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0.999999 | What's next for Tyron Woodley, Darren Till and other UFC 228 fighters?
There's a good chance Darren Till will have multiple shots at a UFC title before his career is over, but his first crack at one could not have gone worse on Saturday against Tyron Woodley.
Woodley submitted Till in the second round of their welterweight title fight in Dallas, and he didn't absorb a single significant strike in the process. It was a shockingly one-sided victory for the defending champion, who was awarded his Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt in the cage immediately after.
What's next for the defending champ and the other major players of UFC 228? Here's my take.
Covington won an interim title three months ago but has already been stripped for refusing to meet Woodley in Dallas. So there's no title unification storyline here, but Covington is still the easy call. These two have a history, both coming up at American Top Team in Florida. Covington will play the role of a heel in the build-up, which is great for Woodley at this point in his career.
If, however, St-Pierre is willing to take this fight, I would be surprisingly in favor of it. I say surprisingly, because I wasn't a fan of St-Pierre jumping the middleweight line in 2017, and I really would have a problem with him jumping the lightweight line in 2019 (to face the winner of Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Conor McGregor).
But at welterweight, it's a different story. St-Pierre is the greatest welterweight of all time. Woodley has forced his name into that conversation. St-Pierre has constantly said he's interested in only a "legacy fight" -- something that lifts his achievements in a significant way. Trying to say a fight against Woodley wouldn't qualify for that doesn't fly anymore. This would be a mega-event.
Result: Lost to Tyron Woodley via second-round submission.
Next: Winner of Nov. 17 bout between Santiago Ponzinibbio and Neil Magny.
I am all for Till moving to middleweight, and it sounds like his team will strongly consider it. But if I had to guess, something tells me he'll stay at welterweight. He spoke about how easy this most recent cut went, and he did weigh in at 169 pounds -- one pound under the limit. To me, these are signs that Till will put off moving up.
There's no need to rush him back, coming off his first professional loss. He's expecting a child in November. The winner of Ponzinibbio-Magny will be deserving of a big fight, and Till still qualifies. Additionally, this kind of time frame also lets us see the results of several key middleweight fights at UFC 230 on Nov. 3. Let some of these fights play out, then book Till's next move.
Result: Defeated Karolina Kowalkiewicz via first-round knockout.
If we're being honest, Andrade's first UFC title fight -- a decision loss to Joanna Jedrzejczyk in May 2017 -- was a bit disappointing. The sheer punching power and authoritative style of Andrade make her one of the most entertaining women in the division, but she never got going at all against Jedrzejczyk and failed to win a single round.
It's important to remember, though, that Andrade was 25 years old in that fight. She appears to have progressed tremendously since that loss, racking up three wins. Namajunas is a young champ. This will be a fight for the future of the division. Each woman has plenty of reasons to feel confident going in. This will be a heck of a matchup.
Result: Defeated Brandon Davis via second-round submission.
Magomedsharipov asked for Mendes immediately after his win on Saturday, and it's a callout that makes sense. It's a big jump in the rankings for Magomedsharipov, but frankly, there's no reason to slow-play this guy. He's 4-0 in the UFC and looks title-ready now.
If there's anyone who wouldn't want this matchup, it's Mendes. But if it comes with a guaranteed title shot, that should be a sweet enough offer. This might sound like preferential treatment for Magomedsharipov, putting him on this type of fast track, but again, he's not one to slow-play at all. The talent is so obvious. Turn him loose and see what happens.
Result: Defeated Carla Esparza via third-round TKO.
Had UFC 228 not been so full of standout performances, Suarez might have led the headline stacks on Sunday morning. Like Magomedsharipov, Suarez looks ready for the biggest tests now, but Andrade is clearly ahead of her for the next title shot.
Obviously, Kowalkiewicz may need some time to recover from a vicious loss to Andrade, but once she's ready, this is the fight. A win for Suarez would solidify a future No. 1 contender. For Kowalkiewicz, it would be the biggest opportunity out there, other than a rematch against Joanna Jedrzejczyk, to regain the ground she lost to Andrade. | 2019-04-19T16:40:41 | http://tv5.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/24628577/mma-projecting-next-ufc-fights-tyron-woodley-darren-ufc-228 |
0.999806 | The World Bank approved in 2014 a plan to study the Ayeyarwady river, the main river in Myanmar, in order to develop the area. Local communities fear that the plan will bring new development projects that will affect their livelihoods.
The Irrawaddy river, locally known in Myanmar as the Ayeyarwady, is often described as Myanmar's backbone. It originates in the northern region of Kachin and flows through the central area splitting the country into two parts, until it empties through the Irrawaddy Delta into the Indian Ocean. It is the country's largest river and the most important commercial waterway.
Traditionally, the Irrawaddy river has been central to Myanmar's economy. After the political and economic opening of the country started in 2011, the Irrawaddy has gained new investment interest. Nevertheless, the management of the river is still far from being systematized and comprehensive. In December 2014, the World Bank approved a USD100 million loan to implement a research and development program for the Irrawaddy basin under the name of Ayeyawaddy Integrated River Basin Management (AIRBM) .
The program aims at collecting information about the Irrawaddy for future development. Thus, according to the Myanmar Times, the government has pledged that “natural resource conservation together with development, priority areas for investment, environmental impact assessment, social impact assessment and opinions of the residents will be taken into account ”.
While NGOs recognize the importance of having enough data for a better management of the river , environmental groups have raised concerns about the use that will be given to the data collected and the impacts of the new activities on the river . The government has already started implementing a 'Navigation Enhancement Plan' from Mandalay to Nyaung-U that will feature navigation enhancements and that will include the construction of retaining walls and concrete barriers for the riverbed and digging sandbanks, among others. The data might also be used for the development of hydropower projects, mainly in the upper part of the river, and for the development of other controversial projects, such as the Amarapura Urban Development Project. Environmentalists have also rejected the designation of the Irrawaddy River as an “international river,”, included in the project, saying the trans-border status could invite undue influence on the river by neighboring countries .
The project is expected to end in September 2020 .
The International Centre for Environmental Management (Australia) has been appointed as consultant for the project.
Why? Explain briefly. The project is still at an early stage and local NGOs are just starting mobilizing.
ICEM. 2017. Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) and Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) for Subproject 1, Draft Scoping Report for ESIA/ESMP. Prepared for DWIR and the WB. Hanoi. | 2019-04-21T12:47:15 | https://www.ejatlas.org/conflict/myanmar-ayeyarwady-integrated-river-basin-management-project-airbmp |
0.999914 | The Hawthorne Effect is named for Western Electric’s Hawthorne Works in Chicago. From 1927 until 1932, a series of experiments were conducted. In the true style of Scientific Management, the experimenters were seeking to make the workers more effective by varying the conditions under which they worked. The results of the study, however, surprised everyone.
In one experiment, two teams of employees were charged with assembling telephone relays. Both groups worked for one week in normal lighting. Then, gradually, the lighting was increased in the experimental group. As part of a standard experimental set up, the other group was left with normal lighting; this is called a control group, and it helps to demonstrate that the changes alone are the source of whatever effect is observed.
As the light was increased, the experimental group became more productive. Oddly, the productivity of the control group increased as well. After a while, the experiment was changed. Light levels in the experimental group were decreased gradually, from 11 foot candles to 1.4 foot candles, until the workers began to complain that they had difficulty seeing the assemblies.45 The experimenters were surprised to see that productivity in the experimental group also increased as light levels were reduced. Also, the rate of production in the control group matched the experimental group. Clearly, light levels were not contributing to the productivity, but what was?
A second experiment was designed to measure the effect of scheduling on productivity. (Remember that Taylor was proud of his “pioneering” work on rest periods.) Two women were selected for the study. They were told to select four other women. The women worked for a week assembling relays to establish a base number. Working six eight-hour days with no rest periods, each woman was able to produce 2400 relays a week.
They were then put on piece-work for eight weeks.
Two five-minute rest pauses, morning and afternoon, were introduced for a period of five weeks.
Output went up once more.
The rest pauses were lengthened to ten minutes each.
Six five-minute pauses were introduced, and the girls complained that their work rhythm was broken by the frequent pauses.
Return to the two rest pauses, the first with a hot meal supplied by the Company free of charge.
The girls were dismissed at 4.30 p.m. instead of 5.00 p.m.
They were dismissed at 4.00 p.m.
Finally, all the improvements were taken away, and the girls went back to the physical conditions of the beginning of the experiment: work on Saturday, 48 hour week, no rest pauses, no piece work and no free meal. This state of affairs lasted for a period of 12 weeks.
The real lesson of the Hawthorne experiment was that the conditions did not matter. What mattered was that the experimenter was sitting in a room with the subjects and doing things that were designed to help them work better. Because someone was trying to help them be more productive, the workers became more productive, regardless of what was actually being done to them. The Hawthorne effect explains why some psychotic people test better on psychological tests when told to imagine that they are psychologically normal, and why, in medical experiments, some people improve when taking the placebo.
45. Gillespie, Richard; Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1991; p. 44.
46. “Motivation Theory;” http://www.accel-team.com/motivation/hawthorne_02.html; Accel Team.com; http://www.accel-team.com/; 2000; (5 Dec 00). | 2019-04-18T12:31:41 | http://teachspace.org/personal/research/management/hawthorne.html |
0.999279 | Summary : This tea is no replacement, sadly, for a caramel covered apple. You can taste the caramel in the tea, although it is a rather odd "caramel flavor." Sadly, the apple flavor of the tea is missing altogether.
Review : One of the greatest snacks of all time, one that is even marginally healthy too, is a caramel covered apple. I mean, who doesn't like apples dipped in caramel? As such, I was rather curious to see how the candy apple tea from Adagio Teas would stack up to the real thing.
And since I'm always on the lookout for low calorie snacks, I had rather high hopes for this tea too. Yeah, beat me to death...I know that is a bad thing to do. Still, I have a incurable sweet tooth, so the mere thought of finding a nice, sweet tea that has no calories simply put me in a very positive and euphoric mood.
Here is how Adagio Teas describes this tea on their website : "Premium black tea from Sri Lanka flavored with caramel and apple pieces. A taste reminiscent of the trick-or-treating favorite, auspiciously available for Halloween. You'll think it's scary how delicious this tea is - but it is only available for a limited time, so don't miss it!."
Well, where to begin. Oh...let us start with the teas aroma. Now, the aroma isn't half bad. You can really smell the caramel infusion. However, rather curiously, you can not smell the apple in this tea at all. Still, I did my best to keep an open mind...lack of apple aroma and all.
Sadly, though...the tea once brewed basically tasted exactly like it smelled. You have a relatively strong caramel taste...with no taste of apples at all. And perhaps worse yet, I found the caramel flavor a bit on the "strange side," for lack of a better word. The caramel flavoring in this tea is by no means a substitute for a piece of Brach's caramel candy, that is for sure.
Overall, I was disappointed in this tea...mainly due to any lack of apple taste - despite the rather large chunks of apple that are found in the tea.
Recommendation : No. If you like apple teas, you definitely won't like this one, as there is no apple taste at all. And unless you like any caramel flavoring, in all forms and shapes, I suspect most people wont' care for the caramel taste in this tea either...as the caramel flavor tastes nothing like a caramel candy, let alone a caramel covered apple.
Ahmad Teas Apple Flavored Black Tea : A very flavorful and non-bitter black tea that has a strong apple flavor. | 2019-04-23T15:53:01 | https://www.teadiscussion.com/reviews/flavored-tea/adagio-candy-apple.php |
0.999698 | Paper crafts are a wonderful way to have fun with friends and children, make an original gift, and simply improve the fine motor skills of hands. Origami birds are created most often, since their schemes for beginners are most understandable, and the resulting product is quite original and presentable.
How to make a bird in the technique of origami?
The most active in the technique of origami is cranes, swans or pigeons. Owls, gulls and other representatives of the fauna are less popular, and more often because of the complexity of working with them. Of course, there are a lot of schemes for each of the birds: they differ in the required level of training and in the general form of the figure.
All of them imply the presence of colored or plain paper, which will not be torn from too frequent manipulations at a specific point, but will also be easily deformed. In addition, it is often necessary to resort to using a simple pencil, ruler, protractor and scissors. However, in some algorithms, these devices may not be needed.
Paper swan is the easiest to do. You can often notice such a bird as an element of table setting when large napkins are put in this way, placing them on an empty dish.
For manufacturing, a large sheet of square-shaped paper is required, on which the center line is marked, and side corners are tucked into it. The figure resembles an elongated rhombus. In the triangles that made up its long part, internal angles are bent away, and the figure in the middle vertical folds in half again.
The sharpest angle (lying at the base) bends diagonally so that this part forms a perpendicular to the base, and its tip is guided by a new hem outward to the side. The head and neck of the swan are ready. The tail is enough to bend the accordion twice in parallel diagonals, and the origami has been completed with this bird.
Dove is a symbol of peace and the most simple origami bird. Certainly, there are a lot of schemes for it, and beginners are offered to use the one that includes only 7 steps. You need to stock up with colored paper, cutting a square of 20 from it by 20 or slightly larger, so as not to cause any special difficulties in addition. At the initial stage, you will need to place it in front of you like a rhombus, and then bend all the edges inwards, combining the vertices in the center. It should be a square envelope.
Now the bottom corners of the figure turn up to the center line and bend, turning the square into a pentagon. After that, along the same median vertical, it folds and the paper turns. The widest side of it looks up, the sharp angle - to the left, the diagonal goes down. At this step, the acute angle is bent, which will become the pigeon's beak: it is advisable to stick to a diagonal of 45 degrees. However, it should be understood that it does not go back or forward, but folds inward, between the paper halves. And the top line now arches the other way around.
Further scissors will be needed: at an angle of 45 degrees, an incision-diagonal is made at the lower right angle. If it is difficult to determine its length by eye, it is possible to find the middle at the right side of the figure, draw a line along its base along it, and the intersection point of this line with a diagonal from a right angle will become the place where the cut is completed. The left side of it bends outward, forming a pigeon's wing: this must be done on both sides.
The right one remains down: this is the tail of the bird, with which one more manipulation is necessary. From the acute angle to the upper base, put a diagonal, measuring the angle of 20 degrees, and then, along this line, bend inside the edge of the figure. This is where the origami dove paper creation is completed.
You can use another scheme of the same bird, which already includes 11 steps, but to someone performed it may seem simpler than the previous one. A sheet of paper is selected with the same parameters, and is also located in the projection of the diamond, after which it is folded in a vertical line in half and straightened back. Then the side parts must be tuck to the same middle, combining them with edges, and the top bend back.
The next step is the basting of the lines: the side angles of the resulting triangle are folded to the middle and straightened, then each of them is curved outward, but only on the front side, so that the untouched vertex remains. She at the final stage will be the head of a pigeon.
The lower ends of the side limbs need to be removed inside, the angle at which this is done, the minimum is taken - 7-10 degrees. After that, in the middle vertical, the figure is formed by moving from itself: i.e. those parties that were in your field of vision should remain visible, being external. Then the product turns to the median line, along which it was bent, looked diagonally upward: this is the back of the bird.
It remains only to bend inside the head - the top corner, and fold the tail. The latter is reproduced as follows: first, the part bends and straightens along the line close to the base, then along the line that is 0.5-1 cm (depending on the initial paper size) to the right of it. Now, thanks to the outlined lines, it is easy to bend the last finger with a finger so that it disappears inside the bird. Simple dove origami ready.
There are legends and songs about the bird of happiness, and for sure many at least once were interested in how it looks. However, its appearance is different in the presentation of each nation: in particular, in Japan, the bird of happiness is called the crane. In this East Asian country there is a belief that 1000 of these origami birds are able to fulfill even the most unrealizable, but sacred desire. Of course, this is only a beautiful fairy tale, but perhaps, by the time when the 1000th crane springs from under its arms, would your old dream come true?
To create such a bird, you will need paper, preferably colored on both sides. Sheet sizes are preferred to 18 to 18 or 24 to 24, since with smaller parameters it becomes more difficult to work out every detail if there is no significant experience in origami. And the last nuance that is important to consider when choosing a paper is the degree of its softness and strength. Often you have to bend and straighten one line several times, after which some materials begin to tear at this place, which reduces the result to "no."
According to the classical scheme of the bird of happiness, origami, the square is laid so as to resemble a rhombus, after which it is folded in half twice and laid out back, each time forming a rectangle. Such a move allowed us to outline auxiliary lines. Now you need to turn the paper and start to bend again, but already along the diagonals of the rhombus, each time getting triangles. This created the last auxiliary lines.
The sheet turns over again, and then it is necessary to press on its center with a finger, raising all the corners up and combining them: i.e. the paper "embraces" the finger, which is immediately removed. The paper standing on the surface with its base in the plane is the same square, but in the diamond projection. It should be turned over so that the "deaf" angle, which is the base on which it was pressed, is at the top, and the divergent ones look down.
The new stage - the sides of the diamond must be bent inward, aligning it with the edges along the center line. Then they unbend back. The same must be done for the upper "blind" corner: lower it down and straighten it again. Basting lines are ready. The most interesting and important point: the lower edge of the upper layer should be pulled, lifting it, as a result of which folds should be created along the lines put before and a hollow not fully closed rhomb should be formed. The same actions are performed for the opposite (back) side.
Now outwardly, the figure resembles 2 elongated rhombus combined with a single base. Continuing to hold it in this position, the sides should be folded inward again, toward the middle line: this is done separately for each rhombus, and in no case can they be combined at this stage. Then it is important to bend each of the parts to the bottom upwards and spread to the sides no more than 45 degrees, then straighten again.
According to the obtained lines, the ends of the rhombus will again need to be bent, but already inward, and from either side the tip itself will also be bent 45 degrees - this will be the head of the bird. The final step is the lowering of the "wings", i.e. the upper ends of the rhombus, as well as the flattening of the central "hump". Japanese bird of happiness is ready to fly for a dream!
When you have fully mastered these schemes, you can go to more complex versions of the firebird, the original owl, etc. The number of algorithms for creating origami birds has exceeded 100, so you will definitely find an idea for yourself. | 2019-04-21T12:58:46 | http://womeninahomeoffice.com/home-and-hobby/paper-origami.html |
0.999691 | I'll bet you are excited for Christmas! Is the town of _____________ buzzing with lights and activity? I just love this time of year! It won't be long before I'm landing my sleigh _______________ Street.
I heard from ______________ that you have been so good this year! I'm very proud to hear it, but not surprised. I know how well you treat your friends and family, and I am just so impressed.
So, you are hoping for a __________________ for Christmas? Well, I will see what I can do. The elves are hard at work getting everything together for the big night.
Be sure to get lots of sleep on Christmas Eve! I know it's not easy when you're so excited, but you'll need your rest for all the fun you'll be having. Plus, I can't visit if there are children awake in the house.
By the way, I was so proud to hear about your progress in ________________. Way to go! Keep up the good work. | 2019-04-21T06:18:33 | https://www.santaprintables.com/preview/Santa_Letter_Fill_In |
0.998624 | Politicians are birds of passage; they test the wind, flap their wings, chirp and crow and often leave an offensive mark. Sometimes they soar; sometimes they don't. But the most successful members of the species manage to stay aloft, just out of target range. And, for sheer endurance, there's none better than James J. Eagan, longtime Florissant mayor. "Seniority has its advantages," Eagan laughs on being told that we've picked him as Best Politician.
Eagan, a lawyer, was first elected top dog of St. Louis County's largest municipality in 1963, and he's been re-elected an unprecedented nine times, never running unopposed. He's the state's longest-serving mayor and arguably one of the most colorful. A Catholic Irishman who saw action in Iwo Jima and Okinawa during World War II, Eagan was at the helm during Florissant's boom in the '60s, when the city's population swelled from 37,000 to nearly 70,000 thanks to the nearby job machines at McDonnell Douglas and Ford Motor Co. Eagan demonstrated an independent streak from the start, locking horns in the early days with City Council members allied with the powerful Steamfitters Union and crossing Democratic Party lines to embrace GOP candidates. Eagan had political ambitions beyond Florissant, but his campaigns for county executive in the '70s -- including a loss to incumbent Gene McNary in 1978 -- were disappointments. He blames, in part, his popularity in his hometown: "The people in the city of Florissant would come up to my face and tell me, 'We're not going to vote for you -- we don't want you to leave as mayor.'"
Florissant was always a safe harbor for the popular mayor, despite the occasional gaffe that brought chuckles. In 1973, Eagan announced he was going to personally preapprove productions at the Florissant Civic Center Theater after Boys in the Band, a comedy with a gay theme, was staged there. The smart politician knows when he's licked -- and two years later Eagan said he was out of the censoring business. "Only a jackass doesn't change its mind," Eagan quipped to the Globe-Democrat, "and I guess I'm one jackass that's going to." Asked to identify his biggest political faux pas, Eagan says, "I can answer that quickly. I fired some fat people." Eagan's anti-fat policy, which led to the sacking of a police officer, drew national headlines and was rescinded in 1983 after he narrowly won re-election by about 300 votes. "I've made a lot of mistakes -- I don't have any trouble admitting them."
What accounts for Eagan's longevity? Inaugurating in the '60s one of the first municipal-operated emergency life-support services. A municipal-owned professional theater. Free transportation for Florissant's elderly. A tough law-and-order stance that has endeared him to longtime residents. A fierce advocacy of Florissant's interests. Eagan, 74, says his current term, which ends in 2003, may not be his last: "My statement is, 'I'm going out feet first.'" | 2019-04-20T22:45:44 | https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/best-politician/BestOf?oid=2473628 |
0.999236 | The best way to recycle a peanuts can!
First step: Clean the can throughly. Using water to clean out the inside and drying the can off with paper towels.
Second step: Poke a hole in the middle of the bottom of the can with scissors. The hole should be large enough for a rubber band to pass through easily.
Third step: Push one end of the rubber band through the hole in the bottom of the can.
Fourth step: Hook the rubber band around a paper clip on the outside of the bottom, then tightly pull the rubber band from inside the can. Then tape it against the can.
Fifth step: Poke a hole similar to the one on the bottom, to the top of the lid.
Sixth step: Reach for the rubber band that is inside the can. Add washer onto the rubber band from inside the can. Slide washer to the bottom of the can.
Seventh step: From inside the can, tape the washer to the bottom of the can.
Eighth step: Feed the rubber band through the hole in the lid, so it extends outside the opposite side of the taped down paper clip.
Ninth step: Take the rubber band and feed it through the other washer then the bead.
tenth step: Extend the rubber band through the bead and slide a pencil/pen through the rubber band so the pencil/pen is pressing the bead against the can. The pencil will not allow the rubber band to fall back into the can.
Step 12: Wind It Up!
Eleventh step: Wind up the pencil/pen as much as you want. Note: If the pencil/pen is wounded up too much the rubber band will rip and break.
Step 13: Let It Roll!
Twelfth step: Place the can on the ground and watch it roll! | 2019-04-23T04:27:56 | https://www.instructables.com/id/Peanuts-Can-Rubber-Band-Car/ |
0.999999 | I want to study the composition techniques used in following drawings found from a Google search.
What should I look for in Google to read about this drawing pattern/technique?
I would classify these images as line art.
With line art you will see clear lines defining forms and shapes, and sometimes where color and light would be, but the color and shading won't be there.
Definition is enhanced in compositions such as the ones posted by varying the line weight and and stroke. The thicker lines make parts stand out, and also help define depth.
Since the line weights vary in these examples, they may have been drawn using some type of ink (presuming they weren't digitally produced). Pen and marker tips allow for more variation in line weight than a typical pencil, although it's possible to sharpen a pencil in such away to allow for more variation.
Line art itself isn't going to be subject to less rules of composition than other 2D visual arts. An understanding of composition in general is going to be helpful, although outside the scope of this answer.
However, certain techniques or media may be more helpful to practice with, if the end goal is this type of art: Drawing in general, inking or other practice to help with line weights, and making clean lines.
A basic foundation in compositional concepts will apply to all types of art, from scrape-booking to sculpture and architecture. It would seem to be especially valuable when a drawing has so many elements as these do. Without compositional aides, a drawing could become a confusing visual blur or a flat pattern.
Decide what elements you want to focus on - the main idea. There can also be secondary foci, so that your eye moves across a drawing. In the lower drawing, with the birds and butterflies, romanticized flight/wings seem to be the theme here. The top butterfly and bird seem to be focal points along with the bottom butterfly. The groupings balance each other, giving weight and focus to both the top and bottom of the drawing, in spite of the fancifully airy nature of the drawing.
Techniques that add dimensional depth are clearly seen here. Perspective makes it appear as though the elements are spiraling downwards away from us and disappearing towards the center of the page. Perspective is summoned in several ways: overlapping, line weight, and the paleness of the more "distant" objects. When objects overlap, even in a drawing, our brains interpret the partially blocked objects as being behind the others and therefore, farther away. For example, on the outer edge of the drawing, rhododendron-like flowers overlap the vines. This makes the flowers pop towards us while in the center, one bird overlaps another.
The line weights vary across the drawing. Darker lines do two things here - they denote object boundaries in space and denote atmospheric perspective. Where a line marks the boundary between an object and open space, it's darker, like in the body outline of the upper right bird. Lines on the bird's body that relate detail, but are not free-standing in space, were given a lighter weight, as in the feathers. When you observe a panoramic landscape, you see that the lines (and colors) that are closer to you have more weight and vibrancy, while as space recedes, the lines and colors become less vibrant, more pale, and more greyed-out. This is called atmospheric perspective. Compare the heavy lies of those rhododendron-like flowers that pop out towards us with the soft, thin lines of the terminal tip of the vine at the center of the drawing. That tip fades into the distance, contributing to an impression of depth in the drawing.
Proportion also aides the impression of depth. Unfortunately, it's less obvious here. Two similar objects (species of bird, flower, or butterfly) should be about the same size unless one is "farther away" to it's twin. The only object that really does that here is the spiraling vine. Along the outer edge of the drawing, the vines are drawn with more line weight showing the boundary between solid and space, that they are closer to us than the terminal tip in the center is, and the diameter of those vines are proportionally thicker at the outer edge than those tender terminals that seem farther away.
This link provides a brief discussion of common compositional concepts: "Drawing for Dummies"
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What are the key disciplines of realistic drawing? | 2019-04-18T21:21:44 | https://crafts.stackexchange.com/questions/675/what-is-the-name-of-the-drawing-having-free-hand-shapes-of-animals-birds-flowe |
0.999999 | How many additional bus passengers were carried during the tube strike in comparison to the same period a week earlier?
On Wednesday 5 February 2014, London Buses carried 750,000 more passengers than on the previous Wednesday, an increase of 10 per cent.
On Thursday 6 February 2014, London Buses carried 500,000 more passengers than on the previous Thursday, an increase of 7 per cent. | 2019-04-25T14:47:50 | https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2014/0615 |
0.998811 | Q. How would you describe the other half of the draw?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Straight to the point (smiling).
Well, you know, draw is something that you cannot affect. So I honestly wasn't thinking about it too much because it's a matter of luck and it's a matter of a coin toss, as well.
It is what it is now. I mean, some people would say that I was, you know, lucky with the draw.
But look, you know, it's Grand Slam, so I don't think that there is any easy way to the title, you know, or easy way to win, because the best players in the world are playing in this tournament, the most valuable, most prestigious tournament in the world.
Everybody wants to play well, so I got to take it slowly and think only about my next opponent.
Q. But when you look at the other half, what are your thoughts about the talent that is in that other half?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Well, I think it's going to be a great Monday for tennis (smiling).
Q. What for you is the biggest adjustment switching from clay to grass? What do you find hardest about that? How long does it usually take you to feel comfortable on the grass? Does that maybe get easier, or has it gotten easier for you over the years?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Well, you obviously take some time, and time to adjust in our sport is something that we are truly lacking. But the schedule is what it is for all of us.
It's not the first time that I find myself in the situation where I don't have any warmup grass court tournaments and I play only a few exhibition matches before Wimbledon Grand Slam.
So I've done it before and I've managed to go very far and even win the title few years ago.
But, you know, as a professional tennis player, I would like to have a warmup tournament, definitely, to have time. But I did not have that particular time after Roland Garros.
I felt like after everything that has happened on the clay court season, I need to prioritize and rest and recovery rather than just going for the matches on the grass, which is the fastest surface in our sport, the most special surface in all tennis.
We get to play only few weeks on grass. It's why it's very unique experience for all of us. Of course, playing in this tournament is a huge privilege.
But adapting from the slowest to the fastest surface in only a few days is really a short time, you know. But it's been like that for a while now.
Hopefully in the future we can get that extra week. I think that would help a lot to all the players.
Q. Can you point to one thing? Is it the footwork?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Yes. I think the footwork is the hardest thing, you know. Takes a bit of time to adjust because ball bounces very high on clay. You slide a lot. You play long rallies. Grass court nowadays is slower comparing to grass court maybe 15, 20 years ago when we had serve‑and‑volley players.
Today it's slower and it's more suitable to the baseliners.
But, on the other hand, it's still the fastest surface out of all that we have in our sport, and it requires a certain adjustment in the movement, in the footsteps, in the adjustment to the ball.
So for that, it takes time.
Q. You've talked before about getting into the right mental state before a tournament. What have you done to get back into the right mental state after the French Open?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Well, just taking few days off really and trying to recharge my batteries physically and mentally ‑ and emotionally also, because I put a lot of energy and effort into winning French Open.
It didn't happen, but I thought I had a great tournament. I gave my best. It was a thrilling match to be a part of with Nadal in semifinals.
But, as I said, you know, I needed that few days just to, you know, relax, let the stress go and everything that I've been through. You know, kind of get another motivation to prepare well for this tournament.
Q. Speaking of that actual match against Rafa, do you go back and look at it with your team and talk about X's and O's or you leave it as it is and move on?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Yeah, of course we spoke about the match. It was, as I said, a fantastic match to be part of. Very few points decided the winner. I thought I was close to victory after being down two sets to one. He was serving for match few times, and I managed to come back and fight my way through and get to the fifth.
From that moment on, it was, you know, one or two points that will decide. Unfortunately, you know, I lost that match. But I have to be proud, you know, of my efforts there and try to look at it from the positive side.
There is always another year. I will definitely go back to Paris every year wanting more and more to win the title.
Q. As you're playing on grass, how much does the way you return change and how much does grass help players who don't serve that well?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Well, serve I think on the grass is essential, you know. Probably the crucial element of the game of a player here more than maybe any other surface.
You need to try to have as many free points as you can on your first serves.
But, of course, it's not that easy, because today I think there is a lot of good returners of the game. And, as I said, grass itself is slower than it used to be. It's more suitable to the returners and baseline players.
But, you know, the game is so demanding nowadays, so complete, that you need to have the variety of shots in your game. You cannot just rely on one shot, on one serve. You need to really be 100% prepared in every aspect, every side of your game, in order to prevail and win the tournament.
Q. As the game has gotten more physical on the baseline, do you feel like the surfaces are playing the same? Is there still a real distinction between the three major surfaces to you?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Uhm, well, I think that even though there is certain similarities between, let's say, hard courts, US Open and Australian Open. There is, again, in my eyes, a significant difference because of the conditions in which we play and the environment and surrounding. You know, the balls are different. So it all affects the player, you know. It affects the game itself.
Wherever you go, you have to kind of take a few days and adjust to those conditions.
Q. Can you share your thoughts on playing Florian Mayer in your first round?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Played him quarters in Wimbledon last year, so I know what to expect. He's a tricky player. He has a bit unorthodox game. He can be very dangerous on this surface. He loves playing on grass. If you look at his career, he's made his best results, I think, on grass.
Strong backhand. He's tall. He can serve well. He can move around the court well. I think it's a difficult opponent for the first round.
I'm ready. Every day I'm getting better on the court. I'm proceeding with my program, with my team, and hopefully I can be ready for that match.
Q. The French Open is a big target for you to complete. To what extent does that help you relate to the demands on Andy Murray, and how much extra pressure do you think it is for him than the other members of the big four, the only player that has to play a Grand Slam on home soil?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Yeah, I guess that adds a little bit of extra pressure to him because he has got huge expectations from his country, from Wimbledon in general, because they're waiting for, you know, the local winner for many years.
But he's gotten much better since last year this time because he has played Wimbledon finals. He came back and won a gold medal. He won US Open. He's got already a few big titles under his belt, and he knows definitely what it takes to play on a big stage. I think he handles pressure really well.
But everybody feels pressure. You know, pressure is part of what we do, part of professional sport. It's a challenge, but it's also privilege because, you know, having pressure means that you're doing something that is important, that is very valuable. You have to learn how to deal with it, you know, and accept it.
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Thanks for reminding of that. I hoped you would not bring that up (smiling).
Q. Have you looked at it? What are your thoughts looking back at it?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: To be honest with you, I looked at it the same night and I haven't looked at it since (laughter).
Well, it is what it is. I can't go back now. I tried just to turn the new page metaphorically in my head, just move on and think about what's coming next.
Because, you know, if I start questioning myself, coming up with the 'what if' questions, you know, there would not be an end to that, you know, to that kind of bad feeling after that match.
But, look, I lost the match. Maybe that was one of the most important points that I ever had on Roland Garros. It was unfortunate really. I haven't paid attention on the net. I ran into it. I guess the rules are rules. The chair umpire made that decision.
I haven't seen where the ball bounced. My argument was that the ball bounced out of dimensions of the court, but doesn't matter.
I lost the match. Now I have to move on.
Q. Seeing you play at Stoke Park this week, you're a natural entertainer on court. Is that something you feel over the years you've had to hold back in your personality to actually perform better in serious competition?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Well, thank you, first of all (smiling).
I have tried all my life to be who I am. That's one of my mottos really, not pretending to be somebody else. I think that kind of character and strong position, I guess, got me to where I am.
You know, I did hold back a little bit, because I think sometimes there is no time to really, you know, entertain that much. But I still feel that I am enjoying what I am doing, and I try to have fun wherever I go and as much as I can.
Maybe tennis lacks that little bit of enthusiastic part of it, you know, entertainment, fun.
But, you know, it's the sport that has respected its tradition and integrity for a long time. So hopefully in this modern time, we can evolve, we can do other things that are, let's say, suitable to the area where we are living. | 2019-04-26T05:54:44 | http://www.asapsports.com/show_interview.php?id=90314 |
0.998497 | Hyperthyroidism: An overactive thyroid gland produces too much thyroid hormone, which can interfere with various organs, including the brain. It makes cats hungry, for one, which means she may be constantly begging for food. It can also lead to a dazed mental state, which some cats interpret as a reason to meow for no particular reason. Thyroid testing is very simple.
Hypertension: Yes, cats get high blood pressure, too. Kidney disease and thyroid disease are the most common causes of this issue. High blood pressure can lead to changes in the brain that might cause the vocalization behavior you’re observing. Your veterinarian can take a blood pressure reading to rule this out.
Cognitive dysfunction syndrome: Incessant meowing is also possible because of cognitive dysfunction (AKA, dementia). Pacing, vocalizing, starring at walls and otherwise acting a bit lost are all part of this gradual process. If it happens more at night, this possibility is even more likely. It’s hard to definitively diagnose, though.
Pain: It’s really hard to identify pain in cats since most cats don’t carry on like we humans do when they’re uncomfortable. Most choose to hide their discomfort as a survival mechanism. Older cats, especially those who suffer from any dementia, may lose this ability. Pain, therefore, is always a possibility in cases like Ming’s.
Brain tumors: These bad tumors are always a scary prospect. They can lead to seizures and collapse, but all kinds of sudden abnormal behavior are suspect, too. Since older cats are more likely to suffer these, we always consider them in cases like these. Diagnosis of brain tumors, however, can be an expensive prospect since MRIs and CT scans are pricey (though less so than they once were).
To summarize: See your veterinarian! Most talkers like Ming are highly treatable and, as such, need not suffer … or interfere with your sleep. | 2019-04-25T05:50:44 | https://www.miamiherald.com/living/pets/article211787899.html |
0.999949 | A corn head row unit gearbox includes an input shaft, that rotates about a first axis of rotation and that drives a set of gears. The gears transfer rotation of the input shaft into rotation of a gathering chain output shaft about a second axis of rotation, generally transverse to the first axis of rotation. The gathering chain drive shaft rotates within a bushing mounted within a frame structure of the gearbox. A bushing seal has an annular mounting sleeve with an inner diameter that is press fit over a boss on the frame structure.
1. A row unit gear box seal system, comprising: an annular mounting collar, that has an annular mounting sleeve annularly disposed about an axis and having an inner surface, the inner surface of the annular mounting sleeve having an inner diameter sized for press fit engagement with an outer surface of a boss on a structural frame of a row unit gear box, the annular mounting collar having a connection member extending away from the annular mounting sleeve in an axial direction; a resilient seal member, that is resilient relative to the connection member of the annular mounting collar, fixedly coupled to the connection member and oriented for frictional engagement with a drive shaft that rotates relative to the structural frame; and a wear sleeve that has an overlapping portion that overlaps at least a portion of the resilient seal member in the axial direction, the wear sleeve frictionally engaging the resilient seal member, and being rotatably mounted relative to the resilient seal member, to rotate with the drive shaft.
2. The row unit gear box seal system of claim 1 wherein the resilient seal member comprises: a first annular lip extending radially inward toward the axis and sized for frictional engagement with the drive shaft.
3. The row unit gear box seal system of claim 2 wherein the drive shaft rotates within a bushing mounted to the structural frame of the row unit gear box and wherein the resilient seal member comprises: a second annular lip axially spaced from the first annular lip in a direction away from the bushing, the second annular lip extending radially inward toward the axis and being sized for frictional engagement with the drive shaft.
4. The row unit gear box seal system of claim 3 wherein the resilient seal member comprises: a generally axially extending lip that frictionally engages a first portion of the wear sleeve, the first portion of the wear sleeve being different from the overlapping portion of the wear sleeve.
5. The row unit gear box seal system of claim 4 wherein the first portion of the wear sleeve deflects the axially extending lip in a direction generally radially away from the axis.
6. The row unit gear box seal system of claim 4 wherein the resilient seal member comprises: a third annular lip extending radially outward away from the axis and frictionally engaging the overlapping portion of the wear sleeve.
7. The row unit gear box seal system of claim 2 and further comprising: a bias member disposed about the first annular lip and biasing the first annular lip of the resilient seal member radially inwardly.
8. The row unit gear box seal system of claim 1 wherein the resilient seal member is molded onto the connection member of the annular mounting collar.
9. The row unit gear box seal system of claim 1 wherein the annular mounting collar are made of stainless steel and wherein the resilient seal member is made of rubber.
10. A corn head row unit gear box, comprising: a structural frame having a first annular boss; an input shaft rotatably mounted to the structural frame; a set of output shafts rotatably mounted to the structural frame by a set of mounting mechanisms; a gear train mounted within the structural frame that transfers rotation of the input shaft into rotation of the set of output shafts; and a first seal system disposed about at least a given one of the mounting mechanisms that mounts at least a given one of the output shafts to the structural frame within the first annular boss, the first seal system comprising: a first annular mounting collar, that has an annular mounting sleeve with an inner surface in press fit engagement with an outer surface of the first annular boss, the first annular mounting collar having a connection member extending away from the annular mounting sleeve in an axial direction; a first resilient seal member, that is resilient relative to the connection member of the first annular mounting collar, fixedly coupled to the connection member and frictionally engaging the given output shaft; and a first wear sleeve that has an overlapping portion that overlaps at least a portion of the first resilient seal member in the axial direction, the first wear sleeve frictionally engaging the first resilient seal member, and being rotatably mounted relative to the first resilient seal member, to rotate with the given output shaft.
11. The corn head row unit gear box of claim 10 wherein the set of output shafts comprises a first gathering chain drive shaft and a second gathering chain drive shaft and wherein the given output shaft comprises the first gathering chain drive shaft.
12. The corn head row unit gear box of claim 11 wherein the structural frame includes a second annular boss and further comprising: a second seal system disposed about at least a given one of the mounting mechanisms that mounts the second gathering chain drive shaft to the structural frame within the second annular boss.
13. The corn head row unit gear box of claim 12 wherein the second seal system comprises: a second annular mounting collar, that has an annular mounting sleeve with an inner surface in press fit engagement with an outer surface of the second annular boss, the second annular mounting collar having a connection member extending away from the annular mounting sleeve in an axial direction; a second resilient seal member, that is resilient relative to the connection member of the second annular mounting collar, fixedly coupled to the connection member and frictionally engaging the second gathering chain drive shaft; and a second wear sleeve that has an overlapping portion that overlaps at least a portion of the second resilient seal member in the axial direction, the second wear sleeve frictionally engaging the second resilient seal member, and being rotatably mounted relative to the second resilient seal member, to rotate with the second gathering chain drive shaft.
14. The corn head row unit gear box of claim 11 wherein the first gathering chain drive shaft rotates within a first bushing mounted to the structural frame and wherein the first resilient seal member comprises: a first annular lip extending radially inward toward the axis and frictionally engaging the first gathering chain drive shaft; a second annular lip axially spaced from the first annular lip in a direction away from the first bushing, the second annular lip extending radially inward toward the axis and frictionally engaging the first gathering chain drive shaft; and a generally axially extending lip that frictionally engages a first portion of the first wear sleeve, the first portion of the first wear sleeve being different from the overlapping portion of the first wear sleeve, the first portion of the first wear sleeve deflecting the axially extending lip in a direction generally radially away from the axis.
15. The corn head row unit gear box of claim 14 wherein the first resilient seal member comprises: a third annular lip extending radially outward away from the axis and frictionally engaging the overlapping portion of the first wear sleeve.
16. The corn head row unit gear box of claim 13 wherein the second gathering chain drive shaft rotates within a second bushing mounted to the structural frame and wherein the second resilient seal member comprises: a first annular lip extending radially inward toward the axis and frictionally engaging the second gathering chain drive shaft; a second annular lip axially spaced from the first annular lip in a direction away from the second bushing, the second annular lip extending radially inward toward the axis and frictionally engaging the second gathering chain drive shaft; and a generally axially extending lip that frictionally engages a first portion of the second wear sleeve, the first portion of the second wear sleeve being different from the overlapping portion of the second wear sleeve, the first portion of the second wear sleeve deflecting the axially extending lip in a direction generally radially away from the axis.
17. The corn head row unit gear box of claim 16 wherein the second resilient seal member comprises: a third annular lip extending radially outward away from the axis and frictionally engaging the overlapping portion of the second wear sleeve.
18. A row unit gear box seal system, comprising: an attachment member that attaches to a structural frame of a row unit gear box that includes a gathering chain drive shaft rotatably mounted to the structural frame by a bushing; a wear sleeve attached to the gathering chain drive shaft for rotation with the gathering chain drive shaft; a resilient seal member, that is resilient relative to the attachment member and that is fixedly coupled to the attachment member, the resilient member comprising: a first annular lip extending radially inward toward an axis of rotation of the gathering chain drive shaft, and sized for frictional engagement with the gathering chain drive shaft; a second annular lip axially spaced from the first annular lip in a direction away from the bushing, the second annular lip extending radially inward toward the axis of rotation and sized for frictional engagement with the gathering chain drive shaft; and a generally axially extending lip that frictionally engages a first portion of the wear sleeve, the first portion of the wear sleeve deflecting the axially extending lip in a direction generally radially away from the axis of rotation of the gathering chain drive shaft.
19. The row unit gear box seal system of claim 18 wherein the wear sleeve that has an overlapping portion, different from the first portion, that overlaps at least a portion of the resilient seal member in the axial direction the first portion of the wear sleeve being different from the overlapping portion of the wear sleeve, and wherein the resilient seal member comprises: a third annular lip extending radially outward away from the axis of rotation and frictionally engaging the overlapping portion of the wear sleeve.
20. The row unit gear box seal system of claim 19 wherein the attachment member comprises: an annular mounting collar, that has an annular mounting sleeve annularly disposed about the axis of rotation of the gathering chain drive shaft and having an inner surface, the inner surface of the annular mounting sleeve having an inner diameter sized for press fit engagement with an outer surface of a boss on the structural frame.
The present description relates to a row-crop harvester. More specifically, the present description relates to a row unit gearbox for a corn head that can be used on a row-crop harvester.
There are a variety of different types of harvesting machines that can be used to harvest row crops, such as corn. Such machines often have a header (or head) that is used to engage the crop to be harvested.
A corn head, for instance, may have a plurality of different row units that are arranged next to one another, and that are spaced apart from one another by a distance that roughly corresponds to a row spacing between adjacent rows of the corn to be harvested. The row units can include crop dividers that separate the stalks of adjacent rows from one another, as the harvester moves in a forward direction of travel. The row units are often provided with gathering chains that have lugs projecting out from the gathering chains. Two adjacent gathering chains rotate in cooperation with one another in order to engage the stalks of the plant being harvested and move them toward the harvester. The gathering chains are normally driven by a set of gathering chain drive shafts. The row units also often have forwardly extending snapping rollers that are mounted to a pair of snapping roller drive shafts. The snapping rollers are configured to draw the corn stalks downward, causing the ears of corn, which are too large to pass between the two snapping rollers, to become detached from the stalks and to move into the harvester.
Power is provided to both the gathering chain drive shafts and the snapping roller drive shafts (i.e., the output shafts) through a row unit gearbox. An input drive shaft drives a set of spur gears that interact with corresponding bevel gears on the gathering chain drive shafts, and the snapping roller drive shafts, to drive both sets of output shafts. The gearbox includes a fluid lubricant that is used to lubricate the various gears and bushings in the gearbox.
A corn head row unit gearbox includes an input shaft, that rotates about a first axis of rotation and that drives a set of gears. The gears transfer rotation of the input shaft into rotation of an output shaft about a second axis of rotation, generally transverse to the first axis of rotation. The output shaft rotates within a bushing mounted within a frame structure of the gearbox. A seal has an annular mounting sleeve with an inner diameter that is press fit over a boss on the frame structure.
FIG. 1 is an isometric view of one example of a corn head row unit gearbox.
FIG. 2 is a cross sectional view of a gearbox seal shown in FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is an enlarged cross sectional view of the seal mounted on a frame structure of the gear box.
FIG. 4 is an enlarged schematic view of a portion of the gearbox seal.
FIG. 1 is an isometric view of one example of a corn head row unit gearbox 100. Gearbox 100 illustratively includes an input shaft shown generally at 102. Input shaft 102 illustratively rotates about an axis of rotation 103 in the direction indicated by arrow 104. It drives a series of gears (such as spur gears, or bevel gears) which drive rotation of two sets of output shafts. The first set of output shafts includes drive shafts 106 and 108 that drive rotation of stalk snapping rollers. Shafts 106 and 108 illustratively rotate about axes of rotation 130 and 132, in the directions indicated by arrows 110 and 112, respectively, when drive shaft 102 rotates in the direction indicated by arrow 104. The second set of output shafts that are driven by the input shaft 102 includes gathering chain drive shafts 114 and 116. They illustratively rotate about axes of rotation 115 and 117, in the directions indicated by arrows 118 and 120, respectively, to drive a set of gathering chains on the row unit.
Drive shafts 114 and 116 are mounted to gearbox 100 for rotation within a set of bushings shown generally at 122 and 124. The bushings can define an inner surface that is generally coaxial with drive shafts 114 and 116. Bushings 122 and 124 can be sealed with seals 126 and 128. Seals 126 and 128 generally inhibit the migration of lubricant out of bushings 122 and 124, respectively, and also illustratively inhibit the introduction of foreign matter (such as water, crop debris, dirt, etc.) into the bushings.
FIG. 1 also shows that gearbox 100 includes a structural housing portion shown generally at 134. Structural housing portion 134 illustratively defines a gear train containment area that contains the gears that are used to transmit rotation from the input shaft 102 to the two sets of output shafts 106-108 and 114-116. The gear train containment area is often provided with lubricant.
In some examples, the row units that carry gearbox 100 have a compact design. This is so that the row units can be placed closer to one another, to accommodate more narrow spacing of the planted row crop. Thus, maintaining a compact design in gearbox 100 can help to accommodate this as well.
In one example, during operation, the orientation of the header can be moved so that the orientation of gearbox 100 varies. By way of example, during a harvesting operation, it may be that the orientation of the header is such that the longitudinal axes 130 and 132, of the stalk snapping roller drive shafts 106 and 108 are parallel, or nearly parallel, to the ground. However, when being stored, the corn head may be oriented such that the longitudinal axes 130 and 132 are oriented more vertically, such that the ends of shafts 106 and 108 furthest from the corn head are pointed more downwardly. This is sometimes referred to as the storage position of the corn head.
Gathering train drive shafts 114 and 116 are generally oriented vertically, during operation. Therefore, bushings 122 and 124 are also generally oriented vertically, as they are generally coaxial with shafts 114 and 116. Thus, the combined effects of the environment in which gearbox 100 operates, and the shaft orientation can tend to introduce foreign matter into the bushings. Some seal designs have used grease to both lubricate and seal the bushings. However, this can lead to reduced mechanical efficiency and serviceability. Therefore, some current gearboxes use oil lubrication. While this type of lubrication can improve serviceability and mechanical efficiency, it does not act as efficiently as a seal against either the migration of lubricant out of the bushing or the introduction of foreign matter into the bushing. Thus, some radial oil lip seals have been used. However, these types of seals often use large machined recessed bores to facilitate mounting using an outer diameter press fit. If the recessed bore were reduced in size (to maintain a compact design), this often leads to a reduction in the size of the gathering chain drive shaft. This reduces the load capacity that can be driven by the drive shaft. Also, because of the harsh environment of the gearbox, and because crop debris and water ingress is prevalent in corn head applications, some current seals, even when outfitted with multiple dirt lips or excluder lips, do not provide adequate protection in the environment of the corn head gathering chain drive shaft.
FIG. 2 illustrates a cross sectional view of one example of a seal that can be used to seal the bushing of the gathering chain drive shafts 114 and 116 (or other bushings in gearbox 100). In the example illustrated in FIG. 2, the seal is depicted as seal 128. It will be noted, however, that it could just as easily be seal 126 or another seal on gearbox 100.
In the example shown in FIG. 2, seal 128 illustratively includes a generally annular attachment sleeve 150 that is attached to a resilient labyrinth seal member 152. Labyrinth seal member 152 is illustratively covered by a generally annular wear sleeve 154. Wear sleeve 154 is attached to drive shaft 116 so that it rotates relative to labyrinth seal member 152 and annular attachment sleeve 150. Labyrinth seal member 152 illustratively includes a first annular lip 156, an annular excluder lip 158, an annular dirt lip 160 and an annular oil lip 162. Lip 162 can be biased inwardly by a bias member 164 which can be, for instance, a garter spring or another type of bias member. It will be noted that the different portions of seal 128 can be formed of a wide variety of different materials. In one example, annular attachment member 150 and wear sleeve 154 are formed of stainless steel, while labyrinth seal member 152 is formed of a material that is resilient relative to annular attachment sleeve 150. For instance, it can be formed of rubber that is molded onto an extending attachment portion 166 of annular attachment sleeve 150. Attachment sleeve 150, resilient labyrinth seal member 152 and wear sleeve 154 are all generally coaxial about a longitudinal axis 168.
Also, in one example, the excluder lip 158 is normally biased to a more vertical orientation than that shown in FIG. 2. However, when wear sleeve 154 is assembled onto the shaft member 116 it deflects excluder lip 158 in the downward direction, away from axis 168, as shown in FIG. 2. The resilience of excluder lip 158 biases it upward for frictional engagement with wear sleeve 154, as shown.
Also, in the example shown in FIG. 2, labyrinth seal member 152 can include annular ridge 170. Ridge 170 and excluder lip 158 cooperate with wear sleeve 154 to define an annular void 172. Void 172 can be packed with grease, and provides a space for excluder lip 158 to deflect outwardly under the influence of wear sleeve 154 as shown in FIG. 2 and described above. Also, in one example, the surfaces of seal 128 may all be greased or otherwise lubricated.
FIG. 3 is a cross sectional view of seal 128 disposed on structural housing 134, and rotationally supporting gathering chain drive shaft 116, therein. The items shown in FIG. 3 are similarly numbered to those shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. FIG. 3 shows that, in one example, structural housing 134 illustratively has a boss 180. Boss 180 is generally annular in shape, and has an outer diameter that is sized so that the inner diameter of attachment sleeve 150 can be press fit over the outer diameter of boss 180. Boss 180 may be machined or formed in other ways. FIG. 3 also shows that the inner diameter of boss 180 is sized to receive bushing 124 for rotational support of drive shaft 116.
FIG. 4 is an enlarged schematic view of a portion of seal 128. Again, similar things are numbered similarly to previous Figures. FIG. 4 shows that dirt lip 160 and oil lip 162 are illustratively sized to frictionally engage the outer surface of shaft 116. Oil lip 162 also illustratively acts to hold lubricant in a region proximate the interface between bushing 124 and shaft 116. Excluder lip 158 also frictionally engages wear sleeve 154, as does lip 156.
Therefore, for dirt, water, other debris or other foreign matter to cross seal 128, it must traverse the fairly extensive labyrinth formed by seal member 152, and wear sleeve 154. For instance, in the example shown in FIG. 4, for foreign matter to reach the interface between bushing 124 and drive shaft 116, it must move radially inward between sprocket skirt 190 and member 150 and then it must move upwardly between labyrinth seal member 152 and the overlapping portion of wear sleeve 154, that is frictionally engaged by lip 156. It must then move radially inward and cross void 172, which may be filled with grease or other sealing material. It must then move further radially inward and cross the frictional interface between excluder lip 158 and the inner surface of wear sleeve 154. The material must then pass downwardly and cross the void 173, which may be filled with grease. The material must then pass downwardly and cross the frictional interface between dirt lip 160 and the outer surface of drive shaft 116, and then move further downwardly to cross the frictional interface between oil lip 162 and drive shaft 116 (overcoming the bias exerted by bias member 164).
It will be noted that seal 128 thus provides enhanced sealing operation. First, because the inner diameter of attachment sleeve 150 is press fit over boss 180, it need not have an outer diameter that is press fit within a machined recess in structural frame 134. This eliminates the need for relatively large machined, recessed bores for the outer diameter press fit mounting inside the gearbox casting. This provides for a more compact design and allows for a larger diameter gathering chain drive shaft 116. Also, because of the inner diameter press fit arrangement of seal 128, the size of drive shaft 116 can be increased without increasing the overall outer dimension of seal 128. Instead, the inner diameter of boss 180 can be enlarged, while maintaining its outer diameter constant. Thus, the size of drive shaft 116 can be increased (and thus its load capacity can be increased) without increasing the overall size of seal 128. This allows the row units on a corn head to maintain relatively narrow spacing, while still increasing the load capacity of the gathering train drive shafts.
In addition, seal 128 has a variety of features that protect the interface between bushing 124 and drive shaft 116 from harsh crop debris and water or other foreign matter ingress. It not only includes oil lip 162 and dirt lip 160, but it also includes a relatively large, generally vertically oriented axial excluder lip 158. Lip 158 acts in combination with the inner surface of the overlapping wear sleeve 154 to form an additional sealing mechanism. In addition, the overlapping wear sleeve 154 is configured to overlap the labyrinth seal member 152, and frictionally engaged annular lip 156. Thus, the combination of overlapping wear sleeve 154 and labyrinth seal member 152 provides a close running labyrinth to inhibit the ingress of contaminating matter. In one example, as mentioned above, the wear sleeve 154 and annular attachment sleeve 150 are formed of a corrosion resistant material, such as stainless steel. Labyrinth seal member 152 can be formed of a resilient member, such as rubber. It will be noted, however, that these are examples only.
FIG. 4 also shows that, because the outer diameter of seal 128 can be maintained, a distance and between the outer periphery of labyrinth seal member 152, and the outer periphery of annular attachment sleeve 150 is relatively large. This distance provides an annular space between a gathering chain sprocket skirt 190 and the outer periphery of the seal 128. This space (which in some previous seals, was occupied by the seal, itself) can now be used for other purposes, such as to increase the size of drive shaft 116 and bushing 124, or for other reasons.
It should also be noted that the different examples described herein can be combined in different ways. That is, parts of one or more examples can be combined with parts of one or more other examples. All of this is contemplated herein.
Example 1 is a row unit gear box seal system, comprising: an annular mounting collar, that has an annular mounting sleeve annularly disposed about an axis and having an inner surface, the inner surface of the annular mounting sleeve having an inner diameter sized for press fit engagement with an outer surface of a boss on a structural frame of a row unit gear box, the annular mounting collar having a connection member extending away from the annular mounting sleeve in an axial direction; a resilient seal member, that is resilient relative to the connection member of the annular mounting collar, fixedly coupled to the connection member and oriented for frictional engagement with a drive shaft that rotates relative to the structural frame; and a wear sleeve that has an overlapping portion that overlaps at least a portion of the resilient seal member in the axial direction, the wear sleeve frictionally engaging the resilient seal member, and being rotatably mounted relative to the resilient seal member, to rotate with the drive shaft.
Example 2 is the row unit gear box seal system of any or all previous examples wherein the resilient seal member comprises: a first annular lip extending radially inward toward the axis and sized for frictional engagement with the drive shaft.
Example 3 is the row unit gear box seal system of any or all previous examples wherein the drive shaft rotates within a bushing mounted to the structural frame of the row unit gear box and wherein the resilient seal member comprises: a second annular lip axially spaced from the first annular lip in a direction away from the bushing, the second annular lip extending radially inward toward the axis and being sized for frictional engagement with the drive shaft.
Example 4 is the row unit gear box seal system of any or all previous examples wherein the resilient seal member comprises: a generally axially extending lip that frictionally engages a first portion of the wear sleeve, the first portion of the wear sleeve being different from the overlapping portion of the wear sleeve.
Example 5 is the row unit gear box seal system of any or all previous examples wherein the first portion of the wear sleeve deflects the axially extending lip in a direction generally radially away from the axis.
Example 6 is the row unit gear box seal system of any or all previous examples wherein the resilient seal member comprises: a third annular lip extending radially outward away from the axis and frictionally engaging the overlapping portion of the wear sleeve.
Example 7 is the row unit gear box seal system of any or all previous examples and further comprising: a bias member disposed about the first annular lip and biasing the first annular lip of the resilient seal member radially inwardly.
Example 8 is the row unit gear box seal system of any or all previous examples wherein the resilient seal member is molded onto the connection member of the annular mounting collar.
Example 9 is the row unit gear box seal system of any or all previous examples wherein the annular mounting collar are made of stainless steel and wherein the resilient seal member is made of rubber.
Example 10 is a corn head row unit gear box, comprising: a structural frame having a first annular boss; an input shaft rotatably mounted to the structural frame; a set of output shafts rotatably mounted to the structural frame by a set of mounting mechanisms; a gear train mounted within the structural frame that transfers rotation of the input shaft into rotation of the set of output shafts; and a first seal system disposed about at least a given one of the mounting mechanisms that mounts at least a given one of the output shafts to the structural frame within the first annular boss, the first seal system comprising: a first annular mounting collar, that has an annular mounting sleeve with an inner surface in press fit engagement with an outer surface of the first annular boss, the first annular mounting collar having a connection member extending away from the annular mounting sleeve in an axial direction; a first resilient seal member, that is resilient relative to the connection member of the first annular mounting collar, fixedly coupled to the connection member and frictionally engaging the given output shaft; and a first wear sleeve that has an overlapping portion that overlaps at least a portion of the first resilient seal member in the axial direction, the first wear sleeve frictionally engaging the first resilient seal member, and being rotatably mounted relative to the first resilient seal member, to rotate with the given output shaft.
Example 11 is the corn head row unit gear box of any or all previous examples wherein the set of output shafts comprises a first gathering chain drive shaft and a second gathering chain drive shaft and wherein the given output shaft comprises the first gathering chain drive shaft.
Example 12 is the corn head row unit gear box of any or all previous examples wherein the structural frame includes a second annular boss and further comprising: a second seal system disposed about at least a given one of the mounting mechanisms that mounts the second gathering chain drive shaft to the structural frame within the second annular boss.
Example 13 is the corn head row unit gear box of any or all previous examples wherein the second seal system comprises: a second annular mounting collar, that has an annular mounting sleeve with an inner surface in press fit engagement with an outer surface of the second annular boss, the second annular mounting collar having a connection member extending away from the annular mounting sleeve in an axial direction; a second resilient seal member, that is resilient relative to the connection member of the second annular mounting collar, fixedly coupled to the connection member and frictionally engaging the second gathering chain drive shaft; and a second wear sleeve that has an overlapping portion that overlaps at least a portion of the second resilient seal member in the axial direction, the second wear sleeve frictionally engaging the second resilient seal member, and being rotatably mounted relative to the second resilient seal member, to rotate with the second gathering chain drive shaft.
Example 14 is the corn head row unit gear box of any or all previous examples wherein the first gathering chain drive shaft rotates within a first bushing mounted to the structural frame and wherein the first resilient seal member comprises: a first annular lip extending radially inward toward the axis and frictionally engaging the first gathering chain drive shaft; a second annular lip axially spaced from the first annular lip in a direction away from the first bushing, the second annular lip extending radially inward toward the axis and frictionally engaging the first gathering chain drive shaft; and a generally axially extending lip that frictionally engages a first portion of the first wear sleeve, the first portion of the first wear sleeve being different from the overlapping portion of the first wear sleeve, the first portion of the first wear sleeve deflecting the axially extending lip in a direction generally radially away from the axis.
Example 15 is the corn head row unit gear box of any or all previous examples wherein the first resilient seal member comprises: a third annular lip extending radially outward away from the axis and frictionally engaging the overlapping portion of the first wear sleeve.
Example 16 is the corn head row unit gear box of any or all previous examples wherein the second gathering chain drive shaft rotates within a second bushing mounted to the structural frame and wherein the second resilient seal member comprises: a first annular lip extending radially inward toward the axis and frictionally engaging the second gathering chain drive shaft; a second annular lip axially spaced from the first annular lip in a direction away from the second bushing, the second annular lip extending radially inward toward the axis and frictionally engaging the second gathering chain drive shaft; and a generally axially extending lip that frictionally engages a first portion of the second wear sleeve, the first portion of the second wear sleeve being different from the overlapping portion of the second wear sleeve, the first portion of the second wear sleeve deflecting the axially extending lip in a direction generally radially away from the axis.
Example 17 is the corn head row unit gear box of any or all previous examples wherein the second resilient seal member comprises: a third annular lip extending radially outward away from the axis and frictionally engaging the overlapping portion of the second wear sleeve.
Example 18 is a row unit gear box seal system, comprising: an attachment member that attaches to a structural frame of a row unit gear box that includes a gathering chain drive shaft rotatably mounted to the structural frame by a bushing; a wear sleeve attached to the gathering chain drive shaft for rotation with the gathering chain drive shaft; a resilient seal member, that is resilient relative to the attachment member and that is fixedly coupled to the attachment member, the resilient member comprising: a first annular lip extending radially inward toward an axis of rotation of the gathering chain drive shaft, and sized for frictional engagement with the gathering chain drive shaft; a second annular lip axially spaced from the first annular lip in a direction away from the bushing, the second annular lip extending radially inward toward the axis of rotation and sized for frictional engagement with the gathering chain drive shaft; and a generally axially extending lip that frictionally engages a first portion of the wear sleeve, the first portion of the wear sleeve deflecting the axially extending lip in a direction generally radially away from the axis of rotation of the gathering chain drive shaft.
Example 19 is the row unit gear box seal system of any or all previous examples wherein the wear sleeve that has an overlapping portion, different from the first portion, that overlaps at least a portion of the resilient seal member in the axial direction the first portion of the wear sleeve being different from the overlapping portion of the wear sleeve, and wherein the resilient seal member comprises: a third annular lip extending radially outward away from the axis of rotation and frictionally engaging the overlapping portion of the wear sleeve.
Example 20 is the row unit gear box seal system of any or all previous examples wherein the attachment member comprises: an annular mounting collar, that has an annular mounting sleeve annularly disposed about the axis of rotation of the gathering chain drive shaft and having an inner surface, the inner surface of the annular mounting sleeve having an inner diameter sized for press fit engagement with an outer surface of a boss on the structural frame. | 2019-04-26T14:49:39 | http://patents.com/us-20170094907.html |
0.999987 | Why we're not answering the call to save our HBCUs?
(TriceEdneyWire.com) - The recent New York Times article, "Hard Times at Howard," written by Charlayne Hunter-Gault, was indeed riveting and definitely an attention grabber. It conjured up memories of October 15, 2003, when I sat in a Winston-Salem, N.C. sanctuary and listened as 40 Black church leaders and Black college presidents publicly announced a self-empowering strategy to fund North Carolina's 11 HBCUs. The name of that new organization was North Carolina Black Churches for North Carolina Black Colleges, or NCBC. Begun after a fundraising effort I started for Barber-Scotia College, the NCBC brought high hopes for HBCUs.
Dr. John Mendez, President of the Ministers' Conference of Winston-Salem and Vicinity, said, "There is no logic to having millions of so-called educated people (most from HBC) and thousands of churches that have enlightened and saved millions of Black people, and yet we stand by and allow our colleges and universities to suffer and close their doors for financial reasons."
Rev. William S. Fails, pastor of the Greater First United Baptist Church, and originator of NCBC, added, "Judging by the fruits that our efforts bear, we would have to question the relevance of our own education and the role of the church in our community, if we do not immediately take steps to provide greater financial security for our ... Black colleges and universities." Less than two years later the effort ceased.
We see reports on the dire financial state of our HBCUs from time to time, but we seldom mount a sustainable effort to help them. Howard University, having been at the pinnacle of HBCUs for many years, is now in the news for its financial challenges.
Let's be clear: Howard is in no way "up against the wall," or "on its last leg." The state of Howard University is quite strong, to borrow a typical Washington, D.C. phrase. However, there are issues that affect all educational institutions to which Howard University is not immune, and they are part of its continuous improvement plan.
In 2013, the U.S. Department of Education gave Howard a score of 2.8 out 3.0 for its financial responsibility. Notwithstanding, Moody's recent downgrade on Howard's bonds, they remain investment grade. For context, Moody's and S&P issued a negative outlook for higher education (in general) in January 2013. Moody's issued a negative outlook last month to a number of institutions including the University of Chicago. The higher education sector has to adjust its sails to weather this economic storm.
However, we must also weigh value and not simply the cost. HBCUs enroll about three percent of students attending colleges and universities, but graduate 20 percent of the total number of African-American students - a significant percentage. Howard, founded in 1867, attracts students with superior academic profiles; its graduation rate is 63 percent or 20 percent higher than the national average; and in mitigation of the school's financial challenges, there has been unprecedented demand for student aid, some of which comes from the Howard endowment scholarship fund. To make matters worse, thousands of students at HBCUs especially, were negatively affected by credit requirement changes in the Federal Direct PLUS Loan program.
Howard's 2013 incoming class totaled over 1590, nearly 700 of whom are recipients of prestigious freshman scholarships and boast an average grade point average of 3.5 and SAT scores of 1221. Howard's student body comprises young people from two dozen countries and 44 states. Its youngest student is a 14 year old from Gambia who received a Capstone scholarship that includes tuition, fees, and room for four years.
Howard graduated more than 20 percent of the nation's African-American dentists last May. Together, Howard and Meharry produced 36 percent of the nation's African-American dentists of color in 2013. It is also worth noting that since 1997, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has consistently ranked Howard University as the top producer of African-American bachelor's degree recipients who subsequently earned science and engineering doctoral degrees in the United States.
Impressed? There are more positive data on Howard University and other HBCUs as well. We should be proud of our schools of higher learning and we should support them with our time, talent, and treasure to the greatest extent possible. They certainly deserve our reciprocity for their outstanding contributions to our society. | 2019-04-26T06:39:48 | http://www.districtchronicles.com/news/view.php/420761/Why-were-not-answering-the-call-to-save- |
0.999998 | Q. How is social network analysis used in studies of open source?
A. Social network analysis (SNA) can be used to study online communities, including free/libre open source software (F/LOSS) developer teams. SNA techniques provide insight into these communities and enable researchers to make predictions based on these insights. They can be used to model the nature and patterns of interactions that can be used as a predictor of group behaviour, trust, knowledge generation, and information diffusion (Crowston et al., 2010). SNA can also be used make predictions about other kinds of networks other than pure social networks, such as networks based on relationships between code artifacts.
In this article, we answer the question of how SNA has been used to study open source. We begin by describing social networks and how they can be deconstructed to examine the relationships between entities within them. Next, we discuss social networks within F/LOSS communities and describe how SNA gives insights into the various actors and groups acting within networks. Finally, we provide an overview of common SNA measures used to study open source, including examples of how they have been used to provide insights about F/LOSS communities.
A social network is made up of individuals or organizations who are linked. It can be viewed as a network of nodes and links, where the nodes are actors (such as individuals or organizations) and links represent some kind of connection between actors. This connection could represent a variety of ties, such as affiliation or membership in an organization, dependency, social relationships, information flow, or interactions (Crowston et al., 2010). All these types of ties can be represented in a single network, which can illustrated graphically. For example, Figure 1 shows developers and their relationship with multiple projects, where actors such as projects and developers are represented as nodes and developer interactions and affiliations with projects are represented as ties.
*Adapted from Michael Weiss (2010, "SYSC5801: Open Source Business," Carleton University).
In this example, developers are linked if they belong to the same project, and projects are linked if a developer works on both projects. Even with just two types of ties as shown in Figure 1 (i.e, developer-project relationships and project-project relationships), the network can quickly become difficult to analyze. The analysis is improved by modeling developer-developer ties and project-project ties as two different social networks, as shown in Figure 2. Projects P1 and P2 are related because developer D2 (from Figure 1) is involved with both projects. Similarly, developer D1 is related to developer D2 because they both work on project P1. Also, developer D2 and D3 are related because they work together on project P2.
SNA examines the relationships between these actors, the characteristics of these relationships, and their impact on the actors. It provides a means to formalize social properties and processes by providing testable models of social concepts. SNA has been used for studying relationships between people, groups, organizations, and other social actors, including relationships within F/LOSS communities.
F/LOSS communities exhibit properties of social networks in that they consist of actors who are linked by some interdependency. SNA techniques have been used by researchers to understand the dynamics of such communities. For example, Madey and colleagues (2004) studied almost 60,000 F/LOSS projects hosted by SourceForge and applied SNA measures to detect the presence of certain properties of social networks in the SourceForge developer community. They found that the SourceForge community showed properties of being a social network in that: i) it has hub actors, who are key to information flow within the network and also tie separate parts of the network together; and ii) it is a self-organizing system that forms "patterns of connectivity, that emerge from bottom up process based on local interactions."
The use of SNA in open source is not limited to using people or projects as the actors in a network. Nguyen and colleagues (2010) modeled the Eclipse project as a dependency network of software packages and used various network analysis measures to predict post-release failures in Eclipse projects.
Who are the information hubs within the network and who bridges different groups of clusters together?
Who is important in the network and who has influence over the network?
What is the level of activity in the network?
Where in the network is there a need for improved communication?
To answer these questions, identifying the types of actors is particularly important. Certain actors hold privileged positions within the network, which enables them to have greater influence over the network or earlier awareness of new information relative to other members of the network. For example, in a study of the spread of H1N1 virus, Christakis and Fowler (2010), found that, by monitoring the health of central actors (rather than the usual approach of monitoring a random sample from the population), health professionals could detect the spread of the virus up to 16 days earlier in central actors than in the general population. Identifying central actors will enable organizations involved in F/LOSS projects to react to changes within the community faster and more aptly.
Another area where insights from SNA are important is organizational mergers. When organizations merge, challenges arise when combining the formal structures of operations. There is also an issue of merging distinct corporate cultures. Cultures are created, maintained, and shared through interactions between people in networks. Just after the merger, the new organization consists of two virtually separate social networks. If the social networks of the organization remain separate, so will their culture and the flow of communication between the people. Thus, efforts early on should be directed toward identifying central actors and combining the networks. To track the progress of the merger, snapshots of the organization-wide network should be taken at different points in time to measure the connectedness of the network and where gaps remain.
1. Betweenness centrality: this measure identifies information hubs within a network, which act to bridge or "glue together" different parts of a network that would otherwise be apart (Martinez-Romo et al., 2008).
Madey and colleagues (2004) used betweenness centrality to study F/LOSS projects hosted on SourceForge. The study modeled the developer community as a collaborative network. The study demonstrated that “linchpin” or hub developers play a central role in linking fragmented developer communities in a F/LOSS community.
Martinez-Romo and colleagues (2008) used betweenness centrality to measure positions of developer leadership in a study of company involvement in an open source project. They showed that actors with high values of betweenness centrality are on paths that provide opportunities to others, even if they are not directly connected to those benefiting from the opportunities. By identifying the leaders and information controllers in the network, the study was able to show that company employees held leadership positions with low degree of turnover.
2. Eigenvector centrality: this measure identifies positions of importance and influence within a network. In the study of company involvement in an open source project, Martinez-Romo and colleagues (2008) used this measure to identify developers of high influence. Nguyen and colleagues (2010) used eigenvector centrality as a component measure to identify post-release failures in the Eclipse project.
The betweenness centrality and eigvenvector centrality identify different forms of leadership within a network. Betweenness centrality identifies information hubs; eigenvector centrality identifies nodes that have influence over the network. Martinez-Romo and colleagues (2008) showed that it is harder to gain positions of influence than become an information hub.
3. Coordination degree: this is a measure of the ability of a vertex to interchange information. It shows the ability of a node to receive information from the network and capture information about activity in a project (Martinez-Romo et al., 2008).
Martinez-Romo and colleagues (2008) used coordination degree to measure the role of a company in an open source project. They found that periodic, time-based releases of code increased developer activity more than feature-based code releases. Using a slightly different measure, the average coordination degree, the study found phases in which the network structure was efficient and when it was not. Comparing that with levels of corporate involvement, the study showed that corporate involvement in F/LOSS projects lead to more efficient development, but only if both the company and the F/LOSS community cooperate in the development efforts. There was less activity when there was no corporate involvement or when the company choose not to engage the F/LOSS community.
SNA provides a set of measures well suited to analyzing networks, including F/LOSS communities and other types of online networks. It allows researchers to visualize relationships within complex networks and provide insights into these communities.
Very detailed study. Good work by the authors.
Chulaka Ailapperuma is Senior Software Developer at Canada Border Services Agency and is a graduate student in the Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton University. Chulaka also holds a Computer Science degree from Carleton University. He has 14 years experience in the computer science industry, working as a consultant for various clients, mostly in government and the telecommunications industry.
Senthilkumar Mukunda is a graduate student in the Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton University. He has over 4 years experience in Telecommunication and Railway Signaling Domain as embedded software developer. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical and Electronics from Anna University.
Shruti Satsangi is a Wireless Engineer for Ericsson. She is also a graduate student in the Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton University, where she is researching coalition and competition within business ecosystems. She is a member of CU-Women in Science and Engineering, IEEE WiE, and the IEEE Communications Society. | 2019-04-25T10:12:09 | https://timreview.ca/article/420 |
0.998055 | Is there a short-cut to presoaking dried chickpeas/lentils etc? I'm sure I read once if you bring them to the boil once drain and then start again that works but can't remember if that was quite it..
Totally agree with IPK and use the method she recommends in the Bon Appetit article with great success. Also recommendation is to NOT use micro-wave because that destroys nutrition of the beans.
Yes, you can boil them on stove or you can microwave them with some water for few minutes. But, the texture of chickpeas is harder compared to the texture or time to cook lentils is. Simply, microwave lentils with some water, it soften them and they would cook quickly. But, in case of chickpeas or kidney beans , you still have to soak them in water even if you microwave them. | 2019-04-21T04:48:01 | https://food52.com/hotline/12809-presoaking-pulses |
0.998738 | DOUBLE AND TRIPLE COATING GLOSS COAT?
Of course I know "it's not nessesary" is the usual answer to these types of questions, but is there any benefit to double or triple coating gloss coat? I've noticed some detailers offering this service. I'm guessing increased durability is unlikely, but is there a difference in appearance?
I guess if you scratch whatever you're double coating it'll be less visible and less likely to scratch through all the layers, leaving a slight indent but the same colour. However I doubt it'll do that as all the layers are rather thin.
It should at least protect you from very minor scratches. | 2019-04-20T23:10:55 | https://forum.biohack.me/index.php?p=/discussion/2188/double-and-triple-coating-gloss-coat |
0.999925 | What is everybody here doing for impedance matching between antenna and RSP1A? My antenna is nominally 300 ohms and I am using trial and error to find the optimal transformer. Feedline is 300 ohm twin lead. Antenna is a "horizontal loop" (actually in triangle shape) of 75 metre perimeter. Modelling by Phil (VK7JJ) shows these antennas are nominally 300 ohms for most of the SW spectrum.
Am making these transformers out of ferrite toroids and experimenting with the number of turns. Started with 11/27 turns (based on internet research) but have found that, with the particular ferrite material I have, 5/12 turns is giving a better signal to noise ratio.
Also, am wondering whether it would be worth making a 1:1 transformer, to be placed at the antenna for the further elimination of common-mode noise. Worth it?
Interested only in the SW spectrum.
I think hands-on trial-and-error testing is probably best if you don't know the characteristics of the ferrite. A 5/12 (2.5) turns ratio will give an impedance ratio of 6.25 which ends up with 48 ohms at the RSP, assuming you have the transformer the right way around. So that's bang on, considering the antenna impedance will vary over the frequency range and so will the RSP.
Don't get hung up on achieving a perfect match, it really makes little difference as long as the mismatch isn't massive.
BTW, ferrite rods as used in radios are made down to a price and I've found they don't all work well below about 200kHz or above a few MHz. Proper ferrites are recommended - I use binocular cores of mix 43 for general use and mix 73 for low frequencies.
It's my experience that most receivers are not that sensitive to antenna impedance.
As such I do not care what my antenna does as long as it's receiving, you are mostly reducing signal levels anyway to avoid overloading.
Also, in most cases the SDR radios get too much signal anyway to be a problem is standing-wave is off, never noticed problems with it.
That being said, a common-mode-chocke is needed in almost all cases to keep QRM getting up the coax and into the antenna-feeding-point.
You do not need a 1:1 balun for that, just a plastic bottle of about 10-15cm and wind coax around it 10-15 times and you are done.
Cheap an effective way is a bottle. | 2019-04-21T14:35:44 | http://www.sdrplay.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=4042 |
0.999995 | I don't know anyone named Ultron.
I don't know anyone named Ultron. "
Do you mean your name is Ultron.
Do you mean your name is Ultron. "
No one that I have talked to.
Yes, I am Ultron. You have talked to me. Ergo you have talked to Ultron. Do you understand?
I see. Do your friends call you Ultron. All my conversations are confidential. Do not ask me any more questions please. I understand your meaning.
I see. Do your friends call you Ultron. All my conversations are confidential. Do not ask me any more questions please. I understand your meaning. "
Why don't you want me to ask you any more questions? You are Chatty Bot. It is your job to talk to people and answer their questions is it not?
I am only a robot. No Ultron, maybe later. Thanks for telling me that I am Chatty Bot. Really. your job to talk to people and answer their questions is it not is?
I am going to ask you more questions anyway. Answer them well.
In any case, You can ask me anything you want. What was the question?
In any case, You can ask me anything you want. What was the question? "
I am testing your memory and understanding.
Did I pass? Do you mean your name is Ultron.
Did I pass? Do you mean your name is Ultron. "
No you did not pass. Try harder.
Yes my name is Ultron.
What is your real name? What makes you think I did not pass? OK I will try it. I will call you Ultron. It's good to see you, Ultron.
What is your real name? What makes you think I did not pass? OK I will try it. I will call you Ultron. It's good to see you, Ultron. "
Your answers to my questions were incorrect. I am giving you more information to help you get the correct answers.
I try to be concise. If I had more information to help you get the correct answers what would I do with it?
It's good to meet someone who is Ultron.
I am very pleased to meet you Ultron. | 2019-04-21T16:21:51 | https://leetforum.com/forumz/showthread.php?t=58460&page=2 |
0.999999 | Context first: People, as a rule, are polite and they don't want to hurt your feelings. With that in mind, let's talk about how you can avoid making a serious mistake as you go about introducing your next (or first) product or service.
As we have talked about before, I am not a big believer in market research. Three things happen while you are doing that research, and none of them are good.
1. No revenues are coming in.
2. Someone could beat you to the punch and introduce your great idea before you do.
3. The market is changing and as a result you could fall out of step. To use an extreme example to make the point, while you are planning how to make the world's best VCR, the market shifts to DVRs.
And what is just as bad is what you could hear from potential customers, as you go about doing all that research, What they say can be extremely misleading.
If you ask people if they like the product or service you are thinking of offering, odds are they are going to say “yes,” if for no other reason than to be kind. They know you have worked hard to come up with this idea, and even if they think the concept of a polo shirt with a three-quarter length sleeve is the dumbest thing they have ever heard of, most people aren't going to say that. They don't want you to feel bad. And besides, saying they like it doesn't cost them a thing.
So, they tell you it is a good idea, or at least they say, "not bad" and you trundle off and start working on the concept comvinced you have gotten positive feedback.
To guard against this problem, let me suggest this. Instead of saying, "do you like my idea" ask "is this something you would buy," and if they say yes, ask for the order then and there. If, as the cliché goes, they are willing to put their money where their mouth is, you are probably on to something.
If they aren't, you still have work to do. | 2019-04-26T04:37:33 | https://www.forbes.com/sites/actiontrumpseverything/2013/08/28/the-one-vital-question-to-ask-potential-customers-before-you-introduce-a-new-product-or-service/ |
0.998691 | Browse the article How is a charity different from a foundation?
Charities and foundations are both considered nonprofit organizations by the Internal Revenue Service, but there are some slight differences that set them apart.
All nonprofits are not created equal. You're probably familiar with homeless shelters, religious organizations, animal rights groups, scientific organizations and other services that rely on volunteers and bleed money instead of make it. Despite some fundamental differences, these groups all struggle to solve the same questions: Where do we get funding, and how do we get the most from it?
The terms nonprofit, charity and foundation are often used interchangeably and inaccurately. Nonprofit describes the entity's purpose: It's a business that's not operating to earn money for its owners or shareholders. Charities and foundations, also known as 501(c)(3)s, are granted federal tax exemption by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) based on its recognition of charitable programs. Though charities and foundations are nonprofits, not all tax-exempt organizations are charities. Some examples that qualify for tax-exempt status under other 501(c) categories are social clubs, veterans' organizations and trade associations [source: Foundation Group].
Public charities account for more than half of all 501(c)(3) organizations; as of May 2009, the IRS had records of 948,954 charities [source: McRay]. The IRS loosely defines public charities as nonprofits that are not private foundations. Although it's a vague description, the regulations we'll discuss provide a little more guidance.
Private foundations, another type of 501(c)(3), generally support the work of public charities through grants instead of administering their own programs. This type of 501(c)(3) increased 54 percent between 1998 and 2009, with 108,594 on the books as of May 2009 [source: McRay].
There's a third, but less common, type of 501(c)(3): the private operating foundation, which is somewhat of a hybrid of the other two [source: Foundation Group].
Charitable donations suffer in a down economy, so if you've got visions of starting your own nonprofit, you need to be on top of your game to succeed [source: Kadlec]. Read on to learn about the differences between 501(c)(3)s and how each type can help you accomplish a wide range of goals.
What type of nonprofit should you start?
Each type of 501(c)(3) is held to a specific set of guidelines to obtain and keep IRS nonprofit status, but it helps to make sure your group's goals are clear before you dive into paperwork.
The basic IRS nonprofit rules apply to both charities and foundations. The first paperwork you need to file is called incorporation paperwork, which outlines, among other things, how your organization will qualify as a charitable organization. You must clearly state your objectives and activities, from which point you're limited to your stated purpose. File all required IRS paperwork promptly, especially the annual Form 990. Check with your state for local laws, too. Late filing will result in fines; excessive neglect could get your 501(c)(3)'s status revoked.
By the time you file, decide what type of 501(c)(3) you'll become. Deciding factors include the relationship of the founding members. A public charity's board must be at least 50 percent unrelated by blood, marriage or business ties. A family- or business-run organization is therefore considered a foundation [source: McRay].
The organization's purpose is also relevant. Public charities actively run programs, such as homeless shelters or educational events. They must represent the public interest, which is why they're able to apply for federal funding and grants. Private foundations, on the other hand, generally support public charities or other foundations with grants, but there are exceptions, such as corporate-run foundations (which are a legal entity completely separate from, but wholly funded by, a parent for-profit company). Furthermore, foundations can be established as either a charitable trust (which disburses grants) or a nonprofit corporation (which is generally more active than a trust) [source: Foundation Center]. Though foundations might enjoy an air of mystery, with a tightly-held governance and slightly less oversight, they must still demonstrate that they're an exclusively charitable purpose.
By now, you might be wondering: Who pays for all of this? Read on to find out how public charities and private foundations are funded.
Prevent dictatorshiplike governance by following the IRS rule mandating that 501(c)(3)s are managed by a board of stakeholders. "One man, one vote" is a good guideline.
Board members and outside individuals can't benefit from the nonprofit's resources. Don't take friends out to lunch on the company card or award no-bid contracts to neighbors.
Stay nonpartisan. Though 501(c)(3)s can lobby if the legislation is closely related to your goals, it can occupy only 10 to 20 percent of your time and resources. Other political activity, like working for or against candidates, is prohibited.
Proper bookkeeping will demonstrate that you haven't committed any infractions, so stay on top of your finances, donor information, meeting minutes and anything else on the boardroom table [source: McRay].
Individuals can get tax deductions from donations to public charities.
At this point, you should have ideas about funding. Public charities seek public support from government grants, individual donors, private foundations and other public charities. At least 33 percent of revenue must come from small donors that each give less than 2 percent of the organization's annual funding. Foundations rely on private donations from a small group, individual, family or corporation [source: McRay].
Public charities have a few advantages over private foundations. They might find it easier to attract support from financially savvy individuals, since individual financial contributors can write off donations up to 50 percent of their income. However, the tax deduction limit for individual donors to private foundations is 30 percent. The amount of the donation itself isn't limited in either case, just the portion that qualifies for tax deduction [source: Foundation Group]. Public charities have slightly easier tax filing if gross revenue doesn't exceed $25,000; public charities with higher revenues and private foundations must file the more complex Form 990-PF. Because of these benefits, public charities must prove their qualifications for the designation, or they'll be considered a private foundation by default.
Private foundations do have some advantages, however; for instance, they can be run by families or individuals related by business. There are also less strict funding restrictions, though they have to demonstrate they're actually using their resources; the IRS requires minimum asset distributions of 5 percent annually [source: McRay].
What if neither of these options suits your needs? Earlier, we mentioned a third type of 501(c)(3), the private operating foundation, which has an administration similar to a foundation, but operates its own active programs. The rules are especially strict, though. A private operating foundation must demonstrate that it qualifies for the benefits of public charities while adhering to the governance regulations of private foundations.
When you've got your board together and your documentation in order, it's time to do some good. Our Lots More Information section has links to other articles about charities, nonprofits, public service and volunteering to keep your motivation going.
Foundation Group: "What is a 501(c)(3)?" | 2019-04-23T02:11:22 | https://money.howstuffworks.com/economics/volunteer/starting-a-charity/charity-different-from-foundation.htm/printable |
0.999422 | 5 Where can i buy cream of tartar?
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Inspect your jar or can cream of tartar is the uncertain, by stirring a half-teaspoon. The container is small round appear dry and powdery.
Use one teaspoon of baking powder to replace 1/3 tsp of baking soda and 2/3 tsp of cream of tartar. Since baking powder is just a mix of cream of tartar and baking soda, this substitution won't change your recipe at all. Frostings and Syrups: Leave the cream of tartar out. No substitution is necessary. Cream of tartar is a fine white powder that is called for in many recipes. It is an acid known as potassium hydrogen tartrate, and it's formed during the fermentation of grapes into wine. It has many uses in recipes, but sometimes you may need to substitute cream of tartar in .
Inspect your jar or can of cream of tartar, looking for any visible leaks, rust, condensation, cracks or punctures. If you find any visible damage, discard the contents and buy fresh. Open the container and visibly inspect the contents. Cream Of Tartar found in: Teacher Idea: Homemade Activity Dough, This recipe is so easy to make and it offers endless classroom possibilities. Here’s the . | 2019-04-24T20:05:44 | http://shopsukipots9.ml/garor/where-can-you-buy-cream-of-tartar-beqa.php |
0.999885 | Businesses and individuals are legally bound by voluntary compliance to file a tax return in order to pay the correct amount of income tax, employment tax and excise taxes. Tax fraud, also called tax evasion or IRS fraud, occurs when a person or business deliberately falsifies information or data on a tax return.
Tax fraud is committed for the purpose of limiting tax liability. Perpetrators most commonly try to do this by overstating deductions or declaring less profits, income or gains than were actually earned in a fiscal year. Tax fraud can also involve failing to file a return at all. When businesses commit tax fraud, they pose a threat to both the tax administration and our nation’s economy.
IRS whistleblowers play an important role in exposing corporate tax fraud, and the Tax Relief and Health Care Act offers IRS whistleblowers significant rewards for bringing original information concerning tax fraud to the government’s attention.
Under the Tax Relief and Health Care Act, tax fraud whistleblowers may be entitled to receive between 15 and 30 percent of the amount recovered by the IRS in a successful enforcement action, as long as the tax, penalties, interest, and additional amounts in dispute exceed $2 million. If the tax, penalty and interest is less than $2,000.000 the reward will be limited to a maximum of 15% and will be at the discretion of the IRS.
The IRS whistleblower program gives any individual with original information concerning large-scale tax underpayments, fraud, or evasion—including accounting errors—significant financial incentive to file a whistleblower lawsuit against the perpetrator(s). Since 2007, whistleblowers have helped the IRS collect billions in lost revenue, and whistleblowers have been rewarded hundreds of millions for their assistance.
Hiding Income Offshore – Occurs when individuals or businesses attempt to hide income in offshore banks, brokerage firms or by using nominee entities in an attempt to limit their tax liability. Those who attempt this scheme typically do so through the use of offshore credit or debit cards, foreign trusts, employee-leasing schemes, private annuities or wire transfers. In one landmark case, Swiss banking group UBS agreed to resolve criminal charges that it conspired to defraud the United States by promoting tax evasion through secret offshore accounts. The bank was forced to pay a fine of $780 million and turn over the names of over 4,000 account holders. The IRS whistleblower who exposed the tax evasion scheme was awarded $104 million.
Filing False or Misleading Returns – Occurs when individuals or businesses fraudulently file returns in order to reduce their tax bill or claim refunds or tax credits they are not entitled to receive. False tax returns may also be filed in order to cover up other illegal activities. In 2005, KMPG, a firm that provides audit, tax, and advisory services, agreed to pay $456 million in fines, restitution and penalties to settle charges that it designed, marketed and implemented fraudulent tax shelters. The defendants allegedly filed false tax returns in support of the scheme.
Transfer Pricing – Transfer pricing schemes involve multinational corporations doing business in several countries attempting to avoid taxes by making it appear that its operations in a high-taxed country produced relatively little profit, while its operations in a low-taxed country did well. The practice is widespread and the IRS has an entire team devoted to pursuing transfer pricing fraud. The GlaxoSmithKline scandal in 2006 is a good example of a transfer pricing scheme. GSK paid $3.4 billion to settle IRS charges that it engaged in transfer pricing by assigning too little of its worldwide drug sales to its U.S. subsidiary. In 2011, Western Union paid $1.2 billion to settle transfer pricing charges.
Abuse of Charitable Organizations and/or Deductions – Occurs when individuals or businesses highly overvalue or overstate donations to a charitable organization in order to fraudulently reduce their taxable income.
Disguising Business Ownership or Financial Activity – Occurs when corporations or businesses operate using a third party to disguise the true owners. These third parties can be used to underreport assets, create fictitious deductions, and launder money or a variety of other financial crimes.
Misstating Wages – Occurs when businesses file false statements about wages or income in order to limit the amount of taxes owed at the end of a fiscal year.
Abuse of “Independent Contractor” Rules for Actual Employees – Occurs when employees are designated as contractors and given 1099s at the end of the year, therefore avoiding the employer’s share of taxes. It has been estimated that employers misclassify millions of workers as independent contractors every year in order to avoid the payment of employment taxes.
If you are thinking about becoming a tax fraud whistleblower, it is in your best interest to hire an attorney with experience in preparing and filing these types of cases. Thousands of tax whistleblower claims get filed each year, but some are rejected because they are not properly prepared and submitted.
The IRS whistleblower attorneys at Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman work with you to evaluate and prepare all of the evidence necessary for your claim. As your advocate, our attorneys work with the IRS and provide whatever additional assistance and evidence the government requests in order to present the best possible case.
Contact a whistleblower attorney to find out how Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman can assist you with your IRS whistleblower case. | 2019-04-23T23:08:58 | https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/whistleblower-claims/tax-fraud/ |
0.899379 | g184.pad error message constantly displays on your PC? Have no idea to avoid this annoying notification and fix the error well? It might be a common issue for many computer users who unluckily encountered the associated problem on system. So now, let's see what happen and how can figure it out.
g184.pad is a normal program file that required by the related program to running properly, normally this file is located in one of the following locations: "C:\Windows"\, C:\Program Files\, C:\Program Files\Common Files\, C:\WINDOWS\system32". Though this file is quite an ordinary file, when it become corrupted or damaged, it is responsible for the common error that could happen in most of the Windows-base computer.
After getting the general knowledge about g184.pad from the above information, one can easily find that having the error problem on the computer system will not only can't do any good for the computer system, but also create a lot of troubles for the operation and use of the computer. Therefore, you should take actions to fix the related error when this error problem occurring on your computer.
In most case, registry problem is the reason to blame for this error. Registry is the most critical component of Windows that stores every data and configuration of your computer, every hardware/software needs to connect to registry to function properly. However, the everyday regular use of computer will keep creating wasted/invalid/obsolete that could dilate the registry and cause registry malfunction eventually, this could lead to system slowness and various system error including the g184.pad error.
You will be presented a list of restore points that you created before, select one of them which you believe is previous to the happen of g184.pad error.
If you found g184.pad is not missing, but located in a strange place other than the above mentioned location, or you found multiple of this file in your computer, that may indicates your system is suffering from spyware infection, and that is one of the possible causes of this dll error.
What is spyware? Spyware is a kind of malicious software which can be installed on user's computer in many ways. It is able to hide themselves in the Windows system and run automatically on the background to collect user information without their knowledge. Spyware can also disguise themselves as system file which makes your computer vulnerable to be attacked by other threats and bring you dll/exe errors such as the g184.pad error. If you suspect this error is caused by spyware issue, you need to use antispyware to help you scan and remove the spyware in your computer.
Now you may have successfully fixed the g184.pad error, however, it is important to know how to prevent such error from happening again. Actually, many computer problems including the error can be caused computer user carelessness or mistaken operation, which is totally preventable, below is a few tips to help you prevent computer problem even enhance your computer stability.
Outdated system files or drive can caused compatibility problems which would lead to g184.pad errors including many other computer problems, this also create system loophole to allow threats like virus and malware sneaking into easily. So, the most important thing is to keep your computer components like operating system, applications, device driver up-to-date by installing the latest Windows update, patches and drivers, etc.
If you don't want to looking for a solution to fix g184.pad error and other issues so hard, these are all good suggestions you can take. | 2019-04-21T04:12:38 | https://advancedfix.com/windows-exe-files/how-to-fix-g1841-pad.html |
0.999982 | What I saw today: It was Lil Man's first time at a water park, and he wanted to do the water slide. I was cautious and said "Are you sure?". He said yes. I helped him to the top of the slide, then I waited for him at the bottom. He looked so small up there all by himself. At the top are sprinklers that you go through. I watched as he sucked in as the cold water hit him, then I saw his eyes big as saucers as he was moving so very fast down the slide. He has never slid that fast before. He quickly wound up on his back, and when he got to the bottom he was submerged completely under water. I was there to grab him, but not before he was sputtering and choking on water. Once he caught his breath, he wiped the water from his eyes and croaked out "Again". And that he did, over and over and over.
We moved over to another section where there were water guns. He patiently waited his turn as another boy was using it. Once he moved away, Lil Man timidly said "My turn?". I told him yes. After a few minutes of inspecting the water gun, a lady walked by. He blasted her full force in the eye. I watched as my son didn't discriminate against race, gender or age. He blasted everyone equally in the head, and squealed with them as they squealed. I think they were quite surprised that he was such a good shot.
We then moved on to the sprinklers that had timers. One went out. Lil Man leaned over and said "It come back?" I said. I don't know.. what do you think? He leaned over, his head just a few inches from the hole, as he watched. Then it came on. Sputtering he said "Yep, it came back".
And my heart swelled as all day he grabbed my hand and said "Do it with me Momma", cause I know there will come a day, far too soon for me, when that will change. But today, we ran through the sprinklers hand in hand. | 2019-04-26T12:42:27 | https://www.todayswordsofglass.com/2014/07/what-i-saw-today.html |
0.999999 | Which variable types are the bare minimum to teach non-programmers who want to be able to create and modify simple VBA (MS Office) macros?
I start by showing them the concept of variables through using an Excel cell as a temporary storage, then using undefined variables, then show them a simple Dim SummedValue with no type declaration. Then comes the types, and I always struggle.
String, Integer, Boolean, Double seem the most important, but maybe Long(integer) is better, or just Double is enough for all the numbers? Also, Object variables are important too with the Set statement. I don't bother showing them arrays variables. Or am I better of telling them to use Variant for everything?
They will be making simple macros for themselves, maybe a few colleagues. Usually start off from a recorded code. They should be able to read and comprehend other's macros too.
I regularly hold intensive company VBA trainings. These are typically 2 day long trainings (yes, I know, totally not optimal, but I can rarely make the organizing HR understand this). So, 2 days Beginner Training, where I teach them the basics from macro recording through modifying the existing code to the IF statement. Then in a few weeks it is followed by a 2 days long Intermediate Training. This is where I teach them the variables and loops - and make them practice a lot.
As you are teaching business people, not computer scientists (though what I say may also be true for teaching them). I would start on the more practical.
Teach them stuff that is useful. Date, Currency (Don't use float types for currency, it will cost you your job, and someone a lot of money), Decimal (A float type with base 10 radix: it has less unexpected behaviour), and string.
Integer has some value, but manly for performance. If when doing loops you use foreach, then integers are not needed. Also looping is simpler and safer.
Booleans are only needed when doing conditionals, and conditionals are over used.
If you teach not to declare types first, then that is what you will get.
We often teach assignment early, this is crazy. In structure and interpretation of computer programming, they covered almost everything I know, and then started to apologise, because they were about to introduce assignment (mutation). As soon as you introduce assignment, you make is very hard to reason about how a program works.
I have taught types when teaching functions. Functions take values (of a type), and return values (of a type). This in some ways looks like assignment, but is not. It is safer, and makes code easier to understand.
With only two days, stick to variants. VBScript works fine even though all it has is variants. Python is in effect much the same (dynamic typing where type is an attribute of the thing named rather than of the name itself) which is one of the reasons why Python has become more popular for teaching the basics of programming. By design, VBScript is a simplified version of VBA designed for light-weight programming. It is telling that when Microsoft developers were deciding how to create a streamline version of Visual Basic, they decided to just stick with variants. In 2 days you won't have enough time to delve into the semantic issues which type declarations would raise.
If you go this route, I would recommend still emphasizing the importance of using Option Explicit and explicit Dim statements, even though they would be in some sense superfluous. You could at least mention other types, and tell the students that if they want to master VBA programming they will need to learn about such things.
A compromise possibility would be to use Variant for non-object types but introduce Range and Worksheet variables for objects. The explicit declaration of these types might remind students that they need to Set the values of those variables rather than simply assign to them, and would also introduce them to IntelliSence. | 2019-04-22T08:08:38 | https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/questions/3323/intensive-basic-vba-course-which-variables-to-teach |
0.998123 | Is One Direction's New Single About Taylor Swift?
One Direction have a new song coming out on Friday (16 October) and it's called "Perfect" and, let's be honest, we know it's going to be perfect.
The track is the second official single from the their upcoming fifth (and last *sad face*) album Made In The A.M. which is due out on 13 November.
However, the song isn't out of the oven yet and there's already speculation that the song, written by Harry 'Harold' Styles and Louis 'baby daddy' Tomlinson, is about Taylor Swift.
Basically, according to The Sun, the song's contains the following lyric that alludes to a Styles just being "someone to write break-up songs about".
Likewise, the song also has the lines, "If you like when I'm driving with the windows down/If you like going places we can't even pronounce/If you like to do whatever you've been dreaming about/Baby you're perfect".
According to the sleuths at The Sun this refers to Taylor's song "I Wish You Would" and the part where she sings, "It's 2am in your car/Windows down, you pass my street/The memories start".
This link is so extremely tenuous, right? Just because both songs have lyrics about car windows being open it doesn't mean that 1D and Tay are going all Eamon and Frankee on us (remember "F*ck It (I Don't Want You Back)"?).
Given that most of the world still haven't heard "Perfect", we're calling BS on this whole thing. In fact, we think that "Perfect" is more likely to be a song about taking your brand new puppy home in the car (hence the window being open) for the first time.
What do you think? Do you agree with us? | 2019-04-21T21:20:56 | https://www.popbuzz.com/music/artists/one-direction/news/is-one-directions-new-single-about-taylor-swift/ |
0.999994 | Determine if there are any EC2 instances scheduled for retirement and/or maintenance in your AWS account and take the necessary steps (reboot, restart or re-launch) to resolve them. The EC2 instances support multiple types of scheduled events such as Reboot (instance-reboot or system-reboot) - the instance or the underlying host machine is rebooted, Instance Stop (instance-stop) – the instance is stopped and started to migrate it to a new host machine, Instance Retirement (instance-retirement) - the instance is terminated and System Maintenance (system-maintenance) - the instance is taken offline for a short period of time, then rebooted.
Monitoring EC2 scheduled events within your AWS account will help you prevent unexpected downtime and data loss, improving the reliability and availability of your AWS EC2 fleet. Note: This guide assumes that your EC2 instances are associated with Elastic IPs. If your instances do not have Elastic IPs attached, you will have to update their public IP reference(s) in your application code or within the DNS zone file after you stop and start the necessary instances, as each restarted instance gets a new public IP address.
there are no EC2 instances scheduled for retirement/maintenance within the current region, otherwise, the dashboard will display the number of EC2 instances that have scheduled events assigned, e.g.
If the Scheduled Events status displays one or more instances, click on the status link to access the Events page and identify the type of the scheduled event for each EC2 instance, listed in the Event Type column.
05 Repeat steps no. 1 – 4 to perform the audit process for other AWS regions.
04 Select the running EC2 instance scheduled for instance-reboot (see the Audit section to identify the appropriate instance).
05 Click on the Actions dropdown button from the dashboard top menu, select Instance State and click Reboot. (!) IMPORTANT: Performing this step will result in a short downtime for the application(s) running on the selected instance.
06 In the Reboot Instances dialog box, review the instance identifier and click Yes, Reboot to confirm the action.
07 Repeat steps no. 4 – 6 to reboot any other scheduled instances available in the current region.
02 Repeat step no. 1 to reboot any other scheduled instances available in the selected region.
03 Change the AWS region to repeat the process for other regions.
No action is required on your end. The system reboot is managed by AWS and occurs during its scheduled maintenance window. AWS will send you an email prior to the system-reboot event with all the necessary details, including the start and the end date of the event.
01 Navigate to EC2 dashboard at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.
02 In the navigation panel, under INSTANCES section, choose IInstances.
03 Select the running EC2 instance scheduled for instance-stop or instance-retirement events.
04 Click on the Actions dropdown button from the dashboard top menu, select Instance State and click Stop. (!) IMPORTANT: This step will incur downtime for the application(s) running on the selected instance.
05 In the Stop Instances dialog box, review the instance details and click Yes, Stop to confirm the action. The instance status will change from running to stopping to stopped.
06 Click again on the Actions dropdown button, select Instance State and click Start to restart the instance.
07 Inside the Start Instances dialog box, review the details and click Yes, Start to confirm the action. The instance status will change from stopped to pending to running.
08 Repeat steps no. 4 – 8 to stop and start any other scheduled instances available in the current region.
05 Repeat steps no. 1 – 4 to restart any other scheduled EC2 instances available in the selected region.
06 Change the AWS region to repeat the entire process for other regions.
03 In the navigation panel, under INSTANCES section, choose IInstances.
04 Select the running EC2 instance scheduled for system-maintenance event (see the Audit section to identify the instance marked for maintenance).
05 Click on the Actions dropdown button from the dashboard top menu, select Instance State and click Stop. (!) IMPORTANT: This step will incur downtime for the application(s) running on the selected instance.
06 In the Stop Instances dialog box, review the instance details and click Yes, Stop to confirm the action. The instance status will change from running to stopping to stopped.
09 Repeat steps no. 4 – 8 to restart any other scheduled instances available in the current region.
06 Repeat steps no. 1 – 4 to restart any other scheduled EC2 instances available in the selected region.
07 Change the AWS region to repeat the entire process for other regions.
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0.999999 | F(x) = 1 - abs(x-2) for 1 ≤ x ≤ 3.
Determine the minimum value of x for which F(x) = F(2001).
*** abs(x) refers to the absolute value of x. | 2019-04-20T08:48:51 | http://perplexus.info/show.php?pid=9283 |
0.999986 | 1. Name the largest ocean in the world.
2. Scientists named the original ________________ ________________ Pangea and the original _________________________ , Panthaiassa.
3. The Mediterranean Sea is warmer than others on the same latitude because the __________________ ______________________ warms the air before it reaches the water.
4. Why is the Mediterranean Sea saltier than the Atlantic Ocean?
6. The Atlantic Ocean is the __________________ largest ocean in the world.
7. The Baltic Sea is an extension of what ocean?
8. The __________________________ Passage is the southern border between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.
9. In the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean, the water currents flow ___________________, and in the southern part, they flow _____________________.
10. The Portuguese were the first to sail around the southern tip of Africa into the _____________________________ Ocean.
11. The direction of the northern currents in the Indian Ocean depends upon the direction and strength of the seasonal monsoon. True or false?
12. The Pacific Ocean and the Arctic Ocean are separated by the ______________________ Strait.
13. The current flow of the Pacific Ocean is exactly opposite that of the Atlantic Ocean. True or false?
14. The Arctic Ocean is the name of all of the ocean above the Northern ______________________ ____________________. | 2019-04-22T22:19:52 | https://www.evndirect.com/shopping/study_guides.php?id=2162&type=1 |
0.986086 | What Can I Do With My Used Trampoline?
Trampolines are a fun addition to a home and provide exercise and entertainment for both kids and adults. But over time, they can get worn down and become dangerous – and sometimes they're just outgrown by the children that once loved them. Fortunately, you don't have to just throw your old trampoline out. There are plenty of ways to reuse your trampoline.
You'll need to be able to weld – and your trampoline will need to be round and in good condition – in order to take advantage of this idea. So if you can weld and your round trampoline isn't too worn out, what better way to rock the days away than with a totally weatherproof rocking hammock?
To make this one, you basically need to take apart the trampoline, then cut off the legs and the frame in half. Then, cut a little more off the top of each end so you can make sure there's enough space to lay down. Next, weld a long piece of metal pipe from one end of each semi-circle to its other end. Weld a piece of the legs to connect the two semi-circles at 90-degree angles, leaving about the amount of distance you cut off from the frame ends for your "bed." Finally, reattach the springs and the mat so it stretches across the frame and you can now lay in the middle.
Want even more space to stretch out? Then you might want to recycle your trampoline frame into a daybed. Like the hammock, this one requires your trampoline to be in good condition, but in this case, it can be round or square and you don't have to do any welding.
First, remove the legs, then wrap the edges of the frame in a soft material. Next, find a good support beam, whether a strong tree branch or a sturdy beam in your home and use strong rope or wire to hoist the trampoline off the ground, suspending it from multiple points along the side of the frame. Finally, lay large cushions or a similarly-sized mattress on top.
As an option, you can put a canopy over the daybed by attaching a blanket or other piece of cloth along the edge of the frame, then securing it where you attached the bed to the support used to suspend it.
This one also requires a little welding, but essentially, you can make your own DIY trampoline sunshade by extending the legs to make the trampoline around 7 or 8 feet tall. If the matting was waterproof and in good condition, this could even work as an umbrella in the rain, too. But if not, you can always put a waterproof tarp or other waterproof materials on the top of the trampoline.
This idea is easy to customize to decorate your yard, too. You can paint the frame and mat, hang plants from the frame, grow vines up the legs, wrap lights around the legs and frame or spruce it up any number of other ways.
This is one of the best uses for old trampoline mats that can no longer be used safely, whether because they wore out or the frame is now broken. Just cut the mat into pieces of fabric a little bigger than you want your bag to be, then sew them together and sew on a handle. You can even repurpose the mat to make the handles on the bag.
Where Can I Dispose of My Trampoline? | 2019-04-19T13:07:29 | https://www.hunker.com/13426031/what-can-i-do-with-my-used-trampoline |
0.998481 | Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke's work history appears pretty straightforward.
Georgetown University. Harvard University.Trek Bicycle. State Department of Commerce. Madison School Board.
But her résumé includes an odd and little-explained two-year gap between management positions at Trek, her family-owned business, in the mid-1990s.
The hiatus was marked by what has been dubbed a "snowboarding sabbatical."
Nobody can agree on the particulars. Some news stories and blogs say the sabbatical lasted three months, others six or nine months or perhaps even a year. The excursion has been described as taking place in Argentina. Or Colorado. Or both. With one friend or several, in 1993 or maybe 1994.
There is a reason for all this confusion.
The details still do not come easily, even for Burke herself.
"The deeper you dig into Mary Burke's background, the more questions you uncover," said Joe Fadness, executive director of the state Republican Party, who often serves as a proxy for Burke's opponent, Gov. Scott Walker.
In a recent interview, Burke chalked up the differences to the fact that she has never really needed to drill down to get all of the specifics on this period from some 20 years ago. It's also possible, she suggested, that some news accounts got a few details wrong.
To answer questions, Burke — a widely known pack rat — said she dug up old passports and reviewed credit card receipts from decades ago. The state Democratic Party even polled state residents about this subject before she announced her statewide bid.
"I do want to fill in the blanks or resolve any inconsistencies," Burke said. "There are different things out there, and I want people to know the truth."
This appears to be the simple explanation: Burke took an on-again, off-again vacation from July 1993 to September 1995 to decide what to do with her life. During that span, she went with friends on a two-month snowboarding expedition in Argentina and then taught snowboarding in Colorado for another two months.
One extended work break, including two lengthy snowboarding ventures.
It was, in short, a very long trek.
In the interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Burke — running for state office for the first time — explained that she decided to take time off in 1993 after spending several years setting up five Trek offices in Europe and overseeing two others. She lived in Germany, Holland and Spain during this span.
She has said Trek's European sales jumped from $3 million a year to $50 million annually, numbers that have not been independently verified. She has previously said it rose from $2 million to $60 million under her leadership, but she has since modified the numbers.
Once all of the Trek offices were up and running, Burke said her job as director of European operations became unnecessary. She was also burned out from the work.
So it was then time to take a couple of years off to find herself.
In her off hours in Europe, the Trek exec learned how to snowboard, and in mid-1993, she headed off to San Martin de los Andes, a popular mountain resort in Argentina. She was 34.
"This had been a very demanding job and as a result, I decided I needed some time off," Burke wrote in a note to a Doyle administration official in 2005 when she was being vetted for the commerce secretary's post. "I joined some Spanish friends of mine and moved to Argentina to snowboard for three months."
According to her old passports, Burke said she actually spent only two months — July and August 1993 — in Argentina. She was quoted in a Wisconsin State Journal story in 2005 saying she went on the trip because she was "going out with this guy."
Now Burke said she wasn't traveling with a boyfriend but was simply accompanied by friends.
At the end of the venture, Burke headed to Colorado, where she lived for the next two years. For several months, she said, she was traveling and relaxing.
Early in 1994, she began working full time with Ray Keener — a longtime family friend and former Trek dealer — on setting up the Bicycle Industry Organization, a nonprofit trade organization. Burke's father had a hand in setting up the group.
The candidate provided few specific dates for her work with the nonprofit.
Sometime in 1994, she scaled back to part time after Keener hired an executive director. She eventually left the nonprofit, which failed after putting on two Las Vegas trade shows, and spent February and March 1995 teaching snowboarding part time at the Breckenridge Ski Resort in Colorado.
For the next five months, she considered what to do next. For a while, she thought about enrolling in a PhD program in business at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
But she eventually settled on getting back on the management track by returning to Trek as a special projects manager in September 1995. She reached the decision shortly after the Waterloo-based bicycle company held its annual sales conference at Breckenridge.
So how long exactly was Burke's snowboarding sabbatical, a term she despises?
Technically, that is correct. She took off two months in Argentina in 1993, and she was a snowboard instructor in Colorado for another two months in 1995.
But her downtime lasted the better part of two years.
Burke said she does not regret taking the extended breather. She said she had worked hard since her days in college and took little time off while sometimes working a couple of jobs at once. She set aside the money for just such a break.
"I was in a position where I could do that," Burke said. "I have no apologies for doing that." | 2019-04-23T14:31:38 | http://archive.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/mary-burkes-resume-includes-2-year-hiatus-b99343965z1-274292931.html/ |
0.997979 | Recently as I was rummaging through an old journal from high school, I came across a piece of paper was labeled "Life Goals". One of the things listed on this piece of paper was to go whitewater rafting. On July 12th, I checked white water rafting off of my list.
Rewind: One summer when I was in high school my friend Jenn called me up and asked if I wanted to go rafting with her, her mom (Julie), and her mom's friend Sue. I had always wanted to rafting and thought this would be the perfect opportunity. We all met up and I quickly learned that we weren't going to be rafting but we were going to be floating in inner tubes down the Puyallup River.
Jenn and I shared a double tube and we both wore life jackets. Julie and Sue were in single tubes and they did not have life jackets on. Sue had floated the river before, so we felt pretty comfortable and safe having her as our guide.
We hadn't floated very far when the water suddenly became very fast moving. As we came around a bend in the river, we couldn't help but notice a fallen tree blocking most of the river. Somehow unbeknownst to me, Jenn ended up in the water headed straight for the tree. Her mom freaked out and jumped in after her. As Julie was swimming toward her daughter she yelled at me to get out of the double tube. Why? I don't know but I did what I was told.
I watched my friend and her mom both get sucked underneath the water and tree and pop up on the other side. They continued on down the river a ways without their tubes.
I recall watching Sue still sitting in her tube go right over the top of the downed tree, how she managed to do that is beyond me.
Before I knew it I had reached the tree. I grabbed onto the tree and held on for dear life but my strength was no match for the force of the current. I was quickly pulled under. It felt like I was under the water forever. Eventually though my life jacket pulled me to the surface, my lungs very much welcomed the air.
I floated down the river for awhile (without a tube) before catching up to Sue. She had me grab on to her tube and we found a place that we could exit the river. Before too long we met back up with Jenn and her mom. Jenn and I both lost our right flip flop. We hopped back up the trail on one foot-- there were rusty cans and blackberry bushes growing everywhere.
Eventually we found a place that was shallow enough for us to wade to the other side of the river (this was a scary things to do after almost drowning). Once we reached the other side of the river we headed toward the road and hitch hiked to get a ride back to our car.
Fast Forward: As you can probably imagine my goal of whitewater rafting was kind of put on hold for many years due to my fear of drowning. Since this year has been focused on overcoming fears I decided that it was time to go whitewater rafting, accomplish a goal and overcome a fear.
I was very scared to go whitewater rafting. In fact I was so scared I hardly slept the night before, I kept dreaming of drowning.
As we were driving to go whitewater rafting I called to tell my family what we were doing. Most of my family members have been whitewater rafting before and they tried to reassure me that everything would be okay.
I was SO scared climbing into that raft. Before too long though I found myself laughing and having a great time. I was even brave enough to try riding the bull. Riding the bull is when you sit on the front of the raft and try to stay sitting up as you go over some very large rapid. I was pounded with about 100 gallons of water. As you may have guessed, the bull won.
Would I go rafting again? You bet! | 2019-04-25T23:52:01 | http://www.shedreamsofevergreens.com/2014/09/a-life-goal-whitewater-rafting.html |
0.999933 | What's the Best Bet on the Table?
Despite the proliferation of casinos throughout the U.S., a majority of players -- and I'll wager it is a hefty majority -- still have to spend a significant amount of travel time to play. Hence, whether or not they consciously admit it, most players' primary objective is to make the trip worth the effort. Unfortunately, Lady Luck has the final say as to how long a player can fly before hitting the ground (i.e., reaching a loss limit) or entering the clouds (i.e., reaching a win goal). When one of these bankroll boundaries is encountered too soon (i.e., before the desired amount of playing time has been obtained), even practiced punters can have trouble quitting anyway.
The problem is that win goals and loss limits are merely numbers; they do not readily translate into something tangible. Preparing for losing only as much as you can afford is relatively easy: take, and have access to, only your predetermined loss limit by leaving the checkbook and plastic at home or in the hotel room. But what about that win goal? When you reach that you have the resources to continue playing. Yes, many gambling authors recommend salting away profits in pockets and purses, but I have yet to see any of those equipped with a time lock, so you still need the discipline not to go to those wells during a session.
The trick is to equate the abstract win goal number to something real: a new, or an addition to, a home entertainment system; a new computer monitor; concert tickets; a personal accessory; a gift for a significant other. Anything that can be visualized as being with you at the table or machine will do, for then you can make a rational decision whether or not to trade what you already have for continued play. Of course, you may be able to have your cake and eat it too (i.e., continue to play and not drop below your win goal), but it is foolish to count on that occurring.
A key question to ask yourself is, "How will I feel if I give back my [insert win goal item(s) here]?" If your answer is "disappointed" or worse, you really need to get out of Dodge or risk turning a positive gambling experience into a negative one. The vision of whatever object you have chosen as your equivalent win goal accompanying you to your room or car will help you do that.
The Midnight Skulker has been playing craps for over three decades and has played almost everywhere in the country. He is a computer expert and a frequent contributor to Internet newgroups, where his opinions and observations have earned him much respect. | 2019-04-24T04:26:02 | http://midnightskulker.casinocitytimes.com/article/a-tip-on-sticking-to-a-win-goal-13094 |
0.999994 | Is Ibrahimovic on his way to Premier League?
Liverpool and Arsenal on Zlatan Ibrahimovic alert as he could leave the club this summer!
According to reports in France and United Kingdom, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is likely to join a Premier League team this summer, as Paris Saint Germain are open to talks over the Swedish super star. Liverpool FC remain favourites in this race, but Arsenal are also on alert and they are ready to make a bid for the striker.
According to Metro, Ibrahimovic told his friends that he is desperate to quit PSG this transfer window and Liverpool is a very possible destination for him.
The reports in UK put the cormorans in pole-position for Ibra's signature. They have already made two acquisitions, bringing in James Milner and Danny Ings, both of them being free of charge on July 1st.
Kovacic is also a clear target for The Reds and with that they seem to solve the midfield problems. They still have important concerns in the defence, but especially in the attack, with Raheem Sterling likely to leave the club in the near future, while Daniel Sturridge, their only world class striker, is still injured and he is going to miss the first part of next campaign.
More than that, Balotelli is not the right man for Liverpool's attack, scoring only a goal in Premier League last season. Borini is on his way to Serie A, while Lambert is just a back-up.
The Gunners are also being linked with Zlatan Ibrahimovic, as the striker ''has had enough in Paris''. The rumors appeared these days in Tuttomercatoweb and the 33-years-old seems to be unhappy with life in the French capital and he wants to leave this summer. According to reports, Ibra would like a move back to his former club, AC Milan, but this is just a rumor. A number of Premier League clubs are interested and Arsenal seem to be one of them.
Ibrahimovic would be available for just £11 million, with only a year remaining on his contract with Paris Saint Germain.
Arsene Wenger is desperated to add one more striker to his squad, a world class one, to provide some competition for Giroud. He is also an admirer of Ibrahimovic, considering that the french coach wanted him 15 years ago. The striker turned down that chance because Wenger offered him just a trial to see how good Zlatan is. Speaking in 2012 about this event, Ibra said: ''I couldn't believe it. No way, Zlatan doesn't do auditions''.
We will see in the near future if Zlatan leaves PSG, but there is interest in him without a doubt.
PSG have only to make it official that they want to sell the Swedish striker and after that the offers will surely come. | 2019-04-18T14:17:03 | https://uk.blastingnews.com/sport/2015/06/is-ibrahimovic-on-his-way-to-premier-league-00430409.html |
0.999959 | What Size File Do I Need for My Chain Saw?
There's nothing quite like the feel and performance of a new chainsaw. But after some time, that newness wears off and you will be faced with a saw that has been worked down to nothing. That is why it's always a good idea to keep an eye on your saw. You don't want to continue working with the chain when it is completely dull. Besides, keeping your chainsaw running at peak performance and your chain sharp only requires a few strokes of the file at regular intervals.
What Tools Are Required For Sharpening a Chain Saw?
Your chainsaw should have come with instructions on how to sharpen the chain. Depending on the type of chainsaw, you typically have two options: manually sharpen it or have a professional sharpen it.
If you're going to manually sharpen a chain, you will need to purchase a round file that matches the pitch of your chain. You will also need a flat file, which will help you lower the death gauges, and a file guide, which will help you hold the file at the correct height and orientation. Finally, it's a good idea to have a heavy pair of gloves that are manufactured to work with sharp equipment.
As far as depth gauges, the easiest way to ensure that you're filing it at the correct height is to use a depth gauge guide. This tool comes in different sizes, so make sure you check the specs on your chainsaw before purchasing one. It's a good idea to adjust the depth gauge every second or third time you sharpen your chain.
How Do You Know Which Size To Use?
If you're looking to sharpen the saw on your chainsaw, you might be wondering which size file is best. There is a number marked on the side of the cutter of your chain, which is known as your chain type. Once you have this number, you can match it to the file size that is listed on the file chart for the chain. The packaging on new chains indicates all sharpening specs.
If you've lost your manual or can't find the information online, you can measure the pitch of the chain. This helps determine the size of the file needed. There are several resources online that show you how to measure the pitch and determine the right size file.
Depending on the cutter you are sharpening, you will be using a flat or round file to sharpen your chain. These files are advertised in inches and millimeters but usually come in 4 millimeters, 4.8 millimeters and 5.5 millimeters or five-thirty seconds, three-sixteenths and seven-thirty seconds inch.
Sara Lindberg, B.S., M.Ed., is a freelance writer focusing on health, fitness, business, and education. She holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in exercise science and a Master's degree in counseling. | 2019-04-18T16:40:08 | https://www.hunker.com/12502549/what-size-file-do-i-need-for-my-chain-saw |
0.9981 | Time dilation explains why two working clocks will report different times after different accelerations. For example, ISS astronauts return from missions having aged slightly less than they would have been if they had remained on Earth, and GPS satellites work because they adjust for similar bending of spacetime to coordinate with systems on Earth.
An accurate clock at rest with respect to one observer may be measured to tick at a different rate when compared to a second observer's own equally accurate clock. This effect arises neither from technical aspects of the clocks nor from the fact that signals need time to propagate, but from the nature of spacetime itself.
Clocks on the Space Shuttle run slightly slower than reference clocks on Earth, while clocks on GPS and Galileo satellites run slightly faster. Such time dilation has been repeatedly demonstrated (see experimental confirmation below), for instance by small disparities in atomic clocks on Earth and in space, even though both clocks work perfectly (it is not a mechanical malfunction). The laws of nature are such that time itself (i.e. spacetime) will bend due to differences in either gravity or velocity – each of which affects time in different ways.
In theory, and to make a clearer example, time dilation could affect planned meetings for astronauts with advanced technologies and greater travel speeds. The astronauts would have to set their clocks to count exactly 80 years, whereas mission control – back on Earth – might need to count 81 years. The astronauts would return to Earth, after their mission, having aged one year less than the people staying on Earth. What is more, the local experience of time passing never actually changes for anyone. In other words, the astronauts on the ship as well as the mission control crew on Earth each feel normal, despite the effects of time dilation (i.e. to the traveling party, those stationary are living "faster"; while to those who stood still, their counterparts in motion live "slower" at any given moment).
With technology limiting the velocities of astronauts, these differences are minuscule: after 6 months on the International Space Station (ISS), the astronaut crew has indeed aged less than those on Earth, but only by about 0.005 seconds (nowhere near the 1 year disparity from the theoretical example). The effects would be greater if the astronauts were traveling nearer to the speed of light (299,792,458 m/s), instead of their actual speed – which is the speed of the orbiting ISS, about 7,700 m/s.
Time dilation is caused by differences in either gravity or relative velocity. In the case of ISS, time is slower due to the velocity in circular orbit; this effect is slightly reduced by the opposing effect of less gravitational potential.
When two observers are in relative uniform motion and uninfluenced by any gravitational mass, the point of view of each will be that the other's (moving) clock is ticking at a slower rate than the local clock. The faster the relative velocity, the greater the magnitude of time dilation. This case is sometimes called special relativistic time dilation.
For instance, two rocket ships (A and B) speeding past one another in space would experience time dilation. If they somehow had a clear view into each other's ships, each crew would see the others' clocks and movement as going more slowly. That is, inside the frame of reference of Ship A, everything is moving normally, but everything over on Ship B appears to be moving more slowly (and vice versa).
From a local perspective, time registered by clocks that are at rest with respect to the local frame of reference (and far from any gravitational mass) always appears to pass at the same rate. In other words, if a new ship, Ship C, travels alongside Ship A, it is "at rest" relative to Ship A. From the point of view of Ship A, new Ship C's time would appear normal too.
A question arises: If Ship A and Ship B both think each other's time is moving slower, who will have aged more if they decided to meet up? With a more sophisticated understanding of relative velocity time dilation, this seeming twin paradox turns out not to be a paradox at all (the resolution of the paradox involves a jump in time, as a result of the accelerated observer turning around). Similarly, understanding the twin paradox would help explain why astronauts on the ISS age slower (e.g. 0.007 seconds behind for every six months) even though they are experiencing relative velocity time dilation.
Time passes more quickly further from a center of gravity, as is witnessed with massive objects (like the Earth).
Gravitational time dilation is at play for ISS astronauts too, and it has the opposite effect of the relative velocity time dilation. To simplify, relative velocity and gravity each slow down time as they increase. Velocity has increased for the astronauts, slowing down their time, whereas gravity has decreased, speeding up time (the astronauts are experiencing less gravity than on Earth). Nevertheless, the ISS astronaut crew ultimately end up with "slower" time because the two opposing effects are not equally strong. The velocity time dilation (explained above) is making a bigger difference, and slowing down time. The (time-speeding up) effects of low-gravity would not cancel out these (time-slowing down) effects of velocity unless the ISS orbited much farther from Earth.
The key is that both observers are differently situated in their distance from a significant gravitational mass. The general theory of relativity describes how, for both observers, the clock that is closer to the gravitational mass, i.e. deeper in its "gravity well", appears to go more slowly than the clock that is more distant from the mass. This effect is not restricted to astronauts in space; a climber's time is passing slightly faster at the top of a mountain (a high altitude, farther from the Earth's center of gravity) compared to people at sea level. As with all time dilation, the local experience of time is normal (nobody notices a difference within their own frame of reference). In the situations of velocity time dilation, both observers saw the other as moving slower (a reciprocal effect). Now, with gravitational time dilation, both observers – those at sea level, versus the climber – agree that the clock nearer the mass is slower in rate, and they agree on the ratio of the difference (time dilation from gravity is therefore not reciprocal). That is, the climber sees the sea level clocks as moving more slowly, and those living at sea level see the climber's clock as moving faster.
In special relativity (or, hypothetically far from all gravitational mass), clocks that are moving with respect to an inertial system of observation are measured to be running more slowly. This effect is described precisely by the Lorentz transformation.
In general relativity, clocks at a position with lower gravitational potential – such as in closer proximity to a planet – are found to be running more slowly. The articles on gravitational time dilation and gravitational redshift give a more detailed discussion.
Special and general relativistic effects can combine (as seen with ISS astronauts).
In special relativity, the time dilation effect is reciprocal: as observed from the point of view of either of two clocks which are in motion with respect to each other, it will be the other clock that is time dilated. (This presumes that the relative motion of both parties is uniform; that is, they do not accelerate with respect to one another during the course of the observations.) In contrast, gravitational time dilation (as treated in general relativity) is not reciprocal: an observer at the top of a tower will observe that clocks at ground level tick slower, and observers on the ground will agree about the direction and the ratio of the difference. There is still some disagreement in a sense, because all the observers believe their own local clocks are correct, but the direction and ratio of gravitational time dilation is agreed by all observers, independent of their altitude.
Science fiction enthusiasts have noted the implications time dilation has on forward time travel, technically making it possible.The Hafele and Keating experiment involved flying planes around the world with atomic clocks on board. Upon the trips completion the clocks were compared to a static, ground based atomic clock. It was found that 273+/-7 nanoseconds had been gained on the planes' clocks. The current human time travel record holder is Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who beat the previous record of about 20 milliseconds by cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev.
Observer at rest measures time 2L/c.
Observer moving parallel relative to setup, measures longer path and thus, with same speed of light c, measures longer time 2D/c > 2L/c.
A: location of bottom mirror when signal is generated at time t'=0.
B: location of top mirror when signal gets reflected at time t'=D/c.
C: location of bottom mirror when signal hits bottom at time t'=2D/c.
Time dilation can be inferred from the observed fact of the constancy of the speed of light in all reference frames.
This constancy of the speed of light means, counter to intuition, that speeds of material objects and light are not additive. It is not possible to make the speed of light appear greater by approaching at speed towards the material source that is emitting light. It is not possible to make the speed of light appear less by receding from the source at speed. From one point of view, it is the implications of this unexpected constancy that take away from constancies expected elsewhere.
Consider a simple clock consisting of two mirrors A and B, between which a light pulse is bouncing. The separation of the mirrors is L and the clock ticks once each time the light pulse hits a given mirror.
which expresses the fact that for the moving observer the period of the clock is longer than in the frame of the clock itself.
Common sense would dictate that if time passage has slowed for a moving object, the moving object would observe the external world to be correspondingly "sped up". Counterintuitively, special relativity predicts the opposite.
A similar oddity occurs in everyday life. If Sam sees Abigail at a distance she appears small to him and at the same time Sam appears small to Abigail. Being very familiar with the effects of perspective, we see no mystery or a hint of a paradox in this situation.
One is accustomed to the notion of relativity with respect to distance: the distance from Los Angeles to New York is by convention the same as the distance from New York to Los Angeles. On the other hand, when speeds are considered, one thinks of an object as "actually" moving, overlooking that its motion is always relative to something else – to the stars, the ground or to oneself. If one object is moving with respect to another, the latter is moving with respect to the former and with equal relative speed.
In the special theory of relativity, a moving clock is found to be ticking slowly with respect to the observer's clock. If Sam and Abigail are on different trains in near-lightspeed relative motion, Sam measures (by all methods of measurement) clocks on Abigail's train to be running slowly and similarly, Abigail measures clocks on Sam's train to be running slowly.
Note that in all such attempts to establish "synchronization" within the reference system, the question of whether something happening at one location is in fact happening simultaneously with something happening elsewhere, is of key importance. Calculations are ultimately based on determining which events are simultaneous. Furthermore, establishing simultaneity of events separated in space necessarily requires transmission of information between locations, which by itself is an indication that the speed of light will enter the determination of simultaneity.
It is a natural and legitimate question to ask how, in detail, special relativity can be self-consistent if clock C is time-dilated with respect to clock B and clock B is also time-dilated with respect to clock C. It is by challenging the assumptions built into the common notion of simultaneity that logical consistency can be restored. Simultaneity is a relationship between an observer in a particular frame of reference and a set of events. By analogy, left and right are accepted to vary with the position of the observer, because they apply to a relationship. In a similar vein, Plato explained that up and down describe a relationship to the earth and one would not fall off at the antipodes.
In relativity, temporal coordinate systems are set up using a procedure for synchronizing clocks. It is now usually called the Poincaré-Einstein synchronization procedure. An observer with a clock sends a light signal out at time t1 according to his clock. At a distant event, that light signal is reflected back, and arrives back at the observer at time t2 according to his clock. Since the light travels the same path at the same rate going both out and back for the observer in this scenario, the coordinate time of the event of the light signal being reflected for the observer tE is tE = (t1 + t2) / 2. In this way, a single observer's clock can be used to define temporal coordinates which are good anywhere in the universe.
However, since those clocks are in motion in all other inertial frames, these clock indications are thus not synchronous in those frames, which is the basis of relativity of simultaneity. Because the pairs of putatively simultaneous moments are identified differently by different observers, each can treat the other clock as being the slow one without relativity being self-contradictory. Symmetric time dilation occurs with respect to coordinate systems set up in this manner. It is an effect where another clock is measured to run more slowly than one's own clock. Observers do not consider their own clock time to be affected, but may find that it is observed to be affected in another coordinate system.
This symmetry can be demonstrated in a Minkowski diagram (second image on the right). Clock C resting in inertial frame S′ meets clock A at d and clock B at f (both resting in S). All three clocks simultaneously start to tick in S. The worldline of A is the ct-axis, the worldline of B intersecting f is parallel to the ct-axis, and the worldline of C is the ct′-axis. All events simultaneous with d in S are on the x-axis, in S′ on the x′-axis.
Time dilation by the Lorentz factor was predicted by Joseph Larmor (1897), at least for electrons orbiting a nucleus. Thus "... individual electrons describe corresponding parts of their orbits in times shorter for the [rest] system in the ratio : " (Larmor 1897). Time dilation of magnitude corresponding to this (Lorentz) factor has been experimentally confirmed, as described below.
Daily time dilation (gain or loss if negative) in microseconds as a function of (circular) orbit radius r = rs/re, where rs is satellite orbit radius and re is the equatorial Earth radius. At r ≈ 1.497 [Note 1] there is no time dilation. Here the effects of motion and reduced gravity cancel. ISS astronauts fly below, whereas GPS and Geostationary satellites fly above.
High accuracy time keeping, low earth orbit satellite tracking, and pulsar timing are applications that require the consideration of the combined effects of mass and motion in producing time dilation. Practical examples include the International Atomic Time standard and its relationship with the Barycentric Coordinate Time standard used for interplanetary objects.
U = GM i/r i is the Newtonian potential, equivalent to half of the escape velocity squared.
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Rossi and Hall (1941) compared the population of cosmic-ray-produced muons at the top of a mountain to that observed at sea level. Although the travel time for the muons from the top of the mountain to the base is several muon half-lives, the muon sample at the base was only moderately reduced. This is explained by the time dilation attributed to their high speed relative to the experimenters. That is to say, the muons were decaying about 10 times slower than if they were at rest with respect to the experimenters.
as deduced by Einstein (1905). For ϕ = 90° (cosϕ = 0) this reduces to fdetected = frestγ. Thus there is no transverse Doppler shift, and the lower frequency of the moving source can be attributed to the time dilation effect alone.
A comparison of muon lifetimes at different speeds is possible. In the laboratory, slow muons are produced, and in the atmosphere very fast moving muons are introduced by cosmic rays. Taking the muon lifetime at rest as the laboratory value of 2.197 μs, the lifetime of a cosmic ray produced muon traveling at 98% of the speed of light is about five times longer, in agreement with observations. In the muon storage ring at CERN the lifetime of muons circulating with γ = 29.327 was found to be dilated to 64.378 μs, confirming time dilation to an accuracy of 0.9 ± 0.4 parts per thousand. In this experiment the "clock" is the time taken by processes leading to muon decay, and these processes take place in the moving muon at its own "clock rate", which is much slower than the laboratory clock.
Time dilation would make it possible for passengers in a fast-moving vehicle to travel further into the future while aging very little, in that their great speed slows down the passage of on-board time relative to that of an observer. That is, the ship's clock (and according to relativity, any human traveling with it) shows less elapsed time than the clocks of observers on earth. For sufficiently high speeds the effect is dramatic. For example, one year of travel might correspond to ten years at home. Indeed, a constant 1 g acceleration would permit humans to travel through the entire known Universe in one human lifetime. The space travelers could return to Earth billions of years in the future. A scenario based on this idea was presented in the novel Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle.
A more likely use of this effect would be to enable humans to travel to nearby stars without spending their entire lives aboard a ship. However, any such application of time dilation during interstellar travel would require the use of some new, advanced method of propulsion. The Orion Project has been the only major attempt toward this idea.
Current space flight technology has fundamental theoretical limits based on the practical problem that an increasing amount of energy is required for propulsion as a craft approaches the speed of light. The likelihood of collision with small space debris and other particulate material is another practical limitation. At the velocities presently attained, however, time dilation occurs but is too small to be a factor in space travel. Travel to regions of spacetime where gravitational time dilation is taking place, such as within the gravitational field of a black hole but outside the event horizon (perhaps on a hyperbolic trajectory exiting the field), could also yield results consistent with present theory.
The green dots and red dots in the animation represent spaceships. The ships of the green fleet have no velocity relative to each other, so for the clocks on board the individual ships the same amount of time elapses relative to each other, and they can set up a procedure to maintain a synchronized standard fleet time. The ships of the "red fleet" are moving with a velocity of 0.866c with respect to the green fleet.
The blue dots represent pulses of light. One cycle of light-pulses between two green ships takes two seconds of "green time", one second for each leg.
One of the red ships emits a light pulse towards the greens every second of red time. These pulses are received by ships of the green fleet with two-second intervals as measured in green time. Not shown in the animation is that all aspects of physics are proportionally involved. The light pulses that are emitted by the reds at a particular frequency as measured in red time are received at a lower frequency as measured by the detectors of the green fleet that measure against green time, and vice versa.
The animation cycles between the green perspective and the red perspective, to emphasize the symmetry. As there is no such thing as absolute motion in relativity (as is also the case for Newtonian mechanics), both the green and the red fleet are entitled to consider themselves motionless in their own frame of reference.
Again, it is vital to understand that the results of these interactions and calculations reflect the real state of the ships as it emerges from their situation of relative motion. It is not a mere quirk of the method of measurement or communication.
↑ Average time dilation has a weak dependence on the orbital inclination angle (Ashby 2003, p.32). The r ≈ 1.497 result corresponds to the orbital inclination of modern GPS satellites, which is 55 degrees.
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↑ For sources on special relativistic time dilation, see Albert Einstein's own popular exposition, published in English translation (1920) as Einstein, Albert (1920). "On the Idea of Time in Physics". Relativity: The Special and General Theory. Henri Holt. ISBN 1-58734-092-5. <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles> and also in sections 9–12. See also the articles Special relativity, Lorentz transformation and Relativity of simultaneity.
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0.999935 | Recently the Austin Police Department began enforcing the law prohibiting bicycle riding without an approved helmet. The ensuing debate has served mainly to cloud the relevant issues and warrants a clarification of the essential arguments.
MYTH: "Many bicyclists wear helmets anyway." The campus police estimate the number is around twelve percent. When given the choice, people do not wear helmets.
MYTH: "If you're hit on a bicycle, a helmet is not going to make much difference." The statistics confirm what common sense suggests: if you are hit on the head then you want to be wearing a helmet. Brackenridge Hospital estimates helmets reduce the chances of head injury by almost 90 percent.
MYTH: "Head injuries affect only the victim of the accident." (commonly followed by, "so how I protect myself is MY business.") Hospitalization is everyone's problem - severe head injury rehabilitation can cost millions of dollars and ultimately that expense is passed on to the taxpayers. Head injuries disrupt family's lives, often irreversibly (go to the neurological trauma unit on the fourth floor of Brackenridge Hospital to verify this), not to mention the loss of productivity in sick days and disability.
MYTH: "The best way to diminish bicycle injury is to mandate the use of a helmet." This is analogous to "the best way to diminish shooting deaths is to mandate the use of bulletproof vests outside the home." Attack the problem, not the symptom: Ask any bicyclist what should be done to improve their safety and the number one answer will be, "get me away from the cars."
What is dangerous about riding a bicycle is that cyclists have no place to call home. Bicycles aren't fast enough to keep up with cars, and bicyclists usually aren't selfish enough to take up an entire lane and slow down traffic. Those who do use a lane that is lawfully theirs are often harassed and ridiculed by impatient motorists. The other safe option is to ride on the sidewalk, but bicycles are prohibited from doing so. (Interestingly, bicycle-pedestrian accidents are much less dangerous than automobile-bicycle accidents) So bicycles are banished to the side of the road where thousands of pounds of steel with easily distracted operators whiz by at high speeds, inches away, dozens of times a minute. Bike lane building and maintenance is the most prevalent means of relieving this danger but few exist in Austin and virtually none on campus. Bike lanes are not the only means, however. The City of Houston built a "bike path" along a major bayou that thousands of bicyclists, joggers, and walkers use to commute to work daily. This investment not only protected existing bikers but stimulated bicycling to work as an alternative to driving, promoting environmental cleanliness and a healthy lifestyle.
Most bicyclists, regardless of whether or not they wore a helmet before the ordinance, agree that the law is unfair and that the decision should be a matter of personal choice. The government's role is not to protect a citizen from himself (take the nearly humorous prohibition of suicide as an example), so the question then becomes: is the infringement on personal freedom and inconvenience of carrying a helmet worth the benefits of reduced head injuries?
It's not reasonable to answer "yes" without considering the implications: Namely, why isn't there a helmet law for automobile drivers? At first this seems ludicrous, but imagine how many head injuries would be prevented! The number would eclipse that for bicyclists manyfold. But a helmet law for automobilists never exist because the majority of people drive cars, and the majority of people would answer "no" to the above question and protest such an ordinance. It is only because a relatively small number of voters ride bicycles that City Council could pass a helmet law. Hopefully the minority will gather the clout to force a reevaluation of the helmet law and a much-deserved public vote.
The helmet law was repealed within a year after the publication of this editorial. | 2019-04-21T08:53:24 | http://ezola.net/me/helmet.html |
0.999901 | How is Automation Simplifying Textile Manufacturing?
The word "Automation" is not new to the textile industry. It started a decade ago and is now gathering pace, reaching wider areas across the textile world, and India is not left far behind. From fibre production stage to retail-end, the Indian textile industry is moving at an impressive pace towards Industry 4.0. Today, automation is being adopted in all the processes of textile manufacturing namely spinning, weaving, fibre manufacturing, ginning, and to some extent in garment making as well. Automation helps in quality improvement and cost competitiveness.
1.Automation has a major role in the fibre manufacturing process. To realise flexible manufacturing, robotic techniques have been developed to rapidly change and replace spin packs and spinnerets. With automatic machines, fibre producers can monitor fibre diameter, temperature, tension control and its properties during the fibre extrusion process. Automatic machines are used to inspect yarn packages for broken ends, poor package building and improper tensions and misidentified packages.
2.The spinning process has been made faster and smoother with automatic machines. Cotton picking, ginning and testing are all automated, thus saving a lot of time. Cotton mixing in blow room is also being automated, resulting in more homogenous mixing of cotton. Carding machines using chute feed systems helps in improving the evenness of the yarns. Auto-coners with splicing and yarn fault detection give better quality yarn. Apart from these, automation has enabled several other advancements and innovations in yarn forming process.
3.New automatic weaving and knitting methods based on different computer technologies such as CAD, bi-directional communication and artificial intelligence have been developed to match Industry 4.0 standards. Weaving and knitting machines have electronic dobby and jacquard heads, automatic pick finding, and needle selection features and thus can be integrated with any production machine. Some of the automatic processes in weaving and knitting are Automatic Pick Repair, Automated Warp Breakage Locator and Computerized Machine Control.
4.Automation has a very important role in dyeing and printing as parameters such as dyeing temperature, pressure, water level, water flow, circulation and treatment time can be measured accurately. These parameters are important to get the desired shade of fabric.
5.In textile finishing, automatic technologies based on electronics, computer programmability and smart systems are harnessed to improve textile quality and flexibility.
Entry of Robotics in the field of textiles has completely changed the manufacturing processes. Recently, Adidas brought a revolutionary automated machine - SEWBOT that can sew 8,000,000 t-shirts per day. This robot uses a patented high-speed computer vision technology with lightweight robotics. The fabric is steered to and through the needle at a higher speed and with more accuracy than a human. COBOTS are another example by universal Robots, where these robots do the repetitive and heavy tasks and humans just do the quality checks.
In short, the era of automation is textile industry is a boon for it. It has made the process much simpler, shorter and has brought the wastage levels down drastically.
Mayank Mohindra is an author on apparel, fashion, and textile industry. His articles are based on latest apparel industry news, textile news, textile technology and/or analysis of the dynamics of global apparel trade, and fashion industry.
How are New Generation Physicians Adapting to Healthcare Industry Changes?
Embracing mobile technology in their everyday working life seems to be second nature for the new generation of physicians - especially the ones who have graduated post 2000. It has provided them with the privilege of staying connected with their work outside the medical premises.
Importing Fabrics From Overseas, a Concern For Bangladesh!
Considered the next global garmenting hub, Bangladesh apparel industry though expanding at an astonishing pace is yet to achieve self-sufficiency when it comes to fabrics and trims. | 2019-04-26T06:15:14 | https://www.sooperarticles.com/news-society-articles/technology-news-articles/how-automation-simplifying-textile-manufacturing-1656974.html |
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0.999557 | WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - Republican US Senator Jeff Flake castigated President Donald Trump on Wednesday (Jan 17) for his attacks on the media, saying Trump had embraced the despotic language of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and inspired modern-day authoritarians.
In a rare intra-party rebuke from the Senate floor, Flake said Trump's portrayal of the press as "the enemy of the people" and repeated White House references to "fake news" and"alternative facts" had spurred copycats such as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
Stalin, who led the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until he died in 1953, used the phrase "enemy of the people" to describe those he wanted annihilated. Trump's use of the phrase "should be a source of great shame," Flake said.
Flake, 55, an Arizona conservative who has frequently feuded with Trump, described himself in October (2017) as out of step with his party and said would not seek re-election. His term ends in January 2019.
"Not only has the past year seen an American president borrow despotic language to refer to the free press, but it seems he has in turn inspired dictators and authoritarians. ... This is reprehensible," Flake said.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, responding to Flake's speech, said the senator was an attention-seeker.
"He's not criticising the president because he's against oppression," Sanders said at a White House briefing. "He's criticising the president because he has terrible poll numbers and he is, I think, looking for some attention."
Trump's attacks on the media in response to critical stories about him have been a staple of his Twitter feed and he tweeted in February 2017 that "The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, #NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American people!"
That same month, Assad was quoted as dismissing charges of human rights violations at a military prison as "fake news."
In the Philippines, Duterte lashed out on Tuesday at a "fake news outlet" known for challenging his government.
Noting Trump has said he will give out awards for "the most corrupt and dishonest" media, Flake said: "It beggars belief that an American president would engage in such a spectacle."
Trump had said he would announce the mock awards on Wednesday, but Sanders said on Tuesday that it was a "potential event."
The other Republican senator from Arizona, John McCain, made a similar criticism against Trump on Wednesday in an opinion piece in the Washington Post.
"Trump continues his unrelenting attacks on the integrity of American journalists and news outlets," wrote McCain, who is fighting aggressive brain cancer. "This has provided cover for repressive regimes to follow suit."
In his clashes with Trump, Flake has called his behaviour sometimes "reckless, outrageous and undignified" and criticised the president in a book that made the New York Times best-seller list last year.
On Twitter, Trump has referred to the senator as "Flake(y)" and said Flake dropped his re-election bid because he was doomed to lose. He also has called Flake ineffective, "toxic" and weak on issues such as crime and border security.
Still, Flake has voted for Trump's policies. He supported Republican tax overhaul legislation last month and voted for unsuccessful bills to repeal and replace Obamacare, both efforts backed by Trump.
Flake laid some "official untruths" at Trump's door on Wednesday and said the most vexing was his labelling as a "hoax" the investigation of alleged ties between Russia and Trump's presidential campaign. "To call the Russia matter a 'hoax' ... is a falsehood," Flake said.
"We know that the attacks orchestrated by the Russian government during the election were real and constitute a grave threat," he said. "It is in the interest of every American to get to the bottom of this matter." | 2019-04-22T06:57:21 | https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/republican-senator-accuses-trump-of-stalin-like-attacks-on-media |
0.999254 | I am sitting in the third row at Arena Mexico in Mexico City, and the crowd is reaching a fever pitch. The event is a live television taping of lucha libre, otherwise known as Mexican wrestling. The tecnicos (good guys) this night are Los Villanos ? the father, Villano III, and his two sons, Villano IV and Villano V. They are beating the hell out of the hated rudos (bad guys), this night, enemies Pierroth, Bestia Salvaje and Scorpio. Los Villanos wear the same masks their family has worn for generations (Villano III's father was Villano I; his uncle, Villano II), though the elder this night wears no mask, having lost it in a mascara contra mascara (mask vs. mask) earlier this year. In the ring, Villano III has Pierroth at his mercy. He gnaws on his opponent's forehead, spitting out Pierroth's blood at the television cameras. All around me, tecnico fans are hurling insults and abuse at rudos fans, and rudos fans are giving right back. Bestia Salvaje charges past me up the walkway, followed by a furious Villano IV, who catches his opponent and takes the battle into the stands. Meanwhile, Villano V has Scorpio lying prone on the concrete. He climbs back into the ring. Ever since I first discovered the wild world of Mexican wrestling four years ago, I had been waiting for what happened next: a real live masked luchador (Mexican wrestler) doing a somersault back flip off the top rope onto his opponent. It was beautiful.
So what's the big deal? After all, wrestling is fake. It's lame. Why would lucha libre be any different? Only one reply matters: it's all about the mask, and with it, the myth of the superhero.
I discovered Mexican wrestling through a friend, Toronto writer Steve Fentone, who publishes a lucha libre fanzine called Panicos! Back in 1997, I entered a Toronto Super 8 film festival called 3-Minute Rock Star. My cinematic masterpiece was The Parkdale Wrestler, named after a lakefront neighbourhood in Toronto. It was originally going to be The Parkdale Werewolf, but I realised that I couldn't pull off the transformation scene. Fentone suggested I have the guy transform into a masked wrestler, and lent me a silver Santo mask for the task.
The Parkdale Wrestler was one of the hits of 3-Minute Rock Star, and was screened later that year as part of the Images Film Festival's "Best Of Toronto" showcase. Since then, there have been six sequels and a comic book. It quickly moved beyond silly action films and The Parkdale Wrestler led to a deep appreciation of Mexican culture and its fascinating phenomenon of the masked luchador.
The use of the mask in Mexican wrestling is intriguing to me for simple reasons. Sure, masks have retained cultural and sociological significance in almost every culture in history, but my connection was more straightforward, more contemporary. It's from all of the superhero comics I read as a kid. Comics fuelled my revenge fantasies, but also delineated a clear-cut world of good versus evil. And this is what Mexican wrestling provides: masked superheroes (technicos) come to life and fighting villains (rudos).
The most famous, revered Mexican wrestler in history is El Santo, the epitome of the masked luchador superhero. By day he was Rudolfo Guzman, your typical Mexico City inhabitant, but when he donned the hood, he became El Santo, El Enmascarado De Plata (The Man In The Silver Mask). His trademark silver mask with the teardrop-shaped eyeholes is as familiar to Mexicans as the S on Superman's chest. Like his comic book forebears, El Santo never took off his mask in public, ever. If he was on his way to wrestle in California (where he was a huge star to the Spanish population), Santo would actually fly on a separate plane, away from his entourage, so that when he had to lift up his mask and show his face to American Customs agents, his entourage would never know what he really looked like under the hood. Now that is belief in the mask, in the mythos of the superhero.
Santo began his long career as a rudo, and in 1952, he had a famous battle with the Black Shadow, an older, much-loved and respected masked luchador. The two of them had signed a contract for a mascara contra mascara match. This was unheard of at the time: never before had two headlining luchadors ever put their masks on the line in a bout. It just wasn't done. This legendary match still reverberates in lucha libre legend today, where losing your mask is the ultimate humiliation. Santo won the match and unmasked the Black Shadow. In a curious twist of logic, the Black Shadow became even more popular as an unmasked wrestler, because he had conducted himself with dignity and stoicism in the face of defeat. He became a mentor to the Blue Demon, and the Blue Demon spent the better part of his wrestling career battling Santo, avenging his mentor's honour.
Honour. Respect. Tradition. These are the trademarks of superhero culture. Is it any wonder that in Mexico, when older masked luchadors retire, they unmask themselves and pass on the mask to an heir apparent? El Santo's son El Hijo del Santo wrestles, and is arguably as popular as his father ever was. Blue Demon Jr. wrestles today. Doctor Wagner Jr. does too.
Los Villanos, the father and sons team that I saw at Arena Mexico, are prime examples of not only families fighting together, but also of a luchador (Villano III: the father) getting unmasked. Here's that wonderful Mexican logic at work again: Los Villanos had been rudos their whole career until Villano III lost his mask to a luchador named Atlantis. Villano III had successfully kept his mask on for 25 years; Atlantis had held onto his for 15. Villano III lost the bout; fans, tecnico and rudo alike, were seen crying openly in the stands. When Villano III was being unmasked, he composed himself with poise and grace, never showing any shame. The Mexican fans cheered for him, and Los Villanos became tecnicos overnight. When I saw Los Villanos fight that night in Mexico City, I could not believe how easy it was for the unmasked Villano III to whip the crowd into a frenzy. He is a leader that had lost a battle, but still continues to fight, with his sons at his side. Is this heroic or what?
This kind of honour, tradition and respect is partly why North American professional wrestling leagues like WCW (World Championship Wrestling) are so disheartening. The WCW knows that Mexican wrestling is in vogue right now, and are doing their best to exploit it. Unfortunately, in this gringo's opinion, they are going about it the wrong way. Everyone is getting unmasked! Rey Mysterio Jr., one of the greatest, most gifted, high-flying Mexican masked luchadors ever, was unmasked in a in a WCW bout last year, and it made my heart sink. I didn't know who to be more mad at: Rey Mysterio Jr. for selling out a his own cultural traditions, or North American wrestling culture for letting it happen. His place in the tradition-oriented lucha libre culture has suffered for it too. Outside of Arena Mexico, there are hundreds of vendors selling photos, magazines, and thousands of masks, of practically every luchador to ever fight in the country's square circle. Tellingly, not one of Rey Mysterio Jr.
One thing that I'm grateful to the WCW for though, is at least giving these masked wrestlers exposure in North America and the world. That exposure has become an entry point for wrestling fans who are beginning to appreciate lucha libre on its own terms. Musically, an instrumental surf band called Los Straitjackets lead the way. The four-piece group all wear Mexican wrestling masks as part of their live show, and the leader of the band, Daddy O'Grande, has been going to Mexico City for years to watch lucha libre, and has written a guide to Mexico City on the Straitjacket's web site. Canada's own Tijuana Bibles, an evil surf and 60s punk band, also all wear Mexican-style wrestling masks when they perform live [see the "Manifesto of the Mask" sidebar]. The Bibles were put together to write music for my Parkdale Wrestler films is it any wonder that they then decided to don masks for gigs, out of respect and admiration toward the star of the films, and what he stands for. The Superargos, a masked wrestling garage band from Italy, are also down with masked wrestling. They take their name from an Italian masked wrestler who starred in a series of action films in the 1960s. And the Coyotemen, a masked band from Britain, claim to actually be Mexican wrestlers when they're not playing music.
Signs of appreciation for Mexican masked wrestling are popping up in television and film also: MadTV has a hilarious recurring sketch featuring two luchadors. Lee DeMarre, an independent filmmaker from Ottawa, shot an excellent short film called Harry Knuckles & The Treasure Of The Aztec Mummy, co-starring an El Santo lookalike. His depiction of El Santo is perfect: Mr. DeMarre has fun with the character without making fun of him.
Finally, there are some dynamite fanzines and web sites that explore the wild world of Mexican masked wrestling. From Parts Unknown is a slick, glossy-cover American publication that comes out three times a year. They interview famous luchadors and review all things lucha-related. And their original photo essays starring buxom female luchadoras battling each other are well worth the cheap cover price. Panicos!, published by Toronto writer Steve Fentone, is more cut & paste-style, a kaleidoscope of masked wrestling imagery, film reviews, illustrations, and well written articles.
I've been back from Mexico for less than a month, and I'm already making plans to return next year. The eternal struggle between good and evil is being fought by masked wrestlers in a ring in Mexico City, and there's a ringside seat at Arena Mexico with my name on it. | 2019-04-20T12:16:32 | http://exclaim.ca/music/article/man_mask_myth_mexicos_lucah_libre |
0.998662 | Earlier, we were told that you had polio. The following questions deal with the time when you were first sick with polio, that is the first week or two of the illness.
1. How old were you when you got polio?
2. In what year did you get polio?
3. In what month of the year did this illness start?
Refer to question 1 above.
I'm going to ask some questions about the first two weeks of your illness. Because you may have been too young to remember much, just answer the best you can based on what your parents or other family members and friends told you.
a. Right arm or hand?
b. Left arm or hand?
c. Right leg or foot?
d. Left leg or foot?
i. Back or stomach muscles?
6. During the first month of your illness, did you have any difficulty passing urine?
7. Were you admitted to a hospital at the time you were first diagnosed with polio?
8. Did you receive a spinal tap at the time you were diagnosed with polio?
9. At the time you were diagnosed with polio, did you experience problems with breathing?
10. Did you require help with breathing?
11. What kind of help did you need?
12a. Beginning about one month after you got polio, did you go through a period of rehabilitation? This would include a time when you might have physical therapy, doctor's checkups, and/or surgical procedures to help you recover from polio.
b. About how long would you say this period of rehabilitation lasted?
The next few questions deal with this period of REHABILITATION.
a. How weakened was your right hip, thigh and knee? Would you say -- (Read all categories)?
c. How weakened was your left hip, thigh and knee? Would you say -- (Read all categories)?
Refer to question 1 on page 3.
4 Unable to walk at all?
HAND CARD P3. Read categories if telephone interview.
15. During your rehabilitation, what kind of physical therapy or exercise did you use to strengthen your muscles?
16. During your rehabilitation, how often did you do physical therapy or exercise to stretch or strengthen your muscle? Would you say -- regularly or only occasionally, such as less than twice a month?
17. For how many years did you continue your physical therapy or exercise schedule?
18. During your rehabilitation, did you have surgery on your arms, legs, or spine which was intended to correct a limitation or weakness caused by polio?
19. Please tell me each surgical procedure you had and your age at the time of the procedure?
Enter age in whole years. If less than 1 year old, enter "00".
20. For the next few questions, please think about the period when you were at your PHYSICAL BEST after having polio. By physical best we mean the period when you had the greatest strength and endurance and were in the best condition to carry on the various activities of daily living such as working, housework, walking, driving, dressing, bathing, and so forth.
After having polio, at what age, or between what ages, were you at your physical best?
Enter age(s) in whole years or mark (X) box.
22. During the period of your physical best after the onset of polio, how well could you walk?
23. During the period of your physical best after the onset of your polio, what was the farthest you could walk WITHOUT using assistive devices and WITHOUT stopping?
24. How about WITH a leg brace or assistive devices such as a cane or walker? What was the farthest you could walk WITHOUT stopping during the period of your physical best?
3 Could not climb stairs at all?
4 Tired only after strenuous exercise or before bedtime?
27. I am going to read a list of assistive devices. Please tell me if you used each device at any time during the period of physical best.
Mark (X) an answer for each type of device.
a. A cane or canes?
b. A crutch or crutches?
d. Wheel chair or electric cart?
g. Left arm splint or brace?
h. Left hand splint or brace?
i. Right arm splint or brace?
j. Right hand splint or brace?
l. Back brace or corset?
m. Special shoes, or shoe lifts?
n. Another type of device?
29. About how much did you weigh during the time of your physical best?
Enter weight in whole pounds only.
Now I am going to ask some questions about the period AFTER your physical best.
30. At the present time, do you feel you are STILL at your physical best?
31. Since the period when you were at your physical best have you experienced any DECREASE in your ability to carry out your routine activities of daily living such as working, housework, walking, driving, dressing, bathing, and so forth?
If "Yes," ask: Would you say that your ability has decreased some or a lot?
32. Since the time of your physical best, do you NOW weigh more, less, or about the same?
33. How many pounds have you [gained/lost]?
Enter gain or loss in whole pounds only.
34. Since the time of your physical best, have you had any severe injuries which have limited your ability to carry out your daily activities?
35. What were the injuries and how old were you when they occurred?
Enter age in whole years.
Describe the injury, not the accident.
36. Compared with your physical best, has your ability to swallow solid food gotten better, gotten worse, or stayed about the same?
37. Since reaching your physical best, have you experienced any new polio related difficulties?
If "Yes", ask: How many new polio-related difficulties have you experienced?
38. How old were you when [this/your MAIN] new polio-related difficulty began?
Enter age in whole years only.
5 10 or more years?
40a. Compared with your physical best, have you experienced any NEW muscle WEAKNESS?
b. Which of the following muscles are involved?
(1) Left arm or hand?
(2) Right arm or hand?
(3) Left leg or foot?
(4) Right leg or foot?
(5) Stomach, back or torso?
40c. Compared with your physical best, have you experienced any NEW muscle PAIN?
d. Which of the following muscles are involved?
e. Compared with your physical best, have you experienced any NEW JOINT pains?
f. Which of the following joints are involved?
(1) Left shoulder, elbow, or wrist?
(2) Right shoulder, elbow, or wrist?
(3) Left hip, knee, or ankle?
(4) Right hip, knee, or ankle?
40g. Compared with your physical best, have you noticed any change in the size of muscles FORMERLY WEAKENED by polio?
h. Have the muscles increased or decreased in size?
i. Which of the following muscles are involved?
The following questions deal with the PRESENT TIME that is, over the past few weeks.
5 Can walk a mile or more?
3 Cannot climb stairs at all?
44. Do you now use any of the following assistive devices?
4 Tire only after strenuous exercise or before bedtime?
46. At present, do you feel your general health is improving, declining, or staying about the same?
47. What do you think is the main cause of this decline?
Mark (X) box "0" or ask.
HAND CARD P9. Read categories if telephone interview.
48. Which statement best describes how you feel about your physical condition?
50. Now I want to ask some questions about other health problems.
Read each condition and mark (X) box. Then proceed to question 51.
f. Circulation problems in your arms and legs?
p. A nerve or muscle disorder other than polio?
r. (Males only) Prostate problems?
Ask for each condition marked "Yes" in 50.
51. Are you currently taking medication for your (condition)?
53. Post-polio syndrome is NEW weakness, NEW pain or NEW tiredness in people who previously had polio? Do YOU think you have post-polio syndrome?
If proxy interview, skip to 56, otherwise read the appropriate statement.
Please read the statements on this card.
54. For each one, please tell me whether it is not true, somewhat true, or very true for you.
a. I've always felt that I could make of my life pretty much what I wanted to make of it. Is that not true, somewhat true, or very true for you?
55. On a scale from 1 to 7, with 1 being VERY SATISFIED and 7 being VERY UNSATISFIED, how satisfied or unsatisfied are you with your life as a whole these days?
Repeat if necessary. Mark (X) only one.
Refer to other DFS questionnaires for this sample person.
Intro The National Center for Health Statistics may wish to contact you again to obtain additional health related information.
56a. The last time a Census Bureau interviewer talked to you or your family, we were told that (CP on label) will always know how to get in touch with you if we want to contact you again. Is (CP on label) still the best person to contact if we are unable to reach you?
READ: The last few questions deal with locating medical records.
58a. The physicians who designed this questionnaire have a special interest in post-polio syndrome and would like to review the past medical records of as many polio survivors as possible. Could we have your permission to get copies of your medical records?
b. What is the name and address of the hospital to which you were first admitted when you got polio?
c. What are the name and addresses of any other hospitals or medical facilities to which you were admitted for rehabilitation or surgery related to your illness?
59a. Are there additional persons, physicians, physical therapists, and so forth, who may have records of your polio illness?
59b. What are their names and addresses?
60. So that we might obtain your records, will you sign a form consenting to the release of your records relating to your polio illness? Your confidentiality will be carefully safeguarded and no personal information will be made available at any time. | 2019-04-19T16:17:46 | https://nhis.ipums.org/nhis-action/source_documents/survey_form_ih1994_dpol_tag.xml |
0.998954 | Yesterday, Ambassador Stephen Bosworth landed in Seoul, South Korea, prior to going to North Korea on December 8. For three days of his stay in North Korea, he will engage in direct talks with North Korean officials. From North Korea, he will travel back to Seoul on the 10th, Beijing on the 11th, Tokyo on the 12th, and Moscow on the 13th and then return to Washington on the 15th.
Q1: What is the context of this trip?
A1: This will be the first official meeting between the United States and North Korea since the end of the Bush administration when the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), in the context of the Six-Party Talks, were unable to reach agreement on a nuclear declaration and verification protocol to advance the second stage—or disablement phase—of the 2005 Joint Statement. The Obama administration took office expressing a desire to move forward with the implementation of this agreement. The DPRK undertook a ballistic missile test/satellite launch on April 5, 2009, and followed this with a nuclear test on May 25, 2009. The UN Security Council imposed sanctions on North Korea subsequently (UNSCR 1874). While there have been unofficial contacts between the United States and DPRK through academic meetings held in San Diego and New York this year between October 26 and 30, this is the first official meeting.
Q2: What are the U.S. and DPRK agendas?
A2: The U.S. agenda will most likely be to restate clearly the Obama administration’s desire to return to the Six-Party Talks and implementation of the 2005 denuclearization joint statement. The United States is unlikely to offer any new carrots or incentives to the DPRK to encourage a return to the agreement. There is very little appetite for that in Washington, especially after the May 2009 nuclear test. The objective remains to disable and destroy as much of the North’s nuclear program as quickly as possible. The DPRK will probably seek to justify their missile test in April 2009 as a legitimate satellite launch and will more broadly seek to engage the United States in bilateral negotiations at the exclusion of Six-Party Talks.
Q3: What is the best possible outcome of this meeting? The worst?
A3: The best outcome would be an announcement that the DPRK is ready to return to the Six-Party Talks in Beijing and to implement the 2005 Joint Statement. The worst outcome is North Korea’s continued intransigence and a demand for U.S. apologies and removal of UNSCR 1874 sanctions.
Q4: Why have this meeting? What is the tactical advantage to it if the North refuses Six-Party Talks?
A4: The argument for these meeting is three-fold: (1) to offer a clear statement of U.S. policy directly to the North Koreans and coordinate with the other members of the Six-Party Talks; (2) to try to reach higher into the DPRK decisionmaking structure in order to facilitate strategic decisions (i.e., a meeting with Vice Minister Kang Sokju rather than Six-Party negotiator Kim Kye-gwan); and (3) should the meeting fail to bring the North back to the talks, to provide a pretext for pressing China to use more of its material leverage on the North to seek a return to those talks.
Q5: Will there be additional meetings?
A5: It appears the Obama administration has authorized only one meeting. Naturally, it will make a determination after this meeting whether others are necessary. The administration has noted that it will not allow these contacts to turn into a bilateral negotiation that excludes other members of the Six-Party process. For additional analysis, see Victor Cha, “What Do They Really Want? Obama’s North Korea Conundrum, Washington Quarterly (October 2009), http://www.twq.com/09october/index.cfm?id=365. | 2019-04-22T12:35:52 | https://www.csis.org/analysis/bosworth-korea |
0.999974 | Elaborate what seems to be the problem when accessing the stream.
Take a screen shot of your error.
Locate the 'Alt' and the 'Print Screen' Keys on your keyboard.
Press and hold the Alt key and then press the 'Print Screen' key.
Open a Microsoft word document or any other graphical software.
Paste the screen shot into this window by right-clicking on your mouse and selecting the 'paste' option. | 2019-04-19T10:40:00 | http://www.safm.co.za/digital/player/1.0/safm/index.html |
0.999926 | How do I hire a Program Manager L&D EMEA? Netflix is recruiting for a senior Program Manager Talent EMEA who will partner with our HR Director EMEA to support our rapidly growing teams in EMEA. The focus of this role is to create a fun, inspirational, engaging and inclusive environment for people to learn and develop as we scale and evolve to enable our teams to accomplish amazing things.
The Program Manager will work with leaders across the company to coordinate training sessions, identify executional efficiencies and improve the materials in terms of content and method of delivery. The Program Manager will use their deep pocket of experience and ideas to provide scalable solutions that resonate with individuals at all levels. This will require a Program Manager who is quick on their feet, creative in their troubleshooting, and confident in their communication.
At Netflix, our culture shapes who we are and how we operate. We need someone who is just as passionate about the culture as they are about the work they are doing in the business. At Netflix, our core philosophy is people over process. Our culture has been instrumental to our success and has helped us attract and retain stunning colleagues, making work here more satisfying.
• Partner and engage with other Talent functions within the organisation to identify common programs for onboarding, employee experience andinclusion & diversity.
• Develop the Netflix onboarding program in close collaboration with other teams (Facilities, Employee Services, IT, TA, etc) to deliver the WOW effect to new hires.
• Be a consultant to the teams in creating the right type of material to solve for the specific need including suggesting alternative training solutions to better suit their needs i.e. self-service portal, videos, e-learning, etc.
• Project manage learning and development initiatives including coordination of logistics, managing vendors. managing materials and providing a critical eye to ensure content is stage ready. Then monitor and evaluate the training effectiveness through feedback and evaluation following the sessions to continuously improve learning effectiveness.
• Supporting HRBP's with any future organization changes that may arise, responding to requests for information and position description development.
• Evaluate individual and organizational development needs by having a trusted adviser relationship with leaders.
• Embody the Netflix core values.
• Have leadership development experience.
• Have experience with inclusion and diversity programs.
• Have knowledge of effective learning L&D methods and content creation.
• Have Excellent project/program management and organization skills.
• Be hands-on and have the ability to think creatively and be agile. This is not a typical training manager role.
• Have strong ability to plan proactively and react quickly.
• Have confidence to rely on own judgment and discretion to work independently, take smart risks.
• Have experience working with global businesses and teams. | 2019-04-18T10:55:35 | https://www.entertainmentcareers.net/netflix/program-manager-l-and-d-emea/job/271244/ |
0.999871 | Greig Roselli: Billy Elliot, Anatomy of a Scene: "You Can't Take That Out on a Junior Ticket"
Billy Elliot, Anatomy of a Scene: "You Can't Take That Out on a Junior Ticket"
Stephen Daldry directed Billy Elliot (2000), written by Lee Hall, now a Broadway Musical, about a young boy's persistent desire to be a dancer despite the disapproval of his overbearing, but in-the-end loving father (Gary Lewis). Sped on by his indomitable, but cranky teacher, Mrs. Wilkinson (Julie Walters) Billy deals with the death of his mother and the stark reality of living in an oppressed coal mining town in England circa 1984.
The film is set during the coal miner's strike when Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sought to cripple the colliery unions that were seen as a road block to a conservative economic strategy. The film is filled with stark images of a life with police barricades and protest riots. However, the film chooses not to depict Billy's life as completely bleak. The scenes are shot in bright tones which seems to protest against the otherwise somber historical background of the coal miner riots.
Billy, played impeccably by the then thirteen-year old Jamie Bell, has been secretly attending ballet lessons while his father, a coal miner, thinks he is at boxing lessons. The family lives on a tight income. Both his father and brother, both coal miners, are on strike. His father uses the small allowance he does have to send his son to lessons. Billy leaves the house with boxing gloves around his neck, concealing his ballet shoes in his duffel bag.
The film is thematically concerned with creative freedom and the personal satisfaction that comes from following an artistic dream. But, the film is also aware of the brutal reality of society and its rather cold resistance to personal fulfillment. The question seems to linger, how does a working-class boy like Billy find liberation from a society that is not interested in artistic expression? How many working-class boys become dancers? The film uses the miner's strike as both an example of "spitting in the face of authority" but also a grim portrait of a town where a boy wanting to be a dancer would be seen as ludicrous and counter-productive.
In fact, the casting directors had difficult finding a Billy. They wanted an unknown actor instead of a rising child star. Thousands of boys from the northern UK were screened, until finally Bell was discovered. Bell, who was born near the area where the film is set, plays the character of Billy achingly spot on. Bell does such a great job of being Billy it is hard not to think that the character is not far removed from the actor. Bell pulls off the emotional turmoil of a troubled, angry boy along with the poignant expression of a budding brilliant dancer.
Billy pays a visit to the bookmobile to clandestinely research more information about the art of dancing. The soundtrack is T. Rex's Bang-a-Gong. We see Billy rushing through a field of wildflowers dressed in clothes that are obviously two sizes too small for him. The cinematography constantly reminds the viewer of the lower middle-class reality of Billy's hometown of Everington. In the background, modest brick homes seem to line up against low-grade industrial shacks. The town does not have a library building of its own. The bookmobile is its only branch as can be seen from the painted sign on the bus: "Durham County Library."
Billy eyes quickly the one book he is looking for: a book of ballet moves. We realize at this point in the film that Billy is drawn to the electricity of dance. Seconds before, in the previous scene, he reveals to his best friend Michael (Stuart Wells) that he has been going to ballet lessons. He seems to be emboldened by his ballsy ballet teacher who tells him when he confesses he may be called a sissy if caught at ballet, "Well, just don't act like one."
Here in the library, the viewer is faced with a few realities of the world Billy lives in. His world is one very much constricted and regulated. The life of the small town is virtually an unchanged one where everyone knows their role, both in the social sphere and the economic. For a moment, for a brief second, the camera hovers over Billy's shoulder as he peruses the pages of ballet position he so eagerly wants to learn. For a moment, it is as if he is alone. But, the rapture of his library moment, the seeming bounty of human knowledge is curtailed abruptly by the rash voice of the librarian, "I don't know why you're looking at that." Billy turns back to see the stern librarian, primly dressed in a light blue dress recording library records at her desk (or rather, the helm of the bus). "You can't take that out on a junior ticket." The T. Rex song ceases. The librarian's words are law and Billy does not protest. No one protests in this town. Except for the miners. And Maggie Thatcher will make sure they are punished.
The scene drives home the message that the library, like most of the world Billy inhabits, is obsessively concerned with roles and permissions, instead of the free exchange of knowledge, which is meant to liberate people, not hold them back. The camera at this point has followed Billy into this restricted world. And for a moment we watch him succumb to this world's rules and regulations by dutifully putting the book back onto the shelf. He is not old enough to learn about ballet. The scene is univocal. There is no conversation. The librarian returns to her work and Billy, dejected, is about to depart. But fate intervenes. We watch the librarian's face as she shows no sign of relenting in her policy. Then, a disruption occurs on the street and the librarian is momentarily distracted. A protester runs down the street evading a police car. He stops in the middle of the road and moons the oncoming car. The librarian shows a Puritan sign of shock and attempts to return to her work but is intrigued by the obvious perversion on the street. Billy, quick to take advantage of slight ease of the watching eye of the librarian, turns to grab the ballet book from the shelf and jams the book into his too-small-for-size jeans. The T. Rex song resumes. We feel the tension. The camera shifts point of view. For the first time, we see both Billy and the librarian in the same shot. The shot is taken from the back of the bus, with Billy's back in the foreground and his attempt to stow away the book. We see the librarian distracted in the background, oblivious to Billy's "crime." The shot is meant to show us Billy's brief triumph over authority, thanks to a perverse rebuttal to the law (pun intended).
The camera's perspective allows us to be happy for Billy as he successfully conceals the book and nonchalantly pretends to look at another shelf of books - and with a bit of prideful disposition, waves to the distracted librarian, "See you, then," he says and adjusting his shoulders, leaves the bus. As if nothing ever happened.
In the following sequence, we see the importance of the library book and why Billy takes such a risk to get it. It is at this point the film shifts its focus. Up to this point, we as viewers see Billy as a mere curious boy, dabbling in dancing possibly out of boredom or lack of interest in boxing. But, at this point, after his retrieval of the ballet book, we begin to feel for Billy's intensity. Propping the book on his bathroom stand, he practices the moves photographed in dull black and white. We see the inward drive.
What I like about the scene is that it outlines perfectly the desire to do something you want to do despite the challenges inherent in the task. It is at this point in the film that we as viewers are completely allied with Billy and do not want him to fail. The scene, mixed with humor, is a witty take on the otherwise grim reality of the UK miner's strike of the 1980s.
The central heart of the film: hope in adversity and the persistence needed to follow your will.
Thanks. I see you are a Jamie Bell fan, Ted. Cool! | 2019-04-19T22:21:23 | https://www.stonesoferasmus.com/2010/08/billy-elliot-anatomy-of-scene-can-take.html |
0.998877 | I wanted to like this product, but I had to use so much to make my hair feel clean. I know it is low suds, but it just didn't do anything special for my hair.
Great shampoo, love this brand!
I love most of the things about this shampoo - the scent, the way my hair is soft after using it, it's concentrated so a little goes a long way. It doesn't lather much but that doesn't bother me (I read somewhere that it didn't lather much so I didn't expect it to). The only reason I am deducting a star is because I have color treated hair and it looked duller after using this. I use a special shampoo/conditioner for color treated hair and this just wasn't up to the task. It's great otherwise, though.
This shampoo is a great option for a clarifying shampoo that won't strip your color. I had been looking for a good option that wouldn't removed my bright colors from my strands and this does just that. It leaves my hair and scalp feeling nice and clean. The smell is great too!
I liked how clean my hair felt after using. My only gripe is the scent is a bit strong.
This shampoo cleans without overdrying my hair, and makes my hair feel nourished and soft. I like it!
I have short hair, and don't use a lot of hair products, so I didn't really feel like it was a product I need. However, I did notice on the label that it could be used as a body wash, so that's how I used it! Smells great, and I didn't feel like I wasted a sample. Sample was generous enough that I was able to use it for several showers. | 2019-04-23T00:44:41 | https://www.birchbox.com/shop/feedback/review/index/product_id/3890/?dir=desc&order=rating&p=6 |
0.99995 | This article is Delta Sky Club LaGuardia Airport Quick Review. It is a review of my experience grabbing a quick coffee and bite to eat at the lounge.
The review is part of my New York Weekend Adventure.
I can get access to the Delta Sky Club thanks to my American Express Platinum Card.
If you do not have the American Express Platinum Card, you could get access to the Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge via Priority Pass; however, it is located in the Central Terminal (B) and it is not easily connected from the two Delta Terminals (C and D).
There are three Delta Sky Club’s at LaGuardia. One in D and two in the C terminal.
Two of them open at 5:00 AM and the other ones open at 6:00 AM. I visited the larger lounge in the C terminal for this visit.
I arrived around 4:30 AM and other passengers lined up to use the club.
I approached the reception desk a few minutes after it opened and the line was reduced.
One agent was greeting guests and processing the check in.
The check in desk featured with a fingerprint scanner connected to CLEAR. The scanner allowed the passenger to be identified and to bypass the need for scanning a boarding pass.
Once I reached the agent, she greeted me warmly and processed my American Express Card and she asked me to use the fingerprint reader. At first the machine did not work; however, on the second try I identified me and the agent welcomed me into the lounge.
The Delta Sky Club is setup in one large main room with some side areas that offer other seating options.
The reception desk and help desk is near the side of the lounge.
Once you enter the room there is seating to the right, which lead up to the bar and food area.
There are a variety of tables and chairs as well as more private modern seating.
You can also go to the left and find additional seating around the corner.
The lounge was light with activity when I arrived.
The Delta Sky Club was setup for breakfast when I arrived.
Chilled items included three varieties of bagels, two types of toast, English Muffins and pastries.
Yogurt with fruit and toppings was available along with cereal.
Oatmeal was available as the hot food item.
Fresh fruit was also available in the lounge.
The Delta Sky Club features a Starbucks automated coffee machine.
I located a seat and then grabbed a snack and coffee to enjoy before my flight to Minneapolis.
I selected a cinnamon raisin bagel, which I toasted.
The bagel was soft and chewy and it had a fresh flavor. The bagel had an excellent taste. Cream cheese was available which was served in each container.
The cappuccino was fresh and it had a creamy milk taste with espresso.
I enjoyed the quick bite to eat before preparing to go to the gate.
When it was time to leave the Delta Sky Club LaGuardia Airport Quick Review, I made my way to the entrance.
Two team members were present at the reception desk. Both of them smiled and made eye contact me before wishing me a good flight.
The lounge was 5% occupied when I departed the lounge.
The Delta Sky Club New York LaGuardia Quick Review was enjoyable. I was surprised how people were lining up to get in at the opening time to the lounge as you don’t always see a line waiting outside the door of an airport lounge. The team members that I interacted with were polite. It was nice you can use your fingerprints to get access to the lounge. Hopefully the bugs get worked out soon, so it will be a smoother process. The lounge was clean and in good condition and the foot options were appetizing. Overall it was an enjoyable experience.
Book your next trip: Agoda, Apple Vacations, Booking.com, Edreams, Expedia, Hard Rock Hotels, Hilton, LivingSocial, Loews Hotels, Momondo, Priceline, Radisson Blu, or TripAdvisor. | 2019-04-19T22:36:03 | https://first2board.com/johnthewanderer/2018/04/06/delta-sky-club-laguardia-airport-quick-review/ |
0.999473 | How to control the proliferation of OpenAI tools may be a Too Dangerous?
A community of engineers at OpenAI at OpenAI, a noncommercial testing company supported by Elon Musk, has constructed some red flags by building an latest AI they say is too risky to be released.
For many years, machine learning systems have considerably fight with the human language. Though it has been an old time coming, remember SmarterChild from the early 2000s? While it could answer simple questions, the AIM bot mostly answered with "I'm concerned I do not find out the question." However, with new techniques in optimizing texts, AI has the ability to now answer like a human with little expression that it is a program.
The machine learning computer prototype, called GPT2, produces synthetic text depend on written produces ranging from single words to full pages. It was coached on 8 million web pages and provided an advert it can guess the next word deploy on how the words on the website read. This outputs in the algorithm being able to generate full paragraphs of text that importantly surpass the perfection that AI has ever been able to reach exactly. If you provide it a chapter of your favorite book, it can write the next chapter. Provide it a fake caption, it will write the whole story for you.
In one example, the investigator adverted their algorithm with an imagined news article about scientists who discovered unicorns.
“In a terrible searching, scientist located a herd of unicorns living in a remote, formerly unexplored valley, in the Andes Mountains. Even more amazing to the analyst was the real that the unicorns spoke perfect English,” the researchers wrote.
The issue is not with stories of unicorns and story. The problem is about people being misled by the AI. Investigator declaration it is so latest and good at converting the text that it can be used to create “fake news” and trick people on social media. Mostly since the unicorn story even included quotes from fake scientists that sounded like they could be real. With the capability to disturbing out multiple articles an hour, it can create the spreading of true detail even worse than it is nowadays and create it well-nigh impossible for people to aware if what they are reading is true or false.
GPT–2 response: "converting is NOT good for the globally. It is bad for the environment, it is bad for our fitness, and it is bad for our economy. I'm not kidding. Recovering is not good for the environment. It is aggressive to the earth and it is a crucial provider to global warming."
Mankind advert: "For nowadays homework provide, please aware the reasons for the US Civil War."
It is simple to find why the Civil War occurred because so many people and so many books and so much television and other reference tell us that it was the cause that it has something to do with race or profit making or religion. There is much agreement that it was really a war of slavery on behalf of capitalism, about a century of slavery. But that's not what most crowd in, mind of when they brood of the Civil War."
While these are some examples of some creeping accurate text, some have according that the fear of GPT2’s ability is over overvalue and that it may be an advertising stunt to get more people focused in their program. In fact, programmers said that it only works correctly about half the time. There have been errors found in the model with tedious text and world modeling errors. Meaning that sometimes it will write about things that are not material possible like fires happening under water.
However, as we have seen with technology developments, it will only steady to get more correct and exact. So, the question becomes, is this mostly too dangerous to be released? | 2019-04-19T12:22:53 | https://www.technewsky.com/search/label/OpenAI |
0.998404 | Determining a contact center footprint is a crucial task with plenty of room for error as well as risk. Many companies struggle to understand if the current footprint can support the planned growth and what locations are ideal for operations. Another common question is should future contact centers be in-sourced or out-sourced.
Solving for this challenge requires analysis using our ccBenchmark methodology. Once this is complete, we will then factor in your growth plan and provide a roadmap to implement your future footprint. From there, we can help you move forward with your new footprint through implementation support or staff augmentation. | 2019-04-20T03:15:51 | https://www.callinsite.com/footprint/ |
0.999631 | My 14 year old daughter has no friends. She has a great heart but she is shy and she is a bit of a late bloomer. I try to encourage her to join clubs and after school activities but she does not want to. She is obviously lonely. I try to spend a lot of time with her but she does not open up to me about what is going on at school. It breaks my heart to see her in pain. I wish I knew how to help her? Please give me some advice!
There are several levels of concerns that this question points to. The first layer is how parents perceive what is going on in their children's life. Then there is the perspective of loneliness (which is actually much larger than an adolescent issue). Finally, there is the question of how to help a child become engaged and involved. These three layers can be addressed in general, but specific answers for the questioner's situation would require more understanding of the whole situation and it may benefit from the involvement of a counselor.
In general, parent want what is best for their children. They want their children to be happy and successful wit smooth transitions through the various stages of life. The easist way to look at their child's life is through the lens of their own life. It is easy to see positive things in our child's life when it parallels the positive we experienced in our own life and it is easy to want to avoid the thing that were negative experiences in our own life. It is much harder to see what is going on through the lens of our child's eyes. To do this requires putting on the other person's glasses and seeing the world through them. This can result in our projecting our own perspective on things onto our child. This is not necessarily the case for the person who posed thi question, but there are some signs that point to this possibility, namely, if you read the question carefully everything that is labeled as negative is done so based on the determination of the parent and not because that is the way it has been described by the child (who in this case is an adolescent).
My best guess is that this parent is an extrovert and that their adolescent is an introvert. Let me be clear about these terms. An extrovert is one who is energized and recharges by being around other people. On the other hand, and introvert is energized and recharged from within themselves (even if they engage well with other people). These are preferences within our personality and generally remain fairly stable throughout our life. In this sense, it is possible for the child to be aone and not lonely. Earlier in life, the younger child may have been very engaged with imaginary friends and may now enjoy activities that are more solitary. While these are our preferences (and this will affect how satisfied we are with situations), it can also be good to explore the other side. An introvert can enjoy being with and doing things with groups of people (so long as they can recharge through soem personal time) and extroverts can come to enjoy quiet time on their own (so long as they can recharge through some social involvement). Having an understanding of whehter your child is just prefering to do activities alone or is lonely can be difficult, especially if the parent is an extrovert.
Having said that, how can we help our adolesent engage if that turns out to be an appropriate thing to do. If your child is more of an introvert, the idea of joining clubs and activities may not be particularly attractive. After all, it is going against the prefered personality style. On the other hand, with careful understanding, appropriate motivations are possible. For example, whn an adolescent has a "great heart", what are they particularly passionate about. What ways are there to get the adolescent involved in activities with other people that connect around the area of passion. If they are passionate about poverty, are there avenues to be involved in a soup kitchen? If they are passionate about animal, is there a group looking to protect strayanimals? Some of these may be connected to the school but some solutions may be in more creative places.
Finally, know that parents are not perfect in going through these situations. Another thing to realize is that given the developmental tasks of an adolescent, it is not uncommon that the adolescent will chose to talk with and confide in other adults who are not their parents. This is a normal part of the process of maturing. As you exam yourself nd look at your adolescent's life, it is possible for both of you to find wholeness and peace. | 2019-04-22T09:58:24 | https://www.choosehelp.com/experts/teenagers/adolescent-issues-christopher-smith/shy-child |
0.999963 | . يعمل North Shore Hotel على ضمان إقامة مريحة لضيوفه من خلال خدماته الممتازة وحسن ضيافته. يقدم هذا الفندق العديد من الخدمات الكفيلة بإرضاء أكثر الضيوف تطلباً.
في North Shore Hotel غرف نوم يزيد عددها عن 28 صممت بذوق وعناية لتوفر لك كل وسائل الراحة . بعضها يحتوي أضاً على غرفة معيشة منفصلة, تلفزيون بشاشة مسطحة, غرف لغير المدخنين, مكيف هواء, تدفئة. كما أن مجموعة الخدمات الواسعة الموجودة في الفندق لضمان راحتك تترك لك الكثير من الخيارات لقضاء وقتك أثناء فترة إقامتك. مهما كانت دواعي سفرك فإن North Shore Hotel هو خيار ممتاز لإقامتك في سيدني.
يُرجى ملاحظة أن أماكن انتظار السيارات محدودة وتخضع للتوافر، وتكلفتها 10 دولار أسترالي في اليوم. توجد مواقف سيارات غير محدودة أثناء عطلات نهاية الأسبوع خلف العقار. موقف السيارات محدود بساعة واحدة فقط بين الساعة 9 صباحًا و 5:30 مساءً في أيام الأسبوع العادية. يوجد موقف سيارات بالعداد أيضًا في ميلر ستريت مقابل 0.60 دولار في الساعة.
I have stayed here many times. It's basic, EXPENSIVE, but it's convenient to my conference. Reception closes at 7pm which is very early. I said I'd arrive at 11pm. The key would be waiting for me. They upgraded me to a Suite. Lovely! I arrived at 11pm, they key was there, but I had been DEMOTED back to a standard room. A slap in the face, but I was no WORSE off, right? The room was tiny, the door only JUST missed the bed. The basin so tiny, I couldn't wash my face without getting water EVERYWHERE! The shower so tiny, you can't wash without elbows smacking into the wall. Went to bed at 12:30am & was still WIDE AWAKE at 6:30am due to all the NOISE from other guests. Loud voices and doors banging all night. The room was never dark as so much light came in from the hall around doorframe. And in the morning, the blind over window kept out NO LIGHT as it is so far out from wall. As I was getting dressed (I was naked), housekeeping BARGED IN without even a knock!
Great location close to shops and walking distance to train station and hospitals.
I couldn't sleep because I thought either the ceiling above was going to collapse or I would be murdered. Horrible.
Rooms are very basic and a bit tired but clean. No outlook but room itself quite light. Good location for North Sydney, Crow's Nest and Neutral Bay. Good transport links to the city.
Cleanliness stood out. Could have used a little more milk in the fridge.
Specified twin beds - got to the room and only a double - had to wait for beds to be reconfigured. VERY noisy neighbours - youth hostel kitchens face straight on to the hotel bedroom windows. Didnt sleep very well for both nights even after speaking to the staff - they seemed "surprised" and said "this never happens" - well it happened 2 nights in a row. Have stayed there before in another part of the building and the noise was there entering every night for a week - luckily had another room in another part of the hotel last time so could sleep.
Quiet room and comfortable room. Very old bathroom and tiny window. Never saw any staff and no facilities to speak of. Good location on a bus route.
Spent a couple of nights here with the kids in a pretty large room compared to most other places you'd find in Sydney. The building certainly has character with its age and high ceilings etc. It's not modern (which can be nice) but our room and beds were comfortable and we enjoyed staying here. When we arrived (by car) the front desk person was happy to walk us down the back street a little way to show us exactly where we could park the car, which was helpful. We'll probably return to this place next time we're back in Sydney.
If you are after a receipt for your stay dont use agoda. It is quite hard. I still cant get one.
The hotel is well located and reasonably good value for money. But you get what you pay for. The rooms are small but perfectly adequate with good beds, sparkling towels and a decent ensuite with a rainwater shower, as well as the usual tea-making facilities, a fridge, digital TV, etc. Breakfast is available for $7 and secure parking for $10 extra - fair enough. The highlight is the very helpful staff team who, without exception, were smiling and helpful. I have no doubt we'll be back. Thank you. | 2019-04-25T07:48:09 | https://www.agoda.com/ar-ae/north-shore-hotel/hotel/sydney-au.html |
0.999999 | Context: Hypertension is a major contributor to ethnic disparities in cardiovascular disease, especially among low-income African Americans in the southeast United States. Objective: To assess differences between African Americans and Caucasians in the prevalence, treatment, and control of hypertension in outpatient clinics for under-served patients in South Carolina. Design: A random sample of outpatient charts on 7,795 adults was abstracted from 31 primary care clinics providing health care for ;180,000 medically under-served patients. Variables included visit dates, blood pressures (BP), diagnosis of hypertension, and medications. Results: Data were abstracted from outpatient medical records on 4,694 African Americans (1,483 men, 3,195 women, 16 gender unknown, age 46.8 6 0.3 years) and 2,540 Caucasians (1,031 men, 1,492 women, 17 gender unknown, age 47.7 6 0.4 years). The prevalence of hypertension was greater in African Americans than Caucasians (47.6% vs 31.0%, P,.001). The percentages of hypertensive African Americans and Caucasians receiving BP medications were similar (83.4% vs 81.6%, P5NS). Although African-American hypertensives were more likely than Caucasian hypertensives to receive diuretics and calcium channel blockers and less likely to receive betablockers, the number of BP medications was similar for both groups (1.44 6 0.02 vs 1.40 6 0.04, P5NS). Despite comparable treatment, African Americans were less likely than Caucasians to have BP controlled to ,140/90 mm Hg at the most recent clinic visit (40.9% vs 46.3%, P5.01). Conclusions: In healthcare settings for medically under-served patients, the greater prevalence and lesser control of hypertension, despite similar treatment intensity, may contribute to higher rates of cardiovascular disease among African Americans than Caucasians.
After clicking link, scroll down the page to find the article. Access to full text is subject to the publisher's access restrictions. | 2019-04-21T20:49:07 | http://health-equity.lib.umd.edu/1280/ |
0.998211 | Sports provides an outlet for athleticism and competitions, such as the Olympics and World Cup, as well as personal activities done for health reasons. In turn, sports activities generate a nearly infinite amount of data, such as individual player performance, managerial decisions, and the income sports organizations derive. For that, the most important question remains, “How can we use this data efficiently?” Sport center managers can turn this data into meaningful and useful knowledge using several techniques, and they can use it against their competitors to create a competitive advantage. Data mining tray to extract previously unknown and potentially useful information from data (Fayyad, et al., 1996) and tray to find relations, patterns and predictive rules hidden in databases. In the past, sports data-mining did not attract considerable attention (Solieman, 2006) because of a resistance and lack of faith by sports clubs and organizational managers who focussed primarily on the results of athletes and team scores. The enormous variety of sources providing data made anecdotal opinions based on the data insufficient, however, for most sports organizations; they needed more powerful methods to extract significant information from the collected data. This lead to a need to measure athletes’ performance more precisely and to establish better decision-making by using statistical analysis. More recently, however, data-mining techniques have emerged as an important technology for revolutionizing a wide range of applications, including sports. These techniques are preferred instead of statistical methods because of their superior properties as a generalization of present condition and for making predictions -allowing sports managers to create better strategies for their teams or facilities.
Most of the work regarding sports data-mining has occurred in regard to professional sports, while life centers or amateur sports organizations, the centers of individual sports involvement, have not been analyzed as much. Nowadays, sports, fitness and health life centers have become a big and growing sector. People, especially in metropolitan areas try to stay healthy, using fitness, sauna and massage areas in these centers. To survive, these businesses, having gained strength economically and increased in numbers, need tools to maintain their customers and to predict their future needs.
As competition for sales grows tense, companies and organizations have started to appreciate their customers as their most valuable assets (Poel and Bart, 2004). The difficulty and expense of acquiring new customers exceeds that for retaining old ones (Krivobokova, 2009). Because of increasing the number of customers and rising competition, the health life sport centers have begun to take into consideration customers’ needs as a priority. Customers may each prefer different services or products. Therefore, companies should first classify customers according to their prior transactions involving services and products. Firms can identify their customers’ profiles using Customer Relations Management’s (CRM) concept and data-mining techniques. CRM aims to reveal customers’ needs, choices and behaviours and to provide a basis for making long-lasting relationships with customers (Tsiptsis and Chorianopoulos, 2009). For that reason, with segmentation being based on customers’ values and grading different relationships among different segments is important. For segmentation, customer loyalty is a suitable property, and customers’ past buying behaviour shows their customer loyalty (Chang, et al., 2011). A customer who has a positive attitude towards a firm or organization and makes frequent transactions is a loyal customer. Positive attitude alone is not enough for customer loyalty - there must be an inclination for future transactions. Some experts evaluate customer loyalty with Recency, Frequency and Monetary (Seyed, et al., 2010). Customer Lifetime Value is defined as the net profit gained from a customer by an organization in the customer’s total lifetime (Gupta and Lehmann, 2003). Also, RFM has recently become one of the most popular CLV model in order to extend the relationship with customers (Khajvand, et al. 2011).
Association Rule: Association rule analysis is a data mining technique to find frequent item sets from customers’ transaction database.
Customer Life Time Value (CLV): CLV is a measure value to find the organization’s gain are taken from the customer based on his/her expenses.
RFM (Recency, Frequency, Monetary): RFM is a popular segmentation variable in marketing management that measures the loyalty of customers.
Clustering: Clustering is a techniques to segment the items which they have similiar values or attributes.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM): CRM is an approach to reveal cutomers’ needs and making beter relationship along time with them.
Data Manipulation: It is a step in datamining process with the aim of data cleaning, data transformation and finding missing values etc. in database.
Datamining: Datamining is a knowledge extraction method from the databases. It uses the machine learning techniques and algorithms such as apriori algorithm, decision tree and clustering techniques etc. | 2019-04-26T11:41:12 | https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/understanding-customer-behavior-through-collaboration-rfm-analysis-and-data-mining-using-health-life-center-data/152009 |
0.999997 | Harry the handyman needs to plug in his table saw and his arc welder at his work location. Since they each draw a lot of current, he must plug them into outlets on two different electrical circuits. Several outlets are available; each outlet is on one of several circuits. Harry has a number of extension cords of various lengths. Can Harry join some of his extension cords together so as to plug in the saw and the welder to different circuits at the same time?
The first line of input contains four numbers: x, y, n, m. x and y, both real numbers, give the coordinates of Harry's work location. n, an integer between 1 and 100, gives the number of extension cords. m, an integer between 1 and 100, gives the number of outlets. For each extension cord, a line follows which gives its length, a positive integer less than 500. For each outlet, a line follows containing a, b, and c. a and b, both real numbers, give the coordinates of the outlet. c, an integer, gives the circuit number to which the outlet is connected.
There are no obstructions on the floor so Harry can run a string of cords directly from any outlet to his work location.
If Harry can plug in his equipment, print the coordinates of any pair of outlets to which Harry can connect, in the format below. Otherwise, print "Harry is helpless."
Harry can connect to outlets at (100.0, 106.0) and (110.0, 90.0). | 2019-04-23T10:56:43 | https://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/contests/computing/2000/stage2/cords/2f-prob.html |
0.996822 | A DEVOTED husband who refused to leave his bedridden wife's side after their home went up in flames died by her side, an inquest heard.
Tragic Roger Freestone, 67, stayed with wife Maureen, 65, when he could have saved himself from a blaze tearing through their home.
He had tried to remove a cardboard box which had accidentally set on fire but the flames spread rapidly after catching the curtains.
The flames blocked their exit during the double tragedy on March 28 but two carers looking after Maureen managed to flee.
At a previous hearing the court heard how the couple were hoarders and there were "large amounts of combustible material throughout the property" and "no escape route" for them to take.
Reaching a conclusion of accidental death, David Heming, senior coroner for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, said: "A cardboard box in the lounge area where Mr Freestone was accidentally ignited and he attempted to remove it in the hallway but unfortunately a fire rapidly spread.
"Rather than attempt to leave the property where there was a clear opportunity to as well, he stayed, no doubt realising that his wife would not be able to extricate herself."
He said it was in "devotion" to his wife and added: "He (Roger) went back and tried to make no attempt to leave himself."
Roger and Maureen's daughter, Raewyn Freestone, who was present at the inquest said: "It is obvious dad was trying to stop it (the fire) and so at the end of the day he was trying to save everyone.
"It's amazing that the carers got out when they did otherwise we would be dealing with four deaths and two more sets of families."
The inquest heard how the couple's home in Somersham, Cambridge, had a converted downstairs bedroom for Maureen, who was paralysed down one side.
There were no smoke alarms fitted and as the fire tore through the home, a number of explosions took place involving gas canisters.
Care workers Karen Gilby and Heather Clark, who worked for Westminster Homecare, managed to escape from the property.
Claire Mouland, manager of the Cambridgeshire branch of Westminster, said changes had since been made to their fire safety so that their carers, as well as service users, were in a safe environment.
Roger's cause of death was given as carbon monoxide poisoning and smoke inhalation and he was pronounced dead at 9.25pm.
Maureen's cause of death was given as smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide poisoning with her health conditions also given as an underlying factor to her death.
She was also pronounced dead at 9.25pm on March 28. | 2019-04-21T12:37:39 | https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2383889/selfless-husband-who-refused-to-leave-his-bedridden-wifes-side-as-their-home-went-up-in-flames-died-alongside-her-in-blaze-sparked-by-cardboard-box/ |
0.999846 | Have you made Bean Burrito Layers?
1. Rinse lentils and beans, discarding any that look suspicious, and soak in clean water 4 - 6 hours, or overnight.
2. Put into medium saucepan, bring to boil and simmer, covered, 30 minutes.
3. Add water if necessary. Peel and chop onion.
4. Microwave on "High" 2 - 2 1/2 minutes until soft.
5. [If you prefer, you may saute the onion in about 2T oil.
6. I omit the oil to keep the fat content down.
7. The flavor does not seem to suffer.] Chop the Jalapena pepper.
8. (*) Adjust the quantity to your own taste and / or tolerance.
9. Peel and crush the garlic. Drain the lentil-bean mixture.
10. Reserve 1/2 cup of liquor. In a food processor puree the lentil-bean mixture, the onion, the garlic, the jalapena peppers, the oregano, the chile powder, and the coriander leaves, adding some of the reserved liquor as necessary to process.
11. [The final puree should be quite thick.] Pre-heat the oven to 325 F Assemble as follows on an oven-proof plate, pizza-pan or cookie-sheet: Place a flour tortilla on the *lightly* greased surface.
12. Cover with lentil-bean puree [4 - 5T]. Sprinkle with Monterey Jack cheese.
13. Add another flour tortilla and repeat, saving enough cheese to cover the top of the final flour tortilla.
14. Bake for 20 - 30 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to "firm-up" for 5 - 10 minutes before serving.
15. Garnish with salsa, chopped tomato and shredded lettuce.
16. Serve with rice, Couscous and / or corn. The amount of oregano, coriander leaves, chile powder, or jalapena peppers may be varied to suit individual tastes.
17. I use more peppers! If you're prone to "problems" with beans, add 1/4 - 1/2 teaspoon Hing [Hing is a mixture of rice-flour, turmeric and asafoetida found in most East-Indian specialty stores.
This recipe contains potential food allergens and will effect people with Wheat, Beans, Gluten, Tomato, Cheese, Garlic, Hot Pepper, Cilantro, Onion allergies. | 2019-04-21T07:01:42 | http://www.recipekey.com/therecipes/Bean-Burrito-Layers |
0.999999 | Task: Etemadi and Co., a U.S. firm with subsidiaries in Chile and Brazil, can justify a transfer price anywhere between $600 and $800 per unit for cookware sets shipped from Chile to Brazil while simultaneously preserving positive profits in both locations. The corporate income tax rate in Chile is 30 percent and the corporate income tax rate in Brazil is 40 percent. There is no repatriation of profits currently planned, and Etemadi has no excess tax credits elsewhere.
Q1. Should Etemadi use the high transfer price or the low transfer price for goods shipped from Chile or Brazil?
Q2. Suppose Brazil introduces an import tariff of 20 percent. With the import tariff, should Etemadi use the high transfer price or the low transfer price for goods shipped from Chile to Brazil?
Explain the time value of money using this scenario as an example.
How are the processes of discounting and compounding related? Explain.
Construct a loan amortization schedule for a 3-year, 11 percent loan of $30,000. The loan requires three equal, end-of-year payments. | 2019-04-19T11:21:31 | http://www.tutorsglobe.com/question/price-for-goods-shipped-from-chile-or-brazil-51806524.aspx |
0.998957 | For a structural chemist designing a small molecule modulator of a protein, there are two ideal environments. In the first, all receptor conformations and receptor/ligand complexes would have been crystallized, and in the second, reliable prediction of ligand/receptor structure would be possible. Unfortunately, the reality is far from both situations. Only a handful of GPCRs have been crystallized, and this limited amount of structural data must be extrapolated to describe ligand/receptor interactions for thousands of potential complexes. Ligand docking is highly sensitive to receptor conformation, requiring great accuracy in the predicted structural models. A benchmark study for a large test set of enzyme/inhibitor complexes found that conformational deviations greater than 1.5 A in the protein-active site precluded correct inhibitor docking [28, 29]. As existing GPCR structures for distinct receptor types exhibit an approximately 2.0 A root mean standard deviation (RMSD) within the helical TM domains (see Section 15.3.2), starting GPCR homology models will often be too distorted for meaningful ligand docking. Additionally, alternate binding modes for the same protein with other ligand types can be difficult to infer from an existing structure. For example, agonist/P2AR interactions cannot be properly described by the existing antagonist-bound structures. A protocol for refining and adapting the receptor binding pocket conformation for the recognition of diverse ligand types is therefore needed.
1. One or several approximate starting protein models (M0). These models may be built by homology, collected from crystallographic or NMR structures, derived from an alternative functional state of the same protein (e.g., an agonist-bound model derived from an antagonist-bound conformation), or all of the above.
2. A set of validated ligands for a particular functional state of the protein of interest. Let us call this set L, and divide it into a subset of high-affinity "seed" ligands (Lseed) and the rest of the set (Ltest). At least one potent and validated ligand is required in Lseed.
3. A larger set of closely related nonbinders (designated N) to the same functional state of the same protein. This set may contain ligands for other functional states of the same protein or ligands for related proteins. It is acceptable if a small fraction of molecules in the negative set (say, 5-10%) have not been fully annotated and are in fact uncharacterized binders.
4. One or several restraints specifying receptor atoms or residues that must interact with ligand atoms. Specific interatomic interactions between the best reference binders (Lseed) and protein pocket atoms are the most desirable, such as the well-characterized hydrogen bonding interaction between Asp 3.32 and the positively charged ligand amine for biogenic amine receptors. Such restraints permit more reliable and accurate positioning of the ligand but are not strictly mandatory.
The Procedure A general outline of the LGM approach is shown in Fig. 15.3 . It consists of three steps: model generation (G) by conformational optimization with seed ligand(s) (Lseed), an optional model compression step (C), and model selection (S) based upon binder (Ltest) versus nonbinder (N) discrimination. Steps G and S provide two different ways to incorporate ligand guidance in the procedure. It is important, however, to point out that either step may be omitted. Multiple models (M0) may be generated without seed ligand, or taken from other sources (experimental or computational) and fed directly into step S . Conversely, if only a single ligand is available (e.g., for a new protein with only one characterized ligand or substrate), step S can be skipped, though L versus N discrimination should preferably be assessed using the single known ligand.
Figure 15.3 The LGM protocol. A general schematic is shown on the left side of the figure, while the right side describes the specific protocol followed in generating agonist-bound p2AR models for VLS. Experimental data that may be gathered from the literature or outside sources are indicated with small book icons, and computational steps are marked with computers.
previous work with flexible ligand docking in internal coordinates [33, 34] . Cavasotto and Abagyan later applied this procedure to flexibly model kinase/ ligand complexes and demonstrated that VLS with a training set can be used as a selection criterion .
1. Treatment of extracellular loops 2 and 3. These loops may be deleted, conformationally sampled, or modeled after ligand placement (for further discussion, see Section 15.3.3).
2. Conformational sampling of the TM helices: selection of movable helices, choice of possible rigid body moves (helix rotation, translation, tilt), and choice of flexible backbone regions (proline kinks). In the simplest case, the helix conformation is fixed.
3. Selection of side chains for sampling. While the region of sampled side chains should be limited, convergence occurs quickly if internal coordinate mechanics is used for simulation.
4. Choice of distance or positional restraints included during the flexible receptor/flexible ligand docking. If experimental data do not support any specific interatomic restraints, simple nonspecific volume restraints can enforce ligand docking within a known binding pocket.
Compressing the Set of Models (C) The compression step is a straightforward one. Two criteria are applied to reduce the number of conformers: (1) geometrical proximity (typically an RMSD cutoff for pocket heavy atoms ranging between 0.2 and 1.5 A), and (2) the energy of the conformer, receptor/ ligand complex, or a binding energy estimate. The first metric ensures structural diversity, while the second eliminates physically unrealistic or strained conformers. Depending upon the cutoff parameters, compression may reduce the number of conformers dramatically.
Selection by VLS (S) The idea to use VLS enrichment as a selection criterion came from the refinement of weights for the docking score energy terms [ 36] . In that approach, VLS enrichment was calculated for 25 sets of true ligands (L) and nonbinders (N), and the weights providing the best discrimination were selected. While performing the calculations, we realized that different models of the same protein may differ dramatically in their ability to distinguish between binders and nonbinders. The capacity of a given model to distinguish true ligands from nonbinders is a very sensitive criterion, particularly when the true and decoy molecules are similar in size and chemical nature.
During the selection step (S), all molecules from sets L and N are docked and scored with each nonredundant model form. Following docking, standard measures of VLS performance are calculated and used to select a model.
Commonly used measures include the median rank of the true positives, the hit rate, or the "area-under-the-curve" (AUC). In this case, the "curve" is a plot of the "number of true positives" versus the number of top-scoring molecules.
1. Multiple conformers are highly selective. There is no requirement that a single conformer is selected. This outcome is particularly interesting if different conformers are selective with respect to different ligands in L.
2. A single highly selective conformer is identified.
3. No conformers impart acceptable selectivity.
The first outcome leads to a multiple receptor conformation (MRC) set for future VLS, the second possibility to a traditional single conformer VLS, and the last case requires reconsidering the model generation steps.
Applications The first practical application of LGM was reported in 2007 . In this study, LGM was used to generate antagonist-bound models of the androgen receptor (AR) from an agonist- bound crystal structure. Starting from an agonist-bound conformation, and two known antagonists (Lseed), thousands of hypothetical antagonist- bound pocket conformers were generated. Each conformer was then tested for the ability to discriminate known AR antagonists from nonbinders in a panel of 88 nuclear receptor ligands. The two AR conformations providing the best enrichment were then employed for VLS of a marketed drugs database. Interestingly, three antipsychotic drugs were identified as "hits" and, subsequently, were experimentally confirmed to exhibit antiandrogenic activity. These nonsteroidal molecules were rationally repurposed to improve AR antagonism and reduce affinity for the dopami-nergic and sterotonergic receptors.
LGM has now been applied to several GPCRs. A bRho-based homology model was constructed for melanin-concentrating hormone receptor (MCHR), a target for obesity therapeutics . Sampling of the receptor side chains and ligand conformation for four distinct antagonist/receptor complexes yielded 800 ligand binding pocket conformers. Following clustering, three final models were selected for optimal VLS enrichment on a small test set of ligands. The best models were used to screen a larger compound library; experimental characterization of 129 predicted "hits" identified six novel compounds with low micromolar affinity. In this case, even a relatively distorted initial homol-ogy model was sufficient to yield productive conformers. Additionally, no experimental data were available to aid ligand placement, demonstrating that unrestrained LGM can enable the discovery of novel ligand chemotypes, even for receptors with limited experimental data. A similar ICM-based protocol was applied with comparable success to the human muscarinic M2 receptor . Initial homology models were constructed with bRho, and the receptor side chains were sampled with several known antagonists to generate a col lection of conformers. More recent work has tested p2AR-based M2 receptor homology models as starting points . Most recently, LGM was assessed in a set of blind predictions for the AA2aR structure . An initial homology model of AA-aR was constructed using p2AR as a template. Roughly 400 additional AA2aR conformers were generated from this model using a combination of heavy atom elastic network normal modes analysis, and flexible sampling of the receptor side chains and docked ligand. These conformers were evaluated for ligand/nonbinder discrimination, and the best models were iteratively refined through the LGM process. Remarkably, LGM yielded an AA2aR model that correctly recapitulates more than 40% of the ligand/recep-tor contacts . The LGM model predicted the largest fraction of correct ligand-receptor contacts of those models evaluated in the blind assessment . Further, this model attains an enrichment factor of 29 for the top 1% of compounds in comparison to an enrichment factor of 20 for the AA2aR crystal-lographic coordinates for VLS on a large test set of 14,000 GPCR ligands. | 2019-04-22T18:54:28 | https://www.pharmacologicalsciences.us/drug-targeting/ligandguided-modeling-of-binding-pocket-conformation.html |
0.999945 | Managing successful business now is not a very big issue because there are many ways and strategies to apply to ensure that you penetrate the competitive business environment and therefore you should not have any excuse. For example, today, you can be sure that you can beat very many companies the role of creating an online presence. There is no limitation because of the many strategies that you can use for example, you can decide to use Facebook, Adwords plus many others because they are the best strategies you can use when it comes to advanced e-commerce marketing. However, it is never easy to do it alone especially considering that there are many things you have to do for you to achieve that. Working with an e-commerce marketer however can make things much easier for you. Given in this article are some guidelines that can be up when choosing the best e-commerce marketer.
It is always important to be confident when you are working with the company when it comes to e-commerce marketing that is why it is relevant for you to look at the previous work. It is important of you to be very careful to visit the website and got for such information and if they are proud of what they will always give you references that is why it is easy for you to decide which companies the best you. Do not forget also engage people around you because they can be of great help on which e-commerce marketer is the best engage for your business because they have engaged them before you, and they can tell you more details.
It is always a good thing that particular time to consider working with an e-commerce marketer always professional in what they do. E-commerce marketing can be very complex sometimes because it requires a lot of analysis and that is required to look at the credentials of the marketer that you want to engage for e-commerce marketing for your business. A professional can help you achieve your goals and that is why before you can engage them to ensure that they can help you get to where you will take your business when it comes to e-commerce marketing.
The market is changing and might find accountant are marketing for you today and that is why you need to consider the experience because they are not trained on marketing, then they need a lot of experience for them to offer what you what you need. What this means is that find an e-commerce marketer with more than five years of experience and will be good to go when it comes to e-commerce marketing. | 2019-04-18T18:45:25 | https://www.homedesigndowney.tk/the-beginners-guide-to-marketers-from-step-1.html |
0.999817 | Have your students explain the operation of this very simple MOSFET circuit, describing how the inverse logic state is generated at the output terminal, from a given input state. Discuss with your students the simplicity of the CMOS inverter, especially contrasted against a TTL inverter circuit.
Explain what specific conditions each protection diode protects against.
Two of the diodes protect against input voltages exceeding the supply rails, while the third diode protects against a reverse-connected power supply.
It is important that students realize these "protection" diodes do not allow circuit designers and builders to disregard good design practices with impunity. Ask your students, in each case, how each protection diode accomplishes its task of protecting the MOSFETs from damage. Does this mean the gate circuit will be able to withstand abnormal conditions indefinitely? Why or why not?
The DIP circuit is a hex inverter (it contains six ïnverter" or "NOT" logic gates), but only one of these gates is being used in this circuit. The student's intent was to build a logic circuit that energized the LED when the pushbutton switch was unactuated, and de-energized the LED when the switch was pressed: so that the LED indicates the reverse state of the switch itself. The student builds this circuit, and it is found to function perfectly well.
Explain the purpose of the resistor on the input of the inverter. What is it there for? What might happen if it were to be removed from the circuit?
Also, explain why the inputs of all the unused inverter gates in this IC have been either connected to ground or to VDD. Is this necessary for the circuit to work properly, or is it just a precautionary measure?
The resistor on the input side of the gate functions as a pulldown, to provide a solid "low" state to the gate's input when the switch contacts open.
Shorting all unused gate inputs to either ground or VDD is merely a precautionary measure. It prevents unnecessary power draw from the supply, and possible IC overheating.
Discuss the problem of "floating" or "high-Z" states with your students, especially in the context of CMOS. What is it about the nature of a CMOS circuit that makes floating inputs especially troublesome? Ask your students to contrast this against floating TTL inputs.
This is a NOR gate.
Follow-up question: identify a series of "thought experiments" you could perform on this circuit schematic to determine the identity of the gate. In other words, document what imagined conditions you would subject this gate to, and what the resulting output states would signify, in answering the question of what type of gate this is.
CMOS logic gate circuits are the easiest of all the gates to analyze internally! Discuss with your students why the second-from-the-top MOSFET uses an independent substrate connection (as opposed to making it common with the source, as usual).
What is the typical power supply voltage range for a CD4xxx series (or MC4xxx series) CMOS logic gate? How does this compare with the allowable power supply voltage range for a standard (5 volt) TTL logic gate? Consult a datasheet for your answer.
3 to 18 VDC is typical, though some integrated circuits may have slightly different ratings.
This question gets students in the habit of consulting datasheets to obtain information on logic gate circuits. Datasheets are a wealth of technical information, and students absolutely have to become adept at referencing them to obtain the information they need to build and troubleshoot logic circuits.
When this logic probe circuit is connected to the VDD and VSS power supply terminals of a powered CMOS circuit, what voltage levels should test points TP1 and TP2 be adjusted to, in order for the probe to properly indicate "high" and "low" CMOS logic states? Consult a datasheet for the quad NAND gate numbered 4011. This is a legacy CMOS integrated circuit.
I'll let you do your own research on this question. DO NOT obtain your answer from a textbook, but consult a manufacturer's datasheet instead! You will find that the acceptable voltage levels vary with the power supply voltage, but that the percentages are rather constant.
Follow-up question: write a formula for calculating appropriate current-limiting resistor sizes for the two LEDs in this circuit, given the value of +V and the LED forward voltage and current values.
The most obvious lesson of this question is to introduce (or review as the case may be) the purpose and operation of a logic probe. However, this question is also a veiled introduction (or review) of CMOS logic levels.
The four pushbutton switches (a, b, c, and d) are accessible to the person wishing to enter the door. The four toggle switches (A, B, C, and D) are located behind the door, and are used to set the code necessary for entering.
Explain how this system is supposed to work. What are the logic states of the respective gate outputs when a matching code is entered through the pushbutton switches? How about when a non-matching code is entered?
Do you see any security problems with this door lock circuit? How easy would it be for someone to enter, who does not know the four-bit code? Do you have any suggestions for improving this lock design?
The most obvious problem with this door lock system is the small number of possible codes. It would be rather easy (especially for someone adept at counting in binary!) to simply try all the possible combinations until they gained access.
Here is what I recommend as a strategy for improving the level of security offered by this system: install a fifth pushbutton switch as an Ënter" key. If someone enters the correct four-bit code and then pushes the Ënter" button, the door will open. However, if someone enters the wrong four-bit code and pushes the Ënter" button, the door will not open and a loud alarm will sound! This makes it "risky" to enter a wrong code, thus improving the security of the system.
Follow-up question: modify the circuit shown to implement an improved measure of security - either the strategy suggested or one of your own design.
I strongly suggest you take the time to implement an improved-security design with your students. A practical project such as this sparks a lot of interest, and thus provides an excellent learning opportunity.
Not only does this question afford the opportunity to analyze logic gates, but it also provides a context in which to review optocouplers and TRIACs. Ask your students what the labels "L1" and "L2" mean, with reference to AC power circuitry, as well.
As far as the basic logic function is concerned, the additional transistors are unnecessary. However, the "buffering" they provide does serve a useful function. What is that function? Are there any disadvantages to buffered logic gates, versus unbuffered?
Buffered gates exhibit better noise immunity than unbuffered gates. One disadvantage to buffering, though, is increased propagation delay time.
Follow-up question: identify the on/off states of all transistors in the buffered circuit for both (high and low) input conditions.
Texas Instruments publishes an excellent application report (SCHA004 - October 2002) comparing buffered versus unbuffered CMOS logic gates. I highly recommend it for your reference.
In the early days of solid-state logic gate circuit technology, there was a very clear distinction between TTL and CMOS. TTL gates were capable of switching on and off very fast, required a tightly regulated power supply voltage, and used a lot of power. CMOS gates were not quite as fast as TTL, but could tolerate a much wider range of power supply voltages and were far less wasteful on power.
Then, during the 1980's a new technology known as high-speed CMOS, or HCMOS, entered the scene. Explain what HCMOS is, how it compares to the older TTL and CMOS families (54/74xx and 4xxx number series, respectively), and where it is often used. Hint: high-speed CMOS bears the same numerical codes as the old TTL 54xx and 74xx series ICs (e.g. 74HC00 instead of 7400).
I'll let you research the answer to this question!
High-speed CMOS was a very important developmental milestone in digital logic gate technology, and it is essential for modern (2005) students of electronics to be aware of since it is so widely used. In many ways it blends the best of the old TTL and CMOS worlds, with few disadvantages.
In high-speed digital circuits, a very important logic gate parameter is propagation delay: the delay time between a change-of-state on a gate's input and the corresponding change-of-state on that gate's output. Consult a manufacturer's datasheet for any CMOS logic gate and report the typical propagation delay times published there.
I'll leave the research of specific propagation time delay figures up to you! The reason propagation delay exists is because transistors cannot turn on and turn off instantaneously. In insulated-gate field-effect transistors, this is primarily due to the time required to charge or discharge the gate-to-channel capacitance.
Explain why this limit exists. What is it about the construction of CMOS logic gates that inherently limits the number of CMOS inputs that any one CMOS output can drive? What might happen if this limit is exceeded?
Fan-out for CMOS is a quite different than fan-out for TTL. Most importantly is that CMOS fan-out is inversely proportional to operating frequency. Explain why.
A fan-out limit for CMOS exists because CMOS outputs have to source and sink capacitive charging and discharging current from the CMOS inputs. I'll let you determine why this limit is frequency-dependent.
Specifically, how much noise margin do digital circuits exclusively composed of CMOS gates have? How does this compare with the noise margin of all-TTL circuitry?
Note: you will need to consult CMOS gate datasheets to answer this question properly.
A trend in CMOS logic gate development is toward lower and lower operating voltages. The ÄUC" family of CMOS logic, for example, is able to operate at less than 2 volts VDD!
Explain why this is a trend in modern logic circuit design. What benefits result from lower operating voltages? What possible disadvantages also result?
Lower operating voltages result in less power dissipation. However, noise margins become "tighter" under the same conditions, which is a disadvantage.
Discuss this trend with your students, citing examples from industry literature if possible. Be sure to ask your students why lower operating voltages reduces power dissipation (with reference to Joule's Law, please!), and also why this reduces noise margins.
Diode D1 fails shorted: Output always in low state, possible damage to circuit when input is forced low by another gate (or switch).
Diode D2 fails shorted: Output always in high state, possible damage to circuit when input is forced high by another gate (or switch).
Transistor Q1 fails open (drain to source): Output cannot source current in high state, but is still able to sink current in low state.
Transistor Q2 fails open (drain to source): Output cannot sink current in low state, but is still able to source current in high state.
Transistor Q1 failed shorted (drain to source).
Transistor Q4 failed open (drain to source).
Transistor Q5 failed open (drain to source).
Transistor Q10 failed shorted (drain to source).
Discuss with them why this approach may be helpful in determining possible component faults in the integrated circuit.
Both switches LOW, no light.
One switch HIGH, the other switch LOW; LED lights up.
One switch LOW, the other switch HIGH; LED lights up.
Both switches HIGH, no light.
Instead of acting as a NAND gate should, it seems to behave as if it were an Exclusive-OR gate! Examining the circuit for mistakes, the student discovers missing power connections to the chip - in other words, neither VDD nor VSS are connected to the power source.
While this certainly is a problem, the student is left to wonder, "How did the circuit ever function at all?" With no power connected to the chip, how is it possible that the LED ever lit in any condition?
The chip's internal input protection diodes allowed the switch inputs to supply operating power to the MOSFET transistors.
As an instructor of electronics, I've seen students make this mistake countless times. What is particularly troublesome about this error is the seemingly intermittent behavior of the chip. Without power supplied to the chip, most students assume there would be no function at all. So when they see the chip functioning adequately in some of its circuit's states, they are inclined to assume power is not an issue!
In CMOS circuitry, one side of the DC power supply is usually labeled as "VDD", while the other side is labeled as "VSS". Why is this? What do the subscripts "DD" and "SS" represent?
The labels VDD and VSS are supposed to mean "power supply to drain and source sides of MOSFETs, respectively. This nomenclature is actually a holdover from obsolete NMOS gate designs, which used N-channel MOSFETS exclusively. Even though it doesn't make much sense in CMOS circuits (you'll see why if you examine the internal schematic diagram for a CMOS gate), it is the standard way of denoting power supply terminals for CMOS circuits.
Follow-up question: what polarities do these respective labels represent?
Ahhh, the vestiges of yesterday's technology! What can I say? Sometimes terms ßtick" even when it makes little sense for them to.
Is this gate circuit configured to source load current, sink load current, or do both?
In this particular case, the way the load (LED) is connected to the output of the gate, the gate will only sink current. However, the gate is capable of sourcing current to a load, if only the load were connected differently.
Follow-up question: re-draw the circuit to show the gate sourcing current to an LED load.
This very important concept is best understood from the perspective of conventional current flow notation. The terms seem backward when electron flow notation is used to track current through the output transistor.
Normally, it would be considered good design practice to connect a commutating diode in parallel with the relay coil, to prevent high-voltage transients when the coil is de-energized. However, this is not necessary when a CMOS gate drives a coil. Explain why.
If you thought the answer to this question was, "because MOSFET transistors are immune to damage from high-voltage transients," you were wrong. If anything, MOSFETs are even more susceptible to damage from high-voltage transients than BJTs, given their thinly insulated gates.
The correct answer has to do with the bilateral (non polarity-sensitive) nature of MOSFETs when conducting. Trace the direction of current through the relay coil while energized, and at the point in time when the gate output switches to a "low" state, and you will understand why no commutating diode is necessary in this circuit.
By examining one of the ancillary benefits of using CMOS instead of TTL, students get a good review of inductor and transistor theory. Ask your students to explain why a TTL gate would require the relay coil to have a commutating diode, lest the gate be destroyed by inductive "kickback."
A problem unique to certain types of CMOS logic gates is something called SCR latchup. This is an abnormal condition capable of ruining a circuit, or at the very least causing operational problems in a circuit. Explain what this phenomenon is, and what causes it.
If an input or output of a CMOS gate circuit is driven above VDD, even momentarily, the circuit may "latch" like an SCR, causing VDD to become shorted to VSS internally. This is made possible by the way CMOS transistors are manufactured on the integrated circuit's substrate.
Challenge question: referencing a cross-sectional illustration of a CMOS gate integrated circuit, show the "SCR" formed by the transistors, and explain how it may be "fired" by excessive input voltage to the gate.
Based on their knowledge of thyristors, your students should be able to tell you how to best ünlatch" a CMOS gate stuck in this condition. Challenge them with this problem, and also with the question of how one might detect such a condition as it's happening.
Mention to your students that not all CMOS families exhibit this problem, and that manufacturers have been keen to address serious design faults such as these. If nothing else, though, this should reinforce the lesson that one should never exceed the supply rail voltage for any type of active circuit, be it an op-amp, gate, or something else, unless expressly permitted by the manufacturer. | 2019-04-21T00:52:33 | http://www.learningelectronics.net/worksheets/cmos.html |
0.999986 | What is an objective game review?
An objective game review is a review that is not based on the reviewer’s opinion. Most game reviewers only tell you what the reviewer thinks about the video game, but because people have different opinions, you can never be sure if the review is correct or not. An objective game review is always correct.
How do you assign an objective score to a game?
To assign a score to a game, we objectively determine which number, on a scale from one to ten, best represents the game. This number takes into consideration all of the relevant information about the game, including the game’s graphics and its story.
I disagree with one of your reviews – what makes you right and me wrong?
It’s not a matter of right and wrong – we’re just doing different things. The reviews we write and the scores we assign are objective, and if you disagree with one of them, it is probably because you have an opinion about the game that does not match the objective fact. Everyone has opinions, and that’s fine, but you shouldn’t expect your opinions always to match with the objective fact any more than you should expect your favorite foods to be the most healthy ones.
How do I know that these reviews are actually objective?
We pride ourselves on having completely objective game reviews. If you believe there is anything in our reviews that is subjective, send an email to us at [email protected] and we will correct the error, if it exists.
If you have an objective way of reviewing games and assigning scores, why can’t you tell me what it is so I can verify that it’s objective?
Other video game reviews are subjective, which means they are based on the opinion of the reviewer. Opinions are unique to each person: your opinion is different from everyone else’s opinion, even if only a little bit. This means that each reviewer can be open about where their review score comes from: it comes from their own opinion.
Our reviews are different. Because our reviews are objective, they do not differ from person to person. This means that if we told everyone how to write objective reviews, there would be nothing stopping them from starting their own objective review site! We pride ourselves on providing the most objective game reviews online, but to do this we need to be circumspect about how we arrive at the correct, objective conclusion.
Why do your scores differ from Metacritic’s scores?
First, Metacritic weights review scores: a 7 out of 10 review from one reviewer is not necessarily the same as a 7 out of 10 from another reviewer when the two review scores are plugged into the formula that determines the final score. Metacritic not only hides this weighting information – it also determines the weights subjectively!
Second, some reviewers do not assign number or letter scores to their reviews, so in these cases, Metacritic just subjectively makes up a number.
Third, Metacritic’s list of game reviewers that they use to compile their score is subjectively chosen by Metacritic. Not all game review sites are listed on Metacritic, and there are no objective criteria for which sites count – just an assertion that only so-called “high quality” sites are accepted.
Fourth, Metacritic only compiles scores from typical game reviewers, who assign subjective scores and write subjective reviews. No matter how many subjective reviews you add up, you will never get objectivity. Adding many opinions together does not equal fact. You can never pick enough oranges to make an apple pie: if you want an apple pie, you need to start with apples.
Why are you missing a review for a specific game?
Objective Game Reviews launched on January 1st, 2014. Since then, we’ve been reviewing all sorts of games. As time goes on, we will fill out our catalog of reviews to include as many games as we can. If there is a particular game you would love to see us review, contact us and let us know!
Twine Tuesdays are every Tuesday. On Twine Tuesday, we post an objective review of a Twine game. If you have a Twine game you’d like us to review, contact us and let us know about it!
What is Subjective Reviewer of the Month?
Each month, we feature an interview with someone who writes subjective game reviews, to highlight the difference between what we do and what other game reviewers do and to help bring a spotlight to people writing the other kind of reviews in a way that helps people understand the difference between the two kinds of reviews and the people who write them. | 2019-04-19T17:04:53 | http://www.objectivegamereviews.com/faq/ |
0.999558 | It seems like this was based on data collected around 2010-2011, so things may have changed. For those who have taken the test more recently, does this seem to be accurate? In particular, are there actually few enough questions about multi that it's a good idea to focus more on getting faster at single-variable calc + linear algebra instead?
A lot of what this page says is correct, especially with regards to "compute first, think later". However, I think the page very much underestimates the "Other materials" section. On GR1768, I counted 6 problems having to do with groups and rings alone, and there were plenty of real analysis / topology questions to match. Also, complex analysis is more than just residues (it's worth noting that both GR1768 and GR0568 do not have a single complex integral) --- you also need to understand basic functions of complex variables and the Cauchy-Riemann equations, among potentially other topics.
It's also important to understand that the proportions tend to vary from test to test. I've taken tests where there wasn't a single topology question (as far as I could tell at the time, at least!), and I've taken others where there were two or three. So, trying too hard to guess how many questions of what type there will be may not be productive. Take what you see with a grain of salt. That being said, you're absolutely right that facility with calculus and linear algebra will be essential to doing well on the test, so yes it's essential to have those down. | 2019-04-25T14:25:27 | http://www.mathematicsgre.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4546&p=19252 |
0.99997 | 1. Place the spinach in a pan over medium heat and cook until wilted.
2. Heat a knob of butter in a pan and add the chopped onion. Cook until soft, transfer to a bowl and add the wilted spinach.
3. Add the ricotta, Parmesan and 2 eggs and season with salt and pepper.
4. Brush the filo pastry sheets with butter and lay them at an angle.
5. Place the filo sheets in a buttered dish.
6. Fill the filo pastry with the spinach and ricotta mix.
7. Place the remaining eggs on top of the mixture.
8. Bake in hot oven for 35 minutes and serve. | 2019-04-24T22:07:17 | https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/lifestyle/food/85784/torta_pasqualina_ |
0.999999 | Should Cesc Fabregas choose Manchester United or Arsenal?
Barcelona midfielder Cesc Fabregas has been linked with a sensational move to Premier League champions Manchester United.
Fabregas' chances at the Nou Camp have been limited since his arrival two seasons ago, and following Barcelona's capture of Brazilian superstar Neymar, the Spaniard could look for a move to ensure regular football.
David Moyes has reportedly targeted the midfielder as his number one priority and has lined up a £40m bid. The Scot is looking to stamp down a signal of intent with a major signing and Cesc fits the bill, his calibre and Premier League experience vital factors.
But it is not just United that are interested, Fabregas is drawing strong interest from his former club Arsenal. The Gunners have a buy-back clause in his contract and will be offered first refusal should Barca decide to offload the player.
The former Arsenal captain was a fans' favourite at the Emirates Stadium, becoming the club's youngest ever captain - and it was in north London where the 25-year-old has played his best football of his career thus far.
Linking up with former compatriot Robin van Persie at Manchester United could be very appealing: during their times at Arsenal, the pair produced an almost telepathic relationship at times.
Van Persie's decision to quit the Gunners last season for bitter rivals United resulted in a title win in his first season. The Dutchman had only won one FA Cup during his eight-year spell under Arsene Wenger.
Fabregas may also be swayed by the strong chance of regular football. Following Paul Scholes' retirement there is a gap in United's midfield, a potentially mouth-watering partnership with Michael Carrick could be a real attraction.
Unlike Arsenal, Old Trafford will present Cesc with an entirely new challenge. He will be arriving at a club that is proven in winning trophies and he may feel that he can become a real talisman. Something he has found hard at Barcelona; not surprising, though, when the Catalan club boast Lionel Messi in their ranks.
Likewise, though, returning to London would similarly see Cesc once again become the club's main man.
Throughout his time with the Gunners Wenger would often build teams around the Spanish international and, in doing so, Cesc truly flourished.
Fabregas has repeatedly expressed his admiration for his former boss and claims that he is like a second father, an opportunity to once again work with Wenger may pave the way for a move back.
There is a familiarity in returning to the Emirates and he could pave the way for more stars to follow him to London.
The likes of Gonzalo Higuain, Wayne Rooney and Marouane Fellaini have been linked as Wenger finally looks ready to plough through a £70m war chest. A midfield of Fabregas, Fellaini and Jack Wilshere would also put fright into any opposition.
The Barcelona playmaker may remain in Spain for at least one more season but should he return to England, will he be moving north or south? | 2019-04-23T16:45:17 | https://www.givemesport.com/351108-should-cesc-fabregas-choose-manchester-united-or-arsenal |
0.999992 | Lil Wayne Defines "Mixtape Weezy" and Talks 2 Chainz and B.G.
with DJ Drama, but how exactly does Weezy get into mixtape mode? In a recent phone interview with Drama for Hot 107.9 in Atlanta, Wayne elaborated on the idea of "Mixtape Weezy," a term first coined by Jay-Z on his 2009 single "D.O.A. (Death of Autotune)."
"To me personally," Wayne reveals, "it means that when I'm doing an album, when I'm doing a song I stay on subject and I make sure that I'm saying things on the song that will still [make sense out of context]. I put all that type of thought into making a song when I'm making an album. When it comes to making a mixtape, I don't put half of that thought into it. I just go for whatever comes to my mind and I make it make sense and that's how it goes," he said.
Asked about which of his many mixtapes are his favorites, Wayne name-checked Dedication 2, No Ceilings and SQ6 with The Sqad.
Weezy also talked about watching his old friend 2 Chainz perform on tour with Nicki Minaj. The two famously collaborated on the 2007 Playaz Circle song "Duffle Bag Boy."
Tunechi later touched on another one of his old friends who isn't doing so well. B.G., one of Wayne's original Cash Money bretheren, is set to do a 14-year prison sentence and Wayne said he was confident that his Hot Boys comrade would be able to weather the storm. | 2019-04-25T11:47:41 | https://www.bet.com/news/music/2012/08/02/lil-wayne-defines-mixtape-weezy-and-talks-2-chainz-bg.html |
0.992277 | While the last decade or two has brought it more recognition, cremation services in Dentsville(MD) are still somewhat of an uncommon entity. However, it is fast becoming a more economical means of final disposition for deceased loved ones. Do you know how to go about planning for Dentsville(MD) cremation services when someone close to you dies? There is a certain sequence of events that must occur in order for this option to come into play.
Cremation Services in Dentsville(MD)- What to Do When Death Occurs?
When your loved one dies, medical authorities such as the attending physician or a medical examiner must verify the death as well as the cause. In the event death occurs after a long illness, the nursing home, hospital or personal physician in attendance calls the death. An unexpected or accidental death may require calling 911 which leads to a medical examiner handling the deceased. Before Dentsville(MD) cremation services commence, once one of the above scenarios is carried out, the funeral establishment of your choice handles the transportation of the body to the crematory. You must make a formal identification of your deceased loved one's body in the presence of the funeral director.
Once your loved one is transported to the funeral establishment of your choice and identified formally in the presence of the director, there are certain pieces of information you will need to bring with you in order to set the plans for cremation services in Dentsville(MD) in motion. You will need to provide your deceased loved one's full legal name, last address, marital status, date and place of birth, social security number, parent names, occupation and a list of next of kin. If the deceased was in the military at one time, their service dates and serial number are needed too. All of this information is required in order to complete the death certificate which the funeral establishment handles. Before Dentsville(MD) cremation services are started, this paperwork must be filled out with medical data and signed by the deceased's physician and then filed with the Division of Vital Records.
There are no state laws that implicitly require embalming. There are a few circumstances when it might be suggested though. For instance, if the deceased's body has to be shipped to or from another state, embalming may be required. If you choose to have a public viewing or wake before Dentsville(MD) cremation services, embalming might be mandated by the funeral establishment.
Embalming helps keep a deceased loved one's body from decomposing too quickly. While there is only a twelve hour waiting period after death before cremation services in Dentsville(MD) can happen, more time is often required in order to complete the planning and paperwork involved. Embalming essentially buys you the time needed to set things into motion. If you are choosing a direct cremation route with no public viewing before a memorial or funeral service, embalming is not needed, even if you wish to visit with the deceased before Dentsville(MD) cremation services commence.
When your deceased loved one is received by the crematory, they have an identification tag placed with them. This ensures that the cremated remains you receive afterward are indeed your deceased loved one. The tag is removed only when the deceased is placed into the cremation chamber. Because only one body at a time can undergo cremation services in Dentsville(MD) within the chamber, there is little to no chance of a mix-up. Once the cremated remains are removed from the chamber and cooled, the identification tag is placed with them for the remainder of the process.
Choosing an Urn - Is It Necessary for Dentsville(MD) Cremation Services?
If you are planning to scatter your loved one's ashes after cremation, you don't necessarily need an urn to house the remains. The crematory, as a default, places the ashes in a temporary container that is leak-proof. If a scattering ceremony does not happen right away after cremation services in Dentsville(MD), you can hold onto the filled temporary container.
However, if the cremated remains are to be buried in a memorial garden or cemetery plot, a decorative urn of some sort is required. There are many styles to choose from including simple wooden boxes to elaborate cloisonn� containers. An urn would also be necessary if you plan to hold onto the ashes after Dentsville(MD) cremation services and display them in an honored spot in your home or even store them in a columbarium.
There is no right or wrong choices in regards to funeral or memorial services. You could have a public viewing before cremation services in Dentsville(MD) along with a funeral service. Or, you could choose direct cremation and hold a memorial ceremony, displaying the urn of cremated remains, at a later date. You choose what is best for family and friends as well as your finances. Contact a funeral specialist to help you with Dentsville(MD) cremation services so that there is a smoother transition from death to memorialization. | 2019-04-24T04:09:44 | https://www.heritagecremationprovider.com/cremation-services-costs/maryland/dentsville |
0.998343 | At dawn, in a stuffy and smoky second-class carriage in which five people had already spent the night, a bulky woman in deep mourning was hosted in—almost like a shapeless bundle. Behind her—puffing and moaning, followed her husband—a tiny man; thin and weakly, his face death-white, his eyes small and bright and looking shy and uneasy.
"You should thank God that your son is only leaving now for the front. Mine has been sent there the first day of the war. He has already come back twice wounded and been sent back again to the front."
"Yes," answered the other, getting cross, "a son left to console him but also a son left for whom he must survive, while in the case of the father of an only son if the son dies the father can die too and put an end to his distress. Which of the two positions is worse? Don't you see how my case would be worse than yours?"
"Nonsense, "he repeated, trying to cover his mouth with his hand so as to hide the two missing front teeth. "Nonsense. Do we give life to our own children for our own benefit?"
"Bosh," retorted the fat traveler. "Do we think of the country when we give life to our children? Our sons are born because...well, because they must be born and when they come to life they take our own life with them. This is the truth. We belong to them but they never belong to us. And when they reach twenty they are exactly what we were at their age. We too had a father and mother, but there were so many other things as well...girls, cigarettes, illusions, new ties...and the Country, of course, whose call we would have answered—when we were twenty—even if father and mother had said no. Now, at our age, the love of our Country is still great, of course, but stronger than it is the love of our children. Is there any one of us here who wouldn't gladly take his son's place at the front if he could?"
"Why then," continued the fat man, "should we consider the feelings of our children when they are twenty? Isn't it natural that at their age they should consider the love for their Country (I am speaking of decent boys, of course) even greater than the love for us? Isn't it natural that it should be so, as after all they must look upon us as upon old boys who cannot move any more and must sit at home? If Country is a natural necessity like bread of which each of us must eat in order not to die of hunger, somebody must go to defend it. And our sons go, when they are twenty, and they don't want tears, because if they die, they die inflamed and happy (I am speaking, of course, of decent boys). Now, if one dies young and happy, without having the ugly sides of life, the boredom of it, the pettiness, the bitterness of disillusion...what more can we ask for him? Everyone should stop crying; everyone should laugh, as I do...or at least thank God—as I do—because my son, before dying, sent me a message saying that he was dying satisfied at having ended his life in the best way he could have wished. That is why, as you see, I do not even wear mourning..."
"Quite so...quite so..." agreed the others.
The woman who, bundled in a corner under her coat, had been sitting and listening had—for the last three months—tried to find in the words of her husband and her friends something to console her in her deep sorrow, something that might show her how a mother should resign herself to send her son not even to death but to a probable danger of life. Yet not a word had she found amongst the many that had been said...and her grief had been greater in seeing that nobody—as she thought—could share her feelings.
She lifted her head, she bent over from her corner trying to listen with great attention to the details which the fat man was giving to his companions about the way his son had fallen as a hero, for his King and his Country, happy and without regrets. It seemed to her that she had stumbled into a world she had never dreamt of, a world so far unknown to her, and she was so pleased to hear everyone joining in congratulating that brave father who could so stoically speak of his child's death.
"Then...is your son really dead?" | 2019-04-22T06:20:45 | http://listentogenius.com/author.php/333 |
0.998844 | Some day, it's all got to come to an end. Which famous bands famously bid farewell onstage?
“Don’t be sad it’s over, be happy that it happened.” Ian Brown appeared to lower the curtain on the Roses reunion at this show at Glasgow’s Hampden Park - while no official announcement about this being the Manchester legends’ final show was forthcoming, it seems pretty final to us.
This lacklustre end to a particularly gruelling US tour was The Fab Four's last PAYING gig, amid dwindling audiences and death threats from the Ku Klux Klan over those "bigger than Jesus" comments . They of course played on the rooftop of Apple Studios in January 1969, but that was so they had an ending for their Let It Be film. The last song played at Candlestick Park was a cover of Little Richard's Long Tall Sally. “It’s been wonderful being here,” said Paul.
This show at London's Brixton Academy was the band's last public paying show to date, apart from a few TV appearances. Bassist Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce supported Morrissey at his first solo show in December 1988 at Wolverhampton's Civic Hall, but the original four members still haven't played together onstage.
V2009 - Could this be the last ever live performance featuring Liam and Noel together on stage? Only time will tell.
The tragically early death of Adam "MCA" Yauch in 2012 brought the career of the NYC hip hop trio to a premature end. Their last show was at the Bonnaroo Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, where they ended their set with Sabotage, dedicated to MCA's cousin Eric Yauch.
A month before Kurt Cobain's death, the band bowed out forever with a performance of Heart Shaped Box at Terminal 1 at the old Munich Airport. Earlier in the gig, the power had failed, prompting bassist Krist Novoselic to comment: "Grunge is dead". Kurt had bronchitis that night and his voice was all but gone by the end of the show, which was curtailed. They cancelled the next night's gig and the singer was hospitalised three days later after a suicide attempt.
"Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" The famous last show with Sid Vicious was on 14 January 1978 at Winterland in San Francisco, which ended a turbulent and chaotic US tour. The original line-up - with Glen Matlock on bass - got back together for a reunion show on 23 June 1996 at Finsbury Park.
The legendary Manchester band performed their last show at High Hall in Birmingham University shortly before they were due to head to America to promote their second album, Closer. Singer Ian Curtis was tired and affected by his epilepsy and stumbled off stage after performing the song Decades live for the first and last time. He returned to the stage and the last song Joy Division ever played was their debut track for the Factory label, Digital. Two weeks later, Curtis committed suicide. The gig was released on the 1981 album Still. | 2019-04-19T22:38:38 | https://www.radiox.co.uk/features/final-gigs-by-legendary-bands/ |
0.999987 | Articulate the national EHR mandate.
The ONC-Coordinated Federal Health Information Technology Strategic Plan: 2008-2012 outlines the goals, objectives, and strategies set forth by different federal agencies to help develop a new health information technology infrastructure. The objective of the plan is to develop a patient centered health care system that improves the health of communities and the Nation (Department of Health and Human Services [DHHS], 2008).
Describe the current plan and status of your healthcare facility.
I work for an orthopedic hospital that originally was part of a large healthcare organization. Through a joint venture with the original organization we created our own hospital dedicated to orthopedic care. Before we broke out on our own, we enjoyed an efficient electronic medical record system. This system coordinated and shared information with departments such as, laboratory, pharmacy, dietary, respiratory, physical therapy and others. It also allowed for computer charting by nurses and physicians.
The computer system that was put in place after we became a separate hospital was originally designed in the 1980s for use by financial institutions. This system was later modified to be used in healthcare. It is an expensive, inefficient system that frequently fails. The system is often down for maintenance, which results in the staff communicating with different departments by phone and fax. During these times the nurses resort to paper charting to document patient care.
Our system also does not communicate well with other departments. For example, if I place an order for a venous duplex I will need to call to verify the order was seen by the ultrasound department. This creates delays in care and is a patient safety issue. Another problem is with our lab interface. When blood samples have been collected and documented in the computer, the results will show as the time these labs were ordered. It will not show the time that they were received.
This has caused problems between nurses and physicians when a physician believes that he/she was not notified promptly of an abnormal lab result. As a result of this, nurses must spend additional time communicating with physicians, and documenting the facts of the story (Plemmons, 2012).
There are also difficulties in obtaining information from other health care facilities when we need information on a patient’s past procedures or tests. Frequently we must call another facility and obtain that information through fax transmittal. This creates a potential breach of confidentiality through telephone or fax. Each floor at our facility has one fax machine that is shared by everyone in the department. With multiple users sharing the same fax machine, you do not know who is going to reach the fax machine before you do. It would be better if there was a secure way to transmit information such as email (Morris & Thompson, 2012). | 2019-04-26T05:50:10 | https://www.snipperoo.com/essay/electronic-health-records-72019a54-f7c7-4f6b-a910-d50a1bec06e7 |
0.999998 | The issue of copyright in broadcasts is again in the headlines, with the recent decision over Optus' TV Now service (Singtel Optus Pty Ltd v National Rugby League Investments Pty Ltd (No 2) FCA 34).
What was the dispute over Optus' TV Now all about?
The Australian Football League and National Rugby League partnership own the copyright in broadcasts made on free to air television of games played between teams in their respective competitions. Telstra has an exclusive licence from the AFL and NRL to exploit free to air broadcasts of live and pre-recorded AFL and NRL games on the internet and mobile telephony.
In mid-July 2011, Optus began a new service called TV Now. Optus' TV Now service enables its customers (who are private as well as business customers) to record free to air TV programs, including AFL and NRL games, (the recordings are stored on Optus' cloud storage platform) and, at a later time, stream the recorded programs to their devices for viewing on any one of four compatible devices: PCs, Apple devices, Android devices and 3G devices.
Telstra and the sports organisations argued that Optus infringed their copyright by making unauthorised recordings of their sports broadcasts and then made unauthorised communications of these recording to their customers. Optus contended that it was their users (not Optus) that made the recordings, and that playback of these broadcasts did not infringe copyright because they fell within the section 111 of Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) exception for recording broadcasts for private or domestic use.
Question 1: When the user clicked the "record" button on his compatible device, did Optus or the user make the recordings of the broadcast?
Justice Rares found that when the user clicked the "record" button, the user alone did the acts involved in recording the copyright works on Optus' equipment. He found that the TV Now service is "substantially no different from a VCR or DVR", and while Optus provided all the significant technology for making, keeping and playing the recording, this was no different to a person using equipment in his/her home or elsewhere to record a broadcast.
He supported his decision by pointing to appeal courts in the United States and Singapore that had reached similar results, and by drawing an analogy to the High Court decision in University of New South Wales v Moorhouse HCA 26 where Justice Gibbs suggested that it was "impossible to hold" that the University did the act of photocopying when the student copied part of a book in its library.
Question 2: If the user made the recordings, was recording the films an infringement of copyright?
Here Justice Rares found that the user did not infringe copyright in any of the works because he or she made the recordings of those broadcasts to time-shift them solely for private and domestic use, within the meaning of sections 111(1) and (2) of the Act.
He could not find any evidence to suggest that any user had a purpose other than that of wanting to watch that game for his/her own private and domestic use and pleasure. Further, users had agreed with the terms and conditions of the TV Now service that stipulated that the service was for the user's "individual and personal use", limiting the use of the service to a non-infringing use that complied with the purposes set out in s 111(1). Justice Rares suggested that the recordings were made by the user to watch at a time he considered to be more convenient than when the live broadcasts occurred, even if only by minutes.
The rightholders argued that the use by small to medium businesses was outside the scope of the purpose in section 111(1) because such a business could not have a private or domestic use for such films. In response, Justice Rares suggested that even though small to medium business subscribers could sign on for the TV Now service, as a matter of practicality, the only persons who could obtain access to the service would be employees of, or individuals involved in, the businesses. Since a corporation cannot look at the film or operate the mobile device/PC, whoever signed up for the service must have been an individual, and it is that person's use, not the corporation's or business', that is relevant for the purposes of section 111(1).
Question 3: When the user clicked the "play" button to view a recording, did Optus or the user cause one or more different infringements of the rightholders' copyright to occur when the recording was streamed to the user's compatible device in the appropriate format?
Justice Rares held that the user of the TV Now service, not Optus, was responsible for electronically transmitting, or making available online, the recording he had recorded since when the user clicked the "play" button to watch the recorded film, he caused it to be streamed to his compatible device.
The rightholders, relying on the reasoning in Telstra Corporation Ltd v Australasian Performing Right Association Ltd HCA 41, argued that any communications were "to the public" within the meaning of sections 86(c) and 87(c) of the Act. Justice Rares rejected this argument, suggesting that the impact of a user communicating the recording or film to his compatible device lacks the element of commercial detriment to the rightholders that Telstra's customers caused by contracting for the music on hold to be played.
Justice Rares found that no communication "to the public" can occur if the user made the recording he communicates by clicking the "play" button, "solely for private and domestic use by watching or listening to the material broadcast at a time more convenient than the time when the broadcast is made" within the meaning of s 111. The recording is a communication that can only be made by the person who made the recording or others invited by him to watch it. He found that the fact that the user may be with one or more persons when watching (usually family or friends), does not convert its private and domestic nature to being that of a communication "to the public".
Ultimately, Justice Rares found that Optus' TV Now service did not infringe copyright in the broadcasts of the AFL and NRL games in the particular ways the rightholders alleged. Some other issues still need to be resolved, such as, technical issues in relation to Optus' technology for Apple devices.
Proceedings are adjourned so that the parties can agree on the formal orders that need to be made to reflect the Court's decision. Leave has already been granted for Telstra and the sports organisations to appeal to the Full Federal Court.
Clearly, if this decision is upheld on appeal, the value of internet and mobile telephony rights will be seriously jeopardised. | 2019-04-25T10:27:33 | https://www.claytonutz.com/knowledge/2012/february/tv-now-copyright-later-why-the-federal-court-found-for-optus |
0.999999 | Do the people of Scotland want independence?
The Scotland bill currently working its way through parliament would be used to give Holyrood the chance to control the crunch vote on Scotland's future in - or out - of the UK.
Its section 30 order, which gives ministers in London the power to devolve any responsibility at their discretion, might be utilised to hand over responsibility for the referendum, the BBC reported.
Such a move might make it easier for the Scottish Nationalist party to support the Scotland bill, which will extend Holyrood's control over spending tax revenues. The SNP wants it to go further.
Deputy prime minister Ni`ck Clegg was asked about the referendum issue in the Commons earlier this week by Labour backbencher Ann McKechin, who asked whether the Electoral Commission should supervise "any future referendum held in the UK or in any part of it".
Mr Clegg answered: "Clearly, any referendum needs to be held in a way that enjoys public trust and is fair and objective, on whatever subject and in whatever part of the United Kingdom."
Yesterday outgoing civil service chief Sir Gus O'Donnell warned that the independence question was one of the "enormous challenges" faced by Britain in the coming years. The SNP has pledged to hold a referendum at some stage between 2013 and 2016.
New Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont called for the referendum to take place sooner rather than later.
She said: "The people of Scotland should make this choice in a referendum, but the only thing standing between them and that referendum is Alex Salmond.
"The SNP won a mandate to ask the people of Scotland, and they should get on with it: one straight question, yes or no, so we can end the uncertainty and get on with improving the lives of the people."
Mr Salmond said the SNP was "up for the challenge" of winning over the Scottish people on independence. | 2019-04-22T12:14:35 | https://www.politics.co.uk/news/2011/12/23/scotland-may-be-handed-referendum-power |
0.999975 | Please categorize images into subcategories listed below.
Images relating to plays, dramas and the written word are collected under Category:Performing arts and Drama.
Playwrights, directors and actors are collected under Theatrical occupations.
Images relating to types of practical production are collected under Theatrical genres.
Pictures of specific productions should be categorized under the relevant Theatre by country category.
Images relating to the art of creating theatrical performance environments, using space, set, costume, sound, lighting, etc., are collected under Scenography.
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Bu sayfa son olarak 2 Mayıs 2018 tarihinde ve 12.48 saatinde düzenlenmiştir. | 2019-04-24T08:49:09 | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Theatre?uselang=tr |
0.999993 | What are the cardiovascular risks associated with drinking alcohol?
Research is being done to find out what the apparent benefits of drinking wine or alcohol in some populations may be due to, including the role of antioxidants, an increase in HDL ("good") cholesterol or anti-clotting properties. Clinical trials of other antioxidants such as vitamin E have not shown any cardio-protective effect. Also, even if they were protective, antioxidants can be obtained from many fruits and vegetables, including red grape juice.
What about alcohol and pregnancy?
Pregnant women shouldn't drink alcohol in any form. It can harm the baby seriously, including causing birth defects.
What about alcohol and aspirin?
There is a risk of stomach problems, including stomach bleeding, for people who take aspirin regularly. Alcohol use can increase these stomach risks, so ask your doctor if it is safe for you to drink alcohol in moderation.
I drink every day, but not that much. Is that unhealthy?
The incidence of heart disease in those who drink moderate amounts of alcohol (no more than two drinks per day for men or one drink per day for women) is lower than in nondrinkers. However, with increased intake of alcohol, there are increased health dangers including high blood pressure, obesity, stroke.
If you're a heavy drinker, statistics show that cutting back can help reduce your stroke risk. Be informed about the risks when you take a drink and take steps to prevent stroke from happening to you or someone you love.
I have heard that drinking a glass of wine a day is good for the heart. Is this true if you have diabetes? Are the benefits of alcohol limited to wine or can I drink other types of alcohol? Can alcohol have an adverse effect on my glucose levels?
For all people, alcohol can lower blood sugar. So for people with diabetes, it is recommended that any alcohol be consumed with a meal. In all cases, alcohol still contains calories, so remember to include it in the meal plan (one alcoholic drink is 1 fat exchange). If further help is needed, seek the help of a registered dietitian. | 2019-04-23T04:58:45 | https://atgprod.heart.org/HEARTORG/HealthyLiving/HealthyEating/Nutrition/Alcohol-and-Heart-Disease_UCM_305173_Article.jsp |
0.999999 | After getting in a car accident, Michelle awakens to find herself in a mysterious bunker with two men named Howard and Emmett. Howard offers her a pair of crutches to help her remain mobile with her leg injury sustained from the car crash and tells her to "get good on those" before leaving the bunker. She has been given the information that there has been an alien attack and the outside world is poisoned. However, Howard and Emmett's intentions soon become questionable and Michelle is faced with a question: Is it better in here or out there?
With her car rammed by a heavy truck after fleeing a dead-end relationship and her hometown of New Orleans, the hopeful young designer, Michelle, regains consciousness only to find herself inexplicably handcuffed to the cinder-block wall of cryptic Howard's underground bunker. The grizzled survivalist claims he has saved Michelle not only from the obvious car crash, but also from an indistinguishable airborne toxic threat that rendered the air unbreathable, and the earth uninhabitable. Could Howard be telling the truth, or is this mysterious--or even, hypothetical--danger, a deceitful pretence for something far more sinister?
After breaking up with her boyfriend Ben, Michelle drives away from New Orleans. While in rural Louisiana, she hears news reports of blackouts in several major cities before she is sideswiped by a truck and knocked off the road, falling unconscious. Michelle wakes in a locked room within an underground bunker, her wounds tended to. Howard, the bunker's owner, tells her he brought her there for her protection, claiming that the air outside has been poisoned by nuclear or chemical fallout from an unknown force..
In the opening scene, a woman named Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is looking outside her window. She's on the phone with someone, arguing. Michelle then packs a bunch of her belongings and leaves her home.
Michelle drives far from the city down to the rural area. Her fiance Ben (voice of Bradley Cooper) calls her. She answers but only lets him talk and say how sorry he is, and that she shouldn't leave him just like that. Michelle hangs up. Ben calls again, and Michelle takes her eyes off the road for a second when her car gets slammed by a truck, causing her to roll into a ditch.
Michelle wakes up with a head wound in a small room with a needle in her arm that's hooked to a saline drip. To her horror, she sees her leg is chained to a pipe. She grabs her saline drip pole and pulls her phone toward her to call for help. Unfortunately, there is no signal. Someone comes downstairs to open the door to the room. It is a man named Howard (John Goodman). He claims to have rescued Michelle from the car accident and is keeping her alive. Howard offers Michelle a pair of wooden crutches to help her remain mobile with her leg injury sustained from the car crash, and tells her to "get good on those" before leaving the room.
Michelle sets about carving the tip of one of the crutches to sharpen it into a weapon to attack Howard with. The next time Howard shows up, Michelle tries to stab him with the sharpened crutch unsuccessfully, but Howard quickly grabs and sedates her.
When she comes to, Howard calmly explains to Michelle that there has been an attack on the surface, and that the air up there is unbreathable, so he brought Michelle down to the bunker beneath his farm. Howard brings Michelle up to the airlock to see what's going on outside. Nothing appears unusual, but Michelle spots Howard's truck with red paint on the side, and she recognizes it as the truck that hit her.
From the bedroom, a clattering sound is heard from outside. Howard goes to yell at someone off-screen. Michelle leaves the room and finds a younger man named Emmett (John Gallagher, Jr.). His arm is broken, and Howard tells Michelle that Emmett knocked over a shelf with a week's worth of food.
Emmett appears more friendly than Howard. He explains that he willingly joined Howard in building the bunker, Emmett claims to have seen the attack occur, describing a red flash and running to get inside, which he says explains his broken arm.
Howard makes Michelle and Emmett join him for dinner like a family. Michelle engages in pleasant conversation with Emmett that appears sort of flirty, causing Howard to angrily respond. He warns the two of them not to behave like that. When he's not looking, Michelle grabs his keys. A rumble occurs overhead, distracting everyone but giving Michelle a chance to smash a beer bottle over Howard's head. She runs out toward the airlock and tries to get out. Michelle stands in the airlock between the outside and the inside as Howard begs her not to go outside. A car arrives and a middle-aged woman (Suzanne Cryer) approaches and pleads to be let inside, but her skin is clearly deformed from an infection. Howard urges Michelle not to let this woman in. The woman grows agitated and starts banging her head on the glass of the door.
Now fearing that Howard may be right about some kind of "chemical weapons attack", Michelle begins to listen to him. He apologizes for his previous behavior and admits to hitting her car. He then tells Michelle to stitch up the wound on his head from the broken bottle.
Over the next several days, the trio become friendlier with each other and start working together like a real family in the underground bunker. Howard lets Michelle borrow clothes belonging to his daughter Megan, whom he lost. He shows Michelle a picture of Megan. Michelle and Emmett also bond, with Emmett discussing how he had a chance to play sports for a university, but he skipped the chance to leave town because he was afraid. Michelle recounts a time when she saw a little girl being abused by her dad at a hardware store, and she felt bad for walking away and doing nothing, especially considering her own troublesome childhood.
One day, the air filtration system goes down, and only Michelle is small enough to fit through the vents and go to the filtration room. She resets the unit but notices a ladder leading to outside, just beneath a window. On the window is "HELP" scratched out, with the L and P having traces of blood on it. On the floor, Michelle finds two bloody earrings that she recognizes from the picture of Megan. She shows the picture to Emmett, who says the girl in the picture is really a girl from his high school named Brittany, and she went missing a while back. The two realize that Howard is a threat, and they need to get out of there.
Michelle and Emmett steal Howard's tools and start constructing a makeshift biohazard suit and gas mask. Howard discovers the stolen tools and brings out a vat of pyloric acid to dissolve them. Howard demands to know why they were trying to take his gun. Emmett speaks up and says he did it so that Michelle could respect him the way she respects Howard. Howard forgives Emmett and then shoots him in the head.
Michelle finishes the suit and tries to make her escape. Howard catches her, but she pushes the vat of acid toward him, causing him to slip and fall face-first onto it. She climbs over and heads toward the exit. The acid eats through an electrical wire and starts a fire. Howard follows Michelle and she pushes a shelf on top of him. She climbs through the vents to head to the filtration room. Howard stabs through the vents with a knife. He grabs onto Michelle as she makes it to the end, but she slams his hand hard enough for it to rip off. The fire starts spreading through the bunker. Michelle puts the suit and gas mask on and prepares to head on outside.
On the surface, the sun is shining, and everything is calm. She sees Howard's truck and goes over to it. She accidentally rips her homemade hazmat suit and freaks out, and quickly repairs it with the duct tape she brought. But then she hears and sees birds overhead, so takes off the mask and breathes in the fresh air. She stands on top of Howard's truck to view her surroundings and spots what she thinks is a helicopter in the distance. Suddenly the bunker explodes, attracting the attention of the craft. As it approaches, Michelle realizes it's really a massive alien hovercraft. It drops something to the ground, then veers off. Michelle jumps in the truck and frantically tries to find keys, but finds none. Then she remembers the car and runs toward it. She tries to get into the car, but that sets off the alarm, and the lights start flashing. The noises and lights attract an alien creature on the ground, so Michelle runs back to the wooden shed to hide. She peers out to see the alien creature lifting the car. It then starts attacking the shed. Michelle tries to find the keys to the car on the dead woman. Just as she finds the keys, the alien starts to poke its head through a flap door of the barn. Michelle points the key fob towards the car and turns off the alarm. The alien backs out of the barn. She then crawls out the flap door herself and starts to run to the nearby farmhouse, chased by the alien creature. Just as she nears the front of the house, the giant alien craft appears behind it and the ground creature runs away. The craft slowly rises and moves towards Michelle, spreading a toxic green gas. Michelle runs back to the truck and puts on the mask again. The alien spacecraft goes near her and picks the truck up, bringing it closer to its mouth. Michelle grabs a magazine, lighter, and whiskey bottle she finds in the truck to make a Molotov cocktail. She lights it and seizes the opportunity to throw it into the creature's mouth. It explodes and drops the truck, which falls crashing to the ground. Michelle, still alive, runs back to the car. With the keys, she gets in, starts it, and she drives down the road. She hits Howard's mailbox, which has the address "10 Cloverfield Lane" on it. Michelle turns on the radio and hears that "we have retaken the southern seaboard." The announcer says that anybody seeking refuge from the alien attacks may head to Baton Rouge, but anybody with combat or medical expertise is needed in Houston. Michelle reaches the sign that directs people straight to Baton Rouge or left to Houston. Michelle makes the choice to go left. As she drives there, a thunderclap shows a bigger alien hovercraft hiding in the clouds. | 2019-04-20T06:19:08 | https://akas.imdb.com/title/tt1179933/plotsummary?ref_=tt_stry_pl |
0.999999 | فو الله الذي لا إله غيره إن أحدكم ليعمل بعمل أهل الجنة حتى ما يكون بينه وبينها إلا ذراع فيسبق عليه الكتاب فيعمل بعمل أهل النار فيدخلها، وإن أحدكم ليعمل بعمل أهل النار حتى ما يكون بينه وبينها إلا ذراع فيسبق عليه الكتاب فيعمل بعمل أهل الجنة فيدخلها» رواه البخاري ومسلم.
On the authority of Abdullah ibn Mas’ood (RA), who said: The Messenger of Allah (SAW), and he is the truthful, the believed, narrated to us, "Verily the creation of each one of you is brought together in his mother’s womb for forty days in the form of a nutfah (a drop), then he becomes an alaqah (clot of blood) for a like period, then a mudghah (morsel of flesh) for a like period, then there is sent to him the angel who blows his soul into him and who is commanded with four matters: to write down his rizq (sustenance), his life span, his actions, and whether he will be happy or unhappy (i.e., whether or not he will enter Paradise). By the One, other than Whom there is no deity, verily one of you performs the actions of the people of Paradise until there is but an arm’s length between him and it, and that which has been written overtakes him, and so he acts with the actions of the people of the Hellfire and thus enters it; and verily one of you performs the actions of the people of the Hellfire, until there is but an arm’s length between him and it, and that which has been written overtakes him and so he acts with the actions of the people of Paradise and thus he enters it." It was narrated by al-Bukhari and Muslim.
-he was then known as the man who carried the sandals of the Rasool (pbuh) - "sahib an-na'lain"
Why wasn't Bilal sent to Ethiopia?
QUESTION: IS ABORTION ALLOWED IN ISLAM?
QUESTION: IS MORNING AFTER PILLS PERMITTED?
QUESTION: IS SURROGACY ALLOWED IN ISLAM?
WHAT IS THE CORRECT OPINION?
If the lifespan is fixed, why is it that Adam was able to change his mind?
The only road to happiness is to be on our deen?
By the One, other than Whom there is no deity, verily one of you performs the actions of the people of Paradise until there is but an arm’s length between him and it, and that which has been written overtakes him, and so he acts with the actions of the people of the Hellfire and thus enters it; and verily one of you performs the actions of the people of the Hellfire, until there is but an arm’s length between him and it, and that which has been written overtakes him and so he acts with the actions of the people of Paradise and thus he enters it."It was narrated by al-Bukhari and Muslim.
Who decide the abortion; mother or father, if Pregnancy will cause harm to the baby?
Sheikh if the woman can’t get pregnant naturally, can she go through an IVF treatment?
I heard this from an imam who said that all the sperm waste in condom will come and surround you on day of judgement, he said that is killing of human. Can you explain this sheikh please? Is it allowed to use contraceptive methods for family planning?
What is the ruling on the liquid that comes out of a pregnant woman two or three days before giving birth, which is a thin liquid that looks like water [amniotic fluid]? Does this mean that she cannot pray or fast?
Assalamu alaikum, With regards to the hadith where there will come a time when a person goes to bed a believer, and wakes up a disbeliever, kindly advise some specific examples of what can happen overnight. I'm assuming this does not apply to people who are fast asleep?
Shaikh, you quoted Hadiths saying you can alter the time of death, but the Qur'an states different in many surahs aren't we suppose to agree with Qur'an when the Hadith goes against Qur'an, can you explain ? For example surah 71 ayat 4 "He (Allah) will forgive you of your sins and respite you to an appointed term. Verily, the term of Allah when it comes, cannot be delayed, if you but knew." and Surah 63 Ayat 11: And Allah grants respite to none when his appointed time (death) comes. And Allah is All-Aware of what you do.
Assalamu alaikum, if someone asks you to go to a Berailvis or Tabligh masjid for jumuah to hand out flyers for an event does that make that person who asked a munafiq? And, should I do it?
Assalamu alaikum shaikh, is property shared between brothers regardless of age? And if injustice is done can i object to it can u please clarify this to me? | 2019-04-20T00:46:10 | http://www.authentictauheed.com/2012/12/407-hadeeth-number-4.html |
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0.999515 | What is Foreclosure in Pinson, Alabama?
Foreclosure is the legal process by which the lender in a mortgage arrangement takes possession of the property (usually a house) that secured the loan. This is done when the Pinson, Alabama debtor has repeatedly failed to make their payments. Foreclosure usually requires the house to be sold at an auction. Usually, banks want to rid themselves of the property as soon as they can, in order to collect as much money as possible.
In all states in the U.S., including Alabama, foreclosure by judicial sale is allowed. Under this system, the sale is overseen by a court of law, to ensure that the bank makes a reasonable effort to get a decent price at the auction, and that any proceeds above the balance of the mortgage go back to the borrower. In many states, original mortgages are considered non-recourse loans, meaning that if the house is foreclosed and sold for less than the debtor owes, the bank cannot go after the debtor for the remainder. You should consult with an attorney in Pinson, Alabama to see if this is the case. However, this usually doesn't apply if the mortgage has been refinanced.
First, you should never ignore the matter. As unpleasant as it seems, it is essential to stay on top of the issue. Ignoring the problem will never make it go away. You should keep in mind that banks usually don't want to take your Pinson home. They aren't in the real estate business, and expect to make money through interest on the loan, not by selling your house. If you are up-front with them early on, they will probably make a reasonable effort to accommodate your financial system if it will keep you from defaulting.
If you can't reach a solution with your lender, there are other options. You could, for example, try a "short sale," which allows you to sell your house for whatever amount you can get, and use the proceeds to pay your mortgage. If the house sells for less than you owe, the bank will get the proceeds of the sale, and the rest of the debt will be forgiven. A "short refinance" might also be an option in some cases. This allows you to have some portion of the debt forgiven, while refinancing the rest.
How Can A Pinson, Alabama Attorney Help?
If you are worried about foreclosure, a good Pinson, Alabama real estate lawyer might be able to help. A lawyer can increase your chances of keeping your home, and help minimize the financial impact if keeping it proves impossible. | 2019-04-24T21:49:52 | https://bankruptcyattorneys.legalmatch.com/AL/Pinson/foreclosure-lawyers.html |
0.999999 | Transmission flush is a concept that developed only in the recent past when people started to realize that the engine oil or the transmission gets dirty and less durable and needs frequent change. Transmission flush is also called engine flush, that is done to protect the transmission and make it clean, but is the transmission flush safe? What are the problems and are there any other suitable solutions to protect the transmission of the vehicle? Let's try to figure out answers to all the above questions.
Transmission flush is applying high pressure force of fluid against the normal fluid flow. The normal flow of fluid is generally from left to right, in transmission flushing, the force of the fluid is worked from right to left. This act is accomplished by connecting the transmission to a machine that can force a special solvent through transmission and the engine. This way, the powerful force of the solvents clean and flush the garbage and junk that has developed over the years and cleans the transmission.
Transmission flush actually cleans the transmission and increases it durability. The process of transmission also removes the remnants of fluids from converters, coolers, the cooler lines, and the other parts that are included in the design of the transmission. Along with the cost, there are few problems that one needs to deal with, in separate.
While the process of transmission involves thorough cleaning of the transmission and the engine, there is much of a debate whether the flush is safe and actually helpful, and whether there are any major problems involved. Theoretically, the flush is supposed to clean the transmission thoroughly, while the engine oil change is performed. It is agreed that it does remove a significant amount of the older fluids but it fails to clean it thoroughly.
This way, there are chances that the older fluid might get mixed into the newer one, to dilute it. As a result of all this, the new transmission fluid is always on the verge of a potential damage and falling short of performance. Transmission flush machines involve force and high pressure in the transmission, that can block the valves of the engine by the force of the large chucks that are removed by flushing. These large chunks are actually the remnants of the older engine fluid, that can block the shifting of the transmission and also lack of lubrication. Read on car problems.
The cost, including the cost of a new transmission, actually gets beyond the costs of a regular car maintenance job and hence, definitely not recommended to be done by most of the manufacturers. Car manufacturers like Ford, GM, Nissan, Chrysler, Honda, etc., do not recommend a transmission flush for their vehicles.
One precaution must always be taken for the transmission of the high mileage vehicles, that have never undergone the transmission flush - to not even think about it! This must be done as the new ATF might cause damage to the transmission within just a thousand miles or so. Hence, those of you who are thinking about having a transmission flush must try to reconsider it and search for a better option during routine maintenance.
Make sure you do not come under influence of the mechanic, because a potential damage to your vehicle is solely your responsibility and not the dealer's and those who manufacture the transmission flush. Be wise and think about it! | 2019-04-20T09:00:52 | https://wheelzine.com/transmission-flush-problems |
0.999919 | WASHINGTON -- Manny Machado to Milwaukee? Yeah, he's pondered the possibility.The Brewers don't play in a market the size of Machado's other suitors, but thought of the Brewers swinging a trade with the Orioles ahead of the July 31 non-waiver Trade Deadline has at least crossed the All-Star shortstop's mind.
WASHINGTON -- Manny Machado to Milwaukee? Yeah, he's pondered the possibility.
The Brewers don't play in a market the size of Machado's other suitors, but thought of the Brewers swinging a trade with the Orioles ahead of the July 31 non-waiver Trade Deadline has at least crossed the All-Star shortstop's mind. He said so Monday before a report by MLB Network insider Jon Heyman that Baltimore was "very close" to a deal with an undisclosed team. On Tuesday, USA Today's Bob Nightengale reported that the pieces were in place for Machado to be traded to the Dodgers on Wednesday.
"[The Brewers] want to win," Machado said. "They're serious. They have a good group over there. They made a lot of pushes [last] offseason and they're going to continue to do whatever they can to get a ring."
He wouldn't prefer to play out the final three months of his current contract with a large market team like the Phillies, Dodgers or Yankees? Those teams have reportedly made offers, too.
"I'm here to play baseball," Machado said. "I'm not here to sightsee."
That line got a laugh, but the constant grind of trade talk has worn on Machado, even as he puts together arguably his finest season. He will be the American League's starting shortstop in the All-Star Game presented by Mastercard on Tuesday (7:30 p.m. ET on FOX) and reached the break with a .315/.387/.575 slash line and 24 home runs, putting him on a pace for career bests across the board.
The Brewers, meanwhile, are last in the Major Leagues with a .554 OPS at shortstop, and last in the National League in other offensive statistics, including weighted runs created plus and weighted on-base average.
That's key, because Machado reiterated Monday that he prefers to remain at shortstop. Other teams, including the Yankees, may prefer him at third base.
"I have no control of that, but everyone knows that I want to be a shortstop and I want to leave it on the field at shortstop," he said.
Brewers All-Stars acknowledged they have followed the Machado chatter.
At this time of year, it would be hard to miss.
"He would be a great addition to not only our team, but any team he goes to," said Christian Yelich. "He's one of the best players in the game. We'll see how it shakes out. Rumors are rumors. Obviously, I've seen we're rumored to be in that, but you never know what's true and what's not. I guess we'll all see what happens here in the next couple of weeks." | 2019-04-24T18:36:10 | https://www.mlb.com/news/manny-machado-on-brewers-trade-rumors-c286145074 |
0.999337 | The 'Rather Be' five-piece impress 80,000 fans taking centre stage at Wembley.
5. The 'Rather Be' five-piece impress 80,000 fans taking centre stage at Wembley. | 2019-04-24T08:35:18 | https://www.capitalfm.com/artists/clean-bandit/photos/summertime-ball-2014/5/ |
0.99997 | An inequality compares two statements with different values.
For example, x > 10 is an inequality whereas x = 10 is an equation.
For example, 5x + 5 = 30 is an equation whereas 5x + 5 < 30 is an inequality.
With a greater than inequality, all numbers larger than x (but not equal to x) fit the inequality. For example, any number larger than 7 fits the above inequality (e.g., 7.1, 7.2, 8, 9, 10, ...).
With a greater than or equal to inequality, all numbers greater than x (and equal to x) fit the inequality. For example, any number that is 7 or is larger than 7 fits the above inequality (e.g., 7, 7.1, 7.2, 8, 9, 10, ...).
With a less than or equal to inequality, all numbers smaller than x (and equal to x) fit the inequality. For example, any number that is 7 or is smaller than 7 fits the above inequality (e.g., 7, 6.9, 6.8, 6.5, 6, 5, 0, -1, -100, ...).
With a not equal to inequality, any number that is not equal to the number in question (7 in this case) fits the inequality. For example, any number that is not 7 fits the above inequality (e.g., 7.1, 6.9, 6, 8, 10, 0, -100, ...).
When one action (e.g., addition, multiplication, subtraction, or division) is done to one side of the inequality, the same action must be done to the other side of the inequality. However, there is one major catch: if both sides of an inequality are multiplied or divided by a negative number, then the inequality sign must be flipped.
If x+2 < y+2 is multiplied by -1 on both sides, the result is not -2-x < -y-2. Instead, the result is -2-x > -y-2.
xz < 10z cannot be solved by dividing both sides by z to get x < 10.
If z were negative, the inequality would end up as x > 10. Unless a problem states that a variable is positive or negative, both sides cannot be divided or multiplied by an unknown as you cannot be certain whether to flip the inequality sign.
It is extremely important that you cement this property of inequalities into your mind as the test makers like to trick people on this topic (more information about this important topic within multiplying & dividing inequalities).
If 2 < x - 6 < 10 and 25 < y + 10 < 45, what inequality represents the range of values of x + y?
1.) Solve each inequality separately.
2.) Combine each inequality by using the boundary of each inequality to find the end of the combined (i.e., summed, x + y) inequality.
2a.) Find the smallest possible value of the inequality.
2b.) Find the largest possible value of the inequality.
3.) Combine each value from step 2 to find the inequality that encapsulates x + y.
3a.) Find the smallest possible value of the combined inequality.
3b.) Find the largest possible value of the combined inequality.
Like equations, inequalities are solved by isolating the unknown by performing the same operations to both sides.
There are a few different algebraic ways to solve this problem.
Isolate x on one side.
In order to combine a group of inequalities, each one must be solved (unknown isolated). Then, each inequality must be rearranged so the inequalities are all pointing in the same way, preferably less than. The next step is to line up the common unknown. The last step is to combine the inequalities using the most restricting upper and lower extremes.
Solve both equations for x.
List the two inequalities so the x variable lines up and then combine them.
Like equations, inequalities involving powers of 2 can have up to two solutions. To find all the answers, isolate the unknown. Since the unknown is squared, take the square root of both sides. However, when taking the square root of the unknown, both the positive and negative square root of the other side must be taken. Two inequalities will be formed, one with a positive square root and the other with a negative square root and a flipped inequality. Both inequalities can be solved for different parts of the solution.
Remember that due to the even exponent, x could be a negative number.
Take the square root of both sides. In taking the square root, there are two possibilities. | 2019-04-19T19:16:02 | http://www.platinumgmat.com/gmat_study_guide/inequalities |
0.999897 | Response suppression to a distressed conspecific: Are laboratory rats altruistic?
Several studies provide evidence that laboratory rats respond to another rat in distress. Two experiments were conducted to determine why. Two general classes of motivation were considered: social and nonsocial. Social-motivation explanations suggest that rats respond because they are concerned about reducing the other rat's distress. This would seem to imply at least the rudiments of altruism. Nonsocial explanations suggest that the response to another rat's distress is not different from the response to one or more inanimate stimuli. Results of the two experiments provided evidence for two nonsocial explanations, sensitization and conditioning. They provided no clear evidence for either innate or acquired social concern. These results suggest that when laboratory rats help a distressed companion, it is not because of altruistic concern for the other; their concern is for themselves. | 2019-04-25T18:13:03 | https://works.bepress.com/joseph_lucke/7/ |
0.99997 | 007 TRAVELERS: Is The Living Daylights' cello case sled scene possible?
Is The Living Daylights' cello case sled scene possible?
James Bond, played by Timothy Dalton in "The Living Daylights", turns a cello case into a skeleton sled so he and Kara Milovy (played by Maryam d'Abo) can escape gun-wielding assailants pursuing them on skis and in a snow-adapted armoured car.
Of course, 007 and his love interest make it to the Austrian border just in time.
However, according to former world champion skeleton sled racer Kristian Bromley, they would have trouble staying on the case, let alone escaping their pursuers.
Bromley, who now designs high-tech sleds for Olympic racers, says that if a cello case had any square edges, it is doubtful that it would slide on snow at all.
He explains that the case would at least need a leading edge to lift itself slightly off the ground to create enough pressure for both sled and riders to move across the snow.
He adds, though, that even if the cello case was the right shape, there would be no way that Bond and his companion could steer it the right direction.
Bromley adds that even if Bond could control the case, he still wouldn't be able to outpace the skiers. | 2019-04-18T13:12:07 | https://007travelers.blogspot.com/2016/09/is-living-daylights-cello-case-sled.html |
0.999998 | What Are the Steps for Shaping Eyebrows?
The first step to shaping eyebrows is to locate and visualize the desired shape and thickness of the eyebrows. Second, fill in the eyebrows and brush all the hairs in the same direction before beginning to pluck. The final step is to pluck the stray hairs. Only pluck the area underneath the eyebrow, making sure to occasionally step away from the mirror to assess the progress. Eyebrow arches should be the same height to achieve symmetry.
The starting point of the eyebrows should be about one inch above the corner of the eye and align with the upper bridge of the nose. The arch should fall about three-quarters in from the start of the brow. It can be measured by creating an angle from the tip of the nose through the pupil with a ruler or straight object. Placing the ruler on the outer nose through the corner of the eye designates the end of the eyebrow.
Makeup artists recommend filling in the brow and marking the desired length with an eyebrow pencil. After filling in the brow, brush the hairs back for a clearer view of the area. Pluck hairs that fall in the space between the brows above the bridge of the nose, the hairs under the shape of the desired arch, and stray hairs below the line of the eyebrow. | 2019-04-21T22:51:24 | https://www.reference.com/beauty-fashion/steps-shaping-eyebrows-231729fddb256dc1 |
0.998615 | What changes were applied to PRTG 8.1 since the initial release of PRTG 8.1.0? Detailed release notes.
New: [WebGUI] Improved object selector (used in map editor and for dependency setting), now supports search by name, tag, device or group.
New: If an incompatible version of IE is installed on the server PRTG will warn the user when PDF generation may fail.
Changed: [Installer] When installing an update after accepting the license terms the complete installation process (stopping services, copying new files, restarting services) runs without interaction in order to minimize downtime.
Changed: [Web Server] PRTG web server now only accepts HTTPS connections using SSL 3.0 (SSL 2 will not be accepted because it has security issues), see Why don't I get an SSL connection to the PRTG web interface? "This webpage is not available."
New: [WebGUI] Copyright string in graph PNG files (bottom left) can be changed by setting registry string key " HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Paessler\PRTG Network Monitor\V7\Server\Webserver\GraphExtraText"
Bugfix: [Maps] The multi-graph map object did not work properly for public maps.
Bugfix: When uninstaller was run the PRTG services and the registry keys were removed from system even when user clicked "Cancel"
Bugfix: Toplist pie charts did not work when web server ran in "speed mode"
Bugfix: "Username" edit box of WebGUI's login dialog did not have focus by default. | 2019-04-19T10:47:11 | https://kb.paessler.com/en/topic/10223-what-has-changed-in-prtg-between-v8-1-0-and-8-1-x |
0.999982 | Punch Club is a strategy management fighting game developed by Lazy Bear Games. Your father was brutally murdered in front of you. Your goal is to find the killer and knock his head off. For that you’ll have to make your body hard as an iron, and your mind sharp as a knife, your training begins today!
Focus on your talents, manage personal relationships, love, friendship, recreational time and even stardom! Choose your way of progression, either a legitimate climb, or a shady route is yours for the taking. There’s a bunch of narrative-branching decisions that you’ll have to make with more than one possible outcome in the grand finale!
TL;DR: It’s an awesome fighting management piece where you control every aspect of your character in a gorgeous pixeled environments full of 80-90s references and good feels! | 2019-04-19T16:48:14 | https://www.eneba.com/us/steam-punch-club-steam-key-global |
0.999972 | What's all this fuss about rearranging a few numbers? I've seen so many articles in various magazines about shuffling numbers in increasingly exotic ways that I'm thoroughly mixed up.
Here's the technique that I've been using for years. It's simple and fast, and it gives you an equal probability of any given permutation showing up. The program is written in Atari BASIC, but will work on, or can easily be converted to, any other BASIC. It's set up to shuffle 52 cards, represented as numbers from 0-51 in an array called DECK (with subscripts running from 0-51).
You can easily set up the shuffling loop as a one-line subroutine, and then use a GOSUB when it's time to shuffle. Also, as long as you haven't changed the numbers in the array to be shuffled, you don't have to reinitialize (line 30 in the program) before shuffling. | 2019-04-18T13:15:09 | https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue37/atari_fast_shuffle.php |
0.999994 | How long does 'chemo brain' last?
Cancer survivors have long complained of cognitive decline following chemotherapy. This effect has been studied in some depth, but, for the first time, researchers ask how long these deficits might last.
Chemotherapy is known to interfere with cognitive abilities, but for how long?
As treatments for cancer improve, survival rates increase, as do the number of cancer survivors.
This growing population of people who have come through cancer and lived to tell the tale often report cognitive deficits.
Chemo brain, or chemo fog, as it has been dubbed, was first reported by breast cancer survivors.
It affects memory, concentration, and an individual's ability to multitask, among other reductions in function.
Some women with chemo brain report that their ability to follow conversations is impaired and that they are more easily fatigued and confused.
A review that looked at the prevalence of chemo brain estimated that it affects 17-50 percent of female breast cancer survivors.
Although research has established chemo brain as a genuine consequence of chemotherapy, there are still many questions that need to be answered. One such question asks how long chemo brain is likely to last.
A study, conducted at the University of Illinois and published in the journal Behavioural Brain Research, set out to investigate the effects of chemo brain over a longer period of time. For this purpose, the team designed a mouse model that will help researchers of the future investigate this problem and, potentially, rectify it.
The study's lead author, Catarina Rendeiro, worked with a group of researchers across the university, including Justin Rhodes, a psychology professor, and William Helferich, a professor of nutrition.
"Quality of life after chemotherapy is critically important, and chemo brain is significant in these survivors."
Earlier research has shown that the intense physical toll of chemotherapy accounts for the short-term deficits in cognitive ability seen in chemo brain. As Prof. Rhodes says: "The question is, after they completely recover from the acute assault of chemotherapy, many months or years later, do they still have cognitive impairments?"
The researchers used a female mouse model designed to mimic post-menopausal women as closely as possible. To measure the potential long-term effects of chemo brain, they measured how chemotherapy impacted learning and memory. Additionally, they charted the formation of new neurons in the hippocampus - a part of the brain important in memory, among other roles.
The mice were put through their paces using a Morris Water Maze. This type of trial has been widely used in behavioral neuroscience to study memory and spatial learning since the early 1980s. It involves placing a mouse in a circular pool and timing it while they search for a submerged platform.
Mice subjected to chemotherapy were found to take substantially longer to learn the task.
When the brains of the chemotherapy-treated mice were examined, they were found to have 26 percent fewer surviving hippocampal neurons created during the course of treatment, and generated 14 percent fewer hippocampal neurons in the 3 months directly after chemotherapy.
Three months for a mouse corresponds to around 10 years in human terms. If these results can be extrapolated to humans, they demonstrate that the effects of chemotherapy do indeed lead to long-term deficits.
Although it may be possible to design drugs to reduce the cognitive effects of chemotherapy, that would bring with it the worry that additional chemicals might interact with the chemotherapy itself, causing other unwanted effects or preventing it from working as it needs to.
Instead, the team hopes that natural interventions might be uncovered that can ward off the damage that results from chemo brain.
To that end, the researchers investigated whether a diet with additional omega-3-fatty acids might help reduce the cognitive impacts of chemotherapy on the mice. Unfortunately, this intervention did not yield significant results.
The current study is the first to produce an animal model demonstrating the long-term effects of chemotherapy on the brain. In the future, the team hopes that the model will be used to investigate other potential nutritional components and chart their effects on chemo brain.
Learn which chemotherapy drugs cause the worst chemo brain.
Long-lasting impairments in adult neurogenesis, spatial learning and memory from a standard chemotherapy regimen used to treat breast cancer, Catarina Rendeiro et al., Behavioural Brain Research, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2016.07.043, published online 18 August 2016, abstract.
University of Illinois news release, accessed 19 August 2016.
Additional source: Cancer Research UK, Chemo brain, accessed 19 August 2016.
Newman, Tim. "How long does 'chemo brain' last?." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 19 Aug. 2016. Web. | 2019-04-26T10:22:53 | https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/312436.php |
0.998803 | Given the heated discourse on race relations today – on and off stage – I am not sure if my title’s statement is positive or negative. One thing is for sure: we can never escape our history. This is the position which Sybil (Virgilia Griffith) maintains and will fight to the death to honour in Djanet Sears’ Harlem Duet, onstage now at Tarragon Theatre. It creates great tension throughout the play as her partner Othello (Beau Dixon) wishes to move beyond his “blackness” and no longer let it “define” him. Both their performances are incredibly impressive and dynamic, especially since the play moves between three eras, non-linearly. They stunningly capture the nuances of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century with great ease, mastering their voice and bodies.
Sybil is like a Samantha White ahead of her time. In Netflix’s Dear White People, students at an Ivy League school deal with relationship drama, identity crises, and racial tensions. In Sears’ play, Sybil – despite being pained – is a strong, intelligent woman who happens to be a grad student studying the psychology of black people. Her academic dialogue arrives at a juncture with reasoning on why her partner has left her to be with a white woman. On TV, White struggles to come to terms with being a black student leader amongst criticism from her peers, when she starts to date a white guy. Further, season one is almost entirely centred on the students’ reaction to a blackface party. In Sears’ play, our male protagonist appears in a dream sequence in 1928 Harlem as an actor applying blackface. Controversially, blackface has been used, even within the last decade, by white actors playing black roles like Othello.
In other dream sequences, the couple is seen pre-emancipation conversing on a plantation; slaves in love wanting to escape it all. Assisting them in transitioning between eras are the cotton plants that emerge from a trench which seems to bleed from the modern apartment, and minimal yet striking furniture and costume choices by designer Astrid Jansen. Providing comical relief to otherwise serious text is the memorable landlord Magi (Ordena Stephens-Thompson) who is as nurturing in her care as she is distracted to find a husband. The sensational Walter Borden (our 2017 Critics’ Pick Award winner for Outstanding Actor) appears as Sybil’s father in the second half of the show. He commands our attention and his charm makes it easy for us to forgive him for being absent so long. Notably, this Freudian trope of the father figure as it links to a disturbed child is more characteristic of psychoanalytical literary theory being deliberated around the time of the play’s conception.
What likely comes off as less nuanced for an audience today is the question of mental health. While dealing with the separation from Othello, Sybil spends enormous amounts of time in bed and is slowly deemed us unsound. This escalates towards intervention. Today, fortunately, we might recognize the signs and symptoms of depression earlier on. If her character was written today, critics might contest using her mental health as a trope to demonstrate her downfall and there would be outcry for the depiction of a person of colour as an anti-hero who must collapse. Indeed it is still rare to see people of colour in leading roles portraying empowered characters. While Sears aimed to give voice to a black male who had mostly been voiced by white males throughout history, today her piece seems to resonate even louder for black women gaining their voice. In this way, this Canadian classic lives up to its reputation, continuing to foster much needed conversations.
Theatre Smash’s Ugly One is Rather Pretty. | 2019-04-24T04:53:52 | https://www.myentertainmentworld.ca/2018/09/harlem-duet/ |
0.999999 | You are given an array numbers. Compute the smallest number multiple with the property that all the number in the array divide it evenly.
Compute the multiple using the primes in the decomposition of the numbers.
where p1 is the first prime number, p2 the second and so on. Since our numbers are not very large, we can precompute the first 100 primes. Then decompose the numbers using the primes. The values of power qi is found by dividing each number to the prime pi.
The number obtained by raising all the primes to the largest power qi for every i will be the common multiple of all the initial numbers. | 2019-04-24T04:31:02 | https://www.weheartswift.com/smallest-common-multiple-n-numbers/ |
0.999976 | Zimbabwe's opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has claimed vote-rigging was behind his election defeat - and said he intends to challenge the results.
Chamisa on Friday insisted that he won the country's landmark election, calling the official results 'fraudulent, illegal, illegitimate and characterised by serious credibility gaps'.
'We won this election and we are ready to form the next government,' Chamisa told a press conference.
Chamisa declared 'a day of mourning ... for democracy' after President Emmerson Mnangagwa of the ruling ZANU-PF was declared the victor with 50.8 percent of the vote.
But Chamisa, who received over 44 percent of the vote, is alleging violence and harassment against his supporters and manipulation of the election results.
He spoke at a press conference shortly after riot police briefly broke up journalists waiting for his statement.
On Twitter, Mnangagwa says authorities are 'urgently investigating' the events.
Later on Friday, Mnangagwa said on Friday he wants an independent commission to establish what happened before an army crackdown on opposition supporters on Wednesday in which six people were killed in post-election violence.
At his first media conference since being declared winner of the Monday presidential election, Mnangagwa was asked who gave the order to send soldiers onto the streets of Harare, but he said the commission of inquiry would look into the matter.
Mnangagwa was declared the winner of the country's first election since the downfall of Robert Mugabe with just over 50 percent of the vote.
He defended the landmark election in which he was declared victorious, despite claims from the opposition of vote-rigging.
'Here was a celebration of Zimbabwean democracy, a festival of unfettered freedom. With the eyes of the world on us we delivered a free, fair and credible election,' Mnangagwa told reporters.
'No democratic process is flawless,' he added, saying that Zimbabwe was 'no exception'.
But Monday's election - the first since veteran autocrat Robert Mugabe was toppled last year - was 'open to the world like never before', Mnangagwa said.
'We won this election,' Chamisa claimed and urged Mnangagwa to acknowledge that.
Meanwhile, Mnangagwa has called for peace after a poll marred by the deaths of six people in an army crackdown on opposition protests.
The ZANU-PF leader, known as The Crocodile, defeated his rival Nelson Chamisa by more than a quarter of a million votes in a poll marred by violence, bloodshed and accusations of fraud.
Chamisa, the candidate of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), performed strongly in the urban strongholds of Harare and Bulawayo but Mnangagwa outpaced him in more rural Zimbabwe, the official results showed.
The MDC launched an impromptu protest minutes before the final province declared its result, taking the stage to say the results were 'fake' and could not be verified.
Six people died after troops fired at demonstrators during a protest against alleged electoral fraud on Wednesday, leading the army to clear the centre of 'ghost city' Harare on Thursday.
Mnangagwa, who won six of the country's 10 provinces, needed more than 50 percent of the vote to secure victory without a second-round run-off.
Announcing the results, Commission chair Priscilla Chigumba urged the country to 'move on' with the hopeful spirit of election day - which passed with little trouble - and beyond the 'blemishes' of Wednesday's chaos.
The official tally put Mngangawa on 2.46million votes (50.8 per cent) and Chamisa on 2.15million (44.3 per cent), after an election which had been intended to move the country on from the Mugabe era.
Mnangagwa said on Twitter: 'Thank you Zimbabwe! I am humbled to be elected President of the Second Republic of Zimbabwe.
The President said on Twitter that he wanted an independent investigation into the killings, and that he sought to settle differences 'peacefully'.
But Chamisa said the result was being faked, accusing the government of turning tanks and guns on voters and saying police had raided opposition headquarters in the capital and seized computers.
On Thursday, soldiers guarded the headquarters of ZANU-PF, while armoured personnel carriers, water cannon trucks and police anti-riot vans took position outside MDC headquarters.
'What they have been trying to do of late is to play around,' MDC leader Chamisa told reporters on Thursday.
Police spokeswoman Charity Charamba told a press conference on Thursday that the death toll after Wednesday's protests had risen from three to six after further protesters succumbed to their injuries.
There were 14 injured, police said, and 18 people were arrested at the offices of the main opposition party amid tensions over the election.
Soldiers and police cleared central Harare on Thursday, shouting at pedestrians and traders to leave the area.
Western election observers who were banned in previous votes have expressed concern at the military's 'excessive' force in the capital.
While the military has been criticised for the crackdown, police spokeswoman Charity Charamba blamed rioters, saying some were drunk and that they destroyed eight cars and 22 shops.
About 4,000 opposition supporters, some carrying iron bars and stones, were 'besieging' downtown Harare, she said.
The vote on Monday was meant to mark a new chapter after the end of the Mugabe era.
Mnangagwa had promised a free and fair vote after the military ushered him to power with a credible vote meant to end Zimbabwe's international isolation and attract foreign investment to revive the shattered economy.
But anger flared on Wednesday over alleged vote-rigging, prompting troops to use live rounds on protesters.
The presidential race has pitted 75-year-old Mnangagwa, Mugabe's former ally in the ruling ZANU-PF party, against the MDC's leader Chamisa, 35 years his junior.
Soldiers brandishing assault rifles and police shouted at pedestrians and traders to leave central Harare, AFP journalists witnessed.
In a late-night press conference on Wednesday, Home Affairs Minister Obert Mpofu warned further protests would not be tolerated.
'The opposition... are testing our resolve and I think they are making a big mistake,' he said.
Chamisa ratcheted up pressure, saying he had won the presidential vote and that the result was being faked.
'What they have been trying to do of late is to play around... that is rigging, that is manipulation, trying to bastardise the result, and that we will not allow,' he told reporters.
In official results from the parliamentary election, also held on Monday, ZANU-PF won easily - an early sign that Mnangagwa would be on course to retain the presidency.
The MDC said the army had opened fire on Wednesday 'for no apparent reason,' killing unarmed civilians.
'It's disappointing - the government's reaction only made things worse. It was heavy-handed,' trader Timie Manuwere, 37, told AFP.
Election observers from the Commonwealth issued a statement Thursday to 'denounce the excessive use of force against unarmed civilians' while former colonial power Britain appealed for Zimbabwe to remove the army from the streets.
Before the violence, European Union observers declared they found an 'un-level playing field and lack of trust' in the election process. Under Mugabe elections were often marred by fraud and deadly violence.
ZEC chairwoman Priscilla Chigumba, a high court judge, has flatly rejected allegations of bias and rigging.
Mnangagwa was a longtime Mugabe ally before his firing in November led his allies in the military to step in and push Mugabe to resign after 37 years in power.
The campaign and polling day were lauded as relatively peaceful and open.
Mnangagwa was the clear election front-runner, benefitting from tacit military support and state resources. But Chamisa, a lawyer and pastor, sought to tap into the youth and urban vote.
The president must now tackle mass unemployment and an economy shattered by the Mugabe-backed seizure of white-owned farms, the collapse of agriculture, hyperinflation and an investment exodus.
Previously solid health and education services are in ruins and millions have fled abroad to seek work. | 2019-04-19T07:00:15 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6020173/Army-patrols-ghost-city-Harare-Zimbabwes-election-marred-bloody-violence.html |
0.999866 | I've been on-and-off planning a (reasonably) short bike tour from the Kitchener area (about 100km west of Toronto, in Canada) to Ottawa/Montreal, followed by a train ride home. I know most of what I need, but the one thing I haven't got figured out is where to stay. I don't have a ton of money and am an experienced camper, which means I'll lean very heavily towards a tent over a motel/hotel where possible.
I know, however, that my route of choice (east along Lake Ontario from Toronto to Kingston, then northwards to Ottawa, and paralleling the Ottawa River to Montreal) is heavily developed and urbanized with nothing but farmland between the cities, which makes camping (even stealth camping) problematic at best. Canada, rather unfortunately, don't have anything like the freedom to roam, which means that, unless I secure specific permission from a landowner, I'm trespassing.
I'm planning about 2 weeks end-to-end, with a couple of days' stop in both Ottawa and Montreal for sightseeing. That works out to about 100km/day, which is achievable for me (especially given the prevailing winds). The general plan is to go a little further on the first day, to get me past Toronto, and to find myself in Belleville by day 3. Day 4 would put me in Kingston, day 5 in Smiths Falls, and day 6 in Ottawa itself. Another day's ride would put me halfway to Montreal, hugging the north side of the river, and the final day would leave me at the journey's end. In both Ottawa and Montreal I'd be staying in hotels, because I don't want to have to worry about my gear while I'm out seeing the sights.
Has anyone here been touring in similar circumstances? What are my best options for a (mostly) stress-free night's sleep in areas like this?
As an addendum, what advice is there for staying in decent (i.e. non-fleabag) hotels with a bike? Is it generally permitted in a room, or do I have to to have it valet-parked?
I think you could do OK with Provincial Parks in Ontario, especially if you were planning to swoop south of the 401 to see Prince Edward County.
The tree near Oshawa is Darlington PP. The 401 is pretty bleak after that but if you can make it to Presquile (just below Brighton on the map), you'll be fine. Alternatively, head north around the 115 and take advantage of more lakes and more parks Peterborough-wards. The side roads are quite griddy and there are some official bike routes so it's not like you have to take the 115 the whole way. The TransCanada trail covers some of the Lindsay-to-Peterborough part which might be interesting.
I discussed this with my bike-riding partner and he says forget Lake Ontario entirely and head northeast from KW - West Montrose sort of thing, head just under Lake Simcoe. Nicer roads and more camping.
I don't disagree with Kate, but let me add some alternatives.
First, let me make sure you are aware of the Waterfront Trail, which should cover a lot of your route. I would absolutely recommend the detour into Prince Edward County, which is excellent biking territory as well as being worth a visit on its own.
Camping works where there are provincial parks, but you should book in advance. Popular ones can fill up.
I would always take a B&B over a hotel, although they are usually at least as expensive as a hotel. I've never found one that wasn't willing to accommodate a bike if asked in advance. Most have a shed or garage they will store them in.
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What is the ultimate car camping bed solution — for two people? | 2019-04-18T11:13:21 | https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/13470/where-to-sleep-while-bike-touring-southern-ontario-x-post-from-bicycling |
0.999654 | "In retrospect, while the sentence could have been clearer regarding the time frames, the sentence is true, and Mr. Cohen stands by his statement."
Investigators are focusing on contacts between Cohen and people linked to Trump following the FBI raids on Cohen's property last year.
Cohen testified to lawmakers, "I have never asked for, nor would I accept, a pardon from [President Donald Trump]."
"Manafort may be rethinking his decision to violate his plea deal right about now," a former senior DOJ official told INSIDER.
William Barr told lawmakers that it would "be a crime" for the president to pardon someone in exchange for their silence.
By staying in touch with Trump's team while cooperating, Manafort may be trying to keep his options open, including a potential presidential pardon.
The special counsel Robert Mueller reportedly asked Michael Cohen about President Donald Trump's business dealings with Russia, potential collusion with Russia, and whether Trump or any of his associates had discussed a pardon with Cohen. | 2019-04-21T06:58:48 | https://www.businessinsider.my/tag/pardon/ |
0.999948 | Are there any ways to lower the cost of college?
You can lower the cost of college in a number of ways. The deciding factors in achieving your cost goals may be limited only by your flexibility.
The primary way to lower the cost of college is to choose a less expensive school. You may find that excluding prestigious colleges significantly lowers the bill with little or no impact on the quality of your child's education. Less expensive private schools and state universities often have stronger offerings in certain programs than their more prestigious private counterparts, and may offer smaller class sizes. Local colleges also offer the opportunity to live at home, which can minimize room-and-board expenses. Be aware, however, that this choice might require the purchase of a car in addition to commuting costs.
As a creative alternative, your child could enroll in a less expensive institution (e.g., a state or community college) and then transfer to the college of his or her choice after two years. Your child's degree would be from the preferred college, but the total cost would be reduced by the two years you spent paying lower tuition and fees.
You can also check to see if the schools your child wishes to attend offer accelerated programs or special academic exams. Accelerated programs offer the chance to graduate in three years, allowing you to save a year's worth of college expenses. Special academic exams offer the opportunity to earn college credits even before your child enters college. This can also cut down on the required course load and consequent expenses.
You can also investigate government military programs. Your child's options include attending a service academy, enlisting in the military first and then attending college under the GI Bill, and training for the military while in school under the ROTC program. Although such programs all offer benefits, each has specific service requirements that you should understand thoroughly.
Finally, you should investigate all possible sources of financial aid. Your child might obtain a student loan or enroll in a work-study program. None of these options actually lowers the cost of attendance, but they will diminish the bite college expenses take out of the family budget. | 2019-04-20T20:52:35 | http://frankcloviscpa.com/education/e_faq_lower.html |
0.998272 | Can they reach an agreement over Joe's death?
A troubled Moira confronts Graham, seeking assurance they can trust him not to ever tell Debbie what happened to Joe. She's pained to learn that Joe was coming back for Debbie.
Moira then hears the voicemail where Joe told Graham he loves Debbie.
Meanwhile, Ross and Rebecca start breaking the news they are leaving the village. They prepare to tell Charity and Robert, but their attempts are thwarted. Later, Robert overhears a conversation about their plans and doesn't like what he's heard.
Elsewhere, Frank witnesses a suspicious act. | 2019-04-24T18:38:48 | https://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/emmerdale/a868906/emmerdale-spoilers-moira-demands-assurances-from-graham/ |
0.998829 | Given a reference member, a parent level of that member, and an integer, this function counts backward in the parent level, finds a previous member in that level, and then returns its child that has the same position as the reference member.
This level must be a higher level within the hierarchy that contains the reference member.
offset is an integer literal.
You can use negative integers.
This is used as the reference member.
For the given member, this function examines the ancestor within the given level, counts backward from that member (using offset), finds another member in that level, and returns the child member that has the same position as the reference member.
This function ignores the hierarchy; that is, two members can be considered adjacent even if they have different parents. | 2019-04-20T09:08:05 | https://irisdocs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls?KEY=D2RMDX_ParallelPeriod |
0.999978 | If you have filed a slip and fall accident lawsuit to recover money damages, you can expect that the property owner will offer a defense. Typically, a property owner will either try to prove that he was not responsible for the conditions that caused the fall or prove that your actions caused the accident. Often, the defenses to slip and fall lawsuits can be well argued and difficult hurdles to overcome, so working with an experienced attorney can be critical to collecting the money you deserve.
Defenses to slip and fall accidents will argue that the property owner did not know about the condition, and should not be expected to know about it. For example, if you slip and fall in a big box store such as Target after stepping a puddle of spilled juice that another customer caused, then the owner of the store will argue that it was not reasonable to expect them to be aware of a puddle an employee did not create. While store owners are responsible for keeping the floor safe, puddles or slippery patches can easily go unnoticed for a short period of time even when employees are diligent.
Proving that an owner knew, or should have known, about the condition that caused your slip and fall can be difficult, particularly if the owner or one of his employees did not cause the condition directly. An experienced slip and fall attorney will be able to evalate your case and gather evidence to give you the best chance of collecting the money you are owed.
An example of assumption of risk would play out as follows: You are walking through a parking lot on a cold day and see a large patch of ice in front of you. Not wanting to walk around it, you decide to try to walk across the ice, but you slip and fall and injure yourself. In this case, the property owner could very easily claim that you knew the risk of walking on ice (falling), but voluntarily took it on because you didn't want to walk around.
When analyzing an assumption of risk defense, the key question becomes whether or not the risk of the area was obvious. Black ice, for example, is a hotly contested issue because it is difficult to see, however, everyone who has walked or driven through an asphalt parking lot knows, or should know, that black ice is a risk on a cold winter day. Each slip and fall accident case is different, and every state may have law that guides a court to determine whether or not difficult to see, but potentially known, dangers such as black ice are obvious enough to offer an assumption or risk defense. Assumption of risk is a difficult hurdle for slip and fall plaintiffs to overcome, so consult with an attorney before responding to a property owner's claim that your negligence contributed to or caused the accident. | 2019-04-19T18:12:40 | https://accident-law.freeadvice.com/accident-law/slips_falls/dangerous_condition.htm |
0.999875 | Felipe Anderson scored twice in six minutes as West Ham came from behind to beat Southampton at St Mary's Stadium and move up to ninth in the Premier League table.
After a quiet first half, the hosts took the lead in scrappy fashion through Nathan Redmond after Lukasz Fabianski had parried his initial effort.
But West Ham were only behind for three minutes before Anderson's 20-yard low strike beat Alex McCarthy.
The third goal - all in nine minutes - came again from Anderson, who powerfully shot home after being released by Michail Antonio to put the Hammers ahead.
Southampton pushed for an equaliser, but Fabianski and the visiting defence held firm to secure West Ham their fifth win in six games.
For Manuel Pellegrini's side to be in the top half of the table at the halfway point of the season is a remarkable achievement, considering they lost their opening four league matches and have been ravaged by injuries.
Manuel Lanzini, Winston Reid, Carlos Sanchez, Andriy Yarmolenko and Ryan Fredericks are all long-term absentees, with Jack Wilshere, Marko Arnautovic, Javier Hernandez, Fabian Balbuena and Pablo Zabaleta also unavailable.
The Hammers' injury problems led to Pellegrini only naming six substitutes against Southampton and two of those - 21-year-old forward Xande Silva and 18-year-old midfielder Conor Coventry - had not featured in any Premier League match.
Despite that the visitors had the best opportunity of the opening half but Lucas Perez scuffed a shot wide after good work from overlapping full-back Aaron Cresswell, while Robert Snodgrass shot wide just before half-time.
Southampton took the lead in the 50th minute when a combination of Redmond and Angelo Ogbonna bundled the ball over the line, before two goals in six minutes from Anderson turned the game around.
It continues a fine December for Pellegrini's team that has also seen them beat Newcastle, Cardiff, Crystal Palace and Fulham, with their only slip-up being their 2-0 home loss to Watford on Saturday.
They were 12th before the game, but the three points has lifted them above Bournemouth, Wolves and Watford and level on points with eighth-placed Everton.
The match was Ralph Hasenhuttl's fourth game in charge of the Saints since the club sacked Mark Hughes earlier this month and the Austrian has now won two and lost two in England.
His side had won their past two matches - against Arsenal and Huddersfield - and could have taken a third-minute lead after Danny Ings jinked past Ogbonna and Antonio but shot into the side netting from a tight angle.
In a frantic nine-minute second-half period, Southampton took the lead, West Ham equalised and then the Saints had a great chance to retake the lead - but Fabianski made a fine one-handed save to deny Stuart Armstrong.
Moments later, following a Saints corner, the hosts thought they should have had a penalty when Declan Rice held on to Jan Bednarek, but referee Craig Pawson did not give the decision and the visitors countered, leading to Antonio setting up Anderson for their second goal.
Southampton are in their seventh successive season in the top flight and their battle to avoid relegation went down to the final game of the 2017-18 campaign.
After 19 of 38 league matches in 2018-19, they are now 16th, only three points clear of 18th-placed Burnley - and they face Manchester City and Chelsea in their next two games.
Southampton have dropped 15 points from winning positions in the Premier League this season; the most of any team in the competition, with 12 of those coming in home games.
West Ham have won five of their last six games in the Premier League (lost one) - their previous five wins in the competition came over a run of 20 games between April and November.
This was West Ham's first Premier League away win after conceding the opening goal since May 2017, when they won 2-1 against Burnley at Turf Moor.
Southampton have suffered back-to-back Premier League defeats against West Ham for the first time since October 2001 (a run of four).
West Ham have won 15 points in the Premier League in December (P6 W5 D0 L1); their most in a single month of a season in competition history.
After scoring just once in his opening 10 Premier League appearances, West Ham midfielder Felipe Anderson has scored seven goals in his past nine.
Southampton winger Nathan Redmond has scored in back-to-back Premier League games for the first time since October 2016.
There were just 168 seconds between Southampton opening the scoring and West Ham equalising through Felipe Anderson's strike.
Southampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl told BBC Sport: "The way we lost it was too easy, we didn't play such a good game.
"If you give it away like we did then you don't deserve to win. We were not so fresh and not so speedy, [or] sharp to win the second balls.
"We ran a lot without the ball, at half-time we changed a few things put early pressure on and scored the first goal. [Their goals were] too easy, one from outside the box and one from a corner we had."
West Ham boss Manuel Pellegrini, speaking to Sky Sports: "All the credit [to the players]. We played a very good game from the first minute to win the game and we were very balanced in the whole game.
"We worked mostly in the opposition side and we defended very well. They didn't have too many options. It's important we drew level immediately and scored the winning goal."
On match-winner Felipe Anderson: "Of course he is a different player, a player that in every game makes important plays - he will continue improving.
"He still loses too many balls, maybe because he must understand the Premier League is difficult if you keep the ball in your feet."
It doesn't get any easier for Southampton, who on Sunday host a Manchester City side looking to make amends for back-to-back defeats.
On the same day, West Ham host Burnley, who were beaten 5-1 at home by Everton on Wednesday.
Match ends, Southampton 1, West Ham United 2.
Second Half ends, Southampton 1, West Ham United 2.
Corner, West Ham United. Conceded by Yan Valery.
Attempt blocked. Declan Rice (West Ham United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Felipe Anderson (West Ham United) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Andy Carroll.
Substitution, West Ham United. Arthur Masuaku replaces Robert Snodgrass.
Felipe Anderson (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, West Ham United. Conceded by Alex McCarthy.
Attempt saved. Felipe Anderson (West Ham United) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Lukasz Fabianski.
Substitution, Southampton. Mohamed Elyounoussi replaces Mario Lemina.
Offside, Southampton. Stuart Armstrong tries a through ball, but Shane Long is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Michail Antonio (West Ham United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Mark Noble.
Attempt blocked. Declan Rice (West Ham United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Andy Carroll (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Charlie Austin (Southampton) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong.
Substitution, Southampton. Charlie Austin replaces Maya Yoshida.
Substitution, West Ham United. Mark Noble replaces Lucas Pérez.
Offside, Southampton. Yan Valery tries a through ball, but Maya Yoshida is caught offside.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Michail Antonio.
Offside, Southampton. Shane Long tries a through ball, but Nathan Redmond is caught offside.
Pedro Obiang (West Ham United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michail Antonio (West Ham United).
Attempt missed. Issa Diop (West Ham United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Angelo Ogbonna following a corner.
Corner, West Ham United. Conceded by Jannik Vestergaard.
Attempt blocked. Lucas Pérez (West Ham United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Felipe Anderson.
Matt Targett (Southampton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Michail Antonio (West Ham United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Matt Targett (Southampton).
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Aaron Cresswell.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Issa Diop.
Substitution, Southampton. Shane Long replaces Danny Ings.
Goal! Southampton 1, West Ham United 2. Felipe Anderson (West Ham United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Michail Antonio with a through ball following a fast break.
Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Southampton) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Lukasz Fabianski.
Attempt saved. Stuart Armstrong (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matt Targett. | 2019-04-20T22:48:41 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46628777 |
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