is also hugely underrated, not just that, they are able to damage the Hulls of even Battleships, while the LL will just waste it's shot on the shields that can regenerate every round.
I think the answer you're looking for is: people can be wrong.
I don't think many people are thinking about the specific scenarios when building their defense, but instead just want to get nice round numbers, or at most look at the stats.
That being said, I think of three common scenarios where LL help more than 1/4 the number of HL. 1) They provide more cover against cruisers, which is one of the main threats against turtles. 2) RIPs have 200 rapid fire against LL, and 100 rapid fire vs HL, meaning the LL are more likely to draw vs RIPs, encouraging people to look at other turtles. 3) You're on a moon and don't want to invest in more shipyard.
Not to hijack the topic or anything, but what are people's thoughts on Gauss Cannons? | 2019-04-25T11:52:19 | https://board.en.ogame.gameforge.com/index.php/Thread/807695-How-can-people-say-the-Light-Laser-is-better-than-the-Heavy-Laser/?s=948fc11338505b920ae57a030ce0d74bc8612948 |
0.998198 | Question 1: As kabbalistic teachings spread into Slavonic lands, the custom of payot became entrenched, even though Tzar Nicholas I forbade the practice in ________ in 1845.
Question 2: Gur - The Ger dynasty raise their sidelocks from the temples and tuck them under a ________.
Question 3: Payot are worn by some men and boys in the ________ community based on an interpretation of the Biblical injunction against shaving the "corners" of one's head.
Question 4: According to the ________, cutting the sidelocks was a heathen practice.
Question 5: In the ________, Crimean Karaites did not wear peyos, and the Crimean Tatars consequently referred to them as zulufsız çufutlar, meaning Jews without peyos, to distinguish them from the Krymchaks, referred to as zuluflı çufutlar, meaning Jews with peyos.
Question 6: Since the Yemenite Jews are one of the most historically isolated Jewish communities, and one of the oldest, a number of claims have been raised that their style of peyos must have been the style which was used in Judah, prior to the destruction of the ________.
Question 8: ________ - The Skver dynasty twist their sidelocks into a tight coil, and leave them protruding in front of the ear. | 2019-04-18T23:15:50 | http://quiz.thefullwiki.org/Payot |
0.999999 | Concept insight: For answering this question, recall the metals which have the properties stated in the question. If only name of the metal is asked, write the name only.
Malleable: Substances that can be beaten into thin sheets on hammering are called malleable. For example - most of the metals like gold are malleable.
Ductile: Substances that can be drawn into thin wires are called ductile. For example -most of the metals like copper and aluminium are ductile.
Concept insight: For answering this question, write the complete definition of melleable and ductile. Remember the key words - malleable related to thin sheets and ductile related to wires.
Sodium is a very reactive metal. It combines explosively with air as well as water. Hence, it catches fire if kept in open. Therefore, to prevent accidental fires and accidents, sodium is kept immersed in kerosene oil.
Concept insight: The key to this answer is that sodium is a very reactive metal.
Concept insight: For answering this question , write the balanced chemical equations.
(ii) When metal B is added to a solution of copper (II) sulphate, a displacement reaction occurs due to which blue colour of copper sulphate solution fades and a red brown coating of copper forms on B.
Concept insight: The key to this answer is displacement reaction. A displacement reaction takes place when a more reactive metal is able to displace a less reactive metal from its salt solution.
Concept insight: For answering this question, you need to recall the reaction between metals and dilute acids.
Zinc is more reactive than iron. Therefore, if zinc is added to a solution of iron (II) sulphate, then it would displace iron from the solution and a colourless solution of zinc sulphate is formed.
Concept insight: For answering this question, recall the reaction between zinc is added to a solution of iron (II) sulphate.
(iii) The ions present in Na2O are Na+ and O2? ions and in MgO are Mg2+ and O2? ions.
Concept insight: For answering this question, remember that metals lose electrons and form positively charged cations. Non- metals gain electrons and form negatively charged anions.
Ionic compounds have strong electrostatic forces of attraction between the ions. Therefore, it requires a lot of energy to overcome these forces and melt the ionic compounds. That is why, ionic compounds have high melting points.
Concept insight: The key to this answer is in the type of bonding that exists in ionic compounds.
(i) Mineral: The naturally occuring elements or compounds in the earth's crust are known as minerals.
(ii) Ore: Minerals from which metals can be extracted conveniently and profitably are known as ores.
(iii) Gangue: The unwanted impurities (sand, silt, soil, gravel, etc.) present in the ore are called gangue.
Concept insight: For answering this question, write the proper definition of all the three terms.
The metals at the bottom of the reactivity series are mostly found in free state. For example: gold, silver and platinum.
Concept insight: The key to this answer is that what type of metals will exist in free state.
Concept insight: The key to this answer is that the conversion of metal oxide to metal is a reduction of metal oxide.
A more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from its oxide. Out of zinc, magnesium and copper, magnesium is the most reactive, zinc is less reactive and copper is the least reactive.
Less reactive metals i.e. the metals which are at the bottom of the 'reactivity series' do not corrode easily. For example - gold.
Concept insight: More reactive a metal is, more likely it is to be corroded. Less reactive a metal is, less likely it is to get corroded.
Alloys are homogeneous mixtures of two or more elements. The elements could be two metals, or a metal and a non-metal.For example, steel is an alloy of iron and carbon.
Concept insight: For answering this question, write the comnplete definition of alloys with all the key words - homogeneous mixture, two or more elements.
Concept insight: The key to this answer is to find which oxide has a high melting point and is also soluble in water.
zinc is more reactive than tin.
Concept insight: Food cans are coated with tin and not with zinc because zinc is more reactive than tin.
(b) The above tests are useful in distinguishing between metals and non-metals in some cases but not all because there are exceptions also. These tests are based on physical properties and no chemical reactions are involved in these tests.
Concept insight: A hammer can be used to test whether the element is malleable or not. If it can be beaten into thin sheets, it is malelable. Most metals are malleable. Similarly, most metals are good conductors of electricity. So, a battery, bulb, wires, and a switch can be used to set up a circuit.
They react with both acids as well as bases to form salts and water.
Concept insight: In this answer, you should write the definition of amphoteric oxide. Remember that it shows the properties of both acidic and basic oxides.
Concept insight: For this question, remember that a displacement reation will take place if a more reactive element displaces a less reactive element from its salt solution.
Concept insight: Remember CP cathode - pure. So, Anode will be impure.
Concept insight: Remember that sulphur when reacted in the presence of air will form its oxide. Also, since sulphur is a non- metal it will turn wet blue litmus paper red.
Concept insight: For answering this question, mention any two ways for prevention of rusting.
Non-metals combine with oxygen to form acidic or neutral oxides.
Concept insight: Remember that non-metals combine with oxygen to form acidic or neutral oxides.
(a) Platinum, gold, and silver are used to make jewellery because they are very lustrous and are malleable. Also, they are very less reactive and do not corrode easily.
Concept insight: For answering reasoning questions, always write the exact answer of what is required. First read the question carefully, think about the answer and then explain.
Concept insight: For answering this question, recall that tarnishing is corrosion, how is corrosion caused and how can lemon or tamarind juice remove corrosion.
They react with the salt solution of metals. Depending on their reactivity, displacement reaction can occur. These react with the salt solution of non-metals.
Concept insight: For this question, write all the chemical properties of metals and non- metals.
He must have dipped the gold metal in the solution of aqua regia - a 3:1 mixture of conc. HCl and conc. HNO3. Aqua regia is a fuming, highly corrosive liquid. It dissolves gold in it. After dipping the gold ornaments in aqua regia, the outer layer of gold gets dissolved and the inner shiny layer appears. That is why, the weight of gold ornaments reduced.
Concept insight: For answering this question, recall that what is it which reacts with gold.
a. Copper is a better conductor of heat as compared to steel.
b. Copper resists corrosion but steel is not resistant to corrosion.
Concept insight: For answering this question, think that what properties of a substance will be required for a substance to be used in a hot water tank and whether these properties are in copper. | 2019-04-24T01:49:09 | https://www.topperlearning.com/ncert-solutions/cbse-class-10-chemistry/chemistry/metals-and-non-metals |
0.999999 | Abstract: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successfully applied to many recognition and learning tasks using a universal recipe; training a deep model on a very large dataset of supervised examples. However, this approach is rather restrictive in practice since collecting a large set of labeled images is very expensive. One way to ease this problem is coming up with smart ways for choosing images to be labelled from a very large collection (i.e. active learning). Our empirical study suggests that many of the active learning heuristics in the literature are not effective when applied to CNNs when applied in batch setting. Inspired by these limitations, we define the problem of active learning as core-set selection, i.e. choosing set of points such that a model learned over the selected subset is competitive for the remaining data points. We further present a theoretical result characterizing the performance of any selected subset using the geometry of the datapoints. As an active learning algorithm, we choose the subset which is expected to yield best result according to our characterization. Our experiments show that the proposed method significantly outperforms existing approaches in image classification experiments by a large margin.
TL;DR: We approach to the problem of active learning as a core-set selection problem and show that this approach is especially useful in the batch active learning setting which is crucial when training CNNs. | 2019-04-18T16:58:31 | https://openreview.net/forum?id=H1aIuk-RW |
0.996639 | Community College Success: Ask Isa: "Can I reach my dreams if I had a low HS GPA?"
Ask Isa: "Can I reach my dreams if I had a low HS GPA?"
I want to go into investment banking and work on Wall Street some day, but here is thing: my high school GPA is low, I've never participated in any activities, and I don't have all the prerequisites for a 4-year school.
I've decided to start out at a junior college for a year and hopefully transfer to the University of Pennsylvania (as you can see I have high standards).
Is there still a possibility that I can get into the school if I change things around when I get into junior college, or should I just forget about Penn and look for somewhere different?
I love that you have high standards and I say go for Penn. However, since I'm not an admissions officer I'm not an expert on how they evaluate transfer students' high school background and what is needed to get admitted (I suggest starting your research by reading everything on their transfer site).
As soon as you can, visit the campus, go on a tour, and meet with an admissions officer so you can ask any questions you have. Ask for brutal honesty.
And even if after all that research you find going to that school won't be a reality because of your high school past, I say keep on going and start looking into the next-best college you'd like to attend. The process of researching options in this way will serve you in every aspect of your life.
It's never too late to reach your dreams. The key is to be open to how you get there. I believe 100% you can make it to Wall Street if you really want it and put in the work.
Community college is a great way to turn your academic past around. I've heard so many stories of students who didn't do well in high school who then get a 4.0 in community college and transfer to a selective university. I believe in most cases low grades are simply a product the natural unmotivated state that results from not seeing how your current actions can help you get somewhere you want to go.
Since you've figured out what you want to do and seem excited about it, you should have the motivation and focus you need to give your 100% to community college.
I also recommend reading How to Become a Straight-A Student and my book Community College Success to ensure you're using the right strategies. Pay close attention to the third section of my book which teaches how to reach out to mentors who have your dream job (e.g. you should be connecting with people in finance as soon as possible, and start researching how to get those coveted internships).
You can do this. Don't give up. Explore every option. And remember there are many avenues to get to where you want to go. People who set big goals, as long as they're not rigid about how they achieve them, succeed far more than they ever would have had they not set goals at all. | 2019-04-19T04:59:59 | http://www.communitycollegesuccess.com/2013/06/ask-isa-can-i-reach-my-dreams-if-i-had.html |
0.999935 | The guests on this episode are: Lt. Eric Shine, Congressman Mike Thompson, Professor Michael Schwartz, and Jason Leopold.
Time of guest appearance: Start of show - Lt. Eric Shine. 30 minutes in - Congressman Mike Thompson. 60 minutes in - Professor Michael Schwartz. 90 minutes in - Jason Leopold. | 2019-04-23T15:09:32 | https://www.peterbcollins.com/2007/03/13/3-13-07_episode/ |
0.998371 | Who doesn't love this colorful, easy-to-grow garden perennial? Purple coneflower is a hardy herbaceous wildflower native to the eastern United States. In early to late summer, it bears tall, sturdy stems topped with single large, red-purple, pink or white daisies with prominent conical centers of brown, orange or green. Bloom time may be extended if spent flowers are removed, or deadheaded.
This dependable garden staple self-sows freely but not too aggressively. The seedlings can be highly variable, and those of most cultivars will not grow true to seed. Purple coneflower is happiest when planted in sites with full sun and well-drained moderately fertile garden soil.
Germination 1. Place seeds in a plastic baggie with a bit of moist peat moss. Vermiculite is also acceptable.
2. Refrigerate the seeds for one to two weeks.
3. Sow the seeds on the surface of the soil until they begin to germinate. Germination usually takes between 10 and 12 days.
4. Cover germinated seeds with approximately 1/8 inch of soil, spacing them 18 to 24 inches apart.
5. Water the soil regularly and do not let it dry out. Echinacea blooms from June to October.
Plant seeds in the spring time if planting outdoors. Choose an area that gets a lot of sun during the day.
Test the pH of the soil before planting. The ideal pH range is between 6 and 8.
If you don't have peat moss or vermiculite, you can use moist paper towels. Place the seeds between two towels and then put them in a plastic baggie. Refrigerate and sow as noted in steps 2 through 5 above.
If your seeds do not germinate within 20 days, wait a bit longer. Sometimes echinacea can take up to 6 weeks to germinate. | 2019-04-23T20:42:55 | https://www.hobbyseeds.com/echinacea-purpurea-purple-coneflower-50.html |
0.999824 | This article focuses on the motion picture "Twist." It is not even the first such updating of the novel "Oliver Twist," written by Charles Dickens, who, like novelist Williams Shakespeare, must have surely spun out of his grave by now thanks to these constant plundering. In this motion picture, Nick Stahl, a talented young actor who seems to specialize in playing angst-ridden youth, stars as Dodge, a young male prostitute and junkie whose boss keeps a stable of such young boys. Writer-director Jacob Tierney, who since he's only in his early 20s no doubt read Dickens' novel not that long ago, dutifully trots out various characters and situations updated from the original. The motion picture is slightly redeemed by the strong performances of the talented cast, which also includes Stephen McHattie as a politico client who takes a strong interest in Oliver.
Reports on film director Roman Polanski's plan to direct a film based on Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist".
A DESCENDANT of Charles Dickens has welcomed a new film laying bare the secrets of novelist's affair with a young actress who gave birth to his secret son. | 2019-04-22T21:06:11 | http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/13682228/twist |
0.999816 | A video image generation system and a video image generating method thereof are disclosed. The video image generation system includes an image capturing module, an image selection module and a background synthesis module. The image capturing module is used to capture an original image of a scene, wherein the original image has an object. The select the image module is used to find a corresponding selected area image which is having the object from the original image. The background synthesis module is used for combining the selected area image and a background image into a final image.
1. A video image generation system, comprising: an image capturing module, for capturing an original image of a scene, wherein the original image has an object; an image selection module, electrically connected to the image capturing module for finding a selected area image having the object from the original image; and a background synthesis module, electrically connected to the image selection module for combining the selected area image and a background image into a final image.
2. The video image generation system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a depth image detection module for obtaining a depth image information of the scene, such that the image selection module finds the selected area image having the object from the original image according to the depth image information.
3. The video image generation system as claimed in claim 2, wherein a detection angle of the depth image detection module and a capture angle of the image capturing module are calibrated first.
4. The video image generation system as claimed in claim 2, further comprising a synchronization module which is electrically connected to the image capturing module and the depth image detection module for performing a time axis synchronization for the original image and the depth image information.
5. The video image generation system as claimed in claim 2, further comprising a feature detection module which is electrically connected to the depth image detection module for detecting a face image information or a body image information of a first user from the depth image information, such that the image selection module compares the original image according to the face image information or the body image information to obtain the corresponding selected area image.
6. The video image generation system as claimed in claim 5, further comprising a comparison module which is electrically connected to the feature detection module, wherein the comparison module further determines whether the face image information or the body image information is still within a specific area and exceeds a specific time; if yes, the image selection module obtains the corresponding selected area image according to the face image information or the body image information.
7. The video image generation system as claimed in claim 6, wherein if the depth image detection module detects a new depth image information of a second user, the intelligent comparison module determines whether the new depth image information of the second user is still within a new specific range and exceeds the specific time; if yes, the intelligent comparison module further obtains a newly selected area image according to the new depth image information of the second user.
8. The video image generation system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an encoding module which is electrically connected to the background synthesis module for performing a video format conversion to the final image.
9. The video image generation system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the background image is a still image.
10. The video image generation system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the background synthesis module sets an image in the original image other than the selected area image to the still image.
11. A video image generating method, which is used in a video image generation system for generating a transmit video image; the method comprising: capturing a original image of a scene, wherein the original image has an object; finding a selected area image having the object from the original image; and combining the selected area image and a background image into a final image.
12. The video image generating method as claimed in claim 11, further comprising the following steps: obtaining a depth image information of the scene to find the selected area image having the object from the original image according to the depth image information.
13. The video image generating method as claimed in claim 12, further comprising the following steps: calibrating a capture direction of the captured original image of a scene and getting a detection direction of the depth image information of the scene.
14. The video image generating method as claimed in claim 12, further comprising the step of performing a time axis synchronization for the original image and the depth image information.
15. The video image generating method as claimed in claim 12, further comprising the following steps: detecting a face image information or a body image information of a first user in the depth image information; and comparing the original image according to the face image information or the body image information to obtain the corresponding selected area image.
16. The video image generating method as claimed in claim 15, further comprising the following steps: further determining whether the face image information or the body image information are still within a specific range and exceeds a specific time; and if yes, obtaining the corresponding selected area image according to the face image information or the body image information.
17. The video image generating method as claimed in claim 16, further comprising the following steps: if a new depth image information of a second user, is detected, determining whether the second user's new depth image information is still within a new specific area and exceeds the specific time; and if yes, further obtaining a newly selected area image according to the new depth image information of the second user.
18. The video image generating method as claimed in claim 11, further comprising the step of setting a still image to the background image.
19. The video image generating method as claimed in claim 18, further comprising the step of setting an image in the original image other than the selected area image to the still image.
20. The video image generating method as claimed in claim 19, further comprising the step of setting a selected background to the still image.
The present disclosure relates to a video image generation system and a video image generating method thereof, particularly to a video image generation system and a video image generating method thereof that can reduce video capacity.
With the advancement of science and technology, the application of video conferencing through the Internet has become more and more widely. Performing video conferencing should pay attention to the network bandwidth. The transmission environment with lower bandwidth conditions can only be used with lower resolution for video coding, e.g. the resolution decreased from 720p (1080.times.720) to SD (640.times.480). In the current internet environment, packet loss or jitter condition is inevitable. It is necessary to endure the shortcomings of poor image performance if the specific bandwidth is not reserved by leasing an expensive line. Therefore, in the prior art, there is already a coding technique based on the H.264 or H.265 standard to achieve the purpose of two-way transmission in a limited bandwidth environment and to maintain a certain quality of the image. However, the new coding technique can reduce the capacity required for the image, but the image coding calculation will increase. For example, the calculation for H.265 or H.264 is 4 times higher than the calculation of the original image coding. In this way, a powerful processor to perform smoothly is needed, but the cost will increase.
Accordingly, it is necessary to devise a new video image generation system and a video image generating method thereof to solve the problem in the prior art.
It is a major objective of the present disclosure to provide a video image generation system having the effect of reducing the video capacity.
It is another objective of the present disclosure to provide a video image generating method used in the system described above.
To achieve the objectives described above, a video image generation system in the present disclosure includes an image capturing module, an image selection module, and a background synthesis module. The image capturing module is used to capture an original image of a scene, wherein the original image has an object. The image selection module is electrically connected to the image capturing module for finding a selected area image from the original image having the object. The background synthesis module is electrically connected to the image selection module for combining the selected area image and a background image into a final image.
A video image generating method in the present disclosure includes the following steps: capturing an original image of a scene, wherein the original image has an object; finding a selected area image from the original image having the object; and combining the selected area image and a background image into a final image.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing steps of a video image generating method according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
Hereafter, the technical content of the present invention will be better understood with reference to preferred embodiments.
Hereafter please first refer to FIG. 1 which is an architecture diagram of a video image generation system in the present invention, and FIG. 1A which shows the appearance of the video image generation system in the present invention.
A video image generation system 1 of the present invention can be used for a video conferencing system to generate an image to be transferred to a distant place. The video image generation system 1 may comprise an image capturing module 10, a depth image detection module 20, a synchronization module 30, an image selection module 40, a feature detection module 50, a background synthesis module 70, an encoding module 80, and an intelligent comparison module 60, but the present invention is not limited to the above modules. The video image generation system 1 is not limited to include all of the above modules to achieve the effect of the present invention. The image capturing module 10 is used to capture a scene to obtain an original image, wherein the original image has an object. The object may be a human body or a thing, but the present invention is not limited thereto. The original image may be a color image, but the present invention is not limited thereto. The image selection module 40 is electrically connected to image capturing module 10 for finding a selected area image having the object from the original image, for example, using color matching to find the object, but the present invention is not limited thereto. The background synthesis module 70 is electrically connected to the image selection module 40 for combining the selected area image and a background image into a final image.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the video image generation system 1 may comprise a depth image detection module 20 to detect the user to get the human body depth image information. The depth image detection module 20 may be using a Dual Camera technology, a Structured Lighting scan technology or a Time-of-Flight scan technology to get a different kind of performance of the depth of the image, but the present invention is not limited to the technology listed above. The appearance of the video image generation system 1 can be as shown in FIG. 1A, wherein the image capturing module 10 and the depth image detection module 20 are side by side in the same direction for capturing. Also, the capture angle of the image capturing module 10 and detection angle of the depth image detection module 20 have been calibrated so that the original image and the depth image information can be aligned.
Then, please refer to FIG. 2A, which is a schematic diagram showing an original image in the present invention.
First, the image capturing module 10 directly captures an original image 91 of a first user. The original image 91 will include the first user's image and the background behind the screen. At the same time, the depth image detection module 20 will detect the same first user to get the depth image information. Also, the synchronization module 30 of the video image generation system 1 is electrically connected to the image capturing module 10 and the depth image detection module 20 for executing a time axis synchronization of the original image and the depth image information to avoid time inconsistency between the original image and the depth image information.
Then, the image selection module 40 finds a corresponding selected area image 92 from the original image according to the depth image information, as shown in FIG. 2B which is a schematic view showing a selected area image is found according to the present invention.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the video image generation system 1 may include a feature detection module 50 which is electrically connected to the depth image detection module 20. The feature detection module 50 is used to detect a user's face image information or a body image information in the depth image information, such that the image selection module 40 compares the original image according to the face image information or the body image information to obtain the corresponding selected area image 92. As shown in FIG. 2B, the feature detection module 50 can first find the first user's face image, and then the image selection module 40 will circle select a part of the face image as the selected area image 92.
It should be noted that in order to determine that the depth image information obtained by the depth image detection module 20 is really the information of the participants, the video image generation system 1 may include an intelligent comparison module 60 which is electrically connected to the feature detection module 50 for further determining whether the face image information or the body image information is still within a specific area and exceed a specific time; if yes, the image selection module 40 gets the corresponding selected area image 92 according to the face image information or the body image information.
The background synthesis module 70 is used to combine each frame of the selected area image 92 and a background image 93 into a final image 94, as shown in FIG. 2C. FIG. 2C is a schematic diagram showing a final image according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
The background image 93 may be a still image. For example, the background synthesis module 70 sets the image other than the selected area image 92 in the original image 91 as the still image. If the selected area image 92 only includes a user's face image information, the background synthesis module 70 sets the image other than the user's face in the original image 91 as the still image. If the selected area image 92 includes the user's body image information, the background synthesis module 70 sets the image other than the user's body in the original image 91 as the still image. In another embodiment of the present invention, the background synthesis module 70 can also be used for the first user to select a scene, such as an office scene or an outdoor scene, to set the image as the still image. As a result, the background synthesis module 70 combines the selected area image 92 of each frame and the background image 93 of the still image, and finally into a complete dynamic final image 94. Additionally, in another embodiment of the present invention, the background image 93 may also be a dynamic image, but the present invention is not limited thereto.
The video image generation system 1 further includes an encoding module 80, which is electrically connected to the background synthesis module 70 for converting the final image 94 into an image format, e.g. the H.264 or H.265 standard encoding format, but the present invention is not limited thereto. As a result, the final image 94 includes a continuous-action selected area image 92 and a still image type background image 93. The H.264 or H.265 standard encoding format can be used to compare the changes between before and after frame to find the same area, and only process in the area of changes. In this way, the encoding module 80 can reduce the required size of the still image type of the background image 93, and only process the continuous-action selected area image 92 in the final image 94. As a result, during the user is communicating, the video image generation system 1 can significantly reduce the required transmission bandwidth for transmitting the continuous final image 94.
Then, please refer to FIG. 2D which is a schematic view showing a final image according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
The video image generation system 1 in the present invention is not limited to a single user. If the depth image detection module 20 detects the depth image information of a second user, the intelligent comparison module 60 can also determine whether the second user's depth image information is still within a new specific area and exceeds a specific time, i.e. through detection of the feature detection module 50 about the second user's face image information or body image information to determine whether the second user is still within a new specific area and exceeds a specific time, to infer whether the second user is a meeting participant. If the second user's depth image information does not persist within the new specific area and exceeds the certain time, it means that the second user may only pass through instead of the conference participant. Therefore, when the intelligent comparison module 60 determines that the second user is also a meeting participant, the intelligent comparison module 60 further compares the second user's the face image information or body image information according to the new depth image information to get a newly selected area image 92'. At last, the background synthesis module 70 combines the first user's selected area image 92, the second user's newly selected area image 92' and the background image into the final image 94'. As described above, the video image generation system 1 in the present invention is not limited to a single user, but is applicable to two or more users.
Then, please refer to FIGS. 3A-3F which are schematic diagrams are showing a blank image is combined according to an embodiment of the present invention.
The background image 93 may be a blank image 93'. After the image selection module 40 gets the selected area image 92, the background synthesis module 70 can combine the selected area image 92 and the blank image 93'. That is, the background synthesis module 70 can combine the selected area image 92 of the face image information and the blank image 93' (as shown in FIG. 3A) or the selected area image 92 having the body image information and the blank image 93' (as shown in FIG. 3B), i.e. similar to the background erase effect.
Additionally, to allow bilateral users to know the background used by each other, the background synthesis module 70 adds a message that needs to be notified to another user in the part of blank image 93, e.g. notify the other background image 93 may be the original scene, or a certain background. As shown in FIGS. 3C-3D, the background synthesis module 70 may further add barcode 95a which is QR Code, such that another user can read it through a device. Or as shown in FIGS. 3E-3F, the background synthesis module 70 may add one-dimensional barcode 95b, but the present invention is not limited thereto.
It should be noted that each module of the video image generation system 1 may be configured as a hardware device, software program with hardware device, or firmware with hardware device, e.g. an application stored in a computer readable media. Also, each module may be configured in the same device or different devices. For example, the image capturing module 10 and the depth image detection module 20 can be configured in the same capture device, while the other modules are set in the computer system, but the present invention is not limited to the way described above. In addition, the preferred embodiments of the present invention are only illustrative. To avoid redundancy, all the possible combinations of changes are not documented in detail. However, it shall be understood by those skilled in the art that each of the modules or elements described above may not be necessary. For the implementation of the present invention, the present invention may also contain other detailed, conventional modules or elements. Each module or component is likely to be omitted or modified depending on the needs. Other modules or elements may not necessarily exist between two of any modules.
Then, please refer to FIG. 4 which is a flowchart showing steps of a video image generating method according to the first embodiment of the present invention. It should be noted here that although the video image generation method described above is exemplified by the video image generation system 1 described above, the video image generating method in the present invention is not limited to the video image generation system 1 using the same structure as described above.
First, in Step 401: Capturing an original image of a scene.
First, the image capturing module 10 is used for capturing a scene to get an original image 91. The original image 91 includes an object which may be a human body or a thing, but the present invention is not limited thereto.
Then, in Step 402: Finding a selected area image having the object from the original image.
Next, the image selection module 40 is used for finding a selected area image 92 having the object from the original image 91, for example, use color matching to find the object, but the present invention is not limited thereto.
Finally, in Step 403: Combining the selected area image and a background image into a final image.
Finally, the background synthesis module 70 first sets a still image as the background image 93, and then combines each frame of the selected area image 92 and the background image 93 into a final image 94. The background image 93 may be a still image or a blank image 93'. The background synthesis module 70 can also further add barcode 95a which is QR Code or one-dimensional barcode 95b, but the present invention is not limited thereto.
The aforementioned "object" can be used by the participating users, so the present invention can have a second embodiment to achieve better processing results. Then, please refer to FIG. 5 which is a flowchart showing steps of a video image generating method according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
At first, in Step 501: Capturing a user's original image.
First, the image capturing module 10 captures an original image of a scene, wherein the original image includes an object. In an embodiment of the present invention, the image capturing module 10 directly captures a user's original image 91. The original image includes the user's image and the background behind the screen.
Next, if the video image generation system 1 has captured the user's image, proceed with Step 502: Detecting the user's depth image information.
Next, the depth image detection module 20 will detect the same user to get the depth image information.
Then, in Step 503: Detecting one of the user's face image information or body image information in the depth image information.
Then, the feature detection module 50 is used to detect one of the user's face image information or body image information in the depth image information.
Then, in Step 504: Determining whether the face image information or the body image information is still in a specific area and exceeds a specific time.
The intelligent comparison module 60 further determines whether the face image information or the body image information is still in a specific area and exceeds a specific time.
If yes, then in Step 505: Comparing the original image according to the face image information or the body image information to get the corresponding selected area image.
The image selection module 40 compares the original image according to the face image information or the body image information to get the corresponding selected area image 92. It should be noted that the video image generation system 1 in the present invention is not limited to being applied to a single user, but can be applied to two or more users. That is, in Step 501 to Step 505, the intelligent comparison module 60 can also determine whether the two or more users' face image information or body image information is still in a specific area and exceeds a specific time to find the selected area image 92 and the newly selected area image 92' at the same time.
Then, in Step 506: Combining the selected area image and a background image into a final image.
Same with Step 403, the background synthesis module 70 first sets a still image as the background image 93, and then combines each frame of the selected area image 92 and the background image 93 into a final image 94. The background synthesis module 70 can also combine the selected area image 92 and the blank image 93', or further include the barcode 95a or barcode 95b.
It should be noted here that, the video image generating method in the present invention is not limited to the order of the above steps, and the order of the above steps can be changed as long as the objectives of the present invention are achieved.
Through the video image generation system 1 and the video image generating method in the present invention, all the background images 93 in the final image 94 are the same; therefore, after the encoding module 80 is used with the H.264 or H.265 standard coding technology for processing, the video required bandwidth can be effectively reduced.
It should be noted that the preferred embodiments of the present invention described above are only illustrative. To avoid redundancy, all the possible combinations of changes are not documented in detail. However, it shall be understood by those skilled in the art that each of the modules or elements described above may not be necessary. For the implementation of the present invention, the present invention may also contain other detailed, conventional modules or elements. Each module or component is likely to be omitted or modified depending on the needs. Other modules or elements may not necessarily exist between two of any modules. All without departing from the scope of the invention are defined solely by the appended claims. | 2019-04-22T08:26:13 | http://patents.com/us-20170374319.html |
0.999994 | In this Japanese name, the family name is Hijikata.
Hijikata Toshizō (土方 歳三, May 31, 1835 – June 20, 1869) was a Japanese warrior. As Vice-Commander (副長, Fukucho) of the Shinsengumi, he resisted the Meiji Restoration.
Hijikata Toshizō Yoshitoyo (土方 歳三 義豊) was born on May 31, 1835, in the Ishida village, Tama region of Musashi Province (present day Ishida, Hino), Japan. He was the youngest of six children (later records discovered in recent years revealed that he was actually the youngest among the ten children), and his father Hijikata Yoshiatsu (Hayato), a well-to-do farmer, died a few months before his birth. His eldest brother Tamejiro, was born blind and as a result, could not inherit the family property. His 3rd older brother Daisaku (later Kasuya Ryojin), was adopted to another family and would later became a physician. His eldest sister Shuu died when he was about three years old and his mother Etsu also died when he was six years old, and he was therefore raised by his 2nd older brother Kiroku and sister-in-law.
He was apparently tall compared to the average Japanese men of the period, and it is said that he was very handsome. He was said to be spoiled at an early age and was alleged to be mean to all but his friends and family. This changed when a 21-year-old swordsman from the Aizu clan known for opposing the Reformists was forced to commit seppuku. When Hijikata attended the man's funeral, he apparently cried in public.
Hijikata spent his youth selling his family's Ishida sanyaku (medicine for treating injuries such as bruises and broken bones) while practicing his self-taught kenjutsu. His brother-in-law, Satō Hikogorō, who was married to his older sister Nobu, managed a Tennen Rishin-ryū dojo in Hino; through Satō, Hijikata later met Kondō Isami and was formally enrolled at the Tennen Rishin-ryū's Shieikan in 1859. Although Hijikata himself never fully mastered the Tennen Rishin-ryū, it is said that he managed to develop the "Shinsengumi-Kenjutsu" fighting style from the Tennen Rishin-ryū.
An arrangement was made by his eldest brother Tamejiro for him to marry Okoto, the daughter of the shamisen shop owners. Since he had already planned to join the Rōshigumi with Kondō Isami, Hijikata told them that after he got a promotion, he would carry out his marriage.
In 1863, Hijikata and Kondō Isami joined the Rōshigumi in Edo, they arrived in Mibu, Kyoto and remained there as the Mibu Rōshigumi while the rest returned to Edo. Later, when Mibu Rōshigumi was renamed as the Shinsengumi, Kondō and two other men, Serizawa Kamo and Niimi Nishiki, became joint leaders of the group, and Hijikata served as one of the deputy leaders. Shinsengumi served as a special police force in Kyoto that fought against the Reformists under Matsudaira Katamori, the Daimyō of Aizu.
However, Serizawa and Niimi began fighting, drinking, and extorting money from merchants in Kyoto, which started to tarnish the reputation of Shinsengumi and earned the group the derogatory nickname of "Wolves of Mibu" (壬生狼, Miburō). Hijikata found enough proof against Niimi in these matters and ordered him to commit seppuku in October 19. Later in October 30 (or October 28) at night, Hijikata and the selected Shinsengumi members went into the house of Yagi Gennojō and assassinated Serizawa, his mistress Oume, and one of his followers Hirayama Goro, with Hirama Jūsuke been the only survivor fled that night. Kondō became the sole leader of Shinsengumi, with Yamanami Keisuke as his Vice-Commander.
Some time after the Zenzaiya incident, Yamanami Keisuke tried to leave Shinsengumi, despite the regulation against deserters. As a result, he committed seppuku with Okita Sōji as his Kaishakunin on March 20 (lunar calendar February 23), 1865; and Hijikata took over as Vice-Commander. Due to his position in the Shinsengumi, which would be dangerous for anyone close to him, Hijikata felt that he had no choice but to cancel his marriage engagement with Okoto. Although he later had many lovers, he never came close to making a commitment to any of them.
The Shinsengumi grew to 140 men, which included a number of farmers and merchants whose livelihood would be threatened if the Tokugawa shogunate was overthrown. The regulations set up by Shinsengumi within Kyoto were strict and Hijikata was known to be harsh in enforcing them, hence his nickname: "Demon Vice-Commander" (鬼の副長, Oni no fukucho). Even within the Shinsengumi itself, regulations were strictly enforced by Hijikata. As usual, deserters and traitors were forced to commit seppuku.
Hijikata owned, among others, a sword signed "Izumi no Kami Kanesada" (和泉守兼定), made by the 11th and last generation[clarification needed] Aizu Kanesada (1837-1903).
Together with the rest of the Shinsengumi, Hijikata became a hatamoto in 1867 and took the name of Naitō Hayato (but reverted to his original name after Kondō was captured and executed during the Boshin war). He was given the rank of Yoriai (寄合格 Yoriai-kaku) in early 1868.
Following the Boshin War in 1868, Kondō and Hijikata led the Shinsengumi in their final battles against the new government and fought in the Battle of Toba–Fushimi in January 1868. The Shinsengumi returned to Edo and was later reformed into a unit known as the Kōyō Chinbutai (甲陽鎮撫隊, "Pacification Corps") and departed from Edo for Kōfu Castle in March 24 upon orders to suppress the uprisings there. But while on the way there, they received news in March 28 that the Kōfu Castle was taken by Imperial Court forces led by Itagaki Taisuke and later settled at a town of Katsunuma five miles east of Kōfu.
In March 29, 1868, Kondō, Hijikata and the Kōyō Chinbutai resisted an attack by the Imperial forces at the Battle of Kōshū-Katsunuma for about two hours but lost, and they were scattered and fled to Edo.
In April 11, 1868, Kondō, Hijikata and the Kōyō Chinbutai departed Edo again and later set up a temporary headquarters at the Kaneko family estate, northeast of Edo. They later moved to a new headquarters in Nagareyama in April 25, 1868.
During the training at Nagareyama in April 26, 1868, the Kōyō Chinbutai were caught by surprise by the 200 strong Imperial forces led by Vice-chief of Staff Arima Tota of Satsuma Domain and Kondō was ordered to go with them to their camp at Koshigaya. He was later brought to Itabashi in April 27, 1868 for questioning. On the same day Hijikata went to Edo to see Katsu Kaishū and asked for his help in getting a pardon for Kondō. On the following day, a messenger arrived at Itabashi with a letter seemingly written by Katsu requesting that Kondō's life to be spared, but the messenger was arrested and the request was denied.
Following his trial in April 31, 1868, Kondō was executed at Itabashi execution grounds in May 17, 1868. Hijikata, convalesced from a foot injury sustained at the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, brought Kondō's hair to Aizu and was said to have personally supervised the erection of Kondō's grave memorial at Tenneiji Temple.
Following the Battle of Bonari Pass, the next day in 7 October 1868, Hijikata met Saitō Hajime at the Inawashiro Castle and stayed at the Saitoya inn in Wakamatsu. When Hijikata decided to retreat from Aizu, Saitō and a small group of Shinsengumi parted with Hijikata and continued to battle in the Battle of Aizu until the very end. Hijikata and his rest of the Shinsengumi went to Sendai, where he joined up with Enomoto Takeaki's fleet.
I am not going to battle to win. With the Tokugawa government about to collapse, it would be a disgrace if no one is willing to go down with it. That is why I must go. I will fight the best battle of my life to die for the country.
In October 1868, Hijikata and Ōtori Keisuke led Shogunate forces to occupy the fortress of Goryōkaku in the Battle of Hakodate, and continued to eliminate local resistance. When the short-lived Ezo Republic was founded in December, Hijikata was made a vice-minister of the Army. Imperial troops continued to attack by land and sea.
In May 6, 1869, Hijikata led a daring but doomed raid to steal the imperial warship Kōtetsu in the Battle of Miyako Bay, in the early morning, a number of oppositionists managed to board the ship via the Kaiten warship, but Kōtetsu repelled the attack and mowed them down with a Gatling gun. Many others including the captain of Kaiten were also killed by gunfire from the Imperial ships. The battle lasted only thirty minutes; Hijikata, the survivors and the Kaiten retreated to Hakodate.
Later on the fourth week of May 1869, Hijikata led the 230-strong Republic of Ezo forces and the surviving Shinsengumi against 600 strong Imperial forces during the Battle of Futamata for sixteen hours and were forced to retreat. The Imperial forces attacked again on the next day, only to retreat. On the following night, Hijikata led a successful raid on the Imperial forces' camp, forcing them to flee. Hijikata and the forces later retreated to Hakodate in June 10.
Though my body may decay on the island of Ezo, my spirit guards my lord in the East.
In the final conflict of the revolution, on June 20 (lunar calendar May 11), 1869, Hijikata was killed near the Ippongi Kanmon (一本木関門) while leading his troops on horseback by a bullet that shattered his lower back. His body was later claimed by Koshiba Chōnosuke and others.
Three days later in June 23 (lunar calendar May 14), 1869, a remaining group of surviving Shinsengumi members under the last commander Sōma Kazue had surrendered at Benten Daiba. A week after his death, the Goryōkaku fortress was taken, and the military of Ezo Republic surrendered to the Meiji government on June 27, 1869, marked the end of Boshin War.
It is unknown where Hijikata was buried, but it is believed that his body was buried either at Goryōkaku, Hekketsuhi or Ganjoji.
The first grave memorial of Hijikata was at Wakamatsu-chō, Hakodate, where he was killed, near the reconstructed Ippongi Kanmon in the present day compound of the Hakodate Welfare Centre.
A grave memorial of Hijikata was also erected at Sekidenji temple in Hino, Tokyo, Japan.
A monument known as Hekketsuhi , was erected at Hakodate in memory of about 800 people, including Hijikata, who died during the Boshin War.
In 1875, Nagakura Shinpachi, with the help of Matsumoto Ryōjun and several of his surviving former Shinsengumi comrades including Saitō Hajime among others, erected the monument known as the Grave of Shinsengumi for Kondō Isami, Hijikata Toshizō, and the fallen comrades of the Shinsengumi at Jutoku-ji temple boundary in Itabashi, near Itabashi Station in Tokyo.
The Hijikata Toshizō Museum was later established in 1994 near the Sekidenji temple.
The Shinsengumi have become a popular subject for films, television, and manga and anime, ranging from historical drama to comedy and romance. As a leader of the group, Hijikata is usually a prominent character in such productions.
The novel Moeyo Ken, written by Ryōtarō Shiba, is a dramatization of Hijikata's life. The novel was adapted into a film in 1966 and a television series in 1970 where Hijikata was played by Asahi Kurizuka.
Hijikata is depicted in the 1999 film Gohatto ("Taboo") (played by Takeshi Kitano) and the 2013 NHK Taiga drama Yae no Sakura (played by Jun Murakami). He was also played by Koji Yamamoto in both the 2004 NHK Taiga drama series Shinsengumi! (including the single-episode sequel Shinsengumi!: Hijikata Toshizo Saigo no Ichinichi) and 2015 Taiga drama series Asa ga Kita. He is the protagonist in Morita Kenji's manga Getsumei Seiki, and in Mibu Robin's Baragaki ("Red Demon").
He is also featured in a number of other anime and manga series, including Gintama (an inspired character named Hijikata Tōshirō 土方 十四郎), Peacemaker Kurogane, Intrigue in the Bakumatsu - Irohanihoheto, Ghost Slayers Ayashi (as a child, with a brief glimpse of his future death); Kaze Hikaru, Shura no Toki, Hell Girl, Soar High! Isami (inspired character: Toshi Tsukikage) and the popular otome game/anime series Hakuouki: Shinsengumi Kitan. Hijikata is also a supporting character in Shin Teito Monogatari, the prequel to the bestselling historical fantasy novel Teito Monogatari (Hiroshi Aramata). In the manga and anime, Drifters, Hijikata serves as one of the antagonists, who holds hatred to the protagonist, Shimazu Toyohisa, because he is an ancestor of the Shimazu clan he fought. He is also a main character in Golden Kamuy manga drawing a lot of similarities both historically and in overall personality.
Hijikata also appears in the mobile game Fate/Grand Order as a limited 5-Star Berserker-class Servant. He debuted during the GUDAGUDA 2: Meiji Restoration event, and his Noble Phantasm is known as Shinsengumi, which gets stronger as his HP dwindles.
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0.998319 | As Kym Marsh filmed court scenes for Coronation Street yesterday, her outfit couldn't have been more demure.
But the black polo neck and knee-length skirt couldn't disguise the va va voom effect of newly single Kym's post-surgery figure.
Her hour-glass shape is as impressive as that of famously curvy U.S. reality TV star Kim Kardashian.
Kym boosted her breasts from a 34B to 34D in May after revealing she had not been happy with her figure since the birth of her two now-teenage children. And the effect is certainly striking.
The 33-year-old seems to agree - she has spoken of her delight with her new figure.
‘It really has changed my life,' she said. 'It’s made me much more confident with myself and that’s all I wanted to achieve really.
Yesterday, Kym was filming scenes for the soap in which her character Michelle Connor visits court to watch Tony Gordon (Gray O'Brien) face the judges over his part in the death of her brother Liam (Rob-James Collier).
Last week, the actress revealed that she and actor boyfriend Jamie Lomas had ended their 15-month relationship.
The split came eight months after the death of their newborn son Archie, who was born 18 weeks prematurely.
In a brief statement, Coronation Street producers said: 'Coronation Street actress Kym Marsh has announced that she and former Hollyoaks actor Jamie Lomas have split up after 15 months together.
'Jamie has moved out of Kym's house in Cheshire.
Kym and her husband Jack Ryder were granted a divorce in March after the actress admitted adultery.
However, both parties recognised that the adultery with Jamie occurred after her separation from Jack.
Kym has two children David, 13, and Emily, 11, from a previous relationship with Dave Cunliffe. | 2019-04-20T10:55:50 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1219888/Kym-Marsh-turning-Kim-Kardashian-Soap-star-shows-post-surgery-body-tight-films-Coronation-Street.html |
0.999704 | HALIFAX — The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League has unveiled extensive changes to player safety protocols, and issued an apology for releasing information "lacking in accuracy," four years after the sudden on-ice death of a 16-year-old prospect from Nova Scotia.
League commissioner Gilles Courteau apologized Tuesday to the family of Jordan Boyd, who was taking part in a drill during August 2013 tryouts with the Acadie-Bathurst Titan in New Brunswick when he collapsed and couldn't be revived through the use of CPR.
An autopsy later revealed that Boyd had an undiagnosed heart condition known as arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy.
Courteau, who also announced enhanced staff training and medical examinations during a news conference in Halifax, didn't specify what information was inaccurate.
"After reviewing the process that has been in place the Boyd family deserves an apology from me as the league commissioner," said Courteau.
A news release from the league office later said that at the time of Boyd's death it had stated that the league had a written policy on how to deal with player emergencies and it was satisfied that the policy was followed "to the letter."
"As a result of this review and information that was discovered, it became clear to the league that critical first aid readiness needed to be improved upon. For example, an AED (automatic external defibrillator) that is easily accessible and fully functional should be available at all times, which might not have been the case for Jordan."
Jordan's father, Stephen Boyd, said the family was satisfied that it has had a "constructive dialogue" with the league in the past couple of years.
"We are very satisfied with the changes that they have announced today and really for us that's the absolute most important thing, that changes to the safety protocol have been put in place which we know are going to benefit players," he said.
- ensuring that at least three team staff are trained in life-saving techniques including the use of defibrillators, which must be present at all team events including games and practices.
- two trained staff must be at all team events, games, practices and tryouts.
- teams must have a defibrillator at all team events that is in the possession of the trainer athletic therapist, who must ensure it is in good working condition.
- Players would be required to fill out more in-depth health questionnaires prior to training camp, and would be subject to more extensive physical examinations.
Previously teams were required to have defibrillators, although Courteau couldn't confirm whether a defibrillator that was at the rink the day of Jordan's death belonged to the team or the arena.
Courteau said the league had no current plans to introduce mandatory screening through the use of echocardiograms or the more basic electrocardiogram.
He said he believes the new medical examination guidelines and player questionnaire are key steps.
"The first thing that's going to be very important for the athlete is to answer correctly the questionnaire," Courteau said. "From the questionnaire the team doctors will be able to determine if a player needs something further in regards to the medical exam."
Stephen Boyd said he's pleased with the league's commitment to improve its safety protocol.
He said the family has been devastated by the loss of a "wonderful young man" they are incredibly proud of.
"We hope that by telling Jordan's story and continuing to advocate for CPR-AED awareness and training as well as research into inherited heart disease, that other lives can be saved — that some good for others can come from this."
Courteau also announced the league would contribute $50,000 to the Jordan Boyd Foundation.
The foundation awards post-secondary scholarships to amateur hockey players and raises awareness of inherited heart diseases in young people and particularly athletes.
A celebrity hockey tournament is also held in Jordan's name each year and to date it has raised $560,000 for inherited heart disease research.
Note to readers: This is a corrected story. A previous version misspelled Gilles Courteau's surname. | 2019-04-21T16:02:00 | http://safebeat.org/newsroom/headlines/hockey_league_to_improve_safety_in_light_of_2013_death_of_16-year-old_player/ |
0.999629 | Trying to take a complex philosophical concept, that I am only just beginning to understand, and trying to apply it to chocolate, to make it easier and more palatable, may well be the most literal possible example of biting off more than I can chew. However, with long-gone brands, and their tastes, still on the tips of many tongues since childhood, there may no be easier place to start.
What am I talking about? A word that has come to mind a lot recently has been “hauntology,” which was coined in 1993 by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. It is a play on “ontology,” the philosophical study of being, of existence and reality, of how things can be said to exist – the French “ontologie” and “hauntologie” sound identical when spoken. The idea that existence can be haunted comes from Derrida, in his book “Spectres of Marx,” ruminating over how Communism can be said to have failed, with the Soviet Union having been dissolved in 1991, despite Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels opening “The Communist Manifesto” with the idea of Communism being a “spectre... haunting Europe.” If that is the case, the idea of Communism, if it is a ghost, couldn’t be dead – and if it appears in the present, it cannot be said to be of the past either.
I already feel lost, and yet that may be the point, because hauntology essentially replaces the notions of ontology, that there must be something that, well, “is,” and replaces that with something which is neither present or absent, relying on language in order to describe any of it – Derrida was already known for his work on the deconstruction of language in texts, so hauntology was seen as an extension of this work.
How do you apply this theory to chocolate, then? Consider the way chocolate is often talked about: chocolate doesn’t taste as good as it used to be, chocolate bars have become smaller, and we wonder why our favourite bars have never been brought back. The notion of chocolate, as it exists today, is literally haunted, for many people, by the notion that there is a perfect definition of chocolate that either did exist, or may have never existed, forever out of reach, but without a way of moving forward into the future to create something entirely new, you must reach back into the past to recreate something, or create a pastiche – nostalgia leads the way.
This was where I thought Cadbury was heading when their new “Darkmilk” bars were announced. When I first heard of the possibility of eating a dark milk chocolate bar – a darker kind of Dairy Milk, or a smoother-tasting Bournville – I thought, oh, they are trying the Gambit bars again. The Gambit only lasted for a few years in the 1980s, but its literal gambit was blending Dairy Milk and Bournville together, giving you all of both, rather than the best of both. From the taste tests I conducted with family and friends, Cadbury appear to have created something that some people may not have tasted before. In Australia, where Darkmilk first launched, it is also available with chips of dried raspberry – that would be the real game-changer for me. | 2019-04-26T12:12:59 | https://www.dancingwiththegatekeepers.com/2018/09/theres-ghost-in-my-house.html |
0.999731 | A startup founder explains how he knew when it was time to stop communicating every single change with everyone on staff.
Perhaps the CEO’s most important operational responsibility is designing and implementing the communication architecture for her company.
Buffer has recently grown to more than 50 people during our fastest two months of growth ever. I’ve found that a lot changes when you grow to this size and any time the team grows quickly. There are a bunch of challenges, and it’s also invigorating. It might be the most exciting and toughest phase of building the company so far.
Since I’m learning insights from all the different teams, I see patterns across multiple areas of the company. This leads me to ideas for making changes that could make the whole company more effective.
That’s where the danger comes in. Here’s how I’m striving to lead effectively during this time of change.
Something we’ve naturally needed to do as we go through this growth is to think about the communication architecture of the company.
It’s no longer efficient for the whole company to know about and think about every change we’re making.
What this has meant in our case is thinking about my role as cofounder and CEO, and the role of people who have experience. It’s no longer efficient for the whole company to know about and think about every change we’re making. We’ve formed smaller teams so that they can work autonomously on a specific part of the company without needing to know everything about all other parts of the business.
Part of creating the communication architecture is to be aware of and embrace people on the team becoming leaders, and then to have regular conversations with these people to share my thoughts. Our product and engineering team consists of 20 people. There’s no way I can speak with all 20 people regularly enough to share all the insights and advice I have. Therefore, I need to speak primarily with a few people in order to get the context in a more effective way.
The result is that I naturally end up with a unique picture of the whole company, since I’m learning from all the different teams at once. I’m in one of the best positions to notice and implement changes to how we work, but far enough removed that I might miss some context about how my ideas could have negative implications.
Create context: I try to have the communication architecture in place to put me in the best position to understand a lot of the context, and to notice patterns between challenges in different areas.
Reflect: I aim to identify those challenges and spend enough time reflecting on them in a way that others might not have the viewpoint or time to do.
Stop short of solving: Once I find myself beginning to move towards a solution for any challenge, I stop myself before giving any instructions.
Share with others: I then speak with those who will be affected by any potential changes to solve the challenge I’ve found. When I do this, I try to share all the context I can, without proposing a solution for the issue at hand.
Keep an open mind: Sometimes I may have a hint of a solution in mind, but I try to remain open to the different ones that I can only learn from speaking with others.
The upshot of this method is that I’m often not even the one who comes up with solutions, and the changes we make are more fully embraced as a result.
It’s really hard to do this, and I often fail. It also takes longer.
But my belief is that this approach is the best long-term choice. The difference between sharing changes with no context and sharing context with no change is night and day.
We’ve always taken the path with Buffer that leads to us all feeling happiest with our work. We also try to take the approach that leads to the most honesty and openness between all team members. As we grow, if we start to enforce changes without sharing the “why,” we’re eventually going to incur a debt in our culture and see some adverse side effects from that choice.
If we instead share the challenges we’ve uncovered, get the right advice in order to see the full context, then make changes we all agree on, we’re going to have the best chance of creating a culture of trust, honesty, and joy. | 2019-04-24T14:07:16 | https://www.fastcompany.com/3052818/how-i-strive-to-lead-when-everything-is-changing |
0.999986 | The Watchers series starts off with a spunky 13-year-old Auriella in Knight of Light, a struggling 19-year-old Auriella in Hidden Fire and now an immortal (I guess 60+ but she's immortal so who cares) Auriella in Flood and Fire.
If I were to summarise this third book in one sentence, it would be this: Auriella does a Bella.
And so, Auriella, in turn, attempts to Do Stupid Things, but because she's quite untrained in her powers and lacks this thing called Control, she doesn't exactly get to Do The Stupid Things she had in mind.
3) Being overly single-minded in chasing after a goal (whether it's a loved one or it's revenge. As demonstrated in the book, this almost always ends in disaster when you neglect other important things. Like using your brain and not being distracted.
Still, since I am a fan of swashbuckling tales, I cannot deny that I enjoyed much of the setting of this book, even though Auriella could be singularly annoying, and Alamar was not as, uhm, *romantic* as he could have been. He felt a little like a caricature of a dashing Italian lover, but something lacked. I'm not sure what. Maybe it was his bullheadedness. Or the way conversations between Auriella and Alamar always devolved into something akin to a Christian vs Atheist debate (in form, not in content). Also, why does everyone's name seem to start with A?
Plotwise, there were a few nifty tricks and twists, some which I saw coming, some which I did not. At any rate, Flood and Fire ends at a good place, even if most of this book felt like a filler to make sure that Auriella gets the training she needs (though not the training she wants, ahahahaha). I'm guessing book 4 should get back to the main meat of the matter.
I received a free copy of this book from Eden Publishing in return for an honest review. | 2019-04-23T10:24:19 | http://blog.annatsp.com/2016/12/bookreview-flood-and-fire-deirdra-eden.html |
0.998475 | The oxidation of the biologically-active thiol, N-acetyl-d-penicillamine (NDPen) by acidified iodate and aqueous iodine has been studied. The stoichiometry of the reaction is 1:1 in which the thiol (RSH) is oxidized to its sulfonic acid (RSO3H) without cleavage of the C-S bond. In excess acidified iodate the reaction displayed a short induction period, followed by formation of aqueous iodine. Overall stoichiometry in excess iodate was 6:5: 6IO3– + 5 RSH + 6H+ → 5 RSO3H + 3I2(aq) + 3H2O. The direct reaction of aqueous iodine and was relatively fast, over within 100 ms and had a stoichiometry of 1:3: 3 I2(aq) + RSH + 3H2O → RSO3H+6 I– + 6 H+. The reaction is essentially diffusion-controlled and our stopped-flow with a mixing time limitation of 1.00 ms could only catch the reaction of the last iodine molecule. This reaction is, however, strongly inhibited by the product of reaction, I–. This is due to the formation of the relatively inert triiodide anion: I2(aq)+I– →I3–. Mass spectrometry results showed that the reaction proceeds through the sulfinic acid with negligible stabilization of the sulfenic acid. In excess of reductant, the dimeric species is the favoured product due to a rapid condensation-type reaction between the electrophilic unstable sulfenic acid and unreacted thiol.
Cu2O/Cu/C/Ag porous composite was synthesized by heat-treatment and wet-chemical method using a typical metal-organic framework (Cu-BTC) as precursor. The samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive spectrometry (EDS) and ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy (UV-vis). The results showed that the original structure of Cu-BTC was retained by high temperature calcination in nitrogen atmosphere. Uniform doping of Cu, C and Ag provided a triple trapping of photogenerated electron hole pairs and the Cu2O/Cu/C/Ag exhibited an enhanced photocatalytic activity for degradation of Congo Red under visible light irradiation. Heat-treatment of the MOFs with high temperature is a facile and effective way for preparation of photocatalytic composite with desirable properties.
In this work, a carbon molecular sieve (CMS) was produced from a bituminous Lafia-Obi Nasarawa coal. An initial activated carbon (AC) sample was prepared via chemical activation from the coal, from which the CMS samples were then produced through heat treatment processes and carbon deposition fromspent engine oil. Spent engine oil was pyrolyzed in order to deposit carbon at the pore mouth of coal-based AC to yield CMS. The effect of reaction temperature and holding time variation on the surface area, micropore pore volume and pore size of CMS was studied. Reaction temperature was varied at 400, 550 and 700 °C while holding time was varied at 30 and 60 min. The Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) method was used to calculate the surface areas, while the Dubinin–Radushkevich (DR) and Horváth-Kawazoe (HK) methods were used to determine the micropore volumes and pore sizes of the AC and CMS, respectively. The CMS sample with the largest BET surface area (5.824 m2 g–1), DR micropore volume (0.172 cm3 g–1) and HK pore size (6.317 Å) were obtained at 700 °C reaction temperature and 60 min holding time. In addition to this, a molecular sieving ability test to separate benzene from a mixture of benzene and o-xylene in solution was carried out on the AC and CMS, with the CMS having a selective benzene percentage uptake of 61.36 %.
This study has reported comparative effects of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), sucrose and sodium chloride as osmotic solutions on antioxidant activity and microbial quality of 10 mm tomato slices. 40 g of tomato slices were dehydrated osmotically (OD) at different temperatures (60, 70 and 80 °C) and time (30, 60, 90, 120 150 and 180 min).Water loss, solid impregnation, water and solid diffusivities of tomato slices were found to increase with increase in solution temperatures and concentrations with AgNPs having the greatest influence. Antioxidant activities using 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl increased with increase in solution concentrations but decreased with increase in temperature. Three-way ANOVA (R2=0.998) revealed additive statistically significant effects of osmotic agents, concentrations and temperatures on antioxidant activity; F(8,54)=67.854,P=0.00. Polynomial regression analysis with response surface methodology validated experiments such that for each unit increase in concentration and temperature, antioxidant activity increased with good coefficients of determination; sucrose (R2 = 0.87), NaCl, (R2 = 0.89) and AgNPs (R2 = 0.91). Potato dextrose and nutrient agars were used for isolating and identifying microorganisms in OD tomato slices. Tomato slices dehydrated with AgNPs had the highest microbial inhibition of fungi with growth occurring after 7 days, unlike in treatments with sucrose and NaCl where fungal growth appeared after 2 and 5 days, respectively. Aspergillus niger was the most prevalent fungus. It can be concluded that AgNPs may serve as a viable means to dehydrate and preserve tomatoes without loss of antioxidant activity.
A new and selective sorbent for molecularly imprinted polymer solid-phase extraction (MIP-SPE) was prepared to extract meropenem from plasma and urine samples. The extracted analyte was analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) coupled with photodiode array detection. Methacrylic acid (MAA) as functional monomer, ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EGDMA) as cross-linker, azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) as an initiator and meropenem as a template molecule were used for the MIP preparation. Imprinted meropenem molecule was removed from the polymeric structure using acetonitrile in water (1:9,v/v), as the eluent solvent. Under the optimized conditions, the limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantification (LOQ) were 35 and 120 μg L-1, respectively. The developed MIP-SPE method demonstrates that it could be applied for the determination of meropenem in plasma and urine samples.
The fast decolourization of multi-purpose dye, Brilliant blue (BB–) oxidized by chlorine dioxide was investigated using the stopped flow technique under varied pH conditions by monitoring its oxidation kinetics. The products were identified and reaction mechanism is described, which is confirmed by kinetic simulations. Under [ClO2]0 > [OH–]0 > [BB–]0 conditions, the oxidation kinetics showed first-order dependence on BB– and chlorine dioxide. The overall second-order rate coefficient enhanced with increasing pH, and values were 30.2±0.2M–1 s–1, 42.5±0.8M–1 s–1 and 117.9±0.8M–1 s–1 atpH7.0, 8.0 and 9.0, respectively. In the pH range 7.0 to 9.0, the catalytic constant for [OH–] catalyzed reaction was 9.0 × 106 M–2 s–1 with energy of activation of 50.06 kJ mol–1. Observed negative entropy of activation of –658.73 J K–1 mol–1 suggests the formation a compact transient activated complex.
Smokeless tobacco (ST) leaves are being consumed by millions in Middle Eastern countries including Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen, where the locally manufactured form is called shammah. We intended to explore and compare the phytocomponents of 21 different varieties of shammah that are commonly available in different cities of Jazan province of Saudi Arabia using gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS). A total of 61 different constituents were tentatively identified in these samples including both hazardous and non-hazardous compounds. Solvents of different polarity, such as petroleum ether, chloroform, ethanol and water were used to prepare the extracts. Interestingly, a number of new and unusual constituents were identified in some samples. N-methoxycarbonyl-amphetamine was detected as 6.76 %, 4.88 % and 2.58 % of total compounds in Khadrah, Arishi and Sudani shammah samples, respectively. Similarly, the presence of caffeine (0.44–1.41 %) in Adani cold from Jazan city and Abu Arish and Adani hot shammah from Abu Arish suggested the possibility of adulteration. Extremely hazardous arsenic and benzopyran derivatives were present in Sudani shammah from Sabya in small but significant amounts. Furthermore, carcinogenic components were also detected in significant amounts which indicate a relation between ST amounts used and different types of cancer, especially oral cancer. Chemometric hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) revealed the existence of sufficient differences between samples from different extracts based on the polarity and dendrograms.
We introduce a compact mini-denuder air sampling device consisting of a regular gas chromatograph (GC) inlet liner for the simultaneous concentration of separate airborne gaseous and particulate phases in a single-step. Denuder materials are thermally desorbed in a regular inlet of a GC using routine equipment available in any chromatography laboratory. The simplicity of the technique makes it ideal for resource-poor laboratories.
This qualitative study sought to investigate how secondary level chemistry teachers transform and represent subject matter knowledge (SMK). The study drew its theoretical framework from the notion of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) that foregrounds the teachers’ ability to transform and represent SMK for students to understand the content presented. Seven qualified chemistry teachers participated in this study which used questionnaires, follow-up interviews, and lesson observations to collect data. The teachers were observed teaching the topic of stoichiometry to grade 11 students. Data analysis started with a coding system that resulted in themes of meanings suggested by teachers. The results show that chemistry teachers participating in the study were aware of different teaching strategies but their choice of those strategies was not informed by an attempt to transform the concepts. It is argued that teachers’ failure to transform concepts will have a negative impact on students’ understanding of these concepts. | 2019-04-25T00:01:49 | https://journals.co.za/content/journal/chem_v72 |
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