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0.998645 | Did the entire market come down with a case of amnesia, and forget all about when the miners, industrials and biotechs roared on Monday? Judging by the action on the averages on Tuesday, Jim Cramer suspects that could be the case.
"Last night I tried to be skeptical, if not downright critical, about the rally, suggesting it could easily be repealed as the week went on. I didn't know it would be repealed immediately," the "Mad Money" host said.
That's because Cramer was not expecting that investors would be dealing with a Chinese currency devaluation, which makes China's goods cheaper to export and U.S. goods more expensive to sell there.
The devaluation shocked Cramer so much that he decided to review what happened, so that investors can be prepared for what is next.
First, China is totally desperate. It is clear to Cramer that the Chinese Communist government is trying to put everyone to work while also trying to stop widespread corruption in business and politics. It tried to fix the issue by exports, but then Europe fell apart. Then it tried infrastructure, but now it seems as if everything it needed has been built.
An investor looking at stock prices in Haikou, China, August 11, 2015.
It even tried to boost its own stock market, but it didn't put enough rules in place to protect the gamblers who borrowed massive amounts of money and sent stocks flying before they crashed. Now, investors recently learned that Chinese exports have dropped 8 percent, an astounding number, and the Communist Party took a desperate measure and devalued its own currency by almost 2 percent.
"That might not seem like much for a country that's devalued before to stay competitive, but this move is five times bigger than anything the Chinese have done in the last decade," Cramer said.
The market recognized what these signals meant—a trade war.
That is precisely why so many stocks, including Apple and General Motors, were so weak on Tuesday; China clearly wanted its consumers to buy goods of Chinese companies.
Cramer interprets the devaluation as a sign that things are much worse in China than even the bears realize. After all, why else would it take such extreme measures?
As a result, there are two important things that Cramer wants investors to keep in mind. First, none of the companies with sinking stocks on Tuesday have been a part of the bull market recently. That means it is time to rotate back to dividend stocks that yield 3 to 5 percent, like General Mills and PepsiCo. Domestic stocks with no Chinese exposure can go higher.
But the more worrisome side to China's desperate move is that it is reminiscent of the same moves seen by Japan and Europe when they both tried to stimulate exports to get the economy going. In other words, they were trying to take sales away from American companies. They want to depress U.S. exports and boost U.S. imports.
It's working, and that is precisely why Cramer is worried.
"Our recovery seems real, but it's shallow. Other than employment, there's nothing really strong about recovery at all," Cramer added.
In his perspective, it is entirely possible that a Fed tightening in September could cause serious repercussions for all U.S.-based international companies. In fact, it would not shock Cramer to see the U.S. go back into a recession if the Fed isn't mindful of the trade war declared on the United States.
Thus, if the Fed does not take what is happening in China seriously, a rate hike could cause real damage. It's time for the Fed to be data dependent, and realize that the rest of the world is uniformly awful.
"If we're not careful, we could reprise the 1937 recession within a Great Depression scenario caused by a Fed that also felt it just had to raise the rates, because, well, the worst was over. It wasn't," Cramer said. | 2019-04-20T15:05:16 | https://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/11/cramer-chinas-trade-war-on-the-us-could-be-huge.html |
0.998756 | In preparation for the transit of the Northwest Passage, I have been in contact with sailors who have accomplished a transit in recent years, have attended several lectures on the subject, have read all relevant material that I could find, and have also consulted people who have worked in that area.
I believe that I have a fairly good idea of what such a transit entails. The main conclusion is that compared to other high latitude voyages, such as passages to Antarctica, Spitsbergen or Alaska, which are areas where I have sailed in the past, the challenges poised by the Northwest Passage are entirely different.
Whereas in the former cases, the success of a voyage depends primarily on the experience of the skipper and crew, as well as the suitability of the vessel, in other words, on objective criteria, in the case of the Northwest Passage, there are several subjective criteria which are entirely out of your control and therefore can result in failure unless you are prepared to do all in your power to minimize those risks.
There is no question that the Northwest Passage presents a considerable challenge but challenges are there to be overcome, hence my late decision to have a new boat built and do it myself. Besides the boat, I have made all necessary preparations for such a challenging voyage and both myself, and my permanent crew, Nick Carter and Nikki Woodroffe, have a wide experience of high-latitude sailing.
There is a well defined strategy for a transit of the NW Passage, and it is entirely dictated by the ice situation. Being able to take advantage of every favourable opportunity is to key to a successful transit.
During the short summer season, the sea ice, which has formed over the long winter, as well as the ice left from previous winters, melts to a greater or lesser extent. The ice usually retreats from west to east (Pacific to Atlantic). This means that in most years the eastern approaches to the NW Passage are the last to become free of ice. If planning an east to west passage, as in our case, the way to overcome this problem is to plan on arriving at the chosen point of departure in the second half of July, and be prepared to wait until the ice has started retreating to such an extent that a transit may be safely attempted. This tactic can entail a long wait, and also means that yachts must be ready to go as soon as conditions look favourable, as the situation can change rapidly. It is therefore imperative to be in the appropriate area and ready by mid-July at the latest, which is exactly what we are doing by having arrived at Nuuk before the end of June.
The capital of Greenland is an excellent place for provisioning, maintenance, crew changes, etc. We shall be joined here by the rest of the crew and by 15 July resume our voyage. Depending on the ice situation in Baffin Bay, which needs to be crossed to reach Arctic Canada, there are two route options, either sail directly west to Pond Inlet or Lancaster Sound to wait for the ice to start retreating, or continue along the west coast of Greenland, which is usually free of ice by early July. As soon as the ice situation is deemed to be favourable we shall sail to Eastern Canada, and if conditions are right, commence the transit of the Northwest Passage. | 2019-04-19T12:17:53 | https://cornellsailing.com/de/2014/06/the-strategy-for-an-east-to-west-transit-of-the-northwest-passage/ |
0.999994 | Robert Durst was told to write.
It was the last day of April 2002 and Durst, the millionaire scion of a New York real estate family, was awaiting trial for the slaying of his elderly neighbor in Galveston, Texas.
But on that day, the focus was on a different homicide: the execution-style shooting of Los Angeles writer Susan Berman two years earlier.
Los Angeles Police Det. Paul Coulter and a handwriting expert from the LAPD's crime lab had traveled to the port city with hopes of tying Durst to the killing of Berman, a friend and confidant.
Under orders from a judge, Durst took pen to paper. In all capital letters he wrote "BEVERLEY HILLS POLICE," "1527 BENEDICT CANYON" and "CADAVER."
It was not a random choice of words.
Robert Durst case: In the March 19 Section A, an article about the murder case against Robert Durst said that an HBO documentary aired on the day of Durst's arrest. It aired March 15, the day after his arrest.
About the time Berman was killed, Beverly Hills police had received a mysterious letter. On the envelope, the writer had misspelled "Beverly." The letter contained only Berman's Benedict Canyon address and the word "cadaver." As best as investigators could tell, the letter had been postmarked on the same day, or the day after, Berman was killed.
The hand that wrote the letter, they surmised, was probably the same hand that pulled the trigger.
A search warrant released Wednesday from Houston offers a detailed narrative of how police over the last 14 years tried to identify the author of the letter.
The Galveston trip was a turning point in a disjointed odyssey by Los Angeles police to determine whether Durst did or didn't put pen to paper. It was an endeavor beset by false starts, shoddy oversight in the LAPD's laboratory and, ultimately, a consensus among experts and police that Durst had written the letter.
The search for answers came to a dramatic climax Saturday when authorities in New Orleans arrested Durst at the behest of Los Angeles police. Prosecutors have now formally charged him with Berman's murder and are awaiting his extradition from New Orleans.
Whenever it happens, Durst's murder trial is certain to feature a legal battle over the letter and the imperfect work police did over the years to match Durst to it. While prosecutors try to convince a jury that Durst was the author, his lawyers will fight to poke holes in what one of them, Richard DeGuerin, said Wednesday is the "junk science" of handwriting analysis.
Coulter, who retired in 2012, has declined repeated requests to be interviewed.
"We are not going to discuss the details of this case until we have the opportunity to present it in court," LAPD spokesman Cmdr. Andrew Smith said.
The attempt to make sense of the letter began in late February 2001, a year before Coulter's trip to Galveston.
At the time, the warrant affidavit shows, detectives had focused on a different potential suspect, Berman's manager Nyle Brenner. Comparing writing samples from Brenner to the letter, LAPD handwriting analyst William Leaver concluded in a report that it was "highly probable" Brenner was the letter's author, according to the affidavit.
By October, however, attention had turned to Durst. Investigators brought Leaver a few examples of the man's writing. Leaver found "similarities" between Durst's writings and the letter, but said more samples were needed, the affidavit said.
That led Coulter and Leaver's supervisor, Karen Chiarodit, to Texas. Leaver found that "it is probable that the questioned writing on the envelope and note was written by" Durst, the warrant states.
Faced with conflicting reports that fingered two people as the likely culprit, Leaver quickly followed his analysis of Durst's writing with a conclusion that it was now "highly probable" that Brenner had not written the note to police. A specialist in the state's Department of Justice reviewed the work and agreed there was no reason to suspect Brenner, who could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
The tentative conclusion that Durst, not Brenner, was behind the letter was apparently not enough to make a case. Durst acknowledged to Los Angeles police that he was in California around the time of the murder, but insisted he had not been in Los Angeles. Coulter and other detectives could find no evidence proving otherwise.
Durst was a compelling suspect. Shortly before Berman was killed, New York authorities reopened their investigation into the disappearance of Durst's wife — another case in which he was suspected. When Berman was found with a bullet in her head, investigators were preparing to speak with her to learn what Durst might have told her about his wife.
But with little other than the writing analysis to go on, the search for Berman's killer went cold.
More than a decade later, new life was breathed into the case. In September 2014, with Coulter and Leaver retired, another detective from the LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division interviewed Chiarodit, Leaver's lab supervisor.
Under questioning, Chiarodit acknowledged that she had not reviewed Leaver's work that had initially linked the letter to Brenner and "basically 'rubber stamped'" his report, the warrant affidavit said.
Chiarodit, who is still assigned to the department's lab, could not be reached. In a brief phone call, Leaver declined to discuss any details of the analysis he did on the case, citing the ongoing investigation and upcoming trial. He attempted to downplay his role, saying, "It was all the detectives' work, not mine. It will all come out at trial."
Following Chiarodit's admission, the affidavit shows the detectives went in search of experts outside the department's own lab. They took letter and writing samples from Durst and Brenner to Lloyd Cunningham, a forensic document examiner in Alamo, Calif.
At a meeting in November with detectives and prosecutors from the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, Cunningham "identified" Durst as the author of the letter and eliminated Brenner's handwriting as a possible match, the affidavit said. A second outside expert concurred.
It is not known what Durst writing sample was given to Cunningham. In a multi-part HBO documentary on Durst that concluded day after Durst's arrest, Berman's stepson is seen discovering a 1999 letter Durst wrote to Berman.
March 18, 8:05 p.m. An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the HBO documentary aired on the day of Robert Durst's arrest. It aired the day after his arrest.
In the address on the envelope, Durst misspelled "Beverly" the same way it was misspelled in the letter to police. And the handwriting appears to be similar.
The film's director, Andrew Jarecki, has said in recent interviews that he had been in contact with enforcement officials in Los Angeles about his work for the last two years and indicated he alerted them about the discovered letter. After the most recent expert opinions, the LAPD formed a task force for the case, working closely with federal agents who were monitoring Durst's activities. Within months he was in custody. | 2019-04-22T16:37:31 | https://www.latimes.com/local/crime/la-me-durst-letter-20150319-story.html |
0.998632 | Would you like to earn money with your arts and crafts? Do you wonder how to make your craft marketable? Here are five tips that will help you make an income with your own arts and crafts.
Would you like to earn money with your arts and crafts? Are you tired of working for someone other than yourself? Would you like to build a business with your own creativity? Do you wonder how to make your craft marketable? Below are five tips that will help you make an income with your own arts and crafts.
Build a business foundation: When building a business to earn money with your arts and crafts, make sure your product is in demand and a marketable craft. When picking your foundation products, make sure they are not seasonal items. You need to pick products that can be sold year round, then add a few holiday crafts throughout the year.
If you choose to produce crafts that have a shelf life, try to pick just a few items to sell in addition to the foundation product. By adding a large variety of products to your display you will draw the attention of many different customers.
Arts and Crafts that are in demand: Look for items that are needed such as: baby items, home decor, personalized gifts, holiday crafts, jewelry or other personal items. The list could go on and on - your opportunities could be endless.
One approach to help you make a decisions on products is to visit boutiques, craft suppliers and other retail stores in your area. By doing this and researching what sells effectively in your area, you can make those very important decisions.
Determine necessity: The best-selling crafts are the ones that are needed by consumers, not ones that are simply wanted. If you are making something like beautiful baby quilts, they are far more likely to sell than something like a higher priced wood carving.
Make your arts and crafts target your demographic: Where will you be selling your product? Are you selling it at a Craft Boutique? Then perhaps, you should not make a hunting related product, save that for a Hunting and Camping Expo. Instead, make something like a wooden home de'cor product.
Don't follow trends: Trends in crafts come and go. Don't base your business solely on what's hot right now. It's okay to sell trendy and hot items, but make sure you also have a variety of other items for when this trend is no longer popular.
By using these five easy steps, you should be ready to choose the arts and or crafts you would like to create for your business. You should start out slow- only making a few of each item until you see what is going to sell. This way you are not going to be left with hundreds of left over products that you just did not market well.
The most important thing to remember when starting your own retail business is to have fun with it, and to learn from your mistakes. You will make mistakes, but that is the way a good business is built. | 2019-04-21T08:16:06 | http://bucarotechelp.com/getpaid/crafts/93091206.asp |
0.999035 | سوريا، دوما: أضرار بالممتلكات و إسعاف للجرحى وسط الدمار، إثر أربع غارات لطائرات حربية، يرجح أنها للنظام، استهدفت الأحياء السكنية في مدينة دوما في ريف دمشق، جنوبي البلاد، يوم 25 شباط 2017، ما أسفر عن مقتل ستة مدنيين وجرح عشرات آخرين، وسط قصف مدفعي لقوات النظام. وتشهد دوما ومواقع أخرى في غوطة دمشق الشرقية، في الآونة الأخيرة، قصفاً جوياً ومدفعياً من قوات النظام، في خرق مستمر لاتفاق وقف اطلاق النار في سوريا، المبرم منذ 30 كانون الأول 2016.
On Monday, loyalist forces bombed cities and towns in Eastern Ghouta in the Syrian capital of Damascus, killing three civilians.
The Civil Defense documented in a brief statement on social media that air strikes killed three civilians, including a child, in the town of Madeira, 11 km east of Damascus. Activists said that the bombing wounded 12 civilians, and it is likely to be from government warplanes.
20 artillery shells hit the town and its outskirts. Civil Defense teams searched the targeted residential neighborhoods.
The Civil Defense said that civilians were wounded by intense shelling in the city of Harasta with 45 shells, 34 surface-to-surface missiles, and 35 air strikes. Activists said that the shelling is likely to be from government warplanes.
Activists pointed out that suspected government warplanes targeted the city of Erbeen, causing material damaging.
On Sunday, shelling killed two civilians and wounded others in the cities of Douma, Erbeen and Harasta. Also, suspected government warplanes launched 41 raids on the city of Harasta. | 2019-04-21T08:46:25 | https://smartnews-agency.com/ar/wires/252649/air-and-artillery-shelling-kills-and-wounds-civilians |
0.902287 | "I think if you want to consider yourself to be serious that it will not appear anywhere," the comedian told an AP interviewer who dared to ask The Question.
On November 6, the Associated Press interviewed Bill Cosby and his wife Camille. The occasion was a show at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, which (currently) features an exhibition displaying Cosby's collection of African American art.
The on-camera interview took place after the multiple sexual assault allegations against the comedian (re-)gained attention; the interviewer, much like NPR's Scott Simon did in his own talk with Cosby, mentioned them, giving Cosby a chance to respond. "I didn't want to—I have to ask about your name coming up in the news recently," the reporter said.
To which Cosby gave the non-answer answer that is becoming his standard: "No, no, we don't answer that," he replied.
Cosby kept responding, though. "There is no comment about that," Cosby reiterated, "and I'll tell you why. I think you were told. I—I don't want to compromise your integrity. But we don't—I don't—talk about it."
I don't want to compromise your integrity. This is a strange sentiment, considering that one of a reporter's primary jobs is to adjudicate the truth. Cosby is a public figure; he is, whether he likes it or not, currently being tried in one of the oldest legal systems there is: the court of public opinion. And in that court, whether they like it or not, journalists can serve as lawyers and judges and juries, often all at the same time.
Which is also to say: The only way for the reporter to have compromised his integrity, in this case, would have been to shy away from asking the question in the first place.
Bill Cosby did not realize that. Or, perhaps, he chose to ignore it, instead making use of the rhetorical power of indignation. Toward the end of the interview—still on camera, still on the record—he asked the reporter, "Now can I get something from you?"
"What's that?" the reporter replied.
"That none of that will be shown," Cosby said.
The reporter pointed out that there wasn't much "that" to show: Cosby had not actually answered his question.
"I know I didn't say anything," Cosby said, "but I'm asking your integrity that since I didn't want to say anything, but I did answer you, in terms of I don't want to say anything, of what value will it have?"
He continued: "And I would appreciate it if it was scuttled."
Later: "I think if you want to consider yourself to be serious that it will not appear anywhere."
In conclusion: "And we thought, by the way, because it was AP, that it wouldn't be necessary to go over that question with you."
And: "If you will just tell your boss the reason why we didn't say that up-front was because we thought that AP had the integrity to not ask."
AP, however, did have the integrity to ask. The reporter did what my colleague Ta-Nehisi Coates admonished all journalists to do: to "go there," awkwardness and everything else aside. And the results of the asked question were—even and especially in the absence of an actual answer—revealing. | 2019-04-25T03:59:07 | https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/11/bill-cosby-journalists-who-question-him-about-rape-allegations-lack-integrity/382989/ |
0.999834 | How did Erikson structure his theory of psychosocial development?
Erikson's theory consists of eight stages that center on potential conflicts in social interaction and span a person's entire life. Erikson's theory consists of eight stages that focus on potential psychosexual conflicts and span a person's entire life.
Erikson's theory consists of five stages that center on conflicts in social interaction and take place in the first few years of childhood. Erikson's theory consists of seven stages that focus on psychosocial problems resulting from abuse during childhood.
1. What do infants learn during the trust vs. mistrust stage?
Infants learn whether or not they can safely explore their surroundings.
Infants learn whether they can trust that the world is permanent.
Infants learn whether or not they can trust that their caregivers will provide for their basic needs.
Infants learn about their self-awareness and identities.
2. Trust vs. mistrust is characterized by the question _____.
Can I trust that the world is a safe place?
Can I safely explore my surroundings?
Have I established a successful career and/or family?
This quiz and worksheet help ensure your understanding of how Erikson believed the trust and mistrust stage of his psychosocial theory can affect a person's life. Topics you will be quizzed on include the characteristics that can develop if the basic needs of an infant are not met, and the question that characterizes trust vs. mistrust. | 2019-04-20T21:08:50 | https://study.com/academy/practice/quiz-worksheet-erikson-s-trust-mistrust-theory.html |
0.99887 | How Will Blockchain Impact the Future of Logistics Technology?
Blockchain is a new, ingenious technology that is a digital leader that helps make transactions in Bitcoin or another type of cryptocurrency. Blockchain helps record the results of those transactions both publicly and privately. Blockchain is the technology behind bitcoin that helps it run more smoothly.
Wall Street, for one, is in favor of simplifying how the blockchain technology professes transactions to make it run more smoothly. Ideally, one day, many people see bitchain running the process of making virtually all online transactions for businesses.
What Would Be the Positive Effects of Blockchain for Logistics Companies?
Helps eliminate back-office costs for the company by helping do what companies used to have to hire accounts and other workers for.
Servers store information when each transaction is initiated.
The database the transaction information is stored in is safe and secure.
There are no approvals that have to be made by the back-office for the transaction to be able to occur.
The database software is written so that double-transactions are avoided and information is not stored more than once.
Allows transactions to occur between unknown parties so new customers can purchase whenever they like.
What Would Be the Negative Effects of Blockchain on Logistics Companies?
Using blockchain eliminates many back-office jobs for people that work in that field if it becomes widely used.
While there are safety features on blockchain, it is likely able to be hacked in someway.
It's a new technology so not a lot of companies have used it yet. If a company adopts this as a form of "currency" it may be awhile before other companies are using blockchain as well.
As with any new technology there are upfront costs to implement blockchain into a company's current technological framework.
In the end, it depends on what works for each individual company as to whether they should use what blockchain has to offer. Each company is different, and it depends what they are looking for as it if blockchain is right for them. Studying up on all the nuances of blockchain and understand what purposes it's intended to serve will help the company make the right decision for them. | 2019-04-24T11:26:15 | https://www.simpliship.com/index.php/blog/53-how-will-blockchain-impact-the-future-of-logistics-technology |
0.999998 | HOLIDAYMAKERS have been left furious after one of the UK's largest tour operators added a surcharge of up to £50 per person to bookings - because of Brexit.
Mark Warner Holidays blamed currency fluctuations as a result of June's vote to leave the EU for the additional charge to customers' holiday packages.
A surcharge - of between £30 and £50 per person - has been added to revised invoices, and customers have to to pay up within 14 days of receiving notification.
When The Sun Online asked the company what would happen if customers didn't pay within the 14 days, it wouldn't comment.
The company, which sells ski and sun package trips, emailed customers last week to say it was exercising a surcharge clause in its booking terms because the value of the pound has plummeted against the euro since the Brexit vote.
Angry holidaymakers who want to cancel their package with the company will face cancellation fees if the booking is cancelled less than ten weeks before departure.
Those cancelling less than 14 days before departure will lose the entire value of their holiday.
One customer took to Mark Warner's Facebook page to say that her mum had been charged an extra £100 for her skiing holiday, and that the sum would have to be paid on December 22nd - three days before Christmas.
Another peeved holidaymaker said that despite booking with the company 15 times, this trip would be her last as she is so unhappy with the surcharge.
Mark Warner Holidays was contacted by The Sun Online but declined to comment.
As frustrating as it is, travel operators are allowed to add a surcharge to booked package holidays - whether it's to do with rising fuel costs, increased taxes, or currency fluctuations - so long as they have this clause in their terms and conditions.
Companies must ask for this additional money more than 30 days before departure.
If the operator is an Abta member, Abta must have agreed this charge before it's put in place.
If the company isn't a member of Abta, the UK's travel association, the company must provide a breakdown of how the costs have been calculated.
If a customer is unsatisfied with this breakdown, they can threaten to cancel in exchange for a full refund.
How much can the surcharge be?
The surcharge can be no more than ten per cent, and tour operators must absorb the first two per cent of this.
If the surcharge is above ten per cent customers have the right to cancel and receive a full refund.
However, if it is less than ten per cent, customers are not entitled to a full refund if they cancel.
Have you been affected by Mark Warner Holidays' added surcharge? Email me at [email protected]. | 2019-04-21T13:04:39 | https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2387012/holiday-firm-orders-customers-to-pay-50-brexit-surcharge-for-trips-theyve-already-booked-and-paid-for/ |
0.999603 | You'll love this easy lemon muffin recipe. The zesty orange glazing lends a fresh citrus note to these moist and delicious homemade muffins. You'll love eating them with your morning coffee or for serving to your favorite friends. Complete with illustrated instructions.
Follow the step-by-step instructions below, and you'll make the best lemon muffins you've ever tasted. Plus, you'll be able to use the same method to make other homemade muffin recipes from scratch.
Preheat oven to 325°F and spray your muffin pans with cooking spray for quick and easy release of muffins after baking.
Combine cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, water, and oil, and beat ingredients together until thoroughly mixed.
Arrange muffin pans in preparation for next step.
Add about 1 tablespoon of lemon muffin batter to each pan until filled about halfway.
Tip: Use a 1 tablespoon measuring spoon and overfill it since not all the batter will come off the measuring spoon. To avoid dripping, flip the spoon over as you're bringing it out so that the drip rolls onto the back of the spoon.
Wipe any excess batter off top of pan and smooth muffin pan edges.
If you have leftover batter, spray another pan and make more muffins. I usually make a pan of larger muffins. These can be iced with cake icing, or you can use the orange glaze; however, you will likely need to make extra glaze if you plan to do that.
Arrange pans in preheated oven and set the timer. I prefer to cook mine at 325°F for about 12 minutes. You may want to try 10 minutes first, then check to see whether they are done.
While the muffins are baking, mix the ingredients for the orange glaze and stir until it's thoroughly mixed. If you have a fresh orange available, you can add a little zest to the mixture for added flavor.
Aside from this lemon muffin recipe, the orange glaze is also excellent as a topping for pound cakes.
When the 10 to 12 minutes baking time is up, use a toothpick to check muffins to see whether they are done. If done, the toothpick should come out clean without any batter sticking to it.
NOTE: Darker pans cook faster so if you want all your muffins to look the same, you can take those pans out a little sooner. Otherwise, don't worry about it.
Carefully remove each muffin and place it on a large piece of wax paper. Using a fork, carefully loosen and raise one side and lift the muffin out.
Arrange the muffins close together ready for glazing. This is just a work preference.
Dip each muffin into the orange glaze. I dip the bottom first then flip it with my fork and let the top soak up some glaze as well! If you aren't sure how much orange glaze you like, you may want to try dipping just the muffin top first.
Hold muffin over the bowl for a moment to allow any excess glaze to drain before placing the muffin back onto the wax paper.
Once all muffins have been dipped and dunked and have lots of glaze, cover them with wax paper and allow the glaze to dry.
Package your tasty muffins in an airtight container for transport or for serving fresh and moist later.
Why not try this easy lemon muffin recipe tonight? Enjoy serving your homemade glazed muffins to friends and family. | 2019-04-26T16:37:54 | https://www.homemade-dessert-recipes.com/lemon-muffin-recipe.html |
0.998612 | Pre-retirees are feeling confident in their financial knowledge, with 9 out of 10 pre-retirees claiming it is average or above average, but a Newspoll survey commissioned by the Commonwealth Bank has found there are gaps in their financial education which could cost them money.
A new Commonwealth Bank Retire Ready Survey has revealed that many pre-retirees are on the right path financially, with six out of ten people aware of how much superannuation they have accrued, six in ten planning to supplement their superannuation or the government pension with another form of investment, and 15% intending to work full-time after the age of 65.
However, while many Australians are taking responsibility for funding their retirement, the survey found 78% of pre-retirees are not aware of exactly how much retirement income they will receive from their main source1, 78% admitted to knowing little or nothing about the types and styles of investments in their superannuation, and over half (59%) have not made financial plans or seen a financial planner.
According to Geoff Austin, Executive General Manager, Mortgage and Investment Services, Commonwealth Bank, while the confidence amongst pre-retirees in their financial knowledge is encouraging, the survey clearly shows that not enough people are putting that knowledge into action.
"With such a large percentage of the Australian population about to reach retirement, the financial knowledge gap and lack of action revealed in the Retire Ready survey really are critical issues for our society," he said.
"Pre-retirees can fund a comfortable retirement, but they need to have a clear understanding of their financial position, set and achieve saving goals, diversify their investment portfolio and take ownership of their financial future."
Despite 87% of pre-retirees believing their financial knowledge was average or above average, the survey showed: there is still a need for education as almost half (46%) of the respondents do not know how much money they need to live comfortably in retirement2; one in three pre-retirees believe property will always give the highest return which is not always the case; and six in ten pre-retirees incorrectly think that a balanced portfolio is comprised of equal amounts invested in cash and shares.
Adding to the financial literacy gap is procrastination with 56% of respondents confessing to procrastinating when it comes to planning their finances for retirement and one in four of these admitting to procrastinating for more than 10 years.
As the table below demonstrates, procrastination can make a substantial difference to a retirement nest egg over a 10-year period.
*Assumes the amount is invested at the beginning of each month for 10 years, interest rate is 6.25%p.a. There is no contribution tax or surcharge (ie personal contribution), and no fees.
"Education is the key to turning procrastination into motivation and action so pre-retirees need to read financial literature, attend seminars and seek professional advice," Mr Austin said.
"The important thing to realise is that it is never too late to start planning and that your approach to financial planning now will determine your quality of life in the future."
As part of the Bank’s national initiative to encourage pre-retirees to think about financial planning, Commonwealth Bank branches throughout Australia will stage a "Retirement Focus Day" giving local residents an opportunity to visit a Commonwealth Financial Planner for an informal, obligation-free discussion. From May 2004, and continuing through to the end of June 2004, Retirement Planning seminars will be taking place in selected locations. | 2019-04-19T08:55:18 | https://www.commbank.com.au/about-us/news/media-releases/2004/200504-news-pre-retirees.html |
0.999243 | INCIDENT: All other fraud was reported at The Watauga County Sheriff Office, in Boone.
ARREST: A female suspect, 16, of 1571 Little Laurel Rd, in Boone, was charged with OFA FTA. Secure bond: $500. Trial Date: Sept. 26.
ARREST: A male suspect, 23, of 187 New Market Center, in Boone, was charged with DWI- alcohol and or drugs. Other bond. Trial date: Nov. 21.
INCIDENT: Uttering forged instrument and all other fraud were reported at 410 Parkcrest Dr, in Boone.
INCIDENT: Larceny from buildings was reported at 619 Camp Joy Rd, in Zionville.
INCIDENT: Criminal damage to property (vandalism) was reported at 640 Fair Park Dr, in Blowing Rock.
INCIDENT: Larceny from buildings was reported at 1020 Orchard Rd, in Deep Gap.
ARREST: A male suspect, 26, of 1354 Hopewell Church Rd, in Boone, was charged with F-WIMSD METH, F-Maintian Vehicle/Dwelling/Place CS, and OFA FTA. Secured bond: $40,000. Trial date: Oct. 16.
ARREST: A male suspect, 54, of 129 Nile Park Dr, in Blowing Rock, was charged with cyberstalking. Written promise. Trial Date: Oct. 17.
ARREST: A female suspect, 24, of 1354 Hopewell Church Rd, in Boone, was charged with PWIMSD Meth and maintain/vehicle/place CS. Secured bond: $10,610. Trial date: Oct. 16.
INCIDENT: Simple physical assault was reported at 514 Guy Ford Rd, in Sugar Grove.
INCIDENT: Breaking or entering a motor vehicle and a misdemeanor of larceny were reported at 261 Hensels Ln, in Boone.
INCIDENT: All other fraud was reported at 2228 Valle Cay Dr, in Vilas.
ARREST: A female suspect, 39, of 514 Guy Ford Rd, in Sugar Grove, was charged with simple physical assault. No bond. Trial date: Oct. 24.
INCIDENT: All other drug violations were reported at 117 Abberly CT, Apartment A, in Boone.
INCIDENT: Injury to real property was reported at 139 Margot Rd, in Boone.
ARREST: A male suspect, 26, of 166 Cross Mountain Rd, in Mountain City, was charged with FTA. Secured bond: $6,000. Trial Date: Oct. 12.
ARREST: A male suspect, 36, of 456 Troy Norris Rd, in Boone, was charged with FTA DWLR, FTA DWI, and FTA assault with a deadly weapon. Secured bond: $2,500. Trial Date: Oct. 23.
ARREST: A male suspect, 29, of 1151 Slabtown Rd, in Zionville, was charged with failure to appear. Secured bond: $2,000. Trial date: Oct. 17.
INCIDENT: DOA was reported at 128 Lake Park Dr, in Boone.
INCIDENT: Assault on a government official and resisting a public officer was reported at 2777 US HWY 421 N, in Boone.
INCIDENT: Damage to property was reported at KOA Campground, in Boone.
INCIDENT: Arson was reported at 514 Guy Ford Rd, in Sugar Grove.
ARREST: A male suspect, 44, of 230 Crabapple Ln, in Blowing Rock, was charged with cyberstalking. Written promise. Trial date: Nov. 9.
Arrest: A male suspect, 42, of 254 Shady Grove, in Boone, was charged with simple physical assault. Bond type and trial date not mentioned.
ARREST: A female suspect, 44, of 2278 Silverstone Rd 5, in Zionville was charged with parole and probation violations. Secured bond: $50,000. Trial date: Oct. 17.
INCIDENT: Criminal damage to property (vandalism) was reported at 156 Rusty Coat Ln, in Boone.
INCIDENT: Breaking and entering and larceny from buildings were reported at 4318 Wildcat Rd, in Boone.
INCIDENT: Escape from custody or resist arrest was reported at 379 Fair Park Dr, in Blowing Rock.
INCIDENT: Criminal damage to property (vandalism) was reported at HWY 194 N Howards Creek Rd, in Boone.
INCIDENT: Criminal damage to property (vandalism) was reported at Tweetsie Railroad, in Blowing Rock.
ARREST: A female suspect, 39, of 7905 Waterford Lakes Dr, in Charlotte, was charged with failure to appear. Secured bond: $750. Trial date: Oct. 26.
ARREST: A male suspect, 23, of 746 Howard St, in Boone, was charged with assault on a government official, and resisting a public officer. Secured bond: $5,000. Trial date: Oct. 25.
ARREST: A female suspect, 23, of 1329 Laurel Fork Rd, in Vilas, was charged with contempt of court, perjury, and court violations. Other bond: $2,548. Trial date not determined.
ARREST: A male suspect, 22, of 150 Sequoia Ln, in Boone, was charged with aggressive driving. Written promise. Trial date: Nov. 9.
ARREST: A male suspect, 32, of 2020 20th ST Pl NE, in Hickory was charged with failure to appear, and resist to public officer. Secured bond: $1,000. Trial Date: Nov. 21.
INCIDENT: Larceny from buildings was reported at 144 Markers Ln, Unit 2, in Boone.
INCIDENT: Calls for service was reported at 1225 Lonnie Carlton Rd, in Deep Gap.
INCIDENT: DWI, concealed handgun after consuming alcohol, and failure to maintain lane control were reported at Elk Creek Rd near Wed Randall Rd, in Deep Gap.
INCIDENT: All other larceny was reported at 222 Red Feather Trl, in Boone.
ARREST: A male suspect, 22, of 1070 Curry CIR, in Boone, was charged with a DWI. Written promise. Trial date: Oct. 21.
ARREST: A female suspect, 21, of 202 Lofty View, in Deep Gap, was charged with contempt of court, perjury, court violations and second degree trespassing. Written promise. Trial date: Oct. 19.
ARREST: A female suspect, 34, of 5755 Howards Creek Rd, in Boone, was charged with DWI- alcohol and or drugs. Written promise. Trial date: Nov. 21.
INCIDENT: All other fraud was reported at 326 Bynum Trivette Rd, in Deep Gap.
ARREST: A male suspect, 49, of Phoenix Apt #105, in Boone, was charged with fugitive. Secured bond: $25,000. Trial date: Oct. 17.
ARREST: A female suspect, 33, of 155 Gap Creek Rd, in Deep Gap, was charged with a worthless check. Bond type not specified. Trial date: Nov. 8.
INCIDENT: Breaking or entering a motor vehicle was reported at Public Works- 321 E King St, in Boone.
INCIDENT: Criminal damage to property (vandalism) was reported at The Standard, in Boone.
INCIDENT: Breaking and or entering a motor vehicle and all other larceny was reported at 642 Greenway Rd, in Boone.
ARREST: A female suspect, 19, of 399 Perkinsville Dr, Apt 202, was charged with injury to personal property, and simple assault. Written promise. Trial date: Oct. 17.
ARREST: A male suspect, 44, of 275 E King St Apt 14, was was charged with breaking or entering a motor vehicle. Secured bond: $7,500. Trial date: Oct. 17.
ARREST: A male, 35, of 338 Brook Hollow Rd, was charged with trespassing. Secured bond: $500. Trial Date: Oct. 25.
ARREST: A juvenile, 17, of Boone, was charged with order for secure custody. No further information is available.
ARREST: A male, 22, of 137 Hamby Aly, was charged with misdemeanor larceny and breaking or entering a motor vehicle. Secured bond: $10,000. Trial date: Oct. 17.
INCIDENT: Simple assault was reported at Hardees- 610 Blowing Rock Rd, in Boone.
INCIDENT: Criminal damage to property was reported at Bubbles Car Wash- 1157 US HWY 421 S, in Boone.
INCIDENT: All other larceny was reported at 300 Pioneer Dr, in Boone.
INCIDENT: Criminal damage to property (vandalism) was reported at 850 Blowing Rock Rd, in Boone.
INCIDENT: Criminal damage to property (vandalism) was reported at 604 Poplar Grove Rd, in Boone.
INCIDENT: Breaking and entering was reported at 185 Faculty St, in Boone.
ARREST: A female suspect, 41, of 104 Lagoon CT, in New Symrna, was charged with lane control and DWI. Written promise. Trial date: Nov. 9.
ARREST: A male suspect, 32, of 507 Foster Pl, in Lenoir, was charged with parole and probation violations. Secured bond: $10,000. Trial date: Oct. 30.
ARREST: A male suspect, 38, of 338 Brook Hollow Rd, in Boone, was charged with resist, obstruction, delay and simple possession of schedule VI. Secured bond: $750. Trial date: Nov. 21.
INCIDENT: Damage to property was reported at 289 Ambling Way, Building 1000, in Boone.
INCIDENT: Larceny was reported at East Village Apts-397 Perkinsville Dr, in Boone.
ARREST: A male suspect, 21, of 495 Waddell Rd, in Mountain City, was charged with failure to burn headlamps, and driving while impaired. Written promise. Trial date: Nov. 9.
ARREST: A female suspect, 21, of 932 Kestrel Keep Ln, in Chapel Hill, was charged with DWI-alcohol. Written promise. Trial date: Nov. 21.
INCIDENT: Motor vehicle theft-all other motor vehicles was reported at 131 Winkler’s Creek Rd, in Boone.
INCIDENT: Breaking or entering a building was reported at Capone’s Pizza- 139 New Market Center, in Boone.
ARREST: A male suspect, 19, of 7827 Nolandwood Dr, was charged with larceny. Written promise. Trial date: Nov. 9.
ARREST: A male suspect, 19, of 9604 Thorn Blade Dr, in Charlotte, was charged with a DWI-alcohol provisional and DWI-alcohol. Written promise. Trial date: Nov.9.
ARREST: A female suspect, 20, of 3757 English Oak Dr, in Lincolnton, was charged with a DWI and driving after consuming under the age of 21-provisional. Written promise. Trial date: Nov. 9.
INCIDENT: Breaking and entering a vehicle and tampering with a motor vehicle were reported at 482 State Farm Rd, in Boone.
ARREST: A male suspect, 20, of 5843 Charing Pl, in Charlotte, was charged with consuming alcohol by twenty-year-old. Secured bond: $500. Trial date: Nov. 9. | 2019-04-20T02:18:47 | https://www.hcpress.com/news/weekly-crime-reports-activity-arrests-boone-watauga-county-sept-25-oct-3.html |
0.999999 | Context.The X-ray burster 4U 1850-087, located in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6712, is an ultracompact binary (orbital period ~21 min), likely harbouring a degenerate companion.
Aims.The source has been observed at soft γ-rays several times with the INTEGRAL satellite, during the monitoring of the Galactic plane, with an unprecedented exposure time. We analysed all available INTEGRAL observations, with the main aim of studying the long-term behaviour of this Galactic bulge X-ray burster.
Methods.The spectral results are based on the systematic analysis of all INTEGRAL observations covering the source position performed between March 2003 and November 2005.
Results.The source X-ray emission is hard and is observed, for the first time, up to 100 keV. A broad-band spectrum obtained combining the INTEGRAL spectrum together with a quasi-simultaneous XMM–Newton observation performed in September 2003 is well modeled with a disk-blackbody emission (with an inner disk temperature of ~0.8 keV) together with a power-law (with a photon index, Γ, of 2.1). The 2-100 keV luminosity is erg s-1 (assuming a distance of 6.8 kpc).
Conclusions.INTEGRAL observations reveal for the first time that this X-ray burster displays a very hard X-ray spectrum, with a cut-off at energies higher than 100 keV, and that the source spends most of the time in this low luminosity and hard state. Indeed, a previous BeppoSAX observation in April 1997 observed high energy emission from 4U 1850-087 only up to 50 keV. | 2019-04-22T12:17:28 | https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2006/46/aa5759-06/aa5759-06.html |
0.999713 | Given the narrative complexity of The Odyssey, foreshadowing plays an important role in the poem by reassuring the audience that, despite the many twists and turns of the plot, Odyssey will ultimately return to his family in Ithaca and defeat of the suitors. However, his journey will be neither easy nor swift, and the pain he endures along the way is foreshadowed throughout the poem.
At the beginning of Book 1, Zeus says he is fond of Odysseus but that Poseidon feels differently, foreshadowing Odysseus’s coming clashes with Poseidon. Poseidon is absent from this scene, and his anger at being left out, as well as his continued wrath at Odysseus for blinding his son, mean he will get in one last jab at Odysseus. In an instance of ironic foreshadowing, Zeus says, “Poseidon, I trust, will let his anger go.” In fact, Poseidon’s not so quick to forgive, and in book 5 says, “I’ll give that man his swamping fill of trouble,” creating a huge storm as Odysseus sails away from Calypso’s island. Calypso also foreshadows Odysseus’s troubles getting home when she tells him, “if you only knew, down deep, what pains are fated to fill your cup before you reach that shore, you’d stay right here.” Throughout, Odysseus is identified with the epithet, “man of pain,” or “born for pain,” suggesting he is fated to suffer greatly in his life. At one point he is described as “master of exploits, man of pain.” In fact, his appetite for exploits, and his unwillingness to heed the gods’ warnings, is exactly what causes him so much pain, and extends his journey home by so many years.
In Book 8, Odysseus brags about his skills as an archer, foreshadowing his triumph at the end of the poem when he alone is able to shoot an arrow through a row of axe handles. When king Alcinous arranges a display of sports and games to amuse Odysseus, Odysseus says he can outperform all the athletes: “Well I know how to handle a fine polished bow, the first to hit my man in a mass of enemies… Of the rest I’d say that I outclass them all.” This speech foreshadows his prowess as a warrior in general, useful to the audience since we don’t see any actual scenes of Odysseus in battle until the end when he takes on the suitors with Telemachus. As ten years have passed since the Battle of Troy, and Odysseus has spent much of that time sitting around on Calypso’s island, he and the audience may be questioning if he is as fit as he once was. In the scene with the sports competitions he proves himself still a powerful competitor, foreshadowing his ability to take on the suitors, even though they are younger than him.
In Book 1, Telemachus has a daydream that his father arrives unannounced and drives away all the suitors plaguing his house, a direct foreshadowing of what happens when Odysseus arrives in Ithaca at the end of the poem. Describing Telemachus, the narrator says “He could almost see his magnificent father, here.. if only he might drop from the clouds and drive these suitors all in a rout throughout the halls and regain his pride of place and rule his own domains!” This wish is echoed by Athena, disguised as Mentes, when she says, “Oh how much you need Odysseus, gone so long – how he’d lay hands on all these brazen suitors!” When Odysseus does finally arrive, he doesn’t exactly drop from the clouds, but the revelation of his identity is a surprise to Telemachus. The two together slaughter all the suitors, fulfilling the fate foreshadowed by Telemachus’s daydream.
In Book 4, Helen tells the story of how Odysseus disguised himself as a beggar to sneak into Troy during the Trojan War, foreshadowing the disguise he uses to enter Ithaca at the end of the poem. “Throwing filthy rags on his back like any slave, he slipped into the enemy’s city, roamed its streets – all disguised, a totally different man, a beggar,” Helen recalls. This exactly foreshadows the tactics Odysseus employs, with Athena’s help, to reenter Ithaca. His disguises are significant because they indicate his cunning and intelligence in outwitting the enemy – first the Trojans, then the suitors at his home in Ithaca. In telling the story, Helen says she recognized Odysseus despite his disguise – “I spotted him for the man he was” – foreshadowing Penelope’s suspicions about the beggar’s true identity when Odysseus arrives in Ithaca. | 2019-04-21T10:04:16 | http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/odyssey/foreshadowing/ |
0.999999 | Q) Consider below statements a) No tree is fruit.
c) All stones are rains.
I) No stone is tree.
II) No rain is tree.
III) Some rains are fruits.
IV) Some rains are trees. | 2019-04-26T00:33:28 | http://quicknet.in/teaching-research-aptitude/consider-below-statements-a-no-tree-is-fruit-b-all-fruits-are-stonesc-all-stones-are-rains-conclusions-i-no-stone-is-tree-ii-no-rain-is-tree-iii-some-rains-are-fruits-iv-some-ra/ |
0.99989 | (a) What is this hunger problem? The next major problem of the world is hunger. Roughly, 20% of the world population is suffering from hunger. Hunger is the cruelest enemy of humanity. In fact, hunger is directly and in many cases indirectly responsible for major disturbances and troubles. Therefore rooting out hunger is a must. If hunger is rooted out, a major portion of the world problems will be eliminated.
(b) Is it not a government's problem? What is it that an individual can do for this? To root out hunger individual governments are advised to take requisite measures. Here a few important and simple suggestions are mentioned as below for individual families to ROOT OUT HUNGER as well as to get direct and indirect benefits.
1. Keep your family strength smallest to root out hunger.
2. Purchase food grains and commodities periodically instead of purchasing in bulk at a time. This will save your family from waste and helps to maintain stocks in the market that leads to price reduction.
3. Grains saved from wastage are equivalent to grains produced. So protect the grains from rats, insects, water, fire etc.
4. Raw foods are nutritious, easily digestible, healthy and required in less quantity. Eating of thoroughly cleaned raw food is more beneficial in all respects. Therefore vegetable salad is advisable along with the food.
5. Consume less grains and more green leaves, vegetables, fruits etc.
6. Cook just the required quantity for the meal.
7. If by chance, excess food is prepared, preserve it carefully, and utilize it fully at the earliest, without any wastage.
8. Eat all seasonal green leaves, vegetables, fruits, etc. They will work as antibiotics against seasonal diseases.
9. Use every little empty space around your house, land and cultivate green leaves, vegetables and fruits. If space is very little, even then at least utilize it by growing vegetable creepers. In case if you do not have empty space around your house, go for roof gardening.
HOME/TERRACE GARDENING:- 30 pots of terrace garden can yield enough vegetables throughout the year for a family of 6. With right care you can cultivate greens, vegetables, fruits, herbs and medicinal plants. Home gardening is an interesting hobby and good exercise for the gardener. Grown vegetables are nutritious. Home gardening increases greenery and provides more oxygen and house becomes cooler.
10. Vegetable food is economical, hygienic, healthy and easily digestible. It suits to all ages.
11. Vegetarianism is a silent revolution that changes fatal diseased lives to good health. It increases productivity at work place.
12. Eat your food in pleasant surroundings and happy moods (In bad moods saliva wouldn't be secreted properly and stomach releases unwanted gastric juices). To avoid bad moods, cut a couple of jokes. Laughter reduces blood pressure, heart rate and stress; improves mental functions, helps in body fighting infection, protects the stomach from ulcers and relaxes body muscles.
13. In season, when the vegetables, fruits are available in plenty at low prices, buy them and preserve them as pickles, chutneys, jams, jellies, juices, syrups, ketchups, dry fruits and dry vegetables to use them later.
14. In winter, solid foods are suitable. In summer, take less solid foods and more seasonal/suitable foods like fruits/vegetable salads, juices, sherbets, buttermilk, curd etc.
15. Use more sprouts, greens, and vegetables and fruit salads. They are economical, nutritious, fresh and tasty, need no cooking and help prevents many diseases like cancer etc.
16. Due to lack of awareness, some people eat excess food than their body requirement when it is available more or tasty. It leads to negative effects than positive ones. One should eat moderately only as per his age, weight, work and digestive capacity.
17. For the growing world hunger because of bursting world population, the best, economical and tasty alternative is Amaranthus.
18. Use rice and wheat old grains. In case of rice, use unpolished rice and in case of wheat, use unsieved flour for optimum benefits.
19. Make it a habit all the family members to have meals at a time.
20. SKIP A MEAL A WEEK TO ROOT OUT HUNGER AND MAKE YOUR PURSE STRONGER. Fasting reduces the process of aging and will keep the body cells free from disease. By following the above guidelines not only you can save up to 20 % in your kitchen, which is your direct, easy and huge savings, but also benefit the whole society in bringing down the food prices, and ensuring easy accessibility/availability to all. | 2019-04-23T16:18:33 | http://srimission.org/rootouthunger.htm |
0.998422 | Tennis: Maria Sharapova Is Back!
After 15 months away due to a doping ban, Russian professional tennis player, Maria Sharapova is set to return to the court.
Maria Sharapova returns after a 15-month doping ban Wednesday, desperate to rediscover the glory which brought her five Grand Slams, the world's top ranking and a spectacular multi-million dollar lifestyle.
The poster girl of women's tennis won't necessarily be welcomed back with open arms by rivals who were already suspicious of the towering Russian's ice-cold detachment even before her fall from grace.
"That is the least of my concerns. I know that I am respected in my field. I see it in how my opponents play against me," said Sharapova who was controversially handed a wild card into this week's Stuttgart event, a clay court tournament sponsored by Porsche, one of her headline backers.
She was even given a Wednesday start as that's the day her ban -- imposed for testing positive for meldonium at last year's Australian Open -- comes to an end.
Sharapova, who starts her Stuttgart campaign against Italian veteran Roberta Vinci, had been taking the over-the-counter cardiac supplement when it was within the rules, but was later reclassified as a prohibited drug.
Far from being remorseful, Sharapova recently hit out at tennis authorities for failing to give her sufficient warning that meldonium had become a banned substance.
The Russian will step onto centre court at 1830 (1630 GMT) on Wednesday and could not have picked a better tournament for her return, having won the Stuttgart title three times, and suffering just one defeat.
If she gets through her opener, she could face Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska, one of her fiercest critics, in the second round.
Radwanska, the sixth-seed in Stuttgart, expects a 'fierce' return from the Russian, but says Sharapova should have had to qualify on merit rather than being given a free pass on a wild card.
"This kind of entry into the tournament should apply to players who dropped in the ranking because of injury, illness or some other random event. Not for those suspended for doping," said Radwanska.
Sharapova can expect plenty of support from the Stuttgart organisers as her return is the highlight in the tournament's 40th anniversary celebrations.
As an ambassador for Porsche, she is sure of a warm welcome. Her confectionary brand -- Sugarpova -- will have a stand in the tournament's retail village. | 2019-04-20T16:24:43 | http://news.bounce.ng/Content/tennis-maria-sharapova-is-back-20170424 |
0.999999 | Do overweight elders live longer?
There has been quite a bit of discussion on weight status and health in the elderly. Some say that a little extra weight (being clinically overweight) will help older men and women live longer, as elders are at greater risk of being underweight due to loss of muscle mass - often from not eating properly. Back in 2007 I wrote about a study that suggested that compared to those with a clinically normal Body Mass Index, both men and women who were over 65 and overweight had the lowest risk of overall mortality but only a slightly increased risk of disability.
In that article, "disability" was measured by asking the participants if they could perform the following functions: bathing, grooming, dressing, eating, using the toilet, walking across a small room, and transferring from a bed to a chair. These are very specific and objective measures that almost anyone would consider a sign of poorer health. But what about the more personal and subjective assessments of health? Feeling that one is in poor health impacts one's perception of one's quality of life - and that's something that becomes more important as one ages.
An ongoing study of women's health in Australia began in 1996, recruiting a total of over 40,000 women who were among those women born within the following year groups: 1973-78, 1946-51, and 1921-1926. A team of researchers focused their work on the women born between 1921 and 1926, making them at least 70 years of age at the start of the study (Brit J Nutr 2016;116:692-699).
From 1996 to 1991 the participants reported their height and weight and rated their own health as "excellent, very good, good, fair, or poor" every three years. From 1991 to 2013 the participants' reporting was increased to every six months. The authors did not ask about specific measures of ability or disability - just the women's overall perception of their health.
For the purposes of their analysis, the authors grouped the health responses into "good" (a response of excellent, very good, or good) or "poor" (fair or poor), then used sophisticated software to model each woman's Total Life Expectancy as well as the number of years they might expect to spend healthy (Healthy Life Expectancy, or HLE) or unhealthy (Unhealthy Life Expectancy, or UHLE). They then could compare the TLE, HLE, and UHLE for women who were of normal weight, overweight, or clinically obese - as well as looking at those women who lost weight over the course of the study.
While normal-weight and overweight women had about the same Total Life Expectancy, overweight women could expect to have fewer healthy years and more unhealthy ones over that same time period. Obese women, on the other hand, had a lower TLE along with fewer healthy years. As we would expect, underweight women also lived fewer total years than normal-weight women, with fewer healthy years as well.
Compared with those who felt their health was "poor" at the start of the study, those who rated their health as "good" had greater numbers of healthy years, regardless of their Body Mass Status at the start of the study. Women who were overweight or obese were more likely to see their overall health change from "good" to "poor" over the course of the study, while underweight women were no more likely to see their health status change than those of normal weight. Finally, those obese women who reduced their Body Mass Index did see their Total Life Expectancy as well as their Healthy Life Expectancy increase slightly.
This study underscores the importance of maintaining your overall health as you get older, including a normal body weight. If you are overweight or obese once you hit your 60's or 70's, you can still improve your health and your overall quality of life by working on your weight. Talk to your physician about a referral to a dietitian, who can help you design an eating plan that will help you maintain lean muscle mass while reducing your Body Mass Index. | 2019-04-18T20:20:10 | https://www.drgourmet.com/bites/2016/080316.shtml |
0.999986 | When is it right to follow a 'whim' - a 'spur of the moment' decision - and when should you exercise self-restraint?
I don't think there is an easy answer as our minds are quite mysterious in operation. Subconsciously we make decisions based on a whole range of built-in biases that pop into our conscious minds seemingly fully formed. On the other hand, the subterranean depths of our brains is constantly churning away at problems and sometimes a useful solution pops out.
So it is a dilemma: the decision that pops into your mind might be a poorly-thought-out psychological knee-jerk reaction or, then again, it may be a spark of a good idea.
In the DIY Income Investor approach I try to put a break on the most obvious behavioural biases that often hamper investors: for example, there are buying and selling 'rules' that curb the instinct to buy too quickly ("Ooh, it's shiny") - and sell too quickly ("Ooh, look how much money I've made").
Yet the latest 'sell' decision was quickly made. I bought the Manchester Building Society 8% PIBS (LSE:MBSR) just over a year ago, pointing out that it was potentially quite risky (yielding at that time 9%), given some recent horror stories with building society Permanent Interest-Bearing Shares. The Building Society has since stabilised, although it still remains a small, and therefore potentially vulnerable operation.
The stimulus to sell came from the realisation that the price of the PIBS had increased by nearly 25% (including interest earned) in a short 12 months. The second realisation was that the wider economic background in the UK continues to point to an increase in interest rates. And that means a fall in the price of all fixed-income securities, like PIBS.
Now, my normal 'sell' rule - developed to restrain the natural urge to grab a profit - is to wait until the capital gain exceeds fives times the current annual income. In this case the indicator needle barely reached 2.7 and the yield was still an attractive 7.3%. But my rational brain said: the wider situation is temporarily unusual. This was the rationale for other recent sales of fixed-income securities: the only way (for the price) is down. Probably.
So a whim is, this time, possibly a good idea. Taking together the interest and the capital gain, this has been quite a good year's work. | 2019-04-26T04:20:07 | http://www.the-diy-income-investor.com/2014/09/whim-versus-reason-portfolio-sale.html |
0.999999 | The most difficult time for any business is usually the time of its establishment on the market and standing on its feet. One of the craziest pieces of advice from a business coach may seem to be spending about 70% of the whole time on sales. Sure, it’s crazy, as you have so many things to do, and now you need to spend most of your working time selling.
However, is it so bad? By increasing your sales, you create a reputation that will make more customers use your services or buy your goods. You will also have more finances to hire more employees who will be doing all the “many things to do” instead of you. There is pretty much stuff to settle within the “sales” part, so you will have a lot to do, too.
Think of larger sources of lead.
Usually, new businesses rely on personal relationships and connections when it comes to sales. These are good for building your company’s reputation, but there are better ways to increase your sales. Try Facebook or Google advertisements and you will get more attention and more customers.
Generate a proper process of selling.
A process of selling and buying that has no risks.
Bonuses to make the customers come back again.
An urgency that will make people buy right away.
Sometimes it takes even 7 touches to make a lead your customer, as almost all potential buyers often have trust issues when it comes to a new company. An autoresponder would present the offers to the leads, and give you time to implement other important things. The simplest responder is a welcome message for every new lead. Write it the way you stand up as a trustworthy company with lots of customers that are satisfied with the goods or services you provide.
Track the sales rates accurately.
The number of leads in a day/week/month.
After the course of 4 things to focus on in your sales your contact rate can double at least twice, as well as the sales. You will create a good reputation for the company faster, and if your goods or services are good enough, you will also get lots of good testimonials and reviews of your company.
Make sure you track all the indexes during every stage of your development, so you could improve some things. Cut the cost of your leads every now and then, and the sales index will increase. Develop a system of action to do during every stage of development, and you will build a high successful business faster, get the sales index higher, and the financial revenues more pleasing. | 2019-04-19T04:36:18 | http://fastake.com/4-things-to-do-during-the-most-difficult-first-year-for-a-business/ |
0.999532 | The big Sarah Palin news today is that she has lost her longtime foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann.
Scheunemann is a well-known neoconservative who worked for Jesse Helms and was intimately involved in the push for the Iraq war. He later became an aide to John McCain on the 2008 presidential campaign, where he met and linked up with Palin. He's been associated with her ever since.
The question is: Why did they Scheunemann, who runs the lobbying firm Orion Strategies, leave Palin now?
They parted, both sides said on good terms.
"Randy flat out said, 'We can't give you the time,'" [Palin spokesman Tim] Crawford said.
"I very much enjoyed my time working with Governor Palin and wish her and her family all the best," Scheunemann said in an email. "If she decides to run for any office again, she will be a formidable candidate."
Regular readers will remember that Scheunemann, while working for Palin, also lobbied for one of George Soros' groups, the Open Society Policy Center. After I reported that connection, Palin took a bit of flack on the right for her (admittedly tenuous) link to the liberal billionaire.
But is it accurate that Scheunemann simply doesn't have the time to work for Palin?
It's impossible to know his schedule, of course (I have asked Orion's Michael Goldfarb and I will update this post if I hear back). Orion Strategies does appear to have recently picked up a new client -- meaning it is now registered to lobby for a total of three entities. One is Soros' group. Another is the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the trade association for the gun industry.
The new client is an entity called the Corbiere Trust Company Limited. It is based on the English Channel island of Guernsey, which is a British crown dependency and tax haven.
Corbiere is associated with the ex-oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who is currently in prison after being convicted of fraud in a controversial (and allegedly politically motivated) case in Russia last year. Orion lobbies on "rule of law and human rights in Russia" for Corbiere, according to disclosure forms. Corbiere's own activities are described in the disclosure as "asset management including Khodorkovsky's legal defense."
So, if the official version of the Orion-Palin split is true, this appears to be what Scheunemann is spending his time on instead of Palin. It's also possible that Orion is doing other work (like consulting) that would not require lobbying disclosures.
Scheunemann's replacement, by the way, is Peter Schweizer, a fellow at the Hudson Institute Hoover Institution and the editor-in-chief of Andrew Breitbart's Big Peace website. | 2019-04-21T20:06:59 | https://www.salon.com/2011/05/03/palin_cuts_soros_ties/ |
0.999911 | Ingredients: Chicken breasts or chicken meat of your choice eggs flour prezle Parmesan they are frying oil Preparation: Pour the chicken, then roll the flesh into flour, into the egg and then into the huts into which you previously added the Parmesan (at least one soup spoon). Leave the meat in heated oil and fry until the golden cover is caught. Remove the chicken from the oil and put on a napkin to absorb fat. Sprinkle the fried meat in a blend, cover with an aluminum foil and put it in the oven at 180 degrees. Bake for about half an hour. Check with a toothpick if the chicken is sufficiently baked. At the end, remove the foil and leave it in the oven for another minute to make the cake become fine crispy. Pleasant!
Pour the chicken, then roll the flesh into flour, into the egg and then into the huts into which you previously added the Parmesan (at least one soup spoon). Leave the meat in heated oil and fry until the golden cover is caught. Remove the chicken from the oil and put on a napkin to absorb fat. Sprinkle the fried meat in a blend, cover with an aluminum foil and put it in the oven at 180 degrees. Bake for about half an hour. Check with a toothpick if the chicken is sufficiently baked. At the end, remove the foil and leave it in the oven for another minute to make the cake become fine crispy. Pleasant! | 2019-04-21T05:01:47 | https://tuetego.net/article/fried-chicken |
0.999892 | Make a query with array of locations(lat and long)?
Hi, is it possible to make a query with array? So I would like to make a query to a service with array of locations(lat and long) and to get response for these locations?
The API only supports one location per request, so an array won't work. You can do multiple requests for one location, such as including geolookup, conditions, and forecast on the same call.
Thank you for response, I know about multiple requests for one location, was just hoping that I can also do something like array of locations per requests.
To William and afelicioni -- your answers are both the obvious choice. Yes, we can make multiple requests, but that's bad for both of us.
As developers, multiple requests will likely both put us over our per-minute, and per-day limit much faster.
As the owners of this API, by forcing developers to make multiple requests, you're forcing your servers to take on lots of additional incoming requests that could be avoided by allowing us to send a request body with multiple locations, or something.
Then there's the mobile perspective. Users of the devices have limited bandwidth, and limited multi-concurrent request abilities.
It seems like this is something you should at least consider adding support for. | 2019-04-23T19:50:44 | https://apicommunity.wunderground.com/weatherapi/topics/make_a_query_with_array_of_locations_lat_and_long |
0.99926 | For this amazing pizza I made everything (and I mean everything) from scratch. The cheese was made using THIS simple recipe. The sauce is simply peeled and seeded roma tomatoes that have been tossed in olive oil and roasted in a 400 degree oven. The crust is my own recipe for beer-spiked pizza dough. Finish it with fresh basil leaves and a drizzle of olive oil.
The weird shape can be blamed on a drop of olive oil on my pizza peel.
This is one of my favorite lunches. It's filling, delicious, fast, cheap, and healthy. What more could you ask for?
The recipe is that there really is no recipe. Take any good vegetable broth and spike it with some soy sauce, grated fresh ginger, minced garlic, a pinch of cinnamon, and a splash of mirin. Bring that up to a boil and drop in the greens of your choice. You could use spinach or kale or mini bok choy as I have here. Remove the greens after a few seconds and set aside.
Cook soba noodles directly in the broth rather than plain water for more flavor. They only take a few minutes to cook so keep your eye on them. Remove noodles from the broth and place them into a soup bowl. Arrange greens and other toppings on to the noodles. Chopped tofu makes a good topping, but I also like a fried egg on this as well. Garnish with sliced green onion or sprouts then add the broth. Serve with sriacha for an extra kick. You will need both a spoon and chopsticks to eat this dish.
A word on soba noodles: soba are Japanese noodles made from buckwheat flour. They're more toothsome and hearty than rice noodles, and they have a dry texture that is quite appealing. I buy the packaged ones from the Asian market. They are about 3 bucks for a two-month supply, and I think they are delicious. When we had some friends over the other night, I tried to get all fancy and make my own soba noodles. It was a kitchen disaster. The noodles were a gross, soggy, falling-apart mess. It was the first time I had ever made them from scratch...I'm sure I"ll figure it out eventually. Until I get my nerve up to try hand-made soba again, the inexpensive, store-bought kind will do just fine.
I needed to practice my brunoise skills since they were getting kinda rusty.
Ha! Really, I have never brunoised properly before, but since I just learned the basics of how to do it, I amuse myself by dropping brewn-nwah' into conversation. And I like the tiny-perfect-squares result, too. So even though my try is with fruit, not veg, and my squares are still a little clunky, it made for a very uniform (and eventually spicy) fruit salad.
We'd recently picked up a pale green and purple-striped pepino melon from the big international section of the remodeled Kroger at Poplar and Kirby. (Everyone kept raving about this place; it really is neat.) I had been thinking about using the pepino as a starting point and had to come up with something to build around it.
The melon took a while to ripen, so that was brunoised along with strawberries and English cucumber. Tara's really, really spicy fruit salad (with jalapenos!) from last summer was on my mind, too. For this, though, I added a couple of tiny pinches of cayenne, plus agave nectar and a squeeze of lemon to round the salsa out. We had it with salty tortilla chips for a nice contrast, but I think it could be a good spring dessert, too.
Here is a fast way to spruce up pasta night. Grab a few whole marinated artichokes from the olive bar and split them lengthwise with a sharp knife. (I think the large ones with the stem attached are prettier.) I found these at The Fresh Market. Throw them cut-side-down into a hot cast-iron grill pan. Allow them to cook for about 3-4 minutes per side or until they are nicely marked and heated through. Place them atop any simple pasta recipe with some chopped parsley and shaved parmesan. There you have it! In three minutes, you've gone from plain ol' spaghetti to pasta with grilled artichoke hearts.
I'm excited to announce that The Chubby Vegetarian (www.thechubbyvegetarian.com) is featured on 101 cookbooks' list of favorite websites. I consider it an honor. Click HERE to view the entire list.
This sandwich is so simple to make, but the flavor is very complex. The idea was born from a salad I like to make to go along with paella or empanadas. You are just a few ingredients away from a hearty, vegan lunch.
Mix the first six ingredients in a bowl making sure the olive oil gives everything a shiny coat. Place mixture in the center of a warm pita, top with almonds, squeeze the lemon on top, and roll it up. This sandwich has a wonderful sweet and sour flavor profile. It may or may not need salt depending on how salty your olives are. This delicious and quick sandwich is a must-try.
I've been wanting to make a white lasagna for a while now, and I've seen delicata squash crop up as a new ingredient, so, this weekend, on a long, interminably boring afternoon when TCV was away on a shoot, I thought, here we go! Here is Martha's recipe, which I used as a starting point.
This was one of those first stabs at a dish that worked surprisingly well, possibly due to my liberal use of olive oil every step of the way. Be forewarned that this takes a good long while to make; I didn't eat lunch until 3:00 in the afternoon since I had to give all the squash a thorough oven-roasting first. Dealing with my hunger headache was worth it, though, in the end because this lasagna actually tastes a lot lighter and more interesting than the typical and meaty red-sauce version.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Next, carefully cut each squash down the middle. (Ideally you would do this by slicing off a bit of the rounded side of each squash in order to have it lie flat and then, using the safe-bagel-cutting method of placing a hand on top to steady the lying-flat, horizontal squash and cutting horizontally.
Then you can de-seed the halves, brush them with olive oil, and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Roast them face-down in a baking dish at 400 degrees for one hour. Once they cool off, scoop out the insides and whisk them all together with a tablespoon of olive oil, dried sage, and more salt and pepper to taste. Set aside.
Grate the two cheeses and mix all the above ingredients; set aside.
Brush your baking dish, preferably ceramic, with olive oil, and set down 3 noodles. Spread the squash mixture, then 3 more noodles. Spread the ricotta mixture in one layer, and then, of course, more noodles. End with the squash layer and more noodles and grate some mozzarella and parm on top. Arrange 12 or so fresh sage leaves on top. Drizzle top -- especially hitting the sage leaves for a fried effect -- with a little olive oil and cover with foil. Bake for an hour until top is browned. Let it cool and serve, or refrigerate after cooling. We thought it worked well reheated for dinner, so you could very well make it ahead.
Our high-minded little selves are catching up on our Proust this week. (Okay, okay, so we're starting with just an excerpt.) This is due to the recent acquisition of our first-ever madeleine pan, a nonstick one, with a good starter recipe on the packaging.
So, honestly...how good could these little cakes be? Are they worthy of the very pretty paragraphs and endless modern-day references that they spawned? Yeah, well, they kind of are that good. They are mostly butter; it's impossible to go wrong there. They are light and spongy like cake but with the crunchy browned edges of a cookie. They take about two seconds to make. And they were so transporting that we devoured them all immediately, hence the pic of just the empty pan.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and brush the pan with a little canola oil. Whisk dry ingredients together, make a well, and then add butter, beaten egg, vanilla, and lemon zest. Fold until just mixed. Fill indentations in pan about 3/4 full. Bake for 10 minutes or until springy to the touch and slightly brown around the edges. They pop right out, and you can sift some powdered sugar over them once they cool a bit.
Just ate breakfast at Au Fond in Cooper-Young today. After our plates arrived and we'd started our meal, we so wanted tell everyone who came in after us how excited we were for them because we knew they were going to be thrilled, too.
Breakfast is tough in this town. You can wait in line at one of the two mainstays on Southern or Summer, or you can take the easy route and just fix it yourself at home. There was such a relaxed, homey vibe at Au Fond, and the sophisticated take on food was curiously different from what we've ever had before at a breakfast joint in Memphis: an airy, giant wheat pancake with scattered berries, a cup of pimento cheese grits, egg sandwich made like a panini but on a soft bun, housemade cinnamon roll, perfect eggs, biscuits and red-eye gravy, herbed potatoes, and our own container of French press coffee at the table...I guess you could say we indulged. You should, too. Reluctantly, we refrained from talking feverishly about all this to the people at the other tables, but we just had to tell you!
I love tamales, but they are time-consuming to make. Even just steaming them takes an hour to an hour and a half. I knew there had to be a better way.
Bring water to a boil and add the oil, lime zest, chile powder, cubes, and baking powder. Stir and then add masa a little at a time so you don't get any lumps. Cook masa for 20 minutes stirring often to develop a creamy texture. While masa is hot, spread about 1/4 cup on the center of a corn husk, place two spoonfuls of filling in the center of the masa, and roll it up. I didn't even fold the ends up because the masa was so thick it stayed in place. Allow them to cool. To serve simply heat them in the microwave for a few minutes, top with hot sauce, and enjoy.
I'm far too embarrassed to show you what my baking cabinet looked like before, but look at it now. It's all neat and organized. Now the trick is to keep it this way. | 2019-04-23T00:50:34 | http://chubbyvegetarian.blogspot.com/2010/03/ |
0.99956 | If you like your food to have a little heat, then this recipe is for you.
In a small bowl, mix the dry seasonings.
In a frying pan, melt the cinnamon honey butter over medium-high heat.
Season the scallops - both sides.
When butter begins to foam, place scallops into frying pan and cook for 2 minutes on each side - spoon foaming butter over scallops as they cook. | 2019-04-24T22:23:44 | https://minervadairy.com/recipes/spiced-sea-scallops |
0.999691 | Please help fill in the blank, Damian _____ Morris. We cant think of anything to use as a middle name. The only name I have ene thought of is my fathers (who passed away last year) but I dont know how it'll sound it would be Damian Wallce Morris ... please help !
Is that wallace? or is pronounced some other way.
I think it is a great idea to name him after your Father. However Wallace and Morris have a similar sound to them so they don't work so well together. I think Brent is great!!!! Is that your maiden name too, your father's last name? That would be wonderful to pa__s on to your son. It may be a last name but it makes a great first or middle as well. Good luck!
what about blake or drake?
I LOVE THE NAME DAMIAN!! How about Luke?
i agree that brent is a very nice middle name. Damian Brent. it goes together. i'm always more laid back about middle names. i let my DH pick something that has meaning to him. our kids all have hawaiian middle names (dh grew up in hawaii) i'm not *that* thrilled about the names, but maybe my kids will appreiciate the thought their dad put into their names. if not they can just use the initial. lol.
Damian 'OMEN' Morris hehe. No seriously, Damian Eric Morris sounds good.
how 'bout Brent? Damian Brent Morris is really cute!
i'd go woth Damian Wallace Morris - i'm naming my kid (if it's a boy) with a middle name after my father's first name, who also pa__sed away - i think it's a very nice idea - good luck!
Thanks everyone ... I LOVE Damian Brent Morris, I cant believe I never thought of that myself :) and yes, that is my maiden name (actually still my last name since i havnt gotten around to changing it yet. Thanks again everyone ... if anyone else has any more suggestions i'm still open but i think i really love Brent. | 2019-04-21T07:01:49 | https://www.pregnancy-info.net/forums/general_pregnancy_questions/damian____morris/ |
0.999674 | Fact-checking: Did Kim Jong Un ask to recolonise Nigeria, Ghana?
Kalyppo fruit juice has become an issue in the campaign for the presidency in Ghana.
It all began when the ruling party tried to make fun of the main opposition candidate,Nana Akufo-Addo, by posting a photograph of him sipping from a small carton of the fruit juice.
The stunt backfired, with Akufo-Addo’s supporters adopting the brand to rally support.
The new craze for Kalyppo juice, a locally-produced drink marketed mainly for children, is giving Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party the sort of free publicity politicians crave.
As Akufo-Addo’s convoy weaved through a densely-packed neighourhood of the capital last week, his supporters waved the boxes aloft and sipped the juice through straws.
One woman pinned Kalyppo to a selfie-stick. On Facebook and Twitter supporters pictured themselves drinking Kalyppo and even pretending to shower and fuel their cars with it.
The trend began when supporters of the ruling New Democratic Congress posted a photograph of Akufo-Addo drinking Kalyppo as a refreshment between campaign stops.
It was intended to gently mock Akufo-Addo, perhaps by making him look undignified, but NPP officials said they then adopted the drink as a sign of solidarity, in part to boost Akufo-Addo’s credentials as a man of the people.
One campaign aide said the party welcomed the boost ahead of the Dec. 7 vote, when Akufo-Addo faces President John Mahama, who is running for a second and final four-year term. The opposition leader has lost two previous presidential races.
Kalyppo is made by Aquafresh Limited which is based in Accra, according to its website. No one at the company was available to comment but the secretary general of the Ghana Federation of Labour, which represents Aquafresh workers, cautioned that the craze was not necessarily a good thing.
“Once the consumers are polarised (along party lines) … the regular sales would be negatively affected to the detriment of the employees,” he told Reuters. | 2019-04-21T09:09:46 | https://www.nan.ng/news/ghana-kalyppo-juice-now-campaign-issue/ |
0.998648 | My only question is if Dave wants to get rid of them so badly, then why doesn't he just grab a broom and beat them up? I mean the guy has a huge height and weight advantage on them little bastards. Come on!!!
Synopsis: A struggling songwriter named Dave Seville finds success when he comes across a trio of singing chipmunks: mischievous leader Alvin, brainy Simon, and chubby, impressionable Theodore.
Note: This film review was originally supposed to be come out BEFORE I wrote my review on "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Roadchip", but sadly i fell a bit behind because of job hunting and personal issues. I apologize for that. Anyways, this review was written as sort of a tribute to the last chipmunks film, so enjoy.
HEY!!! Put some clothes on damn it! This is a kids' movie!
- CGI was fairly well done for it's time.
- While I can't say there's anything bad in it for kids, I wouldn't say it's great either.
- The design choice for the chipmunks to be actual sized talking chipmunks versus anthropomorphic children with chipmunk faces was actually a good idea, from a marketing perspective.
- Story was too predictable and formulaic for my tastes, which makes the film very forgettable.
- Humor is lame, as it mostly revolves around poop jokes and other various humor that would mostly appeal to two year old children.
- Some of the characters are generic stereotypes like Ian, for instance.
mmm...too easy to make fun of this picture.
Whether you love or hate this franchise, "Alvin and the Chipmunks" is arguably one of the most financially successful adaptations of a cartoon in cinematic history. Spawning a few movie sequels, and a brand new CGI cartoon show on Nickelodeon, it seems like this franchise has found some new light these days. But is it deserved?
Unlike the previous cartoon shows and movies of the past, Fox has reinvented the characters from being anthropomorphic chipmunks, with the faces of chipmunks and the bodies of children, to talking self aware actual sized chipmunks, who can talk for some reason. Granted, I know a lot of old school fans love to moan and b**** about that change, but it kind of makes sense from a marketing perspective. After all, kids do love small fury animals like kittens and puppies for example, so it only makes sense that in order to appeal to kiddies that they would make the chipmunks smaller to resemble real life chipmunks rather than have them be the same size as most kids. Granted, I know some fans might point out how unrealistic it is for chipmunks to talk, but my only rebuttal to that argument is the fact that having anthropomorphic chipmunks that are the same size as normal kids isn't that realistic either.
Therefore, I'm not going to discredit the movie for that creative choice, but I will criticize the film for being a bland forgettable over the top boring cliche family movie that offers nothing in terms of substance.
The story is essentially an origin story so to speak. Dave is a struggling music writer, who's barely making ends meet. One day, he ends up meeting three talking chipmunks. After freaking out and trying to get rid of them, he reluctantly agrees to let them stay. After finding out their gift for singing, he tries to exploit their talents for money. But over time, he starts to bond with them, as he essentially becomes their surrogate father figure. However, the corporate prick of a music producer, Ian (David Cross), isn't too happy about Dave becoming protective of them, so he tries to take them away. Unlike Dave who loves them as if they were his own children, Ian merely wants to exploit them for money. So I guess Ian is a more tame version of how all music producers are like?
Anyway, if you've seen enough family movies, then you already know how this plays out. Bad guys get their kumuppins at the end, and cue in the spoon fed happy ending. Like most family films, "Alvin and the Chipmunks" is nothing if not insanely predictable. The humor is border line annoying, and reduced to juvenile childish things that would make your five year old giggle, but it would make the rest of the adults in the audience cringe. For example, Theodore poops, and Dave asks him about it. Simon covers it up by saying it's a raisin, and puts it in his mouth for a bit until Dave leaves. Yes, if you love poop jokes, then you'll probably love that scene. Personally, I think poop jokes are gross, but that's just me.
Overall, "Alvin and the Chipmunks" main crime isn't so much that it bastardizes certain elements of the original series, as changes are usually expected when modernizing a franchise, but it's the fact that it's too generic for it's own good. Nothing about the movie particularly stands out, and most of the humor tends to fall flat most of the time.
I guess if you're looking for a halfway decent family movie that'll get your kids to shut up for a couple of hours, then it's harmless. Besides, I can certainly think of worse movie choices to watch. Granted, "Alvin and the Chipmunks" is a mediocre film, but it's tolerable. But with all the great Pixar, Disney and Dreamworks movies out there, my only question is why would you want to settle for this movie? Unless your kid is crying to see this film specifically, then you'd be better off watching a PIxar or Dreamworks animated movie, before even thinking about having them watch this one. .
I hope it does soon, cause its getting ridiculous.
Why isn't zoidberg pleased? Is it because there's sequels to this mediocre franchise? Anyways thanks for the compliment. | 2019-04-23T12:10:09 | https://hubpages.com/entertainment/Alvin-and-the-Chipmunks-2007 |
0.955201 | While the last decade or two has brought it more recognition, cremation services in Indian Head(MD) are still somewhat of an uncommon entity. However, it is fast becoming a more economical means of final disposition for deceased loved ones. Do you know how to go about planning for Indian Head(MD) cremation services when someone close to you dies? There is a certain sequence of events that must occur in order for this option to come into play.
Cremation Services in Indian Head(MD)- What to Do When Death Occurs?
When your loved one dies, medical authorities such as the attending physician or a medical examiner must verify the death as well as the cause. In the event death occurs after a long illness, the nursing home, hospital or personal physician in attendance calls the death. An unexpected or accidental death may require calling 911 which leads to a medical examiner handling the deceased. Before Indian Head(MD) cremation services commence, once one of the above scenarios is carried out, the funeral establishment of your choice handles the transportation of the body to the crematory. You must make a formal identification of your deceased loved one's body in the presence of the funeral director.
Once your loved one is transported to the funeral establishment of your choice and identified formally in the presence of the director, there are certain pieces of information you will need to bring with you in order to set the plans for cremation services in Indian Head(MD) in motion. You will need to provide your deceased loved one's full legal name, last address, marital status, date and place of birth, social security number, parent names, occupation and a list of next of kin. If the deceased was in the military at one time, their service dates and serial number are needed too. All of this information is required in order to complete the death certificate which the funeral establishment handles. Before Indian Head(MD) cremation services are started, this paperwork must be filled out with medical data and signed by the deceased's physician and then filed with the Division of Vital Records.
There are no state laws that implicitly require embalming. There are a few circumstances when it might be suggested though. For instance, if the deceased's body has to be shipped to or from another state, embalming may be required. If you choose to have a public viewing or wake before Indian Head(MD) cremation services, embalming might be mandated by the funeral establishment.
Embalming helps keep a deceased loved one's body from decomposing too quickly. While there is only a twelve hour waiting period after death before cremation services in Indian Head(MD) can happen, more time is often required in order to complete the planning and paperwork involved. Embalming essentially buys you the time needed to set things into motion. If you are choosing a direct cremation route with no public viewing before a memorial or funeral service, embalming is not needed, even if you wish to visit with the deceased before Indian Head(MD) cremation services commence.
When your deceased loved one is received by the crematory, they have an identification tag placed with them. This ensures that the cremated remains you receive afterward are indeed your deceased loved one. The tag is removed only when the deceased is placed into the cremation chamber. Because only one body at a time can undergo cremation services in Indian Head(MD) within the chamber, there is little to no chance of a mix-up. Once the cremated remains are removed from the chamber and cooled, the identification tag is placed with them for the remainder of the process.
Choosing an Urn - Is It Necessary for Indian Head(MD) Cremation Services?
If you are planning to scatter your loved one's ashes after cremation, you don't necessarily need an urn to house the remains. The crematory, as a default, places the ashes in a temporary container that is leak-proof. If a scattering ceremony does not happen right away after cremation services in Indian Head(MD), you can hold onto the filled temporary container.
However, if the cremated remains are to be buried in a memorial garden or cemetery plot, a decorative urn of some sort is required. There are many styles to choose from including simple wooden boxes to elaborate cloisonn� containers. An urn would also be necessary if you plan to hold onto the ashes after Indian Head(MD) cremation services and display them in an honored spot in your home or even store them in a columbarium.
There is no right or wrong choices in regards to funeral or memorial services. You could have a public viewing before cremation services in Indian Head(MD) along with a funeral service. Or, you could choose direct cremation and hold a memorial ceremony, displaying the urn of cremated remains, at a later date. You choose what is best for family and friends as well as your finances. Contact a funeral specialist to help you with Indian Head(MD) cremation services so that there is a smoother transition from death to memorialization. | 2019-04-20T12:45:19 | https://www.heritagecremationprovider.com/cremation-services-costs/maryland/indian-head |
0.999635 | Q: Most of the attention on biofuels lately has focused on ethanol, specifically cellulosic ethanol made from grass or crop stubble or wood chips. What advantages does biodiesel, which can run in ordinary diesel engines, have over that?
A: The reason there's so much ink written on ethanol is if you look at the ethanol business, specifically the corn ethanol industry, it's 10 times larger than the biodiesel industry. Generally speaking, we're a newer, younger industry.
We're moving away from soybean biodiesel, which is analogous to corn ethanol, and moving into waste biodiesel, which is analogous to cellulosic. We're taking things like grease and turning it into fuel. I would argue that biodiesel today, especially waste biodiesel, is a great fuel for the environment, and it deserves more ink.
Q: How about electric cars and plug-in hybrids?
A: There really is no silver bullet. Electric transportation is not a silver bullet. Ethanol is not a silver bullet. Biodiesel is not a silver bullet. We have to move off this petroleum-monopoly paradigm and move onto a poly-fuel paradigm. We need to try everything, because we don't know what's going to work.
Q: Americans haven't been wild about diesel cars. So how much of our oil use can we reasonably hope to replace with biodiesel?
A: Diesel is still huge. Diesel is the backbone of transportation. Trucks run on diesel. All farm equipment runs on diesel fuel. Gasoline doesn't work well in those engines. Electricity doesn't work well in those engines. | 2019-04-26T05:42:51 | https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/3-questions-for-Eric-Bowen-Tellurian-Biodiesel-3173334.php |
0.999949 | Is stress in your workplace a problem? Even if you don't think you and your workers are under an intense level of pressure, it's worth remembering that people will often try to keep such problems hidden. Doing so, however, can create greater difficulties further down the line - both for themselves and your business - so it's important to do everything possible to alleviate stress levels in the workplace.
With research by the NHS showing 400,000 Britons claimed work-related stress was making them ill in 2010-11, this is definitely something you need to try and tackle. Of course, having a certain level of pressure at work can help to motivate employees to do their best work, but when things become excessive it can manifest into a range of psychological and physical problems.
If left to try and cope with stress on their own, workers may indulge in unhealthy behaviours such as smoking or drinking excessive amounts of alcohol, things that may have negative implications for both their personal well being and your business. So, what can be done to tackle stress in a productive manner? Here's a look at some of the things you should be doing.
Give workers a chance to talk: Perhaps one of the biggest causes of workplace stress for employees is feeling that there is nobody they can talk to if they have a problem (either work-related or personal) that they think is effecting the job they do. Holding regular meetings - both group sessions and one-on-one discussions - can go some way towards eliminating this. If it's the latter, you should highlight that anything they raise will be kept strictly confidential. Just knowing that someone is there who is willing listen to - and act on - the issues they are facing should help workers feel calmer and more relaxed.
Stress Shapes: Whether they are working to deadline or trying to close a sale, employees can sometimes feel under pressure to perform. Providing fun squeezable stress shapes - such as those offered by promotional product providers like 4imprint - to workers can help them to feel calm and take a momentary break from their tasks. These items offer fantastic brand interaction too. Making sure your logo is clearly visible on them will help recipients to remember that the company they work for cares about them, while it's also a good idea to print the telephone number of your HR department so people can easily get in touch with someone to discuss any problems.
Create a Calm Working Environment: Last, but by no means least, establishing a calm working environment will go some way towards managing stress within your company. Even if the nature of your company's work means there is a lot of noise, an office that is decorated in neutral colours and that receives lots of natural sunlight should help employees feel calm. Having plants or even a small patch of artificial grass is another fantastic way to create a more pleasant office. This will help staff to feel at one with nature as they work, while providing chairs, armrests and other items of furniture should ensure they are physically comfortable.
What are you doing to reduce stress levels in your workplace? Share your experiences by leaving a comment below. We'd love to hear from you!
I have had these symptoms for the past few months..and it's not very pleasant to carry on the daily chores either!
Oh, when you are not feeling well, it really stinks to have to carry on as they say. Once a mom, always a mom.
I had some symptoms including headache. I thought I was going through menopause or something. Come to find out it was from the bright color on our walls!
I handle stress by taking a break and getting outside. Great ideas!
That's great! Me too, but in the winter time, I am stuck, so I watch a show. What do you do in the winter?
It’s important to have stress relief options at work, especially in today’s economy and society. The workplace is faster paced and more stressful than ever. Most large organizations have mental health agency’s that employees can contact with full anonymity from any authoritative personnel for help. I also employed my own techniques: Get up and leave the immediate area. Go for a walk outside if whether and schedule permit. This will definitely relieve stress. Change the work that you are doing at the immediate moment. Stop and employ time management skills: rewrite your order of the day and find out what is most important to handle immediately.
If the stress is because of actual interaction with other employees; be professional. Even if the other employee is not professional, you be professional. First write down any and all issues. Then develop a possible solution. When you don’t have a solution you are a part of the problem. You won’t be able to see your own part of the problem - and ownership is the biggest part of the way out of a stressful situation. Own the solution. Meet with that person one on one. If that doesn’t work, request a meeting with your immediate supervisor.
Always be about solutions and ownership.
I think it is the hardest when you have to put up with someone who is disruptive even at work. But we all have to do it. It's really a shame to that sometimes, those people don't realize they are under stress.
I agree. Change what you are doing immediately and do something different. It is the same as a distraction a break from the work that is stressing you out.
When I feel like I am getting stressed, changing activities, and getting some exercise, going outdoors, or choosing a relaxing activity for a few minutes. These are great work place ideas, as it is not always possible to take a break from what you are doing.
You're absolutely right. It is not always possible to stop and walk. Not possible to change your environment right away, therefore the employers have to do it before hand.
When I am stressed out, I just take my camera and go outside! I find taking photos, and pulling weeds in the garden really help!
Talking it out with a friend is a great idea! Thanks for a fantastic post!
I don't know how you can come up with more photos from your yard. It's crazy that you can though. You're very creative.
Our workplace has been remodeling and I like the changes so far. I am also hoping that they provide some stress shapes. Maybe I will suggest this to them, huh?
I hope the colors are pleasant? It is one of the must for me, since all we see are the walls everyday.
Great ideas for the workplace. All seems simple but not many companies even do one of them. Sad.
Most companies get complacent in their environment and don't want to remodel or change.
We have a very nice and calming color scheme at work. I think they have the right idea.
I go to work to relax sometimes. With kids at home, it's always chaotic.
Work is always stressful no matter what they do. I agree though, some stress toys are helpful at times when you want to wring that person's neck.
Great tips! I definitely don't miss working outside of the home.
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0.99992 | Question 1: The price of sugar having gone down by 10%, a consumer can buy 5 kg more sugar for Rs 270.
Let the original price of sugar be Rs. p.
more for a rupee. How much wheat could originally be had for a rupee?
(1000 x 9)/20 = 450g in one rupee. | 2019-04-22T17:17:09 | https://wordpandit.com/percentages-questions-with-answers/ |
0.999172 | How to highlight websites I have visited?
Most browsers have options to bookmark sites you visit for later — in Chrome and Firefox, you can use the star icon in the address bar; in Internet Explorer, you can click on “Favorites” and choose ‘Add to Favorites.’ Hope that helps!
Most browsers have options to bookmark sites you visit for later -- in Chrome and Firefox, you can use the star icon in the address bar; in Internet Explorer, you can click on "Favorites" and choose 'Add to Favorites.' Hope that helps! | 2019-04-20T04:40:18 | https://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/highlighting-read-websites/ |
0.999986 | ON BAIL: Trainer Tom Noble has been granted Supreme Court bail after he was charged with trying to coerce a witness into changing her statement.
THREE people charged with greyhound live-baiting offences have been listed as police witnesses against disgraced trainer Tom Noble.
Court documents have revealed Julie Elizabeth Edmondson, Anthony Terrence McCabe and James Gregory Harding - who have all been charged with live baiting offences - are police witnesses Mr Noble is banned from contacting.
Thomas Adrian Noble, 68, this week was granted Supreme Court bail after he was charged with attempting to coerce Ms Edmondson into changing her statements to police.
Mr Noble is facing seven serious animal cruelty charges for allegedly tying piglets, possums and a rabbit onto a mechanical lure and using the animals as bait to train greyhounds to race. Police claim Mr Noble's dogs would bite and rip at the animals, wounding and killing them.
He told the court he intends to plead not guilty to the charges - although court documents show he has told police and Channel 9 he intends to plead guilty. He was granted bail on the coercion charges this week but barred from speaking to Ms Edmondson, Mr McCabe and Mr Harding.
Greyhound racing inquiry taskforce senior constable Benjamin Caffrey said in a statement to the court Mr Noble found out Ms Edmondson had been co-operating with police through media reports into court proceedings.
"(Mr Noble) admitted to the investigating officer after his arrest he became aware of (Ms Edmondson's) assistance to police and the evidence she has provided allegedly implicating (Mr Noble) in relation to his charges currently before the court and allegedly referred to in the conversation between (Mr Noble) and (Ms Edmondson)," he wrote.
"(Mr Noble) admitted to the investigating officer he became aware of the assistance (Ms Edmondson) allegedly provided to police through media reports."
Mr Harding, 25, is facing six serious animal cruelty charges, Mr McCabe, 41, faces seven serious animal cruelty charges and Ms Edmondson, 63, is charged with animal cruelty offences.
In a statement to the court, Ms Edmondson said she had "seen him engage in live baiting practices" at his Churchable operation. Police claim Ms Edmondson is one of "numerous" witnesses to have made statements about Mr Noble's operation - claiming they have "significant" evidence against him. | 2019-04-20T10:16:34 | https://www.gympietimes.com.au/news/three-dog-trainers-named-to-testify-against-noble/2625544/ |
0.996939 | Minimum length of blades used in the Kageryu is 2 shaku 8 sun (84.8 cm's / 33.5 inches) Five inches longer than the length prescribed by the Shogunate. At this time the shortest blade used is well over that length, the longest 4 shaku (121.2 cm's /47.7 inches) The heaviest blade used is mine at just over seven pounds. In should be understood that the use of these weapons is simply a tradition which has been handed down. There is no consideration here as to the longer weapon being superior to a shorter one. The long is for distance and shorter one carried for close work.
Shown from the top down: 3 shaku 7 sun (120.1 cm's/44.2 inches. The authors sword 3 shaku 8 sun (45.4 inches) Weight 3.25 kg. The thirds is a sanjaku sword (3 shaku), reportedly the length of the sword used by Sasaki Kojiro It is said his long sword style Ganryu was developed against short sword styles. The length of the longest tsuka from fuchi to kashira is 22 inches. Still less than one third of the total length. Some have a large sori (curve) But there are limitations to this as a big sori also makes a weapon rather unbalanced.
Also a Tanto known as a Maezashi in the Kageryu is worn across the front of the body (Shown on other pages).
Maezashi are used for throwing or for use in close quarter encounters For example, another person would perhaps grapple with the swordsman to prevent him drawing his longer sword.
A comparison of length between Kageryu sword and Josun.
Within the techniques Kekaeshi (jumping leg reversal) is frequently used within the forms. Kage Ryu was used when fighting in Yoroi (armour). It goes without saying, there are no seated forms in Kage-ryu.
There are three forms still practised and seven omote. At first one might consider this very few. However within each waza there are many conceivable variations (sotonomono) based on the position, action and timing of an oppponent. Sotonomono is based on the strategy of action and not on the waza. Each waza can be done in tate-hiza (with the toes turned up), standing, drawing the sword with either left or right leg forward. Turning to either side or to the rear in both directions. | 2019-04-21T02:37:13 | http://www.hyoho.com/Nkage2.html |
0.999177 | Organizational redesign is occurring at a rapid rate because of shorter product life cycles, rapidly changing environments, accelerated development of sophisticated information systems, and increased marketplace competitiveness. Because of these factors, more companies are considering project management organizations as a solution.
Why have some companies been able to implement this change in a short period of time while other companies require years? The answer is that successful implementation requires good transitional management.
Transitional management is the art and science of managing the conversion period from one organizational design to another. Transitional management necessitates an understanding of the new goals, objectives, roles, expectations, and employees' fears.
• Transfer of power. Some line managers will find it extremely difficult to accept someone else managing their projects, whereas some project managers will find it difficult to give orders to workers who belong to someone else.
• Trust. The secret to a successful transition without formal executive authority will be trust between line managers, between project managers, and between project and line managers. It takes time for trust to develop. Senior management should encourage it throughout the transition life cycle.
• Policies and procedures. The establishment of well-accepted policies and procedures is a slow and tedious process. Trying to establish rigid policies and procedures at project initiation will lead to difficulties.
• Hierarchical consideration. During transition, every attempt should be made to minimize hierarchical considerations that could affect successful organizational maturity.
• Priority scheduling. Priorities should be established only when needed, not on a continual basis. If priority shifting is continual, confusion and disenchantment will occur.
• Personnel problems. During transition there will be personnel problems brought on by moving to new locations, status changes, and new informal organizations. These problems should be addressed on a continual basis.
• Communications. During transition, new channels of communications should be built but not at the expense of old ones. Transition phases should show employees that communication can be multidirectional, for example, a project manager talking directly to functional employees.
• Project manager acceptance. Resistance to the project manager position can be controlled through proper training. People tend to resist what they do not understand.
• Competition. Although some competition is healthy within an organization, it can be detrimental during transition. Competition should not be encouraged at the expense of the total organization.
• Tools. It is common practice for each line organization to establish its own tools and techniques. During transition, no attempt should be made to force the line organizations to depart from their current practices. Rather, it is better for the project managers to develop tools and techniques that can be integrated with those in the functional groups.
• Contradicting demands. During transition and after maturity, contradicting demands will be a way of life. When they first occur during transition, they should be handled in a "working atmosphere" rather than a crisis mode.
• Reporting. If any type of standardization is to be developed, it should be for project status reporting, regardless of the size of the project.
• Teamwork. Systematic planning with strong functional input will produce teamwork. Using planning groups during transition will not obtain the necessary functional and project commitments.
• Theory X-Theory Y. During transition, functional employees may soon find themselves managed under either Theory X or Theory Y approaches. People must realize (through training) that this is a way of life in project management, especially during crises.
• Overmanagement costs. A mistake often made by executives is thinking that projects can be managed with fewer resources. This usually leads to disaster because undermanagement costs may be an order of magnitude greater than overmanagement costs.
• Proper planning and organization of the transition on a life-cycle basis will facilitate a successful change.
• Training of the executives, line managers, and employees in project management knowledge, skills, and attitudes is critical to a successful transition and probably will shorten the transition time.
• Employee involvement and acceptance may be the single most important function during transition.
• The strongest driving force of success during transition is a demonstration of commitment to and involvement in project management by senior executives.
• Organizational behavior becomes important during transition.
• Commitments made by senior executives prior to transition must be preserved during and following transition.
• Major concessions by senior management will come slowly.
• Schedule or performance compromises are not acceptable during transition; cost overruns may be acceptable.
• Conflict among participants increases during transition.
• If project managers are willing to manage with only implied authority during transition, then the total transition time may be drastically reduced.
• It is not clear how long transition will take.
Transition from a classical or product organization to a project-driven organization is not easy. With proper understanding, training, demonstrated commitment, and patience, transition will have a good chance for success. | 2019-04-21T08:47:27 | https://www.gristprojectmanagement.us/planning-scheduling/transitional-management.html |
0.999009 | The Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS) is an innovative observational assessment that is used to measure how well a client performs familiar activities of daily living (ADL). The quality of occupational performance is evaluated by rating the effort, efficiency, safety and independence of 16 motor skills and 20 process skills, while the person is doing chosen, familiar and life relevant ADL tasks. There are over 125 ADL tasks included in the AMPS, from very easy self-care tasks to multi-step domestic tasks (including outdoor tasks and shopping).
This provides occupational therapists and occupational therapy students, critical information related to the theoretical basis of the AMPS as well as experiential learning of administering and scoring the AMPS. Participants obtain valuable hands on information regarding occupation based assessment and interventions as well as viewing and scoring recorded and live AMPS observations during the course.
Rater Calibration is required following the 5 day course, potential AMPS raters must complete 10 live observations after the course and submit these data for analysis. Rater calibration allows each rater’s severity to be determined along with ascertaining if the rater is scoring the AMPS in a reliable manner.
Supports occupation centred practice, as it requires the ADL tasks that the person performs for the assessment to be chosen by the person, meaningful and relevant to his or her daily and living situation.
Gives occupational therapists with a powerful and sensitive tool that an assist with intervention planning and measure outcomes — providing evidence that a client’s occupational performance has changed.
Generates ADL measures that can be collaboratively with clients to plan occupation-based and occupation-focused intervention, develop occupation-focused goals, and write occupation-focused documentation.
Uses a measurement model that allows a therapist to determine the ADL ability of the person, while taking into account the relative challenge of each ADL task the person performed. As a result, people who perform different ADL tasks can be directly compared.
Uses the measurement model to analyse a person’s scores and generate ADL motor and process ability measures, which are adjusted, to account for the severity of the rater who scored the person’s performance. As a result, a person’s ADL ability measures are not biased by the rater who observed the performance.
Is designed to be administered to children over the age of 2 years, adolescents, adults and older adults for whom there is concern about ADL task performance. The diagnosis of the person or the reason for their functional limitations therefore does not matter.
Has been standardised internationally and cross-culturally on more than 100,000 subjects.
Participation in the 5-day training course and successful completion of the calibration process is required to use the AMPS.
Rater calibration involves each potential rater completing 10 AMPS assessments after the course and submitting the data for analysis, within 3 months, to demonstrate they are scoring in a valid and reliable manner.
The AMPS computer-scoring software is only available to persons who successfully complete the AMPS training and calibration process.
The AMPS is not suitable for the assessment of children under the age of 2 years or persons who do not need or who are unwilling to participate in simple daily life tasks.
Copyright © 2017 AMPS-ESI UK and Ireland. All rights reserved. | 2019-04-21T13:02:37 | https://amps-esiukandireland.com/amps/ |
0.999968 | The Boomer Generation, those children of the gang that Tom Brokaw described as “the greatest generation,” have become a sort of milepost in discussions of what is going on in the country. The generation that is now about to send its earliest members down the retirement trail, was once in the thick of protest politics, whether they were carrying the signs or railing against those who did.
That they have left their mark on American society is a given, and certainly they are today at the height of their powers. But what of their children, the so-called Generation X and the Millennials?
That fairly well describes our times. Whether it hits the proverbial nail on its generational head is disputable.
One of the wiser politicians I have met was always concerned that the political parties, both his and those other ones, would fail to interest the younger generation and thereby doom both the party and the country to a dismal future. Today, more than ever, we need not just their support—raising money, passing out literature, arranging the meeting room chairs—but their attitudes.
Earlier this month, while visiting in California, I met a young man of very strong convictions. In fact, so intense was he that perhaps that description deserves capitalization: A Young Man Of Very Strong Convictions. A friend of my grandson, he has impeccable manners, an easy laugh and a fierce interest in things political.
Born on the trailing edge of what has been dubbed the Millennial Generation, John is a senior at a Jesuit prep school and headed for college. Clearly relishing the art of argument, and once convinced that I was no shrinking violet grandmother, he often launched us into fierce arguments about the current state of national affairs.
With passion, he argued that the deficit was nothing to worry about since it was such a small percentage of the GNP, and that eliminating Saddam Hussein justified the Iraq War. “Saddam gassed his own people!” he proclaimed in support of his argument.
Any criticism of the current president immediately brought up President Clinton. “He lied under oath, and think about Whitewater.” When I suggested that he must then support the indictment of Vice President Cheney’s assistant, “Scooter” Libby, who is accused of lying under oath, he scornfully dismissed the indictment as somehow a creature of the press.
When I accused him of being an echo chamber for the Republican spin machine, he protested that he was a conservative and not always in agreement with the current Republican party. That would have been a distinction without a difference until very recently when, at least as mirrored in their Congressional behavior, there is a visible case of political acne on their hitherto smooth public face.
This young man dismissed nearly the entire national press and the major networks as “liberal,” and therefore not worth his attention, at which point I suggested he should broaden his sources for information rather than restrict himself to only what he already agreed with or thought he knew. This netted me a look bordering on derision, implying that it would only be a waste of his time.
It was not the quality of his arguments that impressed me, but the fact that he was arguing at all, that he had marshaled facts to support his argument and that he was so engaged in the issues of the times. He did not reach his conclusions while glued to a video game or one of the mindless movies currently on the market. | 2019-04-24T02:14:29 | https://www.lifecourse.com/media/articles/lib/2005/122805-bis.html |
0.998376 | What was the greek god Zeus' personality?
Where did the Greek god Zeus live?
Where did the Greek god Zeus come from?
His father was Cronos, who swallowed Zeus's older brothers and sisters.His mother, Rhea, gave Cronos a stone wrapped in baby clothes, instead. She gave baby Zeus to some nymphs to care for.Later Zeus killed Cronos and became Supreme Lord of The Skies.
Well if you want to know who Zeus is then he's the Greek god if the sky, ruler of all gods, and he's known for his "wandering eye".
What were the Greek god Zeus' actions?
What can you tell about the Greek god Zeus?
How old was the greek god zeus?
Zeus is a immortal Greek god, that meaning ageless. there is evidence of his worship from over seven thousand years ago.
What does the Greek god Zeus rule?
How was greek god Zeus honoured?
Was Zeus the king of the Greek Gods?
Yes he was the king of the Greek Gods.. Zeus was king of the Olympians. The earlier Greek gods were the Titans, and Kronos (father of Zeus) was their king. When referring to the Greek pantheon, it is generally always the Olympians who are referred to.
Who is the father of greek god Zeus?
Zeus does indeed have a father. This would be a mighty man named Cronus who is also the god of time.
How was the Greek god Zeus worshiped?
When did Zeus the greek god live?
Zeus was mythical character, but to the Greeks that believed he was real, his home place was on Mt. Olympus.
What is Zeus the greek god known as?
Zues is the greek god of the sky. His brother, Poseidon is god of the sea (and horses) And his other brother, Hades is god of the underworld.
History about Zeus the Greek god?
Zeus is the King of gods and rules the sky. He is also the owner of the master bolt. He is married to Hera and has many children like Athena and Aphrodite. He is also the brother of Poseidon and Hades.
Was Zeus a Greek god?
Yes, he was the chief Olympian god (god of the heavens) in Greekmythology. He was the son of Cronus (Kronos) a Titan who was amongthe earlier Greek deities. The later Roman counterpart of Zeus wasJupiter.
Facts about zeus the greek god?
Where is Zeus the greek god now?
What are the gifts of Zeus the greek god?
Zeus is the leader of all the gods. He rules over the heavens and has a "gift": the powerful lightning bolt weapon that is his to use!
Who did Zeus the Greek god hang out with?
Where was the Greek god Zeus worshipped?
Why was zeus the leader of the greek gods?
What does greek god Zeus carry and why?
He wore it to defend his self at all times and to show that he was important in all ways it was also to show that he was powerful and ruled over every thing.
Was Zeus the greek god gay?
Greek gods, including Zeus, were described as bisexual, but nonwere exclusively gay. Zeus had many female lovers and at least onemale lover, called Ganymede. | 2019-04-19T14:42:18 | https://www.answers.com/Q/How_does_Zeus_the_Greek_god_behave |
0.999026 | Hmmm, had a couple offers. What to do?
I am a captive life agent. I've been going out and seeing some of the major agencies in our area leading with the idea that I want them to get appointed to sell our products, and then I'm coming at the idea of allowing me to work their group health with supplementals from the back door.
That hasn't gone much of anywhere as these are big agencies that pretty much take care of everything and every line of insurance in house. I have, however, had a couple of job offers from these big agencies. One even offers vesting of your book after 5 years, with 20% vesting each year after until you fully own it. These weren't straight offers, but they kind of talked up their agency, how easy it is to cross sell their P&C customers, and suggested that if I was ever unhappy where I am at to come in and talk with them. One of the ones that is really a jam up agency here alluded to the idea that they wanted to access more of their customers on life, but they are too busy to deal with it right now.
Many of these agencies have people walking right into the office asking for insurance. I'm very tempted to do this, because all the prospecting I'd have to do would be accessing the P&C books and tell them that they can get a discount by getting their life with us in combination with their home and auto.
Are there any potential problems with this? I'm sure the grass isn't always greener.
I've been told that there is more money outside of the captive agent market, I don't know how true it is. Ask them lots of questions, make sure that what they say is what they do.
If you are happy with where you are at that I don't see any reason in changing unless you know the next move would be one that improves your situation.
Well, I like my company. I think it is pretty strong and well branded, with a good product portfolio. The training and appointment "hand holding" that was promised didn't come through 100%... more like 70% really. With that said, there has been some one I could go to whenever I had a question.
I see a lot of other agents making a lot of money where I'm at. Then again, the two other agents who started a little before me are doing pretty badly. I started doing okay, but it has slipped since the holiday season came around. All lead generation is on me. I have been given a couple of existing worksite accounts to service, but they have all been a couple hour drive away. I do like the people I work with, and I see many people making money there.
I'm just thinking about how easy it must be to go to one of the biggest agencies in town and have people that already have their home insurance walk into my office and ask about life or health insurance. I'm also thinking how easy it might be to call up hundreds and thousands of P&C customers already on the book and cross sell. Some of the big names in insurance in this town work in these offices. One of the guys that I spoke to got his start with my company and told me that if I could make it there, I could do very well anywhere.
I'm just scared I'm falling into a "grass is greener" mentality. I must say though that at this point, if I wasn't on salary at my company, I wouldn't be making too much.
What do you think of your company. I interviewed with them. | 2019-04-23T14:35:16 | https://insurance-forums.com/community/threads/hmmm-had-a-couple-offers-what-to-do.3376/ |
0.999944 | Commentary: In a video, the Olympian turned reality star asks the president to call her.
Will the president call her?
President Donald Trump likely expected tech companies not to be happy about his decision to withdraw federal protections for transgender students in schools.
He might not have expected quite the robust reaction he got from fellow Republican Caitlyn Jenner.
Jenner, the Olympian who became a reality star by marrying into the Kardashian clan, is perhaps the most prominent member of the transgender community in the US.
She took to Twitter on Thursday night to offer a video in which she first reassured young transgender kids.
"You're winning," she said. "I know it doesn't feel like it today or every day, but you're winning. Very soon we will win full freedom nationwide, and it's going to be with bipartisan support."
She then turned her attention to her fellow Republicans.
"Now I have a message for the bullies: You're sick. And because you're weak, you pick on kids, you pick on women or anyone else you think is vulnerable. Apparently even becoming the attorney general isn't enough to cure some people of their insecurities," she said.
The last line appeared to be a pointed reference to new attorney general Jeff Sessions. He was reportedly behind this move, one that reversed the Obama-era policies by which public schools had to allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their gender identity.
Finally, Jenner addressed the president himself.
"I have a message for President Trump from well, one Republican to another," she said. "This is a disaster. And you can still fix it. You made a promise to protect the LGBTQ community."
The White House didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. However last year, Trump insisted that Jenner could use any bathroom she liked in Trump Tower.
Jenner, therefore, ended her video appeal with a simple entreaty, one Hollywood star to another: "Call me."
I wonder how long she'll have to wait for that call. | 2019-04-21T09:14:39 | https://www.cnet.com/news/on-twitter-caitlyn-jenner-calls-trumps-transgender-policy-a-disaster/ |
0.999428 | Does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a congressional candidate from New York, represent a “new left” that is forming in the United States? Ocasio-Cortez’s victory in the primary in late June marked the downfall of Rep. Joe Crowley – a leader in the democratic party.
Ocasio-Cortez ran a grassroots campaign in NY-14, which includes parts of Queens and The Bronx where she gained traction through a heavy social media presence. As a democratic socialist, Ocasio-Cortez is a staunch supporter of many far-left policies that included a federally guaranteed job for all, tuition-free public colleges, medicare for all, and the dismantling of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). In her campaign, she focused on undermining what she likes to call the “democratic political machine,” or traditional, more mainstream democrats. This included the man she was running against, Joe Crowley, who had been in office since 1998 and had not been challenged in a primary since 2004. Ocasio-Cortez harped on what she saw to be Crowley’s inability to relate to the inhabitants of his district, arguing that Crowley had grown distant from the people of color that made up 70% of NY-14. Leading the charge for her campaign, Ocasio-Cortez built a backbone of young people, especially young people of color.
After defeating Rep. Crowley by over 4,000 votes, Ocasio-Cortez still did not behave as the traditional democrats who had come and gone before her. Many expected Ocasio-Cortez to fundraise and ally with democratic powerhouses after her primary win, but she stuck with the anti-establishment approach that has gotten her to where she is. In a visit to Los Angeles where she hosted a $27 per person luncheon, her team released a statement that she made no attempt to contact L.A. mayor Eric Garcetti. Ocasio-Cortez knows that she is better off without him.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a clear-cut example of the growing divide that can be found in the democratic party: the alt-left democratic socialists and the more traditional, moderate democrats. But, for the first time ever, democratic socialists like Bernie Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez pose a real threat to the unity of the Democratic Party. Their power lies within the ever-increasing importance of the millennial vote, as 44% of millennials said they would rather live in a socialist society over a capitalist one (via the Communism Memorial Foundation). The social democratic candidates’ ability to capture the vote of the young people marks a turning point against the establishment democrats that have dominated the politisphere for so long.
However, the jury is still out on the overall effect this will have on the Democratic Party. In an era where political common ground is going extinct, democratic socialists such as Ocasio-Cortez might be pioneers for the exacerbation of a rift in the party as a whole. Her anti-establishment agenda is reeling in millennials at exponential rates, and only time will tell the impact that politicians like her will have on the party. So, next time you hear a cringeworthy millennial joke from someone older than you, pause to remind them that your vote is beginning to mean more than theirs.
What do you like to do in your free time? I like to play basketball, read, and surf the web. | 2019-04-22T14:58:41 | https://theflintridgepress.com/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-effect-on-the-democratic-party/ |
0.999986 | The company is now the largest neutral IX in the New York Metro Market, one connection enables reach to over 1,000 global networks.
DE-CIX has exceeded a key milestone of 200 unique autonomous system number (ASN) networks taking the number one position as the largest carrier and data center-neutral internet exchange in New York. Accentuating this key milestone is that nearly fifty percent or 95 of the networks are exclusively available via DE-CIX in New York and 75 networks are only available in North America via DE-CIX New York. | 2019-04-21T14:35:53 | https://www.missioncriticalmagazine.com/articles/91913-de-cix-new-york-exceeds-200-network-connections |
0.999993 | (narrator) There are robots designed to lend a helping hand... My name is Curi. and bots designed to interact with people. College students from across the U.S. are putting their brain power to work programming these robotic maneuvers. It's called SURE, a ten-week, summer, undergraduate research experience.
(female) You're involved in research, you have hands-on applications. What happens is you like, "Oh, I understand what calculus is. I'm actually using it to design a robot and make it move."
(narrator) With support from the National Science Foundation, robotics engineer Ayanna Howard, of Georgia Tech, and her colleagues are grabbing the attention of students from colleges big and small. The goal: to encourage underrepresented students to apply for cutting-edge graduate work in science and engineering.
(female) When you design a robot for an individual or a child with a disability, you're providing a resource to change the world.
(narrator) At NASA, Howard worked on the Mars technology program. But now one of her missions is to motivate and recruit undergraduates, like Brooke Bosley, to enter the field of robotics. You can get colors, you can get shapes. I feel that mentoring is very important, especially for minorities and females. It's not a lot of people who are supportive when it comes to going into technology and science fields.
(narrator) Participants learn the benefits of collaboration. We all have our independent projects, but we're independently working together. So I've been setting up a Web environment to be able to control robots remotely.
(male) It's a program designed to help people who want to pursue robotics in graduate school to get their feet wet. There are parts of robotics that I would never encounter because my institution doesn't have any robots. Once we get it accurate enough that a robot can use it... The robot has inherently no idea of where it's going. You have to teach it how to do that.
(narrator) The task for professor Charles Kemp's team is to program a health care robot to feed a patient a spoonful of yogurt.
(male) I think we're gonna have a personal robotics revolution. One of the great ways in which personal robots will be able to benefit people is to provide this sort of assistance.
(narrator) Participants get tips on applying to grad school and paying for it. They also learn something lasting: confidence. One of the biggest "aha" moments I've had interacting with students is when they said, "I didn't think I could do it, but now I did."
(narrator) More than 70% of SURE program participants have gone on to grad school. Now that's getting close to a SURE bet. For Science Nation, I'm Miles O'Brien. | 2019-04-22T06:35:57 | https://dcmp.org/media/9054-science-nation-immersive-robotics-experience-inspires-future-engineers |
0.999991 | I left South Africa in 1974. ... I felt then, and still do, like an escapee, and perhaps this is partly to be explained by the institutional nature of South African society where no corner of life, private or public, is not touched by the shadow of racial obsession,... and the result is to create a country more bizarre than anything a writer could dream up. South Africa is a deeply inventive asylum where the inmates long ago took over.... From ``White Boy Running,'' by Christopher Hope White Boy Running, by Christopher Hope. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 273 pp. $17.95.
IN ``White Boy Running,'' South African-born poet and novelist Christopher Hope turns to nonfiction in his attempt to describe a country he regards as an extended exercise in fiction: a complex system of racial engineering designed to keep reality at bay. Reasonable observers have called apartheid preposterous, outdated, regressive - an anachronism on the verge of extinction. Growing up in its midst, Hope shared this view. Yet, revisiting his native land in 1987, on the eve of a crucial national election, he finds ample evidence to confirm the far more pessimistic view that led him into exile some dozen years before.
Hope goes first to the dilapidated town of Balfour, where his Irish-born grandfather once owned the station hotel and served, on occasion, as mayor. He moves on to the suburbs of his own birthplace, Johannesburg, and from there to the dusty streets of Pretoria, where he grew up, Roman Catholic and English-speaking, in the capital of a nation that defined itself as Calvinist and Afrikaans-speaking. Belonging to a group, young Hope discovered, was boring, hateful, and inescapable.
In cosmopolitan Cape Town, where he served in the Navy, Hope caught a glimpse of a more natural and relaxed society - which apartheid soon proceeded to undo as best it could. In 1987, Hope revisits District Six, once a teeming Colored area in the heart of town, now demolished by government planning. Stellenbosch, Durban, northern Natal, Soweto are on his itinerary. Moving from place to place, Hope travels back and forth in time, combining history, memoir, reportage, and political commentary to produce a sharp, bleak verbal portrait, beautifully written, bitterly ironic.
Although there's much that is personal in this story - from the author's memories of a teacher who made Shakespeare come alive to his account of how he composed his earliest verses to entertain his classmates - the emphasis throughout is political. This emphasis echoes the concern expressed by many other South Africans that theirs is a country in which it is impossible to escape from politics.
Wherever Hope travels, he keeps his ears open: whether it's a speech by Progressive member of Parliament Helen Suzman, a meeting of the neo-fascist Afrikaaner Resistance Movement, P.W. Botha rallying the faithful in Stellenbosch, a skeptical black audience questioning Hope at a poetry reading in Soweto, or a Boer farmer in a country town.
In some quarters the prospect of the election is a cause for optimism about the possibility of moving toward a more democratic future. There is talk of change in the air, of a ``fluidity'' in the mood of the electorate. Observers from abroad eagerly pick up on these signals.
But to Hope, such talk - however admirable - has a ring that is distinctly d'ej`a entendu: ``They saw the beginning of the end for the present administration after the Sharpeville shootings of 1960, they talked of one more push after the Soweto riots of 1976, and they began organizing for liberation during the State of Emergency of 1985.... [They] look for a new progressive grouping of opposition forces to oppose the Government, after the elections on May 6th.'' For Hope also listened to burly Boers on barstools in small towns and rural outposts talk about guns, bullets, and heading for the veld, as their ancestors did against the British.
The result of the election was, of course, to increase the power of the ruling Nationalists, and if any opposition was strengthened, it was that of the far right, afraid that the party that had invented apartheid and ruled for 40 years might be selling them down the river!
Hope's relentless irony has a disturbing spin to it. He loathes apartheid, but he seems at times to take a grim satisfaction in being proved right about its prospects for endurance. He cultivates a sort of perverse admiration for the zeal of Afrikaaner prophets of international isolation and racial separation - Paul Kruger, Hendrik Verwoerd, Eugene Terre'Blanche. He also seems to betray the intellectual's bemused, Schadenfreude-tinged respect for men who prefer fighting to talking, bullets to ballots.
Yet it would be a serious mistake to read Hope's ironies at face value. The ironic stance he adopts is a mirror image that clearly reflects his anger and frustration about a situation in which he sees few if any signs of improvement. He has little use for the ameliorist Progressives, and he is unimpressed by the Zulu-led indaba (conference) going on in Natal or by the resignation of 27 prominent Afrikaaner academics from the Nationalist Party. He sees signs everywhere - even in the curious aptness of names and acronyms: White supremacist Terre'Blanche's name means white earth; the initials of the Progressive Federal Party, PFP, sound ``pneumatic'' to his ear - people joke that they stand for ``packing for Perth.'' He does not point out what is perhaps the most pervasive irony in terms of nomenclature, which will be immediately apparent to any who read this book: There is little hope to be found in Christopher Hope's view of South Africa's future. | 2019-04-23T15:51:58 | https://www.csmonitor.com/1988/0902/bhope.html |
0.998657 | Are YouTube political videos subject to Irish regulation?
Following the controversy over the banning of this Lent's Trocaire ad as 'political' by the BCI, (See, Eoin O'Dell, E. McGarr, VoteTube for details) I thought I'd republish this essay from the McGarr Solicitors site. The short answer is no, by the way.
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The news this evening is full of the announcement of the publishing of the wording for the new amendment to the Constitution. I use this inelegant formulation because no publishing yet appears to have occurred, though there has been plenty of announcement.
You could be forgiven for thinking that we'd forgotten all about the VoteTube competition we announced a while ago, amongst all this talk of newspapers. Don't worry, we're not quite as inactive as it looks on that front, and there may be a big bang coming on it this week, or next.
Mediocre to poor Ministers don't write their own speeches. They read the speeches written for them by their civil servants as amended by their political advisors. The Fianna Fail Ard Fheis is on this week.
According to figures given out by Michael McDowell last week in a Parliamentary Question regarding FOI requests, 41% more people were being charged a €15 application fee by the Department of Justice in 2006 than in 2004. | 2019-04-24T18:00:10 | https://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/category/irish-politics/page/10/ |
0.999999 | Question: Defining ChIP-seq target genes: is there a robust cut-off?
I am trying to identify the target genes of my transcription factor after ChIP-seq. I have called the peaks and I have also looked at the number of reads falling around the Transcription Start Site of each gene. I am wondering how to define if a gene is bound by my TF.
Does it make sense to do the following: Pick a cutoff value for number reads (per million) falling into (for example) +-2kb of the TSS. I've made heatmaps so I could estimate by eye the number of genes bound, and take the cutoff value from this, but this seems a bad idea. I also don't want to simply assign a peak to it's nearest gene and, provided it's close to the TSS, call the gene a target, that seems much too liberal. Similarly, looking at my heatmaps and picking e.g. 'the top 200 genes' also seems flimsy.
Is there a robust definition for whether a gene is a target or not, using ChIP-seq data?
Any advice would be most apreciated.
Have a look at the GREAT tool http://bejerano.stanford.edu/great/public/html/ and the paper http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20436461 where they outline different strategies to be more comprehensive in assigning peaks to genes. Whether you are comfortable with a more conservative approach is up to you. I guess it depends on the transcription factor and how often you find it, how robust the peaks are etc... You could even include TADs or CTCF regulatory boundaries if you are more of the adventurous type and actually have this data.
What is a good ChIPseq peak distance cutoff?
What is my total number of genes in a hypergeometic distribution test? | 2019-04-23T00:08:13 | https://www.biostars.org/p/179311/ |
0.99835 | "It is actually forbidden by the Talmud for non-Jews to elevate their observance of the Torah's mitzvot as the Jews do"
What does "learning Torah" mean?
I never really understood the resistance to let Gentiles observe Shabbat. It would seem since among other things, it deals with celebrating the creation of the world, all would be wanting to celebrate it to remember the creation, for without it, we wouldn't be here.
Huddy, can you give me the exact place in the Talmud where it states these prohibitions?
Nope, not off the top of my head.
If memory serves, it was either in one of the Bava's or Gittin or Kiddushin.
The fact is that Torah is for the world, but the mitzvot of learning It is only on Jews. Nothing in the sheva brachos about learning Torah.
Are you saying that The Gentiles are simply not required, or that they are forbidden?
Yehudah wrote: Nope, not off the top of my head.
That's quite a bit of material lol.
It's forbidden to teach Torah to a Goy, unless that Goy is working on gerus. I think it is a gemarah in Gittin. But there are at least 2 other gemarahs that say basically the same thing, just can't remember which ones they are.
The fact is that 99.99% of all Goyim would not and do not learn Torah leshma, they would or do learn it because of an ulterior motive (to enhance or bolster their avodah zarah).
You don't have to agree, but I've seen it personally countless times... as well as have heard countless stories by friends, Rabbaim, etc.
But Gemarah is not Misnah correct? so in some ways there could be other opinions on this as well?
Inasmuch as the Jews had their own distinct jurisdiction, it would have been unwise to reveal their laws to the Gentiles, for such knowledge might have operated against the Jews in their opponents' courts. Hence the Talmud prohibited the teaching to a Gentile of the Torah, "the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob" (Deut. xxxiii. 4). R. Johanan says of one so teaching: "Such a person deserves death" (an idiom used to express indignation). "It is like placing an obstacle before the blind" (Sanh. 59a; Ḥag. 13a). And yet if a Gentile study the Law for the purpose of observing the moral laws of Noah, R. Meïr says he is as good as a high priest, and quotes: "Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them" (Lev. xviii. 5). The text does not specify an Israelite or a Levite or a priest, but simply "a man"—even a Gentile ('Ab. Zarah 26a).
Resh Laḳish (d. 278) said, "A Gentile observing the Sabbath deserves death" (Sanh. 58b). This refers to a Gentile who accepted the seven laws of the Noachidæ, inasmuch as "the Sabbath is a sign between God and Israel alone," and it was probably directed against the Christian Jews, who disregarded the Mosaic laws and yet at that time kept up the observance of the Jewish Sabbath. Rabbina, who lived about 150 years after the Christians had changed the day of rest to Sunday, could not quite understand the principle underlying Resh Laḳish's law, and, commenting upon it, added: "not even on Mondays [is the Gentile allowed to rest]"; intimating that the mandate given to the Noachidæ that "day and night shall not cease" (="have no rest ") should be taken in a literal sense (Gen. viii. 22)—probably to discourage general idleness (ib. Rashi), or for the more plausible reason advanced by Maimonides, who says: "The principle is, one is not permitted to make innovations in religion or to create new commandments. He has the privilege to become a true proselyte by accepting the whole Law" ("Yad," Melakim, x. 9). R. Emden (), in a remarkable apology for Christianity contained in his appendix to "Seder 'Olam" (pp. 32b-34b, Hamburg, 1752), gives it as his opinion that the original intention of Jesus, and especially of Paul, was to convert only the Gentiles to the seven moral laws of Noah and to let the Jews follow the Mosaic law—which explains the apparent contradictions in the New Testament regarding the laws of Moses and the Sabbath.
Present Status of the Gentile.
With the conversion of the Gentile to Christianity or to Islam, the heathen and pagan of the civilized or semi-civilized world has become almost extinct, and the restrictions placed on the ancient Gentile are not applicable to the Gentile of the present day, except in so far as to consider him a Noachian observingall moral laws, in contradistinction to the Jew, who as one of the chosen people observes in addition the Mosaic laws. That the laws against the Gentile as a barbarian were not entirely expunged from the rabbinic literature after the advent of Christianity, was due to the persecutions and the barbaric treatment of the Jews in the Middle Ages. The gradual decrease of animosity may, however, be noted by comparing the various codes and collections of responsa. For example, that a Jewish physician should be forbidden to offer his services to a Gentile was contrary to the general practise of the Jews in the Middle Ages. Maimonides himself became the physician of Sultan Saladin in Egypt. The prohibition against the employment of a Gentile nurse or midwife "except a Jewess stands by her" was modified by an eminent authority with "so long as there is a Jew living in that town who is liable to come into the house" (Moses of Coucy, "Semag," § 45). That no such distinction exists anywhere nowadays is an acknowledged fact, proving conclusively that the Rabbis regulate their decisions in accordance with the spirit of the Jewish law.
The opinions of a few of the noted and authoritative scholars are here cited to show the favorable change which the attitude of the Jews toward the Gentiles underwent in post-Talmudic times.
R. Sherira Gaon, president of the college in Pumbedita in the tenth century, permitted Jews to bring suit in a Gentile court on the defendant's refusal to have the case adjudicated by a Jewish tribunal. "Even if the Jew be the robber and the Gentile the one robbed, it is the duty of those who know it to so testify before the justice" (quoted in "Be'er ha-Golah" to Shulḥan 'Aruk, Ḥoshen Mishpaṭ; see also ib. 426, 5).
Maimonides (twelfth century), in his code written in Egypt, says: "It is forbidden to defraud or deceive any person in business. Jew and non-Jew are to be treated alike. If the vendor knows that his merchandise is defective, he must so inform the purchaser. It is wrong to deceive any person in words, even without causing him a pecuniary loss ("Yad," Mekirah, xviii. 1). In his Mishnaic commentary Maimonides remarks: "What some people imagine, that it is permissible to cheat a Gentile, is an error, and based on ignorance. The Almighty—praised be His Name!—instructed us that in redeeming a Hebrew servant from the services of a Gentile owner 'he shall reckon with him that bought him'" (Lev. xxvi. 50), meaning to be careful in his calculation not to cheat the Gentile. This was in Palestine, where the Jews had the upper hand over the Gentiles. How much more should the law be observed at the present time, when they have no sovereignty over the Gentiles. Moreover, neglect of the precept would cause the desecration of His Name, which is a great sin. Deception, duplicity, cheating, and circumvention toward a Gentile are despicable to the Almighty, as "all that do unrighteously are an abomination unto the Lord thy God" (Deut. xxv. 16; commentary to Kelim xii. 7).
Moses of Coucy (thirteenth century) writes: "I have been preaching before those exiled to Spain and to other Gentile countries, that, just because our exile is so prolonged, it behooves Israel to separate from worldly vanities and to cleave to the seal of the Holy One, which is Truth, and not to lie, either to Jew or Gentile, nor to deceive them in the least thing; to consecrate themselves above others, as 'the remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity nor speak lies.' . . . Behold, the visitation of the Flood for the violence done to the wicked Gentiles!" ("Semag," § 74).
About the same period R. Judah of Ratisbon, compiler of the "Sefer Ḥasidim," quotes: "It is forbidden to deceive any person, even a Gentile. Those who purposely misconstrue the greeting to a Gentile are sinners. There can be no greater deception than this" ("Sefer Ḥasidim," § 51, Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1817). "If either a Jew or Gentile should request a loan, he should get a frank answer. Do not say, 'I have no money,' when the reason is the fear to trust" (ib. § 426). "One shall not act in bad faith even to Gentiles. Such acts often bring down a person from his rank; and there is no luck in his undertaking. If perchance he succeeds, punishment is visited on his children" (ib. § 1074).
In the fifteenth century R. Isaac b. Sheshet, who lived in North Africa, in response to an inquiry regarding the status of a non-Jew, quotes authorities to prove that the Gentiles nowadays are not ultraidolaters, and consequently are not subject to the Talmudic restrictions mentioned above. He further says: "We must not presume that such restrictions were fixed rabbinical ordinances, not to be changed. On the contrary, they were made originally to meet only the conditions of the generations, places, and times" (Responsa, No. 119).
Caro (sixteenth century), the author of the Shulḥan 'Aruk, decides that "the modern Gentiles are not reckoned as heathen with reference to the restoration of lost articles and other matters" (Bet Joseph to Ṭur Ḥoshen Mishpaṭ, § 266; see also Ṭur Yoreh De'ah, § 148, ed. Venice, 1551).
R. Benjamin (seventeenth century), replying to an inquiry regarding an error of a Gentile in overpayingeighteen ducats, says: "For the sake of consecrating the Holy Name, a Jew shall correct and make good the error of a Gentile. . . . Jacob charged his sons to return to the governor of Egypt the silver put, perhaps by oversight, in the sacks of corn purchased by them from him. One must not take advantage of an error made either by a Mohammedan or by a Christian. Otherwise, the nations would rightly reproach the chosen people as thieves and cheats. I myself had occasion to restore to a Gentile money received through error" (Benjamin Beer, Responsa, No. 409, Venice, 1539).
Eliezer of Mayence writes: "The commandment prohibiting theft, like those against murder and adultery, applies to both Jews and Gentiles" ("Sefer Ra'aban," § 91, Prague, 1610).
Ezekiel Landau (eighteenth century), in the introduction to his responsa "Noda' bi-Yehudah" (ib. 1776), says: "I emphatically declare that in all laws contained in the Jewish writings concerning theft, fraud, etc., no distinction is made between Jew and Gentile; that the titles 'goi,' ''akkum,' etc., in no-wise apply to the people among whom we live."
Senior Zalmon (d. 1813), the representative authority of the modern Ḥasidim, in his version of the Shulḥan 'Aruk (vi. 27b, Stettin, 1864), says: "It is forbidden to rob or steal, even a trifle, from either a Jew or Gentile, adult or minor; even if the Gentile grieved the Jew, or even if the matter devolved is not worth a peruta [mite], except a thing that nobody would care about, such as abstracting for use as a toothpick a splinter from a bundle of wood or from a fence. Piety forbids even this."
Israel Lipschütz (nineteenth century), in his commentary to the Mishnah, says: "A duty devolves upon us toward our brethren of other nations who recognize the unity of God and honor His Scriptures, being observers of the seven precepts of Noah. . . . Not only do these Gentiles protect us, but they are charitably inclined to our poor. To act otherwise toward these Gentiles would be a misappreciation of their kindness. One should say with Joseph: 'How can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?'" ("Tif'eret Yisrael" to B. Ḳ. iv. 4).
Bibliography: Hamburger, in Hebrew Review, i. 145-164, Cincinnati, 1880.E. G. H. J. D. E. | 2019-04-24T12:37:57 | http://geshmacheyid.forumotion.com/t162-forbidden-mitzvot |
0.999778 | Why visit the Merced Grove? It's the smallest of Yosemite's three Giant Sequoia groves, with only about twenty of these venerable creatures, but it's also the least crowded. Like the Tuolumne Grove, it's downhill all the way to the grove.
Difficulty: It's a smooth, wide trail (part of it is a former road), and it's not a very long hike. You will have to climb about 600 feet (180 meters) on the way back, though. It rates a 4 out of 10, somewhere on the slippery boundary between easy and medium.
Best time to visit: The trees are fabulous any time there's daylight. You may get some bonus wildflowers in the spring. You should find big clusters of Western Azalea, one of Yosemite's most spectacular flowers, just past the last group of sequoias.
Crowd Factor: The sequoias no longer exhibit surprise at the presence of humans in their midst, regardless of how carefully you sneak up on them. Nonetheless, the Merced Grove is nowhere near so crowded as the lower Mariposa Grove.
Nearest Snacks: at Crane Flat, 3.8 miles (6 km) south. If you did bring food, there are picnic tables at the trailhead, a rarity for Yosemite's trails.
Driving Directions: The Merced Grove trailhead is off highway 120 north of Yosemite Valley. From the valley, take 120 north 13.5 miles (21 km) to the well-marked trailhead, which will be on your left. Here's a Google Street View panorama of the trailhead parking area.
Trail Notes: A little under halfway to the grove, you'll reach a fork in the trail. Turn left to proceed downhill to the grove. The intersection is clearly signed, and you'll have no problem figuring out which way to go.
Hazards: Like just about anywhere else in Yosemite, be prepared for mosquitoes. | 2019-04-19T03:25:14 | https://www.yosemitehikes.com/hetch-hetchy/merced-grove/merced-grove.htm |
0.999998 | He belonged to North India while she was a South Indian. Cliched?
He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, while she came from a poor family.
But this one's something different yet the most familiar. Here it goes..
Both of them belonged to nearly the same category. There wasn't any issue of caste, race, religion or status, neither their families had an old cold or hot war going on.
Nonetheless they were yet diametrically opposites of each other.
She was a loquacious chirpy bird while he was a secretive wordless dark horse.
She was more into expressing herself while he used to keep his feelings and emotions confined to himself.
She was more into gaining knowledge while he was more into making money.
She was more of intuitive and the one with that gut feeling while he was a practical person.
She could easily make out if he was lying about certain things or being sad through his body language while he on the other hand, being a man, believed to whatever she said and never thought of exploring what she might be up to in her mind.
She struggled for making him express his feelings to her for years but she failed every time she made an attempt. She often cried but it wasn't of any use because he was always unaware or perhaps pretended that he didn't know. I wonder why women are known to be mysterious..
One fine day, Trisha finally decided of quitting this relationship that she had with Harshit since she was tired of trying to make things work.
Harshit didn't make any effort to stop her, Trisha was extremely anguished and brokenhearted as she was expecting at least some efforts from his side. Months passed, and there was no sign of apology, Harshit didn't even try to call her once. She was missing him awfully but she was afraid that Harshit no longer loved her or perhaps he never loved her on the first place. She cried terribly, even the moon seemed gloomy that night. She listened to the sad songs and slept. It was 12 am and there was a knock at the door. She opened the door being nearly awake, rubbing her eyes and saw Harshit standing in front of him.
"I want you to see something, come with me," he said.
"What if I don't want to?" said Trisha.
"I won't disappoint you this time. I promise," said Harshit, affirming that he won't hurt her this time.
So if they can meet, Why can't we?"
"Will you marry me?... Again?"
They would make a good pair, but he should start expressing few feelings!
Awww that is so sweet and not to worry dear, I'm sure a much bigger miracle is awaiting you ;) Fingers crossed :* Lots of Hugs!
Nothing wrong with being a wordless horse, but some expressions always help. Nice story Deeshani.
A wonderful read :) It was hatke :D Happy endings are rare.
That's so sweet of you. For some actions are more important than words, he proved that. | 2019-04-20T13:05:54 | https://www.deeshani.in/2015/07/another-love-story.html |
0.998646 | Can I Leave Property To My Minor Children?
The short answer is yes, but, of course, with most legal questions, there are caveats and a longer explanation behind it. If you pass away and leave property to your minor children through a will without proper provisions in place, such property will be held in a guardianship and held by a court appointed guardian until your child reaches the age of 18. This means upon the child reaching 18, they will receive all and any of the property which you bequeathed to them. This may or may not be something that you would agree to if you were alive, which is why this needs to be carefully considered in creating your will.
A testamentary trust can be set up through your will. It allows property to be placed into a trust for your child upon your death, and managed by a Trustee appointed by you. The Trustee distributes according to the terms and conditions that you specifically state in your document, including how you wish your child to be taken care of in the event he or she is a minor when you pass.
This is a great tool to use to ensure your minor child has access to funds for health care, education, travel, general welfare, or anything else designated by you. It also allows funds to be distributed to your child all at once when they reach a certain age (not necessarily 18), or you can specify funds to be distributed in certain portions when they reach particular ages as you see appropriate. | 2019-04-22T08:39:45 | https://www.ncplanning.com/knowledge-base/how-to-leave-property-to-a-minor |
0.998848 | Is there anyone that doesn't know what YouTube is? There isn't a day goes by that I am not on YouTube watching/listening to something either while I do my hair and makeup in the morning or making dinner at night. If you are anything like me and you watch YouTube videos [more than] you watch regular TV, then you might already know these tips and tricks. If not, here are some tips and tricks that I use when watching YouTube videos.
Have a song you can't get enough of? YouTube will loop (continuously play) it for you. Simply right click the video and select Loop.
Want to share a cute cat video with your friends but the real action doesn't start until 1:00 into the video? No problem, just click Share at the bottom of the video and check the box Start at and enter a time. Then choose how to share the video.
Maybe you are waiting in line at Starbucks and you don't have headphones. Turn on the captions! Captions are not available on all videos, but if it is you can click on the CC button on the bottom of the video.
This is my most used tip for YouTube. Let's say I'm watching a video and on the side of the video player is a couple similar videos I want to watch next. Put your cursor on the thumbnail for the video and an option will appear in the upper right corner that looks like a clock. This will add it to your Watch Later playlist which you can access anytime in the left menu bar of YouTube.
Almost get caught watching a cat video while at work when your boss walked in? Simply press the space bar on the keyboard to pause the video fast.
Watching a video for educational purposes but missed a quote? You can view a transcript of the video easily. Click on the three dots at the bottom of the video by the share button and select Open Transcript. This displays the captions essentially and time stamps which you can click on to view that part of the video. | 2019-04-24T04:26:40 | http://www.nfls.lib.wi.us/techbits/you-tube-tips-and-tricks-by-emily-at-scls |
0.999992 | This paper presents an experimental code generator that performs intra-block stack scheduling for a stack-based execution model. For small test programs, 91% to 100% of redundant local variable accesses were eliminated using this compiler. Compiled intra-block stack scheduling and hand-performed global stack scheduling show that significant opportunities exist to keep temporary variable values on the expression evaluation stack when compiling conventional languages.
Efficient compilation of conventional languages to stack-based execution models has received relatively little attention. Previous work has focused on using the stack efficiently for expression evaluation (e.g., Bruno & Lassagne (1975), Couch & Hamm (1977), Miller (1987)) and performing peephole optimizations (e.g., Hayes (1986), Hand (1989)). There seems to have been little work on optimizing stack usage at the basic block level (code sequences containing no branches nor labels) or the global level (whole-procedure).
One significant advantage of register-based computation models is that register scheduling algorithms can place temporary variables in registers instead of memory-based variables to improve code efficiency. A common criticisms of stack-based execution is that variables can't be kept on the stack without a lot of wasted stack manipulation. There is data to back this up: Koopman (1989) gives dynamic instruction frequencies for Forth programs indicating approximately 1 operation in 4 is a DUP, SWAP, or other stack manipulation.
The question is, can stack-based computational models use stacks for temporary values as effectively as register-based computational models? While there are not yet any definitive answers, this paper seeks to establish a foundation for performing experiments on stack-based code generation. It does so by using an experimental stack-scheduling compiler and hand-coding techniques to optimize stack usage on several small C programs at both the basic-block level and the global level.
I have developed an experimental stack-based code generator that works as a postprocessor for the GNU C compiler (Stallman 1988). In order to compile a program, GNU C is run on the source code with optimization enabled. A dump of the intermediate code data structures (in LISP-like notation) is generated just before the register assignment pass of GNU C. The resulting dump file is used as input for the stack-based code generator. The output of the code generator is Forth source code augmented with stack comments on every line.
The results reported here are for compiling seven integer benchmark programs from the Stanford Benchmark Suite (Hennessy & Nye). Although significantly larger programs must be used to make conclusive statements about performance, these programs are sufficiently complex and varied at the basic block level to form a starting point for experimentation. The goal of my experiment was to explore the area with limited resources rather than give definitive results.
( 77 --) 77 LOCAL!
A running stack picture is maintained as the code is translated. Each instruction in the stack-code list gets a copy of the stack picture as it is before the instruction's stack effect. The stack is always empty at the end of each GNU C LISP expression.
The example expression above declares the value in register 73 to be "DEAD". This means the value is not needed in subsequent expressions. The "DEAD" attribute is captured as a pseudo-operation in the stack-code list for later use to eliminate unnecessary stores to local variables whose values are not reused.
This is a set of related steps that modifies code details to finish converting from a register-based paradigm to stack operation. Modifications include holding subroutine inputs on the stack instead of in registers, modifying condition code phrases to use stack-based comparisons, and ensuring subroutine return values are placed on the stack.
An initial pass of a peephole optimizer is used to make the code more consistent for processing in later phases. Usually very few changes take place here.
This will be presented in more detail in subsequent sections. The purpose of stack scheduling is to carry values on the stack instead of using local variables.
The stack scheduling step described in the previous section can be performed at two levels: intra-block scheduling, which will be discussed in this section; and global scheduling, which will be discussed in the next section.
Intra-block stack scheduling attempts to remove local variable fetches and stores by maintaining copies of the local variables on the stack. It designates where variables go on the stack for each instruction. The terminology is deliberately similar to "register scheduling", in which variables are assigned to registers in conventional compilers (e.g., Hennessy & Patterson (1990), pp. 113-114).
Generalized stack scheduling is a bit more difficult than register scheduling because stack depth must be uniform and consistent when control passes through branch targets from differing branch sources. For example, in an IF...ELSE...THEN construct, the IF and ELSE clauses must both leave the same temporary variables in the same locations on the stack when control transfers beyond the THEN. The simplest way to ensure that this happens is to adopt a policy of always leaving the stack empty when taking a branch. An obvious way to implement this policy is to employ stack scheduling only within basic blocks intra-block stack scheduling).
I experimented with several intra-block scheduling algorithms while performing compiler research for the Harris RTX 2000 stack CPU. All of the methods I used then were based on ad-hoc sets of transformations that seemed to work, but lacked a unifying approach. However, recent exploration of the problem from a fresh start has yielded a simple heuristic approach that seems to give excellent results.
The algorithm for intra-block stack scheduling has two parts. The first part is ranking opportunities for eliminating local variable fetches and stores. The second part is attempting to actually eliminate the local variable operations in rank order.
( 76 --) 76 LOCAL! \ b !
( 75 --) 75 LOCAL! \ a !
( 77 --) 77 LOCAL! \ c !
where the variable a is assigned to local variable 75, b is assigned to 76, and c is assigned to 77. Note that because of data dependencies, rearrangement of the assignments can't remove the need to keep a temporary copy of the value of a in b for computation of the new value of c. Nevertheless, there is an opportunity to perform stack scheduling on local variables 75 and 76 because they are each used multiple times as operands in the computation.
Variable 76 is reused immediately after it is stored, with a distance measure of 1. Variable 76 is reused again with a single intervening instruction, giving a distance measure of 2. Variable 75 is reused with a distance measure of 2 as well.
After distances are measured, candidates for stack scheduling (use/reuse pairs) are ranked in order of ascending distance. Thus, the algorithm considers nearest pairs before more distant pairs. I chose this ranking method so that nested uses of values on the stack would be scheduled optimally (from the inner usages out).
For each pair of use/reuse stack operations, the following procedure is applied. The register of interest must be able to be copied to the bottom of the stack using: DUP, TUCK, UNDER, or TUCK_2 (see Appendix), otherwise the scheduler moves on to the next use/reuse pair. Also, the stack depth at the reuse instruction must also be 2 or less (so that the register of interest can be brought from its new position on the bottom of the stack to the top with a SWAP or ROT if necessary). If both of these conditions hold, a DUP, TUCK, UNDER, or TUCK_2 instruction is inserted before the "use" instruction to copy the value to the bottom of the stack, and the LOCAL@ instruction at the "reuse" point is replaced with a NOP, SWAP, or ROT as appropriate.
The idea behind the stack scheduling algorithm is to copy a value to the bottom of the stack at the use point, update the stack pictures of the instructions between the use and reuse points, and move the value back to the top of the stack at the reuse point. As successive use/reuse pairs with longer distance measures are scheduled, their values tend to go under the existing scheduled values on the stack.
Access is limited to only the top 3 stack elements at use/reuse points. My previous experience indicates arbitrary-depth PICKs generate poor code because of subsequent DROP operations required to eliminate dead values. Also, many stack CPUs pay performance penalties for deep stack accesses. Note that the stack itself may get deeper than three elements (the small programs I compiled used up to 8 stack elements); it is just access to the stack that is limited to the top 3 values.
( 76 76 --) 76 LOCAL!
( 75 --) 75 LOCAL!
( 77 --) 77 LOCAL!
( 76 75 --) 75 LOCAL!
( 77 --) 77 LOCAL!
Note that since the fetch of local variable 76 was eliminated, the DEAD annotation migrates to the previous variable 76 reference. This shows that the store of local variable 76 is in fact unnecessary (because variable b is only a temporary holding variable).
( 75 76 75 --) 75 LOCAL!
( 76 75 75 --) 75 LOCAL!
The resultant code now has 4 local variable references instead of the original 8 and is two instructions shorter. Further reduction is not possible if we assume that the example is a complete basic code block, because the stack must be empty at the start and end of the block.
Note that there are only two stack operations in this code sequence, and both of them (the UNDER and the DUP) could be combined with other operations to form new primitives: UNDER_+ and DUP_LOCAL! . Both these primitives are typically found on stack-based CPUs. In general this code generation process results in very little wasted manipulating of the stack.
It is well known that basic blocks in C programs tend to be rather short. This limits the effectiveness of intra-block stack scheduling. However, within the single-block constraints my stack scheduling algorithm tends to produce fairly good code. The code is not necessarily the same as that which would be produced by a human programmer, but is usually very close in efficiency (measured by use of the stack instead of local variables). One reason for the difference between generated code and human-written code is that human programmers typically don't attempt to arrange instructions for stack/operation compound instruction creation, whereas my stack scheduling algorithm does.
One way of measuring the success of intra-block scheduling is by counting the number of "reuse" LOCAL@ instructions that were successfully removed by the algorithm as a percentage of all redundant (reuse) LOCAL@ instructions (Figure 1). The results indicate that the algorithm was highly successful, removing between 91% and 100% of all redundant LOCAL@ instructions.
Surprisingly, deep accesses to the stack were not needed to achieve excellent intra-block scheduling results. ROT was the deepest stack movement operation required, and PICK_2 was the deepest stack element copying operation needed (and neither of these were needed often).
Of course, Figure 1 does not tell the whole story. In determining how well intra-block scheduling does, it is important to look at the total number of local variable accesses. Figure 2 shows the number of local variable loads and stores in each program with no scheduling, intra-block scheduling, and global scheduling (discussed in the next section). While intra-block scheduling removes many of the local variable references, many remain because of variable lifetimes that cross basic block boundaries.
Figure 2. The number of local variable instructions in the compiled code reduces dramatically with stack scheduling.
Intra-block scheduling has definite limitations. In particular, it is not possible to eliminate local variables whose lifetimes cross basic block boundaries. In order to assess how much these restrictions affected code generation, I hand-generated code using global analysis.
The hand-generated code starting point was the output of the intra-block stack scheduling compiler. I selected variables to keep on the stack using the distance metric across basic block boundaries. In general I was as aggressive as possible in using the stack consistent with keeping accesses to the stack to the top three elements.
Figure 2 shows that global optimization removed many local variable references beyond those removed by intra-block optimization. For most programs, nearly all references were removed. However, portions of QUEENS and QUICK proved to have too many active values to juggle on the stack. This is not to say that these two algorithms can't be written using entirely stack-resident variables, but rather that the C programs as written in the Stanford Integer Benchmark Suite are difficult to stack-schedule. Although it wasn't entirely successful in eliminating the need for local variables, global scheduling showed significantly improved performance over intra-block scheduling.
I have not created a unified methodology from my experience of hand-performing global stack scheduling -- I just used ad-hoc techniques as necessary. Nonetheless the experience of optimizing several programs in this manner leads to some observations about how a formal methodology might be created.
Keeping loop indices on the Forth Return Stack is a significant advantage. Also, it is usually fruitful to keep one or sometimes two (but not more) frequently used variables resident on the stack for the entire duration of a loop instead of in local variables. Sometimes placing a dummy value onto the Data Stack in one part of an IF...ELSE...THEN leads to significant simplification of stack manipulation in the other part.
The algorithm have I developed for intra-block stack scheduling seems to be quite effective, eliminating 91% to 100% of redundant local variable accesses within basic blocks for the small programs studied. Hand-performed global optimization results indicate that significantly better stack scheduling can be done if variables are kept on the stack across basic block boundaries. Global optimization for stack scheduling is still an ad-hoc process. While stack scheduling can eliminate most local variable references, some programs with large numbers of variables are still difficult to stack-schedule.
The stack scheduler uses primitives not found in many Forth systems. LOCAL@ and LOCAL! are local variable fetch and store operations that take a numeric input (which probably represents an offset into an activation frame) as the "name" of a local variable to be fetched and stored. The following definitions show the behavior of non-standard words discussed. The reader should understand that the intent is for these operations to be provided as quick primitives, not high-level operations. | 2019-04-20T02:57:39 | http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/stack_compiler/stack_co.html |
0.999929 | What!? 1998 World Cup is Fixed?
A lot has been said about the 1998 World Cup with some quarters unconvinced that the draw between France and Brazil was genuine. Some people were of the view that, FIFA fixed this match and in this article, we will try to take a look at the background of that particular game.
Michel François Platini, a French former football player, and the manager were of the opinion that France wanted to make sure that them being the host, reigning champions Brazil could not meet until the final, this was to ensure they met "everyone's dream" by meeting in the final.
In most tournament draws, there are two halves in knockout rounds- this means that four group winners can only meet the winners of the other four groups in the final.
The winners of 1998 Group A, D, E and H were slotted into one half of the draw while the other group comprising of B, C, F, and G were grouped in the other.
As hosts, it was obvious that France would take position C1 while Brazil took position A1 since they were the holders; this meant that the two teams were in different halves of the draw and therefore they were not allowed to meet before the final.
As per FIFA rules, when the World Cup finals draw to an end, FIFA Organizing Committee meets to finalize the draw process. This decision cannot be taken solely by the host nation, however, Platini and then-French Football Federation president, together with fellow Organizing Committee co-president, Fernand Sastre would have been able to apply pressure to request this kind of outcome.
The 1998 FIFA Organizing Committee was chaired by Lennart Johansson of Sweden and also present was the then-FIFA president Joao Havelange, from Brazil.
So did they fix the draw itself?
There is no sure way of determining whether the match was fixed since France had drawn with South Africa, Denmark, and Saudi Arabia. On the other hand, Brazil was slotted in the same group with Scotland, Morocco, and Norway. Both teams were required to top their particular group, and make it to the knockout rounds which would enable them to actually reach the final.
By all means, the two teams did exceptionally well and France beat Italy, Croatia, and Paraguay and proceeded to the final, while Brazil beat Netherlands, Chile, and Denmark.
Did they do anything wrong?
The main argument was that France conceived a situation whereby, they would not have to submit to their main rivals for the World Cup title and that is why they were allocated to different halves of the draw. This increased their chances of success. However, they would not be the only host nation to enjoy this privilege. Actually, you could call it one of the perks that come with being a host nation. | 2019-04-26T13:02:04 | https://www.soccertipsters.com/blog-detail/54/was-the-1998-world-cup-in-france-fixed.html |
0.999153 | Advocates argue private prisons in the United States help increase prison capacity and keep costs down, but these for-profit facilities have thrown a spanner in the process of rehabilitation. Here's a brief overview.
Imprisonment is meant to have a purpose. Retribution, incapacitation, deterrence and rehabilitation have all been cited as a reason to incarcerate someone who has gone against the social contract.
Reintegrating a criminal so that they can function within the bounds of society could be considered one of the ultimate aims of imprisonment.
Private prisons in the US, however, have shifted the goal posts.
How did US private prisons come about?
In the United States, private prisons are by definition for-profit facilities.
Before the brick-and-mortar structures of standardised private prisons were integrated into the US correctional system, states used inmates as bonded factory workers as early as the 1800s.
Later, black inmates were made to work on cotton plantations; in fact, the first official private prison contractor has its roots in such a plantation in 1967. The plantation owner, Terrell Don Hutto, went on to found the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), which is the country's oldest for-profit prison enterprise.
The boom in private corrections facilities is often traced back to President Ronald Reagan's 'War on Drugs' policies which left public prisons overwhelmed.
The first official prison was founded in the early 1980s after CCA, rebranded as CoreCivic, assumed management of a facility in Shelby County, Tennessee.
On April 1984, it opened Houston Processing Center in Houston, Texas, as the first detention centre in the world designed and constructed by a corrections company.
Managing correctional facilities for federal, state and local government partners, CCA — the fifth-largest corrections system in the US — houses nearly 70,000 inmates in more than 70 facilities, with a total bed capacity of more than 80,000.
The GEO Group Inc (GEO), a competitor, has the management and/or ownership of 139 correctional, detention and community reentry facilities, encompassing approximately 96,000 beds worldwide. It has 71 facilities with 75,338 beds under its US Corrections division.
The private prison industry was thought to have been worth $5 billion in 2015.
"The product is the prisoner" in private prisons, said Jeannie Alexander, Director of the No Exceptions Prison Collective, in an interview with Voice Of America.
The problem lies in the fact that the number of inmates determines how much money these facilities can make, she added.
"Since 2000, the number of people in private prisons has increased 47 percent, compared to an overall rise in the prison population of nine percent," according to the Sentencing Project's 2018 fact sheet.
"Private prisons in the US incarcerated 128,063 people in 2016, representing 8.5 percent of the total state and federal prison population," it stated, adding that "the federal prison system experienced a 120 percent increase in [the] use of private prisons since 2000, reaching 34,159 people in private facilities in 2016".
More prisoners, however, has not necessarily translated into more guards or better-trained staff at private facilities.
“The secret to low operating costs is having a minimal number of guards for the maximum number of prisoners,” explained Russell Boraas, a private prison administrator in Virginia.
Private prisons report one correctional officer per 6.9 inmates as compared to public facilities where there is one officer per 4.9 inmates, according to a 2016 report by The Hamilton Project, run by the Brooking Institution.
Since roughly 65 percent of operating costs go on salaries, private prison correctional officers are also paid less. In 2015, staff at private prisons received salaries that were about $7,000 lower than the average public officer’s salary, the report said.
Shares in private prison operators CoreCivic Inc and GEO rose in late June as investors bet on an increase in demand for such services after the US authorities asked about available capacity for the detention of immigrant families.
It came after US President Donald Trump issued an executive order aimed at ending his controversial policy of separating immigrant children from their parents caught entering the country illegally.
"Among the immigrant detention population, 26,249 people — 73 percent of the detained population — were confined in privately run facilities in 2017. The private immigrant population grew 442 percent since 2002," said the Sentencing Project.
The market of private prisons signals an upturn as CoreCivic's stock increased by 140 percent during the first half of 2017.
Some private prison companies, seen as politically connected, contributed $1.6 million to candidates, parties and outside spending groups during the 2016 election cycle.
GEO and CoreCivic are among these contractors, as each donated $250,000 to Trump’s inaugural fund.
Public correctional facilities are also rife with problems. Abuse by guards and inmates, poor health care and other issues are widely documented at public prisons. And similar problems allegedly remain hidden at private prisons, which are not subjected to the same scrutiny as they are exempt from state laws.
When the conditions of private prisons are available for scrutiny, the issues of low-quality health care, poor food, inferior care of inmates, high rates of violence, violating human trafficking laws and forced labour come to the fore. CoreCivic, in particular, also faces allegations of abuse and exploitation of detained immigrants’ labour.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), following a review of three private corporations — CCA, GEO, and Management and Training Corporation (MTC) — found that “contract prisons had higher rates of inmate-on-inmate and inmate-on-staff assaults, as well as higher rates of staff uses of force”.
The US Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General issued a scathing report after visiting a privately-run detention facility in the remote, desert city of Adelanto in May, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Inspectors found nooses in 15 of 20 cells they visited at the centre operated by GEO for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and said guards told them that removing the sheets was not a high priority.
Some detainees said they used the braided sheets as clotheslines or unfurled them for privacy. One detainee told inspectors he had seen them used for attempted suicides and that, "the guards laugh at them and call them 'suicide failures' once they are back from medical," according to the report.
There were at least seven suicide attempts at the facility between December 2016 and October 2017, and a 32-year-old man killed himself by hanging in March 2017, according to the report.
According to a book written by journalist Shane Bauer, Robert Scoot, an inmate who lost his fingers and legs due to gangrene contracted during incarceration, sued CCA for neglect, claiming that the inmates are denied medical care as the company operates the prison "on a skeleton crew for profitable gain".
Bauer, on December 2014, started a job as a corrections officer at a Louisiana prison run by the CCA and uncovered gross abuse and misconduct by prison authorities there on a large scale.
One CCA captain pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a prisoner and making false statements to the FBI. The captain was sentenced to six years in federal prison and a $5,000 fine.
There are many ways to create a for-profit prison facility. A private company can finance and build a prison and then bid for a government contract to also run it. Another method would be to finance and build a correctional facility and then lease it to the US government, according to the 2012 book "Essentials of Criminal Justice".
Public prisons can also contract out specific services to private companies, such as providing food services or healthcare to inmates.
"The firm with the winning bid then assumes full responsibility for managing the day-to-day operations of a prison facility: hiring staff, disciplining prisoners, stocking supplies, providing legally mandated programs and so forth," said Brett C Burkhardt, an assistant professor of sociology at Oregon State University.
"In return, the government pays the firm, typically on a per-inmate-day basis," Burkhardt said. "In taking over operational responsibilities, the firm also assumes legal liability in the event of legal or constitutional disputes."
According to Burkhardt's research on private prisons in the US, "the trend toward privatisation is unlikely to solve the very real problems in US prisons". | 2019-04-21T14:28:25 | https://www.trtworld.com/americas/the-private-business-of-running-for-profit-prisons-in-the-us-20809 |
0.999509 | By the evening I'd got to the border with Switzerland - my plan was to visit Steven in Zurich as well as Chantal and Michael in Basel - but first it was time for an often-postponed visit to Lugano.
First I had to find somewhere to stay - campsites were everywhere, but all seemed to be deserted. Eventually a local directed me through the drizzle to a beautifully located car park on the lake shore where I camped next to a no camping sign. I fully expected to be woken in the night told to move - I even mentally composed my essay on the ethics of hospitality - "Switzerland and the traditions of Islam: Compare (20 marks)".
maybe it was because this was Italian Switzerland, but whatever the reason, to my horror I was left to defile the car park for a whole peaceful night, and arrived in Basel that morning. How small Switzerland seemed to have become since I lived there - I suppose that's just the effect of driving so far across such a vast continent.
After meeting up with Chantal and seeing the old sites I nipped down to rainy Zurich for a day to catch up with Steven, who I'd last seen in Gonder. His broken pelvis was still causing him to limp, but it was good to see him walking again - and a relief not to have to carry him to the toilet... He was about to return to Nairobi to recuperate before picking up his bike and continuing his journey.
After a relaxing week I drove across France, stopping near Montpellier where i was blessed with a night's camping in torrential rain and hurricane strength winds which tested my tent to the full, and also managed to soak half of my mattress. After Switzerland where €30 buys you your road tolls for a year, it was a shock to find the same amount just about gets you to the Spanish border when you are in France.
Barcelona, on the other hand, was a fantastic city - despite the zillions of tourists (like me, I suppose) clogging up the place. I've always enjoyed Guadi, and it was a great experience to be able to wander around his cathedral, visit his house, and get lost in his park.
I also checked out the museum which is mostly underground - you can explore the Roman and medieval ruins which was just as well as the above-ground section was closed. And at grave risk of this becoming something like a very long web-based a post card, I popped in to the Picasso museum - some good stuff there even for somebody who isn't a great Picasso fan.
Best of all is a great night life, especially around Las Ramblas in the centre of town - and I managed to find a surprisingly good and cheap restaurant just around the corner - we were the only tourists in there which was a definite score.
I took a pretty expensive room in an amazing youth hostel in town, but with six to a dorm my tent (which I'd left open to dry) was just too tempting, so I snuck out and had a restful night there instead.
I was now two easy days away from Gibraltar, and the urge to get on with it was getting stronger and stronger, so on my third day I packed up and hit the road - I drove through Valencia and Alicante before finding a small town with a great little camp site run by a German family - there were a few travellers there taking refuge from the winter - and the temptation to loiter was only reluctantly overcome. So I set out - my lat real day of travelling - On to Granada, roads I'm familiar with again. Malaga, and the motorway West, and to my delight the road now runs straight through without the slow stretch through Estapona. Then as I crest a hill I see my destination - the distinctive outline of Gibraltar lies floating above a light sea mist, the familiar Levanter cloud streaming from her peak. | 2019-04-22T04:28:05 | http://www.camelworld.com/diary_andhome.htm |
0.999999 | Abigail was a woman, beautiful and with understanding (1 Samuel 25: 3), She was the wife of Nabal who was a rich man and who sheared his sheep at Carmel (1 Samuel 25:2-3). Knowing that Nabal was shearing his sheep, David sent some young men to talk to Nabal and tell him how well his shepherds were treated when they were with him and that now when they have come on a feast day and be given what comes to their hand (1 Samuel 25: 4-8) but Nabal simply refused saying he does not know them (1 Samuel 25: 10-11). On hearing Nabal’s response, David became furious and girded his sword and asked his men too, to do the same. When Abigail came to know about this and the harm determined to them by David through their servant she quickly rose, wasted no time and took some provisions and left to meet David without telling Nabal (1 Samuel 25: 14-19).
When Abigail saw David she humbled herself and got down from the donkey and bowed down before David (1 Samuel 25: 23- 24). She tells him that as the Lord lives, He has restrained him (David) from bloodguilt (1Samuel 25:26). She also assures him of help from God as he has been fighting battles and that evil shall not prevail as long as he lives (1 Samuel 25: 28). She explains well of how God has exalted him and been with him in everything (1 Samuel 25: 29-31). David thanks God for sending Abigail and blesses her and her discretion for saving him from bloodguilt (1 Samuel 25: 32-34). He receives what she got for him and his servants and asks her to return back. Abigail goes back and doesn’t tell Nabal anything as he had held a feast and was drunk. In the morning when he was in his normal state, Abigail told him everything and on hearing it, his heart became like a stone and he died in ten days. When David heard this, he blessed the Lord for avenging the insult he faced and for restraining him from doing wrong. David sent and spoke to Abigail to take her as his wife and she quickly rose, mounted on her donkey and went and became his wife(1 Samuel 25: 36-42).
From the above narrated passage we can clearly understand that Abigail was a woman who had great discretion (as said by David also in 1 Samuel 25: 33) and understanding with beauty (1 Samuel 25: 3). She was humble by nature (1 Samuel 25: 23). In today’s time how many of us would have a nature alike, especially if we are from a rich household as Abigail’s? Today we feel money is all we need and most of us are entangled in pride. Moreover, she understood and knew the Love of God and hence could explain the good to David when he was about to commit a wrongdoing in his anger. Would we even bother to stop others from doing something wrong when we clearly perceive it is wrong? No, most of us leave it thinking let it be, until we are walking in the correct path we need not bother about others.
She was also a good wife. When her husband disregarded David’s servants she did the needful as soon as she came to know. In earlier days this might be punishable, as women had no place in the society but she didn’t bother and fulfilled her duties. Though she did not tell Nabal before going to meet David to give supplies but she came back and told him everything when he was in a position to understand. She was wise and thoughtful in her moves and knew when exactly what should be done.
Lastly, she was obedient. When David sent word for her to be her wife, she wasted no time and obeyed his voice. Obedience is something which almost all of us lack today. We feel we become less in stature if we obey. But this is a completely wrong notion we possess. It is really important for us to be obedient. Let us look at Abigail’s life and learn from her character.
Abigail is one of my favorite female Bible characters. Thank God I have a godly husband – but Abigail shows us how to be a righteous woman even if our circumstances are not ideal. | 2019-04-22T10:17:40 | https://thejordanvalley.com/2014/05/08/abigail-a-discerning-woman/ |
0.999879 | 1.In a medium bowl, whisk the flour with the granulated sugar and salt. Whisk in the milk, vanilla, 6 whole eggs and the 4 tablespoons of melted butter and let stand for 30 minutes.
2.Heat a 10-inch nonstick skillet and lightly brush with melted butter. Pour 1/3 cup of the crêpe batter into the skillet and immediately swirl until it reaches halfway up the side. Pour any excess batter back into the bowl. Cook the crêpe over moderate heat until golden at the edge and set in the center, about 1 minute. Flip the crêpe and cook for about 15 seconds longer, or just until the bottom is browned in spots. Transfer the crêpe to a baking sheet lined with wax paper. Repeat with the remaining batter, brushing the skillet with butter only as needed.
3.In a medium saucepan, bring 1 cup of the cream to a boil. Remove the pan from the heat and add the chocolate and cinnamon. Let stand for 5 minutes, then whisk until smooth. Whisk in 2 of the egg yolks. In a medium bowl, whisk the dulce de leche with the remaining 2 tablespoons of cream and 2 egg yolks.
4.Preheat the oven to 350°F. Butter a 9-inch round cake pan, line the bottom with parchment paper and butter the paper. Fit a crêpe in the bottom of the pan, pressing to flatten it. Halve 2 crêpes and line the sides of the pan with them, placing the cut sides down and slightly overlapping the bottom crêpe; the rounded part of the halved crêpes will hang over the edge of the pan a bit.
5.Spoon a slightly heaping 1/2 cup of the chocolate filling into the pan and spread to the edge of the crêpe. Top with another crêpe, pressing to flatten it. Spoon a slightly heaping 1/2 cup of the dulce de leche filling on top, spread it to the edge and top with a crêpe. Repeat this layering with the remainder of the fillings and 4 more crêpes, ending with a crêpe. Any leftover crêpes can be frozen between sheets of wax paper for later use. Fold the overhanging crêpes over the top. Press a round of buttered parchment paper directly onto the torte and cover the pan with foil.
6.Bake the torte for 1 hour, or until puffed. Remove the foil and let cool for 1 hour. Remove the parchment and run a knife around the edge of the pan. Invert a plate over the pan and then invert the torte onto the plate. Remove the pan and parchment paper and let cool completely. Sift confectioner's sugar over the torte just before serving.
7.Make Ahead: The baked torte can be refrigerated for up to 2 days. Reheat slightly in a 350°F oven.
Dulce de leche is a caramel-like boiled sweetened milk. Smuckers is a good supermarket brand. Turning crêpes with a spatula often causes them to break. The easiest way to flip them is with your fingers. Use a spatula or a table knife to lift up the edge, then gently pick up the crêpe and flip it over. | 2019-04-23T06:24:24 | https://mexipes.com/mexican-chocolate-dulce-de-leche-crepe-torte-recipe/ |
0.99921 | How safe is the money on the deposit account?
Within the European Union (EU) there is a statutory deposit guarantee of 100,000 euros per customer and bank. That is, regardless of the seat of the bank (within the EU), your funds are protected up to this level. If you want to invest larger amounts and spread the risk, it is advisable to split the whole and to conclude several contracts with different banks.
What costs do I have to pay for the deposit?
None, you can firmly plan and calculate the respective interest income and the return on your investment. Only then, if you want to get out early, the bank will charge already paid interest. In this case, many institutes are now showing their approval, at least they guarantee the full payment of the deposited amount. Because under the law, they are free to charge administration fees or additional cancellation fees in the case. And their height is not clearly defined. If you cancel for "important reason", for example as heir or in case of unemployment (Hartz IV), the bank must pay out the capital without notice.
What is the difference between term money and time deposit?
Time deposit is effectively a time deposit, provided that a term and at least a one-month notice period are agreed. The due date has been agreed exactly, will not be canceled in time, the whole thing is prolonged. This means that the investment will continue at the current interest rate. Or it is continued as a classic sight deposit, so it can be ordered daily without observing a notice period. However, this must be differentiated from so-called termination funds. Here, a certain period of notice applies, after which time the capital can be fully disbursed. Until then, it will bear variable interest and will have no maturity, ie unlimited duration. Only then is a fixed rate often agreed.
What tax special features should be considered when making a deposit?
Basically, there are two ways in which interest can be paid out on time deposits. Either "at the end of the year" or "at the end of the term" is paid. The final withholding tax is then always based on the respective interest income. The decisive factor is solely when this interest payment takes place. While you can use the full effect of the saver's lump sum for annual interest payments (801 euro singles / 1,602 euro joint assessment), the second option results in a higher tax burden at one go. Because this saver lump sum can not be stretched over the years – only in the year, what is covered, also be considered. Therefore, it is not recommended, especially for larger amounts and long maturities, to choose the variant with the interest payment at maturity. Because even from the compound interest effect you have nothing in the case.
For which period do I have to invest the money?
The investment period for your money varies considerably among banks. In general, however, it can be said that an investment period of at least 30 days is required. In these steps is also expected to continue: so are often fixed investment periods of 60, 90, 180 or a maximum of 360 days. With a longer term, interest income usually increases as well. For time deposit accounts, such periods are common, with day money accounts they are usually omitted, since you can not invest the money here, but can access it flexibly on a daily basis.
When am I affected by interest rate fluctuations?
In general, you are affected by interest rate fluctuations only with a money market account. These interest rate fluctuations depend on the current market interest rate. To cushion the fluctuations, at least in part, some credit institutions offer fixed interest rates for a certain period of time.
With time deposit accounts, you are disposed to worry about interest rate fluctuations. Because here the interest rates are set from the beginning. When concluding a time deposit account, you usually know very well what interest income you can expect. So pay close attention to how interest rates develop. It's best to talk to an independent, knowledgeable advisor.
Fixing a fixed rate or general guidelines is difficult. Their interest rates always depend on the sum of the deposits as well as the duration of the investment. The differences between the individual providers are large, so that a comparison of the offered conditions in any case worthwhile. In any case, direct banks will keep their interest rates slightly higher than most retail banks do.
How much do I have to invest at least?
The amount necessary to open a time deposit account varies from bank to bank. Especially with time deposit accounts, you should expect higher investment amounts. As a minimum amount, a few banks require deposits of € 2,500, but on average this amount will be higher. | 2019-04-24T02:37:02 | http://gortonsenespanol.com/hard-money-comparison/ |
0.999329 | If you would like to have a great smile and avoid oral health issues down the road, it is important you know and apply proper preventative care techniques. Preventative care starts at home with good oral hygiene, but it also means seeing a dentist for professional care and checkups on your oral health. Below are some tips to keep your mouth and teeth healthy and strong with preventative care.
Taking good care of your teeth at home is important to avoid plaque buildup and prevent tooth decay. On a day to day basis, you eat foods and drinks which contain particles that stick to your teeth, if not manually removed with regular brushing and flossing. If these sticky substances are not removed, it can turn into plaque over time, which will gradually eat away at your teeth.
If you are not using a toothpaste which contains fluoride, talk to your dentist about which brands he or she recommends. Fluoride in toothpaste helps to prevent cavities, and keeps your teeth healthy and strong. Remember when you are brushing to give it some time before rinsing immediately with water. Spit out the remaining toothpaste, but wait at least thirty minutes or so before drinking or rinsing with water to have the best results.
Also, keep in mind your diet does impact the health of your teeth and gums. If you eat lots of sugary or acidic foods, drinks, or candies, it will take a toll on your mouth. If you don’t want to limit your intake of sugary foods or drinks, which is foremost recommended, there are a few things you can do to minimize its effects on your teeth.
When drinking a sugary soda, drink it all in the same sitting and don’t take sips throughout the day. Each time you take a sip of soda, the sugars in the soda react with the bacteria in your mouth to create acid, which is harmful and attacks your teeth. This process happens every 20 or so minutes after taking a drink, so you can see why you would want to drink the soda all at once. This prevents this process from duplicating multiple times a day.
It is also recommended to drink lots of water throughout the day. Not only is it important to stay hydrated, but it also plays an important role in rinsing the pallet, especially after eating sugary or acidic foods. Chewing sugarless gum also has a similar effect. Chewing sugarless gum activates saliva in your mouth to rinse away any acidic or sugary particles. Doing so minimizes the effect of these sugary foods and drinks in your mouth.
In the paragraphs preceding, you learned about the importance of preventative care at home. You also learned some basic preventative measures you can do to prevent plaque and buildup from turning into cavities. Now, for part two, we will be going over the importance of seeing a dentist semiannually.
Scheduling an appointment to see the dentist twice a year is important for a few reasons. First, you can receive a professional dental exam, which checks not only for cavities, but also any signs of disease or oral cancer. Secondly, a routine teeth cleaning twice a year helps to remove plaque which cannot be removed with a soft-bristled brush. This helps to prevent cavities and other dental work needed down the road.
Dental sealants may also be recommended by your dentist to prevent tooth decay. Since teeth with deep grooves or uneven surfaces are difficult to clean, dental sealants will make these problem areas easier to clean by giving it a flat surface. Talk to your Idaho Falls dentist today to learn more about how you can better take care of your teeth at home and through preventative dentistry. Schedule your next appointment today at (208) 524-1700!
This entry was posted in Preventative Dentistry on January 30, 2018 by Barton.
This entry was posted in Family Dentistry, Preventative Dentistry on July 17, 2017 by Barton. | 2019-04-25T15:03:59 | https://www.idahofallssmiles.com/author/barton |
0.999254 | Given that the blogging platform Movable Type has more or less vanished into the hinterlands of history, it is no longer a common occurrence to be put in the position of having to migrate a blog from Movable Type to the present dominant platform of WordPress. The tools for such a move, never great to begin with, have fallen into disuse and tend not to work for large migrations, or at all in many cases. I put together a post last year that covers the use of the WXR WordPress import/export format to migrate larger Movable Type 4 or 5 sites, but recently I ran into a site that this approach couldn't handle. The import and export process were so failure-prone that the better investment in time and effort turned out to be writing a database migration script.
Movable Type and WordPress have more similarities than differences in their schema, so putting together a PHP migration script did not require a great deal of innovation: it was largely a matter of digging through documentation in order to correctly map values and working around a few awkward mismatches. Since there is little point in keeping this to myself, I've documented and published the result at GitHub. Hopefully it will aid the few other people in the world who will ever find themselves having to migrate one or more Movable Type 4.*/5.* sites to WordPress 4.*. It is certainly a lot faster and easier than using the WXR method. It similarly preserves IDs and slugs for posts, pages, and comments, and can be configured to preserve the GUID used in feeds so that feed readers don't treat migrated posts as duplicate entries.
A recent version of PHP, 5.4 or later.
Access to both the old Movable Type database and the new WordPress database.
The WordPress command line tool WP-CLI, as you will need it to set user passwords following migration.
A cloned copy of the migration script GitHub repository.
The Medoo database framework library.
The new WordPress installation should be clean, without any plugins installed or content added. Many plugins add metadata for posts, comments, and pages, and the migration script cannot account for that. Install the desired plugins after the migration is complete.
Copy the Medoo database framework library to an accessible location, and update configuration.php in the migration script repository to set the absolute path to that library. Then update the rest of configuration.php with the appropriate values for your migration: database connection details, and so forth. Some of the configuration involves amending function definitions. The defaults will work for most Movable Type installations, but if you were using some of the less usual content options, such as Textile 2, you will have to write code to translate that content into HTML.
It batches updates, so should complete fairly rapidly even for large databases. Once done, use WP-CLI to set the password for one of the migrated users, and log in to the WordPress administration interface to check the results. You will have to set passwords and permissions for all migrated users, as they are all given adminstrative permissions by default, and none will have passwords set at the outset.
Asset files will have to be copied over separately. If their location changes in the webroot, as seems likely, then the corresponding attachment records in wp_posts must be updated to reflect that change.
Movable Type asset records are converted to WordPress attachment records, and thus the asset IDs cannot be preserved as the schemas are too different. Assets live in their own table in Movable Type, but attachments use wp_posts in WordPress, alongside posts and pages. Migration of the asset files must be carried out separately, and if the path in the webroot changes, as is likely, then the database records in wp_posts will need to be updated as well.
Page slugs determine page URIs. Not all page slugs, meaning entry_basename in Movable Type and post_name in WordPress, can be preserved in order to maintain the same URI. Movable Type uses underscores as a delimiter, and thus has slugs containing dashes when post titles contain dashes, and multiple consecutive delimiters when titles contain non-ASCII characters. WordPress uses dash as a delimiter and portions of its codebase will treat consecutive dashes as a single dash, so a post_name with multiple consecutive dashes in the database will result in the generation of invalid links. The migration script will convert all such slugs to use a single dash, so my_-_post will become my-post rather than my---post. This will change the URI for that page.
The range of options for users and authentication in Movable Type makes a comprehensive migration script prohibitively complicated. In the present version only content creators and administrators are migrated. Comments are migrated, including user names, email addresses, and URLs, but associated user records for registered commenters are not migrated. Passwords for content creators and administrators are also not migrated and must be updated manually or via a tool such as WP-CLI.
All posts in WordPress are stored as HTML. In Movable Type a variety of formats are used, and the migration script only accommodates the default line break conversion and HTML formats. Markdown, Textile 2, and Rich Text formats are not supported as written. To migrate a Movable Type site using these less common options, extend the generatePostContent function in order to convert that content to HTML.
Lastly, I have only tested and used this script for a Movable Type 4.* to WordPress 4.* migration. It should work for Movable Type 5.* since there is little difference between 4.* and 5.* versions, but inevitably there will be issues. Some effort would be required to make it work for other Movable Type versions. | 2019-04-21T04:13:10 | https://www.exratione.com/2016/04/a-database-migration-script-movable-type-4-5-to-wordpress-4/ |
0.999987 | What is another word for dimensions?
Difficulties, considerations, implications, matters, consequences, concerns, subjects, features.
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littleness, insignificance, tininess, unimportance, smallness.
The furrows were of various dimensions, sometimes shallow and several inches broad, sometimes narrow with more defined limits, gradually passing into mere lines on a very smoothly polished surface.
I was in a cavern of unknown dimensions.
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0.998485 | With Manchester City attempting to sign Alexis Sanchez, Arsene Wenger has stepped up his long-term interest in Lemar, with Sky sources understanding a £92m bid has been made.
Having been born in the French overseas territory of Guadeloupe, Lemar moved to mainland Europe in 2010 to join Caen's youth setup.
The versatile midfielder rose up the ranks, but seldom featured for Caen in his first season with the senior side, playing just seven games in the 2013/14 campaign which saw Caen earn promotion to Ligue 1 - one N'Golo Kante played every match that season.
Lemar featured more heavily alongside Kante upon the club's return to top-tier action - where they finished 13th - though it proved to be the final season for both players at Caen.
Monaco were successful with a £3.4m bid for Lemar in the summer of 2015, while Kante moved to Leicester in a £5.6m deal - Premier League glory was to follow just nine months later for the defensive midfielder.
Lemar arrived at Monaco on a five-year deal in June 2015, and Vadim Vasilyev, Monaco's vice-president, was aware of the 19-year-old's promise.
"Thomas represents the future of French football at his level," Vasilyev told the club's website after signing Lemar.
"He's part of the same generation as Anthony Martial, he's involved with the French U21s and so he's a perfect match for our project."
Lemar enjoyed a decent first season at the principality club, scoring five goals and assisting a further three en route to Monaco's third-placed finish in 2015/16.
Monaco announced themselves on the European stage once more in 2016/17 - with Lemar among a number of players to capture the imagination of fans and pundits as they reached the Champions League semi-finals.
And while Kylian Mbappe and Radamel Falcao were forming a deadly partnership up front, Lemar himself contributed nine goals and 10 assists as Monaco ended PSG's four-year dominance in Ligue 1, as they clinched the club's first title in 17 years in the process.
Lemar made himself known to Premier League fans in late 2016 - while also endearing himself to Arsenal supporters - when scoring the decisive goal in both of Monaco's 2-1 victories over Tottenham in the group stages.
Having represented France at all levels from U17 to U21, Lemar was called up to the senior side in November 2016 following the withdrawal of Kingsley Coman.
Lemar came on to play the final 12 minutes of France's 0-0 draw with the Ivory Coast. Substitute appearances then followed against Spain, Paraguay and Sweden.
A first start for Lemar came against England in a friendly at the Stade de France in mid-June. Operating on the left wing, he played alongside Kante, Paul Pogba and Ousmane Dembele in midfield.
France ran out 3-2 winners thanks to Dembele's 78th-minute winner. Lemar played the full 90 minutes, coming up against Kieran Trippier and then Kyle Walker - both of whom he could face once more if he heads to Arsenal this summer.
Utilised mainly as a winger, Lemar is also capable of playing through the centre. This versatility means he will often roam infield if starting on the left, while his link-up play with Falcao and Mbappe is what helped him claim the most assists of any Ligue 1 player last season.
Lemar also delivered 2.2 key passes per game - the fifth most in Ligue 1 - and 1.6 crosses per match, ranking him ninth among all players.
Adept with both feet, Lemar is comfortable and confident on the ball, while his off-ball runs are intelligent and seek to advance Monaco's attacks.
Former team-mate at Caen, Alaeddine Yahia: "His left foot is amazing. It's like a hand - he puts the ball where he wants. Let's not forget he's playing for a big club already in Monaco, but I think he'll go a long way."
Former team-mate Dennis Appiah: "He can be as good as he wants. He just needs to be consistent, to keep on scoring and setting up goals, to keep moving in the right direction."
Where will he fit in?
If Arsene Wenger continues to operate with a 3-4-3 formation, Lemar could be a good replacement for Sanchez.
A switch the 4-2-3-1 would likely see Lemar out on the left, though he would be capable of playing anywhere across that attacking three behind the striker. | 2019-04-22T07:19:07 | https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11096/11014118/thomas-lemar-the-monaco-winger-wanted-by-arsenal |
0.999999 | Do refugees have a choice in Israel's continued policy of transferring African arrivals to third countries?
Kampala, Uganda - The sky was still an inky black when the flight from Cairo touched down at Entebbe Airport near Kampala, the capital of Uganda, one morning in mid-January, the fluorescent glow spilling from the small terminal providing the only source of light.
It had been 15 hours since Musgun Gebar left Tel Aviv, and the journey staggered him in its brevity. Four years earlier, when he had travelled the other way - from Eritrea in East Africa to Israel - he had done so on foot, a punishing journey across the Sahara and the Sinai that took more than a month.
Kidnappers stalked the route, food was scarce, and half of the people with whom he had travelled didn't survive. But this time, he simply sat down in a small cushioned seat and waited, snapping selfies and eating salty meals from aluminum tins until, suddenly, he had arrived.
Gebar had no visa to enter Uganda. He wasn't carrying an invitation letter or an application form. In fact, he didn't even have a passport. Though he had crossed many borders in his life, he had never done it through the official channel of queues and customs officials and dated stamps.
He only carried $3,500 in clean, hundred dollar bills in his wallet, a temporary travel document called a "laissez passer", and a creased letter from the Israeli government. "Passengers are asked to follow instructions and regulations to ensure a safe and pleasant departure from Israel," it read, with a signature from the Voluntary Departures Unit.
From friends who had come before him, Gebar already knew what would happen next. The man emerged as he stepped inside the terminal, wordlessly ushering him and the nine other Eritreans on the flight away from the passport control line.
Without a glance from the border patrol officers, he led them around the queue, to the baggage claim where their luggage awaited, and then out of the airport's sliding-glass doors. In the car park, a van waited to drive them to a hotel.
After that, they were on their own.
Human rights organisations have reported that over the past three years this scene has played out hundreds of times in Uganda and neighbouring Rwanda, where more than 3,000 Sudanese and Eritrean asylum seekers from Israel have been "voluntarily" resettled as of 2015.
Often, those who were resettled dispute whether they truly had a choice.
Gebar, for instance, says that he was being held in an immigration detention camp in the Negev Desert called Holot, when, he claims, officials there informed him that he had three options. If he liked, he could stay indefinitely in the camp. A second option was to go back to Eritrea, the country he had fled five years before. Or, he could agree to take $3,500 and depart for a third country of the Israeli government's choosing.
Gebar didn't hesitate. He took the third option.
Andie Lambe, executive director of the International Refugee Rights Initiative (IRRI), an NGO that has conducted extensive research into the departure of East African refugees from Israel, also questions just how much choice these refugees have.
"What does it mean when an unknown third country is someone's best option?" he asks. "To me that says they never really had a choice at all."
Media reports suggest that the three countries have cut a secret, high-level deal in which the African states accept refugees in return for arms, military training and other aid from Israel.
The countries involved have given conflicting responses, however, on their involvement.
Sabine Haddad, Israeli population and immigration authority spokeswoman, told Al Jazeera that Israel does have an agreement with two African countries - which she did not name - for the relocation of unwanted asylum seekers. She did not offer a response regarding the weapons exchange part of the agreement.
Both Uganda and Rwanda, on the other hand, deny they have signed any agreement with Israel. Furthermore, neither country has afforded refugee status to any refugees arriving from Israel.
Ugandan government spokesman Ofwono Opondo told Al Jazeera earlier this year that the reports of a deal were "a rumour circulated by Israeli intelligence".
"I have disputed that we have received these individuals," he said.
Like others around the world, refugees leaving Israel for Rwanda and Uganda find themselves in a precarious position. Their lives straddle two countries, and movement either forwards or backward is nearly impossible.
Tedros Abrahe, an Eritrean midwife who also left Israel under the "voluntary departures" programme earlier this year, says he is "just waiting to be a legal refugee somewhere".
Like most of the estimated 5,000 Eritreans who flee their country each month, Abrahe first left home in 2011 to escape the country's mandatory and indefinite national service programme. After a brief stay in Sudan, he paid smugglers $3,000 to take him to Israel, where he figured opportunities would be better and life easier.
But when he arrived, he found that his Eritrean midwifery qualifications were not recognised in Israel, and that the only work available to him as an asylum seeker was an under-the-table job cleaning the kitchen of a Tel Aviv shawarma restaurant.
Israel did not consider him a refugee. Rather, like nearly all of the approximately 42,000Eritrean and Sudanese refugees in Israel, he was labelled an "infiltrator" - a labelpreviously used to categorise Palestinians entering Israel. The only status Abrahe was allowed was a permit granting him temporary reprieve from being deported, which, he says, he had to renew in person every 60 days.
This system, says Anat Ovadia-Rosner, a spokeswoman for Israeli NGO Hotline for Refugees and Migrants, "puts people in a perpetual limbo, without the right to healthcare, to welfare services, to anything that might help them build a permanent life here".
She thinks that "the whole structure is meant to make people's lives miserable, so eventually, perhaps, they won't want to stay any more".
Between 2009 and 2016, Israel grantedofficial refugee status to 0.07 percent of all its Sudanese and Eritrean asylum seekers - a total of four people.
When, in late 2015, Abrahe went to refresh his Israeli permit, he was informed that it would not be renewed. Instead, he says, he was told that he had 30 days to either report to an immigration detention centre or leave the country for Eritrea or a location of the government's choosing.
Believing that he would not be safe in Eritrea, Abrahe chose the latter option.
By the time he boarded a flight for East Africa in January 2016, thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese refugees had already followed the same path.
According to Interior Minister Gilad Erdan, the voluntary resettlement plan had "encourage[d] infiltrators to leave the borders of the state of Israel honourably and safely".
But just how safe is it really?
According to research by Hotline and IRRI in Rwanda, most of the refugees who arrive in Rwanda are immediately smuggled over the border to Uganda.
Abrahe says that he spent just two days in the country - waiting in a house near Kigali under an armed guard - before being forcibly taken to Kampala.
Those arriving in Uganda are not afforded any further rights. Uganda's Department of Refugees says there is no deal to accept refugees coming from Israel. Douglas Asiimwe, the department's principal protection officer, told Al Jazeera that any refugees arriving from Israel were assessed on the individual merits of their cases.
They shouldn't need Uganda's protection, he explained, because they weren't coming from a war zone, but from a "safe" country that had promised under international law to uphold the rights of refugees.
Haddad, the Israeli population and immigration spokeswoman, insists that Israel "ensures that the process of relocation is conducted according to the agreements and in line with international law".
In her statement to Al Jazeera, she wrote: "Israel makes certain that the refugees are accorded all relevant rights in accordance with the agreements, including receiving the appropriate permits and papers."
But NGOs and human rights lawyers who have reviewed the refugees' cases in both Israel and Uganda say that Israel's official line on the subject is not true.
In late 2015, a coalition of NGOs and human rights lawyers challenged the legality of Israel's third-country deportations before the Israeli Supreme Court. But a decision is still pending and Israel's "voluntary departures" continue.
Even without legal status, life in Kampala was initially a marked improvement over Israel for both Gebar and Abrahe.
Ugandans were more welcoming than Israelis, they said, and the two melted easily into the city's large Eritrean population.
Abrahe had spent some of the money the Israeli government gave him on an iPhone, which he used to send smiling selfies to family and friends in Eritrea, Israel, and Europe.
But the $3,500 wouldn't last forever, and there were few jobs to be had in Uganda, even for someone with medical training like Abrahe. By September, both men had run out of money and were living on handouts from friends and family.
"Time just passes itself," Gebar said. "You just sit home all day waiting, doing nothing."
In late October, however, Abrahe decided that he couldn't wait any longer. He borrowed a passport from a Ugandan friend and flew to Turkey. From there, he made the dangerous journey by boat to Greece, where he is now living in a refugee camp.
"It's better to take a risk than to live this way for my whole life," he says. "This year, I want to be a legal person somewhere."
Ryan Lenora Brown was a fellow of the International Women's Media Foundation in Uganda.
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0.999337 | Hundreds of thousands of Algerians demonstrated in the streets Friday calling for the resignation of interim President Abdelkader Bensalah.
Algeria's newly appointed interim leader set July 4 for the presidential election following last week's resignation of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
Algerian lawmakers on Tuesday approved Senate leader Abdelkader Bensalah as the nation's interim president for the next 90 days, taking over for Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned Tuesday, according to the north African country's state-run media, following weeks of mass protests.
LongtimeAlgerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced that he will not seek a fifth term in office, but a delay in elections has left some protesters upset.
North Korea stated Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni sent a message to Kim Jong Un congratulating the North Korean leader.
Ailing Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been re-elected, officials announced Friday.
Human Rights Watch said Monday it was concerned about the security situation in Algeria as the country prepares for April presidential elections.
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has announced he will seek a fourth term in office, despite health concerns.
A military plane crashed in the mountains of eastern Algeria on Tuesday, killing at least 77 and leaving one sole survivor.
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika decreed on Friday that presidential elections will be held in April.
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said Friday he signed a decree scheduling presidential elections for April 17.
Algerian Minister of Communication Abdelkader Messahel said presidential elections will take place at the end of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's current term.
Algeria: Ailing president 'to run in April' -- but will he make it?
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's party, the ruling National Liberation Front, has endorsed his candidacy for an unprecedented fourth term in elections slated for April 2014, but Algerians are wondering whether the ailing, 76-year-old independence veteran will live long enough to run.
Algeria's ailing head of state, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, had been widely expected to stand aside in presidential elections slated for April 2014 after ruling the oil and gas-rich North African country since 1991.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika (Arabic pronunciation: ; Arabic: عبد العزيز بوتفليقة) (born March 2, 1937) is the ninth President of Algeria. He has been in office since 1999. He has continued emergency rule and presided over the end of the bloody Algerian Civil War in 2002. More recently, thousands in Algiers have marched calling for his resignation in the 2010–2011 Algerian protests.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika was born on March 2, 1937 in Oujda, Morocco. He was the first child of his mother and the second child of his father (Fatima, his half-sister, preceded him). His father (Ahmed Bouteflika) and mother (Mansouria Ghezlaoui) originated from the region of Tlemcen. Bouteflika has three half-sisters (Fatima, Yamina, and Aïcha), as well as four brothers (Abdelghani, Mustapha, Abderahim and Saïd) and one sister (Latifa). Saïd serves as Abdelaziz Bouteflika's personal physician, and is said by some to be an important figure in Bouteflika's inner circle of advisers.
Bouteflika was raised in Oujda, where his father had emigrated as a youngster. He successively attended three schools there: "Sidi Ziane", "El Hoceinia" and the "Abdel Moumen" high-school, where he reportedly excelled academically. He was also affiliated with Kadiri Zaouia in Oujda.
It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Abdelaziz Bouteflika." | 2019-04-23T20:39:59 | https://www.upi.com/topic/Abdelaziz_Bouteflika/ |
0.999891 | Vaccines and Autism, The Final Word?
New data on whether kids who are vaccinated are more likely to develop ASD.
Vaccines and autistic spectrum disorders are an emotional subject. The two were originally linked in a study that has since been retracted. A new study from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) will hopefully lay to rest lingering parental fears about vaccinating their children.
Even though the British medical journal, The Lancet, retracted the study linking autism (as it was then called) to vaccination in 2010, parents' fears have been harder to change.
Researchers compared the total number of vaccine antigens that children in each group received during the first two years of life and the maximum number of antigens the children received during a single office visit. The number of antigens was the same in each instance.
Retracting a scientific study is not something that is done lightly. The authors of the retracted study stated they had found no evidence that vaccines caused autism. But when one author mentioned to the press that there was still a faint correlation between vaccines and the incidence of autism, the media in Britain and elsewhere ran with that. Understandably, parents became alarmed by the message.
Ten of the 13 authors of the retracted study had disavowed it. Without any other explanations for the roots of autism, many parents have continued to believe — or at least fear — the possibility that vaccines are somehow behind autism. You can read the details of the retracted study (which was of only 12 children) here.
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), as autism is now known, tend to be noticed around the same time that babies are receiving a series of vaccinations during their first two years of life. It's natural that scientists and parents would want to see if there was a connection.
The CDC study looked at the health records of over 1000 children: 256 vaccinated children with an ASD and 752 vaccinated children without an ASD. Researchers compared the total number of vaccine antigens the children in each group received during the first two years of life and the maximum number of antigens the children received during a single office visit. The number of antigens was the same in each group.
The study found no link between the vaccinations children received before their second birthday and autism. “Our findings showed that the number of antigens, the molecules in vaccines that stimulate the immune system to protect against infectious diseases, received in one office visit or cumulatively over the first two years of life is unrelated to the development of ASDs,” Frank DeStefano, lead author of the study, told The Doctor.
The study is published online in Pediatrics and is freely available for parents to read.
“I would definitely tell [parents] that vaccinating their child according to the recommended schedule is one of the most important things that they can do to maintain their child’s health,” says DeStefano, who is also director of the immunization safety office at the CDC.
Parents concerned about overwhelming a child’s immune system with vaccines need to consider the context of all the antigens and immunological stimuli that children are exposed to normally throughout early childhood, DeStefano cautioned. “So things like the number of antigens and the immunological stimulation that you get from vaccines on top of that are not that much.” Such stimuli include bacteria, viruses, and substances in the environment and are one of the reasons why finding what, if any, exposures or environmental factors cause autism is so difficult.
ASDs appear to have a strong genetic component. It is becoming apparent that structural changes in the brain that manifest in autism likely occur before the child is born. | 2019-04-18T15:04:27 | http://www.thedoctorwillseeyounow.com/content/kids/art4001.html |
0.999994 | Each page can be and should be at the state of the art in terms of its content. This can be achieved by demonstrating that paywalls only prevent and hinder exploration, discovery, experimentation, and science or medicine regardless of subject.
Writing a state of the art page can be accomplished in spite of the paywalls by necessarily verifying through citation within each effort as the page is created. Alternative sources are out there. Verifiable creation of knowledge can be achieved, especially by relating what one is exploring for back to what is currently citeable.
There are several motivations for getting wikimedia to the state of the art in each page.
1. Those who receive payment from foundations, industry or government can demonstrate the value of their efforts by improving the quality and currentness of wikimedia pages. The National Science Foundation (USA) requires all of its proposers to demonstrate how they will use their research to teach others.
2. When the first place any one comes to learn is wikimedia, the learning is almost free. Access to a computer with internet servicing is needed and usually costly.
3. When any at the state of the art or very near it need to go that one extra step. Wikimedia is the first resource tapped because of ease of access rather than their library.
Would foundations such as NSF and Max Planck consider funding state of the art in wikimedia rather than or in addition to paywalled journals?
Would wikimedia have to go to governments or other institutions for funding to bring the state of the art to its pages?
Can alternative author motivation be generated when outside funding is politically controlled?
Should Wikimedia, especially Wikipedia, supply sources readily and easily accessable by authors or potential authors or editors to reduce the effort in improving or creating articles or pages, for journals and books (such as Google Scholar) and how to obtain instructions for up-to-date figures and copyright permission?
The cost in time and effort may be prohibitive. Usually for a private effort to achieve product development requires funding directly proportional to risk. Wikimedia lowers that risk by lowering the cost of knowledge that's already out there but often unpresented, paywalled, or in need of improvement or enhancement.
Reducing these costs is a major objective so that editors, authors, contributors, etc. can do so quickly and easily.
Knowledge has impact directly proportional to its accuracy, applicability, and currentness. That's the benefit of State-of-the-Art. Within appropriate limits, information is survival, recreation, and necessity.
Do you have a thought about this proposal? A suggestion? Discuss this proposal by going to Proposal Talk:State of the Art Wikimedia. | 2019-04-26T16:43:07 | https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:State_of_the_Art_Wikimedia |
0.999999 | Find the value(s) of x such that 8xy - 12y + 2x - 3 = 0 is true for all values of y.
Given that "true for all values of y" take y as 1.
For 8xy - 12y + 2x - 3 = 0 to be true for all value of y, the constant term should be 0 and the y terms should be 0 too.
The y terms y(8x - 12) will be 0 too when x = 3/2. | 2019-04-20T06:28:10 | https://gmatclub.com/forum/find-the-value-s-of-x-such-that-8xy-12y-2x-3-0-is-true-for-al-291204.html |
0.99897 | Helicopter Solo Flight - When is the right time?
There are specific solo requirements for a particular aircraft rating, other than that there are no solo hours required. Why is solo a waste? Because you don't learn anything while solo, in fact, most students actually exhibit worse flying skills after extended solo than they did before hand. Why? Because they get bored and don't practice the things that keep them proficient and make them a better pilot.
There is a second more important reason that you should not simply build time solo. Relative to the total cost of your training, the cost of a flight instructor is, or at least should be low. This is not to say that some schools won't rip you off, I did see one school which was charging $47 per hour for the flight instructor which is a complete rip-off.
Most flight instructors are rather inexperienced overall; they have just received their ratings and usually have 200 and 1,000 hours total time. The advantage is that they are current in training. Yes, there are exceptions, there are some who have not yet moved on to a commercial job, or who have went back to flight training in retirement, but they are few. Don't be disrespectful to these low-time instructors as long as they conduct themselves professionally; you will be there yourself one day.
The cost of an instructor should be reasonable, if it's not you need to make some noise. This is your chance to have your skills honed to perfection as they should be before your private pilot practical test.
While reviewing the flight training programs at many schools, I found much time building waste. Some examples are after solo on the private where only 10 hours of solo time is required. Other waste was after achieving the private, and building time towards the 150 hour requirement of the commercial certificate which in some cases was as much as 90 hours or even more waste which equates to in excess of $20,000; that is a lot of waste, I wish I had that much money to burn!
What then, to do with all that solo time? Fly with a CFII instructor and make use of that time towards your instrument and CFI(I) certificates. Note that you can not build dual time for your commercial, nor may you log the required PIC (solo) time for your commercial prior to receiving your Private Certificate; but you can, prior to possessing your private or your commercial, log training time for your instrument. There is no requirement to first obtain any other ratings prior to logging instrument training.
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0.99997 | Poblano Mushroom Tacos with Cilantro Yogurt Sauce might be just the Mexican recipe you are searching for. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free diet. If you have poblano peppers, juice of lime, garlic, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.
1 Mis-En-Place: 1) Dice Pineapple 2) Dice Onions 3) Shredd Cheese 4) Chop Jalapenos, Cilantro. 5) Slice Mushrooms and Poblano Peppers 6) Roughly Chop Kale. 7) Mince or grate Garlic. 8) Shredd Cheese.
Stuff the mushrooms into warmed tortillas. Top with cheese and the Pineapple Kale Slaw. Serve with the Cilantro Yogurt Sauce. | 2019-04-19T02:17:12 | https://www.heartnspice.com/blogs/recipes/poblano-mushroom-get-fit-roti-tacos-with-cilantro-yogurt-sauce |
0.864496 | I have a docking tool window withing a tool window container.
i have given titles for the tool window and when I scroll down through the dialog box I want the titles to be visible.
Is there any property of the docking tool window to do that?
I'm sorry I don't understand the question. What dialog box are you referring to?
And please elaborate on "I want the titles to be visible". What are the titles you are referring to?
I have a DockPanel in which I have added a DockSite. In the DockSite I have a SplitContainer and within that I have a ToolWindowContainer and then a ToolWindow. For the Docking:ToolWindow there is a property called Title which appears at the top of the ToolWindow. I have added ScrollBars for the SplitContainer so when I scroll down, the headers/titles of the ToolWindow are not visible. I have pasted my code below for your reference.
If you have everything in a ScrollViewer, then you cannot ensure that the title bars of the ToolWindows are always visible.
Wrapping everything in a ScrollViewer is not something we'd recommend. The ToolWindows and such are not meant to be scrolled and you may run into issues when dragging and dropping them. Normally, just the content of the various DocumentWindows and ToolWindows allow scrolling, but not the content of the entire DockSite.
What if I have a Stack Panel within the Tool Window. I want to scroll the data within the Stack Panel and still have the titles visible. Is this possible? | 2019-04-24T08:27:44 | https://www.actiprosoftware.com/community/thread/5702/how-to-keep-the-docking-tool-window-title-vis |
0.985282 | How to create an Amazon EC2 image from a running instance in the U.S., and make it available in the E.U. region.
Who are you? You are running a VPS server (AMI, image, running as an instance) in the US location, of the Amazon EC2 service. And you want to perform a simple task: have the instance run in the EU (European Union) location.
Why are you here? Because this 'simple task' can drive a normal person insane. There are bits of answers that are scattered all over the Internet, and you can't find your head from your tail in all that noise.
So, this user guide/ manual gives the needed stages for transferring a web server from the Amazon u.s. servers to the e.u. servers.
- Some knowledge in managing a GNU/Linux server.
- A working instance of GNU/Linux, on which you will be performing all the work.
- The ElasticFox addon for Firefox.
- The S3 Organizer addon for Firefox.
- The Amazon API tools. You CAN use only the API tools, without the Firefox extensions, but why would you want to do that?
The buckets are folders in the Amazon S3 service. Yes, the guys and girls at Amazon sure don't like making things simple for you.
The easiest way to manage buckets and their content, is with the Firefox add-on called: S3 Organizer.
You'll need 2 'keys', that can be found in the AWS website, under 'Your account > Access identifiers'. Copy the Access Key and the Secret Key to the preferences, and that's that.
Download the Amazon API tools. I suggest you deploy them in your home folder.
You need to have 2 files on your server: a private key (the file that starts with pk), and a certificate (the file that starts with cert). The private key can only be issued once! So when you create your certificate (only 1 per account), make sure that you save the PK file in a safe place. The cert file can be re-downloaded from the above-mentioned 'Access Identifiers' page.
- The AMI size is limited to 10GB. Bare it in mind, and use EBS volumes for high-storage mounting points, such as /home and others. Don't be tempted to use the default /mnt that is given, since it can't be duplicated like an EBS can.
-u is the Amazon account number that you see on the top-right corner after you log-in to the AWS site.
-p is the name of the AMI. This has to be unique.
-j is not an option, but it's nice to see that you're reading... Lighten up, you're almost there!
The ec2-register command will register your AMI as a private image.
You can now activate (launch) your new AMI from the list of available images.
One extremely important notice: do not halt, shutdown or terminate your original AMI, until you're 100% sure that the newly copied AMI is working flawlessly. Once an AMI is terminated (halt and shutdown terminate it as well...), it can not be recovered. It is lost for ever and ever. No regrets.
That's it. Congratulations! Relax, and enjoy the extra-super-ordinaire song Yeah Yeah by Salsedo. You've earned it. | 2019-04-18T20:51:30 | http://www.dotanmazor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=96 |
0.999967 | The Angular CLI is a command line interface for Angular developed by Angular Team. This tool helps us quickly get started with the creating the Angular Application. In this tutorial, we will learn how to create & Manage the Angular app using the Angular CLI commands. We will be covering the commands like ng new, ng generate component, ng generate directive & ng generate pipe etc.
Once you make a choice, then you have set up a lot of libraries and packages. Each of these libraries comes with their own configuration files. For instance, you need to create Package.Json file and add all the required libraries. Create Webpack or SystemJS configuration files. Configuration files are also required for Typescript & Typings etc. You need to configure the Testing Framework also.
Instead, you can install Angular CLI and get started right away.
The Angular CLI creates the Angular Application and uses Typescript, Webpack ( for Module bundling), Karma ( for unit testing), Protractor ( for an end to end testing).
The first step is to install the Angular CLI. This can be done by using the following command.
The above command installs the latest version of Angular CLI in your machine. Note that we have used the -g flag, (which stands for global) installs the Angular CLI system-wide so that you can use it in your all projects.
Since, the Angular Version 6, the Angular CLI follows the same Version No as the Angular. Hence for Angular 7, the corresponding version of the Angular CLI is 7.
The latest version as of writing this article is 7.0.6. The command above also gives the version of node installed in your system.
help Help message shows the List of available commands and their short descriptions.
add Adds the npm package to the workspace and configure the default app project to use that library.
generate g Generates and/or modifies files based on a schematic.
serve s Builds and serves your app, rebuilding on file changes.
test t Runs unit tests in a project.
e2e e Builds and serves an Angular app, then runs end-to-end tests using Protractor.
doc d Opens the official Angular documentation (angular.io) in a browser, and searches for a given keyword.
lint l Runs linting tools on Angular app code in a given project folder.
The ng new command is used to create new folder and creates an App with the provided name.
What name would you like to use for the project?
Would you like to add Angular Routing?
Answer this as Yes unless you do not want to add Angular Routing.
Which stylesheet format would you like to use?
--dry-run -d Run through without making any changes.
--collection -c Schematics to use. For more info on Schematics click here.
--inline-template -t Does not create an external template file for the component. Specifies if the template will be in the ts file.
ng generate or (ng g) is used to generate component, module, class, pipes & directives etc. The following tables shows the list of artifacts that can be generated.
--dryRun=true|false -d false When true, run through and report activity without writing out results.
true|false|json|JSON false Shows a help message for this command in the console.
--interactive=true|false false When false, disables interactive input prompts.
The following command generates the component.
Run these commands from the root folder of the application.
ng g component --flat Hello does not create the hello folder. The component is created in the src/app folder.
ng g component --export hello adds the component to the exports metadata array of the module.
ng g component --prefix=myapp hello uses the CSS selector as myapp-hello.
--changeDetection= Default|OnPush -c Default Specifies the change detection strategy.
--entryComponent= true|false false Specifies if the component is an entry component of declaring module.
--export=true|false false Specifies if declaring module exports the component.
--flat= true|false false Flag to indicate if a directory is created.
--inlineStyle= true|false -s false Specifies if the style will be in the ts file.
--inlineTemplate=true|false -t false Specifies if the template will be in the ts file.
--lintFix= true|false false Specifies whether to apply lint fixes after generating the component.
--module= module -m root module Allows specification of the declaring module.
--prefix= prefix -p The prefix to apply to generated selectors.
--project= project The name of the project.
--selector= selector The selector to use for the component.
--skipImport= true|false false Flag to skip the module import.
--spec= true|false true Specifies if a spec file is generated.
Emulated| Native| None| ShadowDom -v Emulated Specifies the view encapsulation strategy.
The above command does not create the folder. You can use the ng g directive directive/Some, which will create the directive under the folder directive.
Use the--module flag to add the directive to a module other than the root module.
Use the --prefix or --selector flag to change the CSS Selctor.
--flat= true|false true Flag to indicate if a directory is created.
The above command does not create the folder. You can use the ng g pipe pipes/Date, which will create the pipe under the folderpipes.
Use the--module flag to add the pipe to a module other than the root module.
--export=true|false true Specifies if declaring module exports the component.
The above command does not create the folder. You can use the ng g service services/Data, which will create the service under the folderservices.
Use the command ng g class class/customer to create the class under the class folder.
You can add component, directive, pipe & services to module by using the flag --module=[ModuleName] and naming the component as [ModuleName]/[ComponentnNme].
--module=module -m Allows specification of the declaring module.
--routing=true|false false Generates a routing module.
--routingScope=Child|Root child The scope for the generated routing.
The Angular CLI helps to increase productivity by helping us to quickly create the app and add the component, pipes, services & directives etc to the module. The Angular CLI has lot more commands like serve, build, test, lint, e2e etc, which help us to build and distribute the applications. We will cover those in one of the future tutorial. | 2019-04-18T12:32:48 | https://www.tektutorialshub.com/angular/angular-cli-tutorial/ |
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0.999025 | There are a lot of books and films in my five picks for February: I've written at length at some of the great food and drink I enjoyed in Washington and Portland, which leaves my cultural consumption to dissect.
I was a little disappointed by Kate Atkinson's previous book, Life After Life, which prioritised, I felt, style over substance. But A God in Ruins — a companion piece rather than a sequel — really won me over, with its chronicle of the life of would-be poet turned WWII pilot Teddy Todd and his family. The story skips merrily (and sometimes less merrily) back and forth throughout the 20th century, revisiting familiar scenes to add detail, resonance and understanding. Atkinson's writing is so utterly compelling, warm and funny, and flawed though they may be, you can't help but want to spend more time with her characters. Don't worry if you haven't read Life After Life; you can jump right in to A God in Ruins. I also posted a more detailed review on Good Reads.
The Coen brothers' films are so distinctive — and divisive — that you would think that by now most people would know whether the Coens' new releases are for them. I went to see their latest film, Hail, Caesar!, while I was in Portland and I was amazed by how many people left the cinema within the first 20 minutes. Yes, Hail, Caesar! is unstructured and yes, it is bonkers, but it is also hugely entertaining. Josh Brolin stars as a 1950s movie studio fixer, who is having a terrible day. The studio is producing a film of the story of Christ from the point of view of the Romans and his star, the handsome, charismatic Baird Whitlock (played by the handsome, charismatic George Clooney), is kidnapped by a group of communist writers. There are all sorts of other wacky sub-plots and set pieces too: Scarlett Johansson as a fin-wearing femme fatale; a nautical Channing Tatum dance number; Tilda Swinton as competitive, identical-twin reporters; and many more. Set during the same period as Trumbo, Hail, Caesar! is its opposite, but is great fun.
It's no secret that I am big fan of Honest Burgers but I hadn't had chance to try out their brunch. A few friends and I went to their Peckham location, which opened late last year, on a rainy Saturday. The Peckham restaurant is a lovely space — an airy dining room with the usual industrial accents, a few minutes' walk from Peckham Rye. We arrived at noon and didn't have to wait for a table but it got pretty busy by the time we left. The only problem with going at brunchtime is that there is even more choice! The Honest Burger is consistently in my top three burgers in London, and deviating from it is always tough. In the end, I compromised and ordered the Brunch Burger (£8.50): a beef patty with smoked bacon, Red Leicester, bubble and squeak, ketchup and rosemary-salt fries. It also comes with garlic mushrooms but I asked for mine to be mushroom-less.
And how was it? Well, the Honest Burger still retains its crown, but as a sinful, flavour-packed, brunchtime meat feast in sandwich form, the Brunch Burger is rather good. The brunch menu also includes bacon sandwiches, full Englishes, avo toasts and many other delights. If you can tear yourself away from the burger menu, that is!
I spotted Joël Dicker's sprawling, epic novel, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, in Portland's wonderful Powell's bookstore but I didn't have enough room in my suitcase for the 600-page tome. I picked up a copy from my local library on my return, though, and ploughed through it over the course of a weekend. The premise is complicated and, indeed, the novel itself is enshrouded in many different layers of text and subtext. Essentially, though, it is a novel about writers, writing, ambition and love.
The narrator, Marcus Goldman, is a successful novelist quickly loses sympathy as he describes his narcissistic, ruthless crawl to the top. Marcus is writing a book about his former mentor, the titular Harry Quebert — also a successful novelist — who has been implicated in the death of his much-younger lover — a 15-year-old girl — several decades earlier. Marcus wants to clear Harry's name and to uncover what really happened, although these two propositions may not be compatible.
Dicker's novel is clever and self-aware: the chapter numbers count down instead of up, and as Marcus progresses with his own novel, Harry gives him advice on how to write. It's all very meta and, at times, unnecessarily complicated (I don't mind novels being clever, except when the novelist is being clever for the sake of it, rather than to benefit the plot), but Harry Quebert is a compelling read, which reminded me of the likes of David Mitchell and Julian Barnes. I think I'll probably get even more out of it on a second read.
A reader recommended that I check out the much-acclaimed Icelandic film Rams, but my travelling left me with little time to go to the cinema this month. Happily, though, I caught Grímur Hákonarson's film, which won the Un Certain Regard award at Cannes, on Curzon Home Cinema. Rams is as understated as Hail, Caesar! is over-complicated, but although often solemn in tone, Hákonarson's film is also very human and is keenly observed, with an offbeat sense of humour. The story centres on Gummi (Sigurður Sigurjónsson) and Kiddi (Theodór Júlíusson), two brothers who have always lived on neighbouring sheep farms in an isolated Icelandic valley but who, stubborn as their prize rams, haven't talked to each other for over four decades. But when a case of scrapie is detected in one of Kiddi's sheep, threatening the livelihoods of the brothers and all of the other farmers in the valley, everything changes, even the brothers' relationship.
Rams is a concise film, clocking in at just over 1h30, and it is beautifully shot and tightly plotted. If you are looking for the antidote to this year's Oscar contenders, this could be it. And it has only strengthened my resolve to schedule a trip to Iceland this year! | 2019-04-20T02:25:37 | https://www.doubleskinnymacchiato.com/2016/02/etc-february-2016-rams-hail-caesar-harry-quebert.html |
0.999996 | About 30 years ago, I read a book by Irwin Schiff (yes, THAT Irwin Schiff) called The Biggest Con in which he exposed Keynesian economics and declaring that the only "arrow in the quiver" of Keynesianism was inflation. As I read Paul Krugman's column today on Spain and its problems, I can see that if Krugman is the most public spokesman today for Keynesian thinking, then Schiff was correct. Let me begin.
The concept is strikingly similar to what Keynes wrote, although Krugman also exposes his own biases of aggregation in this column. After all, what happens when a government devaluates the currency? There is a cut in real wages, and while the goods denominated in that currency become cheaper relative to goods made elsewhere, nonetheless people at home do suffer a fall in their standard of living.
Like Keynes, Krugman argues that what he calls an "internal devaluation" is bad because real wages are cut and people can see firsthand that they are making less, and in countries like Spain that are dominated by labor unions, that spells trouble. However, an inflation-led "wage cut" tends to be less visible or less clear, even if the same thing, relatively speaking, is accomplished.
However, all of this assumes that the effects of inflation are exactly the same as a cut in wages and government spending. (Actually, Krugman believes that inflation is superior because, in his view, people spend more in the short term, which he claims gives an economy "traction," enabling it to move forward on its own.) According to Krugman, or at least what I ascertain through his columns, inflation does not distort the structures of production nor cause any internal dislocations.
This last point is important, because one can have such a view ONLY if factors of production are homogeneous. However, if there are malinvestments that come about through inflation, and these malinvestments over time become unsustainable, then there is a problem.
In a nutshell, that is a huge difference between Austrians and Keynesians. While the devaluation of which Krugman speaks might have some "good effects" at first, nonetheless, this "solution" only exacerbates the long-term problem. For example, within an economy, the wages that tend to be out-of-kilter with the rest of the economy often are centered in unionized industries, and when inflation hits, those sectors tend to be able to force employers (and the government, since these countries have powerful public sector unions) to give raises that better keep up with inflation than workers who either are not unionized or have weak or non-existent political connections.
Thus, the internal distortions are likely to grow. In countries like Spain, Greece, and Portugal, the very sectors that are bloated and are gobbling up resources are the government sectors. A bout of inflation in the long run then would further empower those very employment groups that are most responsible for the current trouble.
To a Keynesian like Krugman, none of this matters, as all sectors are homogeneous and there is no such thing as economic distortion. The only thing that matters are aggregate numbers, as economics to him is nothing more than charts, numbers, and aggregations. To "cure" an economy, give it a bout of inflation, and when the inevitable problem arise, deal with them via another bout of inflation.
When things deteriorate -- as they surely will -- then one blames the "greedy" corporations which, in the view of someone like Krugman, need to be reined in by activist government. All that is needed is to find the "Goldstein," demonize, rage on, and then inflate some more. In the end, THAT is the "Krugman solution."
Whenever I read one of Paul Krugman's columns, I don't expect to be in agreement, so I am pleased when he makes points that I believe are spot on. However, somewhere through the column, he suddenly makes a turn in which the entire thing is turned into a giant non sequitur that leaves me scratching my head to his logical progressions.
Since 2001, sensible economists have been pleading for federal aid to state and local governments so schoolteachers and police officers needn't be laid off because of a temporary fall in revenues. They've also urged the administration to stop dragging its heels on much-needed homeland security spending, not just because such spending is needed to make the country safer, but also because it would create jobs and put more income into the hands of Americans likely to spend it. (And if you're worried about spending's leading to increased deficits, why not cancel some of those long-run tax breaks for upper brackets?) Until we've done the obvious things, there's no reason to despair about job creation.
I remember my reaction the first time I read it: Say what? The intellectual basis behind calling the "Lump of Jobs Fallacy" a fallacy is that we apply theories of division of labor and marginal utility and, yes, the Law of Scarcity. Krugman, on the other hand, tied it to a Keynesian notion that more spending creates jobs and prosperity.
Thus, it is today in Krugman's "Eating the Irish" column. He begins on a strong note, but then veers off the Keynesian cliff in a way that leaves me scratching my head.
I fully agree and hold that there should have been NO bailouts, but that also includes the bailouts that occurred in this country. Not only do I believe that Wall Street should have been on the hook for its role in creating and sustaining the Housing Bubble, but I also believe that had the Bush and Obama administrations permitted that to happen, we would not have had the Great Implosion that everyone (including Krugman) predicted.
Yes, it would have been difficult as the markets sorted out which firms had solid assets and which had worthless paper, and some CEOs would have lost their mansions in Connecticut. However, it would not have taken long to liquidate the malinvested assets, and we would be well on our way to a real recovery instead of the stagnation that we have now.
So, while taking on the obligations that the government should not have taken on in the first place, the Irish government then should have increased spending? With what? Tax revenues fell and the Irish government could not print Euros, so all it could have done was to borrow, and somehow I doubt that the world was anxiously awaiting the acquisition of more Irish government debt.
First, I doubt that Iceland is exactly wallowing in prosperity at the moment. The imposition of capital controls hardly is a solution, no matter what Krugman thinks. It is a statement that the government owns one's property, period. The only reason that governments impose capital controls is that those in power want to steal property of others and the only way to do it is to keep it in the country where government agents can find it.
This is the financial version of the Berlin Wall, and it is theft, pure and simple. Why am I not surprised that Krugman endorses this action?
As for the currency issue, there is some truth in that matter, but Krugman leaves out something important: Iceland may be able to repudiate some of its obligations via currency devaluations (which really is a sophisticated way of saying it is printing more money and impoverishing anyone whose wealth is held in Kronas), but it is less likely to attract future investment from outside the country. In other words, it trades a temporary fix for future problems.
However, since Keynes himself declared that "In the long run, we all are dead," I guess that even if short-term actions hold long-term consequences, we should not worry. That will be someone else's problem.
On a recent appearance on ABC's "This Week," Paul Krugman spoke glowingly of what he called "death panels." In fact, he referred to "death panels" as a "real solution" in helping to get a "real solution" to federal budget problems. He really did say that, but Krugman being Krugman quickly made a posting on his blog that declared that he really did not mean exactly what he said even though, frankly, he meant exactly what he said.
What was significant about that whole affair was that Krugman and his friends and admirers for the last two years have called Sarah Palin a liar because she said that federalizing medical care ultimately will feature what she called "death panels." Krugman called the idea a "complete fabrication," except that he obviously understood all along that a U.S. government medical care program, which would be responsible for determining who receives medical care, would emulate those Europeans Krugman so much admires, and those countries have death panels.
Now, you might think that the prospect of this kind of standoff, which might deny many Americans essential services, wreak havoc in financial markets and undermine America’s role in the world, would worry all men of good will. But no, Mr. Simpson “can’t wait.” And he’s what passes, these days, for a reasonable Republican.
Now, I am no fan of Alan Simpson and really don't take anything he says very seriously. Yes, he and Erskine Bowles co-chaired a "Deficit Commission," which also was nothing less than one of the dog-and-pony shows that Washington brings out once in a while to dazzle the media and to tell the taxpayers that Washington Is Serious About Cutting The Deficit.
Yes, I am sure that some Republicans are going to make noise when the debt limit has to be raised this coming spring in order for the U.S. Government to continue borrowing at unsustainable levels. Furthermore, after a few members of Congress engage in The Usual Grandstanding, demand some "concessions" from President Obama (which he will ignore after making public show of concern for the deficit), Congress will vote to extend the debt limit and go on its merry way.
In the past, we even have had to veritable "train wreck" in which the debt limit passes and (horrors) THE GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN. Except that it really does not shut down. Yes, they make a big show of closing the Washington Monument, and I am sure that there would be a few other high-profile, low-impact closings in order to try to convince people that Their Savior Is Not Operating, and the Usual Suspects in the media will play Their Usual Role in telling us we're doomed unless Washington can spend more.
...the G.O.P. opposes anything that might help sustain demand in a depressed economy — even aid to small businesses, which the party claims to love.
I had not realized that he was getting ready to trot out the unemployment benefits canard again. Now, if Krugman really were to believe this "demand" nonsense, I wonder why he does not endorse Washington just creating a few trillion dollars or more and just leaving the sacks of money at our doorsteps just before Black Friday. You want spending? We'll GIVE you spending!
Yes, yes, we know. Had the government spent $1.2 trillion instead of $800 billion for its "stimulus" efforts, we would be in a full-blown recovery by now. All for the want of $400 billion, and now the Evil GOP wants to end any more "stimulus" efforts and destroy the world.
Let's sum it up. Krugman uses the actual term "death panels" but really does not mean "death panels," except we know that he does. Alan Simpson uses "blood bath" and he obviously means every word. Emmanuel Goldstein lives!
One of the reasons that I continue to write on this blog has been Paul Krugman's constant contention that anyone who believes he is wrong does not really believe Krugman is wrong. The only reasons for opposing Krugman's statements, according to Krugman, is that a person is Really Stupid or, more likely, just plain evil.
Furthermore, I have watched him constantly rewrite the history of financial deregulation in which he has claimed that all of the deregulation occurred under Ronald Reagan when, in fact, most of the original work was done before Reagan took office, and under the direction of Democrats. I also have noted that deregulatory efforts of Congressional Democrats took place because the system at the time, dominated by internal markets, was too stratified and too inefficient to deal with the kind of investment that would be needed as high technology was rapidly advancing.
Now, I would say there is a good bit of hypocrisy, and I certainly am not going to shill for Republicans, given that they helped produce the Housing Bubble, although the Democrats that ran Congress from 2007 on certainly played their irresponsible role, too. A plague on both their houses! Moreover, when I read Sarah Palin's letter to the Wall Street Journal, I find it interesting that the same person who shilled for the TARP now has suddenly discovered "sound money." So, she was for monetary irresponsibility before she was against it. And I have no doubt that had John McCain been elected (and, thus, driving me to drink), he would be following pretty much the same course as Obama, except he would have diverted "stimulus" money to his supporters instead of Obama's -- and Palin would have been parroting the policy as McCain's VP.
(The) world has failed to learn the lesson of the Assignats. Perhaps the study of the other great inflations - of John Law’s experiments with credit in France …; of the history of our own Continental currency …; of the Greenbacks of our Civil War; of the great German inflation that culminated in 1923 - would help to underscore and impress that lesson. Must we, from this appalling and repeated record, draw once more the despairing conclusion that the only thing man learns from history is that man learns nothing from history?
Of course, I am sure that Krugman would claim that Mr. Hazlitt simply wanted French people to be out of work. After all, it was Henry Hazlitt who carefully refuted Keynes' General Theory page by page and line by line. If Hazlitt, who knew the General Theory as well as any person alive wasn't convinced of its brilliance, then he could have come to his conclusion only because he didn't want people to have jobs.
Paul Krugman does not simply advocate inflation; no, he worships at its very shrine. Inflation is our savior; inflation will give the economy "traction."
Furthermore, anyone who might have an argument against his illogic is doing nothing short of advocating a return to "the Dark Ages" of economics. I say, nonsense.
So it is in the Krugman blog post I have linked in which he quotes a passage from Joseph Schumpeter's work and then assumes that because Schumpeter wrote it in the past, that it amounts to advice from "the Dark Ages." Why? Well, because Krugman says so.
However, Schumpeter in that passage is addressing the point that inflation distorts the structure of production, creating malinvestments and bringing about maladjustments which cannot be sustained over time. So, using inflation to fight any depression simply prolongs the pain, and any short-term "gains" are wiped out longer term.
Obviously, since Krugman's mantra is "we need inflation," such words from Schumpeter are heresy. Furthermore, because Schumpeter wrote them many years ago, they automatically are wrong.
But I also have another problem. Krugman has been insisting that the reason the economy is in a funk is because the Obama administration pushed through an $800 billion "stimulus" instead of a $1.2 trillion spending package. Yes, for lack of $400 billion to be spent on political pet projects, the entire economy is sinking.
Krugman also insists that inflation will give the economy "traction," as though an economy is a perpetual motion machine that just needs a push from monetary authorities to move on its own. Where does he get that? Furthermore, the only way for his plan to work is for all assets to be homogeneous and for factors of production to automatically be able to adjust when done so administratively.
Does he know nothing about what happened with such economic planning in the former U.S.S.R.? There were economic planners who were as intelligent as Paul Krugman and who had doctoral degrees from Moscow State University, where the economics curriculum was every bit as rigorous as that of MIT.
Yet, the economy was a miserable failure, as planners could not negotiate simple goods through simple processes. Why? The economy lacked real prices that reflected the relative scarcity of factors of production. Instead, they believed that administered prices and production functions would take care of things, which never happened.
So, Paul Krugman demands the same for us. Have inflation distort prices, assume that factors of production are homogeneous, ratchet up government spending, and it will give us prosperity. Hey! It worked well for the U.S.S.R.
Talk about the Dark Ages.
When Sarah Palin wrote last year that ObamaCare would lead to "death panels," the Usual Suspects howled, along with Paul Krugman. The LA Times declared it the "biggest lie of 2009" and the New York Times also weighed in with a solemn declaration that there would be no such thing as a "death panel."
"Some years down the pike, we're going to get the real solution, which is going to be a combination of death panels and sales taxes. It's going to be that we're actually going to take Medicare under control, and we're going to have to get some additional revenue, probably from a VAT. But it's not going to happen now."
So, after having made fun of Palin, calling her a liar and worse, Krugman himself endorses such a thing. Obviously, he realized he was in hot water for his Freudian slip, so he quickly posted something on his NYT blog to minimize the damage.
So, the "death panels" really are not "death panels" even though Krugman calls them as such. Let's be realistic, folks. Paul Krugman really does believe that we need government-created "death panels," which will operate in the name of "lower costs." He actually believes they will help, even if he won't openly admit it -- except when he admits it.
Every once in a while, Washington trots out a "commission" that consists of Very Wise People Who Have Served In Government, happily gobbling up what taxpayers have provided. The "commission" meets (and meets and meets) and after a while, its members stand before the news cameras and announce that they have a Very Wise Pronouncement to make.
Not surprisingly, after the Very Wise Commission declares its Oracle, the Usual Suspects denounce whatever what was said, people go back to work, and the Report of the Very Wise People goes onto a shelf where it remains until the next Very Wise Commission is formed. Thus it is with the latest dog-and-pony show of Washington, the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.
Because nothing can occur in Washington without fanfare and moral theater, the latest Very Wise Commission has its website, photo ops, and even a report. These people -- who helped create the very conditions that we now face -- solemnly have told us that we need to pay higher taxes, cut spending, and live within our means. Obviously, even that (as phony as it might be) is financially and morally intolerable.
In the name of being an equal-opportunity annoyer, I present the side-by-side views of Paul Krugman and David Brooks, to columnists who really deserve each other. On the one side, we have an "economist" who hasn't a clue about capital or factors of production in general, who has no idea as to what entrepreneurship is, and really believes money is nothing more than a quantity variable to be placed within a mathematical algorithm.
Start with the declaration of “Our Guiding Principles and Values.” Among them is, “Cap revenue at or below 21% of G.D.P.” This is a guiding principle? And why is a commission charged with finding every possible route to a balanced budget setting an upper (but not lower) limit on revenue?
Should we make Social Security -- a true Ponzi scheme -- on more solid footing? Perish the thought!
Now, why is it heresy for Krugman to claim that ObamaCare will cut costs, but it is not OK for Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles to do the same? I don't know, although I do believe that any notion that what Congress passed earlier this year will cut anything but the quality and supply of medical care is ludicrous. Nonetheless, Krugman believes the CBO pronouncements like Jerry Falwell believed in Biblical inerrancy -- except when someone else who Krugman doesn't like says the same thing.
It will take a revived patriotism to get people to look beyond their short-term financial interest to see the long-term national threat. Do you really love your tax deduction more than America’s future greatness? Are you really unwilling to sacrifice your Social Security cost-of-living adjustment at a time when soldiers and Marines are sacrificing their lives for their country in Afghanistan?
Like the civil rights movement, this movement will ask Americans to live up to their best selves. But it will do other things besides.
It will have to restore the social norms that prevailed through much of American history: when narcissism and hyperpartisanship was mitigated by loyalties larger than tribe and self; when competition between the parties was limited and constructive, not total and fratricidal.
This movement will have to build institutions to support the leaders who make the hard bargains. As in the civil rights era, politicians won’t make big changes unless they are impelled and protected by a social upsurge.
Most important, this movement will have to develop a governing philosophy and a policy agenda. Right now, orthodox liberals and conservatives have their idea networks, and everybody else is intellectual roadkill. This coming movement will have to revive the American System: a governing philosophy that believes in targeted federal efforts to arouse growth, social mobility and responsibility.
Like the chairmen’s report, this movement could demand that Congress wipe out tax loopholes and begin anew. It could protect federal aid to the poor while reducing federal subsidies to the upper-middle class.
The coming movement may be a third party or it may support serious people in the existing two. Its goal will be unapologetic: preserving American pre-eminence. It will preserve America’s standing in the world on the grounds that this supremacy is a gift to our children and a blessing for the earth.
There are some things that simply don't need a reply, as they are ridiculous enough on the face. Brooks' column is one of those things.
In a blog post today, Krugman once again gloats about inflation, or the lack thereof, but then goes off on a weird tangent, talking about "grocery inflation." Now, I cannot recall in any of my grad classes there being a term called "grocery inflation," and being that the average grocery store has thousands of items, with some going up in price and other things not.
Austrians are more fundamental when it comes to inflation. To us, inflation is a situation in which the value of money falls relative to the goods for which it is used to purchase. In other words, inflation to us is a monetary phenomenon, not a price phenomenon. Instead, increases in prices reflect inflation (the loss of value of money), as when money loses value relative to other goods, more money then is needed to fulfill transactions.
Now, according to Keynesians, this is foolish, since to them, money is nothing more than a quantity variable. They may have an inkling of why money exists in the first place, but they are much more interested in aggregate variables, and certainly not anything that might smack of a marginal utility theory of money.
That being said, I will once again invoke the hated (by Keynesians) Say's Law to point out that while money facilitates trade, it is not by itself wealth, only a measure of wealth. Money is subject to the laws of economics, even if Paul Krugman doesn't believe it.
Now, there is no doubt that the U.S. Dollar is losing ground overseas, and if we really were in a period of deflation, as Krugman claims, then the dollar would be gaining strength, not losing it. (Deflation occurs when the value of money relative to goods it is used to purchase increases, and that clearly is not happening.) We are seeing asset prices such as housing fall, but those prices need to fall because they were out of kilter with everything else.
I want to come back to this whole "deflation" issue soon enough, but now want to deal with how new money comes into our economic system. Remember, the Fed mostly has piled up new reserves in banks, raising (actually, spiking) the monetary base. However, a monetary base in the form of bank reserves is a lot different than new money actually floating about in the economy.
When the government seized the factories, it tripled the wages of workers, but the political organizing and other moves actually lowered workplace productivity. At the same time, the government threw up new tariffs and trade barriers, so people soon were awash in money, but little else.
During that period when inflation got to about 1,000 percent, people got out of money if they could, using items like tobacco, auto parts, and other hard goods that they could use to barter. In Bolivia, where there were (and are) a large number of state-owned enterprises, workers in the mid-1980s would be paid twice a day. They would rush to the streets and trade their money with tourists for dollars or other hard currencies, and then the tourists quickly would spend the money.
That is very, very difficult to happen in our economy. Even during the last big inflation of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the new money came in through the bank lending process. Government workers were not paid with newly-printed dollars, nor did they rush out into the streets to trade for pesos.
What happens at a time when businesses are not borrowing for long-term projects, as is the case today? This is what Milton Friedman called "pushing on a string," or what Paul Krugman calls a "liquidity trap."
Is there a way for the current situation to bust into hyperinflation? Obviously, I certainly hope not, as I and my family would go down like everyone else. Certainly, one can see the problems that would arise if the Fed were to directly purchase large amounts of U.S. Treasuries on the primary market to finance the government's borrowing, as it would not take long to see how this transmission device would inject a lot of new money into the economy and certainly would result in much higher prices over time.
There is one more issue, and that is the claims by Krugman that we are falling into "deflation." Frankly, I don't see it. Prices for consumer goods, not to mention food and other commodities, are going up, not down. Yes, the value of those assets that were highly-inflated during the bubble are going down, but that is a good thing (even if my own house is included in this "good thing"). I use that term not because it makes everyone happy, but rather because factor prices need to get into balance, and the government's "stimulus," bailouts, and attempts to build a "recovery" by pouring money into "green energy" are only making the situation worse.
No, we are not about to burst into the holocaust of inflation as we saw in Latin America or recently Zimbabwe, but neither are we falling into deflation as Krugman says. Instead, we are going to muddle along until someone in power learns that one cannot subsidize an economy into prosperity.
I have no idea if Paul Krugman reads the Bible or any other religious material, but being that I am in the midst of reading through the section of the various major and minor prophets of Israel, I can see how Krugman fancies himself to be an Isaiah or Ezekiel. Here is Krugman giving prophecies of woe -- but also presenting what he claims to be are "solution" to the current ills.
Unfortunately, he believes, no decision makers in the government are listening. Instead, from President Obama to Ben Bernanke, these people are listening to the "Pain Caucus" (as he calls people who note that the economy cannot expand with malinvested capital), the "inflationistas," and those lyin' furriners (the Chinese and Germans) who are more responsible than anyone else for our present condition.
After all, you have China, which is engaged in currency manipulation on a scale unprecedented in world history — and hurting the rest of the world by doing so — attacking America for trying to put its own house in order. You have Germany, whose economy is kept afloat by a huge trade surplus, criticizing America for running trade deficits — then lashing out at a policy that might, by weakening the dollar, actually do something to reduce those deficits.
So, there you have it; these countries, which actually make goods that people want to buy, are partially at fault for our predicament. Obviously, we need a good trade war to accompany our failed "war on terror." That will bring prosperity for sure.
Here is the ultimate irony, however. Krugman believes that the government is choosing the "hard way" when, in fact, fixing the current problem is quite easy. As he wrote in his book The Return of Depression Economics, most economic crises (according to him) can be "fixed" simply by the printing of money. In other words, Ben Bernanke really can print some of it, go into his helicopter, and dump it out upon grateful people who then will go and spend it, giving the economy "traction," and leading us into prosperity.
Now, this makes Krugman a most interesting prophet. Most prophets of the Bible excoriated Israelites for seeking a life of ease, for following after false gods, and "oppressing the poor" by getting them to work, and then not paying them, or having crooked judges rule in their favor when the poor brought their cases before the courts of those days.
Krugman, on the other hand, claims that the real solution to the current situation is the easier path. Those that say that we no longer can continue the boom through loose credit and wild deficit spending and who must get the "house in order" really are the villains, for they lead us down the path of pain.
Powerful as these seductions (ATBC) may be, they must be resisted—for the hangover theory is disastrously wrongheaded. Recessions are not necessary consequences of booms. They can and should be fought, not with austerity but with liberality—with policies that encourage people to spend more, not less.
See? The "solution" really is quite easy. When the value of malinvested assets fall and the follies of a boom are exposed, we then pretend that we are prosperous. Is the income that flowed from the money borrowed to finance these malinvestments drying up? No problem! Let the government either try to prop up these malinvestments by getting the Fed to purchase government bonds, or sell the bonds to a central bank in Upper Slobovia and use those dollars to fund the politicians' latest projects (like rail tunnels). And, if the projects run way over budget, THAT IS EVEN BETTER BECAUSE IT MEANS WE ARE SPENDING MORE MONEY!
Usually, prophets tell people that they must choose the more difficult path, but the Prophet Krugman differs. If I may use an analogy from the New Testament, it would be like Jesus telling his disciples that they should enter "through the wide gate," as "the narrow gate is too painful."
I sense a real anger in Krugman's words. Here is a Nobel Prize winner telling people that the way out of this depression is easy: just borrow, print, and spend (and spend and spend). Yet, somehow, the Bad People are winning the day, falsely convincing people that we cannot borrow and spend our way to prosperity. They are not moved by Krugman's prophecies that the road to ease is for us to start a trade war with China, tell the Germans "Zum Teufel mit Ihnen," and spend, spend, and spend some more.
Paul Krugman definitely has been busy since the last election, and so have I -- but not in reading Krugman's material as the day job (and some consulting work on the side) have taken front-and-center. Nonetheless, as I read the Nobel Prize winner's blog this morning, I must admit that I have missed a real treasure trove of Krugman's Shibboleths, including a number that he has written himself.
It is hard to know where to begin, but I think I will begin with Krugman's own Shibboleth: inflation. Some years ago, I read a book by someone lambasting the Keynesians in which he said that their only real "arrow in the quiver" was inflation, and I think that Krugman has continued that long tradition. According to Krugman, the only way that an economy can recover from a depression is via inflation, coming in the form either of central bank monetary expansion or increased government spending.
As Krugman has claimed many times, the U.S. economy -- for that matter, all of the world (except for Zimbabwe) -- is mired in a "liquidity trap" in which individuals and businesses are selfishly holding onto their cash and not spending it. Obviously, THAT is intolerable, so the government either must find a way to confiscate it by force (raise taxes, which Krugman has advocated) or via inflation (which Krugman pursues with religious zeal).
Along the way, he attacks Jim Rogers, a person who actually understands capital, unlike Krugman, who seems to believe that capital magically springs from the ground when people start spending. Yes, Krugman wants us to believe that if the government tries to recreate the government-run financial cartel in which external capital markets were scarce (and the system clearly was running into a wall by the mid-70s), and if government showers the economy with newly-printed dollars, blocks Chinese imports, raises taxes, forces taxpayers to pay for high-cost, subsidized "clean energy," and demonizes any business that actually is profitable (except for those businesses getting government subsidies), that the U.S. economy will roar back into a state of real growth and full-employment.
Yes, Krugman definitely identifies himself with the Inflationists, claiming that if government debases the currency -- and that is what inflation really is -- and, thus, depreciating the cash that people have earned, that we will have prosperity. In a world in which all labor and capital are homogeneous, that would be true. However, in a world in which a government-caused boom creates huge malinvestments -- as we saw with the housing boom -- we have to face reality.
According to Krugman, we can keep the original boom alive via spending and more spending. Assets mean nothing; depreciated currency is everything. In the meantime, blame everything on Goldstein: the Chinese and Republicans. And that is what passes for Great Economic Wisdom with modern Progressives.
To use Krugman's own words: Paul Krugman makes my head hurt.
Well, following the elections, which were pretty disastrous for the Democrats, at least regarding the U.S. House of Representatives, I figured Paul Krugman's first column would be yet another attack on the Republicans. Instead, he attacked President Obama for not having enough "audacity" in his economic programs.
We have been down this road before. Krugman's favorite theme -- other than Republicans come from the Pit of Hell -- has been that Obama did not spend enough, inflate enough, or regulate enough. What Krugman wants us to believe is that the most leftist president of my life somehow did not have the courage to tax, borrow, and spend, and that Obama's lack of "courage" is what blew up the House.
There is much economic "hocus-pocus" in these statements, a veritable treasure trove of Frederic Bastiat's "Fallacy of the Broken Window." For all his "the stimulus should have been bigger" line, never does he in this or any other column explain how that move would result in a long-term recovery. Oh, yes, he says it would give the economy "traction," as though an economy is a perpetual motion machine that just needs a little push.
The only way to "engineer relief" to homeowners is to give them checks or pay their mortgages if they default. It does not take a Nobel Prize to know that a government program that taxes homeowners who are paying their mortgages in order to give to people who are unable to do so is not going to save the housing industry, but it will send a message to people who work and pay their bills that the government thinks them to be an unlimited ATM for the president to buy votes.
Obama playing it safe? The guy who has pushed through a 2,500-page bill that no one has read in its entirety (and no one person knows exactly what is in it) to engineer a complete government takeover of medical care is "playing it safe"? Maybe in Krugman's world, but definitely not in the world where the rest of us live.
Is the Recession Simply a Zero-Sum Game?
Paul Krugman seems to be a True Believer that any disagreement with the principles he espouses MUST come from bad faith. I mean, who could be against more government spending that would give the economy "traction" and put us back into prosperity?
Thus, he reasons, there must be a much darker reason that some people out there seem to believe that piling on more government debt and spending might not have the effects that Krugman claims will be at the end of the tunnel. Isn't he a Nobel winner? Is he not on the Princeton faculty? Did he not receive his doctorate at prestigious MIT? So, to disagree with him is to engage in No-Nothingness!
As the election has approached, Krugman has become even more shrill than usual, laying out personal attacks and portraying anyone who might disagree with him as being motivated by pure evil. Why are they evil? Read the second paragraph again.
“How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor’s mortgage that has an extra bathroom and can’t pay their bills?” That’s the question CNBC’s Rick Santelli famously asked in 2009, in a rant widely credited with giving birth to the Tea Party movement.
It’s a sentiment that resonates not just in America but in much of the world. The tone differs from place to place — listening to a German official denounce deficits, my wife whispered, “We’ll all be handed whips as we leave, so we can flagellate ourselves.” But the message is the same: debt is evil, debtors must pay for their sins, and from now on we all must live within our means.
And that kind of moralizing is the reason we’re mired in a seemingly endless slump.
Second, I have not heard any U.S. politician claim that America must be good for its debts to China and other entities that have purchased U.S. Treasury debt, and the notion that suddenly we have become a nation of "debt moralizers" is really silly. Does anyone really think that if the Republicans take over Congress (or at least the House) -- or even the White House in two years -- that the USA suddenly will stop being the world's largest debtor nation in history?
The years leading up to the 2008 crisis were indeed marked by unsustainable borrowing, going far beyond the subprime loans many people still believe, wrongly, were at the heart of the problem. Real estate speculation ran wild in Florida and Nevada, but also in Spain, Ireland and Latvia. And all of it was paid for with borrowed money.
This borrowing made the world as a whole neither richer nor poorer: one person’s debt is another person’s asset. But it made the world vulnerable. When lenders suddenly decided that they had lent too much, that debt levels were excessive, debtors were forced to slash spending. This pushed the world into the deepest recession since the 1930s. And recovery, such as it is, has been weak and uncertain — which is exactly what we should have expected, given the overhang of debt.
Yet those parts of the private sector not burdened by high levels of debt see little reason to increase spending. Corporations are flush with cash — but why expand when so much of the capacity they already have is sitting idle? Consumers who didn’t overborrow can get loans at low rates — but that incentive to spend is more than outweighed by worries about a weak job market. Nobody in the private sector is willing to fill the hole created by the debt overhang.
But the moralizers will have none of it. They denounce deficit spending, declaring that you can’t solve debt problems with more debt. They denounce debt relief, calling it a reward for the undeserving.
And if you point out that their arguments don’t add up, they fly into a rage. Try to explain that when debtors spend less, the economy will be depressed unless somebody else spends more, and they call you a socialist. Try to explain why mortgage relief is better for America than foreclosing on homes that must be sold at a huge loss, and they start ranting like Mr. Santelli. No question about it: the moralizers are filled with a passionate intensity.
I can't say that I have watched too many "moralizers" flying into a rage, as the Rage Guy is Krugman himself. People who disagree with him, he writes, can only be motivated by Really Bad Intentions, and if you wonder why that is so, read the second paragraph of this post (again).
My point is this: Krugman cannot have it both ways. He is not free to claim both that all that has occurred is a transfer of wealth, and, at the same time, the value of housing truly has fallen. Furthermore, we are not just dealing with a "capacity" issue, as Robert Higgs' "Regime Uncertainty" theory has merit here.
For the past four years, the political Left has controlled the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, and for the last two years, the White House as well. All three entities have been a wellspring of anti-enterprise rhetoric, and we are reading on the NY Times editorial page that government must be more aggressive in criminalizing entrepreneurial error. This hardly is an atmosphere in which any firm would want to invest, given that if a someone were to misread the future, that mistake would mean he or she goes to prison.
Furthermore, Krugman's notion that more spending will cure everything by giving the economy more "traction" is nothing more than the application of circular logic to economic theory. Unfortunately, circular logical today is passed off by our "elites" are Real Wisdom.
When it became evident three years ago that the Housing Boom could not be sustained, the Bush administration and Congress had a couple of choices. They could have realized that it was futile to continue down the same path and to permit the economy to adjust to those assets that were sustainable, or it could pretend that all the economy needed to keep the charade going was to inject more "spending." Not surprisingly, they chose the latter, although now Krugman says that they were not playing Charades aggressively enough. Moreover, he further claims that the Really Bad People know the truth, but just enjoy making others suffer.
No, an economy is not a zero-sum game, nor is it just one big circle in which (to take Israel Kirzner's example) someone eats breakfast so he can go to work, and then goes to work so he can eat breakfast. | 2019-04-19T08:35:06 | http://krugman-in-wonderland.blogspot.com/2010/11/ |
0.999681 | Perhaps it was the myth that Magna Carta afforded more rights to more people than it actually did. Perhaps it was the realization that, once divine right became something shared between the king and some subset of society, there was no reason that subset should be anything less than "all of us". But by the early enlightenment period, philosophers were justifying the powers of government and the rights of the governed using the concepts of a pre-governmental "state of nature" and a social contract.
By the middle of the seventeenth century, Thomas Hobbes used these concepts to justify the absolute power of the monarch. In Leviathan, published in 1651, Hobbes depicted the condition of humans without government of any kind. Hobbes' concept of this "state of nature" was a war of all against all. According to Hobbes, the benefit of exiting such a state required the surrender of individual liberty to a government with absolute power.
Other philosophers almost immediately reacted to Hobbes' depiction of the state of nature. Jean-Jacques Rousseau published his Discourse on the Origin of Inequality in 1754, and his depiction of the state of nature was precisely opposite that of Hobbes. Rousseau felt that humans in such a condition would be living in accord with what he termed "uncorrupted morals." The introduction of society was, for Rosseau, where corruption enters. He opens his treatise entitled Social Contract Theory with the statement, "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
Within a few decades, John Locke had proposed yet another alternative vision of the state of nature as a place governed by a natural law that afforded everyone an equal right to life, liberty and property. Locke published his Two Treatises of Government around 1689, although he did so anonymously. Needless to say, the social contract emerging from that state of nature was quite different from what Hobbes had envisioned. And it is this version of the social contract that is most often associated with the vision of the founders of the American republic, although the version published in 18th century America was incomplete.
The point here is not to endorse any one version of Enlightenment social contract theory. Rather, I think we should observe the fact that early social contract theorists injected different views of human nature into a state of nature and used that mechanism to generate a logical argument for a form of social contract--and hence for a form of government. And nearly everyone agrees the "state of nature" is a hypothetical construct rather than any condition that actually existed. Attempting to defend Locke's view of human nature, or Hobbes', or Rousseau's, reminds me of the old story of the three blind men describing an elephant. The man who grasps the trunk proclaims that the elephant is like a snake, the one who touches the side asserts that the elephant is like a wall, and the one who hugs a leg is convinced the elephant is like a tree. None of them are completely right as individuals, but they each have a piece of the truth. Together, they provide a better approximation of "right" than any of them do alone.
Theorists modified the idea of a state of nature in the twentieth century to make significant improvements to the basic ideas expressed by the Enlightenment philosophers. We'll take up that thread in our next blog.
I will never understand what this really meant but I think yes, we are all bound by the state of nature. Common sense may have been our greatest downfall because it fooled us into believing we are capable of making decisions for ourselves. The truth is, even if you may have consciously made the decision to take action, you were led there by situations and consequences from previous decisions that are not really within your control. Again, you may have been led. It's called destiny. | 2019-04-24T14:53:18 | http://www.accountabilitycitizenship.org/blog/from-divine-right-to-the-state-of-nature |
0.999999 | What do I do NOT pass my examination?
1: If you were within five points of the passing score, listen to the Pathfinder audio CDs continuously, and review the chapters that caused you the most problems (as determined by your score report). If you have not already done so, go to the Pathfinder website and take the online flashcards. If test anxiety is a problem, order a copy of the Pathfinder Freaky Test-Taker CD and listen to it three times. By following these recommendations, you should be able to retake your examination and pass with no problem.
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If you did not pass the L&H exam, you might also consider purchasing aPathfinder Advantage CD-ROM which is an extensive five hour review of the L&H course. The Advantage also contains hundreds of new quiz questions with answers and explanations.
3. If you missed a passing score by more than 10 points, we strongly encourage you to return for another review session, because making up more than 10 percentage points by studying on your own is extremely difficult!
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What type of exam am i taking?
All of the examinations are computer delivered multiple-choice questions with four potential answers. A majority of the questions are straight multiple-choice containing one correct answer, and three incorrect answers. However, there are some questions on the exam that or the reverse: they have three right answers, and one wrong answer. Your task is to find the incorrect answer. The question structure would be: "Which of the following is NOT True about XXXXXX?". Another version is: "All of the following are True EXCEPT XXXXXXXXX".
Your time allotment is 1 minute per question. For example, for the 160 question Life and Health examination, or the 160 question Property and Casualty exam, your time allotment is 160 minutes, which is two hours and 40 minutes.
There is a countdown timer on your computer screen that can help you keep track of your time. For example, if you started with 160 minutes, and the timer now says you have 150 minutes left, you have used 10 minutes so far. If you are on at least question # 10 by now, you are moving at an adequate speed to finish the examination on time. You need to be averaging answering at least answering one question every minute.
Virtually everybody completes the examination by the end of the allotted time, so time really should not be a major factor. But you still need to pay attention to time.
What is the pass score?
(1) All other things being equal, why does a 40-year-old male pay a higher premium rate for life insurance than a 40-year-old female?
(2) Why does a 10 Pay Whole Life insurance policy have a lower total cost than a 20 Pay Whole Life insurance policy?
(3) Bill is driving Jill’s car with Jill’s permission. Bill causes an accident with Michael for which Bill is at fault. How will the Liability sections of Bill’s and Jill’s automobile policies pay for the BI / PD damages that Bill caused?
You really need to understand the subject, and know how to think about the subject, to answer the above questions. These are examples of the type of material you will find on your test, and while it is an entry-level examination, it is a challenging examination, so study hard!
What do i need to take with me to the test site?
1. Your Certificate of Completion (the name on your Certificate of Completion must exactly match the name on your photo ID). If you have additional questions about the Certificate of Completion you can find additional information in Certificate of Completion FAQs category.
2. Your photo ID, which could be an Indiana drivers license, or any US drivers license with your photograph on it, a current passport, which contains your photograph, or similar official state or federal photo identification.
Do not take anything else: No watches, purses, wallets, handbags, or cell phones! Leave all that stuff at home, or in your automobile. If you do bring it in with you, the Proctor will ask you to lock it up in a secure locker during your test. And please dress in layers, as some of the testing facilities are cool, and some of them are warm, depending on the season. But no hooded sweatshirts.
At least 20 minutes prior to your test time. There are very few people going to the Ivy Tech high-stakes testing centers, so there is no large group of people all starting the test at the same time. Therefore, you can show up quite early if you wish. In that way you control the timing which is good for your mental health. I would suggest that you arrive 30 or 40 minutes early, go to the bathroom as needed, because for security reasons there are no bathroom breaks allowed during your examination (except in emergencies), and report to the Proctor when you feel comfortable, and at least 20 minutes before your scheduled time. Putting you in control is an essential element to your examining success.
What time should I arrive at the test site?
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If you are a good test-taker, and you have done 12-20 hours pre-study before attending the class, the day following your class is optimum. If you have not been able to do the pre-study, then we recommend that you take a day or two to continue your studies, and then take the exam no later than the third day.
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0.999202 | The waiter came back to take their orders and was surprised to see four more guests sitting at the table. "I'll be right back with more menus," he mumbled tiredly.
Everyone at the table laughed as he walked away. "Poor guy," said Chad. "He goes away for a few minutes, and then when he comes back, there's four more people to serve." Luis grinned before getting lost in Sheridan's sparkling blue eyes again. It was just like his dream, except this time six more people surrounded them. And one of them was his fiancée. He tore his eyes away from her and looked down. Had anyone else seen him looking at her like that?
"Excuse me for a second," he mumbled before getting up and banging his knee under the table. "I'll be right back." Sheridan watched him leave. When her eyes swiveled back to the table, they met Beth's suspicious ones. Sheridan quickly looked away. Great, now Beth thought she still had the hots for Luis. Which couldn't be further from the truth. They were just friends, right? They had both moved on with their lives.
"What are you two up to?" Sheridan was startled out of her thoughts by Ethan's comment. Theresa and Whitney only grinned wider and attempted to stifle the laughter that threatened to come out. She looked between their excited eyes and felt the corners of her mouth start to turn up. It was contagious.
Chad turned to Nick. "The whole drive here, they've been whispering and giggling about something. They won't tell us what, though." He didn't know they had caught Luis staring at Sheridan, and that they knew why he had gotten up so suddenly.
Nick shrugged. "A woman's mind is always a mystery. Who knows what they're thinking of up there," he said, pointing to his head.
Sheridan turned her head so she was facing him. "Watch it, mister. As of now, you're outnumbered." He flashed a grin at her before replying. "Aren't we always?"
"Aren't who always what?" Luis asked before giving Beth a peck on the cheek and taking his seat. Whitney and Theresa burst out laughing. "What?" he said, confused. "What's so funny?" He looked around the table, expecting to see everyone else laughing, too.
"It's nothing," Beth assured. "At least, it's nothing we know about. While that waiter gets here, I think I'll go freshen up." She was surprised to see Sheridan get up too.
"Me too," she said. "Be right back." Theresa exchanged looks with her best friend. The ladies' restroom was known for having brawls.
"Beth, we have to talk," Sheridan said as soon as she heard the thud of the door closing behind them. Beth stopped rummaging through her purse and looked up. What could there possibly be to talk about? Sheridan was going after her man, and no amount of "talking" could dissuade her from that belief. After getting no response from her, Sheridan decided to continue. "I know you probably think that, well, that I �"
"Save it, Sheridan," Beth snapped. "I know you're still interested in Luis. But he's mine now. We're engaged." She held up her hand and showed her the ring. "I'm warning you, if you even so much as try -"
"I won't," she interrupted. "You can be sure of that. Whatever kind of relationship we had before, that's over now. It was over three years ago." Her voice dropped lower and lower until it was barely above a whisper. "Besides, I don't go behind people's backs and steal their man. I know what it feels like to have your heart broken."
Beth nodded. "As long we have an understanding." She pulled out two shades of lipstick and turned towards the mirror. "So, which one goes with my outfit better?"
"There you are. We were thinking of sending a search party after you two," Ethan greeted as Sheridan and Beth walked back to the table. "Why do women take so long to 'freshen up'?"
"It's like I said, Ethan." Sheridan shot Nick a warning glance. "Um, where is that waiter?" Beth smiled, her eyes lighting up. Nick could charm his way out of any situation. "I'm going to go find him," he said, getting up. Another waiter appeared as his profile disappeared in the crowd.
"Phone call for Miss Beth Wallace?" Beth excused herself and got up. "Right this way, ma'am," the waiter directed. She followed him with a confused look on her face. The only people who knew she was here were some employees at the Book Cafe and Pilar. And they wouldn't be calling unless it was an emergency.
Sheridan watched Beth leave. She thought about the conversation she had in the bathroom with her. It was funny, really. She was assuring Beth she wasn't going after Luis. How could Beth even suspect she was? That was the most hilarious part. So why was it that all she felt was disappointment and strange sense of being let down? "Sheridan?" She looked up. Luis was staring at her, his brown eyes filled with concern. "Are you okay? You seem a little distant."
Sheridan mustered up a smile. "Yeah, Luis. I'm fine," she answered as the gnawing pain in her chest grew. "Just a little tired." Suddenly all Sheridan wanted was to go home and curl up into a ball. She didn't want to be here, where everyone could see her break down. Sheridan inhaled deeply. She had to stay strong for the remainder of the night. Because that's what she was, she told herself. She was strong.
Beth pressed the cold receiver up against her ear. The feeling of impending doom grew stronger by the second, and she was almost positive that something was wrong. "Hello?" she answered quietly, afraid of what the person on the other end might unleash.
"Beth, honey? Is that you?" Beth froze. That voice, it sounded so much like her mother's. But it couldn't be. Her mother had passed away from cancer years ago. "It's your Aunt Rose," the voice continued. She let out a breath she didn't know she had been holding. It was her mother's sister. She had forgotten how alike their voices sounded.
"Aunt Rose? How are you?"
"I'm fine, dear. You may be wondering why I'm calling after all this time." Beth heard her aunt sniff and start again. "It's your uncle."
Suddenly Beth knew her feelings were right. Something was wrong. "Uncle Jack?" she asked, her voice shaky. "How is he?"
"He's in the hospital, Beth." She gasped. Tears started to well up in her eyes.
Nick sighed with frustration. Friday night was definitely one of the Seascape's busiest. They were running short on help, and many tables were complaining about the slow service. He heard his stomach growl with hunger. "I guess I better get back to the table and tell everyone the news."
He turned around and saw Beth walking by. She seemed to be in a hurry, she was obviously upset about something. He ran up to her and tentatively lay a hand on her shoulder. "Beth? Are you okay?" She whipped around. Nick stepped back. Her face was tear-streaked, her eyes red and puffy. She was shaking uncontrollably, and he wrapped his arms around her to calm her down. "Beth," he whispered. "What �" She didn't answer. She just grabbed onto him and sobbed, letting her tears fall freely down her face. He responded by embracing her more tightly and kissing the top of her head. "Shh, it's going to be okay." | 2019-04-21T00:46:45 | http://www.w3pg.com/nbc/passions/fanfic/shuis112/in_the_end/16.html |
0.998455 | Step by step advanced treatment recommendations - see bottom for spotting solutions.
2. Apply cool ammonia solution, blot.
4. Rinse thoroughly with water, blot until dry.
5. If stain remains, apply rust remover or oxalic acid solution.
6. Bleaching with a 3 – 5% hydrogen peroxide may be necessary.
1. Apply dry cleaning solvent, blot.
2. Apply detergent solution, blot until dry.
1. Scrape away as much was as possible with spatula or dull knife.
4. Apply dry cleaning solvent, blot.
4. If stain remains, bleach with 3 – 5% hydrogen peroxide or sodium perborate.
5. Rinse thoroughly with water, blot dry.
1. Scrape away as much as possible with spatula or dull kife.
1. Apply detergent solution, blotting frequently.
3. Cover with dry towels until dry.
1. Apply dry cleaning solvent.
3. Apply dry cleaning solvent, blot.
1. Apply detergent solution, blotting frequently. A dried stain of food coloring will most likely spread when wet. Repeat until color is no longer transferred to towel.
3. Rinse thoroughly with water, blot until dry.
1. Apply amyl acetate if available to remove chlorophyll, blot.
2. Apply enzyme detergent, blot.
3. Rinse with water, blot.
6. Rinse with water, blot until dry.
3. If stain remains, apply rust remover or oxalic acid solution.
5. Apply ammonia solution, blot.
1. Scrape off excess with spatula or dull knife.
2. Apply POG, blot making sure not to reapply stain into fabric.
6. Apply vinegar solution, blot.
Try to avoid wet cleaning on wool. Use POG and dry cleaning solvents as long as possible.
1. Apply enzyme detergent, blot.
3. Rinse thoroughly with water, blot.
4. Apply solution of oxidizing bleach (chlorine or perborate). Do not use chlorine bleach on wool or silk.
5. Rise thoroughly with water, blot until dry.
1. Brush or scrape away as much excess mud as possible.
5. If stain remains, apply POG and dry cleaning solvent alternately, blot until dry.
4. If stain remains, rust remover (Oxalic acid solution) or bleaching may be necessary.
2. Apply amyl acetate if available or nail polish remover – PRETEST IN AN INCONSPICUOUS AREA FIRST.
3. If stain remains, aply detergent solution, blot until dry.
5. Apply dry cleaning solvent, blot.
5. Alternate steps 2 and 3 until stain is removed.
6. If stain persists, weight down the stain with towels dampened with dry cleaning solvent for several hours to loosen, blot with solvent.
7. Apply several drops of detergent solution and work into the stain, blot.
8. Apply ammonia solution, blot.
9. Alternate steps 2 and 3 and 6 until stain is removed.
3. Apply dry cleaning solution, blot.
7. If stain persists, bleaching or professional stripping may be necessary.
1. Blot as much as possible if still wet.
6. If stain remains, apply rust remover or oxalic acid solution.
7. Bleaching with 3 – 5% hydrogen peroxide or sodium perborate might be necessary.
1. Blot as much as possible.
3. Apply ammonia solutions, blot.
4. If necessary, bleach with 3 – 5% hydrogen peroxide or sodium perborate.
If all else fails, switch to Chardonnay!
Mix one tablespoon of clean household ammonia with on half cup of water.
Use hydrogen peroxide or sodium perborate (present in Snowy or Clorox II) – Do not use chlorine bleach.
Volatile dry spotter or a commercial spotter such as Thoro, Carbona, Energize, K2R. Use in small amounts – can be harmful in sizing, backings, or stuffing material. Do not use gasoline, lighter fluid or carbon tetrachloride.
Paint, oil, and grease remover – available in hardware stores. Use extremely small amounts with extreme caution! | 2019-04-19T04:42:47 | https://www.abcscarpetcleaning.com/tips/ |
0.999827 | Does the good of conditioning outweigh the bad?
The decision to purchase a water softener for your home can come with some pretty persuasive monetary and personal benefits. For most people, the issue is not should they buy a water softener but rather how to choose a water softener to purchase.
Allows the use of less soap or detergent, saving you money. It makes smaller amounts work more efficiently.
Reduces soapy residue on clothes and skin.
Helps free skin's pores of dirt and bacteria, reducing itchy dryness.
Leaves less soap scum and scale buildup on showers and sinks, making for easier and less costly cleaning.
Reduces scale deposits in pipes and water-using appliances, lengthening lifespan and reducing frequency of cleaning.
Reduces water-heating bills by allowing water heaters to work more efficiently - over 20 percent more efficiently in most cases.
The first thing you'll probably want to know when deciding to purchase a water softener, especially if it's a first-time installation, is what is hard water? You likely know it contains more minerals than soft water, but you may want to know why there is so much debate on whether hard water is better than soft.
How do you know if your water is hard?
You'll need to test your water supply to see if hard water is what you've got (unless annoying scale and soap scum buildup have already clued you in) and, if so, just how hard it is. If you have municipal water, the utility company can provide you with hardness information. If you're on a well, a water softening company will be more than happy to conduct a test for you.
Do you need a softener?
Hard water is measured in grains per gallon (gpg) or parts per million (ppm). It can cause problems when levels are above 6 or 7 gpg or 100 to120 ppm. Some say soft water is unneccessary and provide reasoning against their use, so check out both sides of the story before you commit.
Certain water softeners may also help in removing radium, barium and low concentrations of manganese and iron, but most only to a very low extent. A separate system would likely be needed to make any significant reductions.
If you decide in favor of soft water, you will have to choose one of several water softener types. Whether it uses solar salt, rock salt or no salt at all, is an upright cabinet or a twin tank, or utilizes ion exchange or magnets, there are benefits and drawbacks to all. Look at factors such as cost of use, water softener maintenance and brand reliability to make the best choice for your home. | 2019-04-19T20:37:41 | http://www.purityplanet.com/water-softeners/ |
0.998173 | Would the True Existential Therapy Please Stand Up? Eclectic, Antagonistic, or Integrative?
One of the interesting aspects of being an existential therapist is learning the perceptions that others have about what it means to be existential. After having taught about existential psychology at seven universities, I have heard quite a few different perspectives. However, the diversity within existential psychology is maybe as diverse as the perceptions from outside.
I have advocated that there is no one existential psychology, and that to advocate for a single or pure existential psychology is actually quite unexistential (Hoffman, 2009). In many ways, it is better to see existential psychology as a mosaic in which there are a number of different values and positions that most existential therapist ascribe to; however, there are not any essential ideas or values that serve as a litmus test to identify a true existential therapist.
Although there may not be a singular existential approach, it is important to consider the relationship of existential psychology to other approaches. Existential and humanistic psychology has a reputation of being antagonistic to other approaches to therapy. It is often pointed out that humanistic and existential psychology began as a reaction against behavioral and psychoanalytic approaches and has always had a bit of a rebellious flair.
Certainly, there is some truth in this characteristic of existential psychology. However, as Grogan (2013) points out, this was not the intent of many of the early founders of the third force movement. Maslow and Rogers did not see humanistic psychology as opposed to mainstream approaches (i.e., behavioral and psychoanalytic, at that time), but rather as building from them while addressing some of their limitations. Similarly, May (as cited in Grogan, 2013) said, “…if humanistic psychology is only a protest, we can be sure that its demise will be assured” (p. 291).
While humanistic and existential psychology always intended to provide a critique of the mainstream, we must keep in mind what the best critiques are all about. It seems that in contemporary times, many associate critical thinking or offering a critique as simply finding the weaknesses, being critical, and maybe even attacking the position being considered. However, this is often the exact opposite—the lack of critical thinking! To critique or provide critical thinking means to think deeply and consider the strengths, weaknesses, limitations, and applications—not merely to be critical. At times, the best critiques are quite positive.
If existential and humanistic psychology are nothing but critical of mainstream psychology and other approaches then our credibility ought to be called into question. When we rebel, it is vital that we have a cause and that we offer an alternative. We must, particularly given our reputation, make sure that our critiques are well grounded and balanced, lest we not be taken seriously by anyone but ourselves.
Of all the tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.… To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level with those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals. (as cited in Szasz, 1997).
It is dangerous to proclaim a cure without ever discussing with the client what the cure looks like or if they want it.
We must stand for something, but in doing so, it is important that we do not stand against everything else. In moving toward an integrative perspective, existential therapists are able to maintain a solid grounding in existential psychology while considering, dialoging, and integrating other approaches. It is important that this is done with thoughtful consideration and critique. If one tries to integrate what does not fit with one’s foundation, then the therapist is likely to confuse the client while working against oneself.
Schneider’s (2008) existential-integrative approach is not only a solid model for existential therapy, but it is also an important model of integration at its best. Some approaches to integrative therapy really are nothing more than eclectic approaches in a dressed-up language. Other times, the integrations have so many internal contradictions that they are no longer intelligible as a consistent approach to therapy.
Integration, when done right, combines the strength of having a consistent foundation for clinical practice with the adaptability that comes from drawing upon the strengths of different therapeutic approaches. Yet, it avoids the problems inherent with eclectic approaches or sloppy integrations.
Existential therapy is a natural integrative approach. From the early origins of existential thought, it has always been opposed to rigidity and fundamentalisms. Furthermore, integrative approaches avoid the errors of antagonism and being overly rebellious on one hand, while avoiding the groundlessness of eclectic approaches. Additionally, the focus on integration provides a corrective to some of the problems of extremes that has been associated with existential psychology in the past, regardless of whether these problems were based upon reality or not.
Grogan, J. (2013). Encountering America: Humanistic psychology, sixties culture, and the shaping of the modern self. New York: HarperPerennial.
Hoffman, L. (2009). Introduction to existential psychotherapy in a cross-cultural context: An East-West dialogue. In L. Hoffman, M. Yang, F. J. Kaklauskas, & A. Chan (Eds.), Existential psychology East-West (pp. 1-67). Colorado Springs, CO: University of the Rockies Press.
Schneider, K. J. (2008). Existential integrative psychotherapy: Guideposts to the core of practice. New York: Routledge.
Szasz, T. (1997). Mental illness is still a myth. Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, 23, 70-80. | 2019-04-19T05:39:44 | https://www.saybrook.edu/blog/2013/09/05/09-05-13/ |
0.999999 | I've read that the most efficient solar/photovoltaic cells can reach efficiencies of around 30%. How does that compare to what leaves of typical plants can do?
I've read that the most efficient solar/photovoltaic cells can reach efficiencies of around 30%.What sort of efficiency is really important for solar panels? In space it is weight of panels and deployment apparatus verses power output. I recall the use of some lens arrays on the panels to increase the amount of light falling on them. This would not have been practical on earth because it is cheaper to add more panels. On earth I would say total power output for the life of the panel verses cost of alternatives. It is more efficient to directly heat water then use solar panel electricity.
How does that compare to what leaves of typical plants can do?
(leaves cannot be 100% efficient, or they'd be black)I do not know what percent of light falling on a leaf is used to make food and oxygen by the plant. There are other issues to consider though. The food is a more efficient energy source for the plant than electricity is for people. So how do you really compare the two? Plants us a great deal of the no visible spectrum do solar panels as well?
Hopefully somebody with more expertize can help you, but for starters, I'm not sure if the efficiency of a solar cell and that of plants doing photosynthesis is directly comparable. I don't know if a leaf would have to be black to be efficiency, because it may be that the process is not the same, i.e. they are not simply using sunlight for it heating potential. It may be acting as a catalyst in the reaction. Also, it may be that the main constraining factor for photovoltaic cells is sunlight, but it's possible that for photosynthesis, there are other constraining factors that are more important, like need for carbon dioxide or water or whatever. So it may be that the efficiency wouldn't be measured in quite the same way.
Only light within the wavelength range of 400 to 700 nm (photosynthetically active radiation, PAR) can be utilized by plants, effectively allowing only 45 % of total solar energy to be utilized for photosynthesis. Furthermore, fixation of one CO2 molecule during photosynthesis, necessitates a quantum requirement of ten (or more), which results in a maximum utilization of only 25% of the PAR absorbed by the photosynthetic system. On the basis of these limitations, the theoretical maximum efficiency of solar energy conversion is approximately 11%. In practice, however, the magnitude of photosynthetic efficiency observed in the field, is further decreased by factors such as poor absorption of sunlight due to its reflection, respiration requirements of photosynthesis and the need for optimal solar radiation levels. The net result being an overall photosynthetic efficiency of between 3 and 6% of total solar radiation.
That's somewhat higher than numbers I remember reading ages ago. I'm sure it depends on what exactly you count, and this is certainly not my area of expertise, so I can't vouch for accuracy. But, yes, there are a number of steps in photosynthesis, just as there are a number of steps from PV to storing the energy chemically for applications such as running a car. | 2019-04-21T17:06:23 | https://forum.cosmoquest.org/archive/index.php/t-33998.html?s=be3c94e345b1f3b57a91771ec8365924 |
0.999935 | How important is it for me to have a property power of attorney in place?
A property power of attorney is used when you can no longer act on your own behalf in making decisions about your property, which also includes your investment accounts. The inability to make decisions can be due to an accident or short-term illness as well as long-term health conditions. The importance of this document is often overlooked.
If you have investments, a bank account or other accounts in your name alone and you are not mentally or physically capable of making decisions, the person you have chosen to act on your behalf will need a power-of-attorney document to access your accounts. This includes brokerage accounts, IRAs, 401(k) accounts, credit cards and bank accounts.
Without this document in place, numerous problems can occur. For example, lack of access to your IRA account may lead to missed required minimum distributions. If no one has access to your bank account and you become incapacitated, bills may go unpaid or a lack of funds may affect the ability to continue needed health care.
Many people name a spouse, a family member or a trusted friend. Choosing the right person to act for you is sometimes difficult, but making sure you have a property power of attorney in place is vital to a sound wealth management plan.
Because a power of attorney for property is a legal document, it is important to consult an attorney. | 2019-04-23T02:58:49 | https://www.forumfin.com/answers/chris-genzler-property-power-of-attorney |
0.998141 | A swarm of BATs has descended on Washington, D.C. The Badass Teachers Association (BAT), a stridently left-wing group of public school teachers, gathered in Washington, D.C. on Monday to demonstrate outside the Department of Education.
Their targets? Philanthropists, reformers, charter schools, vouchers, Common Core and virtually every major attempt to reform education in the past two decades. Above all, however, the badasses stood against Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who has become a convenient punching bag for union members to express their dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party's current direction on education issues.
The protesters presented a list of demands that more or less calls for the end of every major educational reform effort of the past two decades. They called for the federal government to cease all support for Common Core educational standards, Teach For America, charter schools, and high-stakes standardized testing.
In their place, they demanded a defense of neighborhood schools, more money and a reduction in class sizes. They also demanded that Secretary Duncan be immediately fired and replaced with a "lifetime public educator."
Speaker after speaker ascended the small wooden crate that functioned as a podium, delivering speeches that sought to rouse the several hundred people in attendance, assembled from 38 states. One speaker led attendees in cries of "We have nothing to lose but our chains," a chant taken from The Communist Manifesto.
The speeches were interspersed with a variety of musical performances, including a half-hour show by Jeremey Dudley, aka "Origin," a teacher-turned-rapper who led the crowd in back-and-forth anti-education reform raps with titles such as "Stop This Madness." Other topical musical performances followed, such as a repetitive protest song in which both performers and demonstrators pledged, "I ain't gonna teach to the test no more."
One speaker, a fifth grader from Chicago's public schools, encouraged performers with a variety of chants, including "Education is a right, not just for the rich and white," and another which might gall an English instructor, "Ain't no power like the power of the people cuz the power of the people don't stop."
At another point several attendees engaged in a mock dramatic performance in which a woman played Bill Gates as a conniving, evil supervillain.
"Common Core for Common people! Harvard for billionaires like me!" the mock-Gates cackled.
The performance ended when another performer vanquished Gates with the power of BAT, fittingly represented by a baseball bat.
BAT, founded last year, claims to have nearly 100,000 member teachers, and represents a sharp reaction against current reforming trends in education. Last month, several hundred BAT members demonstrated outside the headquarters of the Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington.
The group's radicalism has been reflected in the actions of larger teachers unions. The National Education Association (NEA), the country's largest teacher union, called for Arne Duncan to resign at its convention this summer, while the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) ordered President Obama to put Duncan on an improvement plan and fire him if he fell short. At AFT's convention, President Randi Weingarten referred positively to the "badasses" in the crowd in an acknowledgment of the group's influence.
Next Illegal Aliens from Failed Socialist Economies or War Refugees? | 2019-04-19T19:36:25 | https://freedomoutpost.com/badass-teachers-association-blasts-department-of-education-make-demands-in-washington-protest-2/ |
0.999997 | Time for US to adopt formal, explicit cyberwarfare policy?
The US' ability to engage in cyberwarfare is quickly outstripping its ability to determine when it's appropriate to do so. That's the conclusion of a report by the National Academies of Science, which evaluated the nation's cyberwarfare capacity. The report suggests that, although international law provides some rough guidelines about when it may be appropriate to loose the virtual weaponry, offensive computer weapons have properties that make them distinct from those of traditional warfare, and the US hasn't engaged in any sort of national debate or set a coherent policy that would regulate their use.
The report was prepared by two groups within the NAS: the Committee on Offensive Information Warfare and the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board. Both are populated largely from the academic world, but also include retired military officers and people in the private sector, such as employees of Google, Microsoft, and Sun. Funding for their evaluation was provided by the National Research Council (a branch of the NAS), Microsoft, and the MacArthur foundation.
The scope of the report was largely limited to offensive measures, as security and defensive measures have received widespread attention and should be default behavior, rather than require a policy for deployment. The authors also don't spend a lot of time evaluating the current state of the art in cyberwarfare, as the capabilities of the military and espionage communities are classified, and it's a quickly-moving target anyway. The authors work under the assumption that "they are at least as powerful as those demonstrated by the most sophisticated cyberattacks perpetrated by cybercriminals and are likely more powerful."
So, the US has the tools; how should it decide when to deploy them? The report's authors lay out a few principles that should help guide any policy on the matter. One is that, although our capabilities may be good, they're not likely to be that much better than the rest of the world's: "enduring unilateral dominance in cyberspace is neither realistic nor achievable by the United States." Since the US economy is heavily dependent upon information exchange, it's got a lot to lose if cyberwarfare capacity and use proliferate, so it has a vested interest in limiting its use. Given the nation's central role in international finance, there's also a very real risk of what the report terms "blowback"—the US deploys offensive cyberweapons, only to harm its national interests in the process.
Finally, cyberwarfare won't be like traditional warfare. It's relatively easy for non-state actors to engage in asymmetric, disruptive activity, and states that engage in a cyberattack will find it easy to use misdirection to hide their tracks and/or shift the blame to other nations or non-state groups. As such, the US' traditional means of deterrence, a "threat in-kind response," simply won't work. Even identifying a threat can be a challenge, as the authors note, asking, "given that any large nation experiences cyberattacks continuously, how will the United States know it is the subject of a cyberattack deliberately launched by an adversary government?"
For all of these reasons, the authors conclude, it's imperative that the US not only think carefully about engaging in an offensive use of its capabilities, but work within the international community to discourage the use of cyberwarfare generally. And that will be a real challenge, given that the relatively low cost of virtual weapons, meaning that the temptation to use them will be high.
If the US is to lead the international community by example, though, it's in a terrible shape to do so. "Neither government nor society at large," the authors write, "is organized or prepared to handle issues related to cyberattack, let alone to make broadly informed decisions." Not only does it lack any sort of policy on the use of offensive cyberweapons, it hasn't even started the sort of national discussion that would enable it to formulate this sort of policy. The authors make an explicit comparison to the status of nuclear weapons in the 1950s, when planners assumed that the next war would be nuclear, but there was no national dialog about what that would involve—an era that Omar Bradley derided as "a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants."
The report's recommendations can be broken down along national and international lines. The authors suggest that existing international treaties that govern the commencement and conduct of war would be a good place to start. These have a few assumptions that limit their applicability to cyberwarfare—there's an emphasis on territorial integrity of nations and an assumption of conflict between military forces, for example—but the ethical considerations that produced these rules are likely to extend into virtual realms. The integrated global economy also means that the US is likely to share interest with a variety of other nations that can form the basis for a cooperative effort to upgrade existing treaties.
At home, part of the emphasis should be on setting up a mechanism for the government and business community to interact. As the report notes, the US could easily come under cyberattack without any of its own computers being targeted. Business will need the ability to alert the government and work with it to identify the source, defend against it, and, if deemed appropriate, respond to these events.
Determining whether to respond through the use of offensive virtual weaponry while in the middle of a cyberattack or international incident isn't the best way to go about things, so the authors argue that basic policy guidelines on the use of this weaponry need to be put in place while there's ample time for rational consideration. "The US government should conduct a broad, unclassified national debate and discussion about cyberattack policy, ensuring that all parties—particularly Congress, the professional military, and the intelligence agencies—are involved in discussions and are familiar with the issues," the report suggests. Once in place, the policy should not remain static: "the US policy should make it clear why, when, and how a cyberattack would be authorized, and require a periodic accounting of any attacks that are conducted, to be made available to the executive branch and to Congress."
It's hard to fault the report's conclusions, but it might be a bit optimistic to call for a national debate at a time when the level of political discourse on policy issues is so poor.
As with all reports from the National Academies, this one can be read free online. | 2019-04-22T04:18:29 | https://arstechnica.com/science/2009/04/national-academies-call-for-formal-cyberwarfare-policy/ |
0.998732 | Solve the equation by multiplying each side by the least common denominator.
I know the answer is 5, but I do not know how to solve the problem.
[2/(h-2)] + [4/(h+1] = 0 but I don't get 5 for an answer. If you will put parentheses to show the correct problem perhaps we can help.
SOLVE THE SYSTEM (2D+3)(x)-(D+3)(y) = 5 (D+1)(x) - (2D+5)(y) = 7+4t STEPS 1) eliminate x by mulitplying equation 1 with -(D+1) and equation 2 with -(2D+3) After multiplying, what exactly happens to the D and t on the right side? | 2019-04-19T21:24:42 | https://www.jiskha.com/questions/95809/Solve-the-equation-by-multiplying-each-side-by-the-least-common-denominator-2-h-2 |
0.999945 | Find the latest Ellensburg WA News from the most up to date source on all headlines and breaking stories from around the world.
YAKIMA, Wash. - The Yakima County Coroner's Office has identified a teen fatally shot Sunday morning as 16-year-old David Martinez. An autopsy on Monday morning showed Martinez died of a gunshot wound to the chest, according to the coroner's office.
YAKIMA, Wash. - Yakima Police are investigating a burglary-turned-shooting at a business Monday morning. Around 8:30 a.m., police received reports of a burglary at 30 North 2nd Street at Farmers Insurance. When they arrived, officers found a 23-year-old man shot inside.
The Ellensburg High School baseball team was all smiles on a windy Saturday afternoon at Rotary Park as the team took on the Ephrata High School Tigers in some double-header action.
ELLENSBURG, Wash. (Apr. 22) – For the second time this season, Lexie Strasser has been named the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Week. Strasser earned two of the Wildcats' three wins in the circle last week against Saint Martin's. Strasser compiled a 0.60 earned run average in 11.
YAKIMA, Wash. - A 19-year-old man accused of shooting and killing a 16-year-old boy early Sunday morning is in critical condition at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Police responded just before 2 a.m. to reports of shots fired in the 1800 block of Sliger Road in Yakima.
Aaron Thompson remembers his brother and best friend Ryan Thompson as someone who enjoyed cooking, fishing, and spending time with his wife and three children at their home just outside Ellensburg, but what stands out most of all in his memory is Ryan’s warmth toward others.
YAKIMA, Wash. - A teenager is dead after an early morning shooting in Yakima. Yakima police says the 16-year-old was walking to a residence early Sunday with four juveniles when two armed men confronted them.
On Saturday the Kittitas High School softball team drubbed Dayton/Waitsburg in Game 1 with a 16-2 triumph. Thirteen of those runs came in the second inning. In Game 2, Kittitas was defeated by a play at the plate in the bottom of seventh to end the game, 11-10.
Kittcom received the following calls on April 19-21: (calls are made to the 911 line and the non-emergency business line):. n Mules and horses were reportedly in the roadway on Robinson Canyon Road.
YAKIMA, Wash. - A 26-year-old man accused of stabbing a man in the lower back outside the Sunshine Motel in Yakima is scheduled to appear Monday afternoon in Yakima County Superior Court.
Wind can be a firefighter’s worst nightmare. The wind’s magnitude can determine whether a fire can put out in hours or last weeks or even months. Luckily, Ellensburg is currently behind the curve for what is typically seen as one of its more windy months. | 2019-04-23T02:13:10 | https://www.newsbreakapp.com/local/washington-news/ellensburg-wa-news/ |
0.999593 | If a wise man should ask, What are the modern virtues? and should answer his own question by a summary of the things we admire; if he should discard as irrelevant the ideals which by tradition we profess, but which are not found outside of the tradition or the profession--ideals like meekness, humility, the renunciation of this world; if he should include only those excellences to which our hearts are daily given, and by which our conduct is motived,--in such an inventory what virtues would he name?
This question is neither original nor very new. Our times await the reckoning up of our spiritual goods which is here suggested. We have at least this wisdom, that many of us are curious to know just what our virtues are. I wish I could offer myself as the wise man who brings the answer. But I raise this question merely to ask another--When the wise man brings his list of our genuine admirations, will intelligence be one of them? We might seem to be well within the old ideal of modesty if we claimed the virtue of intelligence. But before we claim the virtue, are we convinced that it is a virtue, not a peril?
The disposition to consider intelligence a peril is an old Anglo-Saxon inheritance. Our ancestors have celebrated this disposition in verse and prose. Splendid as our literature is, it has not voiced all the aspirations of humanity, nor could it be expected to voice an aspiration that has not characteristically belonged to the English race; the praise of intelligence is not one of its characteristic glories.
Here is the startling alternative which to the English, alone among great nations, has been not startling but a matter of course. Here is the casual assumption that a choice must be made between goodness and intelligence; that stupidity is first cousin to moral conduct, and cleverness the first step into mischief; that reason and God are not on good terms with each other; that the mind and the heart are rival buckets in the well of truth, inexorably balanced--full mind, starved heart--stout heart, weak head.
Kingsley's line is a convenient text, but to establish the point that English literature voices a traditional distrust of the mind we must go to the masters. In Shakspere's plays there are some highly intelligent men, but they are either villains or tragic victims. To be as intelligent as Richard or Iago or Edmund seems to involve some break with goodness; to be as wise as Prospero seems to imply some Faust-like traffic with the forbidden world; to be as thoughtful as Hamlet seems to be too thoughtful to live. In Shakspere the prizes of life go to such men as Bassanio, or Duke Orsino, or Florizel--men of good conduct and sound character, but of no particular intelligence. There might, indeed, appear to be one general exception to this sweeping statement: Shakspere does concede intelligence as a fortunate possession to some of his heroines. But upon even a slight examination those ladies, like Portia, turn out to have been among Shakspere's Italian importations--their wit was part and parcel of the story he borrowed; or, like Viola, they are English types of humility, patience, and loyalty, such as we find in the old ballads, with a bit of Euphuism added, a foreign cleverness of speech. After all, these are only a few of Shakspere's heroines; over against them are Ophelia, Juliet, Desdemona, Hero, Cordelia, Miranda, Perdita--lovable for other qualities than intellect,--and in a sinister group, Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra, Goneril, intelligent and wicked.
In Paradise Lost Milton attributes intelligence of the highest order to the devil. That this is an Anglo-Saxon reading of the infernal character may be shown by a reference to the book of Job, where Satan is simply a troublesome body, and the great wisdom of the story is from the voice of God in the whirlwind. But Milton makes his Satan so thoughtful, so persistent and liberty-loving, so magnanimous, and God so illogical, so heartless and repressive, that many perfectly moral readers fear lest Milton, like the modern novelists, may have known good and evil, but could not tell them apart. It is disconcerting to intelligence that it should be God's angel who cautions Adam not to wander in the earth, nor inquire concerning heaven's causes and ends, and that it should be Satan meanwhile who questions and explores. By Milton's reckoning of intelligence the theologian and the scientist to-day alike take after Satan.
If there were time, we might trace this valuation of intelligence through the English novel. We should see how often the writers have distinguished between intelligence and goodness, and have enlisted our affections for a kind of inexpert virtue. In Fielding or Scott, Thackeray or Dickens, the hero of the English novel is a well-meaning blunderer who in the last chapter is temporarily rescued by the grace of God from the mess he has made of his life. Unless he also dies in the last chapter, he will probably need rescue again. The dear woman whom the hero marries is, with a few notable exceptions, rather less intelligent than himself. When David Copperfield marries Agnes, his prospects of happiness, to the eyes of intelligence, look not very exhilarating. Agnes has more sense than Dora, but it is not even for that slight distinction that we must admire her; her great qualities are of the heart--patience, humility, faithfulness. These are the qualities also of Thackeray's good heroines, like Laura or Lady Castlewood. Beatrice Esmond and Becky Sharp, both highly intelligent, are of course a bad lot.
No less significant is the kind of emotion the English novelist invites towards his secondary or lower-class heroes--toward Mr. Boffin in Our Mutual Friend, for example, or Harry Foker in Pendennis. These characters amuse us, and we feel pleasantly superior to them, but we agree with the novelist that they are wholly admirable in their station. Yet if a Frenchman--let us say Balzac--were presenting such types, he would make us feel, as in Pere Goriot or Eugenie Grandet, not only admiration for the stable, loyal nature, but also deep pity that such goodness should be so tragically bound in unintelligence or vulgarity. This comparison of racial temperaments helps us to understand ourselves. We may continue the method at our leisure. What would Socrates have thought of Mr. Pickwick, or the Vicar of Wakefield, or David Copperfield, or Arthur Pendennis? For that matter, would he have felt admiration or pity for Colonel Newcome?
I hardly need confess that this is not an adequate account of English literature. Let me hasten to say that I know the reader is resenting this somewhat cavalier handling of the noble writers he loves. He probably is wondering how I can expect to increase his love of literature by such unsympathetic remarks. But just now I am not concerned about our love of literature; I take it for granted, and use it as an instrument to prod us with. If we love Shakspere and Milton and Scott and Dickens and Thackeray, and yet do not know what qualities their books hold out for our admiration, then--let me say it as delicately as possible--our admiration is not discriminating; and if we neither have discrimination nor are disturbed by our lack of it, then perhaps that wise man could not list intelligence among our virtues. Certainly it would be but a silly account of English literature to say only that it set little store by the things of the mind. I am aware that for the sake of my argument I have exaggerated, by insisting upon only one aspect of English literature. But our history betrays a peculiar warfare between character and intellect, such as to the Greek, for example, would have been incomprehensible. The great Englishman, like the most famous Greeks, had intelligence as well as character, and was at ease with them both. But whereas the notable Greek seems typical of his race, the notable Englishman usually seems an exception to his own people, and is often best appreciated in other lands. What is more singular--in spite of the happy combination in himself of character and intelligence, he often fails to recognize the value of that combination in his neighbors. When Shakspere portrayed such amateurish statesmen as the Duke in Measure for Measure, Burleigh was guiding Elizabeth's empire, and Francis Bacon was soon to be King James's counsellor. It was the young Milton who pictured the life of reason in L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, the most spiritual fruit of philosophy in Comus; and when he wrote his epic he was probably England's most notable example of that intellectual inquiry and independence which in his great poem he discouraged. There remain several well-known figures in our literary history who have both possessed and believed in intelligence--Byron and Shelley in what seems our own day, Edmund Spenser before Shakspere's time. England has more or less neglected all three, but they must in fairness be counted to her credit. Some excuse might be offered for the neglect of Byron and Shelley by a nation that likes the proprieties; but the gentle Spenser, the noblest philosopher and most chivalrous gentleman in our literature, seems to be unread only because he demands a mind as well as a heart used to high things.
This will be sufficient qualification of any disparagement of English literature; no people and no literature can be great that are not intelligent, and England has produced not only statesmen and scientists of the first order, but also poets in whom the soul was fitly mated with a lofty intellect. But I am asking you to reconsider your reading in history and fiction, to reflect whether our race has usually thought highly of the intelligence by which it has been great; I suggest these non-intellectual aspects of our literature as commentary upon my question--and all this with the hope of pressing upon you the question as to what you think of intelligence.
Those of us who frankly prefer character to intelligence are therefore not without precedent. If we look beneath the history of the English people, beneath the ideas expressed in our literature, we find in the temper of our remotest ancestors a certain bias which still prescribes our ethics and still prejudices us against the mind. The beginnings of our conscience can be geographically located. It began in the German forests, and it gave its allegiance not to the intellect but to the will. Whether or not the severity of life in a hard climate raised the value of that persistence by which alone life could be preserved, the Germans as Tacitus knew them, and the Saxons as they landed in England, held as their chief virtue that will-power which makes character. For craft or strategy they had no use; they were already a bulldog race; they liked fighting, and they liked best to settle the matter hand to hand. The admiration for brute force which naturally accompanied this ideal of self-reliance, drew with it as naturally a certain moral sanction. A man was as good as his word, and he was ready to back up his word with a blow. No German, Tacitus says, would enter into a treaty of public or private business without his sword in his hand. When this emphasis upon the will became a social emphasis, it gave the direction to ethical feeling. Honor lay in a man's integrity, in his willingness and ability to keep his word; therefore the man became more important than his word or deed. Words and deeds were then easily interpreted, not in terms of absolute good and evil, but in terms of the man behind them. The deeds of a bad man were bad; the deeds of a good man were good. Fielding wrote Tom Jones to show that a good man sometimes does a bad action, consciously or unconsciously, and a bad man sometimes does good, intentionally or unintentionally. From the fact that Tom Jones is still popularly supposed to be as wicked as it is coarse, we may judge that Fielding did not convert all his readers. Some progress certainly has been made; we do not insist that the more saintly of two surgeons shall operate on us for appendicitis. But as a race we seem as far as possible from realising that an action can intelligently be called good only if it contributes to a good end; that it is the moral obligation of an intelligent creature to find out as far as possible whether a given action leads to a good or a bad end; and that any system of ethics that excuses him from that obligation is vicious. If I give you poison, meaning to give you wholesome food, I have--to say the least--not done a good act; and unless I intend to throw overboard all pretence to intelligence, I must feel some responsibility for that trifling neglect to find out whether what I gave you was food or poison.
Obvious as the matter is in this academic illustration, it ought to have been still more obvious in Matthew Arnold's famous plea for culture. The purpose of culture, he said, is "to make reason and the will of God prevail." This formula he quoted from an Englishman. Differently stated, the purpose of culture, he said, is "to make an intelligent being yet more intelligent." This formula he borrowed from a Frenchman. The basis culture must have in character, the English resolution to make reason and the will of God prevail, Arnold took for granted; no man ever set a higher price on character--so far as character by itself will go. But he spent his life trying to sow a little suspicion that before we can make the will of God prevail we must find out what is the will of God.
I doubt if Arnold taught us much. He merely embarrassed us temporarily. Our race has often been so embarrassed when it has turned a sudden corner and come upon intelligence. Charles Kingsley himself, who would rather be good than clever,--and had his wish,--was temporarily embarrassed when in the consciousness of his own upright character he publicly called Newman a liar. Newman happened to be intelligent as well as good, and Kingsley's discomfiture is well known. But we discovered long ago how to evade the sudden embarrassments of intelligence. "Toll for the brave," sings the poet for those who went down in the Royal George. They were brave. But he might have sung, "Toll for the stupid." In order to clean the hull, brave Kempenfelt and his eight hundred heroes took the serious risk of laying the vessel well over on its side, while most of the crew were below. Having made the error, they all died bravely; and our memory passes easily over the lack of a virtue we never did think much of, and dwells on the English virtues of courage and discipline. So we forget the shocking blunder of the charge of the Light Brigade, and proudly sing the heroism of the victims. Lest we flatter ourselves that this trick of defence has departed with our fathers--this reading of stupidity in terms of the tragic courage that endures its results--let us reflect that recently, after full warning, we drove a ship at top speed through a field of icebergs. When we were thrilled to read how superbly those hundreds died, in the great English way, a man pointed out that they did indeed die in the English way, and that our pride was therefore ill-timed; that all that bravery was wasted; that the tragedy was in the shipwreck of intelligence. That discouraging person was an Irishman.
I have spoken of our social inheritance as though it were entirely English. Once more let me qualify my terms. Even those ancestors of ours who never left Great Britain were heirs of many civilizations--Roman, French, Italian, Greek. With each world-tide some love of pure intelligence was washed up on English shores, and enriched the soil, and here and there the old stock marvelled at its own progeny. But to America, much as we may sentimentally deplore it, England seems destined to be less and less the source of culture, of religion and learning. Our land assimilates all races; with every ship in the harbor our old English ways of thought must crowd a little closer to make room for a new tradition. If some of us do not greatly err, these newcomers are chiefly driving to the wall our inherited criticism of the intellect. As surely as the severe northern climate taught our forefathers the value of the will, the social conditions from which these new citizens have escaped have taught them the power of the mind. They differ from each other, but against the Anglo-Saxon they are confederated in a Greek love of knowledge, in a Greek assurance that sin and misery are the fruit of ignorance, and that to know is to achieve virtue. They join forces at once with that earlier arrival from Greece, the scientific spirit, which like all the immigrants has done our hard work and put up with our contempt. Between this rising host that follow intelligence, and the old camp that put their trust in a stout heart, a firm will, and a strong hand, the fight is on. Our college men will be in the thick of it. If they do not take sides, they will at least be battered in the scuffle. At this moment they are readily divided into those who wish to be men--whatever that means--and those who wish to be intelligent men, and those who, unconscious of blasphemy or humor, prefer not to be intelligent, but to do the will of God.
When we consider the nature of the problems to be solved in our day, it seems--to many of us, at least--that these un-English arrivals are correct, that intelligence is the virtue we particularly need. Courage and steadfastness we cannot do without, so long as two men dwell on the earth; but it is time to discriminate in our praise of these virtues. If you want to get out of prison, what you need is the key to the lock. If you cannot get that, have courage and steadfastness. Perhaps the modern world has got into a kind of prison, and what is needed is the key to the lock. If none of the old virtues exactly fits, why should it seem ignoble to admit it? England for centuries has got on better by sheer character than some other nations by sheer intelligence, but there is after all a relation between the kind of problem and the means we should select to solve it. Not all problems are solved by willpower. When England overthrew Bonaparte, it was not his intelligence she overthrew; the contest involved other things besides intelligence, and she wore him out in the matter of physical endurance. The enemy that comes to her as a visible host or armada she can still close with and throttle; but when the foe arrives as an arrow that flieth by night, what avail the old sinews, the old stoutness of heart! We Americans face the same problems, and are too much inclined to oppose to them similar obsolete armor. We make a moral issue of an economic or social question, because it seems ignoble to admit it is simply a question for intelligence. Like the medicine-man, we use oratory and invoke our hereditary divinities, when the patient needs only a little quiet, or permission to get out of bed. We applaud those leaders who warm to their work--who, when they cannot open a door, threaten to kick it in. In the philosopher's words, we curse the obstacles of life as though they were devils. But they are not devils. They are obstacles.
Perhaps my question as to what you think of intelligence has been pushed far enough. But I cannot leave the subject without a confession of faith.
None of the reasons here suggested will quite explain the true worship of intelligence, whether we worship it as the scientific spirit, or as scholarship, or as any other reliance upon the mind. We really seek intelligence not for the answers it may suggest to the problems of life, but because we believe it is life,--not for aid in making the will of God prevail, but because we believe it is the will of God. We love it, as we love virtue, for its own sake, and we believe it is only virtue's other and more precise name. We believe that the virtues wait upon intelligence--literally wait, in the history of the race. Whatever is elemental in man--love, hunger, fear--has obeyed from the beginning the discipline of intelligence. We are told that to kill one's aging parents was once a demonstration of solicitude; about the same time, men hungered for raw meat and feared the sun's eclipse. Filial love, hunger, and fear are still motives to conduct, but intelligence has directed them to other ends. If we no longer hang the thief or flog the school-boy, it is not that we think less harshly of theft or laziness, but that intelligence has found a better persuasion to honesty and enterprise.
We believe that even in religion, in the most intimate room of the spirit, intelligence long ago proved itself the master-virtue. Its inward office from the beginning was to decrease fear and increase opportunity; its outward effect was to rob the altar of its sacrifice and the priest of his mysteries. Little wonder that from the beginning the disinterestedness of the accredited custodians of all temples has been tested by the kind of welcome they gave to intelligence. How many hecatombs were offered on more shores than that of Aulis, by seamen waiting for a favorable wind, before intelligence found out a boat that could tack! The altar was deserted, the religion revised--fear of the uncontrollable changing into delight in the knowledge that is power. We contemplate with satisfaction the law by which in our long history one religion has driven out another, as one hypothesis supplants another in astronomy or mathematics. The faith that needs the fewest altars, the hypothesis that leaves least unexplained, survives; and the intelligence that changes most fears into opportunity is most divine.
We believe this beneficent operation of intelligence was swerving not one degree from its ancient course when under the name of the scientific spirit it once more laid its influence upon religion. If the shock here seemed too violent, if the purpose of intelligence here seemed to be not revision but contradiction, it was only because religion was invited to digest an unusually large amount of intelligence all at once. Moreover, it is not certain that devout people were more shocked by Darwinism than the pious mariners were by the first boat that could tack. Perhaps the sacrifices were not abandoned all at once.
But the lover of intelligence must be patient with those who cannot readily share his passion. Some pangs the mind will inflict upon the heart. It is a mistake to think that men are united by elemental affections. Our affections divide us. We strike roots in immediate time and space, and fall in love with our locality, the customs and the language in which we were brought up. Intelligence unites us with mankind, by leading us in sympathy to other times, other places, other customs; but first the prejudiced roots of affection must be pulled up. These are the old pangs of intelligence, which still comes to set a man at variance against his father, saying, "He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me."
Yet, if intelligence begins in a pang, it proceeds to a vision. Through measureless time its office has been to make of life an opportunity, to make goodness articulate, to make virtue a fact. In history at least, if not yet in the individual, Plato's faith has come true, that sin is but ignorance, and knowledge and virtue are one. But all that intelligence has accomplished dwindles in comparison with the vision it suggests and warrants. Beholding this long liberation of the human spirit, we foresee, in every new light of the mind, one unifying mind, wherein the human race shall know its destiny and proceed to it with satisfaction, as an idea moves to its proper conclusion; we conceive of intelligence at last as the infinite order, wherein man, when he enters it, shall find himself.
Meanwhile he continues to find his virtues by successive insights into his needs. Let us cultivate insight.
Teach us now the way of understanding." | 2019-04-22T16:36:34 | http://amblesideonline.org/ErskineMoralObligation.shtml |
0.999999 | POPE JOHN PAUL II, frail with Parkinson's at age 83, is rarely able to celebrate mass. In recent weeks, such annual holiday ceremonies as the ordination of bishops and the baptism of children in the Sistine Chapel were dropped from his schedule. But why should his suffering deter a Hollywood producer from roping him into a publicity campaign to sell a movie? In what is surely the most bizarre commercial endorsement since Eleanor Roosevelt did an ad for Good Luck Margarine in 1959, the ailing pontiff has been recruited, however unwittingly, to help hawk ''The Passion of the Christ,'' as Mel Gibson's film about Jesus's final 12 hours is now titled. While Eleanor Roosevelt endorsed a margarine for charity, John Paul's free plug is being exploited by the Gibson camp to aid the movie star's effort to recoup the $25 million he personally sank into a biblical drama filmed in those crowd-pleasing tongues of Latin and Aramaic.
''Mel Gibson's 'The Passion' gets a thumbs-up from the Pope,'' was the incongruously jolly image conjured up by a headline over Peggy Noonan's column for the Wall Street Journal Web site as she relayed the ''happy news this Christmas season'' on Dec. 17. Daily Variety, a day earlier, described John Paul as ''a playwright and movie buff,'' lest anyone doubt that his credentials in movie reviewing were on a par with Roger Ebert's. Mr. Gibson's longtime producer, Steve McEveety, told Ms. Noonan that ''The Passion'' had been screened ''at the pope's pad,'' after which John Paul declared of its account of the crucifixion, ''It is as it was.'' That verdict was soon repeated by virtually every news outlet in the world, including The New York Times. In Ms. Noonan's view, the pope's blessing was likely to settle the controversy over a movie that Jewish and Christian critics alike have faulted for its potential to reignite the charge of deicide against the Jews. It was also perfectly timed to boost the bookings of a movie scheduled to open nationally on Feb. 25, Ash Wednesday.
And so, John Paul's plug notwithstanding, the jury remains out on ''The Passion.'' What can be said without qualification is that the marketing of this film remains a masterpiece of ugliness typical of our cultural moment, when hucksters wield holier-than-thou piety as a club for their own profit. For months now, Mr. Gibson and his supporters have tried to slur the religiosity of anyone who might dissent from his rollout of ''The Passion.'' (And have succeeded, if my mail is any indication.) In The New Yorker last fall, the star labeled both The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times ''anti-Christian'' newspapers for running articles questioning his film and, in this vein, accused ''modern secular Judaism'' of wanting ''to blame the Holocaust on the Catholic Church,'' a non sequitur of unambiguous malice.
A more recent private screening of ''The Passion'' was attended by another conservative ideologue, the columnist Robert Novak, who was born to Jewish parents and converted to Catholicism. The movie, he wrote in November, is ''free of the anti-Semitism that its detractors claim.'' Since then, he has joined other journalists in applying spiritual McCarthyism to the presidential race, noting darkly that reporters who followed Howard Dean on the campaign trail ''recently observed that they never had seen so secular a presidential candidate, one who has never mentioned God and certainly not Christ.'' It's a measure of how fierce the demagoguery over religion has become that Dr. Dean now tries to fend off such attacks by suddenly (and unconvincingly) talking of how he prays every day, just as the president purports to do.
I sought clarification from the Vatican spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls. His secretary, Rosangela Mancusi, responded by e-mail that ''this office does not usually comment on the private activities of the Holy Father'' and would neither confirm nor deny the pope's feelings about ''The Passion.'' But she suggested that I contact ''the two persons who brought the film to the Holy Father and gathered his comments'' -- Steve McEveety, Mr. Gibson's producer, and Jan Michelini, the movie's assistant director.
A video of ''The Passion'' was handed over to that secretary -- Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, whom Vatican watchers now describe as second in power only to the pope -- on Friday, Dec. 5. ''McEveety calls me like crazy, 20 times that weekend, saying, 'I want to know what the pope thinks,' '' Mr. Michelini continues. On Monday, the archbishop convened a meeting with Mr. McEveety and Mr. Michelini in the pope's apartment. There, Mr. Michelini says, the archbishop quoted the pope not only as saying ''it is as it was'' but also as calling the movie ''incredibile.'' Mr. Michelini was repeating the archbishop's Italian and said that ''incredibile'' translates as ''amazing,'' though Cassell's dictionary defines the word as ''incredible, inconceivable, unbelievable.'' But why quarrel over semantics? Followed by an exclamation point, it will look fabulous in an ad, perhaps next to a quote from Michael Medved, the conservative pundit and film critic who has been vying with Ms. Noonan to be the movie's No. 1 publicist.
We shall see. In the meantime, you've got to give Mel Gibson's minions credit for getting the pope, or at least the aide who these days most frequently speaks in his name, to endorse their film in the weeks before it opens in 2,000-plus theaters. In keeping with every other p.r. strategy for ''The Passion'' -- Mr. Gibson has said he felt that the Holy Ghost was the movie's actual director -- Mr. Michelini says that the successful campaign for the Vatican thumbs up is an example of divine providence. Jews in show business might have another word for it -- chutzpah. | 2019-04-22T14:14:37 | https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/18/movies/the-pope-s-thumbs-up-for-gibson-s-passion.html |
0.99884 | Given a year Y (0 ≤ Y ≤ 3000), month M (1 ≤ M ≤ 12), and day D (depends on what month it is, but will be correct input), output how many days it has been since the beginning of the year.
Be sure to take care of leap years! The year 0 is a leap year..
Line 1: One integer T (1 ≤ T ≤ 100) denoting the number of test cases.
Lines 2..T+1: Three integers Y, M, D.
Lines 1..T: One integer denoting how many days have passed since the beginning of the year.
Obviously you did not, or your code would have gotten AC.
Try coming up with some test cases yourself and solving them by hand. Being able to figure out why your code is wrong is an extremely useful skill.
Typically, you should try a good deal of debugging and making cases before posting on the comments for help; you appear to have spent all of 3 minutes on this step.
However, I will tell you that it probably has something to do with your variable "i"
43618418 on Nov 08, 2015 - 1:46:38 am UTC Help,code not working!
My code works when I put in actual numbers, but when i submit it the code creates an error.
jargon on Nov 08, 2015 - 5:34:40 pm UTC Re: Help,code not working!
Please do not post your code in comments. Admins and people who have solved the problem can see your code anyway, and they may help [b]if[/b] they choose to.
Your error is: ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10.
May I suggest asking your PEG leaders for help in the future?
Please do not post your code in comments. Admins and people who have solved the problem can see your code anyway, and they may help if they choose to. | 2019-04-23T22:26:00 | https://wcipeg.com/problem/p307ex10 |
0.99991 | Rebecca Ferguson claims she has been racially abused throughout her career, as well as being ''oppressed'' by people she thought were on her side.
Rebecca Ferguson claims she has been racially abused throughout her career.
The 31-year-old singer shot to fame when she finished as a runner-up on the 2010 series of 'The X Factor', but has said in a lengthy statement on Twitter that her life has not been as glamorous as it might seem, as she has allegedly been the subject of racial hate comments and ''oppression''.
In part of a lengthy message entitled 'Statement of truth', Rebecca said: ''The oppression had reached it's absolute worst when I was called and told I had to do something that compromised my integrity I was requested to do a gig and told.
''on a separate occasion it was said by the same person at an event in London.
The 'Nothing's Real But Love' singer - who has Lillie, 15, and Karl Jr., 13 - also claims in her note that her ''oppression'' began when she was ''forced'' to sign a contract she didn't want to after competing on 'The X Factor'.
Rebecca says she was given an accountant and a solicitor to handle her finances when she entered stardom, but alleges they were not ''acting to my best interests at all'' and had stolen money from her.
The star also claims she was ''targeted'' by a man and a woman who claimed they could help her fight back against her oppressors, but were working behind her back to liquidate her companies and steal more money from her.
Rebecca insists she is ''unable to stay silent'' and says her decision to speak out comes as she wants the music industry to ''wake up'' and make changes.
She wrote: ''I have written this statement today unable to stay silent anymore however still fearful and also at a great risk to my future career in music but choosing to exercise my human right of freedom of speech and human expression, this is something I cannot continue to run away from I refuse to operate in fear.
''I'm still living this, and I know there are many others too!
''I have not spoken completely on all of the abuses I have suffered yet.
''I'm doing this statement to support all victims of systematic abuse in every field of work and who are currently living in fear and that have had their stories silenced with an NDA.
''But the music industry needs to wake up there is unchecked abuses of power none of the above will come as a surprise to most in the industry we cannot allow people to misuse their position.
''Artists need to come together as one and demand their be a governing body that protects us from fraud and criminality.
''as humans we do not evolve if we stay silent I have been brave today although I have not named my oppressors I have made the first move in fighting back against them.
''And maybe they will come for me even more now. | 2019-04-18T18:36:20 | http://www.contactmusic.net/rebecca-ferguson/news/rebecca-ferguson-i-ve-been-racially-abused_6089652 |
0.998603 | I've re-read this slim book as it's useful for a lecture I'm preparing, and I've found even more to admire second time round. Since it's probably too difficult and academic a book for most students, here's a summary in book review form.
The key question addressed by the authors (two respected professors of corporate communication from a US university) is this: does society need public relations?
To answer this, they first review the main critics of public relations. There are the negative media portrayals, the critical academic and popular texts from PR Watch authors Stauber and Rampton such as Toxic Sludge is Good for You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry. (Their UK counterparts Miller and Dinan of Spinwatch, authors of A Century of Spin published last year are not mentioned in this book, but you can find my review here).
The main criticism levelled by Stauber and Rampton (and Miller and Dinan) is that PR is too powerful. Its widespread use by large corporations serves to stifle discourse and restricts democracy. Their targets are multinational businesses and the international public relations consultancies that serve their interests.
The authors note how the professional bodies and public relations academics do distinguish between public relations and publicity (the PRSA states that 'public relations helps an organization and its publics adapt mutually to each other'). Yet they cite Heath in questioning whether the academic definitions based on the concept of 'mutually beneficial relationships' are a statement of an ideal rather than reality.
For the central issue raised by this book is power. Since an organisation funds its public relations efforts, there is an implied persuasive purpose to these efforts. Would the organisation confer a stakeholder group with no power with as much significance as one with significant power to affect the achievement of organisational goals?
Coombs and Holladay propose the following definition of public relations, based on stakeholder theory: 'the management of mutually influential relationships within a web of stakeholder and organizational relationships'.
In reviewing professional ethics, they note the tension and contradictions in 'balancing the needs of society and the needs of clients'. They quote Shannon Bowen's chapter on the Ethics of Public Relations in Heath's Handbook of Public Relations: 'The power to influence society means that public relations holds enormous responsibility to be ethical'.
Two-way symmetrical communication (ie a genuine dialogue) is preferable, but 'the important point is that organizations and stakeholders may be partners in two-way communication but rarely will they be equal in terms of power'.
This may seem an unsurprising conclusion to a European reader, but it's worth noting that this book comes from two US academics, and was written before the credit crunch and recession became apparent. I suspect it will find greater favour today as organisations come to realise the limitations of promotional culture and pay more heed to the need for social legitimacy.
An excellent review of a very useful book, Richard, but I have to disagree strongly with one part. I think you are doing Coombs and Holladay a great disservice by suggesting this is a difficult book. Yes, some of the arguments are sophisticated but it is also very readbale and makes a host of valuable points in a simple and direct manner.
For me difficult books are ones where the author seems to revel in using long and obscure words, taking pleasure in making their readers sweat. Tim and Sherry certainly don’t do that.
I will accept that it repays re-reading – that’s a compliment, but don’t let people be put off by thinking that is a hard or obscure text.
Thank you for the great overview – I may have to check out that book. On a side note, I’d be curious to get your take on PR agencies that charge per-article-placed (places like Publicity Guaranteed). Thanks!
@ Dan: To be blunt, payment-by-results lends itself to unethical practice, so I’m opposed to it in principle (though I can understand why it might hold some appeal in a recession). Here’s why: some of the most valuable PR advice we will ever give will help to keep companies out of the media. How will you be rewarded for this advice on a pay-for-placement basis? As Coombs and Holladay argue, there should be more to PR than media publicity, but agreeing to payment by results you’re accepting that’s all you do.
The theme ‘but rarely will they be equal in terms of power’ strikes a chord with what Bruno Amaral is doing.
In automated discourse analysis of blog posts(and thereby less subjective than traditional discourse analysis) the findings run counter to Scott (and Moloney) in that the dominant coalition in blogs are open to interaction from the commons which levels out the power relationship.
The early findings would indicate that these interactive relationships are offering greater power to publics and cause authors to re-think.
Another straw in the wind is the ability to petition the Prime Minister on the No 10 web site where there is a capability for influence that is evident not just to the PM but the people watching the votes. The petition critical of bankers is a case in point. Bankers had a lot to learn about their reputation from this activity. Other examples abound.
I am not sure where this is leading but certainly it is a shift in the exercise of power with related implications for the practice of PR and what it is good for.
PRs are good for business enhancements as well. | 2019-04-25T18:50:46 | https://prstudies.com/2009/02/11/pr-what-is-it-good-for/ |
0.998548 | Who should do revisions on existing information systems (IS)?
Our IT organization has an IS development group and an IS maintenance group.
The development group develops new IS. Once the new IS is stable, it is turned over to the maintenance group. Currently, if there are additional modules or revisions to be done on the IS, it is done by the maintenance group. However, the maintenance group is arguing that it should still be the development group who should do these revisions regardless of the scope and complexity of the enhancements.
RE: "Once the new IS is stable, it is turned over to the maintenance group"
What do you mean EXACTLY by "turned over"?
Clearly the qualifier in the above sentence is "once it is stable" so, where is this stability worked out? In the Development area (running locally) or in the Real World, mounted on the server?
Intrinsically ~ WHO INSTALLS IT?
Whoever installs it should also be installing any and all modifications. Period.
RE: What do you mean EXACTLY by "turned over" and "once it is stable" ?
Being "turned over to the maintenance group", means that the proejct team that developed the system will be disbanded, and a new set of people from the maintenance group will be given access to the source codes and documentation and will now handle the day-to-day operations of the information system (e.g., report generation, additional modules, fixing bugs).
The stability is worked out during production run, usually after one or two business cycles.
Usually, the members of the development team install the information system on both the client PCs (for Windows-based systems) and production server.
I read somewhere that whoever wrote the code should also be the one to maintain it. Is this what you mean when you say: "Whoever installs it should also be installing any and all modifications?" | 2019-04-20T22:57:26 | https://www.techrepublic.com/forums/discussions/who-should-do-revisions-on-existing-information-systems-is/ |
0.998512 | Weekly: Tue. 10:30-11:30 a.m. Excluded dates: Tue. 12/24; Tue. 12/31. | 2019-04-21T18:06:52 | https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/long-island-venues/core-yoga-with-sarah-1.12779084 |
0.997733 | Giant Cappuccino Chocolate Chip Cookies are like the coffee drink in cookie form. If you have white chocolate, chunks of white chocolate work nicely along with the semisweet. For this recipe, I recommend pulling out the stand mixer. You can make these with a regular handheld mixer, but this is a stiff dough and a stand mixer with paddle comes in handy.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. and have ready two large baking sheets lined with parchment paper or foil.
Whisk together the flour, cocoa, cinnamon, coffee, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
In the bowl of a stand mixer using the paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugars until creamy. Beat in vanilla, then add eggs, one at a time using lowest speed of the mixer. When eggs are blended, increase mixer speed and beat for 30 seconds, scraping sides of bowl.
Using the lowest speed of the mixer, add the flour mixture and stir until fully blended. Stir in the chips or chunks.
Scoop dough by 1/4 cupfuls onto parchment lined baking sheets, spacing about 3 inches apart. You can bake right away, or chill the shaped dough mounds until ready to use. | 2019-04-23T09:58:43 | https://www.cookiemadness.net/easyrecipe-print/244-0/ |
0.999993 | What happens when people are exposed to very stressful events? A study has investigated this question using a sample of police officers. The study found a correlation between exposure to stressful job events and cortisol change over time. This is a journalist's take on the study.
For most people, cortisol, the vital hormone that controls stress, increases when they wake up. It's the body's way of preparing us for the day....[Now, a] study of more than 300 members of the Buffalo Police Department suggests that police events or conditions considered highly stressful by the officers may be associated with disturbances of the normal awakening cortisol pattern. That can leave the officers vulnerable to disease, particularly cardiovascular disease, which already affects a large number of officers.
For this study, participating officers assessed a variety of on-the-job stressors using a questionnaire that asks officers to rate 60 police-related events with a "stress rating." Events perceived as very stressful are assigned a higher rating.
Exposure to battered or dead children ranked as the most stressful event, followed by: killing someone in the line of duty; having a fellow officer killed on duty; a situation requiring the use of force; and being physically attacked.
Identifying the five most intense stressors police can face was significant, Violanti said. "When we talk about interventions to help prevent disease, it's tricky because these stressors are things that can't be prevented," he said. ... The survey showed that the officers experienced one of the five major stressors, on average, 2.4 times during the month before the survey was completed.
Cortisol was measured using saliva samples taken upon waking up, and 15, 30 and 45 minutes thereafter.
Officers who weren't as stressed showed a steep and steady, or regular, increase in cortisol from baseline. However, officers with a moderate and high major stress index had a blunted response over time.
That's because stress affects a system in the body known as the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis, or HPA Axis. When you're stressed, the HPA Axis elicits cortisol, a hormone that gets the body going and activates against the stressor, Violanti explained. Under normal circumstances, the body's cortisol pattern looks like a normal bell curve: It rises when we wake up, peaks around midday and comes back down at bed time.
"If you experience chronic stress or high stress situations, the cortisol can no longer adjust normally like this. So what happens with people under a lot of stress, the cortisol flattens out. For some people it goes down and others it goes up and stays up. That's called the dysregulation of the HPA axis," said Violanti, who served with the New York State Police for 23 years before shifting into academia.
What makes this a correlational study?
Evaluate the construct validity of a) the operationalization of stress and b) the operationalization of cortisol patterns. In your opinion, how well did they measure these two variables?
Consider the external validity of this study. What are the characteristics of the Can we assume that the results will generalize to other cops? Do we know if the results generalize to other professions or people who have experienced stress? Why or why not?
Can the study support the causal claim that "exposure to stress causes cortisol dysregulation in cops?" Consider temporal precedence (the directionality problem) as well as internal validity (the third variable problem).
Question 1. You might wish to see how the authors graphed their results in the scientific paper, here. Look at Figure 1.
While the current study focused on Buffalo officers, the findings have implications for cops around the country, said paper co-author Michael Andrew, PhD, chief of the Biostatistics and Epidemiology Branch of the CDC/NIOSH Health Effects Laboratory Division in Morgantown, West Virginia.
"These findings show that exposure to major events inherent to police work may lead to a temporary reduction in the biological ability to respond to further stressful events. Since the major stressor events in this study were originally developed to reflect events that can apply to any police department, these results should generalize, more or less, to any police department in the U.S.," Andrew said, adding, "This points to the need for continued focus on supporting police officer health."
For Question 5, you already know that this study establishes covariance. However, temporal precedence is not very clear. It's possible that cops with poor cortisol regulation are more likely to be involved in future stressful events (for some reason). Internal validity is more of a problem, because, at least based on what's presented here, we don't know if they controlled for third variables such as what type of neighborhood the cops usually patrolled, or for personality characteristics such as impulsiveness, Type A personality, or other traits. For example, an impulsive personality might be associated with more stressors on the job, and might also be associated with cortisol patterns. | 2019-04-20T11:04:13 | https://www.everydayresearchmethods.com/chapter-4/ |
0.999978 | Wedding, portraits and minimalist landscapes. Which category do you prefer?
I see the world photographically, so I'm looking for photographs even in the rare moments when I don't have a camera. I'm just as happy shooting by myself or while traveling, though weddings are where I spend 99% of my time professionally. One of the things about weddings that I especially like is that they are social and you are immersed in hundreds of people all there to celebrate the joining of two people and two families. There is so much going on that all one has to do is pay attention: there is *always* something happening. The way I shoot is that I line up a frame and I patiently wait for the composition to line up and the right combination of facial expressions. I love shooting landscapes because it's very solitary and meditative. There is no timeline and no hurry, so I can look at something from multiple perspectives.
Since becoming a member of X100c, I love working on projects and creating new work every week. I have a long term project I just resumed, which is to document Minnesota bicycle culture, something I began as an all-film project a few years ago but put on hold when our baby was born. I also have weddings and portraits scheduled throughout the year, and I love photographing landscapes when I travel.
When and how did you become a full time photographer?
I was exposed to photography at age 10 when my parents gave me a camera they brought back a Voigtlander from Germany, and addicted shortly thereafter. My first photographs were awful, of course, but the process of light coming through glass and hitting plastic that was then dipped in chemicals was magical to me. At age 16 I became my high school yearbook photographer and worked for the school paper where I also got my first darkroom printing experience. I went to the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, which provided me with unlimited access to their darkroom. I practically lived in there on weekends. Shortly after that, I was working at ProColor, a professional photo lab in downtown Minneapolis where I got to see a LOT of work from our clients, most of whom were professional photographers themselves. It was during that time that I started shooting headshots and portfolios for models, as well as wide angle landscapes on Kodak B&W infrared film. That led to a portfolio of portraits, which is how I got my first wedding job. I was lucky that my first wedding went really well as it planted the thought that I could do this full time and earn a living. A few years later, my volume level was well beyond my expectations and suddenly I was on Grace Ormonde's Platinum List, getting published in wedding magazines and Women's Health, quoted in Martha Stewart Weddings and had winning images in Photo District News (PDN) "Top Knots" wedding photography contest. Then things really exploded! Since 1999, photography has been my sole source of income.
Do you use iPhones or any other type of smartphone to shoot?
Yes, at least for personal photos. I have framed iPhone images on our walls. I don't judge images based on the tool that was used to create them. I take the same photographs with all equipment: phones, film cameras, SLRs, mirrorless, etc. All that matters to me is creating compelling images that I want to look at over and over again. My goal with images for my clients is the same. I use VSCO Cam, a great app for the iPhone, which does an amazing job of replicating the look of some of my favorite films that have been discontinued, like Fuji Neopan 1600. I have a grid on VSCO that I use to post my favorite mobile images at bradleyhanson.vsco.co.
Any time I hear sometime tell me how much a photograph means to them, especially when it's a wedding client.
What is your favourite photo you’ve ever taken?
Tough to choose. The one that first comes to mind is of my two oldest boys reading in bed with a flashlight when they were 3 and 5 years old and best buddies. They looked so peaceful and innocent. I think of that photo any time they have a disagreement!
On average, how long does it take you to edit your pictures?
It varies on the image. Sometimes it's very brief, other times I will agonize over details for HOURS. I am an experienced film photographer, so my goal has always been to get the image "right" in camera, but even then it required the right development and printing to bring out what I saw while taking it. With digital, I use specific tools and custom settings to replicate the look of my favorite films because I want my work to be timeless and also for it to "match" my large archive of film images. There are a lot of software tools out there now that are designed to feed into the "retro" trend, but I think some of those tools will create images that look dated down the road. For me, the goal is to have the image create an emotional response rather than for the viewer to ask about the tools used to create it. If someone mentions liking how an image was "processed," I feel like I have failed because that's a logical response rather than an emotional one.
How important is Photoshop and/or Lightroom to your work?
I've been a Lightroom user since 2004 when it was 1.0. It's not a perfect program, but I know it, don't have to think about it and it just works for me. I sometimes use Photoshop for batch resizing images for the web, etc, but Lightroom has become so powerful and all-encompassing that I prefer it.
Why Fujifilm and what gear do you use professionally and for personal purposes?
I have used almost everything in search of something that I really connected with. My favorite film tools were the Leica M bodies, specifically the M3, M4, M6 and M7, as well as the Hasselblad XPAN panoramic camera. I love the look and process of film but when my favorite films started disappearing, I became curious about digital, especially for low light work in wedding receptions where I need ISO 6400 rather than ISO 800 color film.
I remember seeing the original X100 at Glazers Camera in Seattle in 2011. It looked like a miniaturized version of my Leica M3 and that was quite an allure. I was hesitant to buy into yet another camera system as I was already using Leica M bodies for film and Nikon DSLR bodies for digital. I was in the process of transitioning more to digital as the hybrid way of shooting was both expensive and extremely time consuming as film files are always out of order and need some massaging to look the way I want, especially if there are dust and scratches in the scans. I never really liked the look of straight digital images. Too clean, too sanitary and not enough character, the same complaints I had about slow films! I always loved the texture and grain of high speed films, something I cultivated when I worked at a now defunct professional film lab in Minneapolis in the late 80s/early 90s. I tried as much as I could with post-production, but digital images never resonated with me the way film did.
I was becoming increasingly aware of my shoulders, back and hands cramping up at the end of long weddings and wished there was something lighter. I ditched the battery grips in my cameras, but it wasn't enough. Just about the time I was going to get a Nikon D700, I read about the Fuji X-Pro1. It's superficial, but the look of that camera attracted me immediately. It looked like a black Leica film body, and best of all, it had full physical and manual control over all the key aspects of shooting: real aperture rings, real shutter speed dial, exposure compensation and the option of manual focus. Fortunately, it's beauty was much more than skin deep. I bought my first X-Pro1 in December of 2012 (12/12/12, in fact) without seeing or trying one as sort of a holiday gift to myself. Despite slow AF with it's original firmware, I once again felt a connection to my camera, plus it was 1/3 the weight of the Nikon gear. I bought two more X-Pro1 bodies and began using them for everything so I knew them inside and out. A friend of mine kindly gave me a Leica M to Fuji X adapter and that was a lot of fun to use Leica, Voigtlander and Zeiss M mount lenses in manual focus mode. One of the things I liked best was the Fuji was regularly updating the camera with free firmware updates, making the AF faster, adding features and improving the interface. It was easy to use without reading the manual, but had a lot of nice features I found later.
Suddenly I was slowing down and enjoying photography like when I was shooting all Leica film bodies. I noticed another thing, the Fuji X-Trans sensor, especially when underexposing, looks more like film than anything I've used. For the first time, I came across tools that I liked and finally digital was something creatively satisfying rather than something I merely tolerated. This cannot be understated: photographers make the images and cameras are merely tools, but having a camera that you really connect with makes a HUGE difference not only in your results but your desire to shoot in the first place. The X-Pro1 and 35mm f1.4 were light enough for me to take with me everywhere and as they say, the best camera is the one you have with you. Not only light enough for use everywhere, but results as good as anything. Great performance at ISO 6400 and quiet, making it perfect for weddings.
I switched to all Fuji in December of 2012 after that first experience. It turned out to be the best decision I made in a long time. I now have two X-Pro1 bodies and an X100s, as well as 14mm, 23mm, 35mm and 56mm lenses. I am looking forward to the 90mm f2 lens, the only thing that had been missing from the lineup. I won't go into a full review here because that will be the focus of another blog post in a couple weeks. I use the Fujifilm system for weddings, portraits, landscapes, commercial work, magazine/newspaper work, even sporting events.
If you had to pick one camera and one lens, which ones would they be?
That's easy: the X100T. I currently have the X100s and it is my constant companion, but I'd love the X100T because of the electronic shutter and improved EVF. I use the X100s in conjunction with the TCL-X100 50mm adapter, which makes it like a 50mm f2 lens. It adds a little weight, but the results are stunning. If didn't need so many cameras for work, I'd just get the X100T and use it for everything.
Any dream camera you wish Fujifilm came up with?
I was thinking of two things: Option 1. An X100 variation that had a fixed 35mm f2 lens so I wouldn't need the TCL adapter. An f2.0 lens would help keep the camera small and light or I would say an f1.2 lens. Option 2: X-Pro2 with faster AF, 24MP file, OVF, electronic shutter of X100T, real rangefinder like a Leica, improved EVF like X100T/X-T1, faster buffer and hopefully, available in silver with silver lenses like the X100 series and the old Leicas. That said, I'm extremely happy with my X-Pro1 and X100s bodies and in no hurry to replace them. I love how they work and I know where everything is.
Do you still shoot with film as well?
Sigh. I do, but less and less. I have Minolta and Olympus SLRs and lenses and a few other odds and ends, but since I'm getting the look I want from my Fuji cameras and my favorite films are gone (Fuji Neopan 400 and 1600 and Fuji Press 1600 color), the incentive is dwindling. It's complicated: I love the process of shooting film. You don't feel that latent sense that you are in a hurry. You don't see the results immediately. You don't feel the compulsion to look at the back. Getting the images back is like magic: sometimes they are even better than you imagined. They often look exactly like you want them to as soon as you see them. The problem is we all need a digital file for everything and that means scanning and everything goes south from there. I'll explain this more below.
Which was your first digital camera?
The first digital camera I used was the original Canon 1D, which had a 1.3x crop. It was heavy as a brick and images contained weird color noise if shot over ISO 400. Dynamic range was awful. The first digital camera I bought new was the Epson RD-1, which was made by Cosina and had a Leica M mount, as well as beautiful analog gauges on top. I was really looking forward to it because the theory was I could use my Leica lenses on it and get the advantages of digital for low light. Unfortunately, the quality of the camera was poor (I had Epson replace it twice before I gave up after 3 bad ones) and the low light performance just wasn't there yet. It was very promising, but unable to deliver on that promise.
Do you print your work ? If so where and how?
What is the craziest thing you’ve done to get “the deal”?
I've put myself in some rather awkward yoga poses in order to get the right angle for the desired composition. Probably the most challenging shoot was just hanging out in -6 degrees in January photographing my brother running a 1/2 marathon in the dead of winter. It was worth it and the cameras worked perfectly, but my toes were frozen.
How has shooting weddings affected the way you work?
I don't want to sound too Zen, but now that I've been shooting weddings for 16 years and have over 600 of them under my belt, I have developed instincts for when and where things are about to happen. It's weird, but true. I will walk over somewhere based on being attracted to the lighting or composition: I'll put the camera to my eye and wait for things to line up. Usually something will materialize almost immediately. I'll move to another part of the wedding and the same thing will happen. Over and over again. I wouldn't believe it if I didn't experience it so many times.
B&W or color? Which one do you prefer?
B&W for sure. It was B&W that got me hooked on photography and also B&W printing and developing that fed the addiction. One underrated advantage of digital: I can set my camera's electronic viewfinder to show everything in high contrast B&W with a yellow filter and the highlights and shadows cranked up. This not only helps me pre-visualize the final image but also increases the abstraction of whatever is in the finder so I can focus on the composition and lighting. Even if the image ends up being color, it works. In the old days, Henri Cartier-Bresson used to use a Vidom finder that would turn the image upside down to achieve the same thing. Anyone used to using a Hasselblad with waist-level finder has experienced the value of this: seeing things in a new way is easier when you see them in a new way. It's good to shake up the brain. I do like color, and I think having a B&W eye helps make color images really pop. B&W focuses on the composition and lighting, color alters mood because we respond differently to different colors. One thing that is universal: the eye goes to whatever is in focus in the final frame, regardless of whether it's color and B&W.
Is there anything within photography that you wish you were better at?
I have experience with studio lighting, but I never got the variety I could get shooting on location. I had a studio with a full ProFoto lighting setup which was great when it was raining, but I was never inspired by it and still prefer to shoot on location, in part because of the intrinsic variety. There are a lot of studio lighting masters. I am not one of them.
In addition to my wife, family and my favorite photographers, I'd say I get more visual ideas from looking at my favorite cinematographers than I do from still photographers. I don't look down it, but I rarely look at wedding photography. I see it in magazines and it seems like everyone is trying to hit the same target, something that is perpetuated by wedding magazines asking for the same images and printing the same images for every wedding. My favorite films for inspiration are all by the same French director: Jean Jeunet, who directed my favorite film of all time, "Amelie." In addition to that, he did "Delicatessen," "City Of Lost Children," "A Very Long Engagement" and "Micmacs." All of them are brilliant. He really knows his craft. Personally, I'm also very inspired by my friend Chuck, who is a photographer, musician and recording engineer who has worked on some great albums. Every time we talk on the phone I learn something or see something in a new light. We have overlapping visual sensibilities and I like the way he sees things. He's helped me through some major challenges in my life and is a good listener. I love going to museums and looking at art, so I am lucky that Minneapolis has the Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and so many other great museums. I'm inspired by music and usually have songs in my head while I'm shooting. I also listen to music while I am editing.
Who are some of your favourite photographers and/or artists?
First and foremost would have to be Ralph Gibson. I bought a book of his in 1987 called "Tropism" that really changed my world. His subtractive, tight compositions with grainy, intensely contrasty B&W really spoke to me. I did a 7-day workshop with him in Vancouver in 2003 and really learned a lot. He is a bright guy, so it was fascinating to listen to his lifetime of stories, too. After that, I'd say I love the work from Henri Cartier-Bresson, Anton Corbijn, Elliott Erwitt, Robert Frank, Josef Koudelka, Sebastiao Salgado, Andre Kertesz, Bill Brandt, David Alan Harvey, Rene Burri, Martin Munkacsi and most of the Magnum photographers. As Ralph Gibson has noted, it doesn't take long to know all the good photographers, so I love looking at other forms of art.
How do you spend your free time when you're not behind the camera?
I'm married with three amazing boys, our youngest son isn't yet 2. That's most of my time and I couldn't be happier about it. I'm also an avid bicyclist, which is great exercise, keeps me in shape and helps clear my head on long rides. I used to do several 100 mile rides a year, but it's been a couple years and I am no longer in that kind of shape. I'm planning on doing one this September, which is what I'm training for now. My wife and I love going on walks around the city, biking as a family, reading, traveling, taking road trips and seeing movies, which are also inspiring.
I'd love to finally get a photo book published and to have about 50% of my wedding work be out of country or out of state. I'd like to spend more time traveling and shooting landscapes around the world. Regardless of what I'm doing, my goal is to keep my family and myself happy and creatively inspired. | 2019-04-22T14:47:59 | https://www.bradleyhanson.com/blog/2015/5/4/interview-with-patrice-michellon-of-x100ccom |
0.99936 | Determining what is gluten free is a daily task. Whether it is going out to eat or cooking for myself at home, I can’t avoid it. If I want to ingest something, I need to know with as much certainty as is available. When meeting new people, you’ll often encounter the question, “What do you eat then?” As they mentally run their weekly meals in their heads, visions of fast food burgers on buns, brown bag ham and cheese sandwiches, a quick box of spaghetti at least one night and pizza with a movie, it makes sense. It is a fair question but it does make me want to point out that I eat food too. The more welcomed question is “How do you figure out if a food is gluten free?” In this post, I’ll explain how I go about looking into restaurants and in tomorrow’s post, I’ll explain how I research food to make at home.
I’ll start with dining out because the process, while far less safe since you can’t go inspect every package yourself, is shorter.
If I have to go to a pre-picked restaurant, then it is what it is. I look up what I can online about it, call the restaurant to see if they have a gluten free menu and if they don’t, I accept that I’ll likely be eating a salad with no creative ingredients (even toppers like candied nuts can be not gf). When I’m there, I still point out that I’m gf to my waiter or waitress and see if they can point me in the right direction of something suitable. If that works, then they will likely explain what changes will be made to your food. When your food arrives, check to make sure the adjustments were made, as in, no visible breading or whatever needed removed, etc. Also, confirm with the person who brought the food to you (whether your waiter or not) that it was prepared gluten free for added protection. If they can’t make suggestions, salad it is. Bunny food isn’t bad for you.
If I get to choose a restaurant, then I hit the internet. Find Me Gluten Free’s website is a place to start (they also have an app), but be cautious. I’ve been mislead a time or two (I think those places listed themselves to drive gf business to them even though they aren’t gf friendly), and it obviously does not include every possible establishment.
If you already have a couple ideas in mind whose food would likely be gf, a steakhouse for example, then go directly to their website. More places are now advertising that they have a gluten free menu and will post it online. If they don’t have one listed, don’t get discouraged and stop there because not all do this…yet.
Call them or email them to ask. You’ll at least get a definite answer whether good or bad, and if they don’t have one, they will often automatically inform you if they can adjust the food to accommodate your needs or not.
Asking friends online if they’ve spotted any gf menus while they are out or being in a celiac group can also give insight into safe places. I learned oodles from my first trip to the Cheesecake Factory with the MeetUp group.
Use search engines with phrases like “gluten free Pittsburgh”, “gluten free Pittsburgh restaurants”, “Pittsburgh gluten free menu”, “gluten free dining Pittsburgh”, “Pittsburgh gluten free pizza”, etc. You get the idea (and obviously replace the city name with yours). I’ve found unthought-of and unheard of options by pairing “gluten free” and a city with words like, “dining, list, best, top, favorite, review, friendly,cafe”. This is also the best method for determining places to eat beforehand when traveling. That way you can see some menus and what might be worth going out of the way for or comparing the locations you will be in so you aren’t scrambling when you feel like you are starving. You may even trip over a city’s gluten free blogger! Blogs like Celiac in Orlando ,Gluten Free Betsy in Chicago or Glutie Foodie in Washington D.C. can do a lot of the legwork for you. Overall, you may not always be able to try something new, but try not to get discouraged. Yes, I’ve lost that battle a couple times myself, but tend to land on the fact that there are plenty of places that we can. Wishing you some tasty safe eating!
Don’t forget to browse through our list of Pittsburgh Gluten Free Restaurants. | 2019-04-21T18:34:53 | http://www.glutenfreetees.com/read/tips-for-picking-a-gluten-free-restaurant-dining-out/ |
0.997953 | What is the difference between full-grain, top-grain, and split leather?
Cowhides, in their natural state, are too thick to be used for most conventional purposes. They first must be split into thinner layers.
Full Grain Leather is outermost layer of the hide. It is leather that has not been corrected or modified outside of removing the hair. Full grain leather is often seen as the most authentic type of leather because it maintains all of the texture from the original cowhide.
When the hide is split into layers, Split Leather is taken from the inner layer of the hide. It is typically more delicate than full-grain leather, and is often used to create suede.
Top-Grain Leather is the same as full grain leather but the cowhide that is used is most often severely defective. To remedy this, top grain leather is typically sanded and then a finish coat is added to the surface. It is usually less expensive and has higher resistance to marks and blemishes than full-grain leather. | 2019-04-18T10:42:36 | http://www.themedsupplyguide.com/work-gloves/full-grain/ |
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