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0.999999 | The domain within your query sequence starts at position 494 and ends at position 754; the E-value for the Peptidase_M14 domain shown below is 3.1e-27.
Over 70 metallopeptidase families have been identified to date. In these enzymes a divalent cation which is usually zinc, but may be cobalt, manganese or copper, activates the water molecule. The metal ion is held in place by amino acid ligands, usually three in number. In some families of co-catalytic metallopeptidases, two metal ions are observed in crystal structures ligated by five amino acids, with one amino acid ligating both metal ions. The known metal ligands are His, Glu, Asp or Lys. At least one other residue is required for catalysis, which may play an electrophillic role. Many metalloproteases contain an HEXXH motif, which has been shown in crystallographic studies to form part of the metal-binding site [(PUBMED:7674922)]. The HEXXH motif is relatively common, but can be more stringently defined for metalloproteases as 'abXHEbbHbc', where 'a' is most often valine or threonine and forms part of the S1' subsite in thermolysin and neprilysin, 'b' is an uncharged residue, and 'c' a hydrophobic residue. Proline is never found in this site, possibly because it would break the helical structure adopted by this motif in metalloproteases [(PUBMED:7674922)].
This group of sequences contain a diverse range of gene families, which include metallopeptidases belonging to MEROPS peptidase family M14 (carboxypeptidase A, clan MC), subfamilies M14A and M14B.
The carboxypeptidase A family can be divided into four subfamilies: M14A (carboxypeptidase A or digestive), M14B (carboxypeptidase H or regulatory), M14C (gamma-D-glutamyl-L-diamino acid peptidase I) and M14D (AGTPBP-1/Nna1-like proteins) [(PUBMED:7674922), (PUBMED:17244818)]. Members of subfamily M14B have longer C-termini than those of subfamily M14A [(PUBMED:1449602)], and carboxypeptidase M (a member of the H family) is bound to the membrane by a glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor, unlike the majority of the M14 family, which are soluble [(PUBMED:7674922)].
ATP/GTP binding protein (AGTPBP-1/Nna1)-like proteins are active metallopeptidases that act on cytosolic proteins such as alpha-tubulin, to remove a C-terminal tyrosine. Mutations in AGTPBP-1/Nna1 cause Purkinje cell degeneration (pcd). AGTPBP-1/Nna1-like proteins from the different phyla are highly diverse, but they all contain a unique N-terminal conserved domain right before the CP domain. It has been suggested that this N-terminal domain might act as a folding domain [(PUBMED:17244817), (PUBMED:11083920), (PUBMED:16952463), (PUBMED:18602413)].
The zinc ligands have been determined as two histidines and a glutamate, and the catalytic residue has been identified as a C-terminal glutamate, but these do not form the characteristic metalloprotease HEXXH motif [(PUBMED:7674922), (PUBMED:6887246)]. Members of the carboxypeptidase A family are synthesised as inactive molecules with propeptides that must be cleaved to activate the enzyme. Structural studies of carboxypeptidases A and B reveal the propeptide to exist as a globular domain, followed by an extended alpha-helix; this shields the catalytic site, without specifically binding to it, while the substrate-binding site is blocked by making specific contacts [(PUBMED:7674922), (PUBMED:1548696)]. | 2019-04-21T00:51:15 | http://smart.embl.de/smart/do_annotation.pl?DOMAIN=Pfam:Peptidase_M14&START=494&END=754&E_VALUE=3.1e-27&TYPE=PFAM&BLAST=ERSIDHREIYFRHDVLCQTLGGNPCPLVTITAFPESNSTEHLEQFRCRPYQVITARVHPGESNASWVMKGTLEFLVSSDPVAKLLRENFVFKIIPMLNPDGVINGNHRCSLRGEDLNRQWLSPQAHLQPTIYHAKGLLHYLSSTGRGPVVFCDFHGHSQKKNVFLYGCSMKETLWQAGCTVGESALLEDVSYRTLPKILDKLAPAFTMNSCSFLVEKSRASTARVVVWREMGVSRSYTMESSYCGCNQGPYQVCEVYTARS |
0.999435 | Which of the following illustrates the principle that the passage illustrates?
Which one best illustrates the principles underlying the passage?
Which one of the following judgements conforms most closely with the principle cited in the passage?
Identify the reasoning in the passage. It could be a structure of conditionals. | 2019-04-24T16:20:53 | https://www.lsat-center.com/prep-guide/matching-reasoning/ |
0.993758 | So, this journal having been laying fallow while I transitioned from academia to real, live, paying jobs, I'm now thinking of reviving it for the occasional work-related post.
I'll set aside the subject-verb agreement. (I know that US and British English differ on things like "the crowd is..." vs. "the crowd are...", but even in British English, wouldn't "Strunk and White" be taken as a single unit, insofar as it's a single book, and therefore use the singular verb "applies"?) Instead, what I find really striking is the dangling modifier: is it supposed to be Strunk and White who are writing English? A proper, Strunk-and-White-sanctioned sentence would say "When writing English, you should follow Strunk and White" or "When you are writing English, Strunk and White apply" or "In English, Strunk and White apply". I'd even be willing to grant them "When writing English, Strunk and White apply to what you write", which I believe S&W and its adherents would object to, because at least there's something the sentence ("you") for "when writing English" to modify. But the sentence as it stands? Unacceptable by any standard.
Meanwhile, I'm going to go back to writing comments however I darned well care to. Er, to however I darned well care. | 2019-04-23T21:57:35 | https://cqs.livejournal.com/59189.html |
0.996014 | Ben Stokes has been charged with affray.
England cricketer Ben Stokes has been charged with affray after a fight outside a Bristol nightclub, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
The 26-year-old Durham all-rounder - who missed the Ashes after being suspended from playing for England after the incident - is accused of affray alongside two other men.
It follows a fight in the Clifton Triangle area of Bristol during the early hours of September 25 - several hours after England had played a match in the city.
It is alleged a 27-year-old man suffered a fractured eye socket in the incident, in which fellow England cricketer Alex Hales was present.
The Crown Prosecution Service said Stokes would be appearing at Bristol Magistrates' Court on a date to be fixed.
"The CPS was passed a file of evidence by Avon and Somerset Police on November 29 2017 in relation to an incident of disorder in Bristol city centre," a CPS spokesman said.
"Further material was subsequently received in late December.
"Following a review of all the available evidence, the CPS has today authorised the police to charge three men with affray in connection with the incident.
The statement added: "The CPS reminds all concerned that criminal proceedings are now live and the defendants have a right to a fair trial. It is extremely important there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice ongoing proceedings."
The charge of affray is made under the Public Order Act 1986 and effectively relates to fighting in public.
It is an triable either-way offence which means it can be heard in either the magistrates' court or the crown court.
It carries a maximum penalty when tried summarily - in the magistrates court - of a fine or up to six months in prison and when tried on indictment - in the crown court - of up to three years in prison.
Without Stokes England lost the Ashes to Australia 4-0.
While England were in Australia Stokes played a few games for Canterbury Kings during a moth-long spell in New Zealand before returning home to England.
His next cricket assignment may be a multi-million pound return to the Indian Premier League after his England employers indicated he will be free to do so if he wishes.
The all-rounder landed himself a £1.7 million deal and starring role with Rising Pune Supergiant last year.
In a statement posted on Twitter, Stokes said: "I want to thank all those who have continued to support me in relation to the Bristol incident, not least my family, friends, fans and teammates.
"I gave a full and detailed account of my actions to the police on day one - the same day as the incident - and have co-operated at each step of the police inquiry.
"I am keen to have an opportunity to clear my name but, on advice, the appropriate time to do this is when the case comes to trial.
"The CPS' decision to charge me, as well as Ryan Ali and Ryan Hale, at least means that my account of what happened that night can come out in court and be made public. Until then, my focus is very much on cricket. | 2019-04-24T10:03:40 | https://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/crime/england-cricketer-ben-stokes-charged-with-affray-after-nightclub-incident-1-8958855 |
0.997696 | Gmail has this new feature where when you send an email, it automatically creates a selection of 3 Canned Responses for your receiver to use in replying to you. As the sender, you do not get to pick the responses being sent, and you do not even see them. There is a way to turn them off, and this will be shown further below.
What kind of Canned Responses does Gmail generate? I started sending emails to find out. I started with a religious query to a pastor. This is my email and in the blue are the Canned Responses.
Next, I tried a business letter regarding contracts ready to be signed, with a possible side of fries.
Perhaps Sunday dinner with Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg.
Then I thought I'd ask Elon Musk to put me in his space program and send me to Mars. Let's see what his reply options are.
Next it seemed like Southwest Airlines needed a talking-to.
Harvard University was up next.
Then I got to thinking how poorly Serena Williams was treated on the tennis court recently.
Maybe Donald Trump needed a few encouraging words?
Maybe Kanye West could run for president next time?
And what's up with Jack at Twitter?
Finally, it seemed like Sergey at Google needed a few words of advice from me.
"It works"? What sort of reply is that when I write to say gmail is broken?
This is how to turn off the Canned Responses on Gmail: Go up on the top right hand side to the little GEAR thing. Click it and choose SETTINGS. From the top bar menu, choose ADVANCED. Next choose: CANNED RESPONSES -- and choose DISABLE. Then you need to scroll to the bottom and click on SAVE CHANGES. | 2019-04-19T11:51:57 | http://suebasko.blogspot.com/2018/09/dear-sir-google-canned-responses.html |
0.99976 | Has Theresa May been weakened again?
Britain’s interior minister Amber Rudd resigned Sunday, admitting she “inadvertently misled” lawmakers about deportation targets, in a body blow to the government as it faces public outrage over the targeting of the so-called Windrush generation of migrants.
Rudd, who had faced intensifying pressure over the treatment of elderly Commonwealth citizens primarily from the Caribbean, told lawmakers last week that there were no targets for the removal of people deemed to be in the country illegally.
But she tendered her resignation after documents addressed to her office emerged showing those goals were in place.
“I should have been aware of this, and I take full responsibility for the fact that I was not,” she said in her resignation letter to British Prime Minister Theresa May, conceding that she “inadvertently misled the Home Affairs Select Committee”.
Rudd’s dramatic exit will come as a severe setback for Prime Minister Theresa May, who publicly declared her “full confidence” in Rudd as recently as Friday and faces potentially bruising local council elections across England on Thursday.
The government has faced mounting controversy after it emerged that many from the Windrush generation, who came to Britain legitimately after World War II, had been wrongly threatened with deportation.
Their treatment stemmed from a “hostile environment” immigration policy pioneered by May when she was interior minister between 2010 and 2016, and then continued by Rudd.
The opposition Labour Party accused Rudd of incompetence and of being a “human shield” for May.
“This was inevitable, the only surprise is that it took so long,” said shadow interior minister Diane Abbott following Rudd’s resignation.
In a written response to Rudd’s resignation, May said she believed the minister had given her testimony “in good faith” and said the country was trying to enforce a “firm but fair” immigration policy.
The loss of a key minister comes at a delicate time for May, who could see the Tories wiped out in London at the local elections, with several once-safe Conservative councils potentially flipping to Labour.
Rudd, the MP for Hastings on England’s south coast who had led the Home Office since 2016, was also seen as a moderate on the European Union and a balancing force in a cabinet made up of several big-name pro-Brexit figures.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Environment Secretary Michael Gove, who were at the forefront of the campaign for Britain to leave the EU, were quick to praise their colleague on social media following news of the resignation.
“Really sad to lose @AmberRuddHR from Cabinet. A fine colleague who did a great job during last year’s terrorist attacks and cares deeply about the people she serves,” Johnson tweeted.
One of the more heartfelt reactions came from George Osborne, long-time finance minister under former Prime Minister David Cameron.
Rudd had been due to make another appearance before parliament on Monday, but instead opted to resign late Sunday.
In her resignation letter, she admitted that sometimes people with a legal right to be in Britain had not been treated “fairly and humanely”, adding that she had hoped to push through new legislation in the coming months to protect the Windrush generation.
In 1948, the ship Windrush brought the first group of migrants from the West Indies to help rebuild post-war Britain, and many others followed from around the Commonwealth.
They were given a legal right to remain by a 1971 law, but many never formalised their status, often because they were children who came over on their parents’ or siblings’ passports and then never applied for their own.
In recent years a government clampdown on illegal immigration has begun to identify those without papers — scooping up many elderly people from the Windrush generation.
Outrage over the plight of Windrush migrants — some of whom have lost jobs and fallen into debt as they struggled to prove their status — led to a personal apology from Prime Minister Theresa May to Caribbean leaders in April. | 2019-04-23T16:02:43 | https://www.thesouthafrican.com/uk-amber-rudd-resigns-blow-to-may/ |
0.999999 | The name(s) of the author(s); for multiple authors, please use "and" in between.
John White; John White and Maria White; J. White; White J. | 2019-04-25T18:27:30 | http://metashare.ilsp.gr/knowledgebase/author |
0.999998 | Passage of the bill that would require Congress to approve, by enacting legislation, any "major rule" issued by an agency in order for them to take effect. A "major rule" would include any regulation with an annual economic impact of $100 million or more; rules that would significantly harm employment, investment or U.S. economic competitiveness; or rules that would cause a major increase in costs or prices for consumers or industries. The bill also would create an expedited consideration process in both the House and the Senate for joint resolutions of approval. As amended, the measure would require that for new rules, agencies repeal or amend an existing rule or rules to offset any annual costs of the new rule before the new rule could take effect. As amended, it would create a process to sunset existing rules if Congress had not approved them within 10 years of the bill's enactment. | 2019-04-24T14:25:52 | https://www.ccagwratings.org/node/7623 |
0.999994 | So that the rule matches the lowercase string "aba".
and at most occurrences of element.
3*3 allows exactly 3 and 1*2 allows one or two. | 2019-04-21T16:53:05 | http://xyweb.com/rfc/rfc2234.html |
0.999009 | Advertising technology, or ad tech, is a relatively new business segment. Both Google and Facebook have been very successful with this new advertising model. That's great for today, but what is the future of ad tech going forward? Will it be important and rapidly expand to a wider segment, or will it be limited to the way certain companies show value and grow?
Advertising has gone through wave after wave of change over the decades. Considering its long history, ad tech is still a new area. When Google went public, it needed to show it could be profitable, so it started selling advertising in the ad tech space. It was very successful, although there were ups and downs. The bottom line is that this is one important way Google makes money.
The same is true of Facebook. When it went public, it needed to show revenue as well as continued subscriber growth. It has been very successful in the ad tech space. So, if you have a large user base coming to your website on a regular basis, it only makes sense that ad tech should be in your toolbox as a great way to earn significant income.
Ad tech seems to be the direction Verizon is heading in, following its acquisitions of AOL and Yahoo. It will be interesting to see if it is as successful as Google, Facebook, Amazon and others.
However, advertising technology is continually changing. What worked last year may not work as well this year. You must always stay on the cutting edge if you want to be successful in this space. That makes it more difficult to continue to lead going forward -- not impossible, but more difficult.
There are several different ad tech categories. Ads like those on Google, Facebook and Amazon are one category. However, there's an entire technology industry that studies this new phenomenon in order to improve results for advertisers and the companies that depend on advertising for revenue.
Companies that stay on the cutting edge of the ad tech market will find continued success, with more advertisers and increased revenue.
However, not every company will be able to ride the ad tech success wave. Those that don't will stumble, and the changes will happen relatively quickly in this rapidly changing space.
So, unless you are Google, Facebook or Amazon, you must stay up to speed in a variety of ways -- including bringing in outside consultants or companies that specialize in this field.
Ad tech will continue to be a growing sector. It will be very successful for some companies, but not others. Some companies will find success in a variety of new ways as time passes. Others may be successful in some ways but fail in others.
Any way you slice it, though, ad tech is here to stay. It will have to be updated continually as time passes, though, and keeping up-to-date is the toughest challenge. | 2019-04-24T02:24:33 | https://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84761.html?rss=1 |
0.999936 | What's the difference between SpeedType transcription software and my word processor's macros?
SpeedType transcription software and your word processor's macros have the same purpose--to reduce the number of keystrokes you need to type commonly used words. SpeedType transcription software has the advantage that it is not tied to a single word processor--you can use it with just about every Windows word processor, text editor, and even with text edit boxes within dialog boxes. SpeedType transcription software is designed to be much easier to use than the macro abilities of most word processors (which usually requires programming); much work has gone into designing a user interface that is readily usable by both touch typists and "hunt-and-peck" typists.
Can SpeedType transcription software really work with almost all Windows GUI applications?
SpeedType transcription software uses the Windows hooks mechanism to monitor and insert characters into the Windows keyboard message queue. Virtually all Windows GUI (Graphical User Interface) applications uses the standard Windows keyboard message queue and SpeedType transcription software should work well with these applications.
SpeedType transcription software is a 32-bit Windows application; will it work with older Windows 3.1 word processors running under Windows 95, 98 or NT 4?
Yes. SpeedType transcription software works with most Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows NT applications. An older 16-bit version of SpeedType transcription software is available if you are using a 16-bit Windows operating system; please contact OfficeSoft if you need this version.
Does SpeedType transcription software work with DOS programs?
No. SpeedType transcription software works only with programs that use the Windows graphic user interface.
So what applications are incompatible with SpeedType?
DOS, System Console and other "text only" windows.
Applications with built-in abbreviation expansion (such as the Microsoft Word AutoCorrect wizard). If you are using SpeedType transcription software with MS Word, be sure to disable the AutoCorrect wizard.
Applications (such as some terminal emulators) that do not understand the BACKSPACE key; for such applications, you can still use the SpeedType transcription software hot key to insert text--press F10 to bring up SpeedType, select your keyword then press the Type It button to insert the text.
How many dictionary entries can SpeedType transcription software support?
The theoretical maximum number of entries in a single dictionary is 2 billion. However, the practical limit is much lower and depends on the amount of free memory available. Some users have reported using SpeedType transcription software with a 500,000 entry dictionary. The number of dictionary files is limited only by hard disk space.
What is the maximum number of characters that can be associated with a keyword?
32,000 characters total. You cannot get around this limit; the text loaded by the @INPUTFILE tag counts toward this limit. This is a designed limitation to conserve memory; please contact OfficeSoft if you need to transfer large amounts of text.
Is it possible to run SpeedType transcription software automatically whenever I start Windows?
Yes. Place the SpeedType transcription software program icon in the Windows Startup folder to have Windows automatically execute SpeedType transcription software whenever you start Windows. You should note, however, that SpeedType transcription software works best if it is loaded last. If you find that SpeedType transcription software does not work correctly when initialized from the Windows Startup folder you should launch SpeedType transcription software manually.
SpeedType transcription software doesn't work correctly with some of my applications!
Try changing the text transfer method. SpeedType transcription software has two methods for transferring text: by keyboard simulation and by simulating the clipboard paste operation. If you encounter a problem inserting text into an application, try changing the text transfer method in SpeedType's Preferences box. If you are using Microsoft Word, be sure to disable MS Word's AutoCorrect wizard by choosing AutoCorrect from MS Word's Tools menu and unchecking the "Replace Text as You Type" box.
After SpeedType transcription software inserts the text, the text caret is positioned at the wrong place in the word processor!
Try changing the text transfer method in SpeedType's Preference box.
How do I change the date/time formats used by the LONGDATE, SHORTDATE, LONGTIME and SHORTTIME tags?
You can define your own date/time format by selecting the International icon in the Windows Control Panel.
How do I get rid of the message that asks for confirmation whenever SpeedType transcription software exits?
Go to the Display page in the Preferences box and check the "Do Not Confirm Exit" option.
How can I stop SpeedType transcription software after it has started inserting text?
Press the ESC key or use the mouse to click on the SpeedType transcription software icon in the Windows System Tray. | 2019-04-23T02:03:51 | https://speedtype.com/i/faq |
0.999997 | 'House Arrest' is unpardonable Review: This dysfunctional-family comedy wastes a good cast by going for the cheap laughs.
"House Arrest" couldn't get itself arrested if it tried.
A somewhat clotted comedy, it never manages to decide what kind of movie it wants to be or what it wants to say; it just spins its wheels fecklessly for the longest time until, finally, helpfully, it ends.
It plays, somewhat trivially, on America's warped tradition of dysfunctional, disintegrating family life, but at the same time mates this topic with a heavy-handed fantasy of child empowerment, all while squandering a terrific cast.
As "House Arrest" has it, the marriage between those battlin' Beindorfs, Kevin Pollak and Jamie Lee Curtis, is falling apart on the familiar grounds of his sloppiness and her precision, and they've decided to separate. Their two kids, Grover and Stacy (Kyle Howard and Amy Sakasitz), greatly disturbed at this development, cast about for something to do and end up taking literally a friend's whimsical suggestion that they lock their folks up in the basement until they patch up their differences.
But after inventing this idea, the movie runs out of gas while offering up an image of an adult male not strong enough to outpush his 14-year-old son at a doorway; no one can figure out what to do next until someone comes up with a bad idea. (Yes, I know they don't make this stuff up as they go along, but it feels as if they are on this one!) A stronger and more malicious teen-ager than Grover decides to expand on the initiative, locking his parents in the same basement; another teen's parents and finally the class beauty's single mom are included in the operation, which comes to resemble one of Inspector Renault's round-ups of the usual suspects.
That yields to the film's basic situation, a kind of upstairs-downstairs thing where the kids upstairs establish a grown-up-free paradise and the big people downstairs snuffle and quibble like -- well, like kids. But the movie isn't rigorously imagined enough to provide any real contrasts between the parallel societies or any sophisticated irony; it's too interested in cheap laughs.
And the laughs are cheap. They'd give them away for nothing at Herb's Bargain Store. How many times can you watch kids pouring chocolate syrup on popcorn before it loses its charm? Or playing catch with the china? Then there's the rewiring deal, where the doorbell turns on the Christmas tree lights, ho ho ho.
Downstairs, the actors soon melt down to crudest comic type: Christopher McDonald, as usual, is the blowhard; Wallace Shawn, as usual, is the meek ironist; Jennifer Tilly -- oh, this is a surprise -- is the ditz.
Only Pollak and Curtis create any semblance of character in this tapestry of stereotype, but the movie doesn't give them enough to do as the louder idiots take to the fore with clumsily imagined escape gambits; meanwhile, upstairs: more china catch! An occasional Snickers pie! What about: MTV-style video riffs as they fix dinner! | 2019-04-24T16:31:07 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1996-08-14-1996227141-story.html |
0.999992 | Vicilin and convicilin are potential major allergens from pea seeds.
The frequency of pea allergy varies among different populations. Legume allergy, mainly to lentils and chickpeas, is the fifth most common cause of food allergy in Spanish children.
Cross-reactivity between peanut allergy and pea allergy is relatively common. Please review the text below for a detailed description.
Peanuts and soybeans are the major legumes involved in human food allergy. Fewer data exist on adverse reactions to other temperate legumes, such as lentils.
Lentils, chickpeas, beans, and peas are the most common consumed legumes in the Mediterranean area.
Allergic reactions to lentils started early in life, usually below 4 years of age; oropharyngeal symptoms and acute urticaria were the most common symptoms through ingestion, and symptomatic reactivity to chick peas is frequently associated.
The use of lupine in food has been increasing during the last decade and allergic reactions to lupine have been reported, especially in peanut-allergic patients.
39 peanut-sensitized patients were evaluated by skin prick tests (SPT) and ImmunoCAP to lupine, pea, and soy (Peeters KA et al, Allergy. 2009). Clinical reactivity was measured by double-blind placebo-controlled food challenges (DBPCFC) for lupine, and by history for pea and soy. None of the patients was aware of the use of lupine in food.
82% of patients were sensitized to lupine, 55% to pea, and 87% to soy. Clinically relevant sensitization to lupine, pea, or soy occurred in 35%, 29%, and 33% respectively.
The lowest eliciting dose (ED) for lupine, inducing mild subjective symptoms, was 0.5 mg.
In this study (Peeters KA et al, Allergy. 2009), peanut-sensitized patients, clinically relevant sensitization to either lupine or to pea or soy occurs frequently. The ED for lupine is low (0.5 mg), which is only fivefold higher than for peanut.
Serological cross-reactivity among legumes is frequent, but its clinical relevance is controversial. In Spanish study (Martínez San Ireneo M et al, Int Arch Allergy Immunol. 2008), the cross-reactivity among lentils, chickpeas, peas, white beans and peanuts and its clinical relevance was investigated in 54 pediatric patients. All children had a clinical allergy to legumes. Cross-reactivity was evaluated by ELISA inhibition experiments and oral food challenges to legumes.
ELISA inhibition demonstrated more than 80% inhibition with lentil, chickpea and pea extracts. The oral legume challenges demonstrated that 69% of children were allergic to 2 or more legumes (median 3 legumes).
The most frequent associations were allergy to lentils and chickpeas (57%), allergy to lentils and peas (54%) and allergy to lentils, chickpeas and peas (43%).
In vitro inhibition demonstrated a high degree of cross-reactivity among lentils, chickpeas and peas. Food challenges confirmed that clinical allergy to all three legumes is frequent.
Clinical features of legume allergy in children from a Mediterranean area. Martínez San Ireneo M, Ibáñez MD, Sánchez JJ, Carnés J, Fernández-Caldas E. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2008 Aug;101(2):179-84.
In vitro and in vivo cross-reactivity studies of legume allergy in a Mediterranean population. Martínez San Ireneo M, Ibáñez MD, Fernández-Caldas E, Carnés J. Int Arch Allergy Immunol. 2008;147(3):222-30. Epub 2008 Jul 2.
Vicilin and convicilin are potential major allergens from pea. R. Sanchez-Monge et al. Clinical & Experimental Allergy, Volume 34 Issue 11, Pages 1747 - 1753, 2004.
Allergy to lentils in Mediterranean pediatric patients. Pascual CY et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 1999 Jan;103(1 Pt 1):154-8.
Clinical relevance of sensitization to lupine in peanut-sensitized adults. Peeters KA, Koppelman SJ, Penninks AH, Lebens A, Bruijnzeel-Koomen CA, Hefle SL, Taylor SL, van Hoffen E, Knulst AC. Allergy. 2009 Apr;64(4):549-55. Epub 2008 Dec 4.
Cross Reactions Among Foods (PDF).
Image source: Frozen green peas. Wikipedia, Jina Lee, GNU Free Documentation License.
"82% of patients were sensitized to lupine, 55% to pea, and 87% to soy. Clinically relevant sensitization to lupine, pea, or soy occurred in 35%, 29%, and 33% respectively." | 2019-04-25T05:09:35 | http://allergynotes.blogspot.com/2009/12/pea-allergy.html |
0.999997 | We've been talking about scenario planning.
the appropriate time horizon over which to construct and conduct your analysis.
the future, different possible futures that you might have to operate in.
So that brings us to what's next?
The fourth step is to then write your scenarios.
We've laid out the key uncertainties on that grid.
scenarios and here's where you can let your imagination run wild.
Well, maybe not completely wild, but you wanna use vivid descriptions.
imagine what life is like?
What are consumers doing given the way you've constructed that scenario?
So again, you wanna focus on things that are plausible.
the scenarios that you've created and you really want to get into the details.
Generate details about these potential futures.
One way to do this might be to invent hypothetical newspaper headlines.
the websites you log on to get your news?
So the key here to really be creative.
perspectives from others who might think about things different than you.
themselves in those different futures Your scenarios.
You've already sort of establish what the appropriate timeframe is.
Let's say, you've picked 15 years out or 5 years out, whatever it is.
But you might also wanna focus on how things evolve between now and then.
50% of the way there or all the way there?
future conditions might be, that you've identified based on your uncertainties.
ideas about what life in those future scenarios might entail?
And therefore, how might it impact your business?
reflect on the current strategic decisions you're contemplating making.
these scenarios to help us potentially reconsider our strategic decisions.
across these different potential futures.
you're really sort of asking yourself, how we can get there?
that might have a viable strategy in each of those different future scenarios?
Do we need to develop certain capabilities further than they exist right now?
opportunities to make your strategic moves more robust.
Ideally, since we can't always predict the future with complete accuracy.
we've got a set of four different possible future.
be robust across all those different scenarios?
we build our grid and wrote our scenarios around those.
see if they yield some different insights.
how robust your strategy is across those scenarios.
move that's not robust a crossed all those scenarios.
you should understand that, that's a risk.
build a strategy around that one vision of the future.
So let's review real quick.
also the time horizon, then you identify key trends and uncertainties.
the things that we think might most impact the future of our business.
We use those to construct at least four different scenarios.
a imaginative detail as you can.
Try to imagine what business would be like within each of those potential futures.
strategic moves to help make your strategy more robust in an uncertain future. | 2019-04-19T11:01:00 | https://ru.coursera.org/lecture/uva-darden-business-growth-strategy/scenario-planning-steps-4-and-5-vEMqP |
0.998247 | - How long do you think we have until the return of the Lord Jesus Christ? Do you believe there are still things that need to happen before it can happen, or do you believe it could take place at any time?
- For those who believe it could take place at any time, there are spiritual dangers inherent in teaching this. Satan wants to embarrass and humiliate Christians, so he tries to get them to put their trust in false predictions about Christ's return. I know of two people right now who are setting dates for Christ's return. They both have their own websites, and both have a presence on the Christian forums.
- And these are only small time. Every 3-5 years some major theory gets presented that gains international attention, and many get swept up in it thinking the return of the Lord or the rapture of the church or the beginning of the Tribulation is indeed upon us.
- But there is a problem with telling people He could return at any time: If He could return at any time, what's to dissuade others from believing that He might be returning at the time a date setter is giving for it, considering the person is presenting a convincing case for that particular day, and with supposed scriptural proof for it?
- And don't underestimate the damage Satan can do to people's lives through deceptions like this. Some end up suffering more than just humiliation and embarrassment.
- I will cover some of the major delusions of the 21st century here in just a second, but in some instances people have even sold their houses or donated their life savings to ministries that were advertising the return of the Lord on a particular date, and ended up completely disillusioned in their faith as a result.
- How do you face friends and family knowing that you lost everything buying into a lie? It leaves some people asking, "Why did God allow this to happen to me?"
- Well the truth is, the Lord doesn't allow it to happen to believers. Believers allow it to happen to themselves because they don't give proper time to studying God's word on it to be truly educated on the matter.
- Both Paul and the Lord Jesus Himself taught that there were signs believers needed to watch for, and until those signs came to pass they had no reason to be concerned that the Day of the Lord had come.
- This was the protection God gave us against being deceived by the enemy in regard to Christ's return, and it is what I am going to be covering in this study.
- Let me cover briefly some of the major apocalyptic predictions of the 21st century.
- This was probably a deliberate hoax on the part of Time Magazine just to sell copies, but it worked like a charm because the article just scared the living daylights out of people.
- Time published an issue in January of 1999 with... (Describe the cover art: Man wearing billboard sign, holding cross).
- According to the article, supposedly the computers wouldn't be able to handle the turn of the century because programmers hadn't accounted for it, the world's economies were going to crash, and within weeks the planet would devolve into mob rule with rioting the streets, and an ushering in of the entire apocalyptic scenario.
- This scare gained international attention and people across the globe took it seriously. Billions on dollars were spent worldwide to try and prepare for it. New York city alone spent over 400 million dollars to prevent the computer bug from bringing about a collapse of its computer systems.
- But then nothing happened.
- So few malfunctions actually happened that newspapers took to posting cartoons in the following days making fun of it, saying, "7 ATMs shut down, some people's library cards wouldn't scan, and one guy's automatic toilet wouldn't stop flushing."
- So it all ended up as a big joke for the world, but it was not a joke for the Christian ministries that ran with it, and ended up bearing the shame of supposedly being authorities on Biblical prophecy yet telling national audiences that they needed to be prepared for the worst and that this could signal in the start of the tribulation period.
- Then we fast forward 10 years later, and we come to Harold Camping.
- Harold Camping was a radio host who gained control over a radio station called Family Radio. When other controlling members of the station passed away, he had them replaced with hand-picked yes-men types, and eventually began making predictions regarding the rapture of the church.
- His first prediction was for 1994, and when that one didn't come to pass he went back to teaching normal Christian doctrine and things settled back down. But in 2003 he again predicted the return of the Lord and the rapture of the church.
- According to Camping, Noah's flood supposedly took place in 4990 B.C., thereby placing it two millennium earlier than most credible Bible chronologers did. Harold then found a verse in Genesis, Chapter 7 where God promised to send rain on the earth in seven years, applied the principle that "A day with the Lord is as a thousand years," and concluded therefore that the Lord Jesus Christ was going to be returning on May 21st, 2011.
- Despite being a pure fabrication, many got swept up in it anyway, and by the time 2011 was rolling around over 100 million dollars had been sent in as donations to help get the word out through advertising that the rapture of the church was at hand. The ministry bought vans and buses and painted them with advertisements, and toured the country warning everyone to prepare for Christ's return.
- This one was tragic because many sold their homes and donated their life savings to advertise for this thing. While it many be funny to some, these things are no laughing matter to friends and loved ones who see someone they cared for lose everything to a religious delusion.
- When May 21st came and went, Harold tried to regroup by telling people that it would actually come six months later in October, and when that failed the radio station's support started dwindling quickly. By 2013 Harold had passed on to whatever reward was awaiting him.
- But those who were closest to him should have warned others, because there was something a creepy about Harold Camping to begin with. He was supposedly enamored with Jim Jones, the notorious cult leader who led 300 of his followers to commit suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid in Jonestown. Camping actually had equipment that had been used in the People's Temple, and he used to show it off to people. He would also laugh if donators asked to get their money back.
- A year or so later, the whole Mayan Calendar scare gained national attention. It was based on a few lines of extremely obscure prophecy found in some Mayan inscriptions, that read there would come a display of Bʼolon-Yokte', the Mayan god of war and the Underworld, "in a great investiture." Well, that could have meant anything. It could have simply meant that he would parade himself around in an elaborate costume, since this was usually how the Mayans depicted their gods behaving anyway. But this didn't stop various groups from interpreting the expression any way they wanted to.
- The New Agers said the prophecy predicted the coming of a great spiritual awakening on earth. Of course, the New Agers always predict that various events will signal the coming of a great spiritual awakening on earth. But Hollywood decided to go the opposite direction and portray how the Mayan god of the Underworld was going to kill us all. So in late 2012 a major motion picture was released depicting scenes of apocalyptic destruction as natural disasters swept across the earth and brought about the end of mankind.
- The numbers in this date were even made to have mystical significance, but despite all the hype once again nothing happened. Life went on as usual.
- Then in 2017, two men named William Tapley and Scott Clarke began posting videos on Youtube claiming that the tribulation would come on September 23rd of 2017. Supposedly 12 stars that would align themselves over the constellation of Virgo and this would fulfill a prophecy found in Revelations, Chapter 12, where it talked about the woman with 12 stars over her head being attacked by the dragon. Unfortunately for those Christians who bought this fabrication, once again nothing happened, and life went on as usual, leaving those who took their predictions seriously to try and save face after getting worked up over nothing.
- These delusions are not just the products of human imagination. Humans have plenty of help when it comes to religious deception, and beneath Satan's desire to see believers become humiliated and embarrassed lies an even deeper motive: He ultimately wants to Discredit The Word Of God, by making a mockery out of the prophecies of scripture.
- As we get deeper into the end-times, it will become increasingly apparent to those willing to look into what the word of God actually says that Biblical prophecy is coming to pass. To circumvent many coming to faith in Christ because of it, Satan is going to increasingly desensitize people to this by presenting more and more end-time delusions to the public, so that many just sit back and say, "I've seen people predict Christ's return and nothing happened."
- Peter prophesied that a time will come when they deride those who believe in Christian prophesy, and mockingly ask, "Where is the promise of His coming?"
- Just as he did in the garden of Eden, he is essentially getting people to question "Has God said?" He said to Eve "Has God said you shall surely die?," and by planting doubt in her mind about the word of God it ultimately led to her destruction.
- The truth of what God has said in His word will be proven out, but the key to surviving delusions like these unscathed is in knowing God's prophetic timeline, so to avoid being deceived by such things.
- What was going on here? One tactic Satan often uses is to reinterpret what Christians believe. He doesn't attack their beliefs directly. He inserts lies into the mix in order to deceive them through what they already believe.
- The same thing was happening with the Thessalonians. In his first letter to them, Paul told them that Christ's return was coming so they would not grieve over the deaths of loved ones they were losing to persecution. They would be reunited with them again soon, because Christ's return was coming.
- Now roughly a year later there were threats of people convincing them that His return was not only coming but had already arrived.
- So what did Paul advise the Thessalonians to do in this situation 2,000 years ago?
- The key is in understanding what he meant when he asked them, "Do you not remember that when I was with you I was telling you these things?"
- Jesus mentioned several things here. First there would come wars and great natural disasters, then a great apostasy would take place, when the nations turned on believers and persecuted them to their deaths. Eventually the Antichrist would arise and set up the abomination that causes desolation, after which the Jews in Jerusalem would flee for their lives, knowing the great tribulation was about to begin. Finally the return of the Lord and the rapture of the church would take place.
- But when he talked about a time when many believers would deliver one another up, Jesus was referring to the same thing Paul was talking about when he told the Thessalonians there must first come an apostasy from the faith.
- The apostasia is not "the departure," as many Pre-tribulationists want to interpret it. It meant literally "the apostasy," as we still use the term today.
- This word was used of those who apostatized from political or religious groups.
ἀποστασία, ας, ἡ = Desertion from a particular political or religious body. In the Bible namely, from the true religion.
- An "apostates" was a political deserter.
- In the only other New Testament use, some accused Paul of "apostasy from Moses."
- This word apostasia is also sometimes translated as "falling away," and is applied to a phenomenon we see happening today among many Christians. The statistics say that 90% of Christian youth who are being raised in the public schools are departing from the faith once they're out of the house and on their own, and if these trends hold America is going to increasingly go in the same direction Europe went, where churches are now being converted over into markets and mosques, and Christians are very much in the minority.
- But this is not what's being referred to here by the word "apostasy." Paul was referring specifically to a time when great masses of Christians will betray the Lord to save their own lives specifically as a result of intense persecution; the most intense persecution in the church's history.
- Jesus described it as a time when many would be "scandalized," which is a literal translation of the Greek there. A scandalon was the snare for a trap, and becoming trapped in a compromised situation is what the Lord was referring to. When they were taking Jesus to be interrogated and crucified, Peter sought to deny he was the Lord's disciple, but there was evidence against him. Someone said, "But your accent is Galilean," which is where Jesus was from, so Peter was essentially caught in a scandal. So, too, will many in the end-times try to distance themselves from Christ and profess they are not Christians, but they will have evidence against them that they are by association, which will force them to betray other believers and deliver them up to their deaths in order to save their own lives.
- Do we see this kind of apostasy taking place yet? The simple answer is: No, we do not.
- Certainly there is Christian persecution - even severe persecution - in many regions of the world today, such as in nations like N. Korea, or the Muslim countries of the Middle East, like in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and Somalia. But the persecution referred to by Paul here will be so severe it causes a mass exodus from the faith, and it is something still set to be fulfilled in the future, as the time of the Antichrist draws nearer.
- Thus, when you know what exactly you are looking for, it becomes easy to tell that we still have a ways to go before Christians are hated by ALL the nations of the earth, and persecuted so severely that multitudes betray the Lord and deliver each other up to their deaths.
- Both Paul and the Lord Jesus Christ also made reference to the Antichrist coming first. Paul referred to him as "the lawless one" who would take his seat in the temple, and Jesus referred to him as he who would set up "the abomination that causes desolation" in the temple. This was a reference to the statue the Antichrist would erect thereafter as a permanent reminder to the Jews that he was essentially their god now.
- But we know from other Biblical prophecies that in order for the Antichrist to arise, there will have to be an empire already established in the earth that he can assume power over.
- Some say this "Beast" will be an amalgamation of church & state, wielding mere political power over people. NO. This will be an empire characterized by military conquest unlike anything the world has ever seen before.
- When it says "Its teeth were of iron and its claws of brass, devouring [its victims]," it's victims here are the nations this empire will conquer. Teeth, claws and horns are the means by which the beasts of the earth kill and destroy one another, and these being made of iron and brass suggests that the weapons of war this empire uses will be exceedingly strong, and able to do great damage on earth.
- That the empire will utterly break these nations to pieces, and "trample the remainder with its feet" means nothing will be left. The nations it conquers will be completely subsumed and assimilated into the empire as conquered territory.
- But the suggestion that the arrival of the Antichrist is still a ways off yet can be seen in the words, "and there were ten horns in its head, and another came up that rooted up three the former." This means that when he emerges he will usurp the rule of three of these kings that head up the empire, and that means that this empire will already have to be in place before he can arise to do so.
- As will be covered in later studies, Paul believed this empire was Rome, and that an emperor would soon arise to fulfill the Biblical narrative.
- Did he have legitimate reasons to believe that Rome was the 4th Beast of Daniel, and that the return of Christ could be coming soon? Yes. The fourth beast of Daniel already appeared to be established in the earth.
- But do we the same reasons to believe he could emerge at any time? No. There are numerous suggestions that this empire may eventually take shape among the Muslim nations of the Middle East, but if so this empire still has a long way to go. Thus, until we see an empire of military conquest unlike anything this world has seen before taking shape, we have no need to become concerned that the Day of the Lord has arrived yet.
- More will be covered on this passage in later studies, but do we see these false prophets and false Christs operating in the earth who can call fire down from heaven, or levitate into the sky, or other such powerful false signs? No, we don't. And until we do we shouldn't be concerned that the Day of the Lord has come yet.
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0.999765 | A panel of Pennsylvania voters told CBS host John Dickerson in a segment aired Sunday that the nation remains divided after President Trump's first 100 days in office.
One panelist, a life-long Democrat, called the Democratic Party "out of touch," while another said Democrats' continued focus on Russia's involvement in the 2016 presidential election made them "look a little desperate."
The panelists were all from Reading, Pa., a city in the southeastern part of the state that in 2010 had the largest share of its residents living in poverty, according to Census Bureau data. Reading also helped Donald Trump win Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes and the presidency in 2016.
Just over 100 days into Trump's term, however, the panelists said the nation is still as divided as it was during the general election. They agreed that Trump is more concerned with message than policy, using words like "scary," "tenuous," uncertain," and "divisive" to describe the political landscape.
Among those critical of the president, one voter said that Trump's "focus has been on the media far too much," and he needs to focus on just doing "a good job."
Trump supporters praised the president's "no-nonsense" mentality, especially how it has played out in his foreign policy.
Beyond Trump, several panelists had harsh words for the Democratic Party.
"I've been a Democrat all my life," one panelist said. "I think the Democrats, not only are they out of touch, they have no interest in correcting the situation."
His words echoed the findings of a poll last month, which concluded that voters considered Democrats more "out of touch" than Republicans or Trump.
"WikiLeaks confirmed that Hillary Clinton and the Democratic establishment are liars," he continued, "and that they had their thumb on the scale for Hillary Clinton. So what are they basically saying? If we hadn't been caught lying, we'd control the country right now."
Later in the panel, Dickerson asked if anyone had" a story that you hear about all the time, that you think, this story is not important, and I don't want to hear any more about it?"
"We'll go with Russia," one panelist quickly responded, "because that was one of the things that's driving me absolutely mad."
"I think Russia already been proven to not have any impact on our elections," she continued. "And so to try to keep going on that really makes the Democrats look a little desperate."
This entry was posted in Politics and tagged CBS, Democratic Party, Democrats, Donald Trump, John Dickerson. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-26T05:51:15 | https://freebeacon.com/politics/pa-voter-panel-nation-divided-democrats-out-of-tocuh/ |
0.998425 | Alysin Camerota framed the message with a statement of Fox "fact" that Vanderbilt is "clamping down on religious freedom." She then showed part of the video, shown during the last Fox & Friends attack on Vanderbilt, done by - wait for it - Vanderbilt College Republicans whining about how they're being dissed for their "faith." The chyron: "Losing Their Religion, Vanderbilt Under Fire For New Policy." Clayton Morris introduced his guest - wait for it - Abby Sutton, a Vanderbilt College Republican who wants the community to know that she and her fellow young GOPers are very "frustrated." The chyron: "Fighting for Faith, Students Protest New Vanderbilt Policy."
Camerota explained that this is a non-discrimination policy "that leaders of any particular religious group don't need to have a belief system in order to be a leader." She asked Abby "what's wrong with that." (Gretch would say that it means that atheists can take over the group!) The chyron further defined the Fox message: "Assault on Religious Liberty, Students Urge Vanderbilt to Change Policies." Sutton said that she and her pals believe that "religious groups can choose leaders based on religious beliefs" and "it doesn't make sense that they're not allowed to select leaders based on their religious beliefs." Morris read a statement from Vanderbilt. Sutton claimed that the school isn't being clear. She then gave a hypothetical example of a Muslim member of a Muslim group who, over the summer, converts to Christianity and then tries to evangelize their Muslim group in the fall. She asserted that the policy doesn't allow the group to ask the student to resign.
Sutton didn't mention that anybody can "run" in a group's election. Ergo, if the group doesn't want a particular person, they don't have to vote for him/her. And students, experiencing summer conversions, really? The bottom line is that the school, which funds the groups, has a non-discrimination policy. Some Christians groups were not in compliance with the policy so it needed further clarification and Christian groups aren't happy. One student, whose letter appears in "Inside Vandy," says it eloquently: "All the administration asks is that school-sponsored groups do not exclude people because of their religious beliefs: that's why it is called non-discrimination: Being concerned about the identity of a a student organization is one thing, but portraying Vanderbilt as an malignant persecutor of faith and religious students as helpless martyrs is nothing short of fanaticism. Don't get me wrong: there is nothing inappropriate about wanting to protect the integrity of a community. But if these groups continue to play the victim in this conflict instead of pursuing a viable solution, at the end of the day, they may not have much integrity left."
A hearty, secular "amen" to that!
My head hurts too much to do anything else. | 2019-04-19T16:21:01 | http://www.newshounds.us/20120204_fox_friends_attacks_vanderbilt_for_clamping_down_on_religious_freedom |
0.99953 | The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy, pharmacokinetics (PK), pharmacodynamics (PD), and safety of 3 milligrams (mg) glucagon (glucagon nasal powder) administered nasally compared with commercially available glucagon given by intramuscular injection.
Each glucagon dosing visit was conducted after an overnight fast of at least 8 h with a starting plasma glucose >= 90 mg/dL. Hypoglycemia was induced by an intravenous (IV) infusion of regular insulin diluted in normal saline during the clinic visit. Five minutes after stopping the insulin infusion (once the plasma glucose was <60 mg/dL), participants were treated with either a 3 mg glucagon dose nasally or 1 mg of glucagon administered by intramuscular (IM) injection.
After a wash-out period of 7 days or more, participants returned to the clinic and the procedure repeated with each participant crossed over to the other treatment. As such, each participant underwent two episodes of insulin-induced hypoglycemia in random order and received glucagon nasal powder during one episode and commercially available glucagon (GlucaGen, Novo Nordisk) by IM injection during the other episode.
At one visit, a glucagon dose of 3 mg was administered in a nostril with a prefilled delivery device that delivers a single dose upon activation.
At a separate visit, 1 mg of glucagon was administered into the deltoid muscle of the non-dominant arm (intramuscular [IM]).
Increase in blood glucose to ≥70 mg/dL or an increase of ≥20 mg/dL from glucose nadir within 30 minutes after receiving study glucagon, without receiving additional actions to increase the blood glucose level defines treatment success. Due to the residual activity of circulating insulin, glucose nadir was defined as the minimum glucose measurement at the time of, or within 10 minutes following glucagon administration.
Symptoms of runny nose, nasal congestion and/or itching, sneezing, watery and/or itchy eyes, redness of eyes, and itching of ears and/or throat were assessed. This was done via the "Nasal Non-nasal Score Questionnaire". Each of the 9 symptoms is assigned an integer value from 0 to 3; higher values indicate more severe symptoms (a score of 0 indicates no symptoms). The reported results indicate the cohort median out of a possible maximum value of 27 (summing all 9 questions for each subject and reporting the median/IQR across participants).
Recovery from hypoglycemia symptoms were assessed using the Edinburgh Hypoglycemia Scale. The Edinburgh Hypoglycemia Symptom Scale measures the intensity of 15 commonly experienced hypoglycemic symptoms on a 7-point Likert scale (1 = not present, 7 = very intense). The higher the score, the more intense the hypoglycemia symptoms. The sum of each symptom score would yield a range of 15 to 105 (i.e., 15 x 7 =105). The total score was calculated as the sum of each symptom score minus 15, and summarized at each time point by treatment group.
The mean time from glucagon administration to blood glucose >/=70 mg/dL or an increase ≥20 mg/dL in blood glucose from nadir.
History of pheochromocytoma (i.e. adrenal gland tumor) or insulinoma.
Rickels MR, Ruedy KJ, Foster NC, Piché CA, Dulude H, Sherr JL, Tamborlane WV, Bethin KE, DiMeglio LA, Wadwa RP, Ahmann AJ, Haller MJ, Nathan BM, Marcovina SM, Rampakakis E, Meng L, Beck RW; T1D Exchange Intranasal Glucagon Investigators. Intranasal Glucagon for Treatment of Insulin-Induced Hypoglycemia in Adults With Type 1 Diabetes: A Randomized Crossover Noninferiority Study. Diabetes Care. 2016 Feb;39(2):264-70. doi: 10.2337/dc15-1498. Epub 2015 Dec 17.
Plan to Share IPD: Yes Plan Description: Lilly provides access to the individual patient data from studies on approved medicines and indications as defined by the sponsor specific information on ClinicalStudyDataRequest.com. | 2019-04-24T14:00:33 | https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01994746?term=glucagon&rank=6 |
0.999998 | DJ Swearinger ignored instructions to stop criticizing coaches Everyone knew a contender like the Kansas City Chiefs had very little hope for actually getting to claim safety D.J. Gruden had said in a conference call Sunday with reporters that he was "quite disappointed" in Swearinger.
Solskjaer hints at wanting Man United manager's job permanently Solskjaer inherits a disjointed, top-heavy squad. "I've already been in touch with him, there's no one to get better advice from". Sanchez will be absent for caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first game in charge against Cardiff.
Egger: Reds' aggressiveness, Yasiel Puig are exciting departures from the usual Nevertheless, he's had a somewhat storied big league career that includes two no-hitters. However, according to two tied in sources surrounding the team; this is not the case.
Which Premier League fixtures are live on TV this weekend? The home team had no goal to show for it by half-time, although they could say that they had made most of the running. We thought before the game that could be decisive, we analysed and saw we would not have six, seven, eight chances.
Horowitz: Mattis Resignation on Principle Sounds Clarion Call Graham said that the United States could reduce, but not completely pull out, troops from Syria and "partner" with Turkey. Jim Mattis has "no anger" after Trump forced him out early, Mattis' brother has revealed.
Fears for more tsunamis after hundreds killed in Indonesia It said that most patients are domestic tourists who were visiting beaches during the long weekend ahead of Christmas. They had been unaware of the tsunami when suddenly, a massive wave crashed through the stage and into the audience.
Kate Middleton bought Christmas gifts at the discount store Samantha is worried that this could be their father's last Christmas and she's anxious that the pair may never talk again. They are, that the Queen's husband Prince Philip is the one who decides when the presents are opened.
Klopp open to Liverpool signings in January Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino admits his side need to improve their consistency if they are to mount a title bid. What is more important, is it experience or is it potential, attitude, desire or the joy at never having had it before? .
Liverpool Open Up Six-Point Lead As Manchester City Lose Against Leicester City have failed to keep a clean sheet in their last nine games but the manager says they have been unfortunate with the goals they have conceded.
Christian McCaffrey on Taylor Heinicke: 'He's extremely talented' Heinicke has been appeared in six games and thrown just five passes since joining the league in 2015 with the Vikings. As noted by Panthers.com , his passer rating (52.5) and completion percentage (55.2) were both season lows.
Michael Flynn: Judge suggests ex-Trump aide 'sold out' US Mueller's office responded in a filing of their own on Friday, disputing the claim that Flynn was entrapped by McCabe. At the White House, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Flynn's actions had nothing to do with Trump.
Fed Raises Rates Despite Trump Attacks, Stocks Tank European stocks rose after Italy's government reached an agreement with the European Commission on its budget plans. No longer will the Fed be able to signal weeks in advance the near-certainty of a shift in rates.
United States charges 'China government hackers' The Justice Department accused China of breaking a 2015 pact to curb cyber espionage for corporate purposes. The US deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, called the alleged hacking "outright cheating and theft".
United States stocks suffer worst week in a decade The S&P 500, already on pace for its worst December since the Great Depression, hit its lowest since August 2017. The possibility of a partial shutdown of the federal government at midnight Friday also loomed over the market.
Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth marry in secret Christmas celebration Miley Cyrus is confirming she is a Christmas bride by sharing an image of herself in a stunning wedding gown. The pictures that the 26-year-old singer shared showed the newlyweds hugging and embracing each other.
Is it time to lower expectations for the Boston Celtics?
The odd sight was caused by an explosion at the Astoria power plant in Queens.
The fire department later added that there were "no injuries reported".
Photos posted onto social media showed a bright light burning as it was followed by a unusual, wispy trail.
A giant plume of smoke exploded and colored the night sky blue over a Con Edison substation in Queens on Thursday, causing people across NY to gawk in awe.
The NYPD is asking people to avoid the area of 20th Avenue and 31st Street in Astoria while they investigated the transformer explosion at the Con Edison power plant in Astoria East and North Queens.
La Guardia Airport was closed temporarily as the explosion was brought under control.
A handful of Republican senators are coming out in opposition to President Donald Trump's demand to end the Senate's filibuster. House Speaker Paul Ryan , left, meets with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on Capitol Hill in 2016.
"Electricity went out, then the explosion, my building humming and shaking, sky was lit up blue, green, and white", one resident said on Twitter. The ground stop lasted about 45 minutes.
Reports said the fire at the Con Edison facility in Astoria in Queens, New York had been contained.
A power outage at LaGuardia Airport, which is located in Queens, prompted flight cancellations, the NY affiliate of NBC reported earlier on Thursday.
"The lights you have seen throughout the city appear to have been from a transformer explosion at a Con Ed facility in Queens", the NYPD tweeted, referring to the Consolidated Edison utility.
Public transportation is running, but the 7 train is experiencing delays, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Twitter. | 2019-04-24T14:16:48 | http://auburnbuzz.com/2018/12/ny-transformer-explosion-lights-up-sky-causes-power-outages/ |
0.997878 | 1)Add the chopped garlic in a bowl and mix in; soy sauce, pineapple juice and ketchup. This will make the marinade.
2)Add the chopped chicken breast to a Ziploc bag and pour in the marinade. Allow the marinade to soak for a minimum of 4 hours and up to 24 hours.
3)Once the marinade is ready, layer the onions, bell pepper, pineapple and chicken on each skewer alternatively.
4)Place skewers on preheated grill and brush with any left over marinade.
5)Grill until chicken is properly cooked. | 2019-04-19T08:24:18 | https://lorifaren.com/recipe/hawaiian-chicken-skewers/ |
0.998791 | They'll steal your pet, then use it as bait. And before they put your pet in with their fighting dogs, they might pull your pet's teeth or wrap its snout with duct tape so it can't bite back, can't damage the fighting dogs, whose damage will come later.
The National Football League has reinstated Michael Vick, who spent time in prison after he was caught running a brutal dog fighting ring. The treatment of the animals Vick held hostage is well-documented, as is the sadistic brutality of dog fighting in general. I simply do not understand how it could be "entertaining" to watch two animals tear each other apart for "sport." As sick as the people who watch dog fighting are, savages like Michael Vick sink to a whole new level of depravity.
Obviously, people who have committed crimes and paid their debt to society need to be allowed to hold some sort of gainful employment. If that isn't possible, it is much more likely for a convicted felon to fall back into criminal behavior. Now that Vick has been released from prison, he needs to be reintegrated into society. But does he really have to make millions of dollars playing professional football and resuming his luxurious lifestyle?
The answer is "no." By allowing Vick to play for the Philadelphia Eagles (who I sincerely hope lose every game they play for the next twenty years for hiring this savage) the NFL is sending a message that they do not take animal abuse seriously, nor do they take the rule of law seriously. If you can help a team win a few meaningless football games or increase revenue for the league, your crimes will be ignored after a short suspension. Was the NFL's earlier banning of Vick ever genuine, or was it a public relations ploy? The smart money is on the latter.
As for me, I am boycotting the NFL as long as that savage is employed by the league. I'm somewhat surprised that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (which has been very critical of Michael Vick) has not called for a league-wide boycott. Of course, since I'm not a football fan (I might catch a few minutes of the Super Bowl each year) my boycott is pretty much meaningless. I would encourage people who are football fans to boycott the NFL, not attend games, not watch games on TV and not purchase NFL merchandise.
The picture in this article is one of the dogs mutilated for Vick's amusement. There is no reason a savage like Michael Vick should be playing professional football. The National Football League should be ashamed of itself. | 2019-04-18T21:01:25 | http://www.sstibbs.com/scott/2009_archives/blog_2009_112.html |
0.998722 | Chelsea Uncovered: Aubameyang, Belotti and Morata all hunted… but who will replace Costa?
CHELSEA are pressing ahead with their plans to sign a new striker after Antonio Conte dumped Diego Costa via text message. Express Sport rates who, out of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Andrea Belotti and Alvaro Morata, is likeliest to make the move to west London.
Jurgen Klopp’s decision to leave Borussia Dortmund in the summer of 2015 helped coax the best out of Aubameyang.
The Gabon international has plundered home a stunning 79 goals from 95 games in his last two years in Germany.
Chelsea are keen on a move with the striker on their three-man wishlist.
But despite reports initially claiming Dortmund wanted to offload him, they now want to keep hold of Aubameyang.
"We have decided that 'Auba' will stay with Borussia Dortmund,” director Michael Zorc said.
“The transfer window is closed as far as he is concerned."
Likelihood 4/10: Dortmund insist he is not for sale but Chelsea have the finances to make them an offer they cannot refuse. That said, their decision to publicly say he is staying means that is not the likeliest option.
Reports have claimed that Andrea Belotti, and not Romelu Lukaku, was Conte’s top summer transfer target.
And his goal record proves exactly why.
The Italy international has bagged 40 goals from 74 appearances since signing from Palermo in January 2015.
Manchester United and Arsenal have previously registered an interest in the player but have been put off by his huge £86million release clause.
Torino are hardly rolling in money and will no doubt demand potential suitors fork out if they wish to secure his signature.
But that only applies to clubs outside Italy and, with AC Milan hellbent on landing a marquee name, a move to the San Siro looks to be in the offing.
Likelihood 3/10: If Milan want him, they will get him. Reports in Italy are saying a deal has been agreed and, given how well they are conducting their summer business, a Stamford Bridge transfer looks unlikely.
Alvaro Morata seemed destined to join Manchester United earlier in the summer but the Red Devils’ reluctance to cough up £70million ultimately scuppered a move.
And it looks as if Chelsea are having the same problems.
Real Madrid are playing hardball over the 24-year-old and know English clubs have an almost unlimited amount of cash at their disposal.
But Chelsea’s need will only increase the longer time goes on and Conte could eventually cave in.
He played a key role in securing his signature while at Juventus before taking charge of the Italy team in 2014 and the player himself is keen to move to west London.
It would not be unfeasible, then, for him to join. But expect this saga to roll on.
Likelihood 8/10: A move would suit both parties. Chelsea need a striker and Morata needs a platform to express himself. Only Roman Abramovich tightening his purse-strings stops this being a formality. | 2019-04-23T02:48:55 | https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/830416/Chelsea-Transfer-News-Aubameyang-Belotti-Morata-Real-Madrid-Dortmund-Antonio-Conte-News |
0.999999 | Nidec-Avtron offers both Encoders and Resolvers.
How are incremental encoders different than resolvers?
Encoders produce pulses indicating movement over a short distance; counting these pulses indicates distance (and speed over time) and checking the order of pulses in channel A vs. channel B indicates direction (quadrature).
Resolvers produce a set of sine/cosine waves (analog voltage) indicating absolute position within a single revolution; these signals are typically converted with a resolver interface board to a digital signal.
Encoders are typically powered with simple DC voltage.
Resolvers are "excited" by an AC reference sine wave, typically created with a dedicated resolver power supply; this power supply is typically powered with simple DC voltage.
Encoders typically have all their electronics onboard, minimizing interconnections, but limiting operating temperatures.
Resolver systems typically mount the resolver power supply and resolver interface board near the input device, requiring substantial inter-device wiring, but allowing the resolver to withstand higher temperature environments.
Can I replace a Resolver with an Encoder?
For existing installations, encoders can only replace resolvers if the input device (drive, PLC, etc.) can accept encoder quadrature input signals as an alternative to resolver input.
Virtually all modern AC and DC drives can use encoders for feedback; very few can use resolvers. Most servo and permanent magnet motor drives can use resolvers and encoders.
Can I replace an Encoder with a Resolver?
For existing and new installations, resolvers can only replace encoders if the input device (drive, PLC, etc.) can accept resolver sine/cosine input signals as an alternative to encoder pulse input. | 2019-04-19T04:34:21 | http://www.nidec-avtron.com/encoders/knowledge-base/encoders-vs-resolvers/ |
0.999999 | What are the proper plurals of "octopus"?
Again, you're not disagreeing with me in any way.
Words ending in "us" pluralizing to "i" is descriptively productive in English, so I will support and defend it at every opportunity. Because "~uses" feels awkward and stuttery on my tongue, similar to the a/an rules. Repeating syllable sounds is not pleasant.
I don't have a problem with "octopodes" simply because it's fun to say and has a reason behind it, but I make no pretensions that it's better ENGLISH than Octopi. I lump "octopodes" in with pluralizing "box" as "boxen". But "octopi" feels like good English to me.
Fieari wrote: Words ending in "us" pluralizing to "i" is descriptively productive in English, so I will support and defend it at every opportunity.
That reasoning – taken alone, at least – seems a little unfounded. Do you support and defend "circi", "feti", "sini", "genii" and "doofi"?
I don't know that that necessarily follows; -s and -ed are very productive English suffixes, but "gooses" and "goed" are still wrong. Like "goose", "circus" etc. already have established plurals, which could be preventing the formation of other plurals.
In any case, I'm not sure about the productivity of -i, but it is definitely an English plural suffix, despite being derived from Latin (it's used in English and English speakers who don't speak Latin recognize it as a plural suffix), and words don't necessarily have to pluralize like in their source languages (though they can).
Agenda: plurality of items (for which I use 'item' over any other term), making up a list. Multiple such lists are of course 'agendas'. c.f. 'person -> people -> peoples'.
Criteria: strictly plural; may use 'criterium' at a push, 'criterias' would be a push, but useful for similar circumstances as above, e.g. comparisons between multiple different specifications.
Data: use as singular more than I should, try to consciously say 'datum (point, etc)'. Would not throw 'datas' out of bed if it was appropriate for a group-of-groups, but only then.
Media: as a group, mostly, but complexly. For storage, "Install it from the media" does rather hark back with me to multi-floppy distributions, now used without prejudice for "whatever and however many storage media there are", but not "...there is". And 'an <item> of media (pl.)' is like 'a grain of sand' or 'a piece of lego'1, in their mass-noun pluralisations. - For news organisations, "the media are...", as a group, but perhaps more in the sense of "the government are..." or "the football team are...", which I know gives a trans-Atlantic split of opinion. Saying "the newspapers support option A, the television stations support option B, but perhaps the medias may come to an agreement" is as per discussing the group-of-groups (many football teams, several governments), but needs setting up for context.
'Octopodes' if I'm thinking enough to avoid 'Octopuses'. 'Octopedes' if I'm thinking far too much. 'Octopuxen' if I'm feeling mischievous and contrary.
Careful now. I've been down this road before... It's only the Brits that have this one right.
Darned rootin' tootin' we do!
I'm Canadian and was weirded out when I started encountering the assertion that "everyone" says it that way. I was real into Lego as a kid, and my friends and I definitely did not say "Legos". We usually talked about "Lego pieces", or simply "Lego".
You better believe I say "legos", have always said "legos", and feel absolutely no desire to protect the Lego Company's trademark rights by changing the way I refer to their product, which is to make legos.
I've never known anyone to say "octopodes" unironically unless they want to sound like a dork. | 2019-04-18T11:22:38 | http://echochamber.me/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=88909&start=80 |
0.999987 | Browsing academia.edu this morning, I was drawn to a remarkable statistic: according to this blog post, academia.edu is "adding roughly 70,000 researchers to [the] community every day" - or to put it another way, 25 million per year. At first I wondered if this was a typo, but elsewhere academia.edu claims to have 25 million users and to now be adding ten percent each month, or roughly 80 000 a day. Assuming this is correct, academia.edu will add as many new users this year (a further 25 million) as it gained in the first seven years of its operation since it began in 2008 (21 million).
That caveat out of the way, let's assume for a moment that this particular academic network is set to boom in the manner anticipated. What does this mean for the type of audience who uses academia.edu? And how might this affect the way in which researchers use the network and assess its value, especially in terms of research dissemination and impact?
The first thing to point out is that at these levels of growth it seems that academia.edu is not used only by researchers (i.e. those who work as PhD students, academics at universities, or those employed in research-driven industries). While I have not been able to find figures for how many people worldwide are categorised as working in Higher Education or research industries, with there being 23 000 universities globally, and a relatively fixed number of researchers, it seems fair to assume that a significant proportion of those new users of academia.edu are not going to be based in research institutions.
Since one of my roles is in research dissemination within the arts and humanities, I'm bound to say that this is not a bad thing. While academics have focused on putting research 'out there' into public spheres, through social and traditional media, there's no reason why we should not also allow our audiences to come 'in here' and to find research within networks and spaces that we have traditionally used for internal conversations among ourselves.
Yet when it comes to thinking about impact and dissemination, this does have a number of different effects that might bear reflection. There is, I think, a fundamental tension between academia.edu's mission to "bring the world's research online, available to all, for free" and the way researchers themselves might conceive of and use the network as a way of discussing and sharing research within what they perceive to be a primarily academic community. This tension might not really have manifested itself in the early years of academia.edu - but it becomes increasingly apparent when the network broadens its reach.
If academia.edu is increasingly used by a public audience to find 'us', perhaps researchers might want to consider the way in which they present themselves to that audience. For example, the way biographies are presented on academia.edu seems to be typically academic-facing, emphasising a person's specialised fields of research, key publications and awards, teaching. Portrait images are often quite formal. Many biographies, I suspect, are a straight copy-and-paste from biographies on institutional websites which are, let's face it, often pretty dull. The self-presentation on academia.edu is not necessarily 'friendly', especially when compared to the flexible and jovial way many academics present on social media. Should academics adapt their profile even on what has been a traditionally 'academic' network?
As research assessment such as the REF seems increasingly likely to be metric-driven, we need sharper tools to diagnose just who is bookmarking, citing, and sharing research. For instance, if a research paper is bookmarked by 100 non-researchers, this hints that the impact of the research is outward facing. If it is bookmarked by 10 researchers, its main value may be within the sphere of academic knowledge. At present, the analytics on academia.edu only give overall counts of the number of times a document has been viewed or downloaded. Don't we need to be able to see exactly who is looking at our work within academia.edu in order to judge its effect and report on it appropriately?
The ecosphere of closed and open access publishing is changing rapidly (plug here for the recent launch of Open Library of Humanities - yay!), but as we transition from the former to the latter, closed publishers have begun to permit academics to upload pre-publication versions of papers to academia.edu, as well as institutional repositories. Academic users of the network are trained to appreciate what a pre-publication version means, in the sense that it may not be an entirely finished copy. Public users, however, may not perceive the difference. Indeed, since papers put on academia.edu are already available to anyone via search engines, this is already a concern, although in my experience academia.edu papers rank lower than papers on the publisher's own site. If users are accessing pre-publication versions of papers, when the finished version has significant corrections in it, could this cause research to be misrepresented or misinterpreted?
One might wonder whether non-academic users of academia.edu are able to frame as 'published' research what is actually personal speculation, unpublished and not peer-reviewed. A presence on academia.edu confers academic credentials by proxy: the clue's in the name. If people think that anyone one academia.edu is an academic, when actually this is increasingly not the case, this has risks. Homeopathy, anyone?
I'm conscious that in posing these questions I may seem to be resenting the fact that the lines between academic researchers and the public have become blurry, and that the unwashed masses of the 'public' are encroaching onto 'our' spaces and territory. That's not the case. I'm certainly not advocating pulling up the drawbridge to our ivory towers, and preserving the likes of academia.edu as networks for academics alone. However, as previously academic networks become increasingly like social networks, we do need to consider what this might mean for the way we present ourselves and our research on them. | 2019-04-24T14:45:23 | http://thepequodblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-growing-user-base-of-academiaedu.html |
0.999999 | The next few posts is to take a look at the different ways yoga is considered. It will not be only patañjali-muni , but others that have offered their direct views and experiences.
This whole notion of yoga is of great interest ( to me ). Why so ? Because different muni's describe this yoga in different words and terms.
What they try to offer us is the the defintion, conditions, methods, and achievement by trying to actually define the term yoga. So, I thought to offer some of the ideas of this term yoga from various view points for one's kind consideration.
Patañjali-muni defines one view of yoga in the 2nd sūtra ,samādhi-pāda (1st chapter).
Yoga occurs (when) stilling (nirodhaḥ) the active (vṛtti) mind (citta).
Said another way, then the SELF abides in its true, original unperturbed form.
to be absorbed in If we reivew the words from the above list, ' to be absorbed in' begs the question , to be absorbed in what ?
To this we have different ( not opposing) answers and thus the subject of the next post.
' to be absorbed in' it begs the question , to be absorbed in what ?
If we were to look at patañjali-muni's work, it would be the absorption into samādhi. Samādhi समाधि - is one-pointed absorption; One can say the mind is absorbed or 'concentrated' - but it is not the act of concentration.
We can look at this as samā+dhi ; samā = equal, whole, complete, evenness, sameness + dhi = recepticle, which is a weak form of dhā that means holding, possessing. Hence we can say samā + dhi is the recepticle of holding wholeness, even-ness.
Another view of this absorption can be saṃyoga. That is, yoga is saṃyogo yogaḥ ( from the parākhyatantra¹) This saṃyoga means 'contact, conjunction , combination , connection' ; It is also defined as 'direct material contact'. Hence we go from ~absorption~ to yoga being defined as saṃyoga .
Now another view ( again, not opposing, just a different perspective) comes from the yogabīja¹ and calls out once again saṃyogo yogaḥ. Yet here the notion of saṃyoga takes on the defintion of 'union' and rightly so IMHO.
Devī asks śiva (śaṃkara¹) , what is yoga defined as , and what is achieved by yoga ? Īśvara (śiva, śaṅkara) says, yoga is the unification of many pairs of opposites, such as the in-breath and the out-breath (apānaprāṅayor yogaḥ), the unification of the sun and the moon (sūryachandramasor yogaḥ) , the individual soul with the universal soul (jīvātamātmaparamātmanoḥ yogaḥ).
So we can see in the examples above there is ~continunity~ in defintions, yet not conformity. But there is more to the story and that will continue in the next post.
dhā = take hold of , hold , bear , support. Hence samādhi = 'to hold sameness/evenneness completely'.The even-ness is the concentrated one-pointedness.
yogabīja comes from the nātha sampradāya.
śaṃkara - another name of śiva and is defined as causing prosperity , auspicious , beneficent .
This is great advice and i agree with everything. I'm doing this, its very informative and useful to used, thanks for sharing this one, great job, keep up the good work. | 2019-04-21T03:13:31 | http://hindudharmaforums.com/archive/index.php/t-9107.html?s=9db8ad205ed6ea602a022ac40aa759f8 |
0.999855 | Op-ed: Brussels airport and the metro system are caught up in terrorist attacks Tuesday.
Reports from the scene describe carnage. Early reports say 13 people have died but that figure is likely to be revised up. A number of people sustained injuries, some severe.
Two blasts tore through the departures area of Zaventem airport shortly after 08:00 local time (07:00 GMT) reports BBC News. Some reports claim one explosion was close to the American Airlines departure desk.
Those blasts were followed by an explosion at the Maelbeek metro station which is located close to EU buildings.
Just like the Paris attacks in November 2015 it appears to have been coordinated terror attacks by a group of fanatics.
And today's act of terror comes just four days after "Saleh Abdeslam, the main fugitive in the Paris attacks, was seized in Brussels."
Monday police were still working on an investigation into the people behind the series of attacks in Paris with lawyers saying that Abdeslam was ""worth his weight in gold" to investigators. His lawyer said Monday that he was not maintaining his right to remain silent but rather was cooperating with investigators.
In Brussels Tuesday the airport and whole transport system have been closed.
The Belgian government says there have been casualties at the airport but has given no numbers.
What caused the cause of the explosions is still to be confirmed but it was more deadly attacks on European soil.
The latest via the Guardian's live coverage of events reports ""France is to deploy an extra 1,600 police at its borders in the wake of the Brussels attack, interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve has announced. “It is essential to maintain vigilance,” he said in a televised address."
Images of the suspects in the airport bombings have been published.
This was a multiple location attack.
Islamic State has claimed responsibility warning of "black days" ahead. "We promise the crusader alliance against the Islamic State that they will have black days in return for their aggression against the Islamic State," it said in a statement.
Already social media site Twitter has anti Islam and anti Muslim words and phrases trending. If we fall into the hate all trap we are lost.
Around the world even in New York City police have been put on a high terror alert.
More than 30 people are now believed to be died with dozens injured some seriously.
Footage from the explosions is raw. From the underground as passengers flee a train the terrified cries and screams of a young child chill the soul.
Belgium will hold three days of mourning and the country has raised its terrorism alert to its highest level.
In the UK PM Cameron and senior ministers held an emergency COBRA meeting as they look at ways to make the UK safer. | 2019-04-20T10:11:48 | https://www.newtekjournalismukworld.com/latest/category/saleh-abdeslam |
0.99867 | Does It Help To Put Faces With Foreclosures?
Many troubled homeowners have complained about banks treating them like a number instead of a person. Some blame the impersonal nature of the mortgage industry on securitization, which put the onus on overworked servicers to deal with homeowners, instead of their local mortgage bankers. The front page of the New York Times today contained a story about an attempt to change all that. In Philadelphia, a new law requires that the homeowner and lender meet in person to discuss the situation before eviction can take place. While a quaint idea, I just don't see the point.
Under the rules adopted by Philadelphia's primary civil court, no owner-occupied house may be foreclosed on and sold by the sheriff's office before a "conciliation conference," a face-to-face meeting between the homeowner and the lender aimed at striking a workable compromise. Every homeowner facing a default filing is furnished with counseling, and sometimes legal representation.
There are a couple things to remember here. The bank is, ultimately, going to want to do whatever is in its best interest. In some cases that means modifying the loan. For example, let's say $150,000 is owed on an underwater mortgage. Maybe the borrower could afford to pay if it's written down to $125,000. But if foreclosed, maybe auction would only get the bank $100,000. Clearly, modification is best for the bank.
But a face-to-face meeting won't change that fact. And if foreclosure is a better alternative for the bank, then meeting in person won't change that either. It's a waste of time.
What I suspect is going on here is that Philadelphia's primary civil court is attempting to appeal to bank representatives' sense of humanity. When sitting across the table from the actual homeowner whose life foreclosure may turn upside down, it might be harder to say, "No."
Maybe, but again, I doubt it. Most banks are still gaining their footing in this market, so numbers do matter. They're hurting too. And these loan officers likely have to answer to a higher level person who won't be happy if they start giving troubled homeowners sweet modification deals because the homeowners looked so sad.
A union roofer, Mr. Hall, 42, had not worked since August 2008, when the contractor that employed him as a foreman went broke and laid off more than 40 people. He had not made a mortgage payment in more than a year, and his lender, Bank of America, was threatening to auction off his house through the sheriff's office.
His story is a tragic one, no doubt. I feel genuinely bad for the guy. The Times portrays him as pretty responsible but someone who has fallen on hard times. Yet, he hasn't paid his mortgage in a year, or been employed for longer than that. So let's say the bank had been forced to hold a face-to-face meeting six months ago when he first defaulted. We know he still wouldn't be able to pay for the six months that followed, as he remained unemployed. If the bank had drawn up a modification at that time, he would simply have defaulted again. Or maybe it could have deferred his payment, but how long should it be expected to wait for him to get a new job?
By forcing these meetings, all you're doing is prolonging foreclosure. If these individuals would have qualified for a modification, then that won't change. Instead, banks won't be able to foreclose until they've worked their way through a growing queue of others who have to be met with. Meanwhile, if lenders do decide to appeal to their "human" sides, this will likely result in more re-defaults, because the decision would be based on emotion instead of legitimate underwriting standards. | 2019-04-25T13:55:22 | https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/11/does-it-help-to-put-faces-with-foreclosures/30411/ |
0.999268 | Private pilot of a piper PA28-200 had propeller strike during landing touch down due to the landing gear not being fully extended.
Flying arrow (PA28200R) solo, practicing ILS approachs. On second landing, lowered nose and heard loud noise. Pulled up nose, checked wheels down -- 3 greens. Landed and rolled out without further abnormal sounds. As I rolled out and pulled off the active runway, I parked momentarily because I had an audible alarm. Taxied to hangar where mechanics were working. Shut the plane down and one of the mechanics stepped up on wing and announced the propeller was bent. After landing, I wrote out a sequence of events as I remember them. I remember hitting on main wheels before noise. We have reconstructed what must have happened as follows: did not lower wheels. I remember checking pump on and landing light. I do not remember 3 greens. What I remember may have been clouded by first landing. Crossing the threshold, I cut the power back, which must have caused the automatic system to lower wheels. No alarm sounded. Landed on main wheels, which mechanic says will deploy faster than nosewheel. Lowering nose without nosewheel fully deployed is only explanation for nose low enough to strike propeller. When I pulled up it allowed nosewheel to fully deploy. As I write this (sep/xa/99) the airport is assessing the damage, with no visible undercarriage damage. Obvious bent propeller. Subsequent to the incident, I was filling out the insurance report, and discovered my bi-annual was fresh (within date) but my medical had expired. Getting a medical now.
Title: PVT PLT OF A PIPER PA28-200 HAD PROP STRIKE DURING LNDG TOUCH DOWN DUE TO THE LNDG GEAR NOT BEING FULLY EXTENDED.
Narrative: FLYING ARROW (PA28200R) SOLO, PRACTICING ILS APCHS. ON SECOND LNDG, LOWERED NOSE AND HEARD LOUD NOISE. PULLED UP NOSE, CHKED WHEELS DOWN -- 3 GREENS. LANDED AND ROLLED OUT WITHOUT FURTHER ABNORMAL SOUNDS. AS I ROLLED OUT AND PULLED OFF THE ACTIVE RWY, I PARKED MOMENTARILY BECAUSE I HAD AN AUDIBLE ALARM. TAXIED TO HANGAR WHERE MECHS WERE WORKING. SHUT THE PLANE DOWN AND ONE OF THE MECHS STEPPED UP ON WING AND ANNOUNCED THE PROP WAS BENT. AFTER LNDG, I WROTE OUT A SEQUENCE OF EVENTS AS I REMEMBER THEM. I REMEMBER HITTING ON MAIN WHEELS BEFORE NOISE. WE HAVE RECONSTRUCTED WHAT MUST HAVE HAPPENED AS FOLLOWS: DID NOT LOWER WHEELS. I REMEMBER CHKING PUMP ON AND LNDG LIGHT. I DO NOT REMEMBER 3 GREENS. WHAT I REMEMBER MAY HAVE BEEN CLOUDED BY FIRST LNDG. XING THE THRESHOLD, I CUT THE PWR BACK, WHICH MUST HAVE CAUSED THE AUTOMATIC SYS TO LOWER WHEELS. NO ALARM SOUNDED. LANDED ON MAIN WHEELS, WHICH MECH SAYS WILL DEPLOY FASTER THAN NOSEWHEEL. LOWERING NOSE WITHOUT NOSEWHEEL FULLY DEPLOYED IS ONLY EXPLANATION FOR NOSE LOW ENOUGH TO STRIKE PROP. WHEN I PULLED UP IT ALLOWED NOSEWHEEL TO FULLY DEPLOY. AS I WRITE THIS (SEP/XA/99) THE ARPT IS ASSESSING THE DAMAGE, WITH NO VISIBLE UNDERCARRIAGE DAMAGE. OBVIOUS BENT PROP. SUBSEQUENT TO THE INCIDENT, I WAS FILLING OUT THE INSURANCE RPT, AND DISCOVERED MY BI-ANNUAL WAS FRESH (WITHIN DATE) BUT MY MEDICAL HAD EXPIRED. GETTING A MEDICAL NOW. | 2019-04-26T12:11:46 | http://www.37000feet.com/report/449601/Private-pilot-of-a-piper-PA28-200-had-propeller-strike-during-landing-touch |
0.999999 | Updated: Sirens blaring, blood on the roads, weeping relatives: nightmare scenes played out on the streets of Paris on Friday night as at least 120 people were killed in simultaneous attacks, carried out by at least eight attackers.
Gunmen killed more than 120 people in a wave of attacks across Paris on Friday, shouting "Allahu akbar" as they massacred scores of diners and concert-goers and launched suicide attacks outside the national stadium.
in an international football match, security sources said.
"Terrorist attacks of an unprecedented level are under way across the Paris region," Hollande said in an emotional televised message. "It's a horror."
Hundreds of police had gathered outside and armed officers eventually stormed the venue, accompanied by a series of explosions.
An extra 1,500 soldiers were mobilized to reinforce police in Paris, Hollande's office said, while mayor Anne Hidalgo urged residents to stay at home.
Security had begun to be stepped up ahead of key UN climate talks to be held just outside the French capital from November 30th, with border checks restored from Friday.
"War in central Paris," splashed centre-right daily Le Figaro, with Le Parisien taking up a similar theme. "This time it's war."
"It was very calm - people didn't understand what was going on. A young girl was being carried in the arms of a young man. She seemed to be dead."
Further east, near the Bataclan concert hall the area was on lock down.
In the north of Paris, near the Stade de France stadium, three explosions left several dead as France were playing a friendly football match against Germany. | 2019-04-18T17:18:34 | https://www.thelocal.fr/20151114/apocalyptic-scenes-as-paris-hit-by-multiple-attacks |
0.999999 | Why would this be the case? Imagine that your general practitioner (GP) refuses to keep up with recent developments in medical research. What would be your reaction? You would very likely lose confidence in your GP and try to find a doctor with up-to-date knowledge. So why aren't executives interested in corporate governance research? The answer to this question is not obvious. First, executives are frequently prejudiced about business and management research (and not just corporate governance research), believing that it is too remote from what they do on a daily basis, too theoretical and fails to deliver clear prescriptions about what to do in practice. Both sides are probably to blame. While there is research out there that is highly theoretical and sometimes has predictions that cannot be tested, a lot of research is of an empirical nature using primary data (e.g. from interviews and questionnaire surveys) or secondary data (e.g. from companies' annual reports). Clearly, such research will provide insights into corporate governance practice. In turn, a lot of academics may still have a rather blasé attitude in the sense that they believe that it is beneath them (and a waste of their time) to engage directly with (potential) users of their research. Nevertheless, attitudes are changing in academe whether this is voluntary or not. For example, the latest government exercise of rating UK universities in terms of the quality of their research, the Research Excellence Framework, gives marks for impact, defined as the 'reach' and 'significance' of research. Second, as anything else that is driven by government policy or at least government pressure, vested interests are likely to be an important driving force pushing regulation in a particular direction or, even worse, preventing it altogether. The sub-prime mortgage crisis is a good illustration of how powerful pressure groups can mold and/or prevent regulation that is against their self-interest. Third, there is clear path dependence. If one goes down a particular path (e.g. emphasising the role of non-executive directors in corporate governance), it is difficult to make radical changes to that approach later on.
However, I believe that it is also important to rethink the approach to teaching corporate governance within business schools. Too often, that approach is too simplistic and grounded in existing regulation rather than evidence. For example, some of the earlier textbooks on corporate governance, after a very cursory review of corporate governance theory (to be frank there isn't much), embark on an extensive review (typically devout of any criticism) of existing corporate governance regulation and codes of best practice. This is then followed by chapters discussing how to achieve the key recommendations of the codes (e.g. board independence). As I have written in a previous blog, there is very little evidence that board independence creates firm value. There is also now emerging evidence suggesting that, while board independence may be good for more mature firms, it may cause more harm than good for younger, high-growth firms.
Corporate governance refers to the system by which corporations are directed and controlled. The governance structure specifies the distribution of rights and responsibilities among different participants in the corporation (such as the board of directors, managers, shareholders, creditors, auditors, regulators, and other stakeholders) and specifies the rules and procedures for making decisions in corporate affairs. Governance provides the structure through which corporations set and pursue their objectives, while reflecting the context of the social, regulatory and market environment. Governance is a mechanism for monitoring the actions, policies and decisions of corporations. Governance involves the alignment of interests among the stakeholders.
different types of shareholders (mainly the large controlling shareholder and the minority shareholders).
The way these conflicts of interests are addressed has major implications for the distribution of economic wealth across society. Ultimately, corporate governance is about the design of capitalist systems.
This is the approach I adopt in my textbook on International Corporate Governance. Hence, the inclusion of chapters on Corporate Governance, Types of Financial Systems and Economic Growth, and Employee Rights and Voice across Corporate Governance Systems, as well as the discussion of important concepts such as capture of gatekeepers (e.g. regulators and auditors) by firms.
A suggested outline for a module on corporate governance can be found here. | 2019-04-21T11:01:38 | https://www.profmarcgoergen.com/2014/03/rethinking-way-corporate-governance-is.html |
0.999873 | Below is a dropbox folder with two tracks, and three different mixes of each. I would appreciate feedback on which mixes are preferred. I think all of them sound pretty good but in different ways.
1. Subcards 6dB lower than omnis.
2. Omnis 6dB lower than subcards.
3. Both equal (or as close as I could get setting levels by eye on the 70D.
4. Separate tracks of each pair of mics.
This is a high school small ensembles concert (some groups are student-led), so expect flaws in the performance. I'm simply posting for critiques on my recording, and I chose the two most contrasting pieces.
The recording at this stage hasn't been altered in any way, not even a level adjustment. I'm working on another set that is about 10-11dB higher and run through RX to kill the HVAC drone and will post those when done.
EDIT: The mp3 files are unaltered, but now there is also a folder of FLACs which have been run through Izotope RX - declick was used to reduce applause, I raised the gain 3dB, and denoised to remove the HVAC noise.
12ft up, stand in orchestra pit about 4 feet from stage lip.
Mic array about 4 feet above and 8-10 feet back from conductor position.
- HIGH gain - subcards at 10:00; omnis at 8:00.
EDIT: One thing I forgot to mention earlier is that neither of the spaced stereo pairs in this array might seem to be a good choice on their own for relatively close recording if you are looking at SRA graphs, either in Tony Faulkner's preferred spacings, the modified "Boojum/Jnorman" versions, or the further modified one I used. The subcards would seem to be spaced a bit too wide and the omnis a bit too narrow. Clearly, there is more than meets the eye going on with the interaction of the two pairs. From Tony's interviews and written statements, it seems that having the omnis 10cm out from each subcard is an important aspect of getting this right. Since the widest I could set my CM3s was 36cm, that's why I went with 47cm for the omnis.
How about posting the omnis and CM3s as separate files for us to mix to our own taste? I think the instrumental piece is an easier selection to focus on. Of the samples posted, I thought the omni -6 was a bit more clear on the instrumental.
About how big is the stage and how many players? Any observations on the acoustics of the room that you think we ought to know?
I can post the separate files. the CM3 track on its own doesn't sound that great, but the omnis on their own are pretty good.
Stage is the typical size for a high school auditorium - just big enough for a full choir and orchestra. The hall itself is pretty dry for the most part and has some serious acoustic issues due to parallel untreated sidewalls.
Vocal example was 19 students in two parallel rows, spread 2/3 of the width and all the way downstage. The soloist was right of center as he appears on the recording.
String example was 23 players in the traditional chamber strings arrangement of (L-R) violins-violas-cellos with the two basses behind the cellos. They were a bit more upstage to allow room for the conductor.
Dropbox folder now has individual CM3 and X-Q tracks added.
As you know I'm very interested in these types of arrays. In real-world taper-section recording terms, exact spacing may not matter as long as the resulting recording sounds good, but in terms of what Faulkner is doing, the spacing isn't arbitrary. I think he's arriving at the spacings he's using not by calculation but empirically, through careful monitoring while setting up. We don't really have that luxury. But that he calls it a Phased Array is a hint that dialing in the appropriate spacing is important due to the complex phase interaction between the four points along the line (the four mics on the bar).
Your observation about the three general mix level relationships, and how each can be appropriate in different ways, parallels my experience using a three mics in a row (spaced omni pair with a third mic in the center, either a third omnis or a directional), and five mics in a row (wide spaced omnis, plus a 3-channel OCT/OCT-2 setup in the center), mixed to stereo.
Looking forward to listening to this but may not have a chance to until I get back from a trip in about a week and a half.
...But that he calls it a Phased Array is a hint that dialing in the appropriate spacing is important due to the complex phase interaction between the four points along the line (the four mics on the bar).
Not exactly. It's called (I seem to recall Mr. Faulkner denied creating the name) a phased array because he lines up the mic capsules to insure the four caps are in phase. The reason for this is the wave lengths at the higher frequencies. I'm sure this crowd gets the implications.
That said, what I've read on this indicates that he gets the exact spacings by listening, and that the 67cm / 47cm spacings are a good place to start. He doesn't encourage anyone to take those spacings as inscribed in stone.
I find myself perplexed at the CM3 portion of the recording. Expected more from them and the 70d. An EQ notch clears things up a bit, but I'm not sure what has happened here.
Not exactly. Its not as simple as bringing the signals into phase. Allow me to explain what is going on phase-wise with this geometry.
The signals from the four microphones will be in-phase for any plane-wave with an origin perpendicular to the axis of the array, regardless of the microphone spacing. In less technical terms, that means sounds arriving from directly in front (or behind, above or below) with their source a long distance away will be in phase at all frequencies regardless of the spacing between microphones. This is the 'forward-gain' aspect of this array. And this forward-facing-gain aspect is compounded by the number of elements in the array arranged in a line perpendicular to gain axis.
However, for any sounds arriving from off center, there will be a complex phase relationship between the signals of the four microphones. Pick any to microphones in the array, and the phase-relationship of their signals will change based on 3 variables: the angle of arrival; the spacing between those two microphones; and the frequency in question. Change any of those variables and the phase relationship changes. Sounds from off axis don't get the same 'directional-gain' across all frequencies.
>The signals will be more in-phase at the lowest frequencies, and will have increasing phase difference at higher frequencies.
>The out of phase component of the signals will be closer in-phase for sounds originating near the median plane, and will have increasing phase difference at wider angles of arrival.
>The out of phase component of the signals will be more in-phase at closer microphone spacings, and will have increasing phase difference at larger microphone spacings.
That's the case for any two microphones spaced apart from each other.
When there are four microphones instead of just two, those complex phase relationships are multiplied by six. That's because there are then six pair relationships between the four microphones, rather than one pair relationship between two. So the phase relationships get incredibly complex away from the median plane.
This is the practical take away, and what I was primarily attempting to convey in my previous post. He's listening while adjusting the spacing, and that's the only practical way to optimally arrange things.
It's very informative to listen while actively changing the spacing of a single pair of omnis. I encourage everyone to try this themselves, listening to the performance with headphones while varying the spacing of the two omnis (most here won't have an assistant who can slowly vary the spacing while we are listening on a speakers in some isolated room). I think many recordists think of microphone spacing as just affecting left-right imaging and other SRA aspects, but having done this myself a number of times, I find the tonal and 'textural' aspects are often more significant. Any one here who tries it is likely to hear this immediately, far more clearly and obviously than the SRA changes, especially when listening while making the spacing change. Comparing short segments recorded with a few different spacings is also helpful and often the more practical way to do this, but the feedback-loop and mental association with this relationship is far less direct.
One can hear these complex phase relationship shift up and down in frequency. There will be frequency specific reinforcement at phase angle differences near zero and multiples of 360 degrees, and attenuation near 180 degree phase angles and multiples of 180 degrees. At frequencies where the first cancellation and reinforcement happens, the attenuation and increase is quite audible. It isn't heard so much as a level differences at higher phase angle differences where phase rotation happens at ever-increasingly narrow frequency bands, but the 'texture' and 'diffusivity' changes if you'll allow me those subjective descriptors.
This is likely to explain what you are hearing and EQ adjusting for in the CM3 portion, 2manyocks. If the spacing was being actively changed, you'd be likely to hear that particular aspect you are compensating for with the EQ notch shift upwards and downwards in frequency along with the change of spacing. When one is listening while setting up, a big part of 'tuning' the spacing is 'tuning' those phase/frequency relationships.
For the reasons described above, any non-coincident microphone array can technically be considered a "phased array". Adding additional non-coincident microphones makes an array more significantly phased. If Orwell was a recording engineer he may have phrased it this way- "All spaced microphone arrays are phased, but some are more phased than others."
Mr. Falkner of course is more astutely aware of this than most, so it is not surprising that he would not give this particular setup the name "phased array". It's not incorrect in a technical descriptive sense, but it is overly general. And I suspect he's most interested in it in a practical sense than a technical sense anyway.
Thanks for that very detailed explanation. Quick question: in the future I may find myself in the situation where my entire array is going to be closer to and higher above the ensemble. In that case I have angled slightly down when using one stereo pair, but now I want to be careful to preserve consistent arrival time at the 4 capsules. I would be using a posi-lok clutch to move the entire bar, but my 4 mounts aren't the same height. Should I adjust so that the capsules are still aligned in a straight vertical plane, or more like a plane angled toward the choir below? I'm visualizing the old PZM technique on a big plexiglass sheet flown above and angled toward performers on stage.
Also, would it be helpful if I posted FLACs instead? I have read that MP3 encoding may do some summing of common information between channels, and that may affect what we are hearing.
Regarding the CM3 track on its own, I'm not sure what EQ adjustment 2manyrocks made, but taken on its own it's the "worst" recording I've made with them. But look at the SRA for that spacing and it's extremely narrow for how close my stand was. I do think they really help complete the image of the Omni's though.
I want to be careful to preserve consistent arrival time at the 4 capsules.
The arrival time is going to be all over the place for all the different positions in the ensemble.
I think you just need to try things and listen for what works. The 'forward-gain' aspect of this assumes equal or near equal path lengths from the sound source in question to all microphones. Falkner talks about using this for that 'forward gain' aspect to help when not very close. But that aspect of it may not be important for you if you are using it close to the ensemble. In that case it's probably more about the timbrel and imaging aspects of the four in combination.
mp3 is probably fine. Can you hear the same aspects in the mp3 compressed version? Downloading them now.
For the most part, yes but it might be useful to have the full frequency range. I think I'll post FLACs of my lightly processed version which is a few dB higher and with the HVAC reduced. The noise removal in RX was very transparent. | 2019-04-23T08:29:39 | http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=172679.0 |
0.99999 | Who needs math skills when you can estimate? I'm kidding - but one of the most valuable tools you can use on the SAT and ACT is estimation. Here are a couple of ideas about when to estimate.
Kracked Out energy drink is 5% caffeine, and Whiplash energy drink is 14% caffeine. If I mix 1 ounce of Kracked Out with 3 ounces of Whiplash, what will be the approximate percentage of caffeine in the mixture?
I'm not going to explain this one the "math" way, just the estimate way. There is 3 times the amount of the 14% drink than the 5% drink, so the mixture must be a lot closer to 14% than 5%. That gets rid of choices A and B. There's no way the mixture is 14% or more, since we're diluting the 14% drink a little by adding the 5% drink. And that gets rid of choices D and E. So the answer must be C.
2. Another thing to know about the ACT and SAT is that the diagrams are drawn to scale. Even the SAT questions that say "not drawn to scale" are pretty much to scale. Any time you see a picture, measure mentally, or better yet, with your answer sheet. Often, you can get the right answer just by measuring accurately.
So remember - estimate first. It will save you from careless errors and make you better at math overall. | 2019-04-23T20:11:41 | https://vincekotchian.com/blog/estimating-is-your-friend-on-the-sat-and-act/ |
0.998815 | Honeywell International Inc. (HON) jumped 0.58% with the finishing price of $160.9 in Thursday Trading Session. The stock price showed -0.92% down in value from one year high price and revealed 30.30% rise in value from its one year low price. In the recent week Honeywell International Inc. stock price volatility was noted 0.81% while for the last month volatility was seen at 1.05%. Its Average True Range (ATR) shows a number of 1.75. Return on assets (ROA) results to 11.20%. While Return on investment (ROI) reached to 13.60%.
In terms of profitability, The Company has a profit margin of 16.20%, gross margin of 30.50% and an operating of 17.90%. The stock price changed -0.11% in the past week. Shares of the company have performed 16.81% over the last three months and moved 16.48% over the last 12- months.
The 1.46% rising picture painted by the trends generated around 20 SMAs. The established market sentiment toward the stock has created a trading environment which can suitably be described as optimistic.
There has been rising move seen around 50 SMAs. The stock price is showing 4.29% distance above 50 SMA. On the surface, it seems as the higher the 50-day moving average goes, the more bullish the market is (and the lower it goes, the more bearish). In practice, however, the reverse is true. The 50-day moving average is perceived to be the dividing line between a stock that is technically healthy and one that is not. Furthermore, the percentage of stocks above their 50-day moving average helps determine the overall health of the market. Many market traders also use moving averages to determine profitable entry and exit points into specific securities. Honeywell International Inc. (HON) has demonstrated rising trend based on recent movement of 200 SMA with 8.69% during the course of recent market activity. This trend reveals recent direction. The current direction of 200 SMA is upward. When the price over the last 200 days is moving with increasing trend, look for buy opportunities and when it shows decreasing trend the price is below the last 200 days, look for sell opportunities.
The current value of the RSI is 62.17. The relative strength index (RSI) readings highlights overbought above 70 and oversold below 30. The stock also has a beta of 1.09. When beta is less/more than 1, it can be interpreted that the stock is theoretically less/more volatile than the market – something traders will surely be keeping an eye on. | 2019-04-25T19:48:54 | http://www.stockmarketstop.com/2019/04/hot-stock-review-honeywell-international-inc-hon/ |
0.998813 | Sometimes companies that you own make distributions that are eligible for special tax treatment and do not have to be reported as regular dividend income. This is a different type of distribution from regular return of capital payments that come from dividends paid in excess of accumulated earnings and profits of the corporation.
For complete liquidations (that meet IRS definitions), no gain is realized until all of your cost basis has been recovered. Payments received are first recorded as return of capital and then any payments in excess of your adjusted cost basis are capital gains. After the final distribution has been made, if all your cost basis has not been paid back, at this point you can claim a capital loss for the remainder.
For partial liquidations (that meet IRS definitions), it is treated as a deemed redemption of stock (even though no shares are surrendered.) Each payment received is therefore a partial return of capital and a partial capital gain or loss. The return of capital percentage is determined by dividing the distribution received per share by the market price of the stock before the distribution. Take this percentage times your adjusted cost basis to compute your return of capital. The rest of the payment is capital gain.
To be eligible for this special tax treatment, a partial liquidation must be paid to a non-corporate taxpayer, must not be essentially equivalent to a dividend, must be made pursuant to a plan of liquidation, and must be paid by the end of the next tax year after the plan is adopted. | 2019-04-19T18:46:03 | http://costbasis.com/stkchanges/liquidations.html |
0.999999 | Brighton in the first round gave way to Watford with a score of 0: 2, showing a very mediocre football, where the then masters of the arena surpassed Brighton in all respects, leaving no chance even for a draw. And note that then in the "hornet" no one really believed, and even more so in such a victory. Regarding the last season and home game there, then Brighton can be called invincible, few games the team left the field with a defeat, but still there are not so many victories, for the most part it's a draw, let's say.
Manchester United expected that it would not be quite confident in the first round. Mourinho there expresses dissatisfaction on a number of issues, the microclimate staggers a little, the team leaders did not really go through the pre-season training, but instead Manchester United pretty well spent the first round, where Lester took home, gaining three points there. And let the 11-meter kick in the third minute, realized by Pogba, help, however Manchester United deserved then to win.
Closing Sunday's game night of the 2nd round of the Premier League will be a match between Brighton and Manchester United.
Last season, these teams had 3 meetings, and each time the hosts won - 1: 0, 2: 0 and 1: 0. I wonder if this series will continue in the new season?
Brighton spent the past season very mediocre, but did not take off on that well (15th line of the Premier League). In the summer, however, the "seagulls" have increased noticeably, but so far this has not been shown in their game. So, in the first round, Chris Houghton's wards gave up to Watford with a score 2: 0.
Manchester United will hold the second round of the Premier League in the south of England in Falmer, where he will fight with the local Brighton and Hove Albion. "Red Devils" are the clear favorites of the match, but you should pay attention to the fact that Mourinho has a sufficient number of personnel problems. In addition, do not forget, Brighton is a home team, in their stadium "seagulls" are able to give battle to anyone.
Brighton and Hove Albion started in the season with a visiting defeat from Watford 0: 2. An excellent match in the "hornet" held Pereira, a former player of Juventus. This South American made a double, and twice distinguished himself from the Holebas. Brighton could not say anything about it.
Manchester United match against Leicester began actively and already in the third minute of the match the judge put on the point, and Pogba was accurate. Despite the fact that MJ played in native walls, after the scoring goal, the initiative completely went to the "foxes", which created a number of dangerous moments, but instead of hammering, they missed a goal. Vardi came on as a substitute in the 63rd minute instead of Maddison, managed to score a goal already in the time added by the arbitrator. 2: 1 is quite a difficult victory for the "devils" over the middle peasant of the Premier League.
In the duel of the second round of the English Premier League, Brighton will take on his field Manchester United. Last season, rivals in the championship exchanged home victories. I wonder who will be stronger in the upcoming game of opponents?
Brighton before the start of the season played 5 control matches, in which scored only one victory. This happened in the beginning of August, when the "seagulls" defeated French Nant with a score of 2: 1. As for the first round of the Premier League, then Chris Houghton's wards with a score of 2-0 gave way to Watford.
Manchester United, coming out of the vacation, spent 6 friendly matches. In these confrontations, the "red devils" won, lost and painted the world two times. It is also worth noting that in the starting round of the English championship team Jose Mourinho outplayed with a score of 2: 1 Lester.
Bookmakers in the upcoming fight give their preference to Manchester United. This is true, because the hosts in the first round did not manage to show themselves and it's hard to believe that they will get caught in this match for points.
Closing the game evening of the second round of the Premier League will be a duel between "Brighton" and "Man United". Last year, the teams crossed three times and the victory went to the home team - 1: 0, 2: 0 and 1: 0. Will this trend continue this season? We'll figure out.
"The Seagulls" finished fifteenth, although they could have been better. Summer team increased, but only on the game, especially nothing is reflected. In their starting round the team rebounded 2: 0 from "Watford".
"Reds" won the second place, which is pretty good. Now the club has a lot of problems. The coach is unhappy with the lack of new players, and the old players are dissatisfied with the mentor. The season began for the mankunians from the victory - 2: 1 over the "Lester".
Forecast for the match "Brighton" - "Man United", P2. So far, guests are far from their optimal condition, but in general they are clearly more powerful than their current rival. We put on the winnings from the second team.
In the future, Sunday will continue the second round of the English championship, in one of the matches of the reporting day will converge Brighton against Manchester United. The event will be held at the "American Express Community Stadium", where the local phantom flocked, in order to support the pets and at the same time look at the beautiful Portuguese bus.
You do not need to have a reasonable mind to understand who is the favorite of this confrontation. "Devils" are on a dozen heads higher in terms of personnel, but most of the players went to the infirmary. This fact can play against eminent guests. Let's try to figure out whether an obvious outsider can impose a fight on the challenger for the title.
"Seagulls" in the past season went up to the elite division and did well in the debut season. Success can be considered survival in the harsh English realities. The leadership grew bolder and even started buying solid players. You can recall the arrival of Martin Motoyi, Bernardno, Iva Biskma, Yahyanbaksha, Button and Andone. We understand that many of the names sound scary, but they are high-quality performers.
We will not talk about losses, because all the important figures remained on the board of Chris Houghton. In the first round, the "seagulls" flew to Watford, the result was sad - Pereira outplayed our heroes alone. Now we need to defend our own "Albion" from the encroachments of the United States. Starting pair of tours for the hosts will be extremely difficult, but then life will provide an opportunity to rest.
Jose Mourinho does not change the tradition - in the first round of his team at the kind of "Old Trafford" minimally defeated Lester 2: 1. Pogba scored a penalty in the third minute of the match, and then went to dry the match. Fans had to go through eighty not very exciting minutes before Shaw (he was not Ukrainian) deigned to score a goal. "Fox" in the ninety second minute managed to win a goal, but from this benefit, as from a goat's milk.
It is necessary to say a couple of words about the injured, the "devils", like Arsenal often have problems with truants. So, in the nearest match will not be able to participate Matic, Romero, Rojo, Valencia. Do not expect that the Portuguese specialist wake up conscience, and he still remembers that he has a quality composition. On a visit, the mankunians often go to dry the mushrooms.
"Seagulls" steadily gain points only on the home arena, the team imitates the future opponent and also plays from the defenders. "The Devils" starting match showed that enchanting is not going to, Jose went to the new season with maximum prudence.
August 19 at 18:00 Brighton will play against Manchester United in the second round of the English championship at the stadium "Amex".
Brighton is not a particularly strong club, but the team performs stably and can take points from eminent opponents. "Seagulls" last season were not very good, but the main thing is that the team retained its place in the elite division. In the first round, the players showed weak football, which disappointed the fans, the coach could not think of anything to resist opponents. In past matches Brighton gave Watford 0-2, was stronger than Nantes 2-1 and played a draw with Birmingham 1-1.
Manchester United gives great hopes and with this composition the team must fight for the gold of the domestic championship. Last season, "Red Devils" took only 2 lines in the English Premier League, which grieved the fans. Now the players have an excellent opportunity to show themselves, so the team must live up to expectations. In his last meetings, Manchester United outplayed Leicester 2-1, was weaker than Bavaria 0-1 and beat Real Madrid 2-1.
Brighton was stronger than Manchester United last time with a score of 1-0. Now the "Red Devils" clearly have a better chance of success, after the first round it is clear that the "Seagulls" are out of shape, so they can hardly expect to succeed. Bet: victory Manchester United - P2. | 2019-04-21T10:22:06 | http://www.bestsoccertips.org/brighton-manchester-1908-free-soccer-tips |
0.998174 | Question: I am looking to make an early withdraw of $20,000 from RRSP account to pay my mortgage off but I am also planning to pay the exact amount back into RRSP account in the next few years. What are the implications?
I Live in Ontario and my annual Income is $50,000. My RRSP earns about 4% and my mortgage rate is also about 4%.
Your overall financial planning objective is to increase your net worth (what you own less what you owe). It is important to consider other options than cashing out your the investment portfolio in your RRSP.
Withdraw from your RRSP now and pay down the mortgage. Then pay back the amount withdrawn from your RRSP over 5 years ($4,000 per year).
Make $4,000 per year principal payments to your mortgage and forego the additional RRSP contribution.
Toronto house prices have increased an average of 3.3% over the last 20 years.
We’ll assume the amortization period on your mortgage is 10 years and the house value is currently $120,000.
Since you intend to re-pay the proposed withdrawal in the next few years, we’ll assume you can contribute an additional $4,000 year to an RRSP and that you have sufficient contribution room to do so.
(Note if your average return on your RRSP is 4% over the last several years, you should look at finding an investment advisor. Ideally, you should be in the 6% to 8% range if you are more than 10 years from retirement).
At 4% per year your RRSP, plus your annual contributions will increase to $46,000.
Your mortgage will decrease by 55% to $44,000.
Your net worth (what you won less what you owe) increases by $143,600.
Your annual tax bill, assuming only the basic tax personal credit and an RRSP contribution of $4,000, is $8,595.
If you withdraw $20,000 from your RRSP now, you must add that amount to your taxable income in the current year. Following the withdrawal, your taxable income increases to $70,000 and your total tax bill for the year would be $16,191.
As a result, you will really only have $13,650 available to put against your mortgage and will pay $6,350 of extra income tax. All this before you have even put any thing against your mortgage.
RRSP value at 4% is $21,700.
Your net worth would decrease to $136,000.
This strategy actually costs you $7,600 in net worth and you have paid $6,350 of additional income tax.
Net worth would increase to $144,000.
The difference between option 1 and option 3 is negligible and really you should be indifferent between the two options.
Rather than cash out your RRSP and pay down your mortgage, you can use your RRSP assets and then borrow from your RRSP using an RRSP mortgage. This strategy is rather conservative in terms of the investments for an RRSP, it might fit your needs.
You sell all of the investments in your RRSP.
You go to your bank and tell them you would like to hold your mortgage inside your RRSP.
The bank will charge you about $250 per year to do this.
The funds from your RRSP are then used to pay down the bank mortgage.
The old bank mortgage at 4% but it’s now only $60,000.
You have a second mortgage that you must pay. At current rates the interest is going to about 7% (you cannot pay your self more interest than you could obtain from a bank). But your RRSP is getting the interest tax free and not the bank.
There are no tax consequences and you have not affected your RRSP contribution room.
Assume you continue your existing mortgage until it is finished and your RRSP mortgage is amortized over 25 years (the longer the better with an RRSP mortgage!).
Of the $4,000 of annual RRSP contributions would be reduced by the RRSP mortgage payments ($1,900 per year including the $250 annual fee). You then contribute the remaining $2,100 to your RRSP.
Your net worth is $166,700.
Note that I have not included the RRSP mortgage as a debt. The RRSP mortgage (a liability) is offset by a mortgage note (an asset).
Also, since you are re-paying a debt inside your RRSP with interest, you are actually contributing an extra $22,000 to your RRSP without affecting your contribution room.
An RRSP is an account. | 2019-04-25T20:49:56 | http://blog.taxresource.ca/withdraw-from-rrsp-pay-mortgage/ |
0.999994 | John McLaughlin's comments have caused controversy.
(CNN) - Longtime Washington talk-show host John McLaughlin is facing fire Monday for referring to Barack Obama as an "Oreo" during a segment on his Sunday political program, "The McLaughlin Group.
The veteran Washington journalist was discussing the recent comments from the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was caught last week by an open microphone on Fox News saying the Illinois senator is "talking down to black people" as he campaigns for the White House. Those remarks were largely seen in reference to Obama's recent admonishment at a Chicago church of some black men who he said were not living up to their responsibilities as parents.
Referencing Jackson's comments, McLaughlin said Obama "fits the stereotype blacks once labeled as an Oreo - a black on the outside, a white on the inside."
"Does it frost Jackson, Jesse Jackson, that…an Oreo should be the beneficiary of the long civil rights struggle which Jesse Jackson spent his lifetime fighting for?" McLaughlin asked his panelists.
The term "Oreo" is often viewed as a derogatory term toward some African-Americans who appear not to exhibit certain stereotypes of their race.
Panelist Peter Beinart, a senior fellow on the Council of Foreign Relations, immediately called that depiction of Obama "completely unfair."
Michelle Bernard, another panelist on the program and the president of the Independent Women's Forum also said she disagreed with the comments, saying "If Barack Obama is an Oreo, then every member of this generation of African-Americans is an Oreo, because we stand on the shoulders of the people who fought for our rights, and all of us say that you cannot blame 'the man' or white racism for everything that ails the black community."
Roland Martin, a CNN contributor and host of a syndicated radio show, says some people may be overreacting to McLaughlin's remark.
"Obama's candidacy is bringing to light to the internal conversation that is taking place in black America and white America. I think a lot of people are uncomfortable with the dialogue," he said. "If John McLaughlin was an African American and who had made the comment, people would have said, well, he probably understands what he's talking about."
"The reality is we also have a white, his mother is white and his dad is from Kenya," Martin also said. "I think that is the qualifier there and this is a debate that you have heard take place inside of the black community that you also have people who question someone like Obama, where does he stand? Is he black enough?"
This is a major DISTRACTION away from the ISSUES! This is why many youth are attracted to Obama! We're tired of so called "adults" being so ignorant.
Let a black person call a white person a cracker on air and it'd be the end of the world!! John is a senile old man and should get in a time machine and get back to the 60's!
The Right wing party is one of Hatred!"
But it's ok to call Bush and Chaney Nazi's correct? At least Obama IS an Oreo. | 2019-04-26T16:37:00 | http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/07/14/mclaughlin-takes-heat-for-oreo-comment/ |
0.998382 | What is the better known stage name of Robyn Fenty?
Robyn Rihanna Fenty is a Barbadian singer, songwriter, and actress. Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, and raised in Bridgetown, she was discovered by American record producer Evan Rogers in her home country in 2003. Throughout 2004, she recorded demo tapes under the direction of Rogers and signed a recording contract with Def Jam Recordings after auditioning for its then-president, rapper and hip hop producer Jay-Z. In 2005, Rihanna rose to fame with the release of her debut studio album Music of the Sun as well as its follow-up A Girl like Me (2006). Both albums peaked within the top ten of the US Billboard 200 and respectively produced the successful singles “Pon de Replay”, “SOS” and “Unfaithful”.
Recognized as a pop icon, Rihanna is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with 280 million records sold worldwide. Rihanna is the youngest solo artist to earn fourteen number-one singles and has a total of thirty one top-ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100. Among numerous awards and accolades, Rihanna has won nine Grammy Awards, thirteen American Music Awards and twelve Billboard Music Awards. She currently holds six Guinness World Records. Furthermore, she was awarded with the inaugural American Music Award for Icon in 2013 and the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award in 2016. Rihanna received the Fashion Icon lifetime achievement award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 2014. In 2012, Forbes ranked her the fourth most powerful celebrity, while Time included her on the annual list of the most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2018. Rihanna was named Harvard University’s “Humanitarian of the Year” by the Harvard Foundation in early 2017.
She was appointed as an Ambassador on behalf of the government of Barbados in 2018, with her duties involving the promotion of education, tourism and investment. | 2019-04-22T20:30:13 | http://cheekymonkeysarnia.ca/26361-2/ |
0.997972 | I would if I could. I'd do anything spontaneously.
see how I would, if I could. I'd do anything spontaneously.
You know I would, and I can prove it. I'll do anything spontaneously. | 2019-04-20T15:12:25 | http://www.lirik.cc/j/jason-mraz/waiting-for-my-rocket-to-come/I-ll-Do-Anything |
0.999321 | A little more than a week ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin met personally with Vitalik Buterin at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) to discuss how his creation, the Ethereum Blockchain, could be used to help integrate not only the Eurasian power's energy industry onto this technology, but also to broach the idea of what it would take to create a sovereign cryptocurrency as well. And when you add in Cliff High's ongoing forecasts that China is focusing on cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology to facilitate commerce in their Belt and Road projects, then the inevitability of cryptocurrencies and derivatives of the blockchain replacing current financial infrastructures is pretty much a foregone conclusion.
History shows that barriers to trade normally reside upon the whims of men and governments, as seen in the 1920's and 30's when isolationism and tariffs helped plunge the world into a massive global depression. And even today the West continues to wallow in the dying paradigm of creating 'Free Trade Agreements' that are chock full of onerous regulations, restrictions, and quite often benefits to one side over another. And as such trade can be not only complicated when it comes to both production and delivery, but also long in duration as the paperwork to facilitate even one trade can last days or even weeks.
But as the well respected economist and anarcho-capitalist Doug Casey points out from recent examples, use of the blockchain over current bureaucratic trade methodologies turned the duration for approval down from days and weeks to just a few hours.
Recently, I wrote about a small $100,000 trade of cheese and butter.
This one trade changed 400 years of history in just four hours.
How so? Normally, it would take 10 days to handle the paperwork. But this trade concluded in less than four hours.
The solution: a blockchain platform that streamlined the entire process.
While the trade was small, it was big for the $7 trillion trade finance industry.
Yet blockchain technology, and in particular the platform being created by Ethereum, isn't limited to just trade or cryptocurrencies. In fact, with the advent of banks refusing to perform their primary function of lending capital to businesses following the 2008 banking and financial crisis, it has opened the door for a new paradigm to emerge that will replace the bank entirely in how innovation and business is funded in the future.
ICO means Initial Coin Offering, and is nearly equivalent to one buying stock in a company that goes public during an IPO (Initial Public Offering). Only in the future, rather than a company or innovator having to go to venture capitalists for funding, or a broker like Goldman Sachs to underwrite an IPO (where in both cases the business entity would sacrifice a large portion of their equity to pay for either of them), they can instead create an ICO on the Ethereum blockchain where they would sell equity to investors through the distribution of a specialized cryptocurrencies that would replace old fashioned 'stocks' as collateral, and these could then be easily traded on an exchange.
Almost in the way crowdfunding has revolutionized borrowing as banks have refrained from lending for both safe and risky endeavors.
The world has just barely scratched the surface of what can be done using blockchain technology, and almost every day some new idea is brought forth in how it can be used to change finance forever. But like with any new innovation that threatens the status quo, some nations and governments will willingly accept the new paradigm, while others will fight it to the death because in this instance, it will mean an incredible loss of their power and control, but isn't that why the blockchain was created for in the first place? | 2019-04-24T00:38:40 | https://www.roguenews.com/news/tag/ico |
0.998906 | (CNN) -- After going through a messy divorce, losing and regaining his hearing, striking against his record label for five years, and overcoming deep depression, XTC frontman Andy Partridge doesn't much care what you think of him. Actually, he'd prefer it if you didn't like him -- or even know of him -- at all, and focus on his band's music instead.
"We do this for the art, not the adulation," says Partridge, in the midst of promoting XTC's first release in seven years. "I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music."
"Apple Venus Volume 1," a remarkable release from the ingenious, and acerbic, British band, truly was a labor of love. More labor than love, much of the time, to hear Partridge tell it. And the solidly uphill trek to finish the album, which was released in mid-March, has pretty much banished any anxiety about public opinion and perception, insists the man who once appealed to "Dear God" to banish war and starvation.
"We've hung together through all of the filth that's been flung at us. The most important thing is the music, and we never stopped doing it," he says.
From legal battles to busted eardrums, XTC seemed to be slammed by a hailstorm of problems. Yet for better or worse, the duo managed to wade through the muck. And now, XTC returns with an orchestral album full of the band's characteristically clever songwriting, nestled amid deceptively light music. Critics love it, and Partridge loves being back.
XTC, formed in Swindon in 1975, has always been something of an oddity. From the start, the band has drawn on such disparate influences as Captain Beefheart and Charlie Parker. Among the slew of albums they released through the 1970s and '80s, it was their 1987 single "Dear God" (from the album "Skylarking") that, by challenging the Supreme Being on issues like poverty, ignited quite a bit of controversy for its bluntness.
The band is perhaps best known for the 1989 single "Mayor of Simpleton," which peaked at No. 72 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
After releasing "Nonsuch," which stayed on the U.S. charts for 11 weeks and hit No. 97, in 1992, XTC went on strike against their contract with Virgin Records, which Partridge says wasn't lucrative whatsoever for the band. In legal limbo for more than five years, Partridge, current bandmate Colin Moulding, and now former bandmate Dave Gregory spent years developing what Partridge describes as four albums' worth of material.
After getting their walking papers from the label, the band went to work on their first album of new material in seven years. Originally planning to release a double CD set, XTC ran out of both time and money along the way. As an added blow halfway through recording, longtime guitarist Gregory abruptly quit the band.
But, according to the chatty Partridge, "We cemented all the difficulties."
The now-duo waded through the finished work, picked out the best material, and went shopping for a record deal. According to Partridge, the band met with most of the major labels, many of whom were perplexed about ways to market a band that produces music almost impossible to classify, without any ready hits, and, to boot, refuses to tour.
So to do things his way this time around, Partridge started his own label, Idea Records, and released "Apple Venus Volume 1" in the United States through a deal with TVT Records.
"Apple Venus Volume 1"'s sound leans heavily on orchestral and acoustic arrangements, and it spotlights a quieter, more reserved side of the always versatile British outfit. The album plays like something of a fable, from the odd violins and looping bass of "River of Orchids" to the flutes and strings of "Greenman."
"It sounds like unlike anything else out there at the moment," Partridge comments. "It's pagan, verdant, greasy, idiosyncratic, salacious."
For inspiration, Partridge says he veered away from the music on the charts today, in favor of the musicals he heard on the radio as a child. From "South Pacific" to "My Fair Lady," Partridge points to light music -- free of electric guitars -- as the main inspiration for his work.
"People ask if we made this kind of record with an orchestra because of the classics and I say no, it's made up of the music I had stuffed into my ears as a kid," laughs Partridge.
The album's calm belies its darker themes, most of them stemming from the seven years of pandemonium leading up to it.
Partridge says the band didn't worry about possible critical backlash. They did what they wanted, he insists, public opinion be damned.
"I'm much more artistically selfish now," he laughs. "I'm aware of damn-giving but I don't give one. I was prepared not to give a damn if this album was kicked. You get old and rhinoceros-skinned."
Nevertheless, the overwhelmingly positive critical response -- indeed, adulation -- has astounded even him. Everyone from Rolling Stone and Spin to USA Today has swooned over "Apple Venus Volume 1."
"The response has been so good, a little frightening, I must say," says Partridge. "I'm a little humbled. The album is out of sync with everything that's happening today and people say wow! It's different."
You can hear XTC on your CD player, but you'll never see them on stage. The band hasn't toured since 1982, when Partridge suffered nervous exhaustion onstage in Paris, and later had a nervous breakdown in California as a result of massive stage fright and continuous panic attacks. He sticks to his mantra that touring doesn't go hand in glove with CD sales.
"No, we're not going to tour. We don't see any need to," he says. "The art that we do is writing and making records. We're not performers and we don't enjoy doing it. We do what we're good at, which is make records."
But in lieu of a tour, the band will be making promotional interview appearances at radio stations nationwide, and holding book signings of its autobiography, the Hyperion book "XTC: Song Stories." And truly diehard fans can check out "Transistor Blast," a four-disc box set of early BBC recordings released last year.
XTC is now getting to work on "Apple Venus Volune 2," which will be as loud as the first album was subdued. The album is slated for release early next year.
"The next record will be rather noisy and crashy and with electric guitar," according to Partridge. | 2019-04-25T22:57:57 | http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Music/9903/26/xtc/ |
0.99949 | Alan Barnes (alto/clarinet); Paul Edis (piano).
What better way is there to while away an hour than by listening to Alan Barnes and Paul Edis in the intimate surroundings of Newcastle's Literary and Philosophical Society?
The monthly miniature jazz concerts held in the venerable building are well-supported and justifiably so. In Paul Edis and Alan Barnes, you have the perfectly matched pair with each one seemingly reading the other's mind.
Opening up with Joyspring, the ideas just flowed from Barnes' innermost soul to emerge from the bell of his trusty Mark Vl alto. Not to be outdone, Edis too dealt himself a few aces before rounding off the number with the obligatory fours. Normally, fours leave me cold but, when done without a drummer nailing the floorboards down they are much more acceptable - and musical.
For Some Time Ago, a waltz by Argentinian composer/pianist Sergio Mihanovich, Barnes switched to clarinet remarking, in the process, of Tony Eales' strange dislike of the instrument. What's not to like? It was quite beautiful! Edis' final chord took everyone, Barnes included, by surprise.
Come in Senor Jobim, he's never far away. Corcovado, the mountain in Rio had our duo in bossa nova mode. The final fours or was it eights? saw their lines entwine contrapuntally.
Apart from being a superb pianist, Edis is also a composer of merit and the next two compositions were his. Whiskers displayed both of those talents to the full. The head had a Monkish feel to it whilst the piano solo broke into a stride chorus. Barnes, needless to say, sight-read the part with ease and there were a few bars that may have saw a lesser player stumble, but not Alan Barnes although he did have to put his specs on.
The second piece, Breathless, was a waltz that Paul had adapted from an arrangement for trio and choir, Alan returned to clarinet (with a suitable aside to Tony Eales) for this one.
From here on in and on to the finish line, it was all Charlie Parker. Lover Man; Ornithology and Au Privave - and who better to play them?
Then it was all over! Could an hour really go by that quickly?
The applause for the two players was both deafening and deserving.
Come back soon - what am I saying?
Alan Barnes is with the Durham Alumni Big Band at the Dolphin Centre, Darlington this Saturday (May 5) and with the Paul Edis Trio this Sunday afternoon (May 6) at Bondgate Methodist Church, Darlington - 2pm. Both gigs as part of the Darlington Jazz Festival.
The pair are also in church on May 17 at St. James' and St. Basil's in Fenham. 7:30pm. This is also Barnes with the Edis Trio. | 2019-04-23T21:57:28 | http://lance-bebopspokenhere.blogspot.com/2018/05/alan-barnes-paul-edis-lit-phil-may-4.html |
0.999998 | Take Google Calendar and Import into Canvas??
I know that you can export a Canvas calendar to Google calendars, but can you export a Google calendar and import into Canvas??
Madisen, at the moment, the Canvas Calendar feed goes only one way, and that is via export to an ICS-supported calendar. I've seen some ideas floated in the Community for a calendar integration, and this one reached the vote threshold that prompts a comment from the product team: Import calendar from ICS file While archived, the idea is on Canvas's development radar, so please add your feedback to the linked idea and follow it for updates on the status of its implementation.
Given that Canvas calendar does not support creation of recurrent events, nor does it support any standards-based import procedure, do you expect the professors to sit down and enter the information regarding the 32 sessions of each of their 3-credit courses manually, every trimester?
That doesn't seem very well-thought in terms of usability.
I would also like to hear from the others how they manage to use their Canvas calendar, because if I don't find a way to streamline this procedure this will probably be the first and the last time my students will have the luxury of enjoying an integrated calendar for their course.
In addition, Madisen, while you can't currently import a Google calendar into the Canvas calendar, you can embed a Google calendar into a Canvas page, and Adam Williams helpfully outlined the steps here.
Requests such as yours have come up for voting a few times, but unfortunately they haven't gotten many votes...so the ideas have been archived. Because this idea is important to you, I would suggest posting your feedback to one of these Feature Ideas (even though they are now archived)...or, maybe it's time to re-submit a similar idea so that people can vote on it again. You never know...maybe priorities have changed for people this past year, and maybe you'd be able to rally more people around the idea.
I can see that this has been an ongoing request to import a google calendar into Canvas over the years, Is there a resolve, can it be done or are we still waiting for enough votes! It would as everyone else has said be a beneficial feature.
Just as a comment, it is my somewhat limited observation that there are quite a few "college professors" who just really could care less about doing ANYthing on a computer, let alone a smart phone.
Our particular little college is one of those and they have taken predictable steps which have been telegraphed beforehand in terms of "going digital".
To that end, the college rolled out, a week or so ago, first ever, a complete calendar in .csv format with a neutral statement about "place it in your calendar".
Unfortunately a lot of calendars use .ical and no mention was made of providing such or how to convert it.
There are quite a few converters on the web so that was simple enough.
I imported one or the other of the two into my phone and computer calendar apps some of which talk to each other and others do not.
So....I have the college's calendar on my platforms but not my unique class calendar changes.
TO THAT END......IMHO.....the situation with "having a calendar to import", is that the folks who REALLY DO want to have a "digital calendar" are now in a "mindset" of having the calendar stretch across all platforms or ..."Why go to the trouble?".
However sometimes people have problems seeing beyond what they particularly need and what would be the mechanism to provide the functionality that they particularly need.
B) To that end all that would be needed is for the person who is the Canvas "representative" have a way to import the already present calendar into Canvas.
What people really WANT is to "have a dynamic calendar" on both their computer Canvas and on their "phone" and "home computer" system.
HOW the calendar ends up in different places is irrelevant since the calendar under consideration is already present as provided by the college.
a) the Canvas team providing a methodology for the interface person at the college to import the already present calendar into Canvas. That is what the end user sees on the computer or their smart phone WITHIN CANVAS.
c) The teacher can then use the already present export function to put it onto their home or smart phone platform.
d) Canvas would then MERELY need to provide both the .ical and the .cvs format of downloads on the already present download page.
HOWEVER there are then "maintenance" ramifications for the INSTRUCTOR...... !!!!!!
the instructor will have to REMOVE the calendar ON THEIR END DEVICE.....the smart phone or the home computer......that was PREVIOUSLY made and then download AGAIN, the newly changed calendar.
College overall calendar ....within that is the unique class calendar (BOTH SEEN BY THE STUDENT ) and then ONLY on their personal platform the previous dates and the local dates...seen only by them.
FOR the student none of this behind the scenes stuff would be seen because the student merely OBSERVES the calendar that is provided by the college or Canvas. The student does not provide "input".
So now it comes down to whether or not there is a sufficiently vocal community to justify the work by the Canvas team.
a) a poll here would be a good thing.... but it really would be talking to the choir.
b) a poll should be taken by the Canvas interface person at the college to determine what percentage of people at the college already have a working "college calendar - home / smart phone" system..
The combination of the two provide numbers can then be considered by the Canvas tea.
Just some thoughts, of little worth.
JAMES, a brief distillation of this comment would make a useful adjunct to the comments section of Account level calendar (and sub-account level calendar) .
I would love to import google calendar into our courses and am wondering if it is imported into Canvas may our Chinese counterparts be able to see from their end in Canvas? | 2019-04-24T08:59:20 | https://community.canvaslms.com/thread/10811 |
0.999685 | The faster people do things, the more mistakes they make. Also known as the speed-accuracy trade-off, this rule is considered by many fundamental to human behaviour. Not so, according to sports psychologist James Bell and his colleagues. They've authored a new paper that suggests people who score higher on the personality trait of neuroticism make more accurate judgments the faster they respond.
One hundred and ninety-six teenage male cricketers, all members of regional academies, took part in the study. They watched six clips of footage recorded from behind bowlers during the Twenty20 World Cup in England in 2009. Just as the bowler released the ball, each clip was frozen and remained visible for half a second - the approximate amount of time that a batsman has to decide how to react to a delivery.
After the freeze-frame disappeared, the participants pressed one of two keyboard keys as fast as possible to indicate whether they judged it was better to attempt to hit a single run, or to go for a "six" (a boundary shot similar to a home run in baseball). Four qualified cricket coaches agreed on the optimum response for each clip. The participants also completed a neuroticism scale, measured by their agreement with statements like "I worry about things" and "I get stressed out easily."
The key finding is that for low scorers on neuroticism, the more quickly they responded on average, the poorer their judgments tended to be, yet for high scorers on neuroticism the opposite was true. "The most parsimonious explanation," the researchers said, "… is that individuals with high levels of neuroticism tend to have a stimulus-driven attentional orientation, which means they are likely to react automatically to environmental stimuli (particularly if it is threat related) resulting in faster and more accurate responses in the context of the current task."
It's an intriguing result, but the study leaves many questions unanswered. For instance, if highly neurotic people perform optimally when they respond fast, why did some of them choose to respond slowly? A major weakness of the study, acknowledged by Bell and his team, is the lack of realism. Pressing a correct keyboard key is a long way from swinging a cricket bat. Moreover, the average response time in the study was 3.1 seconds - indicative of conscious decision-making - yet as we heard, real-life batsmen have just half a second to react.
"Although more research is needed to determine whether the moderating effect of personality variables on speed and accuracy extends to real-life settings and other populations (e.g. females), we propose that haste does not necessarily make waste for individuals with high levels of neuroticism," Bell and his colleagues concluded.
Anxiously attached people are ace at poker and lie detection.
The advantage of having an anxiously attached person on your team. | 2019-04-25T14:48:44 | http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2013/11/haste-makes-waste-but-not-if-youre.html |
0.999994 | - CBS Chief Executive Les Moonves is officially out at the network following new allegations of sexual misconduct.
CBS said $20 million will be donated to one or more organizations that support #MeToo and workplace equality for women. The donation, which will be made immediately, has been deducted from any severance benefits that may be due Moonves following the Board's ongoing independent investigation led by Covington & Burling and Debevoise & Plimpton. Any severance to Moonves will depend on the results of CBS' internal investigation into the harassment allegations. Chief Operating Officer Joseph Ianniello will serve as President and Acting CEO while the Board conducts a search for a permanent successor.
Redstone's allies will point to her position as controlling shareholder; accuse Moonves of plotting a jailbreak attempt; and cite the misconduct allegations. "I haven't talked about this before, because when you think about it, the most powerful media executive in America has now resigned in the wake of this Me Too movement - and he's my boss, or he was my boss", she said at the beginning of the show, adding that Moonves "always treated me fairly and with respect". It's unclear at this time who will succeed Moonves as CBS' CEO.
Six more women have made bone-chilling allegations of abuse, harassment and retaliation against Les Moonves. Speculation about Moonves' departure swirled last week with news reports that the executive was in negotiations to leave with a potential payout of $100 million, an amount that drew criticism from #MeToo advocates and others.
National Amusements will appoint six new independent directors to the CBS board, including former Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons. He did not tell The New Yorker which three he was acknowledging.
In addition to the Moonves departure, CBS announced Sunday a resolution of that dispute, which includes an agreement that the stockholder, National Amusements, won't propose a merger for at least two years. In a new statement to The New Yorker, Moonves acknowledged three of the encounters but said they were consensual.
Moonves for his part denies the allegations, according to Fox News. All of them said they believed their careers had suffered because they rejected his advances.
Under Moonves's contract, the 68-year-old could be owed as much as US$180 million in severance - as well as a production deal - but the CEO had been facing challenges on a number of fronts.
"The appalling accusations in this article are untrue", Moonves responded in part to the second report Sunday. She wrote years after, when she made a decision to leave Hollywood for the rough and tumble classrooms of LA, "As an executive in the entertainment industry in the days when women were few and not particularly endeared by the powerful, I learned to be strong and tough".
Moonves was an advocate for the traditional broadcast network model when others anxious it was becoming obsolete, but he also launched streaming services for CBS entertainment and news. | 2019-04-26T08:09:33 | http://crazybanana.co/2018/09/10/cbs-makes-it-official-leslie-moonves-is-out.html |
0.998772 | Camden's Jamon Jamon offers high quality Spanish cuisine.
Jamon Jamon is indeed my favourite restaurant in Camden. It's got everything: relaxed atmosphere, courteous, friendly and occasionally hot (male) staff, delicious food in abundance (meat, fish, veg, you name it) and the fabulous Bonbon De Chocolate (chocolate ice-cream for us commoners) is a simple but perfect ending to the already huge meal.
Jamon Jamon also serves delicious sangria and a selection of Latin cocktails like pina colada, beers, wines, etc. which are all good.
OK so it's not cheap but you can get away with being full to bursting and it costs approx £20.00. So, it's not expensive either. Whenever it's dinner time in Camden, it's Jamon Jamon!
As well as being a saucy film starring Penelope Cruz, Jamon Jamon is a Spanish restaurant in Camden. Like Ms Cruz they serve up lots of saucy treats, and you could get quite intoxicated after a few hours there. Unsurprisingly for a place called Jamon Jamon (Ham Ham) there were plenty of meat dishes to pick from, as well as veggie dishes for the health fiends out there.
I was asked by friends to meet at Jamon Jamon on Saturday evening, I wasn't keen after reading some of the bad reviews.
How wrong could they be? The staff were helpful, friendly and welcoming, the surroundings were spartan but comfortable, and the food excellent and reasonably priced. So it takes 40 mins to bring a (delicious) paella - it was obviously individually and lovingly prepared just for us, not scooped quickly from a communal pot!
I am used to pretentious over-priced restaurants in Brighton - Jamon Jamon is totally the opposite. I loved the sliding roof which gave it a piazza feel. My only slight criticism was that the staff all seemed to be serving all tables which led to small muddles. Excellent - open in Brighton please!
Jamon, Jamon was a place I found by chance and was in fact not the place I was looking for originally. Despite not finding the Spanish tapas place, I was originally looking for in that area, the food was pretty close to the real thing. The food & service was great and the staff were very friendly. It surprises me the extremes on here, from rants to high praises. I would say it was good enough for 4 out of stars but as I have only been to it once, it does not warrant 5 stars. If you have been to Spain, the pan fried potatoes referred to in the other reviews are called Patatas Bravas & very normal. If you have not had patatas bravas before then I guess you don't know what you are in store for but personally I thought they tasted pretty amazing. The waiting staff I found were very attentive and helpful & very much the opposite of some of the other reviews written about this place. I am semi-spurred on to go again to see if I receive the same level of service. In my opinion it is well worth the visit and not overly priced. After just getting back from Valencia myself, the food was pretty damn close to the real thing!
Be prepared to pay £4.55 for the white asparagus, which came directly from a tin. Seriously, I could have easily gone to the supermarket and bought a tin for 47p The mojitos taste like lime, and only lime. The mouse I saw running past my table probably ate the mint leaves.
I came across this despicable caterer "thanks to" a friend who innocently recommended it to me for having a great memory of it from five years back. Well, five years on, here's what happened:On a summer's day, another friend of mine and I decided to give it a go. We entered the place, nicely proceeded to the "table for two" ritual, and were abruptly told to wait while a table would be set for us "as soon as possible". We tried to inform the waitress that we'd be sitting at the only outside table, until she’d be able to serve us. Tried that is: hardly had I opened my mouth to let her know that she gave me the fed- up look, saying "she was busy and would do what she can when can”.We sat at the dirty outside table hoping to at least be handed the menu while we'd be waiting. 10 minutes, 15minutes, 20 minutes later STILL NOTHING.I went to the “warm and welcoming” (NOT) waitress to ask for the manager, and guess what: so she was!!!!!!!!! A manager unable to: • Nicely ask CUSTOMERS (aka kings by rule) to patiently wait while a table would be made available for them• Supply menus so they could at least get an idea of what they'd order while waiting for close to 30 minute.• Be diplomatic and amicable, and apply all she should have learnt (but obviously forgot) about CUSTOMER SERVICEI forgot to say that while we patiently waited, about 6 customers arrived and were allocated tables with no wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Not sure what justified for my pregnant friend and I to promptly be relegated to the “waiting” list though, except maybe my “excessive” (for some) and permanent tan... Anyway, here's the outcome: Menus thrown back (after I had to go and get them myself) at the “unmanaging” (Spanish) waitress, various props flying in the air, two upset customers, a bad memory and an even worse review (don't be fooled by the one-star rating, it’s only that the system won't allow me to put none!).
If you like raw prawns and picking the intestines out of them, then this is your place, re-fried potatoes in the casarole, and possibly the worst paella I have ever had. The parma ham and cheese was nice, so I take my hat of to the chef for being able to slice. I would not recommend this place to anyone.
I visited Jamon Jamon on a Monday night last year and, in addition to the delicious food, a wonderful little guitar duet turned up and did a set of Spanish songs. It made for a truly memorable evening. I would certainly recommend going to Jamon Jamon on a Monday night!
Jamon Jamon is so unbelievably bad. At this restaurant they serve chips with tomato sauce poured over them (patatas bravas). Jamon Jamon? Yuk, yuk, yuk!
Jamon Jamon isn’t just about eating Spanish food, it’s about bringing a little bit of Spain to London. Enter the doors, settle down and leave Camden behind.
The restaurant’s bright yellow front emblazoned with black metal branding-iron style letters “Jamon Jamon” makes it hard to miss, even on a stretch of door-to-door restaurants. Jamon Jamon has been giving a sunny, Mediterranean outlook to the area since 2002, and inside, the sunny, Mediterranean look continues. A large window at the front and sky light at the back work to maximise London’s sun. Stone (or perhaps stone-look) walls, wooden floors and a scattering of plants give a distinctly Spanish feel, making it every bit one of the darkened tapas bars of Barcelona, just a bit lighter and brighter.
Service goes beyond polite, with staff conversing with customers as if they were old friends, giving the restaurant a brilliantly communal, friendly atmosphere that is very Spanish in character.
As would be expected given the look of the restaurant, it’s authentic tapas that’s the order of the day at Jamon Jamon. There are no frills, just simply cooked dishes the way they’d be done in an old-school Spanish bar. A “tabla” of meat and cheese comes with a choice of meats that lives up to the restaurant’s name. There’s Jamon Serrano (cured ham), Lomo Iberico (cured pork loin), Chorizo Iberico and Salchichon Iberico (salami). The Serrano ham is clearly high quality, with a deep taste and melt-in-the-mouth texture, plus not too much fat. Manchego which accompanies it is equally well-received, and a hefty portion of any two meats or cheese is fairly good value at £8.95.
Pisto Manchego (£4.75) is a medley of aubergine, courgette, red and green peppers and onions in a garlicky tomato sauce rich with a peppery olive oil. Croquetas de cabrales (£4.75) come stuffed with blue cheese. They’re unlikely to rival the classic croquetas, but a fun twist on the theme all the same and what’s particularly notable is the sweet, crunchy breadcrumbed outer layer which gives them much needed bite and contrasts well with the cheese. The same breadcrumb and frying technique also help make Berenjenas rebozadas (fried aubergine, £4.75) a triumph, with the sweet outer contrasting the gooey aubergine centre.
Gambas al ajillo (£6.25), sizzling prawns in olive oil, garlic and chilli come to the table topped with a plate just to keep all the sizzling in, and there’s whole pieces of garlic and chilli floating in the olive oil. The level of flavour and the drama involved in the serving make it a highlight, though the next dish steals the show. Bacalao con Alioli (£5.95), salt cod, is topped with potatoes and red peppers then sealed with a hefty portion of garlic mayonnaise before being grilled. To the uninitiated, hot mayonnaise doesn’t sound the most appealing option, but it really works, becoming something of a garlicky hollandaise.
Tapas and sherry are certain bedfellows, and Jamon Jamon has a decent list which covers all the regulars. A pleasantly salty tasting Manzanilla is ideal with green olives, whilst a sweeter Amontillado offers a richer drink that’s good with cheeses and could even stretch to dessert. There’s also Sangria, Cava and good range of Spanish beers and wines.
If Spain seems too far away, a trip to Jamon Jamon may be the answer. From decor to service to food, it’s all so authentic and homely that you’d never guess it was NW1. | 2019-04-18T11:01:49 | https://www.view.co.uk/london/v/jamon-jamon |
0.999982 | translation between the objects one is describing—usually in effect just by renaming the operators used to manipulate them.
Yet to take full advantage of universality one must consider not only translations between objects but also translations between complete proofs. And if one does this it is indeed perfectly possible, say, to program arithmetic to reproduce any proof in set theory. In fact, all one need do is to encode the axioms of set theory in something like the arithmetic equation system of page 786.
But with the notable exception of Gödel's Theorem these kinds of encodings are not normally used in mathematics. So this means that even when universality is present realistic idealizations of mathematics must still distinguish different axiom systems.
So in the end what is it that determines which axiom systems are actually used in mathematics? In the course of this section I have discussed a few criteria. But in the end history seems to be the only real determining factor. For given almost any general property that one can pick out in axiom systems like those on pages 773 and 774 there typically seem to be all sorts of operator and multiway systems—often including some rather simple ones—that share the exact same property.
So this leads to the conclusion that there is in a sense nothing fundamentally special about the particular axiom systems that have traditionally been used in mathematics—and that in fact there are all sorts of other axiom systems that could perfectly well be used as foundations for what are in effect new fields of mathematics—just as rich as the traditional ones, but without the historical connections.
So what about existing fields of mathematics? As I mentioned earlier in this section, I strongly believe that even within these there are fundamental limitations that have implicitly been imposed on what has actually been studied. And most often what has happened is that there are only certain kinds of questions or statements that have been considered of real mathematical interest.
The picture on the facing page shows a rather straightforward version of this. It lists in order a large number of theorems from basic logic, highlighting just those few that are considered interesting enough by typical textbooks of logic to be given explicit names. | 2019-04-26T04:35:07 | https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/p816--implications-for-mathematics-and-its-foundations/ |
0.999815 | Q: That all makes sense when looking at the United States, but why are residents of previously impoverished countries becoming overweight?
Within a decade or two, these countries experienced a leap from an 18th- or 19th-century lifestyle to one more similar to ours. They got TV and watch hours a day, got modern transportation technology, refrigerators, rice cookers and all the home technologies we have.
At work, their jobs got very modernized relative to decades earlier. The result was and remains an enormous decline in energy expenditures.
At the same time, their diets changed greatly. They got access to cheap vegetable oils and added an awful lot of this to their dishes, turned to fried foods rather than grilling, baking and steaming, started consuming lots of sugar in their diet.
In China, they went in 1990 from no-overweight to close to a third of adults overweight today.
Q: What can individuals do?
Q: What about from a public health standpoint?
The most effective first step would be to put a very simple label on foods that are healthy and not label other foods. The second simple option is to tax each added gram of sugar 1 to 2 cents when it is in any beverage. Several countries are effectively doing this. | 2019-04-18T23:13:26 | https://www.newsobserver.com/news/technology/article23721130.html |
0.999999 | Is he a right-wing Christian fanatic? To what group will he be assigned?
In a closed court hearing today in Oslo, the man suspected of killing 76 people (by the latest count) in Norway on Friday said he targeted his country's Labor Party because the "price of their treason is what they had to pay." The suspect, 32-year-old Anders Breivik, had requested the hearing be open so he could use the tragic killing spree as a "marketing" opportunity for his anti-immigration, nativist philosophy. But while the court denied his request, his writings have been painstakingly translated and re-published by the media in an effort better understand Breivik and, in some cases, assign blame to his intellectual forebears. Often times, when Islam-inspired attacks lead to bloodshed, much is made of whether moderate Muslims have condemned such actions. Do Christians and the political right owe the world a similar round of denunciations? Here's what bloggers and reporters are finding out about the roots of Breivik's rage and who, if any, share some blame.
He was inspired by Americans, writes Scott Shane in The New York Times. Examing his 1,500-page manifesto, the Times reporter discovers that Breivik was "deeply influenced by a small group of American bloggers" including Jihad Watch blogger Robert Spencer, Atlas Shrugs blogger Pamela Gellar and the pseudonymously-written blog Gates of Vienna.
In the document he posted online, Anders Behring Breivik... showed that he had closely followed the acrimonious American debate over Islam. His manifesto, which denounced Norwegian politicians as failing to defend the country from Islamic influence, quoted Robert Spencer, who operates the Jihad Watch Web site, 64 times, and cited other Western writers who shared his view that Muslim immigrants pose a grave danger to Western culture.
Breivik's manifesto also plagiarized the work of infamous unabomber Ted Kaczynski, who killed three people and injured two dozen through letter bombs sent between 1978 and 1995. In a series of quotations, Breivik merely replaces Kaczynksi's use of the word "Leftists" or "left" with "cultural Marxism" or "multi-culturalism." Both expressed a deep mistrust of socialist government and a pluralistic society in general (for a side-by-side of their writings, see here).
Make no mistake, he was inspired by the right, writes Roger Cohen at The New York Times: "Breivik is no loner. His violence was brewed in a specific European environment that shares characteristics with the specific American environment of Loughner: relative economic decline, a jobless recovery, middle-class anxiety and high levels of immigration serving as the backdrop for racist Islamophobia and use of the spurious specter of a “Muslim takeover” as a wedge political issue to channel frustrations rightward."
He's a right-winger but he's no Christian, writes Ross Douthat at The New York Times: "Despite what the Norwegian authorities suggested over the weekend, [his] beliefs probably aren’t a form of Christian fundamentalism. Breivik’s writings bear no resemblance to the theology of a Jerry Falwell or an Oral Roberts, and his nominal Christianity ('I guess I’m not an excessively religious man,' he writes at one point) seems to be more of an expression of European identity politics and anti-Islamic chauvinism than any genuine religious fervor. But it’s fair to call Breivik a right-winger."
it requires an especially deranged mind already far outside the mainstream to decide to slaughter children at summer camp just because it is run by a left-wing political party. Associating that sort of mentality with the mainstream is not just wrong and lazy, it is hypocritical.
The Christian history that Breivik seeks to reenact is not the passion of Jesus Christ, but the narrative of the Crusades. Breivik rhapsodizes about battles and lists the indulgences promises to Crusaders by Popes Urban II and Innocent III. Although he wishes that Benedict XVI would call Christendom to crusade, Breivik argues that the Roman Pontiff has been too accommodating to Islam and has thus betrayed the Church and Europe as a whole. The new Crusade will thus have to be initiated outside the authority of decadent institutional churches. Breivik’s description of how this Crusade will transpire has exaggerated contours of a computer game-it’s Valhalla via Warcraft. | 2019-04-26T11:46:34 | https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/07/roots-breiviks-rage/353232/ |
0.996984 | It was the Fall of 2002, and Sharon Spangler was thriving professionally: At age 44, after two decades at what is now DaimlerChrysler (PCX), she was earning $110,000 a year as an engineering supervisor for the Jeep brand. No one at work, or anywhere else, knew that her troubled marriage had turned violent. Then on Nov. 20, a week into a medical leave, she killed her husband and was charged with premeditated murder. While she was sitting in the Lapeer County jail in Michigan, Daimler fired her for a bureaucratic infraction: failing to show up for an evaluation required to continue her leave of absence. In March, 2004, a jury deliberated for five hours and acquitted Spangler of all charges, deciding she had acted in self-defense. Now she is suing to get her job back.
Although Spangler's suit is unusual, it raises an important question about a company's responsibilities to its employees. Should a business accommodate workers who are unable to adhere to its policies because of their difficult personal circumstances?
Sharon Sewell met Steve Spangler when they both worked at a Dodge truck assembly plant near Detroit in 1983. Sharon had graduated from college, the first one in her family to do so, with a degree in chemical engineering and was hired as a paint-quality engineer on the night shift. The plants were pretty rough places in those days; hers was known as Dodge City. "I was the supervisor," she recalls. "I had the clipboard and the authority, but I didn't know what to do with it. I was terrified."
Members of the "zoo crew," as the workers were known, tried to intimidate their soft-spoken new boss. Steve, charming, funny, mischievous, and a factory rat since high school, came to her defense. Her nickname was "Debutante"; he was "Fuzzy." In 1988 they were married.
Steve took a buyout from Chrysler two years later and eventually got into the real estate business in Dryden, a small town 45 miles north of Detroit. They built a big house on 10 acres. Dryden is a hunting community, so Sharon learned to use a gun, and she and Steve practiced shooting clay pigeons on property that had been in his family for generations.
Their hope of having children was crushed when Sharon had to have a hysterectomy in 1999. She says she had put off starting a family: She was working longer hours as her managerial responsibilities increased, and there was always the promise of another promotion. In 1995 she had become a supervisor at Jeep Engineering, with a staff of up to a dozen. And in 2000 she worked as a Jeep Renegade program supervisor.
Steve wasn't doing as well. He had earned his Realtor's license, and his picture was on "For Sale" signs all over town. But he experienced financial difficulties with his own development projects. He often burst into anger, berating Sharon, only to apologize later and blame the stress of his business. In 2002, as Steve approached 50, he began taking steroids and diet pills. In a matter of months, his waist went from 40 inches to 32. He slept little and always seemed agitated. "Then Fuzzy started shaving off all the hair on his body," she says. Sharon was first perplexed, then, as the months passed, increasingly distressed by her husband's violence. "A wonderful person was becoming a stranger," she adds. She confided in no one about the fights that turned ugly and twice left her with serious injuries.
As her relationship with Steve deteriorated, she worked more, sometimes staying away for weeks. "Chrysler was good to me," she says. "They never told me to go home. They never asked why I needed a hotel room."
At Daimler, Sharon was relieved to be consumed by the demands of the Jeep Renegade launch. But it was only a few months later that her descent began. When a favorite nephew committed suicide, she became distraught. Steve became more aggressive, and she had what she calls a mental collapse. Sharon requested a medical leave from Daimler so she could enter a day-treatment program for depression. A few days later, on Nov. 19, she met with a lawyer to begin divorce proceedings and called Steve, who had moved out, to inform him.
The next morning, as she was blow-drying her hair, her two dogs began barking and she heard someone climbing the stairs. She turned around to see Steve standing in the bedroom. Their encounter quickly turned violent. According to Sharon, he grabbed her wrists, stomped on her foot, beat her on the head and neck, and threatened to kill her with a gun he had taken from the nightstand by her bed. After a furious struggle, Sharon says she got hold of the pistol and shot Steve once, fatally, in the side. In the hours before he died, Steve told police that Sharon had lured him to the house and then ambushed him. The next day she was charged with murder.
In early January, about six weeks into Spangler's imprisonment, Daimler fired her. Yet its stated reason for doing so is somewhat surprising. Companies are generally free to terminate incarcerated workers for the simple reason that they are unable to show up for their jobs: The presumption of innocence that exists in the judicial system doesn't apply in the workplace. And any employer would have reasonable grounds for keeping someone charged with a violent crime off its premises. But Daimler told Spangler, who would remain in jail a further seven months, that she was being let go because she had missed a company-arranged medical evaluation in December. A spokesperson for Daimler, Michael Palese, says that Spangler faced "the same consequence other employees would have."
Such emotionally fraught cases can put employers in a bind. "A company could say: 'We know we can fire her, but we don't want to. We are making an exception because she was victimized,"' says Jonathan A. Segal, an employment lawyer in Philadelphia who represents businesses. "But it gets complicated. The exceptions an employer wants to make for compassionate reasons can come back to bite them when others with less mitigating circumstances ask for the same consideration."
Several attorneys suggest that, while the law may not require it, Daimler might have waited to make a final decision about Spangler's employment until after the verdict - putting her on unpaid leave, for example. "The more patience you have to let the facts shake out, the better off you are," says Karl Lindegren, who represents companies in labor disputes. And usually, lawyers say, a company should try to find a place for a worker who has been found not guilty.
When, in July, 2003, the court released her on bond with permission to work, Spangler says she asked her former supervisor, Vern Schmidt, about coming back. She recalls his telling her to focus on the upcoming criminal trial. She called again after her acquittal. At that point, Schmidt was told by Daimler's human resources department that Spangler should contact the automaker's lawyers.
Palese says Daimler didn't rehire Spangler in the spring of 2004 because her "position was eliminated, along with thousands of others, as a result of DaimlerChrysler's downsizing." He adds that "at a time when thousands of auto workers were losing their jobs, it would have been unreasonable to expect any company to hold a job open for a year and a half." Yet Schmidt would testify in a deposition in May that he had hired engineers, though not managers, between March, 2004, and December, 2005, when he retired. He also said that he would have rehired Spangler if given the chance.
Spangler filed her wrongful termination suit against Daimler in state court in Wayne County in December, 2005, claiming gender discrimination. Some male employees, she alleges, have been granted leniency in comparable situations. She is also making the novel argument that her dismissal violates a Michigan law that protects the rights of crime victims. Daimler has since gotten the case moved to Oakland County, a more affluent and conservative community. A trial is scheduled for June, 2007. Since her acquittal, Spangler has been volunteering at a shelter for abused women and looking for a paying job. She says she remains eager to return to DaimlerChrysler: "I think there's still something I can do for the company." | 2019-04-21T18:34:02 | https://www.nachtlaw.com/News-Briefs/Cleared-Of-Murder-But-Out-Of-A-Job.shtml |
0.999989 | What is a Child Custody Bond?
In extreme cases, parents who lose the battle in court have willfully violated the child custody agreement and, in some cases, even fled the country in an attempt to manipulate the system. While these cases may technically be 'infrequent' in light of the millions of cases determined by the courts each year, that's little consolation when you're worried for your children's safety. The child custody bond provides an additional incentive for your ex to stick with the child custody agreement—a hefty financial one.
How Do Child Custody Bonds Work?
The parent required to pay the bond must hand the money, or a portion of collateral determined by the judge, over to the court. Then, in the event that the parent violates the child custody order, he or she forfeits the money. The idea is that the risk of financial loss will motivate the parent to uphold the child custody order.
The court may require a child custody bond if the parent in question is a known flight risk. However, you can also request a child custody bond if you have reason to believe your ex will violate the child custody arrangement in some way. In particular, you should pursue a bond if you suspect your children are at risk for parental abduction.
A child custody bond creates a financial incentive for your ex not to violate the terms of the custody agreement, and that can help to minimize a flight risk or concerns over the potential for abduction.
Relocation - A non-relocating parent can request a bond for a relocating parent to ensure that the parent follows the custody or divorce decree and doesn't flee with the child.
International Trips - Bonds are useful when a parent decides to travel internationally with the children. For example, say your ex takes the kids to visit family in another country. You can ask for a child custody bond to ensure that he or she returns the children as planned (reducing the risk for delays and worries).
Short Vacations - You can also request a child custody bond for short vacations. While this is less common, it's an option if you believe your ex may not return from vacation with your children.
The judge will set the child custody bond amount, based on the degree of possibility that the parent will flee with the child.
If you are considering applying for a child custody bond, start by speaking about the issue with your lawyer.
Child custody bonds are a way for a court and a parent to ensure that child abduction does not occur. While this legal option exists, the courts generally prefer for parents to create an effective parenting plan and stick to it, without the need for a child custody bond. However, parents who have true concerns about the safety of their children should consider asking for a child custody bond as an additional layer of security.
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Help for Single Mothers Asking "Should I File for Child Support?" | 2019-04-19T02:40:53 | https://www.liveabout.com/when-and-how-to-request-a-child-custody-bond-2997865 |
0.999986 | SANTA CRUZ, CA--A new study of wild chimpanzee growth rates, published in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (http://www.pnas.org/), suggests that early human evolution may have taken a different course than is widely believed. The results challenge the assumption that human evolution followed a path from a chimplike ancestor to a transitionary Homo erectus and then Homo sapiens, suggesting instead that chimpanzees have more in common developmentally with Homo erectus and that modern humans are the "out-group."
The study was coauthored by Adrienne Zihlman, professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz; Debra Bolter, who just earned her doctorate in anthropology at UCSC; and Christophe Boesch, director of primatology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
The researchers examined skeletal samples from 18 wild chimpanzees of known ages and compared the data to the dentition of captive chimpanzees, which have been used as a baseline for discussion of hominid origins and the transition from ape ancestors to hominids. The eruption of teeth mark other life events, such as completion of brain growth (90 to 95 percent of brain growth is complete when the first permanent molar erupts) and life-history stages like infancy, juvenile, and adulthood.
The team's analysis consistently showed a slower rate of development of all the teeth of wild chimpanzees compared to captive chimpanzees: Among wild chimpanzees, infancy lasted until about four years of age and mature dentition was reached between 12 and 13 years of age, compared to captive animals whose infancy ended around three years of age and who reached mature dentition about 10 years of age.
"These findings challenge a number of assumptions about the growth of hominids," said Zihlman. "Anthropologists and paleoanthropologists have relied heavily on studies of captive chimpanzees to establish a baseline for hominid growth and to generate hypotheses about the life history and behaviors of fossil humans. We now know those scenarios are based on faulty data."
Comparing teeth of wild chimpanzees to previous research on two Homo erectus fossil specimens, the researchers found that the first molars of both wild chimpanzees and Homo erectus emerge at about four years of age, and the second molars emerge at about eight years of age.
"Our data suggest that wild chimpanzees and Homo erectus growth patterns may not have differed from each other as much as previously thought," said Zihlman. "These findings do not support Homo erectus developmentally as an intermediate between chimplike ancestors and modern humans. Our data also call into question the assumption that a larger body size and a big brain require a longer time to grow."
The findings also explain why dental-eruption data derived from captive chimpanzees didn't match the life stages of wild animals observed by researchers in the field, Zihlman noted.
The skeletal samples examined included 12 immature individuals and one young adult from the Tai National Park, Ivory Coast, four immatures from Gombe National Park in Tanzania, and one immature from Bossou, Guinea.
The paper, "Wild Chimpanzee Dentition and its Implications for Assessing Life History in Immature Hominin Fossils," is scheduled to appear in the July 20 print edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. | 2019-04-23T22:31:08 | https://forums.skadi.net/threads/14973-Growth-study-of-wild-chimpanzees-challenges-assumptions-about-early-humans |
0.998363 | Earn all trophies in: "The Walking Dead"
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0.999844 | Why is my one foot/one ankle/one leg swollen?
Swelling in legs and feet can say a lot about your overall health - not just the health of feet and legs! There are several different reasons for swelling in legs and feet and sometimes this swelling affects one leg while other times it affects both. Are your legs swollen? Your feet? Your toes? Is it more noticeable at any one time of day?
1. Injury: A leg/foot/toe is often swollen if an injury has occured. This can be due to sprains, strains, fractures or tendon tears or ruptures. A lot of times, if an injury is the cause of swelling, this is something you would know about and remember an incident. However, in some cases (especially in individuals with neuropathy or numbness in feet/legs) an injury may have occured which didn't seem like much of a big deal at the time - yet some damage to bone or ligaments may have occured. It is important to treat injuries quickly, or the recovery time can be much longer.
2. Arthritic Process: There are a variety of types of arthritis and some are more widespread than others. Gout is an arthritic process related to an excessive amount of uric acid building up in the body. This uric acid then can settle into joints and cause not only swelling, but often a GREAT deal of pain and redness. Osteoarthritis (the wear and tear type) can cause swelling of joints with increased activity. Rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis are the result of autoimmune disease which causes inflammation (swelling) of joints as well. With these types of arthritis, again, pain is usually present with swelling.
3. Infection: Infections can develop following a break in the skin that allows the natural bacteria of the skin to sneak under the surface. However, not all infections require a break in the skin. Swelling from infections is related to the inflammatory process that your body undergoes in efforts to fight off the infection. Redness, pain and sometimes drainage through an open lesion are other signs of infection.
4. Baker's Cyst: A Baker's cyst is a fluid-filled cyst that occurs behind the knee. This usually develops due to injury or arthritis within the knee joint.
5. DVT: DVT stands for deep vein thrombosis. When we break this word down, it means that there is a collection of blood (a clot) within a vein deep in the calf of the leg. DVT's are very dangerous and if left untreated, can cause migration of the clot to the lungs and even be deadly. A DVT is often accompanied with a feeling of a charlie horse in the calf as well as warmth of the leg as compared to the other side.
As you can see, the causes of swelling that is only present in one appendage can be due to a vast variety of causes. Treatments for these causes is very different from one to the next. If you have swelling in one leg, one foot, even one toe - especially if it is painful, consider seeing your doctor to seek treatment before the problem gets worse! | 2019-04-19T18:39:59 | https://www.elmhurstfootdoc.com/library/why-is-my-one-foot-one-ankle-one-leg-swollen-.cfm |
0.999996 | TL;DR: the best selfies are from women, with long hair, often B&W, with letterbox-type borders. The included picture is the top 100 ranked images.
Cut off your forehead. What’s up with that? It looks like a popular strategy, at least for women.Show your long hair. Notice the frequent prominence of long strands of hair running down the shoulders. | 2019-04-22T05:59:19 | https://alexweber.is/blogging/what-a-deep-neural-network-thinks-makes-the-best-selfie/ |
0.998971 | I resigned my job on principle when an employee of mine was unfairly penalised for something that wasn't his fault. Now my colleagues and employees keep calling me at home and insisting I come back.
Would doing so render my previous action meaningless? I'm not desperate to return, but I honestly think I can help to improve the way the company is run. My employers have said they would take me back.
I should really know what happened to the employee who was unfairly penalised. Did the company ever admit its error and offer compensation?
If so, your action was far from meaningless and your reluctance to return to the firm is unfounded.
Even if the error went uncorrected, I doubt if it has been repeated, so your resignation will still have had a beneficial effect.
This leads me to suspect that what was once a genuine point of principle is now a small, stubborn obsession. If everyone wants you back, if you'd like to go back yourself, if the company is now decently run and if you're confident that you could help it be run even better, then you shouldn't let this little prick of vanity stop you. | 2019-04-20T12:36:51 | https://www.managementtoday.co.uk/whats-problem/article/670769 |
0.998397 | In the past decade, advances in non-volatile memory technologies significantly improve the capabilities of storage devices. However, modern computer architectures, including accelerator based, heterogeneous computers, still inherit the entrenched boundaries among components. These boundaries lead to inefficiencies for executing applications, especially when the computer needs to deal with a huge volume of data.
To allow computers to make efficient use of modern NVM-based storage/memory devices and lead to performance improvements, we should break the boundaries in computer architectures. I propose three directions: 1) redefining the roles of architectural components 2) revisiting the interfaces and 3) removing unnecessary layers and local optimizations. I will demonstrate that by redefining the role of modern non-volatile memory-based storage devices, we can improve the performance of applications by 1.39x. By revisiting the storage device interface, we can not only remove redundant layers in computer systems, but also achieve a speedup of 2.5x for key-value store. | 2019-04-23T16:54:45 | https://www.ece.ucr.edu/event-list/2018/11/30/talk-dr-hung-wei-tseng |
0.999999 | What type of blood should be crossmatched for this patient?
The patient appears to be a weak subgroup of A and is Rh positive. The particular subgroup is undefined but the patient's cells react w+ with anti-A and 2+ with anti-A,B. In addition, the patient has anti-A1 as a cold antibody not reactive at 37o C.
In such cases blood can be obtained by crossmatching group A Rh positive donor red cells by a method that includes an antiglobulin test at 37o C and issuing crossmatch-compatible donor units. Performing the antiglobin crossmatch is preferred, given that the patient has an uncommon ABO group with discrepancies in both the front and reverse group.
Alternatively, the most conservative and safest procedure would be to crossmatch (electronic or antiglobin crossmatch) group O donor units that have been ABO retested. | 2019-04-23T06:30:04 | https://traqprogram.ca/index.php/case-studies/case-studies-b/case-b3/b3-case-discussion/b3-discussion-ans3 |
0.999009 | John McClain , Houston Chronicle Dec. 16, 2012 Updated: Dec. 16, 2012 11:11 p.m.
The Texans are one victory from clinching home-field advantage in the playoffs.
San Francisco's upset at New England on Sunday night means if the Texans defeat Minnesota at Reliant Stadium, the AFC road to Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans goes through Houston for the first time.
After defeating Indianapolis 29-17 to clinch their second consecutive AFC South title and improve to 12-2, the Texans have to answer this question: If they can't stop Vick Ballard, how are they going to stop Adrian Peterson?
The Texans had trouble with Ballard, a rookie fifth-round pick who carried 18 times for 105 yards - a 5.8 average per carry. Impressive, huh? Well, it is until you compare his Sunday performance to Peterson and Arian Foster.
In the Vikings' 36-22 victory at St. Louis that kept them in wild-card contention, Peterson carried 24 times for 212 yards, including runs of 82 and 52 yards. Foster exploded for a season-high 165 yards on 27 carries.
Peterson, who grew up in Palestine, is coming to Reliant Stadium with a career-high 1,812 yards - just 293 shy of Eric Dickerson's 1984 record of 2,105.
"We have to bring out our big-boy pants," nose tackle Shaun Cody said.
The Texans allowed only 272 yards to the Colts, but they were gouged for 124 rushing on 25 carries. They surrendered 130 on 33 carries in the 42-14 loss at New England.
"We haven't played too well against the run in the last two games," Cody said. "We've got to strap it up. Today, they hurt us with the same play (counter with guard pulling), and we've got to correct it."
Ballard did what no back other than Tennessee's Chris Johnson had done against the Texans (way back in September): reach triple digits.
On the Colts' second touchdown drive - which ended with an 8-yard pass from Andrew Luck to Dwayne Allen to cut the Texans' lead to 23-17 in the third quarter - Ballard had runs of 15, 9, 12 and 23 yards.
Stopping the run was something the defense did well in most of the first 12 games. The Texans went to New England ranked second against the run. They entered the Indianapolis game tied for second. Now they're giving up 93.2 yards a game at a time when Peterson is coming to town averaging 129.4.
"He's the best running back in the league from a yardage standpoint," said defensive end Antonio Smith, who predicted after the game that the 49ers would beat the Patriots. "He always runs with a purpose. We have to find a way to stop that purpose."
Both teams will have a purpose. While the Texans can wrap up home field in the AFC, Minnesota needs to win to remain in the race for an NFC wild-card berth. The formula for beating the Vikings is no secret: Stop Peterson.
"He's the best running back in the league other than Arian," defensive end J.J. Watt said about his teammate. "The guy's playing lights-out. He's playing great football. I'm excited about the challenge. It's going to be a great challenge for us."
When Watt was informed that Peterson had rushed for 212 yards on Sunday, he said, "Holy smoke!"
Which might be Peterson's reaction when he hears that Watt had 10 unassisted tackles, six tackles for loss, three sacks, four hits on the quarterback and a forced fumble at the Texans' 1-yard line. | 2019-04-19T11:07:42 | https://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/texans/article/On-the-Texans-Defense-on-heels-with-Peterson-en-4122765.php |
0.999999 | Thieves descend on suburbs to steal municipal sewer covers. How did they end up at a mob-linked scrap yard?
For weeks, thieves have been making off with sewer covers from a slew of western suburbs – a likely by-product of a limp economy and relatively high resale prices for metal.
Last week, police revealed where at least some of those heavy grates ended up: in a Melrose Park scrap yard that’s been linked to reputed mob figures.
The yard on Lake Street is home to two sister companies: D&P Construction and JKS Ventures. Both are, on paper, run by Josephine DiFronzo, wife of Peter DiFronzo, who the FBI has identified as a “made” member of the Chicago mob. But the FBI has long contended that Peter DiFronzo and his brother John “No Nose” DiFronzo, a reputed mob leader, are really in charge of the operation.
The complex pays money for scrap metal, and apparently had been buying the stolen municipal items from thieves – by one account for $6 each, by another for 10 cents a pound, authorities said.
Forest Park police said that over the weekend they arrested a man who was spotted stealing sewer caps and grates, which can weigh upwards of 50 or 60 pounds. Officers found a number of them in the back of his SUV, and he told police he was headed to the scrap yard to cash in, authorities said. The village ultimately recovered other stolen pieces from the scrap yard.
A few days ago, acting on a “tip,” police from Westchester recovered more than 30 of their sewer caps and grates at JKS Ventures, each valued between $150 and $200 new.
Westchester Police Chief April Padalik said there was a large pile of stolen metal – perhaps 100 or more sewer caps and the like.
Other nearby towns that have suffered thefts include: Bellwood, Berkeley, Elmhurst, Hillside, Itasca, La Grange Park, Northlake, Western Springs and Wood Dale. At least some of those communities, alerted to the find, have since visited the Melrose Park scrap yard looking for – and finding – their missing items.
A police investigation is ongoing, with more arrests possible, authorities said.
Whether the DiFronzo operation could face trouble for buying stolen gear – unwittingly or otherwise – is unclear.
Josephine DiFronzo was reached on the phone Thursday night, but after a reporter identified himself the phone went dead. She did not respond to subsequent inquiries.
Another woman in the D&P/JKS office told a FOX 32 reporter the company helped police by alerting authorities to a suspicious sales attempt. However, Padalik said that “help” came after police had found stolen items at the scrap yard.
Despite its reputed (and well-publicized) mob connections, D&P has secured an alarming amount of government-related business in recent years through its waste-hauling operation, as detailed in previous BGA and FOX 32 reports. D&P was one of the sponsors of a village festival in Melrose Park just this past summer.
In 2007 testimony at the “Family Secrets” mob trial, John DiFronzo was implicated in the murders of mobster-brothers Anthony and Michael Spilotro, but he never was charged with their deaths.
In a rare interview several years ago, after cameras found John DiFronzo frequenting D&P/JKS offices in Melrose Park, he was asked about his role there. “Nothing,” he said.
This story was written and reported by the Better Government Association’s Katie Drews, Patrick Rehkamp and Robert Herguth, and FOX 32’s Dane Placko. To reach them, email [email protected] or call (312) 821-9027.
Help the BGA shine a light on government and hold public officials accountable by becoming a member, contributor or tipster. Details at www.bettergov.org. | 2019-04-24T17:46:56 | https://www.thechicagosyndicate.com/2012/12/stolen-sewer-covers-allegedly-purchased.html |
0.989653 | In this Q&A, Paul Browning of Mitsubishi Hitachi explains how additive manufacturing technology helps build gas turbine parts that are more cost-effective and energy-efficient.
Additive manufacturing technology has not yet reached critical mass in manufacturing, but there are areas where it has become an essential ingredient of the process.
Many companies are finding that there are things that additive manufacturing can do that simply can't be done with traditional manufacturing processes. Design freedom enables you to design for the part, not the manufacturing process, and new techniques and materials enable you to manufacture parts that are lighter weight, but that have greater strength and heat tolerance.
Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas Inc. is an early adopter of additive technologies, and it has discovered these benefits; additive enables it to manufacture gas turbine parts that can tolerate much greater pressure and higher temperatures. This, in turn, makes for greater efficiency and lower costs for the power plants that run Mitsubishi Hitachi's gas turbines.
In this Q&A, Paul Browning, CEO of Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas, explains how and why the company uses additive technologies to create better products that improve outcomes for its customers.
What kinds of additive manufacturing technology does Mitsubishi Hitachi use, and what are some of their main benefits?
Paul Browning: We use a single crystal technology that was developed for the silicon wafer industry, and [we] have applied it to some of the most challenging parts of the gas turbine.
The way that you create value for customers with a gas turbine is to get to higher temperatures and higher pressures, which allows us to provide better efficiency.
We use these single crystal technologies to produce directionally solidified parts, which means that all the crystals in the component, which can be a foot tall, align in one direction across the component's stress access point. Our parts have a weakness in the grain boundaries between those crystals, so aligning the axis of weakness along the stress axis greatly improves the components' temperature capabilities.
We've also used a different form of additive technology called plasma spray thermos barrier coatings, which uses multiaxis robotic systems to apply a coating to that same component one layer at a time, allowing us to add about another 150 degrees Celsius to our temperature capability.
This combination allows us to dramatically increase the fuel efficiency of our products, which has a big economic value for our customers, and also dramatically reduces the CO2 emissions per unit of energy produced, so it has benefits for climate change.
How does this additive technology differ from manufacturing processes you used in the past?
Browning: In the single crystal technology, we would have cast that component, and the grains would have all had random orientation relative to one another.
Instead, we grow that part one atomic layer at a time through a very controlled solidification process so that, as the part grows, it maintains the same crystal orientation for all those grains, and they are all uniformly aligned. That's the additive part of it; it's a very tightly controlled solidification process that allows those atoms to deposit one layer at a time and grow the part rather than casting it, as we would have done normally.
Does this change the way you design parts, and even change the types of parts that you are able to manufacture?
Browning: The neat thing about that is that we're now able to take additive manufacturing up to a whole new class of components in our gas turbines.
These are parts that we would have produced in the past, either by the old fashioned casting methods or by very complex and expensive multiple brazing operations. These parts have very complex internal cooling passages in them, and the only way that we [were] able to produce those complex cooling passages was either through multiple brazing operations or through some very expensive cord castings.
Now, we can just print those parts, and our design engineers have a whole new degree of freedom; they're no longer constrained by what we could manufacture.
So we were able to change the game in what we can do, and that's not only having benefits in improving the fuel efficiency of our products, it's also helping reduce pollutant emissions because, in some of our combustion technology, we're able to do a better job of mixing fuel and air [to] reduce emissions of nitrous oxides and other pollutants.
We used to have big debates between our manufacturing team and design teams; the manufacturing team would complain that the design team was always intentionally designing something that they couldn't actually manufacture. That whole argument just goes away when you get into additive manufacturing because you can print anything you can think up.
Additive manufacturing has been used primarily to produce prototype parts, but that has been changing lately. Are you using additive primarily for prototyping, or are you using it for production parts, as well? And does that impact other processes, like your supply chain?
Browning: Particularly [in] the combustion parts area, there's a lot of science in combustion, but there's still a little magic, so we need to prototype parts when we design new products.
There are things that we don't perfectly understand why [they] happen, and there's an iterative process required where we manufacture a prototype component. It's very expensive and time-consuming to produce those prototype parts using standard manufacturing techniques.
Additive manufacturing enabled Mitsubishi Hitachi to make more energy-efficient gas turbine parts.
Now, with additive technology, the time is days rather than months between when our engineers design a part until we've got a part that's ready to go into an engine. So that has just dramatically changed our product development.
When we get into more production-ready parts, it will be interesting to see how this really impacts our supply chain. Right now, we have these additive capabilities in house, but I think, as we move more into a full production mode with these 3D printed parts, we'll look more to our supply chain to add this capability and provide us [with] these components.
What are the cost implications of additive manufacturing? Is it more or less expensive than traditional manufacturing processes?
Browning: We're willing to spend money if it creates value for our customers, and we can create tens and hundreds of millions of dollars in value for our customers by investing a bit more in our components. We're an early adopter in this [and] we can create so much value for our customers that we can afford to spend money on one of these parts.
We can produce parts for one class of components -- fuel nozzles -- cheaper and faster using additive than we can with our traditional, multistage brazing operations. We have other components where we think the 3D printed part will actually cost more than the conventionally cast part, but the performance benefits more than offset the additional cost of 3D printing.
We also think that, over time, the costs of additive manufacturing [are] going to fall rapidly, so even if we have to spend more today, we're willing to do that because we feel that, in future years, the costs are going to come down.
One of the traditional liabilities of additive technology is that it can sometimes take a long time to build a part. Have you seen this in your additive processes?
Browning: In the prototyping stage, I would say additive is a huge speed enhancer. In the full production phase, typically additive is going to be slower than our traditional process, particularly when we're replacing conventionally cast parts.
But when we look at the lead time of our components, we have longer lead time items than these 3D printed parts, so we can fit them inside of our standard lead times for the overall final product.
What does the future hold for additive technology in general, and for your manufacturing processes at Mitsubishi Hitachi specifically?
Browning: The big story here is that we've been using additive for a while, and it makes sense in our industry that we're an early adopter because we can create so much value for our customers with it.
As we move now from the additive technologies that I described earlier into 3D printing with metallic components, we'll see a whole new wave of additive technologies that we'll be able to bring to bear for our products.
As the cost curve comes down on these, we'll see it penetrating not only the BOMs [bills of material] of our products, but also moving into other industries that [Mitsubishi Hitachi] is active in, so we're going to see additive move into more and more applications for our company overall, not just our gas turbine business.
What are some of the ways that additive manufacturing technology can improve your organization's manufacturing processes? | 2019-04-23T12:40:02 | https://searcherp.techtarget.com/feature/How-Mitsubishi-Hitachi-benefits-from-additive-manufacturing-technology |
0.998959 | No other messages. Now, in the news there was something about llvm presence (which I don't have). Could it be the reason for termination? What else is wrong with my system?
it seems that for some reason 'portageq best_visible / sys-devel/gcc' returns an empty string, when it should provide the gcc package installed (similarly to the command prior). You should provide a link to "the script" and the output of 'emerge --info' for the chroot.
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ http://mirrors.linuxant.fr/distfiles.gentoo.org/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo"
USE="acl arm armv5te armv6 armv6t2 berkdb bzip2 cli crypt cxx dri fortran gdbm iconv ipv6 modules ncurses nls nptl openmp pam pcre readline seccomp ssl tcpd unicode xattr zlib" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon plan sheets stage words" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_ARM="edsp thumb thumb2 v4 v5 v6 v7 vfp" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="libinput keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-6 php7-0" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres9_5 postgres10" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby22 ruby23" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="exynos fbdev omap dummy v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Indeed, 'portageq best_visible / sys-devel/gcc' returns empty string.
Hopefully you can spot something in the info above.
Indeed, 'portageq best_visible / sys-devel/gcc' returns empty string. Hopefully you can spot something in the info above.
v_andal ... and indeed I do, =sys-devel/gcc-5.4.0-r3 nolonger exists in the tree, and so 'portageq' can't return 'best_visable' with the default 'pkgtype' for portageq being 'ebuild' (that ebuild doesn't exist). I think this script has in mind an up-to-date system for migration ... though you should be able to work around the issue by updating certain packages (ie, sys-devel/gcc) to cover that fact (or you could manually edit to script to reflect your current versions).
Given you would have to rebuild the tool chain, and @world (or at least any package containing '/lib*/**.a /usr/lib*/**.a'), to move to the 0.17 profiles, you might be better doing the profile update first (or at least get the newer toolchain). That said, I can't see a way out of many a package update/rebuild ... so, perhaps starting over might kill two birds with one stone.
Hm. New setup seems to be the best option. Anyway I get other strange errors like failures to install packages because files can not be copied to destination. Clean installation hopefully removes all of that. | 2019-04-25T07:16:37 | https://forums-lb.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1087168.html |
0.998756 | Maundy Thursday, such a lovely night. I can't talk long, for they come not for the sermon but for the tangible experience, the bodily encounter. Just a little bread and wine. My kooky mind is drawn to the semi-comic scene in Jesus Christ Superstar of the semi-drunk disciples singing “Always hoped that I’d be an apostle, knew that I could make it if I tried…” But there's no silliness in the service itself. The mood is a bit somber (even at a feast of celebration), the pace is slower, the feel is of shadows lengthening - and there's an intensity of love. Can I embody and even evoke this in the preaching and the liturgy?
I don't usually focus on the footwashing in John 13, although it's theologically provocative. But it’s way too easy to flatten it out: Jesus served humbly, so go and serve others humbly (although Pope Francis sure revolutionized how we'll forever think about footwashing after doing it to women, and Muslims!). I’m not sure John would say that was his one-liner takeaway; we have so much all year long about serving that Holy Week, for me, needs devotion to Jesus and his literally sacramental death.
If we continue tracking Luke's narrative (per this year's lectionary), we find much of interest. Jesus gathers, not with family (as most Jews would) but with his new family, the disciples; Peter Scazzero speaks of the church as "re-familying." God calls us into new relationships, new kinships that sustain us and are the priority for us. "When the hour had come" (Luke 22:14) would be sundown on Nisan 14, when the angel of death passed over the Israelites whose doors were marked with blood. It's haunting and rich in Christological nuance. They "took their places" at dinner. Did they recall Jesus' words about who sits where, and who shows up at dinner back in Luke 14?
I don't usually re-envision biblical scenes at length, but on Maundy Thursday I invite my people to imagine that first Holy Thursday night. Maybe like Palm Sunday, the disciples were in a buoyant, expectant mood while Jesus was mired in a more somber apprehension of what was to come. They sang Psalms, any or all of 113-118. What did their voices sound like? Did Jesus or one of the others lead? Did they harmonize? How did "Precious in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his saints” or “This is the day the Lord has made” resonate with Jesus and the rest of them? This is the preaching angle I often suggest: Instead of asking about takeaways or relevance to me today, I just ask people to marvel over what happened then.
Beyond any doubt, Jesus stared at that bread and caught a vision of what would happen to his own flesh the next day. Then, he peered into the wine and glimpsed an image of the blood he would shed. How haunting, lovely, gripping, poignant.
What can we say come Maundy Thursday? originally appeared at James Howell's Weekly Preaching Notions. Reprinted with permission. | 2019-04-23T00:47:00 | https://www.ministrymatters.com/all/entry/9590/weekly-preaching-maundy-thursday-2019 |
0.999998 | A lot of idiots running around Salem today on Days of our Lives. Johnny outsmarts Ciara. Gabi and Sami get a clue. Follow me on twitter here.
Ciara! RT @nbcdays #DAYS Fill in the blank: ______ attacked Rafe.
Sonny thinks Nick is guilty, and his alibi is faked. EJ says hello to Nick at the hospital. Gabi blames herself for asking for a muffin.
Brady leaves without his gift. Johnny wants to see what is in Ciara's envelope. Johnny pulls a "squirrel" and tries to take it from her. | 2019-04-23T04:21:47 | http://www.divaofdool.com/2013/05/fridays-i-think-you-are-idiot-tweets.html |
0.999906 | Where can you find numbers in the 613 area code?
Phone numbers in the 613 area code can be found in 132 cities or locations.
Those phone numbers can be found in the following cities or locations: Adolphustown, Alexandria, Alfred, Almonte, Arden, Arnprior, Athens, Avonmore, Bancroft, Barry's Bay, Bath, Beachburg, Belleville, Bloomfield, Bourget, Brighton, Brockville, Calabogie, Cardiff, Cardinal, Carleton Place, Carp, Casselman, Chalk River, Chesterville, Clarence Creek, Cobden, Coe Hill, Constance Bay, Cornwall, Crysler, Cumberland, Deep River, Delta, Denbigh, Deseronto, Douglas, Eganville, Elgin, Embrun, Enterprise, Finch, Foymount, Frankford, Gananoque, Gilmour, Glen Robertson, Gloucester, Golden Lake, Harrowsmith, Hawkesbury, Ingleside, Inverary, Iroquois, Jockvale, Kanata-Stittsville, Kemptville, Killaloe, Kingston, L'Orignal, Lanark, Lancaster, Lansdowne, Long Sault, Maberly, Madoc, Maitland, Mallorytown, Manotick, Marmora, Martintown, Maxville, Maynooth, McDonalds Corners, Merrickville, Metcalfe, Moose Creek, Morrisburg, Napanee, Navan, Newburgh, North Augusta, North Gower, Northbrook, Odessa, Orleans, Osgoode, Ottawa-Hull, Pakenham, Palmer Rapids, Parham, Pembroke, Pembroke Independent, Perth, Petawawa, Picton, Plantagenet, Plevna, Portland, Prescott, Renfrew, Richmond, Rockland, Rolphton, Russell, Seeleys Bay, Selby, Sharbot Lake, Smiths Falls, South Mountain, Spencerville, St-Regis, St. Eugene, St. Isidore, Stirling, Sydenham, Tamworth, Thurlow, Toledo, Trenton, Tweed, Vankleek Hill, Verona, Wellington, Westmeath, Westport, Whitney, Williamsburg, Winchester, Wolfe Island, Wooler, Yarker.
The carriers providing phone numbers in this area code are: Allstream Inc., Bell Canada, Bell Mobility, Bragg Communications Inc., DAVE Wireless, Distributel, Durham.net Inc (o/a Telnet Communications), ExaTEL Inc., Fibernetics Corporation, Fido Solutions Inc., Globalstar, ISP Telecom, Iristel Inc., Lansdowne Rural Telephone Ltd., NRTC Communications, North Frontenac Telephone Company, North Renfrew Telephone Company Ltd., Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc., Rogers Communications Partnership (Cable), Rogers Communications Partnership (Wireless), Roxborough Telephone Company Ltd., TELUS Integrated Communications, TELUS Mobility, Videotron General Partnership, WIND Mobile Corp., Westport Telephone Company Limited, Westport Telephone Company Ltd.. | 2019-04-26T11:46:44 | https://www.yellowpages.ca/fs/613 |
0.998869 | People are created not just to live by themselves, but to live in loving relationships with others. These relationships may be within family connections, with friends, with companions at work, with the friends who are working on their spiritual journey. Loving relationships are the real life laboratory in which we learn what it is to be spiritual.
We know that other people are a very important part of life. Sometimes we need to work on one or more of these relationships. The question is, how do we do that?
This task suggests three steps.
After identifying what person we have in mind, the first is to see if we can identify something in the past that is getting in the way of relating to that person in the present. This could involve clearing up a misunderstanding or even apologizing for something you have done that has hurt the relationship. For the purpose of this task you need only take one such item. You have the option of discussing it with the other person.
The second is to look into our thoughts about the other person, and notice our inner dialogue about them. Have we identified something in the other that we don’t like, and do we keep reminding ourselves of that? If so, that becomes a filter through which we keep judging the other person. It would be good to replace that negative narrative into something positive. We can put a more positive spin on something in the other that we have been critical of.
The third step is to dwell on things in the other person (and in yourself) that you can admire and honor.
All of these steps can be taken without involving the other person, though we might want to get into a discussion about them. That can be risky, but the risk might be well worth it.
We have a choice in the things we dwell on about other people. The main point of this task is to shift from focusing on what we don’t like, to things that we appreciate.
Something like this seems to be represented in the book of Leviticus about having two goats, one of which was sacrificed (sacrifice = to make sacred) which means honoring the positive, and the other was banished to the wilderness (letting go of the negative). Leviticus 16.
This week work on your relationship with some other individual.
1. Clean up things in the past that get in the way.
2. Change negative thoughts about the other to positive ones.
3. Honor the positive things in the other person and yourself. | 2019-04-23T16:16:25 | https://choosejoynow.org/2018/02/19/task-40-working-on-relationships/ |
0.999999 | Christchurch shootings: Australian homes raided over NZ mosque attacks Image copyright Getty Images Image caption A policeman stands guard outside Al Noor mosque after the attacks Police have raided two homes in Australia as part of the investigation into the attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Fifty people died and dozens were injured in the twin shootings on Friday. Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, has been charged with murder. He is believed to have acted alone in carrying out the attacks. The suspect came from Grafton, 600km (370 miles) north of Sydney. Authorities in New South Wales searched unidentified properties in the nearby suburbs of Sandy Beach and Lawrence on Monday morning. Who are the victims? How attacks unfolded More about the suspect "The primary aim of the activity is to formally obtain material that may assist New Zealand Police in their ongoing investigation," said New South Wales police. Australian media reported that one of the homes belongs t..
Mobile data: Why India has the world's cheapest Image copyright Getty Images India's plummeting data prices have hit a new low. In fact, according to a recent BBC report, the country has the cheapest mobile broadband prices in the world. Technology writer Prasanto K Roy explains how this happened. The BBC report, citing a UK-based price comparison site, said that 1 gigabyte (GB) of mobile data cost $0.26 in India (£0.20), compared with $12.37 in the US, $6.66 in the UK, and a global average of $8.53. But many Indian users said they were actually paying less than $0.10 a GB. Customers in the US and UK too said they were paying less than what the survey reported. Whatever the true cost, what is clear is that mobile data in India is many times cheaper than elsewhere. But it might not last: some said India's low prices were a transient phase as big operators fought for new customers. India net neutrality rules could be world's strongest Hands on with India's £3 ..
Bangladesh Fifa official held for 'defaming' PM Hasina Image copyright FIFA via Getty Images Image caption Mahfuza Akhter Kiron has been a Fifa Council member since 2017 Bangladeshi authorities have arrested a senior member of football's world governing body Fifa for allegedly defaming the country's prime minister. Mahfuza Akhter Kiron, a Fifa Council member, was detained after she had said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was neglecting football. A defamation claim was then filed by a local sport official, alleging that the comments embarrassed the entire nation. On Saturday, Ms Kiron was denied bail and sent to jail, her lawyer said. "We sought bail for her after she was taken to the court. But our prayer was rejected," her lawyer Liakat Hossain said. The government of Sheikh Hasina has been accused by human rights groups of using tough media laws to stifle dissent in the country. Last August, renowned Bangladeshi photographer and activist Shahidul Alam was jai..
Indonesia floods: Dozens dead in Papua province Image copyright EPA Image caption The town of Sentani was one of the worst affected areas At least 58 people have been killed in flash floods in the eastern Indonesian province of Papua. Rescue workers are struggling to reach remote parts of the province, and there are fears the number of dead may rise. Roads have been blocked by landslides and fallen trees, and floodwaters have damaged two bridges and more than 100 houses. More than 4,000 people have been forced from their homes, and some are sheltering in government offices. Local residents said torrential rain began on Saturday evening and continued into the night, triggering mudslides and flash floods. Image copyright AFP Image caption Soldiers pulled a five-month-old baby from the rubble "Our house was flooded with thick mud... we immediately grabbed our valuables and ran to a neighbour's [two-storey] house to seek refuge," said mother-of-two Lili Puji Hastuti, quoted by Agence..
Christchurch shootings: Stories of heroism emerge from attacks Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionChristchurch shootings: Flowers and Haka in tribute Stories of heroism have emerged from the attacks at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand that left 50 people dead. A 48-year-old Afghan man says he confronted the gunman and threw a credit card machine at him. Two rural police officers, one of them armed only with a handgun, chased and arrested Brenton Tarrant, 28. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the gunman, who had explosives in his car, was planning more attacks that day. She had earlier called the killings "an act of terror". Tributes have been paid for the victims while authorities say all bodies should be returned to relatives for burial by Wednesday. About 34 people remain in hospital, including a four-year-old girl who is in a critical condition. Who are the victims? How attacks unfolded More about the suspect Abdul Aziz, who left Kabul for New Zeala.. | 2019-04-21T19:10:05 | http://centerafricatv.com/category/asia-pacific/page/24/ |
0.99749 | A retailer targeting young, hip consumers found the results of its email campaigns lagging behind expectations. Open rates had dropped, conversion rates were stagnant, and revenues per customer had declined. Even among the company's preferred customers -- those who had opted in to receive discounts and newsletters -- campaign results were off. Yet email still outperformed other marketing and advertising initiatives designed to drive consumers to the company's stores. The marketing team decided it was time to rethink its approach and began to discuss ways to re-energize email efforts.
Research turned up relevant sources of new ideas. One, an Aberdeen Group report entitled "Email Personalization: Get Personal with Your Customers," pointed to research that indicated personalizing email improves results, generates more click-throughs, improves open rates and conversions, and even affects metrics like customer retention and opt-in rates. The team considered personalization as well as a range of tactics, including refining segmentation techniques, mining its customer profile data for cues to purchasing behavior, sending trigger-based email, changing its approach to its preferred customers and integrating the email with other customer relationship management (CRM) efforts. The result? In-store revenues jumped as open rates surged and preferred customers opened their wallets in response to the new campaign.
So, what can marketers do to improve? Although organizations like the Direct Marketing Association aver that email delivers a better than 40 to 1 payout for every dollar spent on a campaign, not every marketer will see such results. When email isn't delivering measurable ROI, marketers must analyze their results, collect metrics and adopt best-in-class strategies, as identified by Aberdeen.
The first step is to know your customer -- really know them. The retail marketers described above took a big first step by identifying their best customers. These weren't necessarily the ones who spent the most. Rather, they were the customers most willing to undertake interaction with the company by opting in for email newsletters, signing up for loyalty programs and regularly filling out forms and surveys. These loyal, interested customers served as early-warning radar for the company's marketing programs, providing insights that enabled the marketers to fine-tune campaigns based on the response of these high-value customers. By serving as the eyes and ears for the marketers, these customers provided valuable feedback the company used to adapt and refine its messaging based on real wants and needs. The company used these insights to develop highly targeted campaigns that presented compelling offers that drove traffic and, ultimately, sales.
Going beyond "Hello, John" as means of email personalization also boosts results. Ninety-six percent of organizations say personalization ups results, according to Aberdeen. The real results come with advanced personalization: using customer data and CRM to segment lists by geographical area, customer behavior, past purchasing habits and profiles to deliver custom content with personalized product recommendations. The good news is that technologies and tools have been developed that enable even small businesses to implement advanced personalization email marketing tactics.
Automating personalized email takes results up another notch. For example, event- or trigger-based email campaigns enable marketers to refine the content of personalized email and time the delivery of campaigns to reach customers at the best time in the buying cycle. Perhaps a specialty gift retailer's customer purchased handcrafted jewelry made by a particular designer, and another line of jewelry products by that same designer is ready to go to market; it's a perfect time to send out a follow-up email, and your email marketing solution should be tuned to respond to these triggers.
Of course, many of these best practices require a robust customer database tied to your CRM tools. This database should be a work in progress, refined with every customer interaction to include new demographic, behavioral and transactional information that can help marketers fine-tune messages and offers. This is a database of intentions, allowing you to segment your lists to ensure the right person receives the right offer with every campaign.
Continual improvement is the goal of mature organizations, and it's critical to the success of email marketers. Measurement, analysis and metrics do more than tell you who bought what and when; metrics provide a chance to alter campaigns midstream in response to customer behavior.
Marketers who continually strive to increase their understanding of the customer and use that insight to adapt their marketing messages have the advantage over those who only use simple personalization, neglect segmentation and ignore metrics. Those who are attuned to their customers' wants and needs, conversely, can see a 57 percent uptick in average order value by employing advanced personalization and the other strategies described here.
No matter the size of your customer base or your business, there is always room for improvement in your email marketing campaigns. Adopt a best-practices approach that includes personalization, segmentation, continual refinement of customer databases, integration of CRM and other marketing tools, email automation and measurement, and metrics. You'll create productive and lasting one-to-one relationships with your customers and stand out from the pack with messages and offers that are timely, targeted and compelling.
Luc Vezina is head of marketing for Campaigner. | 2019-04-18T10:23:37 | http://www.imediaconnection.com/articles/ported-articles/red-dot-articles/2008/sep/opportunities-your-email-campaign-is-missing/ |
0.99988 | How much is Jamie Redknapp Worth?
Jamie Redknapp net worth: Jamie Redknapp is an English former professional soccer player who has a net worth of $20 million. Jamie Redknapp was born in Barton on Sea, England in June 1973. He was a midfielder who played his youth soccer for Tottenham Hotspur. Redknapp started his senior career for Bournemouth where he had 13 appearances from 1989 to 1991. He played with Liverpool from 1991 to 2002 where he had 30 goals in 237 caps. From 2002 to 2005 he played for Tottenham Hotspur scoring 4 goals in 48 appearances. Redknapp finished his career for Southampton in 2005 appearing in 16 games. He also represented England in international competition from 1993 to 1999. In 2004 he started off as a studio pundit on BBC for the European Championships. He has worked as a pundit on Sky Sports and as a columnist on their website. He launched the bi-monthly Icon Magazine with his wife Louise and former teammate Tim Sherwood in 2005. He joined Saturday night Football on Sky Sports in 2013. Redknapp won the Foot in Mouth Award in 2010 and is known for his overuse of the world "literally". | 2019-04-22T17:16:32 | https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-athletes/richest-soccer/jamie-redknapp-net-worth/ |
0.999998 | I have recently been reading a few things about WWII naval history. One of the things I noticed was that the Medal of Honor was awarded to both the Rear-Admiral in command of Battleship Div. 1 (onboard his flagship USS Arizona), Isaac C. Kidd and the Captain of said battleship, Franklin van Valkenburgh.
Wikipedia, citing this article also states that his class ring was fused to the remains of the bridges due to the heat of the bomb.
This story seems almost similar to the story of the Captain as presented on wikipedia.
Captain Valkenburgh ran from his cabin and arrived on the navigation bridge, where he immediately began to direct his ship's defense. A quartermaster in the pilot house asked if the captain wanted to go to the conning tower—a less-exposed position in view of the Japanese strafing—but Captain Valkenburgh adamantly refused and continued to man a telephone, fighting for his ship's life.
A violent explosion suddenly shook the ship, throwing the three occupants of the bridge—Captain Valkenburgh, an ensign, and the quartermaster, to the deck, and blowing out all of the bridge windows completely. Dazed, battered and shaken, the ensign stumbled through the flames and smoke of the shattered bridge's interior and escaped, but Captain Valkenburgh and the quartermaster were never seen again. A continuing fire, fed by ammunition and oil, raged for two days until finally being extinguished on December 9. Despite a thorough search, Captain Valkenburgh's body was never found; all that was ever retrieved was his Annapolis class ring.
As you can see, the details are almost the same. They arrive on the bridge (or navigation bridge), get killed by a bomb hit and the only thing found was the class ring. Given the stories' similarity, I am wondering if something got mixed up here. Is Wikipedia taking parts of the story of the Admiral and attributing it to the captain, especially the detail of the class ring or vice versa? Or did both really die the same death, leaving the same remains? (If this was something not recent most historians would probably assume the stories got muddled together).
Another question remains to what they exactly did. As I understand it the Captain is usually in charge of fighting the ship and the Admiral in charge of fighting the fleet. This would, IMO mean that Valkenburgh would have tried to save the ship itself while Kidd would have tried to get the whole squadron battle-ready and into the fight as best as possible.
Anybody here more knowledgeable about the attack who can shed more light on this?
Re: USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor - Captain and Admiral?
I'm not an expert, but it seems to me from searching around that stories are getting muddled somehow. Some sources seem to claim that Kidd and Valkenburgh were both on the bridge when the bomb hit, and other sources also note two brass buttons being found from the captain (or admiral's) uniform; the details seem to be a bit fluid, except for the fact that somebody's class ring was apparently discovered. On page 75 of this article in Historical Archaeology about the USS Arizona, the author claims it was Valkenburgh's ring that was found (citing historian Gordon Prange). Perhaps digging up that Prange book and looking at his sources may shed more light on the precise origins of the story?
It may also require contacting someone at the USS Arizona Memorial museum; I know they have a number of personal artifacts on display that were discovered in the wreckage, it is possible they even have the class ring in question (or are at least familiar with the story).
Thanas wrote: Or did both really die the same death, leaving the same remains?
They died the same death, alongside two thirds of the entire crew. The bodies would have been destroyed by the two day oil fire that consumed the ships remains, nothing surprising about this. I don't know about the ring, many details of the attack and above all the salvage are still muddled, but witnesses survived to tell is where both officers were and that was all that really mattered.
A captain has absolute command of fighting the ship in the US Navy. Kidd commanded battleship division 1 not the fleet, but the jist is the same and I believe he was the ranking officer actually afloat on any ship in the harbor at the time. They were awarded medals because they rushed to one of the most vulnerable points in the ship where they could best do their duty in obviously impossible circumstances. Valkenburgh at least is known to have refused a suggestion to go to the conning tower where he would have been safer, but utterly unable to see or exercise command because all conning towers were like that as far as air attacks go. And so set a absolute standard all other officers should aspire to follow. The US Navy had and has great reason to encourage this behavior. Kidd was the first US admiral ever killed in action.
Also do remember this was not long past Crete and Norway where in both campaigns the moral effect of sustained effective air attack against ships had proven high to the point of endangering ships ability to defend themselves. Singling out the top officers killed as supreme examples made sense on every level. This is why we have officers in the first place, and why we award officers medals for tasks other then killing people.
11 of the 15 medals of honor for Pearl Harbor were posthumous.
Sea Skimmer wrote: They died the same death, alongside two thirds of the entire crew. The bodies would have been destroyed by the two day oil fire that consumed the ships remains, nothing surprising about this. I don't know about the ring, many details of the attack and above all the salvage are still muddled, but witnesses survived to tell is where both officers were and that was all that really mattered.
I am not disputing they died due to the same causes. What I am wondering about is whether the detail about the ring being the only one found is true for both, or just for one, if they died on the same bridge or if one died on the navigation bridge and the other on the Admiral's bridge.
Admiral Kidd was on the signal bridge and Valkenburgh on the navigation bridge. I'd heard back in the day of books it as the captain ring, and that was the lower position, while Admiral Kidds body might actually have been found blown aft by the blast, but it was impossible to actually call it an identification with the tech of the time so he was left listed as missing. However all stories could be false, I'd contact the Arizona memorial if you wanted an answer, I checked Morrisons and it does not mention the tale. | 2019-04-22T10:34:10 | http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?p=4001689 |
0.998939 | Coffee With Games: Coffee Bean Counting: Which launch Wii U Ubisoft game(s) are you interested in?
Coffee Bean Counting: Which launch Wii U Ubisoft game(s) are you interested in?
Which Wii U third party publisher will have the most games when the system launches on November 18th? From my count, Ubisoft. As of now, Ubisoft will have six games available to purchase when the Wii U releases, with a few more games being published for the system before the end of March 2013.
The last Coffee Bean Counting poll ended last week, and which Ubisoft Wii U launch title had the most votes? Brew yourself some coffee, and let's take a look!
This Coffee Bean Counting poll ran from October 23, 2012 through October 30, 2012. The poll question, games to choose, and results can be seen below.
Which launch Wii U Ubisoft game(s) are you interested in?
So, the results might have been slightly skewed, because the Just Dance series has a large following and my "What is the most played Just Dance Wii game?" post made its way to the Just Dance Facebook page, and I noticed shortly thereafter the poll had increased greatly on that game. While Just Dance 4 definitely got many votes after the post hit the Facebook page, ZombiU kept chomping at its heels and I thought toward the end that it might overtake it...perhaps if I had left the poll running through Halloween!
What launch Wii U Ubisoft games am I interested in, and did I vote for? I voted for Assassin's Creed III, Just Dance 4, Rabbids LAND, and ZombiU.
I played and beat the original Assassin's Creed, but haven't played the series since that game, and the setting and time-frame for Assassin's Creed III has me interested in the game. I have never played a Just Dance game, but seeing how Just Dance 4 on the Wii U uses the GamePad for certain modes I think could be a lot of fun for the non-gamers, and I like the fact you can stream the game to the Wii U GamePad as well. Rabbids LAND has me very interested, because of Ubisoft's history of Rabbid games on the Wii, and I think Rabbids LAND could be the best "party game" for the Wii U's launch, and maybe even a while after. I think ZombiU looks like it is making great use of the Wii U GamePad for different gameplay elements, and I'm really looking forward to playing the game.
As for ESPN Sports Connection, I have watched the trailer for it a few times, and it may be a game that I understand (and enjoy) a bit more if I have hands-on time with it, but there are a few elements that I didn't quite understand what they were trying to show in the trailer, such as the use of the GamePad as a golf caddy and the drawing on the GamePad in the football game. While I understand how drawing on the GamePad in the football game can make sense, I'm not exactly certain how the football game in it will play out. I may have to try and rent this over a weekend, and see if perhaps Bean 1 and the rest of us can enjoy some of the games together.
Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2013 might be a game I should have voted for, especially if I eat a lot over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays! I haven't exercised on a regular basis in a long time, even with Wii Fit in the house, so I'm not sure if a game will properly motivate me right now for it; but I am glad to see this type of game getting released and I do hope those that buy it get great use out of it, and potentially develop a healthy lifestyle with it.
Are there any Ubisoft Wii U games that have been announced, such as Rayman Legends, but won't be ready at launch that you are interested in; or even other Ubisoft games you would like to see make it to the Wii U? | 2019-04-24T00:56:47 | http://www.coffeewithgames.com/2012/11/coffee-bean-counting-which-launch-wii-u.html |
0.999835 | What's your job profitability? Do you know?
Many business owners are unsure of their profitability at a company or job level. They "think" they are making money because they have a few dollars in their checking account. Having money in your checking account doesn't mean you are profitable. It might simply mean you haven't paid all the bills yet, so you have a little cash. Cash and profit are two different concepts. If you don't know your exact income and expenses for each job and your overall business, then how can you know whether you are making a profit? And, if you aren't profitable, your business won't last long.
Regardless of the size of your business or your industry, profitability is something you should be monitoring on a monthly basis. To determine your profit, you must know how much you make and spend on each job. Expenditures should be tracked for direct labor and material costs on each job. In addition, you should also be tracking overhead costs and allocating them to your various jobs as applicable. There is always going to be some general overhead, but too often dollars are thrown into general overhead, when those dollars could easily be attached to specific jobs.
Intuit's QuickBooks software program has easy-to-use features that allow you to do job-costing for time and materials, so you don't have to worry about having to track it all manually. Rely on tools to help you run your business more efficiently and effectively.
1. Do I track each customer's revenue information through a detailed invoice?
2. Do I have a way of breaking down my direct job materials cost by customer?
3. Do I associate all time spent to each job accurately with actual dollar amounts?
4. Do I have access to reports to monitor profitability on each job in a timely manner?
5. Do I have a way to trend the fluctuations in job profitability from job to job, month to month, etc?
If you answered "no" to any of these, then it's time for you to take an objective look at your financial goals. It's time for you to implement a job costing mechanism to help you answer "yes" to all these questions. How can you track your profitability and long-term growth plans if you don't have detail at a job level?
1. Set up the QuickBooks Item list so that you'll have both an expense and an income aspect to each of the items. This will allow you to track your costs and your income, and will provide you profit by item.
2. Record your sales through the invoicing or sales receipt process. This will record the income aspects of the items.
3. As you purchase the product or service items, make sure that you utilize the Items tab so that it will record the cost to the appropriate item. In addition, make sure to assign your customer/job information to each line item so that you'll have the costs associated to the appropriate customer/job for job-costing.
4. Utilize the time-tracking mechanism in QuickBooks so that you and your employees can track time by item and customer/job. No dollar value is associated with this time until you actually pay the employees within QuickBooks.
5. QuickBooks has preformatted reports that you can access to have job-costing information right at your fingertips. These are found under the Reporting menu and the Jobs/Time/Mileage option.
6. QuickBooks has the ability to provide reports for any time period you select. This will allow you to have a variety of detail over the growth of your business and to produce trending reports. You can modify the report as needed to meet your needs.
A good accounting professional can help you understand what these reports are telling you, in terms that you can use. Reports alone don't provide value if you don't understand them. So it is key that you understand the reporting information and how you can use that information to assist you in decision-making as you grow your business profitably.
Job-costing is easier when you set-up your accounting/bookkeeping software package and know how to use it. So, challenge yourself today to become more adept at running a financially savvy business through job-costing. Then, you'll know, without a doubt, whether your company is profitable.
Summer is a time for the outdoors, for that well-deserved vacation, and with everyone out and about, it's also a time that you may notice a slowdown in demand for your products and services. So what can you do during this summer slowdown? Well, it's a great time to do the work that otherwise never gets done during the busy business year.
Here are just a few ways to increase and diversify your income from your consulting business.1.
What is the best time to expand a mobile car wash business? If everything were perfect and you could choose the best time to buy a new mobile car wash rig, you should buy it in April and have it running by the 20th of May. If you have 1.
Once you've decided to incorporate your small business the next step is deciding which state to incorporate in. A common misconception is that businesses must incorporate in their state of operation.
The Federal Trade Commission decided to sit down and revamp the franchise rule of the 1970's. They started to do it in 1995 and postponed it then had some comments collected in 1997 and then in 1999. | 2019-04-23T18:06:47 | http://smallbizguide.net/59105.php |
0.999999 | What is the mathematical meaning of this question?
A bag contains 3 red, 4 blue, and 5 green balls.
Show that from a group of seven people whose (integer) ages add up to 332 one can select three people with the total age at least 142.
Is there a shorter/faster way to show these two expressions are equal?
Why a $20$ digit number starting with eleven $1$'s cannot be a perfect square? | 2019-04-20T14:59:17 | https://math.stackexchange.com/users/86747/barry-cipra?tab=answers |
0.967363 | Is there a science to keeping a dressed salad crisp and fresh?
Ever notice that sometimes salads seem to go limp as soon as the dressing hits the leaves, while other times they stay crisp and crunchy, even when they sit around for some time? We wondered if there is something about how a salad is dressed that can keep it fresh or cause it to sog out more quickly.
We dressed 2 ounces of mixed salad greens in three ways: tossed with oil and then vinegar; tossed with vinegar and then oil; and tossed with a fully emulsified dressing made with vinegar, oil, and a little bit of mayonnaise and mustard (the latter ingredients keep the emulsification stable much longer than vinegar and oil alone). We waited 15 minutes and then examined the greens for signs of wilting.
The first salad was seriously wilted after 15 minutes; the second salad was a little wilted; the third salad was barely wilted at all.
It turns out that salad leaves have a protective waxy cuticle layer that prevents water-based liquids (vinegar) from having much effect on them, but oil easily penetrates this film. Tossing the greens with vinegar first provides a barrier that blocks the oil, keeping it from penetrating the cuticle. The emulsified vinaigrette works the best at keeping the salad crisp because in this state the vinegar surrounds droplets of oil, keeping them trapped and preventing contact with the greens.
Tossing a salad with a fully emulsified vinaigrette (bottom) is the only way to ensure that greens keep their crisp texture. But if you prefer to add oil and vinegar separately, introduce the vinegar first, followed by the oil (middle). | 2019-04-19T14:34:12 | https://www.cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/6541-preventing-soggy-salad |
0.998057 | The case involves a 55 year-old male with recently resected cutaneous melanoma of the left cheek. What are the findings, or what other information do you need for a diagnosis?
By performing an additional lateral view, the radiotracer injection site (anterior) is clearly separated and delineated from the more posterior sentinel node. This is a single sentinel lymph nodes localized the ipsilateral preauricular region.
1) Customize your lymphoscintigraphy radiotracer injection technique based upon the body area of interest. For example, with this head and neck cancer patient, a single intradermal injection would have been sufficient as well as injecting a smaller amount of the radiotracer.
2) You may need to perform additional imaging besides standard planar AP and/or lateral views to adequately localize the sentinel node(s) - such as additional oblique views.
3) Additional SPECT/CT imaging may be needed to assist with localization of a sentinel lymph node. | 2019-04-26T09:42:29 | https://www.imaios.com/cn/e-Cases/node_198903/node_259561/ACNM/ACNM-Clinical-cases-channel/Added-View-Improves-Sentinel-Node-Localization |
0.998679 | Does Goku possess super quick talking skill?
I know that he can move very quickly (and even instantly). That's why when freeza says there are 5 minutes left till the planet explodes it didn't bother me that those 5 minutes took 11 episodes. Because of their high speed they can move super quickly and many episodes were needed to show everything. What I don't undestand is how they were able to give an enormous amount of speeches in those 5 minutes.
In the Dragonball series, in one of the tournaments, Krillin was fighting Master Roshi. They had a clash, which happened in an instant. No one saw what happened, so they acted the scene out in explaining in detail what happened. It included several attacks, and even a game of rock paper scissors. I don't know if its was in the manga or not, but it is solid evidence showing their speed. Even way back then, when large boulders were a challenge to deal with, they were still fast enough to, in an instant, play a game of rock paper scissors and know who won and lost, in the middle of throwing several attacks.
Later on in the series, we see higher speed fighting. Spectators see numerous shock waves filling their vision, each several meters apart. The fighters are attacking/defending in one place, then distance themselves and clash again dozens of meters apart numerous times in a very short period of time. This kind of speed is a higher leveled version of the Rock paper scissors earlier.
With such things as evidence, we can say it is very possible that they can talk at high speed when necessary. Sometimes, they do talk as they are clashing, though we only ever see that from their perspective, so we cant say for sure if they slowed down or not to talk. So while they at least somewhat can talk at a higher speed thanks to their insane speed and ability to comprehend everything while going at such speeds, they generally don't, and we don't have any solid evidence if they truly can.
But, there are other factors at play here. First off, Anime, even in the middle of canon fights, can and usually do throw in filler. They extend the fights to make the show go on longer, filling in more minutes with less story. There are numerous examples where people are exhausted in the middle of a fight, and yet later in the same fight that is still going on, they magically recovered, because of such filler. Some of that Frieza fight in the anime was filler, or canon scenes extended to fill more time.
Secondly, due to their vast speed, their clashes can be significantly faster than portrayed. Some times, they even count the seconds, and yet each time the count goes down can not only be greater than a second between them, but that time gap can even vary. When we are viewing the fights from the perspective of Goku, we cant possibly tell how much it has been slowed down for us to comprehend.
In frustration, Frieza sends a Death Ball into the core of the planet, starting a chain reaction that would destroy Namek in five minutes (revealing immediately afterwards that he held back too much of his power for the Death Ball to be a complete success).
Its not unreasonable that his estimation was off by a few minutes due to his fear of being on the planet as it explodes, with an opponent he doesn't know he can win against. The wiki summary of the 5 minutes is also quite short, half the size of this answer, not a lot actually happened in those 5 minutes.
Why does Frieza want to kill Goku? | 2019-04-19T10:56:28 | https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/40539/does-goku-possess-super-quick-talking-skill |
0.809591 | What languages did the Men of Dale spoke? We know from The Hobbit that the Lake-Men (and the remnants of Dale) spoke the Common Speech. Yet, these are Northmen which orginate of a same root as the Rohirrim. As I just noticed from a quote in the Password Thread, Men of Dale used a cirth which was similar to the Rohirric one.
Madam Fonnstad in her 'language' tree depicts Men of Dale & Rohirrim as from the same branch. And it is reasonable to suppose that these two clans came from the same seeds.
Did the Men of Dale spoke a Mannish Tongue, like the Northern one spoken by the Rohirrim (Rohirric)?
Based on the names given to their kings (notably Bard and Brand), I would say that the Dalemen spoke a language that had a common ancestor with Rohirric, but developed differently due to the two groups being separated. Bard and Brand are both, I believe, derived from Old Norse, which is distantly related to Old English (used to represent Rohirric) through ancient Germanic languages (I believe).
So whatever real language the Men of Dale spoke, it was probably similar to Rohirric in some ways but still clearly a different language of its own.
I was flummoxed as to where to post it.
LOTR also gave my basic informations about the thread. It seems like it could have been a bit everywhere.
Whatsoever, I didn't expect much growth from this thread.
Ah! This is a great question, for a multitude of reasons. I've wanted to start a thread about this for a long time, but I haven't gotten my thoughts together regarding it yet.
First, Bilbo spoke Common to the Men of Long Lake in the Hobbit.
Second, we know from the Appendixes and HoME that the language of Dale was not Common.
Third, we know that ancient hobbit-words were related to the language of the Rohirrim, which was itself related to the language of Dale.
So the question of the language of Dale may be bound up with the great migrations of Men as well as the origins of hobbits. I briefly discussed some of this with Maerbenn and a little less with Herendil. Evidently the mighty Nimruzir has also done some research on this as well as the Pukel-men.
I really apologize for doing this, but I simply don't have time to post all of my thoughts regarding this at the moment, and it may be awhile before I do. They are rather complicated and need quite a bit of researching and editing before they would be legible.
For those of you with HoME, do some searching. In Peoples (I think) there are some great quotes regarding this. Maybe someone can post them.
East of the Misty Mountains, even far to the north, the Common Speech was known; though there, as in Esgaroth [>as beside the Long Lake] or in Dale, or among the Beornings and the Woodmen of the west-eaves of Mirkwood, Men also retained their own tongues in daily use.
But in the north old forms survived. The speech of the Men of Dale, therefore, to shows its relationship has been cast in a Northern form related distantly to the English which has been taken to represent the Common Speech.
But the East Gates which perished in the war against the Orks, had opened upon the wide world, and were less friendly. They had bourne Runic inscriptions in several tongues: spells of prohibition and exclusion in Khuzdul, and commands that all should depart who had not the leave of the Lord of Moria written in Quenya, Sindarin, the Common Speech, the languages of Rohan and of Dale and Dunland.
So the written inscriptions in the Language of Dale had been wrought before this date, which also acknowledges that Dale (the city) was built and established since a long time.
But it also refers to 'Language of Rohan' which was inexistant(Rohan) until III 2510.
"III 2590 Thrór the Dwarf (of Dúrin's race) founds the realm of Erebor (the Lonely Mountain), and becomes 'king under the Mountain'. He lives in friendship with the Men of Dale, who are nearly akin to the Rohirrim."
Though the part about Thrór & Erebor is changed, the existance of Dale is still plausible at this time. Nearly two hundred years later, Smaug descend on Erebor, sacks Dale and slay Girion.
I found something about the Hobbits - for Thorin.
All such enquiries show that before their crossing of the Mountains the Hobbits spoke the same language as Men in the higher vales of the Anduin, roughly between the Carrock and Gladden Fields. 23 Now that language was nearly the same as the language of the ancestors of the Rohirrim; and it was also allied, as has been said above, both to the languages of Men further north and east (as in Dale and Esgaroth), and to those further south from which the Westron itself was derived. It is this possible to understand the rapidity with which evidently the Hobbits adopted the Common Speech as soon as they crossed into Eriador, where it had long been current.
Being that the Rohirrim came from Rhovanion as did the men of Dale, their languages would definitely be similar. | 2019-04-20T14:21:25 | http://www.minastirith.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=3;t=000224 |
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0.999999 | Why This Strange Quiz Points Total?
The same thing happened on a previous quiz and I went back and checked three times that I hadn't added in an extra number somewhere. But all the questions shows .15 points each.
I've created a dozen other quizzes, each with question point totals of .15, and all is well.
Does anyone know what might be happening?
You're seeing an artifact of trying to represent decimal numbers (0-9) in a binary world (0,1). Most floating point numbers don't convert exactly to binary.
However, Canvas has made attempts to keep this from happening, so I would file it as a bug report.
I'm able to repeat what you're seeing.
If you edit the quiz, you'll see that it thinks it's worth 7.2 points.
If you go into the gradebook, it shows up with all of the decimal places. That's a place they've definitely worked on fixing so this doesn't happen.
The surface reason it's showing up wrong is because the quiz object says the points_possible is 7.20000000000001.
The quiz page and the gradebook are just displaying what it says is possible.
The fix would be to fix it in the quiz object so and then it would be fixed everywhere else.
Is there something I can do to fix this? My students will lose faith in Canvas' ability to correctly calculate grades. And why does this happen only on some combinations? I've done lots of quizzes with question values of .15 and the math all works out. What's different in this instance?
You say the "fix would be to fix it in the quiz object" but I don't understand. Fix what?
After I had posted my response, I went back and reread it and thought that perhaps I should have clarified "the fix" to indicate it wasn't your issue. The fix I mentioned is something that Canvas needs to do on their end. Most people would consider the rest to be tl;dr, but I do have a possible work-around in the last paragraph.
The issue will happen in other cases, but it's not easily predictable when it will happen. It's nothing unique to 0.15, it happens with a lot of values. Numbers like 2.32 might be 2.319999999999 or 2.3200000000001. When Canvas displays them to 2 decimal places, they look good. In fact, if you try putting in 2.325, Canvas rounds it to 2 decimal places for you. So it's not the display that's the issue, it's the internal representation, and that's where the extra digits come in. When they added up the values 48 times, that imperfect representation was compounded enough that it actually showed up.
I wrote a quick script to check things. I started with 0.15 and then added it 48 times, asking the computer to display the result after each step.
Note that this does not happen if you use numbers that can be represented exactly in binary. These include integers and fractions with a denominator that are powers of 2 like 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, etc. Canvas will round the point value to 2 decimals, so 1/2=0.5 and 1/4=0.25 are the only two that will work within the Canvas quiz and not have the conversion issues.
I tried using the API call to update a quiz. When I put in 7.2, the response was the 7.200000000000006 that you see in line 48 of the test run above. Canvas is rounding that to 7.20000000000001, which has one less decimal place, but is essentially the same number.
So, all of the things that I've tried will not let you get 7.2 in for the possible points.
I hypothesize that there is a logic error in Canvas' rounding. It seems (I didn't check the code) like they're rounding to 14 decimals and then removing any 0's from the end. That seems reasonable, but the precision builds and after a while (45 questions in this case), it's enough to cause a problem.
I delete 4 questions, so that there are 44 questions, then it shows 6.6 instead of 6.600000000000005. If you look at the sequence of numbers, you'll see that 6.600000000000005 is actually less than 6.600000000000005 and would round down to be 6.60000000000000 and then extra 0's are removed to get 6.6.
If I only delete 3 questions, so there are 45, then 6.750000000000005 rounds to 6.75000000000001 and that is what is shown, not 6.75.
If I delete 2 questions, so that there are 46, then 6.900000000000006 round up to 6.90000000000001 and that is what is shown, not 6.9.
All that reconfirms that it is an issue that Canvas needs to fix, not anything that you can do. If you're going to only allow 2 decimal places in a point value, then you should round that as you calculate, rather than waiting until the end after you've added everything to round. Normally, we like to hold off on rounding until the end, but in this case, it's causing an issue when they don't. You may be able to specify point values beyond the hundredth with the API, and if you did round as you went, then things like 1/3+1/3+1/3=1, but when rounding you get 0.33+0.33+0.33=0.99 instead of 1. A better solution would be to use a larger tolerance (instead of 14 decimals, only check to 2) at the end of the calculations. Or, if you're not willing to go to 14, then check 13. It's still going to run into issues if there are enough questions (450 instead of 45). There are lots of possible solutions, but this is ugly and you're right -- it doesn't instill confidence in the students.
I did discover one trick in my playing around. It was actually the first thing that I tried before I got it to duplicate your issue, but I went back and retried and confirmed that it works. If you don't care about the order of the questions, you can move them into a question group. When I create a question group with 48 questions worth 0.15 points each, then it comes out being worth 7.2 points, not 7.20000000000001. That's a hack, and shouldn't have to be done, but it seems to fix the problem until Canvas can get it fixed on their end.
I thank you, the community thanks you, for letting us know what's going on behind the scenes. Your work is appreciated!
The developers need to go back to the drawing board and fix things so that an instructor can at least assign each question a integer value per question, "1" would be simplest, because 1 is also 1 in binary. My quizes that I import from a test-bank generator are all coming out with 100 points for each question. Wow! Talk about "Grade Inflation".
Anyway, I've switched from Blackboard this semester and am getting the feeling that perhaps Canvas is not yet ready for prime-time viewing.
Did you import the test-bank questions as a question bank? Point values in a question bank are largely irrelevant. When you add them to a quiz, you tell it there how much to assign for each question. If I tell it questions in the bank are 100 points each, it's ignored when I tell them they're 5 points each for the quiz.
points from 100 for each question to 1.
"Edit Test Banks" in Canvas (or at lease in the search box of Canvas Help).
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0.999824 | The customer relation department is planning to survey their customers.
They want a survey instrument that takes less than 20 minutes to complete.
They have given their survey to 65 employees and recorded their time.
claim that the average time to complete the survey takes less than 20 minutes?
So we are doing a hypothesis testing about the mean.
Mean here would be the average time it takes to finish a survey.
have less than 20 minutes to complete this service.
We want mu be less than 20 minutes.
And we want to know if this can be supported with our data.
this would be our alternate hypothesis.
So they want mu to be less than 20.
it takes more than 20 minutes to complete.
probably customers will not take the time to complete it.
using 65 employees, and they have found the data and have recorded it here.
So I have recorded 65 times here, and now I want to do my testing.
So first of all, my mean is going to be the average values for these 65 employees.
these employees was 18 minutes .03.
So the standard deviation is about 3.71.
Significance level we are interested in .05.
And hypothesized mean is that it will take less than 20 minutes.
So now I want to calculate the t-value.
mean divided by the standard deviation, divided by the square root of n.
divided by 3.71, divided by the square root of 65.
I didn't do the count here, but there are 65 people in our data.
So now I'm going to just let Excel calculate this for me and not myself.
divided by the square root of the sample size, which was in this case 65.
And my t-value turns out to be -4.27.
this is going to be a rejection process.
Because p-value's going to be very small, but you can calculate this.
So let's make this =T.DIST, and our x is -4.27.
The next value is degrees of freedom.
Degrees of freedom is always your sample size minus one.
And in this case there were 65 employees that were tested, so 64.
as we see the p-value comes out to be extremely small.
so we would end up rejecting the null hypothesis.
therefore, we would reject the null hypothesis which means what?
Which means that we believe that it will take less than 20 minutes.
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As an example we have a kernel which has 181 ALU inst and 83 fetches with 44 writes. This is regardless of the added optimization flags. With -cl-opt-disable there are 48 ALU insts, 7 fetches and 6 writes. Benchmarked throughput and the estimated troughput are both approximately double of the 'optimized version'.
It seems the compiler does no sanity checks for the actual benefit of optimization passes it performs. I presume this will be improved in the future?
Originally posted by: sharpneli As shown by actual tests and the APP KernelAnalyzer in some cases disabling optimizations by -cl-opt-disable can produce much faster code.
It would be good if you give kernel code which reproduces this issue.
Could you please for which device you are compiling?
The device I'm actually using is Radeon HD 5770. Os is Win7, APP SDK is 2.5 and driver is 11.7.
I've managed to narrow down the problem. The kernel is basically 2 for loops. Both do the same thing but on different buffers. They basically go trough different edges of a mesh and if the connection does exist -> do stuff.
If one loop is deleted so that only one remains then optimization produces faster code, it does not matter which loop is deleted. So in essence splitting the kernel into two seems to produce much faster troughput.
However deleting a loop does not affect the amount of registers used and they are completely independent of eachother so there is no reason why splitting them up ought to produce faster code. Considering that disabling optimizations in the two loop case helps with perf it looks like a bug in the compiler.
P.s Fiddling with the workgroup size produced no difference whatsoever in the compiled code.
Originally posted by: sharpneli The device I'm actually using is Radeon HD 5770. Os is Win7, APP SDK is 2.5 and driver is 11.7.
Could you please paste a kernel here or file a ticket at http://developer.amd.com/support/KnowledgeBase/pages/HelpdeskTicketForm.aspx?
Sounds like the loop was unrolled: unrolling loops doesn't always run faster because of the register load (mostly), but the ALU count doesn't necessarily mean the code is badly optimised.
e.g. the actual code might run faster for a given work-group, but you can't run as many of them if it uses too many registers.
But the problem is a bit trickier than that: the compiler doesn't know how many workgroups you're going to run, so optimising for workgroup parallelism isn't always the correct approach anyway. In short, you're going to have to help the compiler a bit.
The reqd_work_group_size() annotation is about the best you can do here to tell the compiler how you're going to run it, and perhaps judicous use of #pragma unroll. | 2019-04-26T00:07:46 | https://community.amd.com/thread/155304 |
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As the Dyers have been relishing the delights of Florida, their eldest daughter, Dani, has scooped the Love Island crown in Majorca - and jetted back to the UK with her on-screen love Jack Fincham on Tuesday.
Despite publicly congratulating Dani, 22, and video calling her, Danny and Joanne are still yet to see the 2018 champion in the flesh.
Fans were initially left disappointed to see Danny had jetted off on holiday instead of heading to the Love Island villa for a personal appearance alongside his daughter. But despite his absence, the star made sure to show his support, congratulating her on winning the ITV2 dating show while on board a theme park ride.
Taking to Instagram, Danny joked that he 'couldn't wait' to see his daughter while filming himself on the attraction with wife Joanne in the hilarious clip.
On Wednesday, Danny dished out some advice for his precious daughter after her boyfriend Jack suggested he would marry her next year.
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I became an immediate fan of Gabriele Münter (1877-1962) about twenty years ago when I happened across her work in a group show at the Busch-Reisinger Museum on the Harvard University campus. That small exhibit included several charming vignettes and landscapes in an unusually appealing palette that was both bright and warm. Variations of purple, lime, teal, rose and other distinctly non-primary colors were included, and each tone was bordered casually in black, reminiscent of a woodcut print that had been hand-colored. My next encounter with Münter was an eye-opening retrospective exhibit in Munich in the early '90s.
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Born in Berlin in 1877, Münter came into a modest inheritance by the time she was 20. She made the most of her freedom, travelling to America before returning to Germany to attend a series of art schools at a time when women were barred from public art academies.
In 1901 she enrolled in the progressive Phalanx school founded by Kandinsky who, ten years older than her and married, had recently arrived in Munich from Moscow. . . . After several years in which Kandinsky and Münter pursued an unsettled, itinerant life together, the couple alighted upon Murnau in 1908. . . . It was there, she said, that "the great leap took place. It was like an awakening for me. I felt as though I were a bird in song." . . .
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Intuitive spontaneity and freshness of response were certainly Expressionist credentials. And yet, despite her avid interest in folk art and her search to recover some sense of almost medieval authenticity, Münter is more than some gifted primitive.
The 21 (mostly small) paintings here are carefully selected to illustrate the range of her influences, to reveal how she referred to her own experience as a designer of woodcuts, for instance, or developed the post-Impressionist technique of cloisonnisme (framing forms with dark outlines), derived from Paul Gauguin and taught to her by Jawlensky, or learnt from the Bavarian craft of glass painting.
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Most likely: Sam Mendes for "American Beauty"
Most deserving: Spike Jonze for "Being John Malkovich"
Most likely and most deserving: Denzel Washington for "The Hurricane"
Most likely and most deserving: Hilary Swank for "Boys Don't Cry"
Most likely and most deserving: Tom Cruise for "Magnolia"
Most likely: Angelina Jolie in "Girl, Interrupted"
Most deserving: Catherine Keener in "Being John Malkovich"
Most deserving: "Being John Malkovich"
Most likely: "The Cider House Rules" | 2019-04-23T12:55:42 | https://www.csmonitor.com/2000/0324/p17s2.html |
0.999813 | How do I obtain a copy of a law? California law is available on the Internet at http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes.xhtml and United States law is available on the Internet at http://uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.shtml. You may also wish to visit your county law library. You can locate your nearest California law library at http://www.publiclawlibrary.org/law-libraries/ If you are unable to find a law on your own, then we suggest that you consult with a private attorney. Our office cannot provide legal advice, analysis or research to parties other than state officers and agencies.
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I am the victim of a crime. I want the crime to be investigated and for the perpetrator of the crime be prosecuted. Who can help me? If you have information about a crime, please file a report with the police or sheriff's department in the area where the crime occurred. Local law enforcement authorities are responsible for investigating violations of law within their jurisdictions. After investigating the crime, the local law enforcement authorities may forward the case to the county district attorney's office for prosecution, if appropriate. The decision whether or not to file criminal charges will then be made by the locally elected district attorney.
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I cannot afford a private attorney. What free or low-cost legal assistance is available? If you cannot afford a private attorney, you may consider contacting your local legal aid office. For a referral, visit www.lawhelpca.org/ and click on the Find Legal Assistance tab.
I need to know what law pertains to my situation. Who can help me with legal research? California law is available on the Internet at http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes.xhtml and United States law is available on the Internet at http://uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.shtml. You may also wish to visit your county law library. You can locate your nearest California law library at http://www.publiclawlibrary.org/law-libraries/ If you are unable to find a law on your own, then we suggest that you consult with a private attorney. Our office cannot provide legal advice, analysis or research to parties other than state officers and agencies.
I lost a civil lawsuit, and I feel the outcome was unjust. Who can help me? The Attorney General has no jurisdiction in matters already before the court or in matters where the courts have already rendered a decision. In addition, we are prohibited by law from representing private individuals or providing legal advice, legal research or legal analysis to private individuals under any circumstances. We suggest that you consult with a private attorney to determine any civil remedies that may be available to you. An attorney would directly represent your interests and is the one whose advice would be most helpful to you.
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Finally, we recommend that you consult with a family law attorney. An attorney would directly represent your interests and is the one whose advice would be most helpful to you. You may obtain a referral to a certified lawyer referral service by contacting the State Bar at (866)442-2529 (toll-free in California) or (415)538-2250 (from outside California), or via their website at: http://www.calbar.ca.gov.
I need help with an international child custody issue. Who should I contact?
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Complaints about county agencies in California that provide CWS should be sent to the Department of Social Services only after efforts have been made to resolve problems directly with county management. To do this, you must send the county agency a letter explaining your concerns with a request that they respond to you in writing. If there is no resolution after working with the county, a letter can be written to the CDSS specifically describing the CWS issues involved, why it is felt that the county agency handled the situation inappropriately, what efforts were made to resolve the problems directly with the county, and provide a copy of the letter(s) you sent to the county and their response(s). Information should also be provided regarding the names, ages or dates of births, and addresses of all the children involved; the names of the parents or other caretakers; and the names and office location of county CWS agency staff already familiar with the case. Letters with the above information should be mailed to the CDSS at the physical address or e-mail address shown above.
Finally, you may wish to consult with an attorney to determine any civil remedies that may be available to you. An attorney would directly represent your interests and is the one whose advice would be most helpful to you. You may obtain a referral to a certified lawyer referral service by contacting the State Bar at (866)442-2529 (toll-free in California) or (415)538-2250 (from outside California), or via their website at: http://www.calbar.ca.gov.
I was married outside of the United States. Is my marriage legal or recognized in California? For information on this topic, please refer to Family Code Section 308, which reads in pertinent part: A marriage contracted outside this state that would be valid by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the marriage was contracted is valid in this state. You should also be aware that a foreign marriage certificate cannot be recorded in California. If you need to establish a record of the marriage in California, you can file a petition in Superior Court to establish a Court Order Delayed Certificate of marriage. If you have any questions or need any further information, please consult with your County Clerk or County Recorder's Office and/or a private family law attorney.
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California law makes cities and counties the primary enforcers of the California Building Code's requirements respecting access. Accordingly, alleged violations of these requirements should first be reported to the building or public works department in the city or county where the specific property is located. In addition, individuals who experience discrimination or other violations of law can often file a lawsuit in court. You may wish to consult with a private attorney to determine any civil remedies that may be available to you. An attorney would directly represent your interests and is the one whose advice would be most helpful to you. You may obtain a referral to a certified lawyer referral service by contacting the State Bar at (866)442-2529 (toll-free in California) or (415)538-2250 (from outside California), or via their website at: http://www.calbar.ca.gov.
My employer is discriminating against me. Who do I contact?
This Discrimination Complaints Investigations Unit handles complaints from employees who are retaliated against by their employer for disclosing information to a government or law enforcement agency where the employee has reasonable cause to believe that the information discloses a violation of a state or federal statute, or violation or noncompliance with a state or federal regulation, including, laws enacted for the protection of corporate shareholders, investors, employees, and the general public. This agency also handles complaints from employees who are retaliated against by their employer because they refuse to participate in an activity that would result in a violation of a state or federal statute, or noncompliance with a state or federal rule or regulation. In addition, individuals who experience violations of law can often file a lawsuit in court. You may wish to consult with a private attorney to determine any civil remedies that may be available to you. An attorney would directly represent your interests and is the one whose advice would be most helpful to you. You may obtain a referral to a certified lawyer referral service by contacting the State Bar at (866)442-2529 (toll-free in California) or (415)538-2250 (from outside California), or via their website at: http://www.calbar.ca.gov.
I am the victim of housing discrimination? Who do I contact?
I am the victim of discrimination in services provided by a business such as a hotel, restaurant or store. Who should I contact? | 2019-04-19T12:19:43 | https://oag.ca.gov/contact/faqs |
0.998634 | Why do I need to have images on my campaign page?
A good image can portray your brand and showcase your products to potential investors.
The images are there to help potential investors better understand the concept of your company and get a feel for your brand. Use pictures to inspire the crowd and convince them to support your round.
On the campaign creation page in the section called 'Gallery' you can add up to 12 images.
In order to increase your chances for a successful funding round, make sure that the pictures are of a high quality and are in line with your business concept. | 2019-04-25T10:25:43 | http://help.fundedbyme.com/for-entrepreneurs/campaign-creation/why-do-i-need-to-have-images-on-my-campaign-page |
0.999586 | Cover of ‘I’m Coming To Get You’ by Tony Ross, a formative book from my childhood.
Overhauling your charity’s website can feel like a monster project. Huge. Scary. Hairy. But just like in picture book classic I’m Coming To Get You, getting a clear sense of scale can make all the difference.
The best way to stop yourself from feeling overwhelmed by the size and complexity of a website redesign is to break the project down into smaller parts and simple stages. Although you will end up with a long, long to-do list in front of you, it will make the whole thing feel much more manageable, I promise.
To help you get started, I’ve put together this quick list of example activities and things to think about. It’s intended as a rough guide, not a complete plan, and it’s flexible – you might do some things in a different order, or do more or less depending on the resources available.
At every stage of the project it’s crucial to engage staff across the organisation and give them meaningful opportunities to contribute. As well as building buy-in and drawing on staff experience and expertise, a website redevelopment is a great opportunity to build digital skills and understanding.
Running alongside the activities below should ideally be a programme of engagement activities, which could include presentations, skills sessions, meetings, workshops, testing sessions, and a development blog.
You can bring in a digital agency or web developer to help you right from the start if you have the resources, or between the Understanding and Planning stages. Whether you simply discuss the project with a few agencies or run a full blown tender process, the important thing is to find people that you trust and adopt a collaborative approach.
Understand how your website fits into your business plan and organisational strategy Internal consultation, develop digital vision and strategy.
Assess the external environment PESTLE analysis, seek best practice, identify relevant new trends and technologies, competitor analysis.
Get to know your audience User personas, surveys, focus groups, interviews, user testing, recruit customer board.
Review your content Review topics, style, quality, format, lifespan, performance, begin to identify user content needs.
Be clear about the aims of your website Define website goals and SMART objectives, identify priority audience.
Set timeline Agree deadline and plot milestones.
Define budget Agree budget, key expenditure and contingency.
Choose platform Decide which programming language / content management system to use. Open source or proprietary?
Generate user stories Workshop to identify most important user stories (goals which users seek to accomplish).
Wireframes Produce a wireframe (simplified) version of page layouts.
Site architecture Decide major content blocks, website structure and key navigation paths.
Visual design Visual design process – mood board, concepts, feedback, iterations.
Content design Choosing which topics, style and format of content to create according to user needs, content review and strategy.
Process design Develop processes for updating and maintaining the site, creating and commissioning content, sign off, data management.
Development Agency installs the content management system and builds the website, applying the visual design. Testing and feedback on each new feature as it is created.
Migrate content Add content to the new website. This will take longer than you think, and it will be more complicated than cutting and pasting. It might be worth bringing in a temp or volunteer to help you.
Process Test editorial system, train content editors how to use content management system (trust me, do it before you launch).
Make site live The developer will do this. Bear in mind it can take 24 hours for your new site to appear to everyone who visits your domain.
Post launch fixes Developer fixes any bugs which appear after launch. There are always some!
Jargon feeds the monster. Usually there are simple ideas lurking behind unfamiliar terms, and getting your head round them at the start will help make sure you and your website developer or digital agency understand each other. Remember they’ll need to learn your organisational jargon too.
User personas are fictional profiles of a ‘person’ who represents a cluster of real people who exhibit similar behavioural patterns in their decisions, reactions, and choices. Find out more.
User needs are the goals of website users. Find out more.
Agile is a project management approach commonly used for digital projects which emphasises collaboration and user testing, and builds software incrementally from the start of the project, instead of trying to deliver it all at once near the end. Find out more.
User stories are a standard format for expressing a user need or goal. Find out more.
Wireframes or mockups are rough sketches which show the layout of key pages on the website. Find out more.
Content design is the process of choosing which information to show the user and how to present it to enable them to achieve their goal. Find out more.
User testing is when a website is tested by real users carrying out real tasks in realistic conditions. Find out more.
Beta is testing phase which happens just before launch in which the website is made available to a limited number of users for ‘live’ testing. Find out more.
I hope your website project is looming less large now. Remember you’re not alone, lots of people have tackled the same monster and will be happy to share their wisdom over a calming cup of tea if you reach out, myself included. | 2019-04-22T03:08:11 | http://kestrelcopy.com/monster-website-project/ |
0.999996 | This is a strange time in Yes history. The band's latest tour – featuring the entirety of 1980's Drama and half of the 1973's divisive Tales From Topographic Oceans – was the prog-rock band's first in 44 years without drummer Alan White, who sat out to recover from back surgery. And, overall, their shows have continued to feel somewhat vacant after co-founding bassist Chris Squire's death last year from leukemia complications.
But Yes have rolled with the punches, as they've always done – recruiting temporary replacement drummer Jay Schellen (previously of Yes-related acts Asia and Circa), who joined longtime guitarist Steve Howe, singer Jon Davison, newly added bassist Billy Sherwood and keyboardist Geoff Downes.
Downes has a distinct perspective on the band's latest jaunt. He, along with vocalist-producer Trevor Horne, originally joined Yes for the Drama LP; he left following the subsequent tour but rejoined for 2011's Fly From Here, now serving as one of the band's elder statesmen.
How has it been performing with Jay? I'm assuming he had to learn a lot of material very quickly.
It was a very last-minute thing when Alan had to have this operation. I'd worked with Jay before, and Alan knew him from his stuff with Circa, and Jay had some stuff with Billy and Chris. So he was a good choice, I think, and he was familiar with a lot of the Yes music. He came in and nailed it.
It must have been weird for everyone playing with Alan – it's the band's first tour since 1972 without him.
I think he was really disappointed, but his health dictated otherwise. I just checked with him a half-hour ago, and he was saying, "I wish I could have been there, but I'm going to do what the doctors tell me to do." It was out of his control. It's a slow recuperation process, but I know he'll pull through and be fine. We'll have him back in the driving seat.
Yes had previously never played Drama in full. I'm sure that's been interesting for you since that album marked your first entry into the band.
The last few years in Yes, I've been largely playing music I wasn't [originally] associated with, so to be able to have a whole album that I was a part of is really quite something else. In terms of the Tales side of things, I'm not really familiar with that album, so it's been a bit of a learning curve to get my head around that. It's been an interesting time for the band. We've done a number of these album series shows over the last few years, and it's been pretty good for the audience because they get to hear these albums in the exact order they remember them.
Topographic Oceans is a very divisive album. Some fans absolutely hate it, while others think it's one of the band's best.
Yeah, it's a bit mixed. Some fans think it's over-indulgence, and others think it's the holy grail of Yes music. There is that difference of opinion, but in terms of it being part of the Yes legacy, it's a very important album – as I think Drama is in its own way. They're both very important but for very different reasons.
The tension with touring Topographic is one of the reasons Rick Wakeman left the band the first time around. What's your personal opinion of the album? Do you find it just as interesting as the "classic" albums like Close to the Edge and Fragile?
It's different. It involves a lot of concentration because it's two 25-minute pieces we're playing, sides one and four. It's interesting to see how they put that all together. It's almost like a classical piece, with the sections that move in different ways.
I know Jon Anderson wasn't keen on playing the Drama material live when he was in the band, for fairly obvious reasons. Since you have the other Jon in the fold, and since you're back in the group, do you think that's opened doors to play material you wouldn't have been able to otherwise?
It shows that it's not necessarily who's in the band – it's about the sound those individuals create at a given time. This is a pretty significant high point of the band in terms of musicianship, and it's a great band to be a member of.
Have you considered bringing Jon Anderson and other Yes alumni on Cruise to the Edge to do some kind of one-off thing where the two Jons are singing together, with you and Rick both up there playing keyboards? Would the band be open to doing some kind of big reunion like that? It feels like cruise would be the perfect place for it, along with maybe the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin and Rick Wakeman will be going out there on their own tour in October. And we'll be going out around the cruise and into the spring. Fans will also go see us all individually, either Yes or other bands. And Asia, hopefully we'll get that back up and running soon. That's the idea. We've been working on new material, and we have a whole album planned.
Are you involved much at all in the selection of the cruise bands? The lineup is so eclectic, covering so many time periods and styles of progressive rock – I wondered if you've discovered any new artists from the cruise that you didn't know before.
They make suggestions, and we have the final say. If it's someone we don't feel would be that suitable or trouble, we have the say of who comes on board. But I feel this one's particular strong: Steve Hackett, Kansas, John Wetton. There's a whole host of great musicians on this one. | 2019-04-24T10:14:05 | https://eagle1023fm.com/yes-geoff-downes-interview-2016/ |
0.999272 | Leading figures from the arts and media, who were devoted to Tony Blair in 1997, have turned on the Prime Minister in a BBC programme to be broadcast on the eve of the Labour Party conference.
Sir Richard Eyre, Rory Bremner, Harry Enfield and Lady Antonia Fraser are among those who express their disillusion in a documentary called Do You Still Believe in Tony?
To Lady Antonia, the Prime Minister has had a "Shakespearean slide downwards", for Sir Richard, the slogan "education, education, education" has turned to "disappointment, disappointment, disappointment" and Enfield says starkly: "I wish he would go."
The programme, by the political broadcaster Michael Cockerell, will be embarrassing to Mr Blair, who set out to woo the so-called "luvvies" when he was first elected.
Noel Gallagher, Mick Hucknall, Ben Elton and Ross Kemp were among those seen sipping champagne with the Prime Minister at No 10 as part of a drive to promote the country as "Cool Britannia".
Since then, many of the celebrities have fallen out with Mr Blair.
Lady Antonia, the biographer, describes how impressed she was in 1997. "I liked what he was doing very much," she says. Since then, however, her view has changed. "I don't like the messianic in leaders, it draws them in very strange directions," she says.
"He's in love with the image of himself making the world right, hand in hand with George Bush . . . I don't believe in Tony Blair. I think he's an interesting man who began well and is on a Shakespearean slide downwards."
Enfield, the comedian, says he first had qualms about the Prime Minister over the Millennium Dome.
"Nobody wanted this thing . . . that was the first of many times when he said, 'I don't care what you think, I'm going to do this'."
The war in Iraq had confirmed his disappointment.
"It was quite obvious to most people that they didn't have the evidence they required," Enfield claims. "I don't think he believed the evidence. If he had had to stake the lives of his children on that evidence he wouldn't have done it." He adds: "I don't believe in Tony Blair. I wish he would go."
Bremner, whose impressions of Mr Blair have become increasingly negative since 1997, says the Prime Minister "sees things in that George Bush way of black and white, a division between good and evil . . . it's a very simplistic view of the world but I think Tony Blair believes it . . . It's not about facts . . . It's faith-based premiership."
Sir Richard, the former artistic director of the National Theatre, tells Mr Cockerell that when Labour was elected on May 1 1997 he felt: "Bliss it is to be alive."
Since then, however, he believes that the Prime Minister has shown "hopeless misjudgment" particularly over Iraq. "The fatal flaw was the flaw of hubris," he says.
He feels let down too over public services and describes how he used his film Iris, starring Dame Judi Dench as Iris Murdoch, to express this frustration.
In one scene, Murdoch asks what "education, education, education" means.
"It's a joke for the audience because they couldn't understand three years later why he had repeated it but had failed to make it his top priority," Sir Richard tells the programme.
"For me, 'education, education, education' has become 'disappointment, disappointment, disappointment'."
However, the broadcaster Lord Bragg defends the Prime Minister over Iraq.
"I don't think he lied. I think he truly thought there were weapons of mass destruction," he says.
"I admire Tony Blair. I think he's made mistakes but if you don't make mistakes you don't make anything."
Do You Still Believe in Tony? will be broadcast on BBC2 on Saturday at 7.25pm. | 2019-04-23T14:57:32 | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1472390/Luvvies-passion-for-Tony-turns-to-ashes.html |
0.996974 | MELBOURNE, Australia - The intensity was vintage Rafael Nadal.
On the stroke of midnight, he thrust his arms up and punched the air, sealing the victory that sets up the most anticipated semifinal at the Australian Open in quite some time.
Roger Federer did his part to put this in place. In the previous match on Rod Laver Arena, he beat 2009 U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 in a quarterfinal marking his 1,000th tour-level match.
A Federer-Nadal semifinal had been looming since the draw for the season's first major - the first time the pair have been in the same half at a Grand Slam tournament since 2005.
Playing with a new racket and a heavily taped right knee, Nadal was at his demonstrative best, rallying after losing the first set to beat Tomas Berdych 6-7 (5), 7-6 (6), 6-4, 6-3.
Yelling "Vamos," disputing line calls, pumping his arms after winning big points and bounding around like a hyperactive kid, Nadal ripped winner after winner against Berdych in a 4-hour, 16-minute display of pure intimidation.
He said he was nervous in the first set - he'd lost in the quarterfinals two straight years - but by the third and fourth sets things had indeed changed.
"The character on court, the way to win the points ... the level is very positive, much, much better than the end of the season," he said. "Semifinals is fantastic result for me."
Federer finished his match with one of his classic, one-handed backhands against Del Potro, one of only two men who have beaten him in a major final. The other is Nadal, who has done it six times.
That lopsided record aside, there's a touch of extra tension this time in this usually cordial rivalry. Nadal had told Spanish reporters during a discussion about player discontent that Federer liked to protect his reputation as a gentleman by saying nothing negative in public and letting others "burn."
Both have since played down the comments. On Tuesday, Federer said it didn't damage their relationship.
"No. No. Honestly, no," he said. "It was here for one day and then gone again. I'm happy about that because it didn't deserve more attention than it did. So for me, it's another great match with Rafa. ... Obviously I'd like to play Rafa because of our great epic match earlier in the finals here a few years ago."
Thursday's match will be the first time they have met at Melbourne Park since Nadal won the 2009 title in five seesawing sets. Nadal collected the trophy from the great Rod Laver after consoling Federer as he sobbed in the background.
"We are talking about a player who has won 16 Grand Slams, and I've won 10," Nadal said. "We have played a lot of matches together, many in very important moments for our careers. So the matches against him are always special, even if we are (ranked) 20 against 25."
One of the women's semifinals is already set up, with defending champion Kim Clijsters showing too much experience in a 6-3, 7-6 (4) win over Caroline Wozniacki, who remains without a major title and will now lose her No. 1 ranking.
Clijsters has a left ankle sprain that requires almost constant treatment, but expects to be fit for the next match against third-seeded Victoria Azarenka, one of the three women who can finish the tournament with the top ranking.
The two others - Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova and Maria Sharapova - are in action Wednesday. Kvitova opens play at Rod Laver Arena against Sara Errani of Italy, followed by Sharapova against Ekaterina Makarova in an all-Russian match. No. 56-ranked Makarova is coming off a straight-set win over five-time Australian champion Serena Williams.
Defending men's champion Novak Djokovic has an evening match against No. 5 David Ferrer, who beat Nadal in the quarterfinals last year. Djokovic overtook Nadal and Federer for the No. 1 ranking last year by winning three of the four majors, starting with an Australian Open final win over Andy Murray. Murray takes on No. 24 Kei Nishikori of Japan on Wednesday.
Given the dominance last season of the top four, a Djokovic vs. Murray semifinal seems most likely. In 2009, the competition was considered more of a two-man race.
Federer was aiming to equal Pete Sampras' record of 14 Grand Slam titles and was confident despite entering the Australian Open with the No. 2 ranking.
Nadal had fended off Fernando Verdasco in 5-hour, 14-minute late night semifinal - the longest match at the Australian Open - and said he could barely walk, let alone practice the following day. He'd also had a day less to prepare for the final than Federer did. Still, he became the first Spaniard to win the Australian title.
Nadal has won 17 of their 26 head-to-head matches overall, including a 7-2 lead in Grand Slam matches. Federer won the last meeting, a 6-3, 6-0 demolition at the season-ending championship in November.
It has been almost seven years since the pair last met in the semifinals of a major.
"Yeah, it's been a long time - I don't know when the last time has been when we played in the semis of a slam," said Federer, who is usually an extremely reliable statistician. "Maybe back in 2005, maybe at the French potentially, I don't know."
For the record: Nadal won in four sets against the then No. 1-ranked Federer en route to the title at Roland Garros.
"We have been on opposite sides of the draw many times," Federer said. "I guess it's a nice changeup. OK, it doesn't allow a rematch for the Australian Open final here, you know, but I think it's good for tennis that it changes up a bit."
Nadal certainly didn't want to miss another chance at Federer. He didn't finish last year in good form and has already talked about taking time off next month to rest a sore shoulder. He hurt his knee by sitting in a chair at his hotel on the eve of his first-round match.
Nadal saved four set points in the first set against Berdych, including one with a stunning passing shot on the 29th point of a rally. But the seventh-seeded Czech persevered and won the ensuing tiebreaker.
During the tiebreaker, a shot by Berdych shot landed out and Nadal returned it, then challenged. Chair umpire Carlos Bernardes wouldn't allow it because Nadal hadn't immediately stopped play, but Nadal responded by saying he didn't challenge immediately because he thought the linesman had called it out. The replay showed the ball out and Nadal thought the umpire should have overruled.
He didn't win another point in the tiebreaker. In the second set, as Nadal lined up to serve in a key point, a man called out from the crowd: "Come on Rafa, we want a Roger-Rafa semifinal Thursday night."
Nadal obliged. Improving as he went along, Nadal hit consecutive down-the-line forehands to break Berdych early in the fourth set. Berdych did well to hold in the fifth game, which lasted 13½ minutes, but Nadal dominated from there and sealed the match with a service break as the clock struck 12.
"I started moving a little bit inside the court after I went 20 meters behind the baseline, just trying to find solution," Nadal said. "At the end of the match I finished it returning fantastic." | 2019-04-20T10:45:07 | https://www.onlineathens.com/sports/2012-01-25/nadal-federer-set-semifinal-showdown |
0.999979 | Yesterday was such a beautiful day, four couples decided to spend the day at the beach. They had a great day of fun in the sun. At one point, each couple went off on their own for a while to enjoy their favorite beach activity. Determine each couple's full names (one man's name is Hank), the color of each woman's bathing suit, and each couple's favorite activity.
1. Mark Collins and his wife were not the couple that liked to swim in the ocean. Rachel wasn't wearing a green bathing suit.
2. Mr. Bailey and his wife collected shells, but they didn't have blue bathing suits. Tabitha's husband wasn't Mark.
3. Peter's last name wasn't Delgado and his wife didn't wear a green bathing suit.
4. Sally and Peter were not the couple that liked to climb on the rocks along the shore's edge.
5. The woman in the red bathing suit loved swimming in the ocean. Louis, whose last name wasn't Colby, enjoyed sunbathing with his wife. Tabitha didn't wear the purple bathing suit.
6. Vanessa, whose last name wasn't Collins, went swimming with her husband.
To be clear, here are the names, activities, and colors.
Hank & Vanessa Colby went swimming, wore red.
Mark & Rachel Collins went rock climbing, wore blue.
Peter & Sally Bailey collected shells, wore purple.
Louis & Tabitha Delgado sunbathed, wore green.
I got the same answer as Heather's.
Bwahaha. I got the same answers (and it took me awhile, too) and I absolutely LOVED the fact that Sally collected shells. I should have predicted that from the start. Also a fan of using the name Tabitha in a logic puzzle! | 2019-04-26T04:18:41 | http://www.questionotd.com/2010/07/day-at-beach.html |
0.999981 | How do I listen to Texas Rangers baseball games streaming live online for free?
You can start listening to Texas Rangers baseball games on local radio from over 40 radio stations in 5 states (see below for all of the Texas Rangers Radio Network stations). The flagship station for the Rangers in Dallas / Fort Worth is 105.3 FM The Fan (KRLD) and in spanish on KFLC-AM 1270.
Android: To listen to Texas Rangers games on your Android phone, Android tablet and Kindle Fire, you'll want to download the TuneIn Radio app for Android or the MLB At Bat for Android, and make an in-app sign up for At Bat Premium (only a couple dollars/month), which gives you access to every live home and away radio broadcast.
Apple: To listen to Texas Rangers games on your Apple device (iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad), download the TuneIn Radio app or the MLB At Bat iPhone app and MLB At Bat iPad app, and make an in-app sign up for At Bat Premium (small monthly fee), which will give you access to all home and away major league baseball game radio broadcasts.
In order to stream the live audio of Texas Rangers games online you'll need to make an in-app purchase for MLB At Bat Premium (FREE trial), which allows you to listen to every single Regular Season and Postseason game LIVE online (no blackout restrictions). MLB At Bat also gives you access to watch the MLB.TV Free Game of the Day and get In-Game Highlights.
If you want to watch and listen to the Texas Rangers games, as well as other Major League Baseball games (online, mobile device or on your HDTV) you'll want to sign up for MLB.TV (which includes the At Bat Premium app). To do so, first download the MLB At Bat app for Android (MLB At Bat for Android) or Apple (MLB At Bat iPhone app), then make an in-app purchase for MLB.TV. To sign up for MLB.TV in the app, do the following: Open the MLB At Bat app -> then tap on the TV screen icon in the upper left corner -> this will take you to the Subscribe to MLB.TV page. | 2019-04-20T09:14:27 | https://www.gotknowhow.com/articles/listen-to-texas-rangers-radio-and-stream-games-live |
0.999697 | How Far do These Sources Suggest that Young Henry VIII was an Impressive Figure as a King?
How far do these sources suggest that young Henry VIII was an impressive figure as a king? In the 16th century an impressive figure of a king would mean that he demonstrated power both physically and economically and a good education. However as source two suggests, Henry might be considered less than impressive as he shows insecurities. A stronger argument though is that Henry did demonstrate the features of an impressive king as he had all the attributes listed above which is clear from all three sources.
It might be inferred that Henry was less than impressive as he was clearly insecure. Source two shows Henry seeking to compare favourability with his rival king Francis I of France. He persistently asks the Venetian ambassador whether he is more physically impressive than Francis e.g. Henry asks ‘what sort of legs has he got?’ Such insecurity might encourage challenges as Henry could be seen as unconfident about his own authority. This argument could gain weight from the fact that the ambassador would be seeking to provide accurate information to the government of Venice. It could however be seen as the only one incident by a king who had only been on the throne for six years. Also it is not sustained in the other two sources.
The strongest argument suggests that Henry VIII was an impressive figure as king. From source two it might be inferred that Henry is very well educated as it shows Henry addressing the Venetian ambassador in French, ”His majesty addressing me in French”. During his time on the throne only rich, well educated people could speak more than their native language. His good education also shows that he has an attribute of an impressive figure of king.
The strongest argument which suggests that Henry was an impressive king gains weight from the Venetian ambassador being a reliable source. Source two is a written article so it is more likely to be reliable than a painting. The Venetian ambassador is also likely to be speaking the truth as he wants to tell the Venetian government accurate information and has no reason to lie.
Source one also lends weight to the strongest argument that Henry VIII was an impressive figure as a king. Source one implies that Henry is a very rich and powerful king as it shows us spending time practicing his archery with his guards. “The king was practicing archery in the garden with the archers of the guard.” It could be inferred from this that Henry has free recreational time as he is already in control of everything else. The argument that he is an impressive king gains weight from this because he has power over everyone, and that he gets people to do the jobs he would normally have to do.
This can be inferred from source one as Henry spends his time in the garden “practicing archery with the archers of the guards.” This suggests that Henry has appointed other people to do the jobs he would have to do whilst he is in the garden practicing archery. It could also be inferred that he is wealthy because he would be paying these people to do jobs for him. The source is a written document taken from a personal diary of the king’s Chaplin, John Taylor in 1513; he was also a royal official.
The source is likely to be accurate and reliable as it is a personal diary. John Taylor would have been recording what he sees and as it is personal, there is no need to lie. Therefore we can infer that source one is a reliable source, this lends weight to the strongest argument that Henry VII was an impressive figure as king.
Henry tried to portray himself as a warrior king during his early reign showing his impressive figure as king. Source two implies that Henry was an impressive warrior king because he says “look here and I also have a good calf to my leg”. This shows that he is physically impressive, a characteristic of an impressive warrior king. We can rely on this source as it was taken directly from the Venetian ambassador’s report to his government. We can also infer from source three that Henry is physically impressive as the portrait shows a large man with broad shoulders. This agrees with source two and therefore supports the strongest argument that Henry was an impressive figure as king.
However this portrait is by an unknown artist therefore it is very unreliable. It is also highly likely that Henry has paid the artist to make him look like an impressive warrior king. The argument that Henry was an impressive warrior king is also strengthened by source one. We can infer from source one that he had characteristics of a warrior because it tells us of how he was practicing with his guards at archery. Not only was he practicing with them, he also beat them as he hit the mark in the middle. We can rely on this source as it is taken as an extract from a personal diary written by the king’s Chaplin.
The strongest argument suggests that henry was an impressive figure as king. This can be inferred from all three sources. Source one implies that Henry is an impressive figure as king as he is superior to all of his guards as he beats them at archery, hitting “the mark in the middle”. We can also infer from source one that he has power over everyone else. He has enough time to practice archery; this means that he is employing people to do his jobs he would otherwise have to do. Source two also implies Henry was an impressive figure of a king as it tells us that Henry was physically impressive. “I also have a good calf to my leg”.
The argument that Henry was an impressive figure as king is also supported by source three as Henry VIII’s portrait shows a physically impressive King with broad shoulders. We can also infer from source three that Henry VIII is very wealthy as he is wearing a lot of jewellery. Source two also implies that Henry was well educated as it shows Henry addressing the Venetian ambassador in French, “His majesty addressing me in French.” nery was HHhffAll three sources suggest that Henry was an impressive king as he demonstrates power both physically, economically and he has a good education. | 2019-04-20T04:30:55 | https://phdessay.com/how-far-do-these-sources-suggest-that-young-henry-viii-was-an-impressive-figure-as-a-king/ |
0.999571 | WHEN is the right time to hire outside help? It could be during a big, accelerated project, where your team doesn't have the labor needed to meet the fast-approaching deadline. Or maybe, it's a project that's more sophisticated than usual, and you need some extra consulting or training in order to achieve the best results for your client. Perhaps your web designer recently left, and you need someone right away to make up their work until you can find the right employee to hire on full-time. Whatever your situation is, bringing on contractors typically happens when you need some extra help getting things done fast and well, whether it's a temporary solution or over a longer term.
Often, employees of small and medium-sized companies will wear many hats; they'll fulfill a multitude of roles. And, it typically works for everyone involved in those companies, so a lot of their work remains in-house. But, one of the great things about hiring contractors is that they can come in with their professional expertise and provide their support to that generalist employee. They can give professional recommendations, train them on new skills, or simply help them with their extra workload. And, once their work is over, the contractors can leave again until you need their help with another project.
There isn't just one type of contractor, either. Contract terms can often be flexible, and they can fit the business owners' needs for their particular project. There are many different ways that people can be brought onboard.
First off, there are independent contractors, or freelancers, and then there are companies that provide teams of contractors. In contracting a team, it's possible to get the combined industry knowledge, technical skill, and overall labor for a similar price as it would be to contract a freelancer. Companies don't always advertise contract work in their services, but many are open to it. If you're interested in hiring contractors from a company, simply contact the company and ask if they'd be willing to work with you.
In addition, you can decide how often you want your contractors to work during their contracted period, whether it's working daily or periodically throughout the week or month. A lot of times, contractors will agree to be on retainer, meaning they'll be ready to jump in and help you whenever you need them to, which is especially valuable for unexpected projects and emergencies. Finally, you can choose to have your contractors work remotely or have them come in to work onsite with you and your team.
At Trail 9, we've been hired out as contractors multiple times. Here are some of the ways we've worked with our contracting parties.
During one of our contracts, we were hired to help a company finish a project in time for an upcoming conference they were going to. We did the physical work of helping them finish their project, and we also gave them our professional recommendations. Whether they followed those or not was up to them, but, regardless, they were able to make it to their conference on time with their finished project.
For another company, I was contracted to come in and work as a technical expert and developer. I worked alongside their web designer, who focused on the front-end development while I worked on the back-end. In doing so, my work complimented what he did. I also contributed with skills that they didn't have at the time, like programming and integration work. With both of us working together, we temporarily covered both bases needed for their web design and development.
During one contract term, we were hired on retainer for a company, and we acted as a secondary support source for them. They had their typical day-to-day work, and then, if they had work overflow, questions, or a need for more technical skills, we would step in and help them complete their goal, whatever it happened to be. So, the combination worked well for them— having their in-house work as well as bringing in a contractor to help out regularly.
Another business we were on retainer with would often have flash sales online or make big announcements on their eCommerce website. During these times, when they pushed the limits of what they could do themselves, we would come in and make sure that they could achieve their goals, whether with their eCommerce website or with their online marketing and sales. Over time, we helped them retune certain things to keep their website's performance up during those intense events.
The best way to find out what you can get from a potential contractor is to ask them. If they're experienced in contract work, then they'll likely be willing to work with you based on your individual needs. Contracting teams can be pricier than hiring a freelancer, but not always. And, with a team, you get combined strengths in every project aspect: research, skills, labor, communication— you name it. So, the next time your business needs extra help, think about hiring a contractor or a team. You could tap into a whole new world of affordable productivity!
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0.999999 | Do grandparents have any rights of custody or visitation with their grandchildren in Georgia?
Yes, grandparents and third parties (aunts, uncles, other relatives and sometimes even non-relatives) do have rights in Georgia to seek custody or visitation with their grand children (or with the children of others for a "third party"), but there is a very strong preference for natural parents to have custody of their own children.
My grandson has lived with me for the past three years. His parents (my son and his wife) have had little or no contact with him during that time, but now, they want my grandson to live with them. Is there anything that I can do to ensure that my grandson will continue to live with me?
In a custody proceeding between the parents and a grandparent, the court will determine custody based on the best interest of the child standard. This standard requires the grandparent to show that (1) parental custody would harm the child; and (2) granting custody to the grandparent will promote the child's health, welfare and happiness. A grandparent has a more difficult legal standard to meet than does a parent when seeking custody of a child.
My grandchildren have lived with me for the past three years. Their parents (my son and his wife) have had little or no contact with the children during that time, and now, they want the children to live with them. What can I do to ensure that I will be able to spend time with my grandchildren once they are living with their parents?
Georgia law allows grandparents to seek visitation rights with their grandchildren in any case involving custody of the grandchildren, including a divorce between a child's parents. In such cases, the court may grant visitation rights to the grandparent if the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that (1) the health and/or welfare of the children would be harmed unless the visitation was granted and (2) granting the visitation would be in the best interest of the children. | 2019-04-23T15:15:06 | https://sworrall.typepad.com/georgia_family_law/2007/04/grandparents_ri.html |
0.999996 | The objective of this experiment is to determine the lowest concentration of a substance dissolved in water which can still be tasted; the substances that will be used are sugar, salt, and vinegar. Your threshold would be the lowest concentration value or percentage that you can still taste the solution. In other words, if your threshold level is low (i.e. .001%) then you would be very sensitive to that substance (or you could taste that substance at very low concentrations). If your threshold level is high (i.e. 10%) then you would not be very sensitive to that substance (or you would only be able to taste that substance at high concentrations). When you were very young, your threshold was low due to the fact that your taste buds where newly developing and very sensitive; there’s an opposite effect when you’re older, typically the elderly lose their taste buds.
- use a metric ruler and measure 4 cm from the bottom of the “coffee” cups and then mark a line inside and outside the cups. The line will represent a 90 ml measurement.
- use a metric ruler and measure 1 cm from the bottom of 1 “Dixie” cup and then mark a line inside and outside the cup. The line will represent a 10 ml measurement.
- the other 2 “Dixie” cups will be used as “rinsing” cups: Label one cup with your name and the word “Rinsing Cup” with a pen/marker; do the same for your partner with the other cup; but with their name.
2. Measure out 90 mL of water by placing it into each of your measured “coffee” cups.
4. Measure 10 grams of sugar using the electronic balance (as per instructed) and add the 10 grams of sugar to the “coffee” cup marked 10%. Use a clean stirring rod, mix the solution well (try to dissolve completely). This will give you a 10% sugar solution.
5. Measure out 10 mL of the 10% sugar solution by pouring it into your measured “Dixie” cup.
6. Place the 10 mL of the 10% sugar solution from your “Dixie” cup into the “coffee” cup marked 1%. This will give you a solution of 1% sugar solution.
7. Measure out 10 mL of the 1% sugar solution by pouring it into your measured “Dixie” cup.
8. Place the 10 mL of the 1% sugar solution from your “Dixie” cup into the “coffee” cup marked .1%. This will give you a solution of .1% sugar solution.
9. Measure out 10 mL of the .1% sugar solution by pouring it into your pre-measured “Dixie” cup.
10. Place the 10 mL of the .1% sugar solution from your “Dixie” cup into the “coffee” cup marked .01%. This will give you a solution of .01% sugar solution.
11. Measure out 10 mL of the .01% sugar solution by pouring it into your pre-measured “Dixie” cup.
12. Place the 10 mL of the .01% sugar solution from your “Dixie” cup into the “coffee” cup marked .001%. This will give you a solution of .001% sugar solution.
13. You now should have 5 “coffee cups” labeled accordingly.
14. Arrange each “coffee” cup from the smallest concentration to the highest from left to right.
16. Place each cotton swab into each “coffee” cup.
17. Have the one being tested on rinse their mouth with the “rinsing” Dixie cup and have them wipe their tongue dry with the clean paper towel.
Note: Don’t put your tongue back into your mouth.
18. Have the other partner smear, coat, paint the .001% solution all around the tongue of the other partner.
“Can you taste the substance being tested”?
19. Keep on doing the experiment for .01%, .1%, 1%, and 10% solutions (steps 15-18) even if you have reached your threshold level.
Note: The lowest concentration at which you can still taste is your approximate taste threshold for that solution.
21. Rinse the “coffee” cups “only” (pour any solution into the sink and “do not” use soap).
23. Rinse the stirring rod.
24. Repeat the experiment with salt (salty) and then with vinegar (sour) **.
** Note: To make a 10% solution of vinegar, use 10 mL of vinegar (measured from the cleaned graduated cylinder) and add it to your 90 mL of water in your 10% marked “coffee” cup.
25. Clean and return all materials. | 2019-04-20T03:15:14 | http://www.rm118.com/anaphy/2015-16/taste15.htm |
0.978096 | Victim have done a video for their 7" on Spit Records. It's two unreleased track from this Northern Irish punk band who were on Good Vibrations and is limited to just 300 hand-numbered copies.
Bono once wrote a letter to Captain Beefheart asking if he would be interested in writing/recording together. The reply was hand written, and it said this: Dear Bongo, No. | 2019-04-26T14:15:09 | http://www.vinylonthe.net/blah/category/stuff/page/8/ |
0.997764 | Feet: where you go, they go, and they take a lot of physical abuse doing it. On an average day, your walking will put a force equivalent to hundreds of tons on your feet.
You can rejuvenate your tired toes using pedicure, and for this, you can visit a spa or do it right in your home. The good thing about pedicure is that it is not just your feet that will feel better, but your whole body as well.
1. Soothe the soles, and while at it avoid a foot razor. Your feet will thank you for smoothing calluses on the heels, balls, and the sides of your feet by making you feel much better. While doing this, avoid using a razor, which may take away too much skin, and even cause permanent damage, not to mention breakages on the skin through which infections can enter the body. You should use a pumice stone, a foot scrub, or a foot file instead.
2. Dry your feet. After you are done soaking the feet and scrubbing them, rinse them off thoroughly and pat them with a towel until they are dry. Moisture, especially in easy to miss areas such as between the toes, can cause fungal infections such as athlete's foot.
3. Trim your toenails. Trim the toenails just above the top of each toe, and make sure you do so using a straight-edged razor. A curved razor can cause your toenails to get curved and rounded at the corners.
4. Clean under the nails. Some dirt gets trapped beneath the nails, and you should use a wooden or rubber manicure stick to get rid of it. The skin on this part of the toe is quite sensitive, which is why you should be gentle, and above all use something that is too sharp or could rupture the skin.
5. Shape your toenails. You should use an emery board to smooth out the toenails' edges. Also, make sure to file in a single direction rather than back and forth to avoid rounding the nails' corners.
6. Don't forget the cuticles. Use a hand cream or a cuticle cream to moisturize your cuticles. After this, push them back with a cuticle pusher or a manicure stick. Never cut off your cuticles, as they act as barriers to bacteria trying to get into your body.
7. Apply nail polish. Nail polish prevents the nail bed from 'breathing' in addition to locking out moisture. You should only paint the nails if they are health. Also ensure that you remove the polish once in a while using a nail polish that is free of acetone.
Mike is a fifty something web developer and internet marketer. Based in Chiang Mai, Thailand he is husband and father of three. Why foot care well having suffered with many foot problems himself he feels he has some knowledge to share about treatments that work and those that don't. Painful feet are without a doubt potentially life changing and one the positive many of these treatments are highly therapeutic. | 2019-04-20T19:08:03 | https://foot-love.com/tlc-for-tired-toes/ |
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