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0.999891 | I'm writing and DMing a campaign based around members of a nonprofit organization in a province of a decaying empire undergoing a civil war.
The player characters are new members of the NGO, who are being given an orientation by their Program Coordinator (basically their boss) when the city they're in comes under attack by the government's troops. The entire NGO's presence in the region is destroyed and the PCs and the program coordinator have to decide what to do next.
The program coordinator is the "Gandalf"-like figure in that she potentially directs the quest and accompanies the PCs on their adventure to find and return 12 children still missing after the raid. This may or may not spiral out of control into joining the insurrection to topple the evil emperor depending on the choices of the players in the campaign.
One member of my prospective group actually works at a nonprofit organization and it just occurred to me that her perspective might bring something interesting to the table that I couldn't. I was thinking of asking that member if she might be interested in taking on the role, with the sole precondition being that finding those children is the character's main motivation, and everything else around that is up to her.
Point of clarification: I've previously discussed the campaign with said player and she expressed an interest in the idea she'd be part of a team making the kinds of decisions NGOs regularly have to make when they're working in a conflict zone, but in the context of a fantasy world. So it's not an ask out of nowhere.
Is it feasible or advisable for me to delegate so much storytelling authority to a single player?
Is it feasible or advisable for me to do so given that this player is new to tabletop gaming?
If the answers to both #1 and #2 are "yes", what are some things I should consider when helping to come up with the character?
...and in doing so, you are removing their agency. You want this character to play in a certain way that you will feed them. They must fulfill a specific role within your narrative. You said, "I'd be tempted to let her come up with exposition for stuff and assign quests...". What if her exposition goes against the world you built? Or she goes "off script"? You are now in the position of back-tracking, updating your story to her ideas, or feeding her more information to keep things on track.
This also forces the spotlight on to this player, as they will always be responsible for making the choices the rest of the party must take. This means all the other players become bystanders. While some players are fine with being second fiddle, or letting the high-Charisma character do all the talking, you are forcing one player to rule them all.
Regardless of how much or little experience this person has, you are stacking the deck against this player.
Let them shine on their own.
You say that the starting premise is that the characters are being shown around by the Program Coordinator when the town comes under attack. Instead of making this player the Program Coordinator, just have them be one of the new recruits. In every given group of new hires, there will always be those that rise to the top and those that just follow. You, as the DM, should play the boss that they all refer to when seeking guidance.
As a note: I have not personally had this issue, but something tangential.
Our DM was trying to designate one of the players as the quest giver. No one wanted to fill the role, so we asked why we needed one. The points above, and others, were brought up. In the end we discovered the DM just really wanted an assistant to off-load some work so they could do more world-building. Based on the "...her perspective might bring something interesting to the table that I couldn't." statement, I felt the "why" is different, but the discussion points were still valid. I just wanted to format it in a way that didn't feel like an opinion piece.
This is too much for a new player, and there are other issues.
First I'll address your questions about this, when I will add some of the concern I have about this situation.
One, is it feasible or advisable for me to delegate so much storytelling authority to a single player?
Feasible? Yes. A strong player can effectively 'co-DM' your story. I have played this role in games before. Done well it can be enjoyable.
Advisable? Maybe not. Though I have done it an enjoyed it I wouldn't be looking to do it as a DM. I only did it to support a new-ish DM. Once they gained more experience I stepped back from that role toward a normal player.
You don't have to be an experienced player to do this, but it certainly helps. Some people take to RPGs very quickly and could pick up this role in their first session or two with ease. Others may never be able to perform this role. As a new player it is impossible for them to know if they are up for it or not. I wouldn't advise putting them in this position.
Three, if the answers to both one and two are 'yes', what are some things I should consider when helping to come up with the character?
My answers to the first two are no. So this may not matter; however, if you do go ahead with this some things you should keep in mind.
Let them play the character. When you hand an NPC over to a player, you have to let them play it as they see fit. Provide guidance for where you saw the character going but don't try to control it. This advice also applies to PCs who become NPCs; they belong to the DM now.
Give them lots of worldbuilding information. For a character to be that involved in the world, they need to know it well. Open up your worldbuilding notes and share more with this player than you normally would. Potentially even collaborate on parts of the world.
Don't let them overshadow the other characters. From the sounds of your story, this character is more experienced and somewhat of a leader. You will need to take care to ensure the character doesn't overshadow the other members of the party.
Now that I have answered your questions, here are some concerns I have about this situation.
Having a player that is both more knowledgeable in the topic and playing a character that is a leader may lead to a power imbalance at the table. Other players will naturally defer to the new player because they know more. This is an issue DMs often encounter when using DMPCs, but it can also happen between players.
In my game one of the players is older and more experienced than the rest of the party. They are somewhat of a role-model to the players (not characters) and the group automatically defer to her. I had to introduce a new player that didn't know them to adjust this balance.
You mention that this player has real world knowledge that would make them perfect for the role. You have clarified that this player has already expressed interest in the game so this may not apply. However in my experience players often like to escape from their real lives while roleplaying.
My scientific-minded player likes to play a dumb barbarian to exercise parts of them that don't get explored in real life. I like to play cunning and manipulative characters that lie or cheat their way through life. In the real world, I prefer to be honest to a fault.
Playing a character close to themselves may sound exciting, but may become confronting or stressful as the campaign progresses. Make sure you stay open to feedback and let them change character at any time if they ask.
I agree with the general tone of the other answers in that I don't think you should proceed as proposed. I won't repeat their excellent explanations about why.
I will add to the discussion that doing a modified version of what you asked could prevent another new DM pitfall: the GMPC.
If you have a NPC that is gandalf-like in a RPG, this can sometimes lead new GMs into inserting themselves too much and dominating the party. This is usually the case when said NPC is in all other ways a full and normal party member, but they're run by the GM and typically have a bit more power and knowledge than the PCs.
By having a player take on the role of the organizations field manager, you can avoid that problem entirely, but to do so you need to make sure they're still equivalent power level to the PCs and you need to let her run with (and misinterpret, like normal people do) any special info the organization feeds her out if band.
It could be a lot of fun if you split your currently planned role like that: one NPC that's never in the field but has all the knowledge and missions to issue, and a field manager who has a direct reporting relationship to the NPC but is a PC.
As an example, I used this mechanism when introducing a new player to a party (different system, but this isn't really a system-specific problem). The player had never done RPGs before, and the rest of the party had. I had a "boss" NPC and the newbie played a new field agent that was tasked as the team lead. It let me feed the newbie information to help them understand the setting and how to play, in the context of mentoring from the "boss" while letting them still be independent and maintain the player agency in the field.
In that case, we also did some mini-counseling sessions (roleplayed, 1:1) where the "boss" would give the "field agent" performance feedback and recommendations after each mission. This was both a fun roleplay moment but also helped the player get better at thinking about how to play the game.
I did something similar once, and it worked out fine, but that was with experienced players all starting the campaign knowing this was the deal.
It was an Unknown Armies campaign and one guy was playing a University Professor and the other two his two Research Assistants. This immediately gave them a leadership role, but other than that the Professor had no advantage in stats and similar over the other players.
You could do something similar here, there is no reason your new player has to be higher level in order to be "the boss". They just need to have a position in the organisation.
Having said that this may be a lot to drop on a new player, so really you are probably better off leaving this idea for now. A "boss" would be expected to give tactically sound advice which then means knowing mechanics and battles and how the game works in reasonable detail, etc.
Possibly an idea to revisit later.
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0.999999 | The text of the bill below is as of Sep 14, 2005 (Introduced).
To provide special rules for disaster relief employment under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 for individuals displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
This Act may be cited as the Flexibility for Displaced Workers Act .
Funds provided to States under section 173(a)(2) of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2918(a)(2)) to address the effects of Hurricane Katrina may be used to provide disaster relief employment under section 173(d)(1) of such Act on projects that provide assistance in areas outside of the disaster area (as such term is defined in section 173(a)(2) of such Act).
Funds provided to States under section 173(a)(2) of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2918(a)(2)) to address the effects of Hurricane Katrina may be used to provide disaster relief employment and other assistance under section 173(d)(1) of such Act, or public sector employment authorized under subsection (c) of this Act, to individuals affected by Hurricane Katrina, including those who have relocated from States in which a major disaster was declared under section 102 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122) due to the effects of Hurricane Katrina, who were unemployed at the time of the disaster or who are without employment history, in addition to individuals who are eligible for such employment under section 173(d)(2) of Workforce Investment Act of 1998.
Funds provided to States under section 173(a)(2) of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2918(a)(2)) to address the effects of Hurricane Katrina may be used to provide temporary employment to eligible individuals in public sector entities for a period not to exceed 6 months in addition to disaster relief employment described in section 173(d)(1) of such Act.
The Secretary of Labor may extend the duration of employment under this Act and under section 173(d) of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2918(d)) for up to an additional 6 months due to extraordinary circumstances.
Funds provided to States under section 173(a)(2) of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2918(a)(2)) to address the effects of Hurricane Katrina may be used to provide needs-related payments (described in section 134(e)(3) of such Act (29 U.S.C. 2864(e)(3))) to eligible individuals who do not qualify for (or have ceased to qualify for) unemployment compensation, and who are not employed on a project described under section 173(d) of such Act, for the purpose of enabling such individuals to participate in activities under paragraphs (2), (3), or (4) of section 134(d) of such Act.
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0.998789 | Which airlines have cheap flights to the Czech Republic?
We've put together a list of all the low fare airlines currently flying to and from the Czech Republic.
Cheap flights to countries near the Czech Rep.
attitude Travel Czech Republic. Possibly the best information on low-cost travel to Czech Republic.
Ireland's flag-carrier operates a couple of low fare routes from the Republic of Ireland to Prague's airport at Ruzyne. The cheapest one-way fares start at €33 including taxes from Dublin and €36 including taxes from Cork.
See arch-rival Ryanair for even cheaper direct flights from Dublin to Prague.
Offers cheap flights to Prague from both Cork and Dublin.
Having ditched its flights to the Czech capital from London Gatwick, British Airways now only flies to Prague from London Heathrow.
It's not the cheapest low fare airline flying from London to Prague, but the fact that you can get to the airport on the London Underground metro system has to count for something in terms of convenience, saving time and saving money.
Sky Europe flies from London Luton.
easyJet flies from Stansted & Gatwick.
Click 4 Sky flies from London Heathrow.
As long as you book at least a week or two ahead, you should find stacks of available fares at the prices quoted above. Be warned that if you want to fly one-way in the other direction (ie. Prague to London Heathrow), the fare BA charges in Czech Koruny is equivalent to £85 - 23% more expensive. In this case, you are better off looking at easyJet, Sky Europe or Click 4 Sky.
Low fare flights from London Heathrow to Prague Ruzyne.
If you're looking to fly to Prague from anywhere in the UK East or West Midlands or from Northeast England, you could do a lot worse than check out bmi baby. If you book far enough in advance, the British Midland budget subsidiary has some of the cheapest low cost flights to the Czech capital from anywhere in Europe.
No other low fare airline operates flights from the UK West Midlands to the Czech Republic.
Click 4 Sky also flies low cost from Manchester to Prague.
easyJet also flies from Nottingham East Midlands Airport to Prague.
How can I get these cheap flights on bmi baby?
The fares quoted above are the cheapest non-promotional one-way fares including taxes from bmi baby. At popular times you may have to book several weeks in advance to get them, but essentially, the further you plan ahead the easier you'll find it to book flights from Birmingham, Manchester and Nottingham East Midlands to Prague Ruzyne at these tax-inclusive prices.
Low cost, low fare flights to Prague from Manchester.
Budget flights to Prague from Nottingham East Midlands.
Flies no-frills to Prague from Birmingham International.
Belgium's re-invented flag-carrier, formed from the merger of SN Brussels and Virgin Express, now offers flights from Brussels to Prague for a fixed cheapest one-way fare of €50 including taxes.
See Sky Europe for even cheaper flights from Brussels to the Czech Republic.
Click 4 Sky also flies from Prague Ruzyne to Brussels Zaventem International.
How can I get these cheap flights on brussels airlines?
The fares quoted above are the cheapest non-promotional one-way fares including taxes from brussels airlines. At popular times you may have to book several weeks in advance to get them, but essentially, the further you plan ahead the easier you'll find it to book flights from Brussels Zaventem International to Prague Ruzyne or vice versa at these tax-inclusive prices.
Offers low fare flights to Prague from Brussels Zaventem.
Started in late 2007, Click 4 Sky is the low fare subsidiary of the Czech flag carrier CSA. But it is not (by any means) a conventional airline. It is a virtual low fares brand in the same way that Snowflake is now the SAS Denmark virtual low fares brand and fly thomas cook is a virtual low fares brand which belongs to Thomas Cook.
To you as the passenger this is unlikely to make a difference once you have booked your flight and you're on the plane, but knowing how the concept works will give you an advantage in finding and booking the cheapest flights in the first place.
Basically, the Czech flag-carrier, CSA can reasonably assume that under normal circumstances a few seats in economy class will still be empty when the plane takes off, if all economy seats are sold at normal economy fares. To get around this and maximise the yield from each flight, CSA can offer some seats at deep discounts in order to make sure the flight is as close to maximum capacity as possible (and therefore maximum yield has been achieved) when it takes off. However, by offering the deep-discounted seats under its own name, CSA runs the risk of word spreading and some people always holding out for the cheapest seats or else not flying with CSA at all - which leaves the Czech flag-carrier in a worse position than it was in before.
The solution, therefore, is to offer the deep-discounted seats under a new "virtual" brand which might attract passengers on tighter budgets who are more flexible in their travel plans and do not have the same a la carte expectations as traditional CSA passengers might do. On the one hand this allows CSA to carry on selling seats at normal economy fares, giving no indication that there are any deep-discounted seats available at all. On the other, it gives Click 4 Sky the freedom to set its own booking conditions, seat availability and fares without compromising whatever image CSA has spent millions of Koruna cultivating.
a simple web-based booking engine - and once you're on board, you'll never know that you didn't book with CSA.
Low cost flights from Prague to Brussels Zaventem.
Cheap flights from the Czech capital to Copenhagen.
Flies low cost from Prague to the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
Offers budget flights from Prague to Tallinn Ulemiste.
Click 4 Sky operates low fare flights from Prague to 8 cities in Germany: Berlin Tegel, Hamburg, Hannover, Dusseldorf, Cologne Bonn, Frankfurt International, Stuttgart and Munich.
Cheap flights from Prague to both Thessaloniki & Athens.
Quick, low fare shuttle flights from Prague to Budapest.
Low cost flights connecting Prague with the city of Dublin.
Click 4 Sky links Prague to 4 major Italian airports: Rome Fiumicino, Milan Malpensa, Venice Marco Polo and Bologna.
Operates low fare flights from Prague direct to Riga.
Connects Prague low cost to the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius.
Flies between Prague and the Dutch capital, Amsterdam.
Low cost flights from Prague to Oslo Gardermoen.
Offers shuttle flights between Prague and Krakow Balice.
Flies low cost from Prague to the Serbian capital, Belgrade.
Click 4 Sky connects Prague to Bratislava, Zilina & Kosiče.
Cheap flights from Prague to Slovenia's capital Ljubljana.
Flies from Prague to Barcelona El Prat & Madrid Barajas.
Direct low cost flights from Prague to the city of Zurich.
Low fare flights from Prague to Istanbul Ataturk Intl.
Links Prague to both London Heathrow and Manchester.
The Barcelona based low cost subsidiary of Iberia offers low fare flights to the Czech capital for as little as €59 including taxes from Barcelona to Prague; and €73 including taxes from Prague to Barcelona.
As with an increasing number of low cost airlines, clickair also now let you book a pair of combined flights in one go. The timetable allows for combined flights from Prague to three more cities in Spain, to the Canary Islands and to the Russian capital.
But be warned that the cost of a pair of flights on clickair can quickly add up. We found the cheapest one-way flight from Prague to Las Palmas on Gran Canaria came out to €126 including taxes, which is not bad, but pushing the limits of what we would strictly describe as a "low fare".
Offers flights from Prague, via Barcelona, to Las Palmas.
Connects Prague, via Barcelona, to Moscow Domodedovo.
Low cost flights from Prague to Barcelona in Catalonia.
Clickair also links Prague, via Barcelona, to Bilbao in the Basque Country, Seville in Andalucia & La Coruna in Galicia.
Prague Ruzyne isn't one of easyJet's official hubs, but the low cost giant does nevertheless serve the Czech capital from as many as eight airports across Germany, Italy, Southwest England, Southeast England, UK East Midlands, Northeast England and Northern Ireland.
You can always rely on Stelios' baby to be pretty competitive but note that easyJet's lowest fares to Prague are not the very cheapest in Europe - especially if you are travelling with hold luggage.
Consider flying with bmi baby or with Sky Europe instead.
No-frills flights to Prague from Milan Malpensa.
Low cost connections to the Czech capital from Dortmund.
Budget flights to Prague from Belfast International.
Cheap, straightforward flights to Prague from Newcastle.
Flies to Prague from both London STN & London LGW.
Low fare flights to Prague from Bristol International.
Serves the Czech capital from Nottingham East Midlands.
germanwings only operates a single direct low cost route to Prague from Cologne Bonn in the German Rhineland. Cheapest one-way fares come to €33 including taxes.
But the German no-frills carrier also flies via Cologne Bonn between Prague and several other destinations in German-speaking Europe.
At the cheapest, you can fly one-way including taxes from Prague, via Cologne Bonn, to Berlin Schönefeld for €68; from Prague, via Cologne Bonn, to Munich for €97; and from Prague, via Cologne Bonn, to Zurich for €134.
You'd be better off taking the train, wouldn't you?
Offers no-frills flights direct to Prague from Cologne Bonn.
Links Prague, via Cologne Bonn, to Berlin SXF & Munich.
Cheap flights to Prague, via Cologne Bonn, from Zurich.
The North England budget airline flies to the Czech Republic not only from Leeds Bradford in West Yorkshire, but also from Scotland's capital, Edinburgh. Cheapest one-way fares start at £20 including taxes from Leeds Bradford to Prague and £34 including taxes from Edinburgh to Prague.
Offers budget connections to Prague from Leeds Bradford.
Operates cheap flights to the Czech capital from Edinburgh.
The Sardinia-based low fare airline operates a single route between the Czech capital and Firenze in Tuscany. Most of the time, you'll almost certainly find a cheaper one-way fare in either direction between Prague and Pisa, on Sky Europe.
Low fare flights between Prague and Florence in Tuscany.
Norwegian is the only European low fare airline to fly to Prague from airports in Norway. The carrier operates direct flights to the Czech Republic from four cities in southern Norway and offers combined flights to Prague, via Oslo, from a further four Norwegian cities.
To give you a taste of what's available: direct fares from Oslo to Prague start at NOK 416 or €52 including taxes, while combined fares from Tromsø to Prague start at NOK 919 or €115 including taxes.
Norwegian has direct budget flights to Prague from the cities of Oslo Gardermoen, Stavanger, Bergen & Trondheim.
Norwegian also operates connecting low fare flights to Prague, via Oslo Gardermoen, from four more Norwegian airports: Kristiansand, Bodø, Bardufoss and Tromsø.
Ryanair is - no surprises! - the single cheapest low fare airline operating flights to the Czech Republic. But it only offers a few routes and only one to the Czech capital. Still, if you're happy to fly from London to Brno instead of Prague, you won't find cheaper.
Typical cheapest tax-inclusive one-way fares (without check-in baggage) start at €26 from Dublin to Prague; £29 from London Stansted to Brno; and €31 from Barcelona Girona to Brno.
For low cost flights to Prague from more UK cities and airports, see both bmi baby and easyJet.
No-frills flights to Prague from the Irish capital, Dublin.
Links Brno in the east to the Catalonian town of Girona.
Very cheap, direct flights to Brno from London Stansted.
The central European low cost carrier Sky Europe serves a higher number of destinations across Europe than any other dedicated budget airline flying out of Prague. Better than that, the airline's cheapest fares are cheaper than those on easyJet some of the time.
Offers cheap flights from Prague to Brussels Zaventem.
Sky Europe flies from Prague to Sofia, Burgas & Varna.
Sky Europe connects Prague to Zadar, Split & Dubrovnik.
Operates low fare flights from Prague to Copenhagen.
Offers direct budget flights from Prague to Paris Orly.
Links the Czech capital to both Athens & Thessaloniki.
Direct budget flights between Prague and Amsterdam.
Operates low fare connections from Prague to Lisbon.
Flies one discount route from the Czech capital to Olbia.
Operates cheap, low cost flights from Prague to Catania.
Offers bargain fare shuttle flights from Prague to Kosiče.
Low cost flights from Prague to both Alicante & Malaga.
Cheap flights direct to Prague from London Luton.
Smart Wings is another Prague-based low cost airline, though smaller and less well known than Sky Europe, above.
The cheapest seats tend to cost a little more than those offered by most other low fare carriers - we were surprised to find very few bargains indeed on our last review of Smart Wings' lowest fares.
Cheapest tax-inclusive one-way offers on Smart Wings currently include flights from Prague to Budapest in Hungary for €79 and flights from Prague to Rome Fiumicino in Italy for €59.
Low cost flights from Prague to both Chania & Heraklion.
Flies from Prague to Larnaca in south-eastern Cyprus.
Offers one-way flights connecting Prague to Paris CDG.
Direct one-way flights from Prague to Gran Canaria.
Offers cheap shuttle flights connecting Prague to Budapest.
Operates low cost flights from Prague to Rome Fiumicino.
Flies from Prague, Brno & Ostrava to Palma de Mallorca.
Direct low cost flights connecting Prague to Rhodes.
One-way flights linking Brno to Moscow Vnukovo.
Low cost flights from Prague to the island of Tenerife.
Flies directly from Prague to the Emirate of Dubai.
Once a dedicated low cost airline in its own right, Snowflake is now just a virtual low cost airline representing the lowest fares of SAS Denmark economy class.
You'll find low fare flights from Copenhagen Kastrup to Prague Ruzyne for as little as DKK 532 or €72 including taxes. But you'll probably save some money if you check Sterling first.
Offers low fare budget flights to Prague from Copenhagen.
Having established itself as one of the most popular low cost carriers flying out of Poland and Hungary, Wizz Air is now making a big entrance in the Czech Republic.
As a newcomer to Prague Ruzyne, this Central European budget airline seeks to challenge not only easyJet and Ryanair but also, on their home territory, Sky Europe and of course Click 4 Sky.
Clearly there is something of a race on to become the number one cheap airline serving Bohemia and Moravia.
Offers low fare flights from Prague to Brussels Charleroi.
Flies from Prague to Bourgas on the Bulgarian Riviera.
Flies from Prague direct to Malmö in Sweden, which lies just across the Øresund Strait from Copenhagen in Denmark.
Direct low cost flights from Prague to Paris Beauvais.
Links Prague low cost to Thessaloniki in northern Greece.
Offers no less than three low cost routes from Prague to Italy: to Milan Bergamo, Rome Fiumicino & Naples.
Operates a budget route between Prague and Eindhoven.
Discount flights from Prague to Oslo Sandjeford Torp.
Low fare flights from Prague to both Madrid & Barcelona.
Operates budget flights from the Czech capital to Malmö.
Cheap flights to Prague from London Luton & Liverpool. | 2019-04-21T00:53:19 | http://www.attitudetravel.com/czech/lowcostairlines/ |
0.99999 | The third one is a common dismissal. "Those 9/11 truthers have been debunked by science" or "Science refutes those global warming deniers" etc. Interesting choise of words ... not "<Insert specific observation here> scientifically rebuts...", but "Science itself debunks...", as if anyone who disagrees with them isn't doing science. And those that make these statements rarely go into specifics. It bares all the hallmarks of some cultist mantra, if you ask me.
"@ScootleRoyale - Whatever floats your boat. I'd rather use rationality and reason."
I find these types of replies very interesting. What is 'rationality'? What is 'reason'? The dictionary definition of 'rational' includes the word 'reason', so to use both is redundant, and the dictionary definition of 'reason' refers to logic. So true 'rationality' is to use logic.
But 'rationality' is often a subjective thing. What one person considers 'rational', another person may consider 'irrational'. What do we say when people are trying to fit something into their world view? We say they are 'rationalizing' the observations - regardless of whether or not their rationalization is in any way logical.
It seems to me when so-called skeptics/debunkers etc. use the word 'rational', their use is purely subjective. They arbitrarily label things as 'rational' or 'irrational' depending on their world view - and then they say their world view is based on 'rationality'! It's completely circular!
Circular logic is a flawed logic, it therefore contradicts 'reason', and is thus 'irrational'.
Now of course it's not just skeptics who do that. Many Christians arbitrarily label belief in Jesus as 'rational', because that is their world view. But you'd think that so-called 'skeptics' would be better than that. But they are not. They are hypocrites and they have no reason to call themselves 'skeptics' or 'freethinkers'.
James Randi, Michael Shermer and Richard Dawkins are 'freethinkers'? ... What a joke!
The name 'rationalist' however is appropriate, if by 'rationalist' you mean someone who rationalizes things to fit their world view, coz that is exactly what they are. But if you use that definition, then flat earthers, religious fundamentalists and holocaust deniers would also be 'rationalists'.
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0.999504 | "Personally I am always ready to learn. Although I do not always like being taught," said Sir Winston Churchill. This comes to my mind when I think of the impact of teachers on students. There are vast and unimaginable differences in teacher-student relationship today as compared to what it was fifty years ago.
Today, the teacher's profession seems to be meant only to teach and not to take any corrective measure or action in order to shape the minds or mould students. It is not the fault of the teachers as their hands are tied and their role is confined to teaching. Parents do not realise the importance of the role of a teacher. The days are changed for worse.
The word 'impact' has three connotations, viz effect, impulse and coercion. A good teacher can be a great analyst who can make students understand and study well. A teacher's intelligence helps a school achieve good results. He also fosters excellence among students.
The other connotation is impulse, which means force, inspiration and motivation. In the present world, the teacher is prohibited from using force. He can announce some incentives for those students who score high grades and prizes can be given. Thus, teachers can indirectly motivate students to perform better.
Compulsion/coercion refers to penal measures to impart education. They may create a violent impact. Penal measures had been effective half a century ago but now it has become out dated, as corporal punishment is banned.
What is the focal point of the passage ?
(A) teachers are alone" responsible for the present condition of students.
(B) students are themselves responsible for their present condition.
(C) parents are also responsible for the present development in teacher-student relationship.
(1) Now, teachers don't perform their duties honestly.
(2) Teachers don't want to take corrective measures.
(3) Teachers' hands are bound and they cannot take any coercive measure.
What are the three connotations of impact ?
A. parents dont want it to be enacted.
C. corporal punishments are banned.
When had the penal measures been effective ?
Direction : Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Direction (Q. 9 - 10) : Choose the word which is most nearly the SAME in meaning as the word printed in bold as used in the passage. | 2019-04-23T00:51:49 | https://www.onlinetest.ibpsexamguru.in/questions/Clerk-English-Language/CE-Test-6 |
0.994721 | The 2007-completed apartment development, done by O’Callaghan Properties when they also delivered the new River Lee Hotel, all co-located on the old Jurys Cork hotel site near UCC, “is considered one of the best apartment developments in the city,” according to estate agent Brian Olden, of Cohalan Downing.
He is selling the second floor two-bed apartment No 12 The Fastnet, in a block overlooking the River Lee’s south channel, the ‘new’ River Lee hotel and the even newer student apartment block further upriver, on the former Muskerry service station site.
He guides at an even €400,000 (which is just above the €395k he also seeks for a 1,375 sq ft three bed detached bungalow on Farranlea Road: see p6) and he says it is in excellent condition, has lift access, comes with a basement level car parking space, and has annual service charges of €1,500.
It has a hall, two carpeted bedrooms, one of which is en suite and which has access to a west facing balcony; there’s a main bathroom and a largeish kitchen/living/dining area, with granite topped kitchen units and Neff appliances, and further balcony access.
The Price Register shows 13 sales/resales at Lancaster Gate’s several high-quality blocks since 2010, with some of the top units (including a penthouse) making as much as €780,000, €760,00 and €640,000, but that was for singulalry large units.
Other prices have ranged upwards from €230,000 back in 2014, and the three most recent Fastnet block sales are at €375,000, in January 2019, and at €375,000 and €405,000 in 2018.
There remains an as-yet undeveloped portion of the Lancaster Gate site, at the city end, but as recently as last month O’Callaghan Properties MD Brian O’Callaghan, second generation in the family firm, has said it still remains non-viable to build apartments of scale to sell in the Cork market.
But, at the rate of pick-up in price, to €400,000 for a two-bed (albeit in one of the city’s most highly prized developments) the time to reconsider building may not be too far off?
VERDICT: River setting by city centre and UCC’s leafy campus. | 2019-04-21T21:04:22 | https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/property/cork-city-development-is-near-best-in-class-and-heres-why-915714.html |
0.99858 | Millions of consumers take to social media channels to express their opinions about the products and services that they purchase. This deluge of unsolicited customer feedback is a rich source of sales and retention leads, that has to date been challenging to mine. Using a proprietary mix of AI and crowd-sourcing, BrandsEye is able to accurately mine this data and route the right contact opportunity to the correct team in your organisation's customer contact value chain. Your teams are able to react to the opportunity in real time, improving the retention or acquisition rate and reducing the cost of saving or winning a customer.
Your teams are able to react to opportunities in real time, improving your retention or acquisition rate and reducing the cost of saving or winning a customer. By rapidly resolving issues you’re able to reduce discounting on retention deals.
Generate high-quality leads by connecting your customer contact teams with users tagging you in their posts, requesting to purchase or lodging a complaint. Prioritise the most actionable opportunities so that you’re able to engage and close the hottest leads and most pressing complaints first.
Save your customer contact agents’ time by routing only relevant data to the correct team in your organisation. This removes the need to manually sift through large amounts of irrelevant data and saves time wasted on passing a customer around the contact ecosystem.
Improve your customer retention rate by efficiently connecting to all of your dissatisfied customers, prioritising those whose intent to cancel is strongest.
Improve your customer retention rate by efficiently connecting to dissatisfied customers who have lodged a complaint with you on social media, prioritising those whose intent to cancel is strongest.
Intention data is the sentiment bearing conversation that signals a customer’s intent to either purchase or cancel with you or a competitor. Until now, social media tools have not been able to accurately mine intention data to reliably generate opportunities. BrandsEye has solved this problem. Our Acquisition and Retention products facilitate the accurate mining and efficient routing of intention data to the correct team in your customer contact value chain, leading to an effective intervention. Organisations with a subscription model and high average revenue per user are best able to use our products to drive revenue growth and reduce churn.
BrandsEye’s Acquisition and Retention products draw on the same raw data sources as social listening tools, but crucially cut out the noise. We channel only the relevant intention data, where a customer has tagged you in their post and requested a response, to the correct team in your customer contact value chain. Our machine learning algorithms, coupled with our Crowd of human verifiers, distil the intention data that is relevant for your organisation from the vast mass of extraneous data. The Crowd categorises every single relevant social media mention, according to your organisational design for acquisition and retention. Only mentions that have requested a response from you and tagged your handles are included. The data is then routed using our ticketing and workflow software, or via API integration with your existing social contact system, to the correct customer-facing team.
Unstructured social data is processed into organised and actionable opportunities and then routed to your customer contact teams for intervention.
This post is an example of a customer displaying high intent to cancel (ITC) with your organisation. Our Retention product will route this to your retention/save team, presenting them with an opportunity to intervene, resolve the concern and retain the author as a customer.
Our Acquisition product facilitates the rapid expansion of your customer base by accurately identify potential leads, giving priority to the most actionable leads first.
@[yourbrand] your new offers look very good - I just want a quick onboarding process. Can you help me asap please??
BrandsEye will route these types of opportunities, where there is an intent to purchase (ITP) with you, and you have been tagged in the post, to the appropriate sales team in your organisation.
What type of organisation will generate the most value from this product?
The product is best suited to large businesses with a subscription model, particularly those with high ARPU (eg. retail banks, telcos, utilities, airlines and subscription media businesses).
Why is accurate sentiment analysis so difficult?
Historically, accurately extracting the intention data from the vast body of social media conversations has proven impossible. This is because the existing methods, solely reliant on AI, fail to accurately categorise the emotions in human conversation. The natural language processing and machine learning algorithms that power these tools are, with the world's leadig social sentiment rater, achieving accuracy levels of 66%, with the majority of providers are closer to the 50% mark. This is unsurprising as online conversation is littered with language that machines fail to grasp, such as humour, sarcasm, emoticons and slang. Humans still understand each other better than algorithms do and that's why BrandsEye integrates people into our data enrichment process.
What makes BrandsEye's sentiment analysis more accurate than other tools?
We don't rely on algorithms alone. Once our algorithms have mined social media for relevant conversation about you, the conversations are distributed to the BrandsEye Crowd of trained and vetted human verifiers. Each individual mention is distributed to multiple Crowd members who will code it for sentiment and categorise it according to the intent of the author. Accurately categorised, it can now be routed efficiently to the appropriate team. Our crowd verified approach allows us to reach industry-leading accuracy levels of 95%, making our data trustworthy, actionable and if operationalised, a direct contributor to revenue.
Where in the customer data ecosystem does BrandsEye fit?
You are already likely to be using other sources of customer experience data, such as Net Promoter Scores (NPS) and customer satisfaction (CSAT) surveys. These are credible and useful research methodologies, but are always lagging indicators of customer experience. Intention data, on the other hand, offers real-time, continuous access to the unsolicited sentiment of thousands of customers, providing a leading indicator of customer experience and, crucially, actionable contact opportunities that will directly impact revenue.
What staffing requirements are needed to use this product?
This is dependent on your current customer contact set-up and the volume of addressable leads / retention opportunities available in your market. BrandsEye will work with you to integrate into your existing customer contact infrastructure and facilitate the requisite training of your staff. In general, we will reduce your customer contact staff-count over time.
How does BrandsEye fit in with other social listening tools?
BrandsEye's Acquisition and Retention products are not social listening tools. They are not intended for scheduling content, managing social media workflows or generating engagement metrics. BrandsEye is an opinion mining tool that is used to generate actionable opportunities for your sales and retention teams.
Hasn't everyone been talking up social media for years?
Social media data has held enormous promise, but to date has remained peripheral to the core customer contact value chain. This is because the existing tools have failed to accurately understand sentiment, reliably categorise what is driving that sentiment and then connect individual customers on social media to the right contact points within an organisation. BrandsEye's Crowd of verifiers solves this problem by cutting through the noise to find opportunities for meaningful intervention. | 2019-04-21T09:06:44 | https://www.brandseye.com/solutions/acquisition-and-retention/ |
0.998066 | When you buy land you become the owner of the items or chattels that have been attached to the land to such an extent that they are regarded by the law as part of the land. This rule is subject to any agreement you make with the seller that the seller can retain ownership of the items and (possibly in some circumstances) the rights of other people with whom the seller has agreed to give an interest in the chattels.
A chattel or a fixture?
Whether an item is a chattel or a fixture can be difficult to say. There are conflicting court decisions on the question. As well as the situation where someone buys land and claims that items included because they are fixtures, there are a range of circumstances where the courts have had to decide this question - for example, where a tenant has affixed chattels to leased property and the landlord wishes to claim ownership of them at the end of the lease, or where a mortgagee of the land and the liquidator of the owner of the land both claim an interest in items that could be regarded as chattels (in which case the liquidator would get them) or fixtures (in which case the mortgagee or someone who purchases the land would get them).
If damage would be done by removal of the chattels, then they are more likely to be regarded as fixtures. Chattels attached to the land merely by their own weight (for example, irrigation equipment, a free standing glass house or garden ornaments) are not regarded as fixtures unless the circumstances show that they were intended to form part of the land. The onus is on the person who wishes to show that the chattels have become fixtures. The same applies to chattels that have become so attached to the land that they are now regarded as fixtures – the onus to prove they are still chattels lies on the person wishing to establish that fact.
Although the degree of annexation establishes prima facie whether the chattels are still chattels or have become fixtures, the Courts give greater weight to the purpose of the annexation. Fixtures are put on the land for the permanent enjoyment and improvement of the land whereas chattels are for a more temporary purpose. The application of the purpose test has meant that chattels not attached to the land, or attached only to a minor degree, have been classed as fixtures (for example, keys to a building, garden ornaments forming part of the design of the house, blocks of stone forming a dry stone wall, spoil from a quarry and a removable house) and chattels attached to the land have remained classed as chattels (for example, ornamental panelling, piles bought onto the land for the temporary purpose of providing support during excavation, shrubs and trees, a sawmilling tramway and soil stored on the land).
Fences are regarded as fixtures because they are annexed to the land, they improve the land and are essential to the continuing operation of the land as a farm.
As the ownership of fixtures passes to the buyer when land is sold but the ownership of chattels does not, chattels to be sold should be listed separately in the agreement for sale and purchase. If the seller wishes to retain ownership of fixtures and the right to remove them from the land, then this should also be included in the agreement. Where you are in any doubt as to whether items are chattels or fixtures and as buyer you want them to be included in the sale, or as the seller you want them excluded, then the agreement for sale and purchaser should clearly state how they are to be treated. | 2019-04-21T18:48:17 | http://www.nwm.co.nz/fixtures-chattels/ |
0.99893 | Germany midfielder Khedira, who sat Wednesday's win due to suspension , insisted there is still plenty of work to do. "It doesn't mean we'll win, because we're up against possibly the strongest team in the world, but we'll leave everything out there".
As he eyes a 22nd at Lord's on Sunday, when England will bid to wrap up the Royal London Series 2-0, Wood admits he found himself questioning at times whether his body would allow him to resume his global career. Wood was back in England action a year ago after his first two ankle operations to star in four ODIs against Pakistan, only for the pain and more surgery to once again interrupt his career.
Even if he is too old, which I think he is, he's in a good place mentally and that's a unsafe fighter. NOT JOSHING AROUND When is Anthony Joshua v Wladimir Klitschko, how can I get tickets and can I watch it on TV? Wilder is the current holder of the WBC heavyweight title and says despite not looking past Joshua to beat Klitschko, he says a bout with the Watford native is certainly one that interests him.
Following Nepal government's decision to issue a high number of permits to foreign tourists visiting Mount Everest this year, mountaineers, officials and guides are anxious it would create "traffic jam-like" conditions on the world's highest mountain, reported The Washington Post .
New York Yankees' Aaron Hicks , right, celebrates with Brett Gardner after hitting a three-run home run against the Chicago Cubs during the eighth inning of an interleague baseball game Saturday, May 6, 2017, in Chicago. One out later, Healy hit a towering home run. And the Yankees quickly resumed the part of a pennant contender, scoring five times in the first inning on the way to an 11-6 victory over the Cubs before 40,735 fans.
Playoff caliber teams can get embarrassed every once in a while but what's happening to the Celtics is inexcusable in any context. In each of those games, the Wizards won the decisive quarter (1st in Game 3 , 3rd in Game 4 ) by 22 points.
The evidence was on display during Friday's practice, which was virtually devoid of the laughter and chatter that existed just two days earlier. On Sunday, the Cleveland Cavaliers completed the sweep of the Indiana Pacers with a 106-102 victory.
Kenny Miller , who signed a one-year contract extension with Rangers on Friday, netted a consolation for the hosts (81). "The way we played for that full game was very pleasing". Rangers , too, will be playing for nothing but pride. It is understood someone allegedly made a monkey gesture at Celtic player Scott Sinclair.
The Senators, who are 3-0 at home, knew they had to find a way to bounce back in Game 5 or the deficit may be insurmountable but the players arent exactly heading to NY with a boatload of confidence. The Rangers are the worst among remaining postseason teams at this. He outworked Senators defenseman Cody Ceci for the puck behind the Ottawa net and sent it to the boards.
Last year Perry failed to score a goal in their 7 game series loss to the Predators, this year again Perry is struggling to score once against the Flames and so failing to register a single point against the Oilers . "And like I tell him all the time, goalies are supposed to stop the puck". McDavid tied the game at 8:40 spinning and cutting back to lose defender Sami Vatanen and rifling a shot over Gibson's left elbow.
Harvey was 4-10 with a 4.86 ERA in 14 starts last season before undergoing surgery to fix thoracic outlet syndrome. In his last two starts, both that resulted in losses against the Braves, he has given up 12 earned runs in 9 ⁄3 innings pitched.
In 1990, Greg Norman was shocked when South African David Frost holed a winning bunker shot at the last, one of several bitter pills The Shark endured. Levy birdied the par-5 18th for a 5-under 67 to match Frittelli (74) at 17-under 271 and send the pair back down the closing hole. Kisner's chip-in - which skipped on a wet green, hit the pin and dropped in from almost 95 feet - forced the 23-year-old Smith to make a 1 1/2-foot birdie putt to remain in contention for his first PGA Tour victory. | 2019-04-25T12:59:40 | http://nyhetsbanken.info/sports/page/267 |
0.999772 | RAY: This puzzler was sent in with the requisite pre-obfuscation by a fellow named Jay McDermott. He says, "This will give you the chance to use, 'It was a dark and stormy night.'"
Pay attention: There are lots of clues, and lots of obfuscations and red herrings.
"It was a dark and stormy night. Out in my leaky old barn, I had removed the differential from my tractor and prepared to load it into the pickup truck.
I struggled to get the differential up to the tailgate, but without help, I was unable to lift it the last two feet off the roller cart.
Then I got a bright idea. I could use the two floor jacks, which were holding up the rear end of the tractor! But what to put under the tractor to keep the rear end of it up in the air? Vainly, I searched for a block of wood, or anything I could use to hold up the tractor. I found only a hay bale on a shelf in the horse stall.
"Good enough," I said, and I dragged the bale under that beat up old tractor, and then I pulled the jacks out. It worked! And, not a moment too soon, because within minutes it became even darker and stormier, and by the time I finished, water was just about covering the entire floor of the barn. But, at least I was done.
Well, one thing lead to another, days went by and weeks went by... The differential stayed in the back of the pickup and the hay bale stayed under the tractor.
Then one night, the barn caught fire and burned to the ground.
My wife was ecstatic! She said, "I knew that was a bad idea."
The question is, what was a bad idea?
RAY: The question is, what was the bad idea?
TOM: The bale of hay.
RAY: Exactly. Evidently, wet hay is an awful thing because when it gets wet, it bursts into flames. The water reacts with the hay and creates gas, which is combustible. So, any hay that gets wet is dangerous. Back in the old days, farmers used to rake the hay into rows and then pile it into haystacks and leave it out in the fields while it went through this fermentation gas release process.
The hay would sit out there and, if it caught fire, the barn wouldn't burn down. And then when the hay was safe, when the temperature had cooled off enough and the gaseous emissions had lessened, it was safe then to put the hay in the barn.
TOM: How do you know so much about hay?
RAY: I worked on a farm, you know.
TOM: Yeah, for about a week.
RAY: Three days. You know what I learned about hay? Hay's heavy. Doesn't look it, but hay's really heavy. Do we have a winner?
RAY: Yeah. The winner this week is Linda Lacey from Raleigh, North Carolina, and for having her answer selected at random from among all the correct answers that we got, Linda will get from us a 26-dollar gift certificate to the Shameless Commerce Division at cartalk.com, with which she can get a copy of our latest CD collection. This one's about animals and cars and it's called, in the immortal words of my brother, "Doesn't Anybody Screen These Calls? Calls about Cars and Animals." Congratulations, Linda. | 2019-04-18T16:55:30 | https://admin-www.cartalk.com/radio/puzzler/dark-and-stormy-night-and-very-bad-idea |
0.999082 | I can write a simple sentence and identify its subject and predicate.
Use the presentation below to take notes on simple sentences in your composition notebook. Then continue using the presentation and the "citing sources notes" to practice recognizing source credibility (FART) and for notes on citing sources. Finally, use the "practice answer sheet" and "citing practice cards" to practice citing sources. | 2019-04-19T06:43:01 | https://www.lowenglish.com/english-7/124-125 |
0.999992 | The flavors in the soup burst with goodness and are so flavorful mixed together.
1. Melt butter in a large saucepan. Add shallot, garlic, salt & pepper; saute for 2 minutes, stirring frequently.
2. Add mushrooms and cook 5 minutes then add carrots; cook an additional 5 minutes.
3. Stir in broth; simmer on low for 10 minutes.
4. Add rutabagas; cook for 5 minutes more then remove from heat and stir in lemon and cream.
5. Ladle into 4 warmed soup bowls and sprinkle with vegetable seasoning and parsley.
1. To make cheese bread, heat oven to broil.
2. Slice off ends of bread then cut in half horizontally.
3. In a small bowl, smash together the butter, lemon zest and pepper.
4. Spread onto each half and broil for 2 minutes (watching carefully to avoid burning).
5. Cut each in half (you will have 4 pieces) and serve warm with soup. | 2019-04-25T20:09:07 | https://margaretholmes.com/southern-recipes/creamy-mushroom-rutabaga-soup/ |
0.998751 | At first glance, the array of wormers to choose from appears mind-boggling. However, by looking at the active ingredient it can be seen that many of the brands contain the same drug and perform the same function. Below is a summary of the active ingredients available in the most commonly used wormers.
1) Benzimidazole - Panacur & Telmin - These wormers deal with some worms like small and large redworms, large roundworms, seatworms (pinworms), lungworms. It does not treat tapeworm or Bots. Larger doses may be needed for lungworms and encysted (forming a protective membrane around themselves) migrating small redworms.
2) Pyrantel - Strongid & Embotape - These are very effective against large and small redworms, large roundworms and seatworms (pinworms) but not bots, lungworms or encysted redworms. A double dose is effective against some tapeworms.
3) Ivermectin - Bimectin, Eqvalan, Eqvalan Duo, Eraquell, Equimax, Dugmectin & Noromectin - Historically, a good general purpose wormer which treats against large and small redworms, large roundworms and seatworms (pinworms), lungworm and bots, except tapeworms and encysted small redworms. Please note that Equimax and Eqvalan Duo also contain Praziquantel.
4) Moxidectin - Equest & Equest Pramox - The best & longest lasting drug available which treats against large and small redworms, large roundworms and seatworms (pinworms), lungworm and bots, except tapeworm. Moxidectin stays up to thirteen weeks in the body killing worm eggs and larvae for that period. Controls ALL stages of encysted small redworms.
5) Praziquantel - Equitape, Equest Pramox, Eqvalan Duo & Equimax - Is a specific tapeworm treatment and is effective against all three species of tapeworms with a standard dose. Please note that Equimax and Eqvalan Duo also contain Ivermectin as well as Praziquantel. Equest Pramox also contains Moxidectin.
1. Treatment for encysted redworms should be done at least once per year.
2. Treatment for tapeworms should be included in the autumn and spring.
4. Do not underdose as this can encourage resistance. Use a weight tape.
5. Rotate Wormers to prevent the possibility of drug resistance forming for a particular drug group.
6. Contact your Veterinary Surgeon for advice regarding worming your animal. | 2019-04-21T19:03:29 | https://www.orchardequestrian.com/Worming-Advice.html |
0.999999 | I. State what the article was about. What is the main point of the article?
"Beijing Car Ban Improves Air Quality" topic?
The article “Beijing Car Ban Improves Air Quality” tackles the effect on the city’s air quality of a trial traffic ban in Beijing, China. The author Anita Chang wanted to highlight the fact that despite high humidity that barred the visibility of the improvement, Beijing’s air quality improved in the four days that the traffic ban was in place, with the air pollution index seesawing up and down between 93 and 95.
II. Give your reaction to the article.
I think that it is admirable that Beijing and its citizens are taking efforts towards lowering down their air pollution index. Given that vehicles contribute a lot to air pollution, a step on minimizing vehicles on streets is definitely a smart move. It was just sad that China’s capital had to wait for a major event like the Olympics to start aiming for a better air quality; they should have done so the moment they noticed that the city air is becoming polluted. I wish these efforts won’t cease when Olympics 2008 has already taken place but instead continue even without the popular sports event.
III. Did you agree of disagreeing?
I agree with Beijing’s plan of action and believe that a continued implementation will make a remarkable change in the city’s air pollution situation.
IV. Why do you agree or disagree?
Admittedly, there are still a lot of things to be done to completely eliminate Beijing’s air pollution problem, but starting with something small is already a good step. Continued implementation of the traffic ban – with or without the Olympics – can do wonders for the city’s air pollution situation. | 2019-04-25T06:32:50 | https://essaylab.com/blog/beijing-car-ban-improves-air-quality |
0.998705 | The Treasury Department's inspector general's office is launching a second investigation into Steven Mnuchin's government travels after discovering it had not received a complete and accurate account of the secretary's flight information, a government official told CNN on Tuesday.
Treasury's inspector general counsel, Rich Delmar, told CNNMoney the oversight agency will be requesting additional travel records from Treasury. Delmar said the agency learned Treasury had not provided an accurate portrayal of a trip Mnuchin took to Trump Tower in New York on August 15.
"The OIG has asked for follow-up information to assure that we have in fact received all relevant records," Delmar said. The day trip by Mnuchin cost taxpayers $15,000.
In a statement Wednesday, the Treasury Department disputed that the inspector general's request constituted "a second review."
"The Inspector General has asked us for additional documentation relating to the Secretary's commercial flight to New York City, and we intend to cooperate with that request promptly," a Treasury spokesperson said.
The travel records provided by Treasury to the inspector general had not specified that Mnuchin had taken a commercial flight to New York's LaGuardia Airport from Washington D.C. for a meeting with the president at Trump Tower.
Instead, the IG's report said Mnuchin had taken off from the Andrews Air Force base in Maryland on a C-37A military jet and flew 179 miles to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and budget director Mick Mulvaney joined him on the way up, according to the report.
But earlier on Tuesday, a Treasury spokeswoman told CNNMoney that the secretary had flown in a commercial airplane to New York -- a detail that was not included in the IG's report. The IG's office said it didn't learn about the discrepancy until CNNMoney called seeking further details of Mnuchin's trip to New York.
"I realize that wasn't clear in the report, so I wanted to clarify," a Treasury spokesperson wrote in an email to CNNMoney Tuesday. "The Secretary flew commercial up to NY and milair back as he needed access to secure communications."
The IG's Delmar said news of the commercial flight came as a "surprise" after he asked Treasury about the matter.
"I sent an email to the general counsel saying, 'This wasn't in the material you gave to us,'" said Delmar.
Citing Treasury spokespeople, ABC News first reported that Mnuchin flew to New York on a commercial fight on Sept. 22.
Mnuchin's return flight from New York was one of seven he completed on military jets. It was detailed in a report released Thursday by the Treasury Department's inspector general.
According to the report, Trump requested that Mnuchin join him that day at Trump Tower in Manhattan to discuss tax reform and tariffs. The meeting was initially scheduled for Bedminster, New Jersey, where the president has a golf property, but was later relocated.
Updated: This article has been updated to add a statement from the Treasury Department. | 2019-04-24T04:26:03 | https://money.cnn.com/2017/10/10/news/economy/treasury-inspector-general-mnuchin-travel/index.html |
0.998725 | A contract is a legally binding agreement to do something, or to refrain from doing something. Contracts may exist between individuals, businesses, organizations or governmental agencies. While many contracts are written (and it is good practice to have a written agreement), there is no requirement that every contract be in written form. Oral contacts can be perfectly binding; so can arrangements that are written in informal terms. The key issues are always: was there an agreement (a "meeting of the minds")? What in fact was agreed upon (what are the terms of the contract)? Was there a breach of the agreement? (Did someone fail to perform?) Did the breach cause someone to lose money (i.e., did the breach cause damages)? What is the nature and extent of the damages?
First, there must be an agreement between two or more competent parties. Note the word "competent." The parties themselves must be competent to make an agreement. For example, minors (children under a certain age) are not competent to enter contracts; neither is a person who is not of sound mind. The agreement must be mutual. Both parties must agree to the same thing. One of the best reasons for writing down contacts and having them signed by the parties is that the written document tends to eliminate disputes over what was agreed to.
Usually the process of making a binding contract begins when one party makes an offer. An offer is a proposal to enter into a contract; it is not the contract by itself. An offer blossoms into a binding contract when it is accepted by the other side. It is important to remember that offers, standing alone, are not contracts. An offer may be revoked before it is accepted by the other side, and if that happens, there cannot be a binding contract because the two sides have not come to an agreement. Sometimes if an offer is made and a counter-offer is the response, it is viewed as though the original offer was rejected, and the counter-offer becomes the only viable offer on table. If the counter-offer is accepted, there is a contract. The process of bargaining back and forth continues until both sides agree on the same terms.
The second basic building block of a contract is an exchange of value, called consideration. In order to hold the other side to a promise, you must have given up something in the bargain. Often times, the consideration is money. You pay someone to do something. But it doesn't have to be money. You can give up property; refrain from taking a certain action; or perform a job or deed for the other party. One key here is that the consideration must be lawful; agreeing to perform an illegal act is not consideration and a contract based on an illegal act is void.
Does a contract have to be notarized or witnessed?
No, unless there is a special statute that imposes specific requirements for special types of contracts.
How do you accept an offer?
Acceptance of an offer can occur in several ways. There can be an express acceptance, such as when a party either says or writes words to the effect of "I accept your offer," or else it can be implied from the circumstances. An example of an implied acceptance is when a party hears a promise ("I will pay you $200 to paint my barn") and then takes action based on it. If a person goes out and paints the barn in response to the offer, he has impliedly accepted the offer by his performance.
There can also be a conditional acceptance, such as when a party offers to do something, but the party accepting the offer imposes conditions. For example, assume a person offers to wash another person's car for $10, and the car owner says, "OK, but only if you can do it within an hour." There has been a conditional acceptance.
The rules vary from state to state. In California, for example, contracts dealing with real estate must be in writing. Retail automobile sales agreements also must be in writing. There are many types of contracts that the legislature has required be placed in written form, and you should check with your lawyer to find out if a contract you are contemplating has to be written down.
Must every contract be negotiated? What if a contract is imposed by one side without any negotiation or agreement by the other side? Are such "adhesion" contracts, offered on a "take it or leave it" basis, binding?
An "adhesion" contract is just what the name implies: you are stuck with it. It is imposed, often by a large company, on a take it or leave it basis. If you do business with that company, you must agree to its terms. Generally, courts allow such contracts unless they are manifestly unfair, or impose unconscionable terms.
What is "performance" and how do you know it has happened?
In lay terms, performance is living up to the deal. It is doing the acts called for by the contract. If the agreement calls for a ton of strawberries to be delivered by the end of the month, in exchange for payment of a set amount within ten days after delivery, performance occurs as follows: When the strawberry supplier delivers the goods, he has performed. When the recipient pays for the strawberries, he has performed, too. Usually the parties know when performance has occurred because measurable, observable events have taken place.
A breach occurs when a party does not live up to his promise. In the previous example, if the strawberry merchant had not delivered the strawberries (or if he delivers them late), a breach has occurred. Breaches can occur when a party does not perform, or when a party obstructs the performance of the other side.
If a breach does not cause damages, the old basketball saying applies: No harm, no foul. But many breaches do cause damages. In our strawberry example, the recipient may have been required to purchase other goods, at a greater price, when the supplier did not deliver on time. If his costs went up, he has been damaged because he has not been able to earn as much profit.
What are the remedies in the event of a breach that causes damages?
The most basic remedy is a claim for compensatory damages. Usually, this amounts to a straightforward money claim. The courts usually do not order injunctive relief or specific performance in contact cases. But there are exceptions to that rule. If the contract involves unique property, the court may order the breaching party to perform. An example is a contract to deliver a valuable painting. If a party refuses to perform, the court may order him to deliver it. The rules of specific performance can be complicated, so if that is an issue, you should consult with a lawyer to get advice as to how to proceed and what remedy (or remedies to invoke).
Generally, the theory of compensatory damages is to place the injured party in the position he would have occupied had the breaching party actually performed he contract.
Liquidated Damages: sometimes a contact spells out a measure of damages in advance. Often this is done in situations where the parties agree that it would be difficult and/or expensive to calculate actual damages, so they agree in advance on a particular measure, which is called liquidated damages. As long as liquidated damages are not completely irrational, they it will probably be upheld by the courts.
Emotional Distress Damages: these, too, usually do not apply in contract cases (they are reserved for tort (personal injury) cases. Sometimes, however, courts do allow emotional distress damages in contract cases, especially if they are within the reasonable contemplation of the parties at the time the contract is made. The classic example is the funeral parlor that places the wrong corpse on display, or improperly embalms the right corpse. It is obvious that botching the funeral will have a great emotional impact on the bereaved relatives (especially a surviving spouse or child) and emotional distress damages can be imposed in these types of cases. But they are the exceptions rather than the rule.
Attorney's fees and costs: usually, the winning side in a case an recover its costs, but that does not usually include attorney's fees. Under the American legal system, you can generally only recover attorney's fees in two situations: (1) where there is a contractual agreement that the prevailing party can recover fees; or (2) where there is a statute that provides that the prevailing party can recover fees. There are many examples of each situation: most promissory notes and leases have "attorney's fee" clauses. Many commercial contract have them, too. As for statutes, many consumer statues contain attorney's fee provisions. As with many of these issues, it is advisable for you to consult an attorney in your locality to see if you can invoke this type of remedy.
Can I change my mind after entering in to a contract?
The answer is: it depends. Some statutes have "cooling off" periods, which means that a party who enters a contract has a limited period to back out. Sometimes this period is only 72 hours. But in many cases, once you sign the papers, you have a deal. Of course, if you back out and there is a technical breach, there still will be an issue as to whether the other side has been damaged. Check with an attorney if this issue comes up. Counsel may be able to negotiate you out of a sticky situation.
A release is an agreement to give up a legal claim. Sometimes releases are signed by injured parties after an accident has occurred, in order for them to receive a settlement payment from the party who caused the injury. The party paying want to "buy his peace" - he wants to pay the settlement, walk away, and know he can never be sued again for the same claim.
Releases often are signed before an injury or event takes place. The best example of this is when a person is required to sign a release in order to participate in various sporting activities. Although many releases have been suspect and voided over the years, there is a strong recent trend (especially in California) to uphold releases that are clearly worded, especially in recreational cases. By the same token, if a release is required in order to obtain medical treatment (i.e., a person is required to waive a malpractice claim in order to obtain life saving medical treatment) the release will probably be voided as violating public policy. | 2019-04-18T23:06:35 | http://ilawyer.com/iLawyer-com/Contracts/Contracts_NY.cfm |
0.99921 | Everyone likes Mexican right?? Okay, maybe not everyone but most people seem to and I am especially a fan! What I like most about this recipe is that you get the delicious authentic Mexican flavors of enchiladas but with less assembly required. I chose to use black beans as the protein source here because they are healthy and do not need any extra prep ahead of assembly. You could of course use any type of bean or meat if you like, as well as adjusting the seasoning to your degree of preferred spice. The heat here mainly comes from the Poblano peppers which add a nice smokiness and depth to the sauteed vegetable mix. If you are not a fan of spiciness than swap them out for bell peppers or if you want to kick it up a bit add some fresh diced jalapeno to the saute. The beauty of cooking is that there is no right or wrong way to execute dishes like these so have fun with it!
A layered enchilada bake of poblanos, tomatillos, corn, fire-roasted tomatoes and black beans with corn tortillas and cheddar cheese.
Heat Olive Oil in large saute pan over medium heat. Saute onions for 4-5 minutes or until they are translucent. Add the tomatillos and garlic and continue to saute for 3-4 minutes until the tomatillos begin to soften and release their juices.
Continue with the vegetable mixture by adding the corn and spices in next. Allow mixture to simmer for 2-3 minutes more. Add black beans in and set aside.
To assemble you will need a casserole or baking dish, I usually use a round one to fit the tortillas best but any will do. Start by putting a few spoonfuls of the diced tomatoes on the bottom of the dish. Layer 1-2 tortillas on to cover the area, you may need to cut them to get the best fit. Spread a third of the vegetable and bean mixture on top of the tortillas and then sprinkle with cheese. Continue with the tomatoes next and build two more layers. Spoon the remaining tomatoes on top and cover with remaining cheese.
Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 30 minutes. Allow to sit 10 minutes before serving. | 2019-04-23T05:54:34 | http://www.soyandsugar.com/enchilada-stack/ |
0.999257 | Does anyone have any suggestions for a plugin or website that monitors multiple single site installs of WordPress from one central location?
I've used https://wpremote.com/ before and continue to use but it's not open to new account sign ups.
http://managewp.com/ was showing great promise and I tested it quite a bit but they've recently released a very high pricing strategy which makes the product unaffordable.
http://status.ms/ looks like it could do the trick but seems to be very new and unsure which direction it's heading, at least two different versions of the site and looks like they're still trying to agree what their offer is.
Code Canyon used to have a plugin that gave you a single page which displayed a status box for each site you added displayed in a nice grid so it was really useful to get an overview of what you wanted. This isn't available any more and there doesn't seem to be an explanation as to why. This looked like the best solution to me.
Basically I need to see WP version number and colour code as to whether it is up to date or not. And then a list of plugins that need updating on that site. As a bonus seeing comments awaiting moderation would be handy but not essential.
Some of the plugins above give you the ability to 1 click update from the control panel without having to visit the site itself. This wouldn't be necessary.
We'd need it to monitor 100+ client sites.
The only one I've really heard anything about is Manage WP but I've never actually used any so wouldn't want to comment further than that.
I'm sorry but I've never used such a plugin so have little experience here.
With client websites we leave it to them to upgrade their own sites unless they explicitly ask us to and then we charge a nominal fee for time spent on upgrades. We do offer upgrade packages to them sometimes so we would upgrade the site and deal with maintenance X amount of times per year.
In this model though, it is the clients responsibility to make a request through our support desk, unless their site is hosted in one of our multisite installs which then of course it is automatically handled. Just like with a server agreement where you get upgrades of apache and such, you make the request to the service provider when you want it.
For our own sites, I guess I just know which sites use what and them upgrade them accordingly. I keep a notepad of changes required for our own sites. | 2019-04-20T00:57:42 | https://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/wordpress-site-monitor |
0.994996 | These two smartphone makers' unit-shipment trajectories appear to be diverging.
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) surprised investors back in November when CFO Luca Maestri announced that the company would no longer be disclosing unit-shipment data for its products after dutifully doing so for years. Maestri's explanation was that "the number of units sold in any 90-day period is not necessarily representative of the underlying strength of the business," and that "a unit of sale is less relevant for [Apple] today than it was in the past, given the breadth of our portfolio and the wider sales dispersion within any given product line."
Later during the call, Maestri added that "our top competitors in smartphones, in tablets, in computers, do not provide quarterly unit sales information, either."
While that last bit of information is technically true, one of Apple's fiercest competitors in smartphones, Huawei, just announced that it had shipped north of 200 million smartphones over the course of 2018. It's common for companies to highlight data points that make them look good while trying to downplay (or in Apple's case, stop disclosing entirely) metrics that aren't as positive.
At the rate things are going, Huawei could overtake Apple by smartphone-shipment volume in 2019.
According to respected analyst Ming-Chi Kuo with TF International Securities (via MacRumors), Apple is set to see iPhone shipments reach between 205 million and 210 million in calendar year 2018. The analyst also doesn't seem to think the unit-shipment situation will improve next year as he forecasts Apple will ship between 188 million and 194 million iPhone units in calendar 2019.
If Kuo's right -- and to be clear, this is just an analyst estimate -- then that's not going to be great for Apple, which saw nearly 63% of its fiscal 2018 revenue come from the iPhone. By contrast, Huawei just cracked the 200 million unit-shipment mark, and if it can stay above that level next year and if Apple's iPhone unit shipments decline as Kuo predicts, then Huawei should displace Apple as the second-place smartphone maker by units.
Even if Huawei were to knock Apple down to third place next year in terms of unit shipments, Apple still likely would have a comfortable lead over its Chinese rival in terms of smartphone revenue and profit share. Remember that Huawei participates in a very broad set of smartphone price points, from entry-level to premium models. Apple, on the other hand, only sells premium-priced devices.
For some perspective, Apple's cheapest iPhone -- the iPhone 7 -- starts at $449 for the version with 32GB of RAM. The company's iPhone average selling price in its fiscal 2018 -- a figure that, again, investors and analysts won't be able to precisely derive going forward -- was almost an eye-popping $765. Huawei's smartphone average selling price is certainly far lower.
Early in the year, Huawei reportedly said that its revenue goal for the year was $102.2 billion. Diving a little deeper, the company also reportedly set a goal of $45 billion in sales from its Consumer Business Group, which likely generates the bulk of its revenue from smartphone sales.
For some perspective, Apple generated nearly $167 billion in revenue from iPhone sales during its fiscal 2018. | 2019-04-20T12:32:05 | https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/12/27/as-apple-hides-iphone-unit-data-huawei-cracks-200.aspx |
0.998016 | Is there any way to get a better biceps peak?
Your biceps shape is mostly genetic. Some guys have a peak at age 15, while others still don't have one at 46. However, you can use a few tricks to bring out whatever peak you're fated to have. And, hey, if your biceps are big enough, no one will notice if they have no peak to speak of.
One exercise that helps with both issues is the prone 45-degree curl. You set an incline bench to a 45-degree angle, lie on your chest on the bench, let your arms hang straight down from your shoulders, and lift dumbbells or an EZ-curl bar. "The angle makes the contraction more intense at the top," says Michael Mejia, C.S.C.S., coauthor of The Home Workout Bible.
You get the opposite effect when you do a preacher curl. That exercise is toughest right at the beginning of the movement and much easier at the top, when there's no resistance from gravity. Mejia suggests trying a set of preachers followed immediately by a set of prone curls. The technical term he uses to describe the effect is "killer." | 2019-04-20T22:42:09 | https://www.menshealth.com/trending-news/a19539414/whats-your-angle/ |
0.995317 | A new study from the National Safety Council is further underscoring many interest groups' and politicians' attempts to ban cell phone use while driving in order to make the roads a safer place while likely lowering auto insurance premiums for many as well..
The study, which was released on Tuesday, found that at least 1.6 million car accidents per year - or nearly 28 percent - were caused because of a driver who was either talking on a cell phone or texting while behind the wheel.
The NCS further estimated that 1.4 million of the accidents were caused by drivers talking on their phone, while 200,000 were caused by texting.
"This new estimate provides critical data for legislators, business leaders and individuals to evaluate the threat and need for legislation, business policies and personal actions to prevent cell phone use and texting while driving," Froetscher said. "There was great progress made in 2009, particularly regarding a broad recognition that texting is dangerous. We now need the same broad consensus that recognizes cell phone use while driving causes even more crashes."
The new study from the NSC comes one year after it initially called for a ban of all cell phone use while behind the wheel.
The study comes on the heels of a somewhat contradictory report from the North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center that argued drivers became more distracted by environmental factors around them than by a cell phone. | 2019-04-21T00:49:25 | https://www.usinsuranceonline.com/news/article/cell-phones-behind-14-of-all-car-accidents-says-study-19556569?as=0cwt2j05mfbb0dpliwmxkq2d |
0.996502 | David E. Kelley's "Wonder Woman"
Despite the failure of his NBC effort, the "Monday Mornings" showrunner wishes the CW luck with its prequel, "Amazon."
David E. Kelley may not have had much success with his buzzy yet failed NBC pilot Wonder Woman, but he believes the CW can find success with its prequel project, Amazon.
While the CW's Amazon is in development and in the early stages of casting despite its lack of a proper pilot order, Kelley admits he made mistakes with his Adrianne Palicki (Friday Night Lights) starrer and wishes he had more time to right the ship.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter at the Television Critics Association's winter press tour, where he was there to support his new TNT medical drama Monday Mornings, the prolific producer said he thinks the DC Comics character remains a viable property for a small screen reboot.
The Hollywood Reporter: Wonder Woman didn't work with NBC and CW is prepping a prequel, Amazon. What do you think?
David E. Kelley: I still believe it's viable for a television series. I think it's ripe to do it. We made mistakes with ours. My only regret is we were never given a chance to correct them. We had a lot that was right about it and a great cast. In time, we could have fixed what we had done wrong, we just didn't get that chance. All my series have been a work in progress to a certain extent where you figure them out by episodes three, four or five. This one actually gelled sooner than any that I have had in the past. We would have gotten there and I wish we were afforded a little more time. I do believe in the potential of the series and I wish them well with it. I think it could be a great success.
THR: What would you have changed have you had the chance?
Kelley: We produced it at warp speed and it's a special effects show and it took more time than we were able to give it. We were able to give it more time and extended it had we been picked up. Just learning the storytelling -- the genre was very different for me and I had a lot to learn; my learning curve probably would have gotten better. I'm sad we didn't get to do it but I do believe it can work for the CW. They're smart to try it.
THR: Do you think releasing the early image of Adrianne helped or hurt?
Kelley: I'm not really sure. Some people say no publicity hurts but I think any series eventually will find its footing and be judged on that footing. We never got to that point, but we gave it a good try.
THR: Should the CW not move forward with the project, would you ever try again?
Kelley: I would. It's different for me, it's a genre that I have a lot to learn about. At this point in your life, everybody should do something that they're scared of; I was a little scared of it, I remain a little scared of it and be happy to wade into the fear again.
THR: Is there another superhero franchise you'd like to tackle?
Kelley: If I were going to do a superhero franchise, I'd probably call Joss Whedon and beg him to try and do it with me! (Laughs) He's pretty good at it. | 2019-04-21T00:17:52 | https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/david-e-kelley-wonder-woman-408894 |
0.998875 | Last night, I was walking to the library - to blow off a little nervous steam, but also, to pick up a DVD I had requested ... one of my favorites, "The Purple Rose of Cairo." It's an unsurprisingly predictable favorite - a light comedy, full of intellectual romance and a pair of main characters (one a daydreamer, one hopelessly optimistic) in whom I can recognize parts of myself all too often.
Tom: I guess I have to get a job.
Cecilia: That's not gonna be so easy either - right now the whole country's out of work.
Tom: Well, then, we'll live on love. We'll have to make some concessions, but so what? We'll have each other.
Around 6 p.m., walking down the sidewalk in Little Italy, I checked my email on my phone, and there it was.
I got offered the full-time position.
It's undeniably great news. The excitement and nerves lasted approximately an hour, until I got home.
I already signed my contract for the part-time teaching job here in Chicago. And according to the reply from an urgent email I sent my director in Chicago last night, "Theoretically, once you sign a contract you need to stand by it."
Jason: I'm bored with sitting around. I'm a dramatic character - I need forward motion!
I'm not sure what the next step is.
I spent Sunday night at a train station, crying into a boy's shoulder as he quietly dabbed at his own tears. It's new, but it feels real and serious. I'm in the city and he's in the suburbs and it's tough when you want to spend every waking moment with someone. Now, that distance could be thousands of miles.
It feels a little like a movie, you know? Nothing seems to be going right for the main character, then a series of separately wonderful things come together, only to become a source of conflict shortly thereafter. You can't have it all - it's one or the other. I spent all summer applying for jobs but not getting answers and dating a boy who didn't love me back and who hurt me; within the past week, though, I have grown very close to an amazing boy *and* got an interview for a totally perfect job. Except - the boy is in the Chicago suburbs, and the job is in central California.
This boy isn't like the others. He didn't mistreat me like quite a few did when I was big. He didn't hit me like Jon did. He didn't cheat on me like Matt did. But I still might have to leave him. And I'm surprisingly heartbroken, given how briefly we've been together. I haven't slept with him. His kisses are mostly on the cheek - the first was on my hand. But being with him feels unlike anything else. There's a strong attraction, a chemistry I've never felt before. It's beyond anything I've known.
I'm trying to trust the universe and accept that everything that happens does so for a reason. If I don't take the full-time job, I have work guaranteed here for at least a semester, and I can move forward with the boy. But the job is an amazing opportunity that I absolutely cannot refuse - but with it comes the sacrifice of what feels like an incredible relationship. I'd be starting over completely from scratch - working at a new job and living in a new apartment, in a new town, in a new state, in a new time zone. And I'd be profoundly alone as I nursed yet another heartache.
This is crazy. But by the time this post goes live, I'll be headed to the suburbs on the commuter train. We both spent yesterday nervous wrecks; today, we're going to make some decisions. We're going to have a plan. We will figure this out.
Tom: It's so impulsive, but - I'll come. Why not? What's life without a little risk taking?
Of course, there may be nothing to figure out. I may be stuck in Chicago because of a stupid piece of paper I signed quickly before they decided to take it away a second time.
Or I may be on the road in 24 hours.
I really don't like uncertainty.
"NO What-ifs". That's what my now-husband and I said when we were first together and I had some decisions to make. I had to leave and be away from him. But it still worked out. You never want to look back and think "what if I had done that". That what-if might be the full time job, it might be staying put. But think of yourself in the future. What would you be more regretful to have not tried.
Nothing is permanent. Having worked at a university as a part time professor, I know those contracts are broken all the time. You always have to do what is best FOR YOU.
Good luck! You have some very exciting prospects!
You know what? I kind of hope you're on the road. I think a change is good, sometimes.
Congrats on the job offer!
Congrats on the job offers. Though your decision will be tough I have no doubt that you'll make the right one. Good luck!
AHHHHHH!!! This is all so insanely crazy. Go with your gut...that's all I can say!
Best of luck to you and the hopeless romantic in me hopes you stay!
"...the job is an amazing opportunity that I absolutely cannot refuse..."
The decision sounds made, to me.
Contracts (and hearts) are made to be broken. What are the actual repercussions of breaking the contract? Read the fine print and get a lawyer's advice if it sounds serious.
I think this all so exciting!!! It's great to be able to have choices. I don't think there is ever a "right" or "wrong" decision in situations like this - but just what you feel is the best decision at the time.
Good luck!I'm sure it will also end beautifully!
I don't really know what to say to you. You should be able to get out of the contract. Teaching one class versus teaching a full-time load is a good reason to leave a job. Especially one that they weren't sure they even could fill up for you to teach.
I've been there in the situation with the boy. When I met my husband, we had 3 weeks in the same town (with him being at a training camp for the military so his hours were crazy) before he moved back to the opposite side of the country. We'd been dating for 3 weeks when he asked if I would visit him, I said yes to him there and it turned into yes for life. Long distance is scary, it's not fun, it's not glamorous; but it is doable. Feel free to email me if you ever want to talk more about that.
I hope that whatever happens you find peace in the situation. You are strong. I wish I could make it better for you.
First of all, mega congrats on the job offer. Whether or not you decide to take it, that's a great accomplishment!
About the contract, while yes... technically you should stick to it, a rational person would not begrudge you this opportunity. And I can't really see them taking action against you if you were to back out of it. It would take up so much time and energy. They could get miffed, most likely never hire you again, but really that's about the worst of it.
You have a difficult decision to make, one I don't really envy, but I think you have the potential for happiness in either course. Just different forms of happiness.
These are the people who gave you a job and then took it away and then gave it back agian, right? Normally I would agree with the whole "Once you sign a contract you should stick it out" thing but these people have jerked you around quite a bit already. Can you find out more about this other position? If you are really thinking of bugging out on this other job you are contracted for, you need to make sure you have all the facts and that it will be worth it if you can get out of it and elect to go that road.
Wow, this really is like a movie, crazy! So glad that you got the job, it will all work out!
Love, true love, is a powerful thing. Distance can't kill it. Distance might mean you realize it is what it is...or find out it isn't what it isn't.
But if you guys decide to stay, well, as you say, the job is there.
I hope you guys make the best, best decision and you feel at peace with it.
Good luck with whatever happens - you are ready for anything, fear and uncertainty just means you are alive and living your potential.
I wish you luck in which path you choose. I know which one I would, but I would be extra careful not to burn any bridges.
Mary, take the job!!!! What a wonderful opportunity for you! Granted, if you break the contract in Chicago you might not be able to work there again, but you have to think about your future and security. TAKE THE JOB! And congratulations!
Wow big decisions. Given how much they messed you around what do you owe the other place?
I want to tell you a story. When I was 13 years old I had a crush on a guy in a band at my school, he was 16, didn't know I existed, and was too cool for me. Then he left school and I moved on. Then he came back to see friends, we met at a party and clicked instantly. 1 month before I moved 4 hours away to Uni.
Timing sucked. But I went anyway, I sobbed and sobbed all the way there. We saw each other fairly regularly and after a year of tear filled goodbyes he moved with me.
We've been married 8 years next week.
It can happen in the most difficult circumstances, I know it's more fly than drive in the USA but if it's going to happen it will. Enjoy it while you can but ultimately you have to do what you have to for YOUR future.
Take the job. Regardless of whether or not someone thinks you need to stand by something, the bottom line that in a semester, you'll be right back to where you were a month ago. This new job is a full-time position. It's a better deal.
Long-distance relationships work, and that might be something to pursure if you're serious about staying with him. Perhaps he could join you in California in a few months.
Happy for you that you've found a boy who you're into and who treats you well. Super excited for your job offer. You are an inspiring and influential woman. You'll be able to find several boys you are into and who treat you well. Or you may have found the only one you need.
It's been said already and I feel the same - go with your gut, consider which option you might regret more if you pass it up. Trust that the choice you make will be the right one for you. | 2019-04-24T15:47:55 | http://www.asmallloss.com/2011/08/uncertainty.html |
0.997446 | It is always essential to ensure that you are enjoying your vacation by choosing the best vacation rental. For this reason, you have to make sure that you are keen so that you get to make the right selection of the best vacation rental. At all times, you will have to be creative and wise whenever you are choosing the best vacation rental that you can use for your vacation by implementing some tactics. In order for you to be able to choose the best vacation rental, you will have to consider using the following guidelines.
The first thing that you need to consider looking at is the location. This is important as you have to choose the vacation rental that is strategically located so that you get to have all your needs well met and be able to enjoy your vacation well. At all times, you will have to enjoy your vacation well and in this case, you need to make sure that you are looking at the attractions sites around that vacation rental and other activities that will make your stay there enjoyable.
Also, you need to make sure that you are having a budget. You will be expected to pay some amount of money hence it is important that you get to choose the vacation rental that you will be able to afford. You will be expected to select the vacation rental that you can afford at all times, and for this reason, consider getting the price estimates of several vacation rentals so that you can get to decide on the one to choose. With your planned budget, it will be easy for you to make the comparison as you will easily stick to your budget.
It is imperative that you get to carry out some research. There are so many vacation rentals that are available and you will have to make sure that you are choosing the right one for your vacation and for this reason, you will have to consider looking for information on the internet. At all times you will have to read the comments and reviews online as they will enable you in making the right selection of the best vacation rental.
Asking for recommendations is also important and you have to ask the right friends. You have to consult your friends as they will ensure you are making the right selection of the best vacation rental. The recommendations are the best since they are from close friends that you trust and you are sure they have ever used vacation rentals for their vacations. | 2019-04-24T04:18:10 | http://bombenglish.com/3-lessons-learned-cabins.html |
0.998215 | Apple's management will be tested on Wednesday as the company faces a vote on a shareholder proposal asking the company's board to disclose its CEO succession planning policy.
The proposal calls for Apple's board of directors to amend the company's corporate governance policy to adopt a CEO succession planning policy, and annually produce a written report on the plan to shareholders.
The vote will come in the wake of Apple's announcement in January that CEO Steve Jobs was taking medical leave of absence. The company didn't specify a reason for the leave or how long he'd be away. Apple's chief operating officer, Tim Cook, has taken over day-to-day operations in Jobs' absence.
Jobs has taken multiple leaves of absence, and the company has mostly held back information related to his health, which has been of increasing concern to shareholders. In 2009, businessman Warren Buffett disagreed with Apple's decision to hold back information on Jobs' health, saying it was a "material fact" for the company, a criticism others echoed.
The proposal was originally submitted by the Central Laborers' Pension Fund, and is supported by Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA), which holds around 11,000 Apple shares.
LIUNA wants Apple to revise the corporate governance guidelines so shareholders know that the company is discussing successor plans and has a plan in place in any emergency, said Jennifer O'Dell, assistant director of corporate affairs for LIUNA, who will be at the shareholder meeting.
In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Apple is recommending that shareholders vote against the proposal, arguing that the board already has a formal evaluation process which recommends development of internal candidates for succession. However, Apple says publicly revealing such plans could expose the company's confidential plans and objectives, and give competitors access to confidential information, which is not in the best interest of the company and its shareholders.
Apple is misconstruing the proposal, O'Dell said. The proposal isn't asking the Apple to reveal details such as the name of a successor to the CEO. LIUNA just wants to see proxy statements that Apple's board has met and is actively discussing succession plans.
"If they do, they have to disclose it to shareholders," O'Dell said.
O'Dell said the proposal is more about Apple's long-term value to shareholders, and that the proposal was filed well before the company announced Jobs' leave of absence.
"We're eager to see him come back and run Apple on the day-to-day basis," O'Dell said.
Companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Intel have already approved such shareholder proposals, O'Dell said.
However, there's no guarantee that such a proposal would be implemented by Apple's board, LIUNA's O'Dell said. Even if the proposal gets the majority vote, the board could just review and ignore it.
Apple tends to be paranoid and overprotective about its information, and the idea that competitors could glean some information from succession plans is not valid, said Roger Kay president of Endpoint Technologies Associates.
It's obvious that the first person in line to succeed Jobs is Cook, with potential candidates including Phil Schiller, who is senior vice president of worldwide product marketing.
"If you're not in the Apple culture, you won't be running Apple," Kay said.
The company would be better off revealing succession plans, or Apple could be exposed to lawsuits relating to the breach of fiduciary responsibility, Kay said. A simple statement that a succession plan has been approved could reduce the risk of lawsuits.
The annual shareholder meeting will be held at Apple's Cupertino campus, and starts at 10:00AM PT. | 2019-04-26T00:38:01 | https://www.pcworld.com/article/220414/with_jobs_on_leave_apple_shareholders_seek_succession_plan.html |
0.999792 | Why does scripture say that a harmful spirit from the Lord caused Saul to attack David?
God didn't give us a cowardly spirit but a spirit of power, love, and good judgment. (2 Timothy 1:7, GOD'S WORD translation).
Don't blame God when you are tempted! God cannot be tempted by evil, and he doesn't use evil to tempt others. (James 1:13, Contemporary English Version).
The person who sins will die. A son will not be punished for his father's sins, and a father will not be punished for his son's sins. The righteousness of the righteous person will be his own, and the wickedness of the wicked person will be his own. (Ezekiel 18:20, GOD'S WORD translation).
So the question remains: Why does the Bible say that Saul received an evil spirit from God, or that David's child died because of what David did? Is the Bible authoritative or not?
The answer is, Yes, this is a literal translation (I checked), and yes, the Bible is authoritative, but – and this is hugely important – God has to deal with His people where they are, and “where they are” has changed during the past 4000 years.
Here’s a simple example. When God led the Israelites out of Egypt, they could see a pillar of smoke in the day, and a pillar of fire at night. They needed a visible sign of God’s presence. The only gods they knew about were the Egyptian gods, who were in physical form. They had no idea, really, who this new guy was (Exodus 3:13). So God had to provide a physical, visible sign that He was with them.
How many of you have seen God in a pillar of fire lately? None. Do you need a pillar of fire to know that God is with you? No. Why not? Because your faith knowledge includes 4000 years’ worth of other people’s experience, and you know that the pillar of fire was a tool for the education of a people in their spiritual infancy.
We people of God are, or at least we should be, farther along now in our spiritual understanding than we were at the time of the Exodus – no more pillar of fire. We are farther along than we were at the time the Old Testament was written down – no more dietary restrictions. We are farther along than we were during Jesus’ earthly ministry – no more miraculous Messianic banquets from five loaves and two fishes. In the same way that we answer a three-year-old’s “Why?” with “Because,” and a 17-year-old’s “Why?” with a long discussion, God gives His people answers that they can understand at the time of the question.
(2) everything depends on Him.
This was a pretty tough sell, to be frank. There were tons of other gods available – literally “tons,” because they were all right there, physically. Look at what Joshua said: “Choose who you’re going to serve – the gods of your ancestors, the gods of this land, or the LORD” (Joshua 24:15). Joshua! God’s chosen leader! was giving the people their choice of gods! What’s wrong with this picture??
The Bible is God’s revelation of His nature to us, but the material in the Bible was written over a period of about 1500 years, during which the revelation was continuously refined. God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow, but our collective understanding of God has changed in response to revelation. We shouldn’t be too surprised when we read things about God in the early parts of the Old Testament that we later learned were not the whole story.
Conclusion: God didn’t send an evil spirit on Saul, and he didn’t cause David and Bathsheba’s baby to die in order to punish David, because it’s not His nature. When these texts were written, the Israelites were coming to understand God’s power, but they didn’t understand God’s nature. The prophets, as we will see in the next couple months, were instrumental in improving the Israelites’ understanding of the nature of God. Jesus personally demonstrated the nature of God. After the resurrection, Paul and Peter and James and Jude made further improvements in our understanding. Finally, after John spent decades in the company of the Holy Spirit, his gospel and letters gave us the clearest descriptions we have of the nature of God. God is love.
Copyright 2008, 2013 by Regina L. Hunter. All rights reserved. This page has been prepared for the web site by Deanna Rains. | 2019-04-25T18:24:45 | http://www.daily-bible-study-tips.com/Reader-Questions-Answered/Harmful-Spirit.htm |
0.998358 | Do you know what a talent is? In the biblical sense, it's not the ability to carry a tune or the instinct for making a fortune on the stock market. A talent is a measure of weight, specifically the typical weight of a soldier's pack, something in the range of 75 to 100 pounds. As it is used in this parable, it refers to the weight of the coins entrusted to three servants. The talents the master gave his servants made a heavy load of very valuable coins; one talent is estimated to be worth something like a million dollars in today's money.
So, here we have a man whose cash on hand amounts to something like $9 million, not including what he needs for the trip. He hands it all over to three of his trusted servants, and, in case you didn't notice, he doesn't say anything to them about what they are supposed to do with it. He simply gives each of them a quantity commensurate with their ability. Then he leaves town.
We hear that the first servant "immediately" went to work and doubled the money. The second servant achieved the same result. But the third decided to avoid both risk and industry. What attitudes motivated their actions?
Clearly, all three servants had seen the owner at work. They understood how he operated and what he had done to earn his wealth. The first and second servants emulated the master. They did what he did and achieved similar results, doubling the fortune while showing their attachment to his enterprise.
The third repudiated the master and his occupation by hiding the money and ignoring everything he had learned in his service. In the end, the master judged that to be the worst thing any so-called servant could have done. By doing nothing he actually made a scathing critique of the master's whole enterprise. Given the master's affluence, that insult was far worse than the loss of potential profit from one mere talent.
Placed in the Lectionary toward the end of the church year, this parable urges us to evaluate our own service, to consider our attachment to Christ's enterprise, our investment of God's gifts and our longing to have a share in Christ's own joy.
Service need not be as dramatic as the task of managing millions. Today's reading from Proverbs presents an ancient description of a model servant of God: the valiant woman who is a "worthy wife." In this passage, we encounter a model we can imitate -- a simple, honorable woman of industry and character. No Joan of Arc or Teresa of Avila, she simply fulfills the human vocation, transforming nature's bounty into goods for both her family and the poor for whom she cares as her own. Her life and her works speak for her, encouraging those who know her to follow her example.
That valiant woman is, borrowing words from Paul's Letter to the Thessalonians, a daughter of the day, a woman "awake" like he encourages the Thessalonians to be. As Paul writes, his people are concerned -- as we all are, if we would admit it -- about "the end," whether that be their own death or the end of the world. So Paul writes to reorient their concerns.
One of the ways he does that is to make them think about the meaning of the time they have in life. They are asking questions about the "when" of Christ's return, and Paul wants them to think about what they and Christ want from that moment. He tells them that their concern about dates, what he calls chronological time, is relatively unimportant. Nobody can know the time or the hour. So what?
The important thing is kairos, or quality time. Kairos involves time's meaning and goal, the time we spend being conscious of and enjoying God's presence. We experience quality time when the clock stops, when a sunset captures us, when lovers lose themselves in one another. It's the time when we feel the presence of grace. Paul is telling his community that such time is the only thing about which they need to be concerned. It is that to which they must stay awake. Then, the "thief in the night" will be nothing more than a welcome surprise.
These three readings prepare us for the end of the year and challenge us to understand our life in terms of its ultimate purpose. We have all been given talents and time. Let's not bury them by watching the clock.
This story appeared in the Nov 7-20, 2014 print issue under the headline: Talent show . | 2019-04-25T16:42:24 | https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/spiritual-reflections/talent-show |
0.999846 | Find how to reset any maintenance light or reset oil life after an oil change for all makes and models.
1. Turn the ignition key to the ‘OFF’ position with the trip meter A reading shown.
2. Turn the ignition key to the ‘ON’ position while holding down the trip meter ‘RESET’ button.
3. Hold down the knob for at least 5 seconds. The odometer indicates ‘000000’ and the light goes off.
1. Set the multi-information display to TRIP A.
2. Turn the ignition switch off.
3. Press and hold the ODO / TRIP switch, and turn the ignition switch on (IG).
4. After turning the ignition switch on (IG), keep holding the switch for at least 5 seconds.
1. Turn the ignition on without starting the engine.
2. Set the display window to ODO, TRIP.
3. Turn the ignition switch off.
4. Pressing the button PUSCH ODO TRIP reset switch turn the ignition switch to the ON position (keep pressing for at least 5 seconds).
2. Ensure odometer reading is shown, turn ignition off.
3. While holding down the trip meter reset knob turn the ignition to run (one position before starting engine).
4. Hold down knob for at least 5 seconds. The odometer indicates “000000″ and the light goes off. If the system fails to reset, the light will continue flashing.
5. Turn the ignition off and then start the engine to verify the indicator has been reset.
Reset service indicator / interval on this model as follows Chrysler Grand Cherokee 1995 , 1996 , 1997 , 1998 , 1999 , 2000 , 2002 , 2003 , 2004 , 2005 .
2.Keep pushing the button that reads ‘step’ on the centre console untill the display shows the service interval.
3.Press the reset button for 3 seconds. | 2019-04-21T18:13:43 | http://www.reset-service.com/page/12 |
0.999953 | ONE interesting environmental story last year was the planned record -- breaking balloon dropping event at Cove Manila involving 130,000 pieces of balloons during the New Year’s Eve countdown. It did not push through because the Department of Environment and Natural Resources ordered the organizers to stop the balloon drop because of the huge amount of solid waste that the event would generate.
Okada Manila justified the event by saying that it will not harm the environment because it will be held indoors and the balloons will not be released in the air. They also said that the balloons are made of biodegradable latex materials and will be recycled properly after the event. Is this claim true? According to ballonsblow.org, natural latex may be biodegradable, but it contains chemical additives like plasticizers and artificial dyes. It may degrade after several years, but it’s surely not “biodegradable” like ordinary organic materials.
Since burst latex balloons stay long in the environment, they pose danger to wildlife. Many animals mistake them as food. The animal is usually killed when the balloon block its digestive tract, leaving it unable to take in any more nutrients. The ribbons or string that is sometimes tied to balloons will last years and can also entangle animals that comes in contact with it. The animals may die because they are unable to move or eat.
Dolphins, whales, turtles, and many other marine species, as well as terrestrial animals such as cows, dogs, sheep, tortoises, birds and other animals have all been hurt or killed by balloons. The website of balloonsblow.org has pictures of balloons removed from inside a Hawksbill sea turtle, a Rusty Blackbird entangled in balloon ribbon and fragments of a blue latex balloon found in the stomach of green turtle.
Other than solid waste problem and death or injury to animals, the use of Helium in balloons is also a concern. It is contributing to the depletion of this finite resource. Once the Helium is released into the atmosphere, it is gone forever. There is no chemical way of manufacturing it.
Robert Richardson, the Nobel Prize winner in 1996 for his work on super fluidity of Helium, has issued a warning that our supplies of Helium are being used at an unimaginable rate and could be gone within a generation. He said it has taken 4.7 billion years for the Earth to accumulate its Helium reserves.
Helium is not only used to fill balloons. It is also used in cooling the superconducting magnets in Magnetic resonance imaging scanners at hospitals. There’s no substitute because Helium has the lowest boiling point. It’s also required for fiber optics, sea or space exploration, welding, supersonic wind tunnels, cooling nuclear reactors, life-saving medical procedures and diagnostics, cryogenics, laboratory research, lasers, LCD’s, rare document preservation, and breathing ventilators for infants and the ill.
There are other ways of celebrating birthdays or remembering a loved one that passes away than using balloons. | 2019-04-26T06:21:57 | https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1784473/Pampanga/Opinion/Pea-Balloons-problems?rss=1 |
0.999999 | In the 1950s I was a boy growing up in the Chicago area in a wonderful neighborhood filled with kids who are still my friends today.
Our family telephone was solidly attached to the wall and owned by the telephone company. If it didn't work, the telephone company sent a man to fix it or replace it. All the phones we had in our home were black and rotary, which meant we actually had to wear out our fingers turning the dial.
The only buttons I ever pushed as a kid were my mother's.
Our phone number was OR3-7978. The OR stood for Orchard. In those days they used two letters to begin phone numbers because they thought people couldn't remember seven numbers.
I mention this because of something that happened this week when I called my bank.
Bank Person: "And just to help confirm your identity what is your phone number."
Me: "My phone number? Well it's . . . wait a minute, I know it. It's 762 . . . no, no that's not it. Can you hang on until I can ask my wife?"
The fact that I can remember my phone number from more than 60 years ago but can't remember the number I have today is not old age, although a lot of my other problems are. The problem is that today we all have cell phones and I never call my own cell phone. Why do I need to know my cell phone number if I never call it?
Sixty years ago when I wanted to talk to someone in our family I dialed our house phone, the only phone we had. Today when I want to speak with my wife or anyone else in the family I dial their cell phones, not mine.
And I don't actually dial it. I press their name on my cell phone and the phone calls them for me.
I not only don't know my number, I don't know my wife's number or anyone else's number because I don't have to know them. I never dial them.
Bank Person: "There's a place on your cell phone where you can look up your cell phone number."
Me: "But I'm talking to you on my cell phone. How can I look up the number and still stay connected to you."
Bank Person: "I have no idea. Maybe I should transfer you to tech support."
Me: "No, please don't do that! I don't understand tech-speak. Every time I talk to them I end up more confused than when I started."
Several IT people have quit after trying to help me.
In addition to cell phones we also communicate a lot by e-mail today. And I don't know anyone's e-mail. My computer, iPad and telephone bring up emails for my contacts automatically.
I also don�t know home addresses. They're all programmed in the GPS in my car and all I have to do is hit the name of the person or place I'm visiting and it tells me where to go.
Here's the truth. I am totally digitally dependent. I can't function without my digital equipment. Since it knows everything about my life that I need to know, I've forgotten all that information.
My cell phone tells me when I have appointments, it tells me what the weather is so I know what to wear, it tells me what time it is, and where to find the best gas prices. It's my calculator, my dictionary, my encyclopedia, and most important of all it automatically logs me onto Facebook because I can't remember my ID and password.
It also has a bunch of other apps I thought sounded really neat when I downloaded them but I haven't used them since.
When I have question I ask Siri who lives in my cell phone.
Me: "Am I hopelessly digitally dependent?"
Me: "Can't say or won't say?"
Siri: I don't know how to respond to that."
Maybe I am too dependent on my cell phone. Maybe I should try to live without it. Maybe I should just try to learn and remember things myself. Do we really need all this technology?
I gave Siri one last question.
Me: "Where is the nearest ice cream place?"
Siri: "I found seven very close to you."
She also gave me the ratings, a list of the flavors and instructions on how to drive to them. | 2019-04-19T05:19:33 | http://johnnorberg.com/column-display/?Title=Dialing%20for%20Help |
0.997931 | EQUIPMENT: Shive Wave Machine with clamp; driver and metronome upon request.
PURPOSE: To demonstrate standing waves.
DESCRIPTION: Standing waves can be generated with either (1) both ends fixed, (2) one end fixed and one end free, or (3) both ends free. Either use your hand or the motorized drive; your hand possesses better feedback for small adjustments in frequency. A metronome is available for comparing the frequencies of various harmonics.
PURPOSE: To demonstrate reflection of pulses from fixed ends and free ends.
DESCRIPTION: A pulse generated at one end reflects off the opposite end. The reflecting end can either be free (left alone) or fixed (connected to a clamp).
PURPOSE: To demonstrate constructive and destructive interference using pulses.
DESCRIPTION: Starting identical pulses from both ends simultaneously, either in or out of phase, they can be observed as they pass. For two identical pulses, move your hand rapidly down and up at the center of the machine. The two pulses created will reflect off the ends and interfere as they cross each other on their return. Repeat this with one end clamped to get a phase reversal of the pulse which reflects off that end.
PURPOSE: To show wave energy transfer through an "L" shaped metal rod.
DESCRIPTION: The "L" shaped brass rod is clamped securely in a vise. A ball is suspended pendulum fashion so that it is in contact with the short segment of the rod. When the opposite end of the rod is struck sharply with a hammer, the wave energy travels through the rod and makes the ball swing.
EQUIPMENT: "L" shaped Rod, Vise, Hammer, Stand, and small pendulum.
PURPOSE: To demonstrate that sound waves require a medium for propagation.
DESCRIPTION: Start the bell, then pump the air out of the jar. Air pressure in the jar is read by the large gauge. As the air is removed, the sound intensity decreases, ultimately to nearly zero. Turn off the vacuum pump when the jar is evacuated and crack the valve open, allowing air to re-enter the jar. As the pressure increases the sound of the bell comes back, but without the noise of the pump.
SUGGESTIONS: This is actually not as simple as it seems. Although the conclusion is correct, it is not strictly speaking demonstrated using this setup. Rather, this demonstrates an impedance mismatch between the very low pressure air in the jar and the glass, which cannot be moved sufficiently to transmit sound under these conditions. I would use it anyway and lie a little to perpetuate the myth.
EQUIPMENT: Jar with electric bell, vacuum pump and gauge, pre-assembled as photographed.
PURPOSE: To demonstrate that sound waves cause the air to vibrate longitudinally.
DESCRIPTION: A lighted candle is placed directly in front of the center of a large loudspeaker, which is operating in the 10 Hertz range. The motion of the candle flame is longitudinal, following the motion of the air, illustrating the longitudinal nature of sound waves.
EQUIPMENT: Loudspeaker, oscillator, and mounted candle.
PURPOSE: To demonstrate beats, and to demonstrate resonance between two nearly identical tuning fork resonators.
DESCRIPTION: Adding a small mass onto one of the tuning forks reduces its frequency. Striking two tuning forks, one with a weight, then produces beats.
EQUIPMENT: Two tuning forks one with extra mass, and striker.
PURPOSE: To demonstrate the Doppler effect.
DESCRIPTION: A tuning fork is struck to activate the "clang tone" and whirled about the instructor's head on a string. The Doppler effect can easily be heard in a small classroom or a reasonably quiet lecture hall.
EQUIPMENT: Doppler tuning fork on string. | 2019-04-25T16:37:55 | http://sharkphysics.weebly.com/labs1.html |
0.999996 | Do I care about Alcatraz at all?
It's what I asked myself when I was offered a review copy of short story anthology Hard Sentences : Crime Fiction Inspired by Alcatraz by its co-editor, literary terrorist David James Keaton. I don't know much about it. It's a famous prison. People deemed it inescapable because it was (and still is, I suppose) located on an island surrounded by sharks. Al Capone was incarcerated there for some time. That's it. So, I suppose it didn't interest me all that much. But I said yes to Keaton anyway. Because he's like that cousin you can't say no to that your mother didn't want around. So, could HE (and Joe Clifford) make Alcatraz interesting?
Interesting isn't the work I would use. Unexpected would be more suiting.
The only reference I had for fiction inspired by Alcatraz prior to reading this anthology is the movie Escape from Alcatraz, starring Clint Eastwood. The stories in Hard Sentences : Crime Fiction Inspired by Alcatraz aren't anything like it. They're about people in prison, alright. Some of the stories are about people escaping, but I was surprised how much of an abstraction the actual prison was in many of them. And I suspect this reflects the reality of incarceration quite accurately. Alcatraz is not mentioned by name a lot. The majority of character don't dwell on their reasons of their incarceration or don't do it too long. The prison is either their entire world or this challenge they think of in their own terms. They don't think of themselves as fugitives. I thought that alone gave Hard Sentences : Crime Fiction Inspired by Alcatraz a strong identity.
My favorite story in Hard Sentences : Crime Fiction Inspired by Alcatraz was Joshua Chaplinsky's moody and atmospheric The Ghosts of 14D. It's about an inmate losing his mind in the stillness and darkness of mid-century incarceration, like death was taking a down payment on him. It's not the first time Chaplinsky freaks me out. That guy is good. Glenn Gray's opener Break made me realize how much I missed the medical obsessions that inform his fiction. Not only Break has a brutal scientific accuracy to it, but it's protagonist brutal, self-sacrificing resolve give an otherwise super informative story a visceral edge to it. I've greatly enjoyed this story, but I enjoy most of what Glenn Gray does. These were quite straightforward incarceration stories, though. They explored different aspects of it, but prison is the backbone of both narratives. Hard Sentences : Crime Fiction Inspired by Alcatraz is about much more than that.
Amber Sparks' The Children and the Gardener is another gorgeous piece in this short story anthology. What I like about it is that it doesn't treat incarceration as some kind of damnation. It explores the other side of the tunnel, which is quite uncommon for prison stories. Leah Rhyne's The Music Box was another stand out in the collection. It was appropriately graceful and tragic. Other stories I think stood out on the collection were: Nick Mamatas' Being Whitey, Jedidiah Ayres' Clean Shot, Max Booth III's atypical Roller Canary and, for better or worse, Nick Kolakowski's Live at Alcatraz, which I thought was a great idea but somehow of a missed opportunity. The idea of a Johnny Cash lost Alcatraz concert is amazing, but I thought the story put the Man in Black on too much of a pedestal. There could've been a hundred eerier reasons why the concert became a lost to popular culture. It was a fun and memorable concept nonetheless.
It's a tentative yes? The stories of Hard Sentences : Crime Fiction Inspired by Alcatraz are definitely not for everybody. My natural curiosity lead me through it and I came across pleasant surprises. But you gotta be in the mood for prison stories and that's a rather precise mood to be in. Keaton and Clifford put together a sweeping portrait of the Alcatraz experience, though and if you decided to crack this baby open, you're bound to find something of your liking or something that transcends you idea of what prison stories can be. Hard Sentences : Crime Fiction Inspired by Alcatraz is fun and unpredictable. Voracious readers like me will enjoy it. Otherwise it's a great tool to understand not what prison is, but what prison means to people involved with it. | 2019-04-24T00:32:24 | http://www.deadendfollies.com/blog/book-review-broken-river-hard-sentences-anthology |
0.997407 | Michael Jackson to adopt a child?
Pop legend Michael Jackson is looking to expand his family. The singer reportedly plans to adopt a child when he stays in Britain for his comeback concerts this year.
"Before his concerts he has said he wants to spend at least three weeks in Britain, getting used to the time zone and exploring the country. It is during this period that he wants to have meetings about adoption. He has not said if he wants a boy or girl, just that it would be good for the family to have another brother or sister," contactmusic.com quoted a source close the singer as saying.
The "Thriller" hitmaker already has three children - Prince, 11, Paris Katherine, 10, and Prince Michael II, five.
While, the eldest two are from a brief marriage to his former dermatology nurse Deborah Rowe, it is not known about the mother of Prince Michael II. | 2019-04-25T12:24:50 | https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/michael-jackson-to-adopt-a-child/story-4rLN0JakuDvw7C9K92MKjN.html |
0.87446 | This seller's experience of dealing with multiple brokers points out how expensive an open listing can be, especially if one of them does not do biannual updates and provide current financials.
As one broker put it, "We all fish out of the same pond," which questions the benefit of open listings. Brokers all talk to the same prospects, so the expectation that more brokers mean more prospects is without merit. Serious brokers market extensively through websites, contacts, referrals, etc. to develop purchaser prospects, and purchasers have no problem finding all brokers who might have a practice for sale. Most brokers are already in contact with nearly every prospect.
The problems with an open listing begin when a prospect hears about a practice three or more different ways from three or more different brokers. It's doubtful that any two of those listings even sound as if they are about the same practice. The results of three people trying to sell a practice to a single candidate are disastrous, and what could have been a well-managed sale by a single, competent broker can quickly disintegrate into chaos, and frequently a lost sale.
Consider also that when sellers are not committed to brokers, brokers will not be committed to them either. So these sellers will be at the bottom of several brokers' lists rather than at the top of any one broker's list. A seller with an exclusive listing should expect commitment from his or her broker, and if that broker does not make a committed best effort, there should be provisions for termination.
When a sale finally does take place, a seller may face another serious dilemma. Remember, "We all fish out of the same pond," so a seller may be told by two or three brokers that they were the one to identify a buyer and they should receive the commission. It is not unheard of that lawsuits and all manner of legal actions arise from what should have been a happy closing.
Open listings are even worse for brokers, who put in their time, talent, and money, only to end up helping the seller close a sale of his own doing. After all, sellers have the broker's commission to bargain with.
This leaves us with the question: What is the best approach for listing a practice for sale? When sellers ask about having an open listing and engage every broker out there to try to sell their practice, I share issues discussed here with them. I tell them they will be better off with one mutually committed broker relationship, even if it isn't with me. My best suggestion is that they exclusively list with a broker who has a network of resources that includes other brokers, and that the broker be willing to pay a fee to any referrers who provide a buyer. This provides the benefit of exposure to multiple brokers and still maintains a unity of effort, which leads to the absolute best selling experience. | 2019-04-25T06:32:37 | http://www.adsdelaware.com/read_article/19 |
0.999999 | In a peaceful little clearing, the remains of a picnic hastily abandoned spark warfare between two tribes of ants. A young ladybug befriends a black ant and helps him save his people from a war with red ants.
Two detectives are assigned to track down a serial killer who preys on young, naive women seeking fame in Los Angeles in the premiere of this true-crime procedural set in the early 1980s.
The movie follows New York City detectives Popeye Doyle and Buddy Russo who hope to break a narcotics smuggling ring and ultimately uncover The French Connection. The more Popeye and Cloudy dig, the closer they get, to where Chanier agrees to an attempt on Popeye's life that results in a brutal train hijacking and automobile pursuit, and eventually to a showdown between police and mobsters outside the city.
A horror film is directed by Raymond Mongelli III and written by Chris Niespodzianski follows a man who is looking for his missing wife and trying to defend his daughter when the zombies attack human beings. What happens next? How can he solve this?
Extra-terrestrials flying in high-tech flying saucers contact scientist Dr. Russell Marvin as part of a plan to enslave the inhabitants of Earth. Dr. Russell Marvin manages to figures out how to down the fleet of alien spacecraft looming over Washington, D.C.
A version of the hit show Big Brother, in which a group of celebrities spend time in the famous house.
National Geographic takes you behind the scenes and gives you an inside look at the line of duty of the U.S. Border Partrol.
Deep within the darkness of secluded forest land in rural Ireland dwells an ancient evil. A family who move into a remote milllhouse there find themselves in a fight for survival with demonic creatures living in the woods.
Season 3 opens with Elizabeth asking President Dalton to risk change in an election year after a storm destroys a naval base in Bahrain, prompting the secretary of state to urge the commander-in-chief to reexamine his approach to climate change and his overall foreign policy.
Tourists encounter ghosts, demons and psychic phenomena on a spine-tingling adventure through the darker side of the Crescent City.
Eric Poole, who at 18, is released from jail having served his sentence for the murder of a young girl. Russell Crowe plays the hard-bitten detective who put him away and who is sure that Poole is a potential serial killer who will reoffend. He makes it his mission to keep Poole under surveillance as he sets off on a seemingly innocent road trip up-state. But all is not as it seems as Poole soon finds himself on the run with a young girl who has become obsessed with him and may or may not have been witness to the first murder.
A philandering travel writer attempts to balance his two family lives.
Season 5 opens with the Johnson family having found what they consider their perfect home in Michigan. But it turns out to be haunted, and a demon targets their son for possession. Only the power of prayer can restore peace and sanity.
The psychological effects of an extramarital relationship between a married waitress at a Hamptons diner and a teacher who spends his summer at his in-laws' estate on the island.
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0.999999 | From Zoran Djindjic's speech held at Democratic Party's Assembly, 02.02.1995.
„The way to victory is long.
The going will be hard.
We will do the best we can with what we've got.
We must have more planes and ships- at once.
Then it will be our turn to strike.
Context: Being come down from thence towards Seville, they were heard by Gargantua, who said then unto those that were with him, Comrades and fellow-soldiers, we have here met with an encounter, and they are ten times in number more than we. Shall we charge them or no? What a devil, said the monk, shall we do else? Do you esteem men by their number rather than by their valour and prowess? With this he cried out, Charge, devils, charge! Which when the enemies heard, they thought certainly that they had been very devils, and therefore even then began all of them to run away as hard as they could drive, Drawforth only excepted, who immediately settled his lance on its rest, and therewith hit the monk with all his force on the very middle of his breast, but, coming against his horrific frock, the point of the iron being with the blow either broke off or blunted, it was in matter of execution as if you had struck against an anvil with a little wax-candle. Chapter 43.
Lord Buckley, "H-Bomb" (comic monologue), 1960. Reported in Stephen Holden, It's Comedy! From Skit To Song To Satire http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE7DB173EF934A15753C1A96F948260 (October 27, 1989) The New York Times.
Context: There’s still enormous problems in our society. But democracy is the way that we solve them. That's how we got health care for more of our people. That's how we made enormous gains in women’s rights and gay rights. That's how we address the inequality that concentrates so much wealth at the top of our society. Because workers can organize and ordinary people have a voice, American democracy has given our people the opportunity to pursue their dreams and enjoy a high standard of living.
Context: We cannot afford to continue to use hundreds of thousands of immigrants merely as industrial assets while they remain social outcasts and menaces any more than fifty years ago we could afford to keep the black man merely as an industrial asset and not as a human being. We cannot afford to build a big industrial plant and herd men and women about it without care for their welfare. We cannot afford to permit squalid overcrowding or the kind of living system which makes impossible the decencies and necessities of life. We cannot afford the low wage rates and the merely seasonal industries which mean the sacrifice of both individual and family life and morals to the industrial machinery. We cannot afford to leave American mines, munitions plants, and general resources in the hands of alien workmen, alien to America and even likely to be made hostile to America by machinations such as have recently been provided in the case of the two foreign embassies in Washington. We cannot afford to run the risk of having in time of war men working on our railways or working in our munition plants who would in the name of duty to their own foreign countries bring destruction to us. Recent events have shown us that incitements to sabotage and strikes are in the view of at least two of the great foreign powers of Europe within their definition of neutral practices. What would be done to us in the name of war if these things are done to us in the name of neutrality? | 2019-04-23T22:44:49 | https://citacoes.in/citacoes/1763088-heinz-guderian-its-simply-our-duty-to-save-these-people-and-we/ |
0.999839 | 1. Lay the studs out on the barrette blank, and use the pliers to bend the prongs around the back to hold them in place.
2. Glue the studs to the barrette, adding glue to the front and back of the barrette to hold them in place. Wipe off excess glue, and allow the glue to dry.
3. Paint the studs with one or two coats of white spray primer. Follow the directions on your primer for best results.
4. Following the directions on your paint, paint your barrettes with several light coats of spraypaint. Allow to dry thoroughly. | 2019-04-26T02:24:05 | http://diyinpdx.com/2013/07/25/diy-studded-barrette-tutorial/ |
0.999644 | "Although I could see how those listeners that would belong in the car audio SPL subwoofer crowd might be disappointed."
"They work well with portable devices and amazingly with our home audio video system."
"I got these headphones based on a recommendation from a friend, and I was impressed by the audio quality at this price range."
"This is a quality brand, and good quality audio for the price, but the comfort factor was just not present for me."
"The Audio Technica ATH-M50 is a better headphone if accuracy and neutrality is what you want, but with a little bass emphasis."
"The fixed one is about one meter long and it is not enough for most things, but the extender cord is long and compensate this problem."
"Are they the best sounding headphones I own - noDo they have and excessively thick and long cable that is a bit of a pain - yesDo they look stylish - not reallyAre they cheap - noHowever are they comfortable -yes and yes againAre they durable - best I have hadOut of a collection of 20 plus headphones of many higher end brands this little pair has had the most useBelieve it or not I have used these headphones for the last 14 months for running and walking - yes a minimum of a 10km run per day in hot ,cold and misty rain with the impacts this brings."
"If anyone had told me that you could run with these I would have said not a chance - As I have gone through many pairs of in ear and on ear sports headphones all failing in the cable or speaker failing I gave these a couple of months but despite all the rough treatment the original pads are still attached and nothing has failed."
"- I seriously hate the cord."
"My only complaint is that the cord is 3 meters long which is a bit too much considering I plug it into my Macbook pro and 3 meters is just overkill."
"There are a few other problems as well: The cord is extremely short, which makes it difficult to use when doing anything other than sitting at home listening to music."
"Pros: Really nice compact hard case-great for traveling (best feature), detachable Kevlar cord with controller, very lightweight, very comfortable, good looking, sound good with an equalizer."
"Extra long cord, great to get lost in your favorite album or on a long flight, very nice."
"They have a long cord and are really comfortable on the ears."
"Perfect size and cord length."
"Overall the clarity is great, the extra length cord is greatly appreciated."
"good comfort can get a little painful if ears do not fit inside headphone cup."
"A high end headphone for sound, comfort and price (unfortunately)."
"And yes, I recommend buying the Ultrasone HFI-780 although these aren't the best in comfort."
"I am not quite sure why people complain about the comfort on these cans."
"While comfort was improved, I didn;t find them uncomfortable to begin with so I modded them again and I've stayed here for a month or so with a pretty nice result."
"Where they fail in my opinion is in the comfort."
"I've found that I like Sony monitors better, both for their accuracy and comfort."
"I may keep these...maybePros: Sounded the best of all right out of the box, nice mid vocals, comfortable for small heads, nice wide soundstage, folding cupsCons: Band is a little snug even on my small head, so I think they'd be tight on big heads."
"The sound is amazing, very very deep bass really its forte, crisp highs but may be annoying to sensitive ears , nice clear detail in the voices and instruments, the soundstage and separation of instruments are average but that is to be expected because of the closed design, the sound isolation is excellent, in comfort they are ok at the beginning a little of clamping force but with time I was able to use these for hours, average size ear-cups and that is coming from someone with a little bigger ears than average, a little note the badge with the hfi 580 peels of very easily and a portion of the top padding fell off after like half a year of use, the cord is really long."
"I don't want to go in depth so here is a pro-con listPros-clarity, bass, comfort, easy to driveCons-really bright and fatiguing highs, recessed mid range"
"It's truly a terrible padding design."
"something made it painful inside of the ears and due to headphones design, it was also uncomfortable to wear them."
"These are very light, and the semi open design is great; my ears stay relatively cool."
"Definitely was excited for these but when I got them the build quality was different then what I thought it would be, the sound is there & sounds decent but what you'll have to get used is their sound design in their cups that are like a diamond shape which projects the sound into your ears, but for me it just doesn't get the job done .. You don't feel the music & the sound like you should if you it was the classic design of going straight into your ears."
"They are not noise cancelation but I've used them on an airplane and on a train and the closed, over the ear, design efficiently block out virtually everything."
"Materials are very high quality ones, design is simple and perfect."
"Fit is a little tight for me and are not comfortable for a long period."
"However the fit on these headphones was unbearable."
"My only two complaints would be that the ear pads fit too tight over your ears."
"My average size ears don't fit completely inside them, and that (along with the excessive pressure and lack of cushioning) make them pretty hard to recommend."
"There is a metal band under the plastic cover on top that can be bent for those complaining of a too snug a fit."
"Very comfortable (if they fit...see below)."
"These were perfect except for the fit."
"Fit: The way the earpads slide down is great imo, they slide up and down on the end of the headband, and these should fit the vast majority nicely."
"Love the comfort too, fit perfect for me."
"I hope to someday try the closed-back version for traveling or what not, but for now I am happy with listening to them at home when I can."
"Listening to female vocals sound terrible, incredibly unnatural."
"There's also very little sound leakage, so unless the person is standing uncomfortable close to you, they won't be annoyed at what you're listening to."
"When you first wonder what you are missing by listening to you music with those ear buds that came with your iPod, you can find yourself on a rewarding (and expensive)journey."
"I have tried the Bose Triports ( way too basey, supressed hi's- a joke for $179); Grado SR80 (love them for sound- natural base and crystal sharp hi's; not comfortable for extended listening, but I kept them); Koss portapros (recommended by reviews, but too basey for my liking); Sennheiser Px100 (unimpressed) and Px200 (horrible, hollow sound w mimimal base (despite a 72 hr burn in); and these Ultrasone's (recommended by my brother- a professional musician)."
"I tried other bass headphones that sound pretty good with hip hop but sound likeGarbage when listening to anything else."
"Let me just say these headphones are absolutely perfect for what I use them, which is listening to dope music and watching movies on Netflix."
"FABULOUS PRODUCT THAT MAKES LISTENING TO MUSIC A GENUINE PLEASURE."
"It is particularly beautiful on symphonic music and jazz (listening to Frank Morgan as I write)."
"I've had a very great listening experience with these headphones so far."
"It's a good thing that my music taste has been shifting from rock (in which the bass would be annoying and the Grados would reign supreme) to electronic, pop, and jazz."
"No it is not as good as my open ended for music."
"I imagine if you were to stay awake (though I wouldn't recommend it) for a week straight (lol) and listen to music for a week straight, these headphones would never bother you."
"Maybe the only weak point is at classical music, where the highs generated by violins do not sound as clear as I expected, but it is still acceptable."
"Couldn't agree more, I feel like these are ideal for EDM house... they don't sound too great with other music like rock or anything lyric based but for my style of music, I couldn't be happier."
"Both sets lack mid-range response but the M50 covers it by seeping the bass into the mids and the result is just not enjoyable for most kinds of music in my opinion."
"It is a truly marvelous experience to find something new in a song track that you had never knew was present, and it is a real pleasure to be able to listen to music and ACTUALLY HEAR EVERYTHING!"
"Over quality and build is ok fills good on my ears and trust me when i sat i listen to music for hour my break in time is some where around 300,000 hours lol.. great cans if you love your music to sound good and not like some standard sony earphones for $20."
"mp3s can have a whooshing noise in the background because mp3's are a compromise between file size and quality, so try and use higher vbr mp3's."
"Not recommended for use on an airplane or other noisy environment."
"I'd like to have noise cancellation for flying, but decent noise isolation may be a better option because I'd rather have high quality sound instead."
"Perfect for working out and you can still hear outside noise which is a bonus."
"I understand that the clamping helps isolate noise (and it does very well, making studying in cafes and such enjoyable), but it sometimes hurts."
"I wanted solidly built headphones that were portable, sounded good with some prominent bass (not like the Senheisser 280s for example, which my brother has), isolated noise, had no sound leakage, and was clear."
"I first tried their ICans, but were uncomfortable because of it's inflexible,square shaped over-head plastic."
"The build quality is nice and robust despite being mostly plastic drop these a few times and no problems whatsoever."
"I played it straight out of computer (High end aftermarket motherboard), Fiio E11, 1 4 out of high end Yamaha home theater reciever, phone (LG G2).Pros:Sufficient low endMids are decentComfortable but not for much longer than an hour and halfCable is plenty longGood tough plastic builtPretty decent quality for moneySing wonderfully once ampedLook awesomeCons:Slightly bright for my earsMids bleed poorly into highsPlastic build makes me nervous about breaksThere should be two cable lengthsSlightly more low end would be niceThose are the primarily things that come to mind when I listened to these."
"I'd always kept them safely tucked away and they are in great condition except for the plastic that cracked on one side of the flexible portion of the headband and the other side broke completely."
"Build: It's 100 percent plastic, but pretty rugged, and lightweight."
"For those using a portable media player, it's not a problem, but for those people using it in a professional setting who depend on 1 4, it will likely be an issue."
"If you are after a well constructed portable and comfortable set of open on ears these are definitely worth considering"
"Even without the portable amp, these headphones are incredible and can satisfy a wide range of music"
"Couldn't find a more reliable pair of headphones for this good of a price! "
"I got these on sale for $143 with $3.99 overnight shipping (I'm a prime member) and for that price its EXTREMELY hard to beat , in fact I would say at that price you really won't find anything close to it without spending more money."
"I'm going to up my review by one star , I can't believe how great these sound for the money."
"They are a little lesser known what with Sennheisers and other well known brands making high end cans, but for the price, the HFI-450's are hard to beat! "
"Excellent sounding headphones for the money."
"Great sound, great price! "
"These Ultrasones are a very versitle headphone at a very decent price."
"Not comfortable, and too pricy for quality."
"Some complained about the build quality."
"Sound quality is good, but not excellent."
"They don't scratch easily, and I have been absolutely delighted with the overall feel of quality materials and construction."
"The construction is superb and high quality in every way, the only downside to this is that it creates some extra weight...still worth it to me."
"The sound quality is pretty good, but if you're looking for a pair that can blockout outside noises, then this isn't the headphones for you, cause you can hear pretty well things around you,even with the music loud, which is pretty weird with headphones, but the sound quality still remains excellent."
"The secondary cord is straight, without ability to extend and contract on demand and unlike the shure's is less convenientOverall quality of product is pretty satisfying."
"I agree with the others on these headphones for 1] very light weight, 2] extremely comfortable, 3] wide range sonic response, BUT...they're VERY inefficient with my PC not able to drive them to acceptable volumes, and for DVD viewing, my separate full size amplifier headphone out connection--usually set at '25'--must be over '30' before the volume is acceptable."
"Clear, good range and seperation."
"I use this particular model in the field because they are sturdy, have great range and isolation, and they are fairly inexpensive to replace."
"In my opinion, these are the best headphones you can get at this price range."
"The ear pads are about equivalent to those in the 99$ price range with around the same level of comfort."
"The second drawback to open-back headphones is that the bass response is usually not as resonant as those on IEMs (in-ear monitors), or closed-back cans."
"The sound is clear with exceptional bass response."
"If you watch a lot of movies on a computer or ipad, I would guess based on the frequency response that the 780's would definitely work well."
"First impressions: bass is very clean and smooth , frequency response for instrumental files is very good , treble etc ."
"Gun shots cracked, and explosions boomed with great bass response."
"My criteria were:-closed cans (good isolation, low to negligible leakage, compact enough for travel).-efficient (easy to drive, high sensitivity)-FUN frequency response, with engaging sound."
"If you have never owned a good pair of full size headphones, I highly recommend it."
"The earpieces are soft and big enough, covering my not so small ears well and without much pressure."
"For gaming they have very accurate positioning and for mixing and tracking they do a great job at leading you to the best possible mix small adjustments are very noticeable."
"I think Bose are overpriced and not as good sounding, so I'm not considering those."
"Terrible sound out of the box."
"They had the 1)sound isolation 2) no leakage 3) solid construction 4)portability due to the convenient hinges 5) clear, dynamic sound, but at the same time, there were some things that bugged me, mainly:1) discomfort."
"My recommendation, buy the ADH -2000's (they were out of my budget).These headphones sound pretty MEH (~ not good) through a Galaxy S3, compared to a computer DAC."
"and they are holding up really well..The sound from these lightweight, unobtrusive headphones is stellar."
"Cons: Too low-mid-boomy (like Beats), not enough highs, band is loose for small heads, they leak more sound than othersUltrasone HFI-580: Sounded great right of the box, but bright."
"Full sound, deep bass, good mids but a bit bright."
"So not only did they have no surround sound, they weren't even good for my music."
"Extremely comfortable since they surround your ear instead of on your ear."
"The surround sound it great, especially for live shows."
"Build quality, 5 year warranty, They go LOUD, decentralized drivers reduces listening fatigue hearing damage(Ultrasone claims 40% less and I agree), Surround Sound does work well, very good sound isolation (keeps your music in and cuts background noise).CONSComfort is mediocre, they are not uncomfortable but can become uncomfortable if you listen for extended periods of time."
"I wanted to still be able to enjoy as close to surround sound whenever I wanted to after getting married, as I'm a gamer."
"Pros: great soundstage, nice punchy bass that's not overwhelming, the surround effects are very well done and have none of that cheap DSP effect sound to them - since they are actually firing the drivers at angles rather than directly into your ears."
"This headphone has horribly uneven frequency response with severe peaks in the upper midrange and treble and nasty resonance (certain frequencies lingering and not decaying properly) which make them very painful to listen to for anyone with a discerning ear or anyone sensitive to FR peaks."
"However, if you are really picky about sound, I think you'll find that the treble is really disappointing."
"At the same time, I'm also hearing detail that was not there before in good recordings.3) The recessed mids, which stress the treble."
"However, the problem begins with the treble."
"Pretty much all treble is extremely pronounced with these cans, and that is not a good thing."
"Mids - Like the treble, the mids were quite disappointing out of the box."
"Overall:Treble- good, clean, crisp, and sparklyMidrange-good, no complaintsBass-Tight, controlled, yet plenty of bass."
"Clear, crisp mids and trebles with adequate bass."
"The treble does have some good clarity, and poorly recorded EDM and rock is going to reveal itself."
"Now the best way to describe this headphone is detail , treble is well presented and full."
"Not great for monitors, but great for games and movies."
"excellent for movies voices easily heard."
"Sound is great for movies like it is advertised for."
"The mid is recessed but I don't think mids sound good in a closed headphone anyways (get the seashell effect).As for the 780', sound is great for movies like it is advertised for."
"The cord is about three feet which is perfect, and there is a long extension which works nicely for watching movies."
"It's almost as if they warn you only seconds into a strong vocal track that they will not perform their best for songs like this."
"These headphones aren't perfect though; genres that depend on vocals and guitars may suffer due to slightly recessed mids."
"Vocals also come through very clear."
"i love the way my jazz, jazz vocals, chamber music play...like i can hear the air of every vocal breath, and i swear i can sense the shifting of the air around every pluck of a bass."
"Vocals are wonderful to listen to, even with the bass."
"At any rate, if you listen to vocal extensively then don't get these, there are better alternatives (I'm listening to Mia Martina's Burning and due to her vocal frequency the song sounds outstanding)."
"Exactly what I wanted: lightweight with great sound."
"They are lightweight and look good too."
"When compared to the old Technics I used when I DJed in college, they are very light weight and easy to wear for a long time." | 2019-04-22T01:08:32 | http://keeppy.com/keeppies/e0d09252cbd9ef2a |
0.999909 | What are the different sections for?
If the aim of Discordia is to interweave ideas, isn't it a contradiction to divide postings into different sections?
Discordia is based on Scoop software that has been modified by the Discordia working group in keeping with extensive discussions about how communication and exchanging ideas could work and how software development can be a creative and integral part of that process.
The Discordia sections basically reflect possible different modes or styles of communication and discussion. The sections "Editors' Picks" and "Special Guest Host's Corner" under the heading "Nepotism" are for invited content: the editors and specially invited guest hosts choose and post stories here without going through the moderation process, but which all users are naturally invited to comment on. Stories and announcements to all the other sections under the heading "Democracy" are first listed as "pending", and other users then vote for them to appear on the front page or under the relevant section (or not at all, as the case may be). This division is intended to make "curatorial" decisions more transparent.
Since answers, usually in the form of a definitive statement to appear authoritative, are so often privileged, what happens when a greater value is attributed to questions? If meaningful and interesting questions are able to open up new avenues of exploration, inviting a greater diversity of responses than statements that provoke only specific reactions, could the development of an "art of questioning" lead to a more open discourse culture? In order to explore the possibilities of different styles of communication, the Question Corner only permits postings in the form of a question.
One of the greatest strengths of a mailing list is that it draws like-minded people with similar interests together. For this reason, a relevant mailing list can be important for reaching potential audiences, participants, readers, etc. with announcements of events, publications, projects. Unfortunately, the drawback is that too many announcements may start to choke communication on the list, hampering exchange so that the effect is counterproductive. E.A. Dobbs, Discordia's own Discordarchivist, is an Essay and Announcement Databased intended to provide a forum for announcements, publication releases and self-promotion, in order take the need to make announcements seriously, but without drowning out all other exchanges at the same time.
As the name suggests, this section focuses on "reviews" - opinions, discussions, descriptions of books, films, events, exhibitions, web sites ... Any kind of presented work that incites opinions, discussions, further developments.
Creative, open-ended, experimental exchange necessarily involves input that can be playful, subversive, irritating, puzzling. This is another need, however, that has sometimes proved counterproductive in the linear structure of mailing lists by blocking all other communication. The Secret Room Upstairs is Discordia's playground, where the conventional rules of netiquette do not apply. If you want to play, all you have to do is find it.
Even the most straightforward statement of information can take on a different meaning, if it is filtered through a different perspective. Economic topics, for example, can reveal hidden pitfalls if filtered through a gender-sensitive perspective, philosophical ideas may be given a surprising twist when filtered through translations into different languages, political agendas often change color when filtered through a different ideology. In this section, users are invited to take stories and comments from other areas of Discordia or to link to articles found elsewhere, and run these through the filter of their choice (e.g. feminist critique, Marxism, anti-globalism, translations ...) to reveal unstated or unconscious presuppositions and potential stumbling blocks that are not immediately obvious within the original framework.
As it is in the nature of creative and critical thinking to cross categories and conjoin disparate ideas, this section is open to discussion that does not fit comfortably in one of the other sections.
Comments and suggestions on how well Discordia works now and what could be improved are welcome here, as well as shared reflections on how structures influence communication and vice versa. What do you find confusing about Discordia, and which are the features you have always dreamed of, but never found anywhere else? Which role could this kind of platform play in which contexts?
Like community moderation and collaborative filtering, shared reflection at this meta-level is an important part of the ongoing Discordia process.
Many different sections have been proposed in the course of extensive discussions about how to most effectively structure communication without being too rigid. These seemed to be the best ones to start with, but they could be changed, if it appears through the use of Discordia that more, less or different sections might be more helpful.
The sections are intended to organize rather than divide postings. They are not meant to be rigid divisions for separating ideas, but rather suggestions for different ways of dealing with them. The Discordia development group has been experimenting with possibilities for creating links among disparate postings, so users are invited to join in this experiment by watching for potential connections and trying out new features as they may appear on the site. Users are also encouraged to submit new stories that tie ideas from posted stories together. | 2019-04-21T06:28:08 | http://discordia.us/scoop/special/faq_sections.html |
0.999407 | Purpose of review: Epidermodysplasia verruciformis has been addressed in depth in the recent literature despite its rarity. The disease is characterized by a persistence in human papillomavirus infections and development of cutaneous malignancies, usually happening more frequently and at a younger age than in the general population. Because of the role of immunodeficiency to viral antigens eventually leading to cancer, EV has become a model for understanding a viral role in cutaneous oncogenesis. Susceptibility loci for EV have been mapped and encoded protein functions are becoming better understood. Discoveries of novel mutations and further study of EV-associated HPV serotypes in lesional and nonlesional skin of affected patients and the general population may help generate a cohesive theory regarding the true role of a defective immune barrier in oncogenesis. | 2019-04-22T10:33:52 | https://www.hindawi.com/journals/dm/2010/345436/abs/ |
0.998731 | Why buy the Swarovski Crystal Wishes Jewllery Set, Red?
The Swarovski Crystal Wishes Set in Red is the perfect way o add a touch of sparkle to your look this season. This delightful set contains two must-have pieces from Swarovski - the Crystal Wishes Heart Pendants and the Attract Pierced Earrings. The pendants have been inspired by true love and can be worn alone or together for a versatile look. Combining clear and red toned crystals they offer a dazzling sparkle effect in all types of light - a signature look from Swarovski. The earrings offer a fashionable asymmetric look and can be worn with the pendants or alone. The Swarovski Crystal Wishes Set in Red is a great gift idea and perfect for Valentine's Day.
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0.999925 | SERVE TOASTED W/CREAM CHEESE, FRUIT SPREAD, OR CINNAMON SUGAR Put all ingredients in the order given, into the bread pan, select WHITE bread, and push Start. Makes 1 loaf, 8 slices. Each slice: 140 calories; 1 gm dietary fiber; less than 1 gm soluble fiber; 26 gm carbohydrates; 4 gm protein; 2 gm fat (13% calories from fat); less than 1 mg cholesterol; 268 mg sodium; 72 mg potassium; 17 mg calcium. | 2019-04-21T06:08:18 | http://cookdiary.net/buckwheat-bread/ |
0.999948 | Read the statement that gives explains a child's eligibility for an assessment to use short break opportunities in Torbay.
This information is for families living in Torbay who have a disabled child aged 0 to 18 years. The statement is published so that children and young people together with their parents/carers and families can find out about their eligibility for an assessment to use short break opportunities available in Torbay.
The statement also covers how they can access these short breaks as well as how to find out other useful information.
This information is for families living in Torbay who have a disabled child aged 0 to 18 years. | 2019-04-19T16:18:00 | https://www.torbay.gov.uk/council/policies/cs/short-breaks/ |
0.999617 | The most powerful weather pattern of its type in the past 65 years will have huge impacts on weather around the globe.
The developing El Nino is stronger than the last major event of its type in 1997.
According to the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the UK Met Office, this El Nino is shaping up to be the strongest since records began in 1950.
El Nino is a natural phenomenon which occurs every two to seven years and lasts between six and 18 months.
It manifests as a warming of the surface waters of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. The current El Nino is so strong that in some areas sea surface temperatures (SSTs) are more than 2 degrees Celsius above the long-term average.
Aside from the devastating effect that El Nino has on the Peruvian fishing industry, the real significance lies in the change in weather patterns that it produces around the globe.
In the Pacific, the warmer waters in the eastern part of the ocean have spawned more typhoons, super typhoons and hurricanes than usual, with the tracks of those storm systems also being altered considerably.
Severe weather conditions have been experienced around the Asia-Pacific region.
Changes in the weather around the Pacific region are hardly surprising, but almost every continent is impacted by a strong El Nino.
In Australia, many parts of the country have had an exceptionally hot summer with temperatures regularly exceeding 40C.
In South America's Atacama Desert, one of the driest regions on earth, the heaviest rain in 80 years resulted in severe flooding and the deaths of more than 20 people.
In North America, where much of the south and west has been experiencing the worst drought in a century, El Nino could bring the benefit of rain, although if the El Nino of 1997-98 is anything to go by, that rain could result in severe flooding and deaths.
Extreme weather; Linked to climate change?
In the Caribbean, the developing El Nino has already had the opposite effect to the one experienced in the Pacific: namely, it has reduced hurricane frequency by causing an increase in wind shear.
This is a change of wind direction and speed with height that can disrupt hurricane formation.
In Africa, El Ninos are associated with drought across southern portions of the continent, and drought in countries such as Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa is causing a looming food crisis.
Even Europe is not immune from the effects of an El Nino.
If this year's event follows the pattern of previous ones, then winter weather here could be colder and drier than average and last well into spring.
No two El Ninos are the same.
There are lots of other short and long-term variables in the global weather patterns, but the coming months could see some unusual and spectacular weather in many parts of the world. | 2019-04-21T02:16:05 | https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/09/el-nino-set-strongest-150913093902800.html |
0.999197 | The water softener resin is an integral, non-expendable part of a water softener.
In fact, it is the central factor that is crucial to the softening of what was once hard water so that it can be used by the household.
To summarize, the resin is responsible for removing the calcium and magnesium ions from the hard water. It also does the job of swapping sodium ions into the water that is now saturated of its calcium and magnesium ions.
The resin acts like a pseudo-filter that prevents the magnesium and calcium ions from remaining in the hard water that flows into the mineral tank.
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As an owner of a water softener, you probably understand now that there are three phases in a water softening process. These are the backwash, recharge and rinsing process. This section will elaborate on the resin's role in each of these three phases.
In the first phase, the resin is at the beginning soaked with sodium ions. Since it is a cycle, the first phase is always the end of the last phase hence the soaking of the resin with sodium ions is done during the rinsing phase of the last cycle. More on that later, though.
First, hard water is diverted from the water line and into the mineral tank. As the water passes through the water softener resin, the sodium ions in it are removed and are mixed with the hydrogen ions in the water.
The ions are then replaced with the calcium and magnesium ions that stick into the surface of the resin. Technically, the resin saturates the water of its magnesium and calcium ions in this phase.
The recharge phase involves the transfer of the brine solution in the brine tank, and into the mineral tank. In a reverse of its previous role, the resin now acts to trap sodium ions from the solution, as it gets rid of the trapped calcium and magnesium ions.
This new batch of sodium ions will be used in the next regeneration cycle and will be swapped for a new batch of magnesium and calcium ions when the new water passes through the resin.
In the rinsing phase, part of the fresh water is transferred to the brine tank. This water serves two purposes: first it rinses the brine tank, and second it is mixed with salt in order to come up with fresh, sodium-rich brine.
There are two types of resin that are in use with most water softener models today. These are the standard hi-cap resin, and the fine mesh resin.
The hi-cap resin is the one that is employed in most models of water softeners. Chances are, you could check the manuals for water softener and you'd find that it uses a hi-cap resin.
The fine mesh resin is more effective in trapping certain minerals than the hi-cap resin. It is capable of trapping metals such as iron. It is ideal for use in houses that take their water supply from private wells, instead of the water distributed by the municipal water system.
However, not many models use this type. To convert a water softener that uses the hi-cap resin into a fine-mesh resin softener takes quite an effort to do so.
Like all things in this world, nothing lasts forever. This includes resin. Typically, softener resin can last about twenty to twenty-five years before it needs to be replaced.
Follow these five quick and easy steps to find out what's wrong with your softener system.
Learn how the softener removes dissolved impurities that harden your city water supply. | 2019-04-21T18:44:18 | https://www.allwaterpurification.com/water-softener-resin.html |
0.999999 | IID in real life /Machine Learning - When is data truly IID?
In a course I am studying at Berkeley,some student said about a particular Dataset "Data is not iid" and the lecturer agreed with him.
So once and for all, I want to understand, for real data, how often is it really iid and how can I decide myself?
For example, let's say that I take 20 million images from Facebook "randomly" (let's say that each image has some unique integer associated with it, and I pick a random integer every time). Is this iid? What if I take a particular user's images, and then his friends's images etc in a BFS kind of way? Is this iid now?
While I understand the math definition I don't have the underlying distribution so it's very unclear to me. My gut feeling is that a real life dataset is almost never truly iid by the way.
In order to answer the question, you need to understand what distribution the lecturer is talking about in the video you linked to in the question. For example, he talks about the "distribution of the labels conditional on the image": $$\pi_\theta(\texttt u|\texttt o)$$ where $\theta$ - (hyper)parameters of NN, $\texttt u$ - labels and $\texttt o$ - images. The output $\texttt u$ could be an action of a self-driving car etc.
Here we're talking about a univariate distribution of scalar labels $\texttt u$. The fact that our inputs $\texttt o$ are called "tensors" in ML lingo, doesn't make this a multivariate or joint distribution. We're not talking about the distribution of the inputs, but we're conditioning our output distribution on inputs (data).
So, in this case when we talk about IID data, we mean that this distribution should not depend on the image in a sequence, it should be the same $\pi_\theta$ for any input/output pair $o_i,u_i$. Is this a reasonable assumption? I would argue that it depends on the dataset.
Suppose that we're talking about color labels on the objects. If your images were tagged by color blind and not color blind people, then clearly at the very least $\pi_\theta$ may not be the same for all images and the "ID" (identically distributed) will drop out from IID. Here, I'm assuming you don't know whether your tagger was color blind or not. If the sample is random, then the first "I" (independent) still probably stays.
On the other hand, if our data set is with "cat images", then IID assumption will sound more reasonable: almost anybody who's asked to tag the images will probably be able to recognize a cat on the image as well as anyone else, for instance.
Summarizing, it's quite easy to break IID assumption if you're not careful, e.g. the sample is not random. However, in many cases you can build a data set which will satisfy IID assumption. I would argue that you can construct a sample from NIST database of handwritten digits and assume that the labels are IID.
Where does $\pi_\theta$ come from?
I see a lot of confusion in comments as to the nature of the probability distribution $\pi_\theta$ and even its role in image recognition problem. Let's take a closer look at how statistical learning problem is set up. Suppose that our goal is to recognize the hand written digits.
IF our goal was to recognize the digits from images in MNIST database THEN this would be a pure IT problem. Say, there is 70,000 images of single digits in MNIST, then we'd create a map with 70,000 entries. The key in the map (dictionary) is the image, and the value is one of 10 digits. The recognition reduces to simply finding an input image by bitwise comparison to keys, and pulling the value. This is the case when we treat MNIST database as the population, i.e. every possible outcome.
Obviously, this is not a useful approach, because we want to recognize the digits on any picture, not just the ones in MNIST database. Hence, MNIST database is just a sample from the infinite size population. In order to appreciate the difference with previous approach consider the following image from MNIST. Which digit is it, three or five?
NIST collected writing samples from hundreds of US Census employees and high school students. Each writer writes digits differently than anybody else.
every time we write a digit it's slightly different that previous time.
The lighting will be different when photo copy or camera shot is done.
The censor in the copier or camera has thermal noise in pixels.
All these factors lead to variations and distortions of the ideal digit image every time we get picture of it. When you have an infinite population that comprises of countless number of factors impacting the final outcome probabilistic approaches start making a sense.
This is why the statistical learning in image recognition sounds like a reasonable idea to try. It's not the only possible way to solve the problem, but it had a huge rate of success in recent years.
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What is energy minimization in machine learning? | 2019-04-22T22:30:25 | https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/339694/iid-in-real-life-machine-learning-when-is-data-truly-iid |
0.998868 | After Hayne royal commission, who can restore faith in our financial system?
For anyone associated with the Australian banking and finance industry, last year was one they won't forget, much as they would like to.
It didn't quite rival the sheer terror of 2008, but the revelations of the Hayne royal commission left ordinary Australians astounded at how badly they had been let down by those they relied on to run the system.
Beyond the brutalised big end of town, the year should have been equally shameful for those who operate in the lower rungs.
The Australian Financial Review and other media outlets have covered the unravelling of several calamitous investment schemes that had devastating consequences for those lured into them.
As one distraught investor lamented to the Financial Review, no one has had their life ruined by fees for no service. But his life has been, after he made an investment based on what he is convinced were false claims that were not adequately policed and pursued.
Equally hard questions must be asked of those who either facilitated these schemes or did not do enough to prevent individuals being caught up in them.
And the regulatory failures exposed by the royal commission are equally applicable at the smaller end of town.
As a reporter covering several cases where unwitting investors were fleeced, the experience was disturbing and fascinating. I gained a greater appreciation of how the system works (or doesn't) and how the human mind works (or doesn't).
Based on the experiences of dealing with the enablers and victims of "bad outcomes", here's a list of who I think can do more to restore the integrity of the financial system.
The "credibility renters": Too often, people were lured into a dud investment because someone with authority or a sound reputation had backed the venture, joined an advisory board or given a public endorsement. Not often enough do they do any sort of diligence.
In the case of auditors, when they rubber-stump the financial accounts, individuals rely on them as fully vetted. But as they have all-too-often found out, the auditor is not responsible for detecting frauds, and they almost never do.
The regulators: The reputation of the regulators has taken a step down in 2018. They are honest, hard-working and have dedicated their careers to keeping the streets clean. But it is hard to accept there are no flaws, particularly with the approach.
On many occasions, victims of investment schemes have failed to gain traction with regulators and the evidence is that tip-offs from informed outsiders are not acted on early enough, if at all. The consequence is losses that could and should have been prevented.
Several times, the Financial Review has received responses from regulators explaining why they won't take action, even when clear breaches have been demonstrated.
Until now the regulators have adopted an approach of efficient turnarounds, even if it means inconsequential wrist-slaps. But this fails to appreciate community expectations for public justice. With each new case of daylight robbery, those playing by the rules grow more despondent while those who systematically break them grow more emboldened.
Politicians: Australians are compelled to direct a sizeable percentage of their earnings over their working lives into the wealth industry. This means Australia has one of the largest financial systems, in a relative and absolute sense.
We are therefore owed a relatively and absolutely large deployment of public resources to protect our interests.
The media: More than anything, 2018 demonstrated how crucial the media's role is in maintaining the long-term integrity of the financial system. Few would disagree the genesis of the royal commission was the relentless reporting of misconduct by Adele Ferguson and others at Fairfax Media.
There are countless other examples. One, emblematic of the times, has been the proliferation of pay-for-play trade press and social media promoters pushing questionable stocks onto retail investors. That has been met with in-depth reporting to at least inform punters how the game is being played.
There is a sense among the public that regulators are more likely to act on an issue if it is being pursued in the media, and any measures of deterrence regulators take is more effective if it is covered prominently in the press.
As long as we have a reactive rather than a proactive regulator, a robust, empowered and motivated financial press corps has a critical role to play in maintaining the system's integrity.
Investors and advisers: We hire and pay those to manage our investments because we trust them to look after our interests. And many accept this as the ultimate responsibility. But others have veered from acting as fiduciaries towards building their own businesses, often at the expense of their customers.
Vertical integration was a key theme of the royal commission but it is arguably more prevalent among smaller operators. Kickbacks are everywhere you look, and everywhere you don't.
And there are too many clear-cut examples where uninformed customers have been placed into products – by people they trust – that no right-minded fiduciary would touch.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission's new chairman, James Shipton, has made it his mantra to remind those in the finance industry it is other peoples' money they are dealing with. Cynics say that some unfortunately know this all too well.
The whistleblowers: The term has become glorified to represent those who risk their careers for the greater good. They should rightly be lionised.
But there is a bigger, more silent army of informants and keyboard vigilantes who write letters to the regulators (sadly too often with little consequence), contact the media and take other steps to raise awareness of instances where they uncover evidence of wrongdoing.
Often they are dismissed for acting in their self-interest but, in most cases, their self-interest is that they are playing by the rules or acting with integrity towards their clients, while they observe that others are not. They cannot sit idly by.
It is easy, after the year we have had, to lose sight of the fact the vast majority of Australians who work in the finance industry – including for those organisations whose reputations have been battered by the royal commission – are good people with noble intentions.
Our financial system needs to be fixed for them. | 2019-04-25T12:50:25 | https://www.afr.com/opinion/after-hayne-royal-commission-who-can-restore-faith-in-our-financial-system-20190112-h1a081 |
0.999084 | A Dublin builder convicted of attacking his neighbour outside their homes following a lengthy dispute will find writing an apology letter a "sticking point", a court has heard.
Peter Lambe (50) had denied assault causing harm to Gerard Furlong (62), who suffered serious facial injuries during the incident on Arran Road, Drumcondra, on the morning of March 4, 2016.
However, he was found guilty following a trial at Dublin District Court in December.
Yesterday, despite not accepting the verdict, he pleaded with Judge John Cheatle to spare him a criminal record so he could move to Australia with his partner.
Judge Cheatle was furnished with a probation report on Lambe.
He adjourned sentencing until April to allow the accused time to complete a restorative justice services programme.
That would involve a letter of apology which defence counsel Alan Grace described as "a sticking point" for his client.
He said Lambe had €1,000 to offer Mr Furlong, who had earlier turned down an offer of compensation. Mr Grace said the offer was still available or it could go to charity instead.
Pleading for leniency, he asked for the judge to spare his client a conviction.
He said the probation report was largely positive, but Lambe did not fully accept his guilt.
The accused "seems to view it as an altercation that got out of hand", counsel said.
The court heard there was "no love lost" between the neighbours.
Mr Furlong told the trial that his daughter, Claire Tynan, was about to drive him to a doctor's appointment when he noticed a rear door of the car was open and got out to close it.
He testified that Lambe was at his van and wanted to speak with him, but Mr Furlong did not want to do so.
Lambe grabbed him and pulled him around and started punching him, he said.
They went to ground and Lambe started punching him in the face. He said his daughter came out and a neighbour witnessed the incident.
Ms Tynan told the court she was petrified when she saw the attack on her father, and she described how he was punched and continually headbutted.
She said that afterwards Lambe raised his fist to her.
Her father was disorientated and suffered cuts and bruising to his face. He was taken to the Mater Hospital.
In his victim impact statement, Mr Furlong told the court he and his wife were in the process of moving from the area.
He said that for at least a year he was "very conscious walking out the door of his house, looking up and down".
He lost interest in events such as birthdays and Christmas, and following medical advice he went to counselling.
Since the incident his grandchildren no longer came to the house out of fear they would be assaulted.
"To this day, I still continuously live in fear of Mr Lambe," Mr Furlong said.
Defence barrister Mr Grace asked the judge to note his client looked after his mother who was deaf and mute. | 2019-04-25T16:09:24 | https://www.herald.ie/news/builder-in-attack-sees-apology-letter-as-sticking-point-37794698.html |
0.999999 | Two words. Seven letters. Say them and most people start to worry. Tax Time.
As a CPA, the first and last thing on my mind is taxes. I spend a busy tax season helping my clients get control of their finances, managing the steady stream of bank statements, receipts, and mileage logs. At the end of the day I have a small amount of time to wrangle with my own taxes, and I’ve tackled this challenge in the most accountant way possible; with Excel.
I’m going to give you some tips and tricks on how to do taxes in Excel, including a free tax tracker template you can download and start using right away.
Budget spreadsheets are a great way to keep track of your finances. You can add up all of your income and expenses in one place and be well prepared to drop your final numbers into your tax prep software.
While a basic budget spreadsheet is great, it is a rather manual process to prepare. Either you are adding multiple numbers in one cell and triple checking you keyed them in correctly, or you are creating a detail spreadsheet from your PDF bank statement. Unfortunately, both of these are very labor intensive.
Another issue that plagues traditional budget spreadsheets is matching categories up with lines that are on your income tax return at the end of the year. Don’t get me wrong, detail is great in understanding where your money is going, but when it comes to actually doing your taxes it’s just an unnecessary added step. That’s why I advocate for a Tax Tracker. A Tax Tracker takes your raw transactions and generates a Profit and Loss statement (also referred to as an Income statement) to be updated regularly like a budget tracker. You can get the amazing tracking template I use for my business below.
To speed this process up a bit, you can start by downloading an Excel copy of your bank or credit card transactions. In this day and age, most business bank and credit card accounts provide an Excel version of your transactions online and not just the paper or PDF statement.
Copy and paste your Excel versions of bank or credit card statements, including headings, into the Inc Stmt Detail tab of the template.
Indicate which column represents the transaction amount using the drop down menu in row 9. Note: make sure only transaction amounts are in the Transaction Amount column or the calculation on the Income statement will be off.
Classify each line to an income/expense category using the drop down menu in Column A, for example “Gross Sales”, or “Other Business Income”.
The Income Statement tab utilizes a handy SUMIF formula for each line item on the Inc Stmt Detail tab. For example, for the Gross Sales calculation on the Income Statement tab, the SUMIF formula searches for “Gross Sales” on the Inc Stmt Detail tab, Column A, and sums up all transaction values that match.
The Tax Tracker template provides three major tools that alleviate the typical pain points with the 1040 Schedules A, C, & D. The tabs in the Tax Tracker can be filled out in any particular order and are great way to double check your return before filing.
On the Sch, A tab, combine all your itemized deductions into the correct line items in column D. This will save you from paying an accountant to itemize your deductions for you.
On the Sch. D Detail tab you’ll use columns A through G to calculate your gains and losses from the sale of investments during the year which is summarized on the Sch. D Summary tab.
Use the Inc Stmt Detail and Income Statement tabs as shown above to turn bank and credit card statements into a working income statement that matches up with Schedule C on your tax return.
If you store your financial data in Excel, these next tips can help you make sure your spreadsheets are accurate and error free.
Say your bank provides you with Excel transaction data that isn’t up to snuff to use these new tools. For example, what if all your transaction amounts are numbers stored as text and you need them to be the numbers they represent? Luckily Microsoft anticipated this situation as well and created another clutch formula.
In this formula, text is the cell reference for the number to convert. The result of this formula is a mirror image of the original data with the exception that Excel recognizes it as numbers. Copy and paste values over the original data and now other mathematical formulas referencing those values will work properly.
One of the best ways to streamline the categorization process is through predefined lists. To pull this off, data validation will reduce errors and will make data entry easier, particularly if you and your significant other are updating a shared spreadsheet. For example, if “office supplies” accidentally became “offiec supplies”, your formulas that rely on that label would not work. With data validation, you can add an error message that will pop up if you try to enter data that isn’t on the list. Follow these steps to create your own data validation list.
Create a list of data options in a single column or row.
Select the cells where you want the drop down menu to be located then navigate to the Data Tab and click Data Validation.
Under the Settings tab, select List as the option under the "Allow" drop down list, and then select the range for your list under "Source".
Fill out the Error Alert tab to set your error message to stop you from entering values not included in the list.
Bonus Tip: to keep the list of values from being changed, lock the sheet with password protection so it can’t be edited. This can be accomplished under the Review ribbon.
There are few things more frustrating than figuring out where the errors are in your formulas. You work hard inputting the data and linking it up only to find the numbers just don’t add up. Instead of clicking through your cells and rereading the code, Excel offers a great tool to quickly see how your data is flowing through your formulas.
Highlight the cell(s) containing the formulas you want traced.
After you click, blue lines appear showing which cells are included in your formula. This formula is really helpful in showing which cells have data pulled from other sheets in the workbook.
In the course of compiling expenses I like to see multiple levels of detail in one columnar format. It helps to visually digest and make sense of the data when there are subtotals along the way. However, the typical addition formulas Excel provides can cause frustration. Either the SUM formula double counts the intermediate sums or you risk missing a cell if added up one by one.
Microsoft realized the need for a summing formula that excluded the in between subtotals when it created SUBTOTAL. Using this formula, you can create sums of specific rows without cluttering the surrounding cells with calculations and your grand total will not double count. To utilize this formula use the following steps.
ref1 is the data range that the function will be applied to.
Note the functions available for the SUBTOTAL formula are listed in numerical order while typing out the formula.
The subtotal formula also works great with grouping data. A lot of times you want to see the individual items that sum up to each line item in your Tax Tracker. Instead of creating a whole new sheet for this, you can sort your data by category and group with subtotals.
Highlight all the rows and columns of your transaction detail, including headers.
On the Home ribbon, click Sort & Filter > Custom Sort.
Under Column, select Category. Under Sort On, leave as Values. And for Order, choose either A to Z or Z to A. Also ensure the "My data has headers" check box is selected. Select OK.
With the same data highlighted, click on the Data ribbon and click Subtotal.
In the pop up window, select Category under "At each change in". Under "Use function" select Sum, and under "Add subtotal to", select Transaction amount. Also make sure the check box "Summary below data" is checked. Click OK.
The results of these steps add subtotal rows for each different category, and sum up on the transaction amounts, including a grand total at the bottom.
I hope you’ll find these Excel tips and tricks helpful this tax season to manage all the data that goes into filling out your tax return. Ultimately the key to managing any data is consistency - whatever methods you choose to compile your tax data, it must be done on a regular basis. Armed with the free Tax Tracker template and your Excel formula knowledge, preparing for tax season this year will be a breeze!
Brandon is a full time CPA specializing in all things tax. When he is not serving clients, he enjoys spending time with his wife and son, real estate investing, and sipping fine bourbon. | 2019-04-20T08:22:04 | https://www.goskills.com/Excel/Articles/How-to-do-taxes-in-Excel |
0.999999 | I picked up the bass a few months ago, and I've noticed that when I'm playing something, the strings make loud clicky sounds when they hit the fret. This happens especially when I'm trying to play something fast, and when I jump between strings. How can I prevent this from happening? What could I be doing wrong?
Work on having your left hand 'think ahead', so that you're not rushing to fret the note just before you play it; instead, the relevant finger has got there well before time.
a low action at the nut will reduce the amount of click for the positions near the nut.
Again as Bradd says, low action at the high frets will make it more likely for the string to clatter against the frets at the end of the neck, so you may want to raise the bridge saddles a little, as well as focusing on playing less hard (with your right hand). The latter may mean you need to turn your amp up a bit too, so you can play gently and let the amp do the work.
As No'am Newman mentions in a comment, bass clanks aren't a bad thing in themselves - I harness them in a couple of ways: - accenting strong notes in a bar with a bit of right hand 'clank' - setting my bass up so that the string hits the high frets briefly at the start of each note. coupled with distortion, this gives a great snorty rock sound. Of course if you don't want clanks, that's fine too.
Also, bear in mind that not all the clanks and clicks you hear acoustically will actually make it into your signal chain. You can reduce a lot of noises by turning down the tone on the bass.
There are two likely causes for this, depending on where the strings are clicking. If they click directly under your fingers, from the force of your fingertips striking the frets, then work on reducing the tension in your fretting hand. Proper fretting requires very little tension or force. Keeping it minimal will reduce percussive noises and will also reduce fatigue and the likelihood of injury.
If the strings click or buzz against the neck farther from your fingers, then the problem might still be tension, but in your plucking hand instead of your fretting hand. When playing fast, loud, or dynamic music it is easy to over-pick which can make the strings slap or buzz against the strings. Low action or low neck relief will exaggerate this noise, so you might want to adjust your bass setup in addition to easing off the picking hand.
From an instrument maker's point of view: aside from how you play, the setup of the bass makes a difference. There's always going to be some amplitude of string vibration that will buzz somewhere; it's a matter of taste what that amplitude is. The lower the action, the easier it is to fret and the less problems with intonation, but the easier it is to buzz. The higher the action, the less buzzing, but the more effort and possible intonation problems.
Of course, you want your action to be regular: no high or low frets, nut and bridge appropriate, etc. Get it checked out if you find differences between different fingered notes.
Topo pre-empted my first thought - turn down the treble on the amp or guitar.
Those clicks would make it seem like you're hammering on too hard with the fretting fingers. Hammer-ons are a regular part of guitar and bass playing, to be able to play legato, but also so you can drink your pint while still playing the bass line in a gig. Hammer-ons don't need to be sledge-hammer-ons, though. The note will still play when you press down less harshly. Try all sorts of different attack modes, and a lot of the click will disappear. Of course, sometimes you'll want it, so go back to your original mode of playing.
Another cause may be the strings are too low, and are catching on the next fret or three, although often, this will manifest itself in a rattle as well. You may also be pulling the string up away from the finger board before letting go - sort of mini bow and arrow style. That's a common way to play when you're slapping and popping - it's the pop. A slap is also percussive in a different way, when you hit the string down onto the finger board. Again, that's percussive, and will produce a click, albeit a different one.
This type of sound is solvable by either playing softer with the playing hand (not hitting the strings so hard) or doing some EQing. If your bass has a treble control, turn it down. Same with the amp or any pedals.
But the best solution for things like this is to solve it at the hand and not gloss over it with effects.
Adjusting your playing style for a given situation will not only open up your bass for new possibilities, but make you a more versatile player. You can then use the clanky sound to accent other notes without sacrificing treble in your normal tone.
I used to have the same issue, hitting the strings far, far too hard and always getting the clank. I've since lowered my action and learned to play a lot softer. I can now get that clank without too much extra effort and play fast lines with soft strikes of the fingers, which is way easier than trying to hit hard during a fast passage.
I'm with Tim, I think you're squeezing too hard. Try this, place your finger on the string and press very, very gently until the string just touches the fretboard behind the fret. Keep playing the string with your right (I presume) hand all this time. Notice the left hand pressure you needed when the note first comes out clear. That the most pressure you need to exert, even when paying fast.
If you keep squeezing too hard or too fast, you will at best tire quickly, at worst risk hand strains or injury and speaking as someone who has had hand surgery, I don't recommend it.
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0.99998 | Windows 7 Password Refixer is the kind of Windows 7 password reset tool which has a very good compatibility that it supports password reset on all versions of Windows 7 operating system on all brands of desktop/laptop/tablet. When you forgot Windows 7 admin/user password and have no password reset disk, iSumsoft Windows 7 Password Refixer should be the best choice to reset Windows 7 admin password without disk. Because with this tool you can get a bootable Windows 7 password reset disk with the help of another computer. Then boot your password-forgotten computer from the bootable disk to reset Windows 7 password. Specific steps are as follows: Step 1: Download and install Windows 7 Password Refixer on any one accessible Windows computer. Step 2: Insert a USB/CD flash drive to the computer and launch this software. Step 3: Follow the detailed guide on the software's interface to burn it to the USB/CD flash drive so that you can get a bootable Windows 7 password reset disk. Step 4: Boot the password forgotten and locked Windows 7 computer from the bootable USB/CD drive. Step 6: Windows 7 Password Refixer runs and you can reset Windows 7 password on the screen. Windows 7 password will be removed and you can logon without password.
"Waste of time; I would like 4 days of wasted time back"
I can find nothing nice to say at all.
Customer support is useless. I sent screen shots of each screen I encountered (each requires I may a choice) and asked what I was supposed to do at each screen.
I was told to run the program -- not how to respond at each option screen.
When I asked for details, I was asked for screen shots again. I did send them screenshots again, and asked for specific instructions at each step (as I found "download the program and run it" was somewhat lacking for me).
Their response -- ask for screenshots again. I imagine that made them laugh, to see how many time they could get me to bang my head against the wall for their amusement, while they provided no meaningful response or support.
I have requested a refund, don't expect them to follow through but I will demand it of PayPal.
It is a shame support is so poor, because I do need a product to do what this one promised to do.
Save yourself the headache and keep looking.
"Software has HUGE bug & developer won't acknowledge!!!"
Works with basic settings and simple stuff.
If program terminates abnormally, the program asks you if you want to continue where you left off. Well it only works if you were using the software default settings. I had it running for 10 days when Windows decided to update and reboot causing Isumsoft to abort. When I started it up again it started up with the basic settings and not where it left off. I included special characters and a 10 character length when I first started. When it asked to continue where I left off it rest to 8 character length and dropped the inclusion of special characters. When I contacted support they were in denial and totally unwilling to even try to help.
Waste of money. Find a better software as the program has problems and you can't get willing support.
"Didn't work, company won't refund as stated on site"
None. It didn't work. I could change the password, but afterward, the password would not let me set back to factory settings. Said I had insufficient access.
Absolutely did NOT work as stated. When I contacted iSumsoft, they kept telling me to send a screenshot of the "error". This was a work-supplied computer that was having issues. I needed it fixed immediately. When the Password Refixer Tool failed, I ended up overnighting the computer back to the company to fix for me.
I would never recommend this company to anyone. Or give them another dime. Ever. Their product did NOT work, and they won't stand behind their warranty. End of story.
It says "Some features disabled" when in fact all of them are. The only thing you can do is create a test user which is deleted immediately after creation. What a waste of time. | 2019-04-26T14:42:48 | https://download.cnet.com/iSumsoft-Windows-7-Password-Refixer/3000-2094_4-76267595.html |
0.971058 | Tommy finally decided that he'd pee in the potty.
I'd like to say that he just decided that it was his time or maybe, perhaps, he got tired of his mother constantly following him around asking if he needed to pee.
What I had to do is bribe and bribe and bribe.
And create a talking chicken with my fingers.
What is a talking chicken you might ask?
My Dad, he stayed home with me while my Mom worked. He would make chicken fingers and this amused me. He'd do it while we had to wait and he'd do it before he dropped me off at school.
"Do the chicken, Daddy!" I'd beg and he'd oblige. I'd collapse into a fit of giggles and think that he was the greatest.
I decided to do the chicken with Tommy when he had been sitting on the potty for over twenty minutes and nothing was happening. At this point he didn't seem to care much for the bribe. He just sat on the potty, pants around his ankles, staring me right in the eye. His expression clearly said, "Screw this, Mom. Screw this." He was waiting for me to back down.
Then I brought out the chicken. I formed it with my fingers and made it look at Tommy.
"Hello Tommy," said the chicken.
Tommy looked confused at first. His eyes grew as big as saucers and he swallowed hard. He didn't know what to make of this creature.
"I think you should go pee. Then you get to pick a toy! Won't that be fun?" the chicken asked.
A small smile began to form on Tommy's face. Then a giggle escaped his lips.
"So how about you pee for me?" the chicken questioned.
At first it frightened him. The sensation of letting go. His first impulse was to jump up but I told him it was okay. What he'd do is squeeze out some pee. Stop. Look at the chicken and wait for the chicken to cheer. Then pee some more. Stop. Look at the chicken and wait for the chicken to cheer.
It took probably five minutes for all the pee to come out.
He got a big kick out of the chicken cheering and dancing around. I was cheering as well, obviously, but he didn't care that Mommy was pleased. He cared that the chicken was opening and closing his mouth, cheering and whooping, calling Tommy a big boy, such a big boy.
He's peed four times in the potty. All because of this chicken finger.
He likes the chicken to say goodbye to him when his car picks him up from school. I had strapped him in the carseat and kissed him on the cheek. Tommy kept eyeing my hand.
"Chicken please! Chicken! Bye bye, Chicken."
The car driver's eyebrows shot up at this. I had to explain what he was talking about. I showed the driver and she laughed and went, "How clever!"
I read that sometimes you should talk to children with a hand puppet if they won't listen to you. Because there's a good chance that they'll listen to the hand puppet. In our case it's the chicken.
I still can't believe that a chicken hand thing helped him to pee.
"A shot?" with wide eyes.
"Yes, I'm sorry, you'll have to get two," I explained.
"Oh no. Ouch! A band-aid?" Tommy asked seriously.
"Yes, you'll get a band-aid. And maybe even a sticker if you're a good boy," I replied.
Tommy just gave a big sigh and muttered, "Ouch." | 2019-04-25T04:20:47 | https://www.airingmylaundry.com/2006/05/meet-chicken.html |
0.999867 | The title of a local movie, the Fake Prophet, that was distributed in Nigeria as part of the campaign against child witchcraft accusation in the country made me curious. Those behind this project had the best of intentions to educate and enlighten people regarding the fraudulent claims by witch branding pastors.
They wanted to expose the tricks of self styled men and women of God, the manipulations of clerics who claimed to have supernatural powers and employ such pretensions to deceive, abuse and exploit gullible folks. Still that the title of this film did not sit well with me and constantly agitated my mind. Too many times I queried: What does a fake prophet mean. Is that not a tautology? Which prophet is not fake?
Are there genuine prophets and prophecies? Can one really make a distinction between fake and genuine prophets? Recently, I have had to contend with these similar questions in trying to understand South Africa's ongoing efforts to tackle bogus pastors and the commercialization of religion. South Africa has gone to the extent of setting up a commission to curb these dangerous practices. Take note, by South African definition, commercialization of religion is a harmful enterprise. In pursuant to this project, church leaders have been investigated and sanctioned for reckless and irresponsible religious claims and practices, or for violating the rights of their members. One of such pastors sprayed insecticides on the congregants during prayers.
But the problem is: how does one define a bogus pastor? To curb the commercialization of religion or to hold rogue clerics accountable, it is important to explain what is meant by commercialization of religion or a bogus pastor. As in the case of the Fake Prophet, there is lack of clarity in the usage and application of these terminologies. And this conceptual vagueness or ambiguity needs to be dealt with in order to adequately situate, understand and address dangerous religious practices in the region. First, on the issue of commercialization of religion, South Africa wants to combat religious profiteering. The country is trying to curb the exploitation of vulnerable people or better, the mercantilist religious schemes of pastors who promise blessings or miracles at a fee. This is quite commendable. But how far can South Africa go in fulfilling this objective? How does South Africa differentiate commercialized from non-commercialized forms of religious expressions? What are the assurances that this project is not a form of witch-hunt that only targets some pastors, prophets and churches and not others?
This is because commerce has been the main driver of religious growth in Africa and the world. While presenting itself as a charitable or humanitarian program, religion has always been a commercial enterprise that profits religious establishments. In fact, traditional, Christian, and Islamic religions are transnational business empires and have thrived by marketing blessing, prophecies, and prayers. Religious business mainly thrives on bogus supernatural claims. Christian churches and mosques owe their enormous wealth and money to the sale of religious goods and transcendental schemes.
While President Ramaphosa of South Africa was right in urging a discussion on bogus pastors and their dangerous practices, the problem remains: What does he mean by bogus pastors? What are the criteria for determining rogue clerics and their questionable religious claims? It must be recalled that Ramaphosa made this remark in reaction to the controversy over Pastor Alph Lukau's resurrection claim. Now let's take a closer look at this Lukau's case. In a widely circulated video, Pastor Lukau claimed to have brought a dead man back to life. He was seen telling a man in a coffin, rise up! And in reaction to this incident, Lukau has been widely mocked and criticized. In fact another South Africa prophet has challenged him over the resurrection claim urging Lukau to go raise the late Nelson Mandela. Many other South African pastors and prophets have made very bizarre and controversial religious claims. Now let's not forget, stories of resurrection and other counter-intuitive notions exist in Christianity and constitute the pillars of various religious traditions. Regarded as articles of faith, these claims are rarely called to question or subjected to critical examination as in the case of Lukau. Mainline priests, bishops, sheikhs, imams, and ulamas are not challenged for promoting these Lukau-like ideas and performances. They are usually not pilloried for promoting dubious questionable religious claims.
Whilst African Christians believe that Jesus resurrected from the dead or that Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, they are ready to mock and dispute the resurrection claims of Lukau and other African prophets, designating them as bogus and fake. In fact how does the idea of a fake resurrection claim make sense to anyone? Is there any resurrection claim – including that of Jesus – that is not fake? Out of deference to their faith or others', Africans are unwilling to challenge established Christian or Islamic. resurrection/revelation claims. Africans seldom mock mainstream Christian or Islamic versions of fake, dubious and stage-managed resurrection, ascension and revelation narratives. This amounts to a double standard and could undermine the credibility of the campaign against dangerous religious practices in South Africa.
To succeed in tackling rogue pastors and commercialization of religion, South Africa must advance a clear and unequivocal definition of bogus pastors and commercialized religions. The country should apply these definitions to all clerics (self or other styled) and to all religions in the country without fear or favour. South Africa should not privilege some bogus pastors/prophets/imams over others; some fake resurrection/ascension/revelation claims over others; some religious exploitative and extortionist schemes over others. South Africa must be unbiased in combating both mainstream and fringe forms of commercialization of religions and religious skullduggery. | 2019-04-18T23:00:21 | http://themoment.com.ng/index.php/editorial/4397-combating-fake-pastors-south-africa-a-case-study |
0.999343 | The debate over whether to wear a helmet on a motorcycle never ends. Some want wind-tousled hair, others desire safety. It does not matter who you talk to as everyone has an opinion about motorcycle helmets. They save lives. They do not save lives. Largely, the question boils down to what kind of helmet the biker was wearing and the nature of the accident, because honestly there will be some accidents that leave a biker dead, helmet or not. The most important thing to remember though is that there are solid statistics that show helmets do reduce the severity of brain trauma if they are the safety rated and approved ones.
This great helmet debate has been around just about as long as motorbikes have been, although some states do not have helmet laws or age based helmet laws. Michigan, for example, just passed a law that would make it illegal for bikers under the age of 21 to ride without a helmet. The ramifications of that will certainly make an impact in ERs across the state.
What is at the root of this debate? On one side are the bikers who see being forced to wear a helmet as a personal affront, treating it as their right to strike a blow against insurance companies and medical groups who both insist that repealing the helmet law would result in more fatalities. In actual fact, the number of accidents may remain the same, but the outcome of those accidents may vary according to the safety orientation of the biker.
Closer to the truth is a nugget of biker wisdom that says helmets or not, bikers are still dying and getting hurt and the only way to really not meet the Grim Reaper is to not get into an accident. That is a bit of a “duh” statement, as it is a well-known fact that if a motorcycle gets into a crash with another vehicle, the biker is not going to fare well in the outcome, helmet or not.
This is not to say that helmets do not reduce the severity of brain trauma, because they do. It just means, accidents will still happen, helmets or not. People will still die, helmets or not. However, the severity of the head injuries may be reduced, thus offering a biker a second chance. Often that is worth gold to the surviving biker.
Nationally there were more than 2,000 bikers still alive at the end of the year thanks to a helmet. On the other hand, in states where the motorcycle helmet law was repealed entirely (Texas, Arizona, Florida, Kentucky and Louisiana,), bikers deaths rose.
Will medical costs rise as a result of a repealed helmet law? Will insurance companies pay out more money as a result of more crashes involving bikers without helmets? These are interesting questions to take into consideration. Perhaps the true key to this conundrum is slowing down, taking care to avoid accidents and be alert at all times. Unfortunately, not everyone drives safely.
Have you been in a motorcycle accident and do not know what your rights are? Do not wait to find out. Get on the phone and contact a skilled Atlanta personal injury lawyer. You can ask as many questions as you like in the first consultation. It is the best thing you could possibly do for your peace of mind.
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* Please send all mail correspondence to this office. | 2019-04-19T11:24:59 | https://blog.atlantapersonalinjurylawyer.pro/motorcycle-helmet-debate-continues-as-injuries-and-deaths-still-occur-2/ |
0.999919 | Why Are These Department Stores Downsizing?
Macy's, J.C. Penney, and Nordstrom are all closing stores -- but not for the same reasons.
Since the beginning of the new year, three major department store chains -- Macy's (NYSE:M), J.C. Penney (NYSE:JCP), and Nordstrom (NYSE:JWN) -- have announced plans to close some of their stores. However, the store closings come in three very different contexts.
For Macy's, store closings are a way to optimize its retail footprint and maximize profit margins. Macy's operates a vast store network and a growing e-commerce business, so losing a few stores should not impact customers much. For J.C. Penney, closing stores is part of a last-ditch attempt to cut costs in order to reach breakeven before it's too late. Lastly, for Nordstrom, the purpose of closing stores is to devote capital to the most promising growth opportunities.
Macy's is a mature business today. It has more or less saturated the U.S. market with 840 stores, and so it is no longer focused on growing.
In early January, Macy's announced that while it has several new stores scheduled to open within the next few years, it will also close five stores in early 2014.
Macy's is closing some of its stores, but opening other new locations.
Investors should see these moves as part of a broader strategy by Macy's to optimize its store portfolio. Macy's has taken advantage of its growing e-commerce business to set up its stores as mini-fulfillment centers. This allows Macy's to keep a wider variety of items in stock at each store and to better utilize the real estate and labor associated with each store. This strategy has been very successful so far.
However, while Macy's has offset the slowdown in sales at its stores with strong online revenue growth, organic earnings growth is slowing. (Macy's has used heavy buyback activity to keep EPS growing, though.) Macy's needs to trim store-related costs in order to ensure that its stores remain an asset rather than an anchor.
From this perspective, closing a few underperforming stores seems like a good move. Macy's has other locations in each of the metropolitan areas where it is closing a store. Between these other stores and its growing online business, Macy's should be able to recapture much (though not all) of the revenue it will lose from closing five stores. By shrinking its store base ever so slightly, Macy's may be able to return to margin growth this year.
In some ways, J.C. Penney's store closings stem from a similar motive. J.C. Penney also has a massive national footprint, which consists of roughly 1,100 stores. The company plans to close 33 of these stores by early May in order to save $65 million in annual operating expenses.
J.C. Penney is closing 33 stores in order to cut costs and get closer to breakeven.
However, J.C. Penney's store closings come in a wildly different context; the company lost more than $1 billion in the first three quarters of 2013. Whereas Macy's is tinkering with its store base -- opening a few stores where it thinks they will be useful, while closing a few others -- J.C. Penney is desperately trying to shore up its finances.
Additionally, J.C. Penney may have more trouble "recapturing" the revenue from the stores it is closing, which will offset some of the cost savings. Many of the stores J.C. Penney is closing are in small cities where there aren't other J.C. Penney locations nearby.
J.C. Penney may try to direct these customers to its e-commerce business. Indeed, the 26.3% growth in online sales last quarter was one of the few bright spots in its recent holiday sales report. Nevertheless, J.C. Penney's retreat from many markets indicates that management no longer expects a rapid turnaround.
Whereas Macy's and J.C. Penney have vast store networks already, Nordstrom is still growing. The upscale department store operator has just 117 full-line stores, along with around 140 Nordstrom Rack off-price stores. The company's plans to close two stores in the Portland, Ore., metro area in early 2015 may seem incongruous in light of its growth ambitions.
However, like Macy's (and, to a lesser extent, J.C. Penney), Nordstrom is hoping to recapture much of the revenue from the stores it is closing. (In fact, Nordstrom executives claim that all of the company's stores are profitable.) After the store closings, Nordstrom will still have three full-line stores and four Nordstrom Racks in the Portland area.
Nordstrom is closing two stores in order to save its capital for better opportunities.
Investors should view Nordstrom's store closings as an attempt to channel capital to the most promising opportunities. In August, 2012, Nordstrom announced plans to more than double the Rack store base from 110 locations to more than 230 by the end of 2016. The company is also entering the Canadian market later this year, and plans to have at least six full-line stores there by the end of 2016.
In other words, Nordstrom has plenty of growth opportunities calling for its cash. As an upscale retailer, it's important for the company to keep its stores looking spiffy, which means investing in remodeling every so often. With better opportunities elsewhere, it made more sense for Nordstrom to close its underperforming Portland-area stores rather than spending money to try to improve them.
Macy's, J.C. Penney, and Nordstrom are all closing some stores within the next year. To some extent, the e-commerce revolution is responsible; as more and more shopping moves online, it makes sense to close "marginal" stores rather than investing in them to improve performance.
However, the contexts are different. Macy's is opening stores at about the same rate as it is closing them, so its moves can be seen as an attempt to optimize its retail footprint. J.C. Penney is truly downsizing: closing unprofitable stores in an attempt to get back to breakeven. Lastly, Nordstrom is not downsizing at all; the company is closing two stores in order to devote its capital to investments that are expected to have higher payoffs. | 2019-04-23T12:03:24 | https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/02/10/why-are-these-department-stores-downsizing.aspx |
0.998992 | I am working on a multi-platform project, supporting windows desktop and windows rt (among others). The developments is mainly done in desktop environment. Since WinRT projects can't be loaded at all when visual studio is ran on Windows 7, and for various reasons Windows 8 is not possible everywhere, we are using virtual machines (Virtual Box) when a change is made which needs the RT projects updated as well.
Is there any known workaround for that? I am guessing copy/install/run/attach debugger is possible, but it sounds way too complicated for it (what's wrong with network shared anyway, how come files are safer when being on machine A than being on machine B is beyond me).
And by "redirect" I mean: in project-->Properties, set the build OutputPath to a local drive. I tend to use c:\temp\projects\. Better yet, everyone in the project can use the same settings with (almost) no side-effects.
As indicated the apps needs to be local. If you're using source control you can sync the VirtualBox version of the project so you have it natively rather than trying to share the same copy to different machines.
Other than that you could script copying the project so it's less cumbersome and error prone than manually doing so.
I can't make any sense of that restriction at all to be honest. I guess it is some kind of security measure, but a) can't it be disabled if one chose so? and b) how would copying a file from one location to another make it "safer", it's the same file after all.
There's an easy solution: redirect the build directory only to a c:\temp folder. The source files remain nicely networked, but the build files, being local, can be used to launch your app. | 2019-04-21T03:17:55 | https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/3f10de3f-cd21-453b-850e-d77f42a76d07/project-on-a-network-drive?forum=winappswithnativecode |
0.999926 | When you listen to guys like Dr. Timothy Noakes, they talk about the notion of being "fat adapted".
The idea is if you restrict carbs, your body starts to use fat as its primary fuel. This is backed up in studies - at the end of carb-restricted training periods, the fad adapted athletes burn 2.5 times as much fat for fuel, and they do this from the very start of their activity.
Run 1. 20km, 6:30/km. Bonked bad. 3 weeks into IF.
Run 2. 21.1km 6:09/km. Better. Almost 2 months of IF, 2 weeks of HFLC (sporadic).
Run 3. 21.1km 5:52/km. Much better. Almost 3 months of IF, using HFLC more regularly. Felt strong and comfortable.
The really interesting thing about Run 3 is that I was actually 16h fasted and consumed zero calories during the run. I had nothing but black coffee and water for 16 hours, plus another 2 hours of running.
In fact, I had biked the day before for 1.5h (water only), and had eaten HFLC the rest of the day. So I hadn't had any kind of significant carb for almost 2 days, and had even burnt off some of what I would have had stored on that bike ride.
I find this all remarkable. It's exactly what Noakes predicts, but it still goes against so much orthodoxy. I was kind of sure it would fail. I'm shocked.
Am I able to perform better than I did as a high carb athlete? Sure I can get through a 21.1km long slow run, but can I push the pace?
Can I actually go longer? How much longer?
Is the weight loss permanent? (I'm down about 10lbs so far, give or take). Or like most calorie restricted diets, will it come back, and bring friends?
I also still have some questions about "high fat, low carb" vs fasting - the athletes seem to be doing HFLC and I can't find much about fasted athletes. I'm guessing it's because they're generally not overweight to start with, so fasting doesn't really enter the equation. My main question: does it matter during activities if the fat I'm burning is coming from my (ample) stores rather than from food I just ate?? I'm still trying to find the answer to that.
I'm making this permanent. Even if my performance were to suffer (and I'm not sure yet if that's the case, but if) I am meeting my real goals. I'm losing weight. I feel great. My mood is great, even. I'm able to do the activities I love. | 2019-04-18T20:26:36 | http://www.marshmallowman2ironman.com/2018/11/my-long-slow-fat-adaption.html |
0.999999 | Let's choose numbers "a" and "b" randomly and uniformly from the entire set of real numbers. What is the probability that a < b^2?
Update 2: Interesting discussion so far, I just find it so counter intuitive that P(a>b^2) could actually be zero.
Update 3: Well would you believe it? I ran a simple program in matlab which generated a random gaussian variable N(0, σ) for a and b.
Update 4: scythian: "almost all the time" and "all the time" are two different things. P(a > b^2) = 0 means it cannot happen. But we know that whatever "b" is, we can always find a value of "a" greater than b^2. That's what I meant by 0 being unintuitive. Nevertheless, it does... show more scythian: "almost all the time" and "all the time" are two different things. P(a > b^2) = 0 means it cannot happen. But we know that whatever "b" is, we can always find a value of "a" greater than b^2. That's what I meant by 0 being unintuitive. Nevertheless, it does appear that more than one method is leading to zero as the answer.
Update 5: OK Jered, but my point still stands. If you pick a random real from 0 to 10, the prob of an integer (or rational number) is zero BECAUSE these are point events which have no area under the f(x) curve. This is NOT the case with a > b^2. For every b, there is a range of a that satisfies the inequality. In fact... show more OK Jered, but my point still stands. If you pick a random real from 0 to 10, the prob of an integer (or rational number) is zero BECAUSE these are point events which have no area under the f(x) curve.
This is NOT the case with a > b^2. For every b, there is a range of a that satisfies the inequality. In fact for every range of b, there is a range of a satisfying it. So it's not a point. It's a definite area with a non zero probability. However I agree that as the domain increases, the probability tends to zero.
Update 6: The same ideas hold for scythian's arctan(a/b) sector. The ratio of the area tends to zero, but the area itself is never really zero. That's what I find un-intuitive. I guess un-intuitive is a subjective word.
Update 7: But I guess that more or less clears up my doubts. In the case of picking a random real number between 0 and 10, P(integer) = 0 even though it's possible to pick an integer. Here P(a>b^2) --> 0 although it's still possible for it to happen.
Update 8: Now I have the unenviable task of picking a best answer.
Update 9: Merlyn: The consensus so far, as well as from Remo's question, is that it all depends on how you choose the points on the infinite plane. My feelings are that the answer should not be different if the method is different, otherwise we have a paradox (call it by some other name if you wish). Some of the... show more Merlyn: The consensus so far, as well as from Remo's question, is that it all depends on how you choose the points on the infinite plane. My feelings are that the answer should not be different if the method is different, otherwise we have a paradox (call it by some other name if you wish).
Some of the answerer's have chosen a,b in the domain (-N, N) and taken the limit as N --> ∞. They got 1. Now the other method is using a known infinite distribution and taking σ --> ∞. Again the result is 1.
Why is it a good idea? If nothing else, it confirms the answer using a different method.
Best Answer: Math guy: You could argue equally well that the answer must be more than 50%, because it will always work when a is negative, which is 50% of the time, and it will work for a non-zero proportion of the time when a is positive too.
Whitesox: I don't know where you get your upper limit of 0.875 from. You have four cases each with overall probability 0.25; you give the contributions from two as 0.25 (which could have been made much quicker by noting that obviously if a < 0 then a < b^2). The other two have contributions 0.125 + ???? and ????; I don't see any restriction on the values that would mean the total cannot be 1. You have no cases with a definite contribution where the contribution is less than the probability of the contributing region.
As always, for this sort of thing, it depends on how precisely we intend to "choose numbers a and b randomly and uniformly from the entire set of real numbers", since there's no way to do that with the usual meaning of those terms. ;-) We'll have to take the limit of some finite and well-defined process.
To me, the question implies that we choose a and b in the same way and independently (not choosing b first and then deciding whether a is more or less than b^2, for example). There are many ways of doing this so that the limit process is something akin to what we're looking for, but I doubt very much that they'd give the same answer.
and the limit is 1 as x -> ∞. This is expected since for any large range of magnitude, the squares occupy a much larger range. This doesn't apply to the unbounded range, of course, so this is not a compelling answer, at least for me.
I think that, rather than taking a uniform distribution and making it infinite in the limit, it's more useful to take an infinite distribution and make it uniform in the limit. Unfortunately this is not likely to lead to manageable integrals.
and if you can tell me what the limit of that is as σ -> ∞ analytically, I'm impressed. ;-) But some numerical work indicates that this is asymptotically like 1 - k/√σ, where k ≈ 0.464. So by this approach we also get 1 as a limit.
I don't have time to work out any other variants at present, but I feel comfortable supporting an answer of 1, as long as we treat a and b equally and independently. I think it would take a very bizarre finite process to have anything other than 1 in the limit under those conditions.
Of course, if we do not treat a and b equally and independently, all bets are off; you can pretty much rig it to get any answer you like without those restrictions.
- ksoileau: if you allow an arbitrary pdf you can probably make the answer anything you like. Uniformity is an important condition here, even if not yet well-defined.
- For any a, b ∈ R, lim (n->∞) f_n(a) / f_n(b) = 1. (In other words, the distribution is what you might call asymptotically uniform.) Note that the prior condition is a useful one for building this, in particular knowing that for n large enough f_n(b) ≠ 0.
- For any x ∈ R, lim (n->∞) f_n(x) exists. (And must equal 0 by the second condition, else we can prove f_n is not a valid pdf for some large enough n.) I think this condition is probably redundant, but I thought I'd chuck it in to be on the safe side.
I conjecture that under these restrictions, if we let P(n) be the probability that real numbers a and b chosen independently according to the pdf f_n satisfy a < b^2, we will have lim (n->∞) P(n) = 1.
Let a ∈ℝ, Let b ∈ℝ and randomly select the values for a and b.
For a > 0, while it is easy to show there is a non zero probability for a finite b, the limit, the probability is zero.
a < b² is equivalent to saying 0 < a < b², remember we are only looking at a > 0.
If this a finite interval on an infinite line. The probability that a is an element of this interval is zero.
Remember, this is because of the infinite sets. No matter what type of interval you draw on paper or on a computer you will find a finite probability that appears to approach 1. But this is due to the finite random number generators on the computer and if we had this question asked with finite values there would be a a solution greater than 50%.
I don't mean to be condescending, but please explain why using the Gaussian to approximate a uniform distribution is a good idea?
If a is negative, b² will always be greater. So you can establish the odds at 1.0 for 50% of the cases.
For the moment, lets assume a and b are positive.
And you show that this quickly heads towards a probability of 1.
But is this the best way to count? No!
So lets take any positive number b² (forget that square sign, it just mess you up a and b are independent, likewise, a and b² are independent) and any positive number a, what is the probablity that a - b² >0, ahh 0.5.
So the overall odds are .75.
I realize that this is completely counterintitive, but it is the right result.
Let me reiterate, this is a how you count problem, which seems to be the consensus.
If you indeed have a random, uniform distribution, a, b and b² are defacto infinite -- which is how I (and several others) derived my answer.
But if you presume some other distristibution such as a geometric or exponetial decay or gaussian distribution about 0, the results vary. But remember, for 0 <a, b²<1, the probablity favors a > b².
*I note that ksoulie's distribution pattern has the odds of 0 to 1 being the same as the odds of 1 to ∞ and used the geometric pattern to determine a and b advocated by most of the answerers to this question.
There is a class of probability problems that call for random sampling of points on the infinite space, and many of them can actually give you different answers depending on how the sampling is done. For example, picking points from a square or a circle, and then letting either one increase infinitely in size in the limiting case. However, in this case, the answer is 0 regardless of what shape we begin with, and letting it increase infinitely large. To understand this "intuitively", consider the parabola y = x² from 0 < x < 1. Then the probability that a > b² is just the area above the parabola within the unit square. If we consider the parabola where 0 < x < k, as k increases above 1, we can rescale the parabola by dividing both x and y by k, so that within the unit square, the area above the parabola becomes that shrinking portion close to where x = 0. It does not matter if we deal with the unit square or the unit circle, or work the probabilities in terms of angular sectors, the fact is, when viewed "from infinity", the parabola becomes just a thin, vanishing sliver, and the probability drops to 0.
Ulitimately, the problem is moot, because it depends on how the points are sampled from the infinite plane of ordered pairs (a,b). It's just that for most common sense means of sampling, you end up with 0 probability that a > b².
Addendum: To make this a little easier to see, let's say that 0 < a,b < 1000. Then almost all of the time a < b². Why should this surprise anybody?
Addendum 2: Let me help you with an "intuitive" view. Consider an ordered pair (a,b) on the infinite plane. We'll ASSUME that the angle it makes, ArcTan(a/b), is uniformly random from 0 to π/2 (for reals only). Consider any such angle, and consider a sector with an infinitely small angular separation, originating from (0,0) and radiating outwards to infinity. The parabola y = x² will intersect this sector. All the points (a,b) in this sector between (0,0) and the parabola will satisfy the inequality a > b², while all those beyond it will satisfy the inequality a < b². It's not hard to "see" that for any angle ArcTan(a/b), the ratio of the areas is 0.
The original question is Problem #50 from the book Frederick Mosteller, Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability, Addison-Wesley, 1965 (in fact there are 56 problems in this excellent book) and the answer given is 1 - the same is to this question.
and the limit is 1 as x -> ∞".
The area ratio of the paraboloidal segment to that of a square is 1/(3√x) indeed and the result follows easily.
When I read this book for the first time some 35 years ago, I was curious to see what's going on if the random point is picked in a circle with radius R, centered in the origin, instead of a square. Some integration work, followed by limit as R→∞ yielded the same probability 1 - it's intuitively clear that the angle between both rays, connecting the origin with the intersecting points decreases as R→∞ /the parabola "shrinks" to its axis, being the only non-degenerated conic with 1 "infinite point"/, so the ratio of the common area of the parabola and the circle to the area of the circle tends to 0.
= 1 - P(a > b²) since P(a = b²) = 0 /the parabola itself is a point set with 0 measure/.
EDIT 2: Dr D, why do You find P(a > b²) = 0 counter intuitive? Think of the ratio of the "areas" of the domain, enclosed by the parabola and the entire plane /of course You understand what I mean using quotation marks, the things can be put in a 100% precise manner/. Think of the parabola as a boundary case of an ellipse when one of its focuses moves infinitely up the a-axis on the picture, or, using the "infinite elements" approach in the analytic geometry, the both branches of the parabola are tending to "join together in the only infinite point". Presented in this manner the parabolic domain has "infinite dimension" in one direction only, unlike the entire plane - like a circle, expanding infinitely in all directions as, let's remind what they say about our Universe after the Big Bang.
F(v, u) = 1/(4x²) if (b, a) belongs to [-x, x; -x, x], or 0 otherwise.
f(u) = 1/(2x) if -x ≤ a ≤ x, or 0 otherwise.
g(v) = 1/(2x) if -x ≤ a ≤ x, or 0 otherwise.
By the way F(v, u) = g(v)*f(u), so a and b are independent.
P(a > b²) = 0.
I stand by my answer that it is 50%, as, no matter what b^2 is, there are an equal number of choices for a, such that a < b^2 as there are for a > b^2, albeit, there are an infinite number of each.
Once you start to restrict the set of real numbers (as you did in your answer), to some set [-n, n] then the probability changes to the respective lengths of the segments [-n, b^2] and [b^2, n].
I've been looking at the probability by choosing b, and then seeing what happens with a, but, while I don't see anything wrong with that approach, the opposite approach leads me to have doubt.
If we choose a, and then look for when b^2 > a, then we find that there are bounds on what b could be.
If a<0, then a<b^2 100% of the time.
If a>0, then for b^2>a, then be must not be between-sqrt(a) and sqrt(a). This puts a limited section of the number line which would result in a<b^2. This looks like the probabilty of having a<b^2 to be rather high. However, based on cardinality, one section of the number line is just as infinite as the entire thing, so it could decrease down towards 50%. But that is only for this case where a>0. When combined with the other case (a<0), if we average the two cases (they are equally likely to occur, right?), then we would get a probability of 75%.
I cannot, however, accept this answer as definative, because I don't see any flaw with the logic that I first presented. This second bit of logic seems to get bogged down in the details, and makes some rather large jumps, while the first is quite simple (too simple?) and straight forward. If anyone could present a complete argument as to why the answer is anything other than 50%, I would be interested in putting my mind to rest about this problem!
whitesox, you have a very compelling arguement.
I think that scarlet has the key to this. There is no such thing as a uniform distribution on the entire real number line, and so you cannot randomly choose a real number without first choosing what is meant by randomly choosing one. Based on that definition, you can then compute various differing probabilities.
Yes, it is counter-intuitive that P(a>b^2) = 0, because we can see that it is NOT 0. However, the LIMIT of P(a>b^2), as a and b are randomly chosen on the closed interval [-n, n] as n --> infinity, is 0. It isn't zero in any of these closed intervals, but as the intervals get larger, the probability decreases until it is neglegible.
This problem has no unambiguous solution. We can plot A, B, C in a 3D space, and let a surface be defined where B = 2√(AB). If we limited the range of A, B, C, such as 0 > A, B, C > k, where k is some constant, then we'd have a cubical volume divided into two parts by this surface, the volume under 2√(AB) being 8/9 k³, so that the odds that B > 2√(AB) would be 1/9. However, we would get a different result if we insisted that √(A²+B²+C²) = r for some constant r. There is no "shape to the range of A, B, C" at infinity, so this problem has no answer without some constraint on the range of A, B, C, and that answer would depend on the kind of constraint imposed. Addendum: A problem similiar to this is the classic: Three points are picked at random on a plane. What's the probability that they form the vertices of an obtuse triangle? Lewis Carroll suggested a solution, but his solution was later repudiated, and a different answer was offered. It's one of those very rare and interesting cases where a mathematical finding moves into the realm of philosophy and not unambiguous fact. See link for an interesting paper on this, which should be relevant to your problem.
"The probability that the number chosen lies in an interval of length L is proportional to L."
However, it's easy to randomly choose a real number. One way is to take the tangent of Pi/2*(2*U-1), where U is the uniform random variable taking values in (0,1).
Assuming a and b are independent and distributed in this way, I get exactly 3/4 as the probability that a<b^2.
jeredwm: I was responding to the OP, pointing out that it's important to carefully define what is meant by choosing numbers "randomly and uniformly". How would you define "uniformly" in this case?
where f is the joint density of a and b respectively.
P(a < b^2 | a>b & given) = ????
Contribution from case 2: 0.125 + ????
P(a < b^2 | a > b & given) = ????
Contribution from case 3: ????
I'd make an educated guess and say it's somewhere around the middle of that range (incorporating the thought that the missing probabilities are most likely equal to each other) - so about 0.75.
Edit: I've changed the cases around a bit.
But now that people are saying you can't choose from the real number line uniformly (which makes sense, given some thought), I'd probably change my answer to "I have no fricken idea".
Edit: Dr. D, you have a quite a following. I'm really surprised that this question drew more attention than the question that spawned it. I find that other question quite fascinating.
It's utterly nonsensical to speak of a uniform random variable over the entire real line, so the answer may be anything you please.
Probability of 0 does NOT mean "never happens." It means the integral of the PDF over the subset in question is 0.
Probability of real Roots of the Equation At² + Bt + C = 0?
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0.996519 | Here the focus shifts to epic fantasies, but is it a case of RUSH by-toring off more than they can chew? Both "The Necromancer" and the side-long "The Fountain of Lamneth" have their moments, even if the band hasn't quite figured out the best way to bridge their ideas into a single, cohesive whole. Is The Fountain's "Panacea" simply a standalone track like "Rivendell" encased in bookends, or a logical point along a continuous path? And does the dark narration between segments of The Necromancer constitute a clever plot device or a crutch? Fortunately, these questions are tangential to the task at hand, which is enjoying the good music that does appear on "Caress of Steel" (and there's plenty of that). The opening "Bastille Day" might be their most majestic moment yet, and the coolly delivered "Lakeside Park" is another positive sign of things to come. Separating sections of the longer works from their extended families yields similar highlights, including "Under The Shadow" (featuring a riff worthy of BLACK SABBATH) and "Bacchus Plateau." RUSH still hasn't found a way to spread the sounds of a bass/guitar/drum trio across prog rock's semi-classical structures, often leaning on ALEX LIFESON to "fill up" space by stretching chords into arpeggiated patterns of mesmerizing cloth, which approximates the sound of a keyboardist but often finds them short one lead guitarist. As a result, "Caress of Steel" sometimes feels like the work of two bands, half-committed to the music of BLACK SABBATH or LED ZEPPELIN while aspiring to the work of GENESIS. Like their next album (2112), this record may not achieve every thing it sets out to do, but ambition and conviction go a long way toward minimizing the potential downside. Also, any album that can overcome a lame track like "I Think I'm Going Bald" in its midst must be pretty damn good. | 2019-04-25T21:07:59 | http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=20310 |
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0.998909 | SEATTLE - They have been one-hit and two-hit, lost in the ninth inning and the early innings. They have had good pitching performances and bad ones - from the same starter, in fact - and in the end, they have lost five of six games on this 10-game trip through Oakland and Seattle and Baltimore.
The offensive problem was highlighted last night when a home run by Mariners No. 9 hitter Yuniesky Betancourt consigned the Red Sox to their eighth loss in their last nine road games, 1-0.
That was enough to spoil a splendid performance by Tim Wakefield, who allowed only five hits in eight innings, and to reward lefthander Erik Bedard, who shackled the Sox on two fourth-inning singles for seven innings, then turned the game over to Brandon Morrow and J.J. Putz. The three combined to keep Manny Ramírez (1 for 3) in the ballpark as he bid for his 500th home run.
"I think it's a combination of things," Dustin Pedroia said of the offensive struggles. "The strike zone's been a little big. Pitchers have been throwing the ball well. I don't know.
"We had our chances, but we didn't do much."
True. That applied to Ramírez, whose single and walk hardly were the milestones the crowd of 30,752 (largely Red Sox fans) and the folks at home were waiting for. Even ESPN noticed; during the final minute of its Celtics-Pistons telecast, the network ran a crawl when Ramírez led off the seventh. He grounded out.
In the end, he wasn't the star. That honor was shared by Bedard and Wakefield. So much for Bedard's iffy season. And so much for Wakefield's iffy last few starts.
Instead of fireworks, which might have been expected with two starters who carried ERAs well north of 4.00 - Bedard at 4.70, Wakefield 5.19 - offense was almost nonexistent. Except on one pitch.
With one out in the third inning, Betancourt lofted a knuckleball 393 feet into the bullpen in left field, his third home run of the season and the 10th allowed by Wakefield (3-4). It held up, mostly because the Red Sox could do virtually nothing against Bedard (4-3) and his successors. And the one time they threatened - on singles in the fourth by Ramírez and Mike Lowell - a double play bailed out Bedard.
"I thought it was a good pitch," Wakefield said. "Other than that, I felt a lot better than my last start. Able to control the strike zone a lot more. Staying back a little bit more, allowing my arm to travel through the slot a little bit easier. Obviously, it showed with my command of the knuckleball tonight."
Wakefield struck out eight and walked just one. And he wound up throwing to an unfamiliar backstop, Jason Varitek catching the eighth in his first knuckleball action since 2005.
Was it as easy as he remembered?
"Oh, certainly," Varitek said, smiling.
Rather than hits piling up, strikeouts did - Bedard also fanned eight. In one stretch, the pair whiffed five straight batters, with Wakefield getting all three in the second looking, then Bedard starting the third with two more. Bedard also struck out the side in the fifth, using cutters and curveballs to keep the Red Sox off balance.
"His stuff was good," manager Terry Francona said. "So was Wake's. Just one ball up that carries out of the ballpark. Other than that, Wake was spectacular."
Wakefield had struggled mightily recently. He gave up seven runs (six earned) to Minnesota in 2 2/3 innings May 11 (his shortest start since 2003), then allowed three runs in 5 1/3 innings against Milwaukee.
In the first game of this trip, in Oakland, he lasted five innings, helping to save the bullpen, but was tagged for eight earned runs on eight hits (two homers) and four walks.
He had said the problem was mechanical, that he was working to correct it. Whatever he did in the interim, it seemed to have worked.
But it was nothing more than a consolation prize.
One reason was that for the second time in three games, the embattled Julio Lugo wasn't able to sacrifice. Batting for Kevin Cash, J.D. Drew walked to open the eighth. Then Lugo pushed a bunt that was grabbed by first baseman Miguel Cairo, who nailed Drew at second. The rally promptly died.
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0.999833 | Reports indicate the disgruntled employee who took hostages at gunpoint at a restaurant in downtown Charleston, South Carolina was a dishwasher who had been fired.
The assailant killed one person, a chef at the restaurant. Authorities have not released the names of the shooter or the victim. They did, however, indicate that the attack was not linked to terrorism or a hate crime.
"This was a tragic case of a disturbed individual, I think, with a history of some mental health challenges," said Charleston Mayor JohnTecklenburg said at a news conference.
More video from the scene of the situation has been released.
Charlottesville Mayor John Tecklenburg confirmed that the assailant in an active shooting incident in Charleston, South Carolina, was a disgruntled restaurant employee who was shot by police and transported to a local hospital in critical condition.
One person was killed as a result of the incident. One hostage was injured, but all of the hostages taken by the shooter is alive.
Circa has received this video from the scene of the situation.
Police in Charleston, South Carolina, on Thursday said one person had been shot and another rushed to an area hospital following an "active shooter" situation there, according to The Post & Courier.
Authorities added that hostages remained trapped with the shooter inside a restaurant called Virginia's On King in the heart of the city's downtown area.
Officers were able to quickly find the wounded person at Virginia's, according to The Post & Courier, but it is unclear how many hostages remain inside the restaurant.
Charlottesville Mayor John Tecklenburg said Thursday that the shooter is apparently "a disgruntled employee" who works at Virignia's.
"This was not an act of terrorism," he said. "This was not a hate crime. This was a disgruntled employee."
The Post & Courier reported that employees at Virginia's, which is a Southern cuisine restaurant, said they were on lockdown as authorities swarmed the area.
Several people told The Post & Courier that the situation seemingly began at Virginia's, and Charleston Police Department's bomb squad has since arrived at the scene.
Patsy and Tom Plant told the newspaper they were eating at lunch at Virginia's with their daughter Laura whole roughly 15 to 20 people were in the establishment.
The Plants said a man then came from the restaurant's kitchen wielding a loaded revolver in his left hand before announcing, "There's a new boss in town."
"[He looked like] an ordinary grandpa, but he had a crazy look," Patsy Plant said alongside her husband, with both describing the man as a a black man in his late 50s. "It was very crazy."
The Plants added they fled Virginia's behind another customer who left through the business's front door, ultimately leaving their belongings behind.
Peter Siegert, 7, and his son, Peter Siegert IV, 45, both of Maryland, said they were eating at Virginia's when two waitresses and three kitchen staff members walked through the restaurant and out the front door without speaking.
The Siegerts told the Post & Courier that an older black man wearing an apron and dressed like a kitchen staff member then walked through the front door carrying a small caliber revolver.
"I am the new king of Charleston," he allegedly said before locking the restaurant's door.
The Siegerts said there were about 30 people dining at Virginia's when the man told customers to get down and move to the back of the building.
The family encountered two side exit doors at the back of the eatery and began filtering out, they continued, with some people fleeing on all fours.
"We did not want to give him a good target," Peter Siegert IV said, adding he was seemingly the last person outside and did not know if others had been left behind.
Police in Charleston, South Carolina are responding to an active shooter situation, according to our affiliate WCIV.
Officials with Charleston County Consolidated Dispatch have confirmed an incident at 412 King Street in the city’s downtown area.
Charles Francis, a spokesman for the Charleston Police Department, told CNN Thursday afternoon that authorities are working on an “active shooter situation” there.
Police are asking people to avoid the area between Calhoun and Morris, which has been blocked off to pedestrian and vehicle traffic.
Some Twitter users on Thursday voiced alarm at the incident in Charleston, which had a population of 120,083 people in 2010 according to 2010 census demographics there.
Disgruntled employee shoots ex employees in Charleston SC.cops and negotiators on scene now. Casualties unknown. Shooter still in bldg.
Sarah Cobb, who owns the nearby MOSA Boutique, said police activity was focused around Virginia's On King, which is a restaurant in the heart of downtown Charleston.
"Right now the streets are full of SWAT and police and people heavily armed," she said. "They are blocking off the whole block."
Cobb described evacuations from area businesses and officers with guns pointed toward the restaurant.
Charleston Police dispatch said they received an initial call about a "hostage situation involving a weapon."
Doug Warner, a spokesman for the Charleston Area Convention and Visitor's Bureau, confirmed "they [the police] said there was an active shooter at they think Virginia's."
"They've called employees and said, 'Don't come back if if you're out of the office," Warner added, noting he did not hear any shots fired and did not know if other employees did.
Spokesman Mike Robertson said that the College of Charleston's campus is not under lockdown, but that the campus community had been alerted to the situation.
Additional police officers are stationed outside the school's Warren Place residence hall, which is around the corner from Virginia's, to prevent students from entering the area.
The Post & Courier additionally reported that Charleston Law School is currently on lockdown, and there is a heavy police presence in the surrounding region. | 2019-04-21T19:10:02 | https://www.circa.com/story/2017/08/24/nation/police-responding-to-an-active-shooter-in-charleston-south-carolina |
0.999854 | What does a standard code review contain?
In my company, it's an email discussion of what feature is implemented and what kind of bug is fixed sent by the one who write the code. And the reviewer, who receives the mail, will review the code and discuss the quality and how to edit the code in his opinion. What does a standard code review contain?
In my experience, most formal code reviews devolve into style checking because it's easy. Even when you supply a checklist of things to look at, it's pretty easy for eyes to start glazing over.
I've found that unit test review provides more benefit. Most developers I've worked with don't really know how to unit test properly, and once they get that "Aha!" moment the rest of their code starts improving as well. Here's a hint: it's not a unit test if you require the user to inspect something, and it's not a unit test if you are just starting something up to run in a debugger.
It tends to vary based on what the issue is. A lot of times it's a simple rubber-stamp. "Here's what the problem was, look at this line here, it's obvious what's going wrong, and here's where I fixed it." "Yup, that's pretty obvious. Go ahead and check it in."
Run Check For Modifications on TortoiseSVN and get a list of changed files.
Bring reviewer into your office.
Explain the problem, with the CR from the bug tracking system open for reference.
Go down the list of files in TortoiseSVN, opening each of them in BeyondCompare to view the changes.
If the reviewer doesn't understand the changes, explain what you did and why.
If you have made any changes, recompile and make sure it builds!
Run the program to demonstrate to the reviewer that your fix actually works.
IMO, A code review has nothing to do with features or bugs, but focusses on the quality of the code and tests written for it.
So, you sit next to your peer and have him explain the code, or take the code and go through it, whatever the situation calls for.
It does help when everybody programmes against the same standards and if you employ tools like fxCop to automate part of the process.
I prefer the code review where the dev sits with the reviewer and goes through the code line by line explaining it. Often, the dev will see a problem in doing the explanation that the reviewer may not have seen yet which is why this is my preference. I also do code reviews where I am sent the code and read it on my own and make comments, but I find those tend to take longer (I review and draft comments and send to dev who reads them and goes WTF does she mean and emails me back and I explain and two or three rounds later we get together and I point out on the screen what I mean and the dev goes, "oh yeah now I see it." ) and be less productive as there is less genuine discussion and more, "You did this wrong."
It is also critical to enforce standards in a code review but not to make them the only focus.
However, the code is not sent on to production until the code reviewer is happy or the manager (not the dev) has overruled him or her (code reviewers have been wrong too). This is critical or code review is just a bureaucratic process with no added value unless the code reviewer must approve the final code before it is pushed.
The goal in my mind is to make the code as uniform as possible and to find issues with maintainability and readability. A secondary goal can be to get more people up to speed with a certain piece of software.
How to evaluate the quality of Rails code?
Why is there only code review? | 2019-04-19T01:20:53 | https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/38087/what-does-a-standard-code-review-contain |
0.9999 | Dr. █████: "Please have a seat."
Dr. █████: "Let's get down to business. I understand you're requesting a transfer out of fieldwork. Would you like to talk about that?"
Agent Walker: "I'd rather not."
Dr. █████: "It's your choice. However, I can't approve a transfer without reason."
Agent Walker: "Look, I…" The agent paused here. "You've seen my record. You know I worked on twenty-six, right?"
Dr. █████: "I've read the report."
Agent Walker: "I was there the first time we took one of the sleepers out. A lot of them were adults when they disappeared, but they're kids again when we find them. So, I see this sixteen-year-old boy just kind of shrivel away. I had nightmares that night."
Dr. █████: "You're supposed to report any unusual dreams after contacting a potentially mind-altering phenomenon."
Agent Walker: "It hadn't been declared a mindscrew yet. We just thought it was a weird space thing. We were just watching it until the Picnickers got there. And it was a shock, you know? We weren't expecting anything like that. Anyway, I got over it quick enough. I'd seen worse. I once had a guy melt while I was holding onto him."
Dr. █████: "I see. What happened next?"
Agent Walker: "Nothing, for a while. I went in a couple of times, but didn't see anything too weird. But… Look, I know I should have reported it. But one of my buddies had just been disappeared after getting touched by some weird scip, and I didn't want it to happen to me."
Dr. █████: "You've been affected by an SCP?"
Agent Walker: "I… Yeah. It was a week later. I was dozing in the back of the van, and I started dreaming."
Dr. █████: "Can you describe this dream?"
Agent Walker: "Just like the others. You've read the reports, right?"
Dr. █████: "Pretend that I haven't. For the record, Agent Walker."
Agent Walker: "All right. I'm in a classroom. It's just like one of the ones in 026, but new. Not falling apart. I knew the teacher's name. I knew who was sitting by me, even though I'd never seen most of them before. The bell started ringing, but no one moved. I raised my hand, but the teacher didn't notice. Finally, I tried to leave, but the door wouldn't open. Then I noticed something strange with my hand. It had color. Everything else was black and white. But I felt like I was the one who was… wrong? Out of place? That's when I woke up. The van was leaving. No one else noticed I'd been asleep."
Dr. █████: "And you didn't think to report this?"
Agent Walker: "Like I said, I was scared. And this was before they found Malek. I figured it was just another nightmare. Nothing weird. And after Malek had his dream, well, they didn't do anything with him, so I figured it wasn't a big deal."
Dr. █████: "He was put on observation. You should have been as well, for your own safety and for the safety of others."
Agent Walker: "You paper-pushers think it's all so easy, don't you? Sitting behind a desk all day, you don't know what it's like. Well, things aren't so clear out there. Not when you're the one hunting talking cats in a sewer, or waiting to see if you're the one who's not going to come back this time."
Agent Walker was visibly distressed. It was several minutes before she calmed down enough to continue the interview.
Agent Walker: "Anyway, it wasn't until later that we connected the dreams with the sleepers. Not until they found those Class Ds on the second floor. Still, I thought I might be okay. I wasn't actually inside of twenty-six when I dreamed. I wasn't sure until the dreams started."
Dr. █████: "You're having reoccurances?"
Agent Walker: "Yeah. They started six months ago. It's the same dream. But each time, it takes me a little longer to notice it isn't real. And when I look at my hands, they're a little more gray."
Note: Agent Walker has since been given a Class A Amnesiac and returned to field work. | 2019-04-23T16:34:41 | http://www.scp-wiki.net/interview-log-026-08 |
0.999999 | For the entirety of this review, it is important to note that I saw this movie twice in theaters. The first was because my friend and I wanted to check it out like any other film. Based on that first viewing, I would not have volunteered to see it again. However, I had promised to take a different friend to the movies, and this was the film that they chose. It was their treat, so I agreed to see it again. Interestingly enough, I liked it more the second time I saw it, and I'll explain why in a moment. Despite liking it more the second time around, I don't think I would spend more money to see it in theaters again for a third time.
The Greatest Showman, for those who are not completely sure of what the movie is about, is inspired by the life of P.T. Barnum, the guy that created the first circus. Hugh Jackman plays this role and is accompanied in the film by Zac Efron, Zendaya, and Michelle Williams. Young Barnum has nothing but through hard work earns enough to marry his childhood sweetheart and live in New York City. When he loses his job, he begins to use his imagination to think of a new attraction in the city that he can call his own. The movie progresses throughout his circus career and stresses the importance of family and acceptance. The movie, as is said within the movie, really is a "celebration of humanity".
Sounds fantastic right? It very nearly was; however, the first time I saw it there was so much going on and there were multiple plots that I couldn't follow them all without wondering about where the film was going to go. About halfway through the movie, there had already been a successful rising tension, climax, and resolution plot line and I was so confused about where the movie was going to go. It was extremely distracting! And then when the second one started, it was fuzzy as to what the problem was that needed to get solved. It wasn't until the climax of that plot that it became known what was happening that needed resolution. The second time around though, I knew what was going to happen so I was able to enjoy everything else more than. So on that note, I would say it was not strong writing and storytelling.
A part of this movie that I really did enjoy were the songs. The opening scene itself is bada** as heck and got me really excited for the show. From start to finish, there is an air of entertainment to all of the music that really drives home the movie. I think my favorite song of the entire thing though it "The Other Side", which is sung by Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron. It was just such great buildup within the lyrics and composition, and then with the choreography that they used it made for a really enjoyable scene in the movie. Lastly, the colors, settings, and costumes were SO amazing. I don't think they could have hit the nail on the head better with the whole entertaining-circus-Barnum thing. The colors were bold and bright and unapologetic. And then there is the contrast with the high society of New York that wore very formal attire with dulled colors or pale colors.
This movie is worth going to see in theaters, even if only once. It is also a great family movie, so if there are little kids and you need to see something that everyone can watch, this will work nicely. For me though, the plot was too disorganized and jagged to really make it spectacular. The Greatest Showman is up for three Golden Globes tonight (as of this posting): Best Motion Picture- Musical or Comedy, Hugh Jackman for Best Performance by an Actor in a Musical or Comedy, and "This is Me" for Best Original Song- Motion Picture.
Best of luck to all the nominees for the Golden Globes tonight and thanks for reading! | 2019-04-21T10:05:24 | http://allbooksandtea.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-greatest-showman-movie-review.html |
0.998992 | Are ticks just a harmless nuisance?
Tick bites can present a temporarily annoying experience in the summertime. However, the additional possibility of catching Lyme disease is one more reason to take action against these bugs. Lyme disease is caused by a spiral-shaped bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi, which is spread by the bite of ticks of the genus Ixodes, commonly known as deer ticks or black-legged ticks.
These ticks are tiny – about the size of a pinhead when immature – and grow only slightly bigger as adults. They crawl onto a person's skin from grasses and shrubs in wooded areas. The tick digs its mouth into the skin and feeds for 2 or 3 days before dropping off.
Although not necessarily confined to these specific areas, most cases of Lyme disease are reported in the northeastern US (from Massachusetts to Maryland), the north-central states (especially Wisconsin and Minnesota), and the west coast (particularly northern California). The disease is on the rise in the US, with approximately 20,000 cases every year. It's also on the rise in Canada: for example, from 2002 to 2012, a total of 845 human cases of Lyme disease were reported in Ontario. The number of confirmed human cases jumped from 28 cases in 2002 to 162 cases in 2012. In 2013, 682 new confirmed cases of Lyme disease were reported in Canada, but the true number of cases is thought to have been higher.
A characteristic sign of Lyme disease is a skin rash that starts with a small red patch that gradually expands, often clearing in the centre to form a bull's-eye pattern. The person may develop flu-like symptoms including fatigue, headache, chills, fever, muscle and joint pain, and swollen lymph nodes. Less commonly, there have been reports of tingling or numbness in the hands and feet or facial paralysis.
If possible, stay away from tick-infested areas, especially in May, June, and July.
Wear closed shoes and long pants with the pant legs tucked into your socks or boots. As an extra precaution, put tape around the area where your pants and socks meet.
Wear a hat and a long-sleeved shirt for extra protection.
Spray your clothes and exposed skin with an insect repellent that contains 30% DEET (also effective at repelling mosquitos, which can carry malaria or West Nile virus), or treat clothes with the insect repellent permethrin, which kills ticks on contact. If using DEET, never spray it directly on your face or broken skin. And, for children aged 6 months to 2 years, do not apply DEET on the face or hands.
If you spend several days outdoors in areas that might contain ticks, inspect yourself daily once you're indoors. Check your skin carefully for ticks, and ask someone to check your scalp for ticks. If a tick has already latched on to you, don't panic. Even if the tick has bitten you, remember that not all ticks carry Lyme disease.
The best way to remove a tick is with a tick-removing device or a pair of fine-point tweezers. Grasp it where its mouthparts enter the skin or, if that is not easily visible, grab it by its head (as close to your skin as possible) with the suggested removal tools. Pull the tick straight out firmly and steadily. Do not twist, squash, or crush the tick when you are removing it. Be patient, as proper tick removal takes time. If you notice that even though you've removed the head, some of the tick's mouthparts still remain in your skin, don't worry; the bacteria that cause Lyme disease reside in the tick's gut or salivary glands.
Do not squeeze the tick's body, do not apply petroleum jelly or alcohol, and do not use a hot match, nail polish, or other products while the tick remains attached. These actions could transmit the Lyme-disease-causing bacteria to you.
Once you remove the tick, place it in a container (e.g., a small jar with a lid). You can use alcohol to kill and preserve it, or even just some wet paper towel, so you can take it to your doctor to check if it carried Lyme disease. Cleanse the affected area of your skin with an antiseptic (e.g., alcohol) or mild soap and water. Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water. You should also have the tick bite examined by your doctor, especially if you develop a rash or flu-like symptoms.
For people who require treatment for a mild infection associated with Lyme disease, their doctor will usually prescribe an oral (by mouth) antibiotic for 14 to 21 days. These types of antibiotics include doxycycline, amoxicillin, or cefuroxime. The specific antibiotic used will depend on a person's medical history and medication allergies.
For people who require treatment for more severe infections associated with Lyme disease, their doctor will usually prescribe an intravenous (given through the vein) antibiotic (e.g., ceftriaxone, cefotaxime, penicillin) for 2 to 4 weeks. On occasion, treatment with an oral antibiotic may be prescribed following treatment with an intravenous antibiotic.
If the tick is identified and removed within 72 hours of the bite, and assuming that no skin rash has appeared, your doctor may consider prescribing a single oral dose of doxycycline. This treatment can help prevent the rash from developing.
If you have Lyme disease, your doctor will determine the most appropriate treatment for you.
Overall, when you are travelling abroad, especially to developing and tropical countries, it is a good idea to speak with your doctor or pharmacist about how to protect yourself from diseases. Aside from watching what you eat and drink and protecting yourself from tick bites, you also have to watch for many other diseases, such as malaria, hepatitis, influenza, and yellow fever. Many of these diseases can be prevented with immunizations, so speak to your doctor or visit a travel clinic to see if you are at risk and what immunizations you and your family would benefit from. | 2019-04-24T20:10:46 | https://www1.pharmaprix.ca/en/health-and-pharmacy/health/tick-trouble/21/2,0,1,3 |
0.996227 | What did the Balfour Declaration say?
The Balfour Declaration was a letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lord Walter Rothschild. It was the first statement of support by any government for Zionist aspirations.
It promised that Britain would aid in the creation of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine.
Why was the letter written to Lord Rothschild?
The Balfour Declaration was addressed to Lionel Walter Rothschild in his capacity as leader of the British Jewish community.
Rothschild was the de facto head of Britain’s Jewish community serving as a governor of the Board of Deputies, of the United Synagogue, of the Anglo Jewish Association, and of the Jews’ Free School.
The letter could hardly be addressed to Weizmann, who had become a British citizen in 1910, in part because in the Zionist hierarchy Nahum Sokolow was his senior.
He was a Zionist, naturalist, and philanthropist. Born into the Rothschild banking family, Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868-1937), took on the business and civic responsibilities necessitated by his position. He served as a Conservative member of the House of Commons and on the boards of various Jewish communal institutions. His attachment to Zionism was heartfelt and of incalculable value to the movement — yet his greatest passion was reflected in his lifelong commitment to the natural sciences.
What was happening in the world on 2nd November 1917?
The world was torn asunder that Friday morning, November 2, 1917.
A world war, which had begun in the summer of 1914, was still pitting the Central Powers — including Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) — against the Allies, led by France, Britain, and Russia.
What was the situation in Russia at the time?
A World War which had begun in the summer of 1914 was still pitting the Central Powers—including Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey)—against the Allies led by France, Britain and Russia.
In the Russian Empire Tzar Nicholas II had been overthrown in March.
In his place was the government of the liberal Alexander Kerensky which had just done well in local elections.
The Allies wanted Russia to keep fighting against the Central Powers.
which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.
Who was Arthur James Balfour?
How was Palestine impacted by WWI?
The First World War erupted on August 1, 1914. Economic conditions in strategically situated Palestine became dire. American Zionists organized aid relief for Palestinian Jews some of whom were considered foreign nationals and faced expulsion. Turkey entered the war on October 29, 1914 on the side of the Central Powers. Britain declared war on Turkey on November 5, 1914 with dismemberment of Turkey’s empire a war aim. Ottoman officials reportedly incited Palestinian Arabs to attack Jews. Turkey viewed Palestinian Jews as a potential threat. Indeed a group of Palestinian Jews organized the NILI espionage ring to aid the British war effort. Many Jews fled to Egypt. In February 1915, an Ottoman attempt to capture the Suez Canal in British-controlled Egypt was pushed back. After hard fighting, British troops captured Beersheba and Gaza in the Fall of 1917. On December 11, 1917 British forces led by General Edmund Allenby captured Jerusalem. The rest of Palestine and the Mideast followed in due course.
He was a Zionist, naturalist and philanthropist. Born into the Rothschild banking family Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868-1937) took on the business and civic responsibilities necessitated by his position. He served as a Conservative member of the House of Commons and on the boards of various Jewish communal institutions. His attachment to Zionism was heartfelt and of incalculable value to the movement—yet his greatest passion was reflected in his lifelong commitment to the natural sciences.
At the time of the Balfour Declaration Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire.
Britain, France and the USA all had an interest in what would happen to the Ottoman Empire after Turkey’s defeat in the World War.
Ottoman Turkey claimed to be a Muslim caliphate; the Sultan was its supreme leader, his political power legitimized by religion.
From the Maghrib, or North Africa, to the Mashriq, the Arab world east of Egypt, there were no sovereign Arab states.
Turkish and Sunni Muslims, the Ottomans had ruled over the Middle East since 1299.
The loyalty of ordinary Arabs, Turks, Persians and Kurds was first and foremost to their immediate family, then to their clan and tribe.
Palestine was divided into several administrative districts.
At the dawn of the 19th century the Ottoman Empire had extended into Europe to include all or parts of Rumania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Crete, Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
In 1908 the nationalist Young Turks took charge of the Empire and tried to halt its break-up.
During World War I (including on November 2, 1917 when the Balfour Declaration was issued) the Ottoman Empire was one of the Central Powers at war with the Allies, which included Britain.
What was the nature of Britain's interest in Palestine?
Palestine is where Europe, Asia and Africa meet. It is at the core of the Middle East.
Tsarist Russia, France’s Third Republic and the Kaiser’s Germany all sought a foothold in the region.
A key British strategic interest was the Suez Canal which in 1915 Turkey had tried to capture. Loss of the canal would immensely complicate navigation to British-controlled India.
As they contemplated the inevitable post-war colonial competition with France, Russia and Germany, British strategists—among them T.E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”)—sought, with dubious results beyond the Arabian peninsula, to mobilize Arab chieftains in the Allied war against the Ottoman Turks.
Who comprised the British Government in 1917?
Prime Minister David Lloyd George (Liberal Party) headed a wartime coalition government that included Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour (Conservative). Other members included Arthur Henderson (Labour), Lord Curzon (Conservative), Leader of the House of Lords; Andrew Bonar Law (Conservative), Chancellor of the Exchequer; and Lord Milner (Conservative), Minister Without Portfolio.
What was the situation in Palestine in November 1917?
Palestine was parched and terribly neglected; Jerusalem had no sewer system, few sidewalks and no electricity.
Wartime blockades contributed to food shortages. Locusts ruined what little could be grown.
These conditions were not purely the result of the war.
How was the Ottoman Empire defeated?
Britain wanted the Arabs to rise up against Ottoman Turkish rule during WWI.
On November 2, 1917 Beersheba, a desert town in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, was captured by British forces.
The rest of Palestine and the Mideast followed in due course.
In Iraq, Baghdad fell to British forces in March 1918.
By September-October 1918 the Ottomans had been utterly defeated and driven back to Anatolia (or today’s Turkey).
The Central Powers capitulated on November 11, 1918.
What is the Jewish connection to the Land of Israel?
The Zionist dream of returning to Zion is based on the historical and continuous connection of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel.
The Jewish connection to the Land of Israel goes back to the time of Abraham.
The Torah (Pentateuch) records God’s covenants with the Biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (see Genesis chapter 12, for example) giving them and their descendants, the Jewish people, the Land of Israel. Abraham first exercised this right when purchasing the Cave of the Patriarchs (Genesis chapter 23). Joshua exercised at a national level during the Israelite conquest of Canaan, circa 1250 BCE, as recorded in the Book of Joshua.
Historical events and prophecies in the Hebrew Bible taking place in the Land of Israel, such as David and Goliath and the messianic teachings of the prophet Isaiah that “nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more” were part of human history by the 8th century BCE.
Cyrus, the ruler of Persia— that had become the regional superpower after the decline of Nebuchadnezzar’s empire— allowed the Jewish exiles to make their way back to Jerusalem, circa 516 BCE, to rebuild the Second Temple and establish their Second Commonwealth.
That Temple stood until 70 CE, when the Romans taking advantage of internal Jewish divisions destroyed the Second Temple, murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews and exiled others. These tragedies are commemorated by Jews each year on the fast day of 9 Av in the Jewish calendar.
It is told that Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, when riding past a Paris synagogue in the early 19th century, was perturbed to hear wailing coming from within. A servant dispatched to investigate reported that the Jews were mourning their Temple, on the Fast of 9 Av. “Temple? Where, when?” demanded the Emperor. “The one in Jerusalem destroyed about 1,800 years ago,” replied the servant. The Emperor stopped in his tracks. Contemplating the remarkable historical memory, he observed, “Any people that can mourn a Temple and Exile for so long will surely one day return home.
A small number of Jews continued to live in the Land. Jews worldwide maintained their religious connections to the Land, through rituals such as the Passover Seder and breaking a glass at a wedding, keeping their connection to the Land at the forefront of their national consciousness.
How does Jewish civilization understand the Covenant?
The covenants between God and the patriarchs are at the heart of Jewish belief. Augmented by the Revelation at Sinai (Exodus chapters 19-20), they give the patriarchs’ descendants the mission to promote monotheism and the right to the Land of Israel.
There are several covenants which the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament), the foundation of Jewish belief, records between God and the Jewish people. The covenants that God made with the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, described in the Book of Genesis, gave them and their descendants the mission to promote monotheism and the right to the Land of Israel.
The national covenant, made with the Jewish people during the Revelation at Mount Sinai as described in the Book of Exodus, consolidated this. All of these covenants are fundamental elements of Jewish belief and civilization.
When did the Arabs arrive in Palestine?
The Northern Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) was conquered by the Assyrians in 722 BCE. To the south, Judea and its capital, Jerusalem, remained intact.
In 586 BCE Jerusalem was destroyed and there was a mass deportation to Babylonia.
The Jews were allowed to return starting in 538 BCE. Later the Second Temple was constructed, the walls of Jerusalem were reconstructed and Ezra read the Torah to the people.
The Greeks became the superpower; after them the Romans.
Following a revolt against Rome the Roman Empire defeated the Jews and forced them into Exile beginning in 70 CE. The Romans were supplanted by Byzantine Christians.
As a result of being defeated by ancient Rome, Jews lost their majority status in Palestine in the first half of the First Century.
In 638 CE, six years after the death in Arabia of Islam’s founding prophet Muhammad, his followers from Arabia subjugated Jerusalem. They prayed in Jerusalem facing Mecca—the holiest city in Islam.
The Umayyad Arab dynasty ruled Palestine from Damascus. They built the beautiful Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount. The Abbasid Arab Dynasty ruled Palestine from Baghdad. Islamic tradition holds that both Jews and Christians broke their Covenant with God and corrupted his Scripture.
Islamic tradition holds that only Allah’s Covenant with Muhammad is true and complete.
Next, in 1099, the Christian Crusaders came.
Then in 1187, Saladin, who was of Muslim, Sunni and Kurdish origin, led a counter-crusade and took the city.
Finally in 1516 Eretz Israel was conquered by the Turks—the Sunni Muslim Ottomans.
The Arabs of Palestine saw themselves as descended from the Arabs of Arabia who had conquered the country hundreds of years earlier.
By the 1800s the Arabs naturally thought of themselves as indigenous, having lived in the country for centuries.
Still, the Arabs of Palestine never established an independent polity. There was never an Arab country called Palestine.
Palestinian Arab national identity was a post-WWI development, partly a response to the Zionist movement and an element of the overall post-WWI Arab Awakening.
Until after the creation of Israel in 1948 most mentions in the newspapers of “Palestinians” referred to Jews.
Was the Balfour Declaration a colonial statement?
It would be myopic to argue that the Balfour Declaration was primarily a ‘colonial imperialist’ plot to advance British imperial interests in the Middle East. Those who press such a view do so to discredit the legitimacy of Jewish rights to a homeland in Palestine. They see the Balfour Declaration as the West’s never-expiated ‘original sin’.
That imperial or colonial interests played some role in the Declaration is transparently obvious.
And yet any fair-minded assessment of the Declaration would acknowledge that it was the result of a confluence of factors.
There was a genuine desire to help persecuted Jews. Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour believed that the Christian world owed a moral debt to Jewish civilization over centuries of persecution and contempt.
A second factor was the British leadership’s rather inflated view of global Jewish influence. London needed Russia to stay in the Great War and for the US to accelerate its military involvement in the fighting. Britain hoped the Declaration would encourage Jews in those countries to sway their governments. Winning the war was a vital British national interest.
Anyway, World War I was underway and the Ottoman Empire which controlled Palestine would soon be dismembered.
This being the case, Zionist campaigners led by Chaim Weizmann thought that Britain was best positioned to serve as a catalyst for a Jewish return to Palestine that would be sanctioned by the international community.
Sure enough Britain’s Mandate for Palestine was ratified by the 52 League of Nations governments on July 24, 1922. And the Mandate for Palestine explicitly required Britain to implement the Balfour Declaration.
How did the Arabs respond to Jewish immigration?
The earliest manifestation of Arab opposition to modern political Zionism can perhaps be traced back to 1891. Arab and Muslim leaders petitioned the ruling Ottoman Sultan to stop Jewish immigration and forbid the sale of land—even wasteland—to Jewish people.
Anti-Zionist societies and newspapers were created in Cairo, Jerusalem and other places. Newly established Jewish communities—or settlements—were attacked by Arab bands starting in 1886. The Ottomans also deported many Jews.
Theodor Herzl’s efforts to persuade Sultan Abdul Hamid II to back the Zionist enterprise came to nothing— though as late as 1915 Turkey reportedly flirted with the idea of selling some of Palestine to the Zionist movement for the creation of a Jewish homeland.
What motivated anti-Zionism among the Arabs?
Actually, the most vocal early Arab opponents to Zionism were not motivated by Islam.
George Antonius (1891-1942), born into a Lebanese Christian family and influenced by Western ideas of nationalism, declared the Mideast the exclusive provenance of the Arabs on the grounds that they shared racial, cultural and linguistic bonds.
One of the first Arab nationalists and author of The Arab Awakening, Antonius envisioned creating an Arab state that would encompass Palestine.
In their encounter with Western modernity the Arabs first tried Arab nationalism and pan-Arabism.
In the 21st century, by contrast, the Arab world has been mobilized more by political Islam and pan-Islam.
What was the Arab attitude to non-Muslim sovereignty?
Historically, Islamic civilization regarded Christians and Jews as “People of the Book.” Islamic tradition holds that both Jews and Christians broke their Covenant with God and corrupted His Scripture. Therefore, they believe, only Allah’s Covenant with Muhammad is true and complete.
Jews and Christians were granted dhimmi or protective second-class status under Islam.
Jews often had to pay tribute or a special poll tax; they were forbidden to carry arms. They often had to wear special clothes to distinguish them from the majority population. They had to show deference to Muslims. But within those parameters and in contrast to European Christian civilization, Jews did have religio-legal recourse.
Indeed, though there were also dark times, there were golden periods of Jewish life in Muslim civilization.
So long as Jews or Christians submitted to Muslim sovereignty they could be tolerated and even thrive.
These realities were in place when political Zionism came on the scene.
The idea of a sovereign Jewish State in the Middle East was—and is—anathema because it implies a challenge to Muslim religious preeminence.
None of the 22 member states of the Arab League or the 57 member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation has recognized Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. To do that would imply permanent acceptance of Israel’s existence in Dar al-Islam—literally, “the home of Islam,” or the Middle East. Treaties and truces are permitted.
Where did Jews migrate from to Palestine, and why?
Jews lost their majority status in Palestine in the first half of the 1st century as a result of being defeated by ancient Rome.
Yet throughout the ages there was almost always a remnant minority Jewish community in Palestine.
In Jerusalem Jews were already a majority in 1844.
When the first Zionist settlers arrived from Eastern Europe and from Yemen in Arabia around 1882 they found ultra-Orthodox Jews whose community was known as the old Yishuv already in Jerusalem. These included Sephardi Ladino-speaking and European Hassidic Jews.
By 1855 Sir Moses Montefiore had bought land to enable the resettlement of a small number of Jews.
The second wave of settlement (“Aliyah”), mostly from the Russian Empire, took place between 1904 and 1914 (before WWI).
A Third Aliyah came between 1919 and 1923 mostly from Russia, Poland, Rumania and Lithuania. Then came a Fourth Aliyah between 1924 and1928 mainly from Poland, the USSR, Rumania and Lithuania, but also from Yemen and Iraq. And, finally, the Fifth Aliyah from Central Europe, including Germany, took place between 1929 and 1939 (the year WWII and began).
After that, until the State of Israel was established in 1948 virtually all Jewish immigration was considered illegal and blocked by Britain.
Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people. It is the belief in the Jewish people’s inalienable right to self-determination in their ancient homeland.
The Zionist campaign for a return to Palestine was articulated by Theodor Herzl and approved at the first Zionist Congress in 1897.
The Zionist idea, though, goes back thousands of years.
“Zion” was another name for Jerusalem.
At the time of the Balfour Declaration Zionists were Jews who wanted to return to Eretz Israel—the Land of Israel. The Book of Exodus (15:14) also refers to the country, or part of it, as Philistia, which sounds like Palestine.
Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) was the founder of modern political Zionism.
Herzl is the architect of modern political Zionism, the visionary who—recalling the biblical and historic Covenant of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel—developed a blueprint for reestablishing the Jewish commonwealth.
Elegant and aristocratic in demeanour, Herzl became the founding diplomat and chief statesman of the Zionist movement who tirelessly lobbied presidents, kings and popes to secure support for the idea of a Jewish homeland.
He died of a heart attack at age 44.
What was the Zionist Congress?
The First Zionist Congress, organized by Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), was held in Basel, Switzerland, in 1897.
Thus the Balfour Declaration—issued by the superpower of the day and later achieving the imprimatur of the international community—significantly bolstered the practical and legal efforts initiated by the Jews themselves to establish a homeland in Palestine.
What was the situation for Jews in 1897?
For Jewish subjects of the Ottoman Empire the situation was mixed. In Turkey proper there was an ambience of tolerance and Jews were permitted to work in virtually any field.
For Jews in the Empire’s Arab, Kurdish and Persian areas life could sometimes be grim. In greater Tripolitania, Libya, Arab mobs destroyed the synagogue in 1897. In general Jews were treated as dhimmi or second-class citizens. Many communities lived in fear for their security. They faced harassment and knew that local authorities would turn a blind eye even when Jews were killed in the streets.
Elsewhere throughout the immense Tzarist Empire—which included Russia’s vast expanse, Ukraine, most of Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Poland—Christian hatred and persecution of the Jews was institutionalized and regime-fueled.
In Western Europe Jews had been ostensibly emancipated—given the rights of citizenship. For example, in 1791 Jews were given equal rights in France.
In practice even in countries where Jews were permitted to acculturate or blend in they faced continued anti-Semitism—as demonstrated by the Dreyfus Affair (1894-1906), the trial of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an assimilated French Jew who was court-martial on trumped-up charges of espionage.
Dreyfus was about as “un-Jewish” and ostentatiously French as could be imagined. Yet that did not stop the crowds outside the courtroom baying “Down with the Jews!” Theodor Herzl was a journalist who covered the trial; it convinced him of the absolute need for the Jews to have their own homeland.
In 1917 Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952) was the indefatigable leader of the Zionist lobby.
The campaign for a declaration was led by Weizmann. His scientific work at Manchester University brought him into contact with Arthur Balfour.
Years later he would become the first President of the State of Israel.
Weizmann led the Zionist movement away from neutrality in the Great War (WWI) and towards a consistent pro-Allied, pro-British stance.
Born in the Russian Empire, Weizmann immigrated to Britain in 1904 and was appointed lecturer in chemistry at Manchester University.
When did Chaim Weizmann meet Arthur Balfour?
Arthur James Balfour and Chaim Weizmann first met in 1906 and hit it off. Balfour was keenly interested in the Zionist idea.
The relationship lapsed but was renewed in 1914.
At that first meeting in Manchester in 1906 Weizmann wrote to his wife Vera saying that a mutual friend, Charles Dreyfus, had made their now-historic introduction.
What was the role of the Manchester School of Zionism?
Between 1904 and1916, Chaim Weizmann’s campaign was immeasurably aided by a cohort of talented and dedicated Zionist Mancunians.
Among them were Lord Simon Marks, Harry Sacher, Leon Simon and Israel and Rebecca Sieff.
Together they opened many doors and facilitated numerous contacts with British officialdom and opinion formulators, while also serving as a brain trust.
What was Chaim Weizmann's role in the war effort?
When World War I erupted in August 1914 Weizmann, now 40 years of age, was established in his academic career.
As head of the British Admiralty Laboratories from 1917 to 1919 he was engaged in scientific work for the war effort, inventing a method to produce the synthetic acetone used to create cordite, a military propellant.
Which states was Britain battling in the Great War?
Which members of the War Cabinet supported Zionism?
Many members of the wartime Cabinet were sympathetic to or supportive of Zionism and this created the right climate for the Balfour Declaration to be proposed.
The Zionists were supported first and foremost by Prime Minister David Lloyd George and Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour (an honorary member of the War Cabinet).
Lord Milner, too, was supportive.
Lord Curzon, for his part, was unenthusiastic.
One key opponent, Edwin Montagu, was not formally a member of the streamlined War Cabinet.
Why did Zionism appeal to members of the War Cabinet?
For one, there was compassion for persecuted Jewry.
Balfour believed that the Christian world owed Jewish civilization a moral debt for centuries of persecution and contempt. Adding to the atmosphere was George Eliot’s 1876 novel “Daniel Deronda,” which raised the idea of restoring Palestine to the Jews.
Back in 1833 Benjamin Disraeli had written The Wondrous Tale of Alroy, set partly in Jerusalem, about a young Jewish man trying to survive in a non-Jewish world. Disraeli’s father converted to Christianity when Benjamin was 12 years old. Disraeli was Prime Minister of Britain from 1874 until 1880.
How did the Government perceive Jewish influence?
The British leadership had a rather inflated view of Jewish influence. It imagined Jews— irrespective of whether they were Russian, American or German—as a unified collective that could be used to further British interests.
So it was that Britain hoped the Jews could help with the war effort. London needed Russia to stay in the Great War and the US to accelerate its military involvement in the fighting. But Russia’s Kerensky despite his Jewish-sounding name was actually Russian Orthodox. The revolutionary Leon Trotsky was Jewish though certainly no Zionist.
When did the USA enter World War I?
What was the War Cabinet?
When David Lloyd George succeeded Herbert Henry Asquith as Prime Minister in December 1916 the Great War (WWI) was raging. Lloyd George wanted a streamlined decision-making body for his coalition government so he created a War Cabinet that consisted of himself (Liberal), Andrew Bonar Law (Conservative), Lord Curzon (Conservative), Lord Milner (Conservative) and Arthur Henderson (Labour).
Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour was not formally a member of the War Cabinet. But given his stature as an elder statesman he attended meetings and his counsel was much valued.
Who submitted letters supporting a Declaration?
On October 6, 1917 the War Cabinet decided to send out the latest draft text to eight Jews, four anti-Zionists and four Zionists, for comment.
Who wrote letters against a Declaration?
They argued that the Jews were solely a religious community. Opponents of a Declaration were concerned that the Jewish nationalism inherent in Zionism would raise doubts about their own loyalty to the Crown.
One of the two Jewish ministers in Lloyd George’s Cabinet, the Liberal Party’s Edwin Montagu (1879- 1924) who was Secretary of State for India, had long been making the anti-Zionist case.
How was the Balfour Declaration drafted?
On June 13, 1917 Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour met with Lord Walter Rothschild, leader of the British Jewish community, and Zionist statesman Chaim Weizmann and suggested they submit a draft document encapsulating their hopes for Palestine that he could submit for Cabinet discussion.
The formula that the Zionists preferred was submitted by Rothschild to Balfour on July 18, 1917.
Prime Minister David Lloyd George’s government debated the wisdom of making any commitment to the Zionists but ultimately decided to move ahead.
There was a great deal of to and fro over the letter’s wording.
What was happening in the world on November 2, 1917?
The momentous news came too late to make it into the morning newspapers that day.
And when it came the story hardly made a big splash. There was a war going on with fierce fighting in Belgium.
Also the Bolsheviks had captured Estonia on November 5.
And on November 7 British forces captured the Strip in the Third Battle for Gaza.
What was the reaction to the Balfour Declaration?
The Declaration was not published in the press until November 9th, a week after it was issued. The government intended that the declaration should not be made public “until a favourable military situation had been brought about in Palestine”. This was known by November 8th. Since this was a Thursday, the news was delayed until the next day, a Friday, when it could be revealed in the Jewish Chronicle.
Arab reaction to the Balfour Declaration was mixed.
The Zionist leaders had hoped to win Arab support for the restoration of the Jews to Palestine. They saw a win-win situation that would benefit Jews and Arabs alike.
Where did most Jews live in 1917?
The Jewish people were dispersed across many lands. In 1914 most of the world’s Jews were subjects of the Russian Tsar.
They lived in a western region of Tsarist Russia known as the Pale of Settlement. Areas outside the Pale were barred to Jews unless they obtained special permission.
From the 1880s approximately 2 million Jews fled west as a result of violent attacks in southern Russia known as pogroms, religious persecution, and worsening economic conditions. A quarter of a million Jewish immigrants arrived in the USA in 1913 and 1914 alone.
Over a million Jews lived in Western and Central Europe where they enjoyed varying degrees of tolerance.
Berlin, Vienna and Budapest were amongst the largest Jewish communities. But even here a new form of Jew-hatred was growing – racial anti-Semitism.
A million Jews also lived in the Arab world, from Morocco to Iraq. There were also thousands of Jews in non-Arab Muslim countries including Iran, Turkey, and Afghanistan. These ancient Middle Eastern communities were traditionally subjected to special taxes and restrictions.
The Jewish population in Palestine, then a province in the Ottoman Turkish Empire, numbered approximately 75,000.
Jews formed the majority in Jerusalem.
How did WWI impact on the Jews in Eastern Europe?
The Balfour Declaration was issued at a time of tremendous turmoil in Russia caused by the war and increasing revolutionary activity.
Even in the context of the Great War, the situation of Jewish civilians was dire. Many of the pitched battles of the Eastern front were fought in regions of dense Jewish population. Jews suffered added horrors of exceptionally brutal anti-Semitic action by the Russian army. They were subjected to mass expulsions from their homes into the interior, to field courts-martial and summary executions, and the taking of hostages as guarantees of satisfactory behaviour.
Sporadic pogroms by Cossacks were not uncommon.
Even the Tsarist Government feared the army’s severe treatment of the Jews was harming Russia’s international standing.
The outbreak of war cut off the escape routes by which Jews had previously fled to the West. The fall of the Tsar in March 1917 was welcomed but freedom proved to be short lived.
The Bolshevik Revolution in November 1917 was followed by bloody civil war.
Within three years over 100,000 Jews were murdered in Ukraine by counter-revolutionary forces. The Bolsheviks, who emerged victorious in the civil war, shut down synagogues and other community organisations.
The Zionist movement was again driven underground.
What was life like in the Pale of Settlement?
The ancient town of Skyrva in the Ukraine was the birthplace of Asher Ginsberg (Ahad Ha’am), a leading Hebrew writer and cultural Zionist, who was close to Chaim Weizmann during the negotiation of the Balfour Declaration.
After Skvyra was included in the Pale of Settlement the town’s Jewish community grew to 9,000 in 1897 – approximately half of the town’s population. At the end of the 19th century Skvyra had seven synagogues.
There were two pogroms in the town in 1917 and six in 1919, some of which lasted for several weeks. There were rapes, houses were burnt down, and Jewish property was seized and destroyed.
Some 191 people were killed and hundreds injured.
In the 1920s the Jewish relief charity JDA reported it was assisting the following pogrom victims in the town and surrounding region: Jewish Widows 250; Orphans 256; Half-Orphans 350; Individuals who lost their working ability 130.
In World War II German forces entered the town in September 1941. On 20 September 1941, 850 Jews were shot in Skvyra. A few days later, over 140 more were executed and deportations followed.
Today there are fewer than 100 Jews in the town and one synagogue has recently been renovated.
How did Jews around the world greet the Declaration?
During the Sabbath service at Belfast synagogue following the Declaration’s publication the community passed a resolution thanking the British government – the only time in the community’s history that a political resolution was passed during a Sabbath service.
Similar support was expressed by Jewish communities across the UK and much further afield.
In Russia the Declaration contributed to an overwhelming Zionist success in the election to the All-Russian Constituent Assembly.
The declaration spurred an extraordinary increase in supporters of American Zionism.
In Jerusalem the first anniversary of the Declaration in November 1918 was celebrated by a Jewish parade in the city – now under British rule – and in the evening there was dancing and singing.
The First Zionist Congress, organized by Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), was held in Basle, Switzerland, in 1897.
What was the McMahon–Hussein correspondence?
In talks between the British High Commissioner in Egypt, Sir Henry MacMahon, and Hussein ibn Ali al-Hashimi, the Hashemite ruler who had declared himself Sharif of Mecca, Britain promised to back Arab independence in Arabia.
The context of the British pledge was London’s competition with France over spheres of influence in the Middle East.
Crucially, no reference was made to Palestine.
What was the Sykes-Picot Agreement?
In May 1916 Sir Mark Sykes of Britain and François Georges-Picot of France had broadly arranged how the powers would divide the Mideast once Ottoman Turkey was defeated in the Great War (WWI).
When the Zionists belatedly learned of the deal in 1917 they opposed it because Eretz Israel (Palestine) was to be divided with France controlling Galilee and Britain the Haifa area; Jerusalem would be under international control.
In the event Britain, and not France, liberated Palestine and took charge there with the endorsement of the international community.
What was the Arab Revolt?
On October 31, 1917 Beersheba, a desert town in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, was captured by British forces.
What was the place of minorities in the region?
Why did Britain foster Arab nationalism?
Britain wanted to encourage incipient Arab nationalism so that the Arabs would rise up against Ottoman Turkish rule during WWI.
Nation state sovereignty was a construct of Western international law.
Ottoman Turkey claimed to be a Muslim caliphate; the Sultan was its supreme leader, his political power legitimized by religion.
The loyalty of ordinary Arabs, Turks, Persians, Berbers and Kurds was first and foremost to their immediate family, then to clan and tribe.
The Ottomans had ruled over the Middle East since 1299—and from the Maghreb (or North Africa) to the Mashriq (the Arab world east of Egypt) there were no sovereign Arab states.
Did the Arabs reject outright the Jewish homeland idea?
The Arabs did not reject outright the Idea of a Jewish state. Not at first.
Did the Zionists reach out to Arab leaders?
But over time all such Arab advocates for accommodation with Zionism were silenced and shunted aside.
How was Balfour received in Palestine?
Some eight years after the Balfour Declaration was issued Arthur Balfour visited Palestine for the first time on April 1, 1925, when he was 77.
The occasion was the official opening of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Palestinian Jews were delighted that he had undertaken the journey.
Present to greet him on Mount Scopus were scores of dignitaries, among them Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann and Palestine’s Chief Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Kook.
But Arab shops closed in protest.
Driving on to Damascus Balfour was met by 6,000 Arabs demonstrating outside his hotel.
What was happening in the world on 2nd November, 1917?
Was the Declaration sanctioned by international law?
The Balfour Declaration itself had no legal effect. However it became part of international law at the 1920 San Remo conference where Britain was given a Mandate to administer Palestine and was required to implement the Balfour Declaration.
The Balfour Declaration was given effect by international law and received express sanction by international agreement.
Around 1918, with the end of the World War, statesmen and legal scholars went to work on rebuilding the shattered international political system. Besides the terrible toll in human life (17 million dead and 20 million wounded) and treasure, the war resulted in empires (including the Ottoman) being vanquished.
There was a need for a new international political order. Who would control territories whose inhabitants had not ruled over themselves for many centuries—or not at all?
In 1919 victors and vanquished gathered in Paris for the Versailles Peace Conference; among them British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, his Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon and British elder statesman Arthur Balfour, along with US President Woodrow Wilson and his Secretary of State Robert Lansing.
What was the San Remo Conference?
Britain’s Mandate for Palestine was granted in 1920 at the San Remo Conference in Italy and ratified by the 52 League of Nations governments on July 24, 1922.
The US was not a member of the League but the Congress passed a resolution supporting the Balfour Declaration in 1922.
France was granted the Mandate for Syria and Lebanon.
The idea, naive in retrospect, was that civilized nations could sensibly resolve their differences while simultaneously guiding people living under their Mandate—most of whom had never had nation states of their own— to stand by themselves in the modern world.
The international naivety of the day arguably reached a crescendo in 1928 with the Kellogg–Briand Pact under which most countries decided to prohibit war under international law.
What was the British Mandate for Palestine?
In 1919 the victors and vanquished of World War I gathered in Paris for the Versailles Peace Conference.
The British Mandate for Palestine made Britain responsible for putting into effect the Balfour Declaration and facilitating the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.
What else was agreed at the San Remo Conference?
Zionist leaders Chaim Weizmann, Nahum Sokolow and Herbert Samuel were present at San Remo.
Did Britain remain faithful to the Balfour Declaration?
Once the ferocity of Arab and Muslim opposition to the idea became plain, the British authorities reconsidered their commitment to the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people—or at least one that depended on a Jewish majority.
In 1921 the British authorities began limiting the number of Jews allowed to enter Palestine. They did so again in 1929 and, most devastatingly, in 1939—when Europe’s Jews had practically no place to flee from Nazi Germany.
At the same time the flow of Arabs into Palestine went on unhindered.
How did Mandate officials relate to Jerusalem's Jews?
With the appointment of Ronald Storrs as Jerusalem’s military governor in 1917 the die was cast. Thoroughly unsympathetic to the Zionist cause, Storrs made sure that, for example, Jerusalem’s Jewish majority was not reflected in the distribution of municipal power.
The atmosphere went from bad to worse.
What role did the Mufti of Jerusalem play?
In 1921 the British appointed Haj Amin al Husseini as Mufti, or spiritual leader, of the Palestinian Arab Muslims.
Palestinian Arabs are overwhelmingly Sunni. The Mufti is the highest exponent of the actual practice of Islamic law.
What was Palestine's demographic picture?
By 1922 the Arab population in the Middle East was some 10 million.
In Palestine, out of an estimated population of 757,182, there were 590,890 Arabs and 88,794 Jews. Christians numbered 73,024, Druze 7,028 and there were smaller numbers of other minorities.
Implicit in the Jewish homeland idea was that Jews be allowed to return to Palestine and form a majority.
What led Britain to create Transjordan?
Britain created Transjordan out of eastern Palestine.
The background for this: In 1921 France, which had the Mandate for Syria, expelled the Hashemite Feisal from his Syrian throne. Britain, which had the Mandate for Iraq, offered Feisal the throne of Iraq. But the Iraqi throne had been pledged to Feisal’s brother Abdullah. The men were the sons of the Emir Hussein of Mecca.
Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill headed for Cairo to handle the crisis and brokered an arrangement whereby eastern Palestine would be transformed into Transjordan, with Abdullah made sovereign; Feisal would become king in Iraq.
How did Jews react to the division of Palestine?
Out of the blue the Jewish national home provisions of the Mandate were made inoperative as they applied to eastern Palestine.
The space for a Jewish national home became dramatically smaller.
The Zionist leaders who looked to Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky (1880-1940) were never reconciled to the loss of eastern Palestine.
Most others came to accept it as a fait accompli.
What became of Hashemite Arabia?
By 1925 the British-backed Hashemite family had been violently elbowed out of Arabia by the Saud clan of Riyadh (hence “Saudi Arabia”). Hussein, the Hashemite emir, retired to Cyprus.
The Hashemites had lost the Syrian throne in 1920 after a brief reign and were forced out of Iraq in a military coup after ruling that country from 1921 to 1958.
How did Britain react to Arab opposition?
Violent Arab opposition to a Jewish homeland was first manifested on a large scale in April 1920 with the Nebi Musa riots in Jerusalem.
A month earlier, in March 1920, Arab irregulars comprised of Shi’ites from Syria and local Sunni Bedouin had attacked the Galilean settlement of Tel Hai. Its Jewish commander, Joseph Trumpeldor, was killed and the settlement was overrun and destroyed.
Riots in Jaffa broke out in May 1921. Another wave of rioting followed in 1924.
In August 1929 some of the most gruesome Arab rioting enveloped Hebron, Jaffa and Jerusalem.
In 1933, in a variation on a theme, the rioting targeted the British as much as the Jews.
The British Government’s Peel Commission of 1936 recommended in its report the following year the division of the remaining territory of western Palestine into two states.
How did the British react to Arab opposition?
How did the Arabs respond?
The Arabs responded to British efforts to address their concerns by digging in their heels.
The Arabs rejected all territorial compromise that would involve the creation of a Jewish state in any part of Palestine.
At some point, most likely in 1937, Arab violence devolved into terrorism—in other words, anti-civilian warfare.
What was Britain's 1939 White Paper?
In May 1939, just months before World War II would engulf Europe and its Jews, Britain officially reneged on the Balfour Declaration.
The British authorities kept the doors to Palestine locked solid throughout the Holocaust (1933-1945) and beyond, leaving Europe’s Jews virtually no haven.
Still, the main Zionist camps—the followers of Chaim Weizmann and those of Vladimir Jabotinsky—largely supported Britain’s war effort.
Only the small radical Freedom Fighters for Israel, or Stern Gang, attacked the British throughout WWII.
How did Palestinian Arabs react to Jewish immigration?
What was the situation on the ground in Palestine?
The Second World War ended in May 1945. But Palestine still found no peace.
The British authorities maintained a policy of limiting Jewish immigration.
In Britain the Labour Party’s Clement Attlee was now prime minister, having replaced the Conservative Winston Churchill.
Attlee and his Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin (who took over from the Conservative Anthony Eden) rejected a request by US President Harry Truman to allow 100,000 Holocaust survivors into Palestine.
How did the international community respond?
Continuing Arab opposition to the Jewish homeland idea raised a new possibility: the partition of western Palestine—the area west of the River Jordan—into two states: one Jewish and one Arab.
In May 1947 a special committee of the UN General Assembly recommended that western Palestine be partitioned into Arab and Jewish states. Eastern Palestine had previously been transformed into Transjordan.
On November 29, 1947, by a vote of 33 to 13 with 10 abstentions, the General Assembly voted in favor of Partition.
View Day of Decision: Excerpts from the film record of the United Nations deliberations on Palestine in 1947 courtesy of The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive – of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
What was the 1947 UN Partition Plan?
The 1947 UN Partition Plan proposed the division of western Palestine.
Eastern Palestine had already been ceded to the Arabs in1922, in what is today the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Most denizens of Jordan are Palestinian Arabs.
As the map was drawn the Jewish state with its 600,000 Jews would also be home to 350,000 Arabs. The borders themselves were pretty much indefensible. Jerusalem was to be under international auspices.
Did the United Nations adopt the Partition Plan?
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Partition Plan on November 29, 1947 by a vote of 33 to 13, with 10 abstentions.
How did each country vote at the UN?
How did Britain & the Arabs react to the UN Partition?
Britain made clear that it would not cooperate with the Partition Plan and announced that its forces would pull out on May 15, 1948.
The Arab side also rejected dividing western Palestine into Jewish and Arab states.
The Zionist leadership reluctantly agreed to accept Partition.
What was the 1948 War of Independence?
Bloody urban riots and attacks on Jewish civilians had long been under way. Arab irregular forces had infiltrated into Palestine months earlier.
The Jewish population stood at about 650,000 ranged against some 1.1 million Palestinian Arabs.
The day after Independence was declared Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon—alongside the Palestinian Arabs— sent their armies to destroy Israel.
Strategic Jewish settlements had to be abandoned. Jerusalem’s Old City was lost. Some 6,000 Israelis were killed (one percent of the population) and 15,000 wounded.
How did the War of Independence end?
Highly motivated Jewish forces, though vastly outnumbered, successfully pushed back the Arab onslaught. The effort to destroy the State of Israel at its birth was overcome.
Israeli forces went on the offensive and gained strategically vital territory formerly granted to the Palestinian Arabs under the United Nations Partition Plan of 1947.
What were the terms of the 1949 Armistice?
The parties promised not to launch or permit the launching of attacks from their territory against each other.
They furthermore agreed that the Armistice lines were not a political border.
Israel’s post-Armistice Line territory encompassed about 78 percent of the territory allocated for the Jewish homeland under the Mandate (excluding Transjordan, which had been ceded to the Arabs).
Between 1949 and 1956 alone some 500 Israelis (half of them noncombatants) were killed in cross-border incursions carried out by Arab fedayeen forces.
What were Israel's boundaries at Independence?
The pre-1947 Partition Plan boundaries with Egypt, Syria and Lebanon were restored.
Egypt also took control of the Gaza Strip, which was to have been part of Arab Palestine.
Jordan annexed Judea and Samaria, or the West Bank. Jordan also ruled over the Old City of Jerusalem and its environs.
The Arab states and the Palestinian Arabs refused to create a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza because doing so might be seen as implying acceptance of Israel’s right to exist.
Arab policy was that Palestinian Arabs made homeless by the war would be kept permanently in refugee camps rather than be absorbed.
Did the Independence Declaration recall Balfour?
On May 14, 1948 the Zionist leadership under David Ben-Gurion gathered in Tel Aviv to proclaim the birth of the State of Israel.
What happened after Israel declared independence?
The day after Independence was declared Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon sent their armies to confront Israel alongside Palestinian Arab forces.
Terrible urban riots and attacks on Jewish civilians had long been under way. Arab irregular forces had infiltrated into Palestine months earlier.
Strategic Jewish settlements (including Gush Etzion, directly south of Jerusalem) had to be abandoned. Jerusalem’s Old City (with its Western Wall and the Temple Mount) was lost. Some 6,000 Israelis were killed (one percent of the population); 15,000 were wounded.
Did the war create only one refugee problem?
Two massive refugee problems ensued.
According to UN figures, about 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled (or in some instances were forced out of) Jewish-held areas. In time at least as many Jewish refugees fled Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen.
Palestinian Arab refugees would not be absorbed in any Arab country, nor would Jordan and Egypt allow the creation of a Palestinian Arab state in the West Bank and Gaza (which they controlled between 1949 and 1967).
Instead the United Nations General Assembly established the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in December 1949. By 2016 some 5 million Palestinians depended on the services of UNRWA and other international bodies.
According to 2016 UN figures, there are 65 million displaced people in the world; 21 million refugees and 10 million stateless people.
UNRWA is unique in terms of its long-standing commitment to one group of permanent refugees only: Palestinian Arabs.
Why commemorate the Balfour Declaration?
The Balfour Declaration deserves to be commemorated because 100 years ago Britain set out to do the right thing.
Its own particular national interests aside, it sought to champion justice. It set out to give the weight of its moral sanction to the Zionist cause.
James Arthur Balfour, David Lloyd George and the other members of the British War Cabinet could not have envisaged that the Declaration would be followed by unalterable Arab opposition to the Zionism.
Yet in the final analysis the Declaration did, in a matter of three decades, help pave the way for a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
It did not happen in the way its author envisioned; and the Jewish homeland became a reality only after much of European Jewry had been annihilated in the Shoah. Yet the Balfour Declaration did come to fruition.
And on April 28, 1950 Britain established diplomatic relations with Israel.
What can I read to learn more?
Destruction of Jerusalem and First Temple; Mass deportation to Babylonia.
Romans destroy Second Temple. Beginning of the Exile in 70 AD.
Arabs conquer Jerusalem in 638.
Reform Rabbi Isaac M. Wise of Cincinnati, Ohio, writes in “The New York Times”: a Jewish state nowadays "impossible"
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, assassinated in Sarajevo setting off series of events that would lead to First World War.
Herbert Samuel talks to Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey about Palestine's fate should Ottoman Empire collapse. Samuel raises idea of "re-establishing a Jewish state"
In June 1917, Balfour asks Weizmann to submit a draft of a British government declaration on Palestine that would be satisfactory to the Zionists.
War Cabinet Secretariat invites Jewish proponents and opponents to submit memoranda on the declaration draft.
Lord Robert Cecil tells House of Commons: "Our wish is that Arabian countries shall be for the Arabs, Armenia for the Armenians and Judaea for the Jews."
Sir Herbert Samuel, a British Jewish Zionist, becomes High Commissioner for Palestine. He was actually appointed after the San Remo conference and arrived in Palestine on 30 June 1920.
With Six million Jews exterminated by Germans and their collaborators, WWII ends in Europe. Death camps liberated.
Israel's Declaration cites the Balfour Declaration as the first in a series of international affirmations that underpin the right of the Jewish people to rebuild its National Home.
Between January and July 1949, Armistice Agreements were signed with Egypt, Lebanon, Transjordan and Syria under UN auspices in Rhodes.
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0.999898 | Did FBI get bamboozled by multiple versions of Trump dossier?
Like dandelions in an untreated lawn, the now infamous Russian dossier apparently multiplied in numbers — and emissaries delivering it to the FBI — the closer Donald Trump Donald John TrumpTrump calls Sri Lankan prime minister following church bombings Ex-Trump lawyer: Mueller knew Trump had to call investigation a 'witch hunt' for 'political reasons' The biggest challenge from the Mueller Report depends on the vigilance of everyone MORE got to the White House.
And we learned that Sen. John McCain John Sidney McCain10 factors making Russia election interference the most enduring scandal of the Obama era Earth Day founder's daughter: Most Republican leaders believe in climate change in private Trump gives nod to vulnerable GOP Sen. McSally with bill signing MORE (R-Ariz.) provided a copy to the FBI after the November 2016 election — out of a sense of duty, his office says.
Yet, in this case, the generally same information kept walking through the FBI’s door for months — recycled each time by a new character with ties to Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonIt is wrong to say 'no collusion' 10 factors making Russia election interference the most enduring scandal of the Obama era And the winner of the Robert Mueller Sweepstakes is — Vladimir Putin MORE or hatred for Trump — until someone decided they had to act.
That someone was Strzok, whose own anti-Trump bias was laid bare by his personal text messages. He first opened a case on Russia-Trump collusion on July 31, 2016 after the first flow of information, then escalated to get a warrant targeting a former Trump adviser in October after a second flurry of allegations.
Here is the evidence that supports those concerns.
Simpson and his firm were paid by Clinton’s campaign to hire Steele to find dirt on Trump in Russia during the 2016 election.
Oddly — and perhaps contradicting Strzok’s email — Simpson testified he was unaware of any version of the dossier being given to the FBI. “I don't know that there was a version provided to the FBI,” he testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
In his House Intelligence Committee testimony, Simpson acknowledged he “acceded” to letting Steele talk to the FBI but insisted he himself never talked to the FBI about the dossier. “Did you meet with intelligence officials regarding the dossier?” he was asked. “No,” Simpson replied. Pressed if he ever talked to the FBI, Simpson added: "I didn't approach the FBI."
In light of the new emails, investigators will want to determine if Simpson misled Congress or if Strzok misstated the source of one of the versions.
The chief courier of the Trump dirt was Steele, a former MI6 agent respected for past collaborations with the FBI on intelligence matters. But we now know he was “desperate” to defeat Trump, according to sworn testimony.
Then Australian diplomat Alexander Downer in late July recalled a May 2016 conversation he had with Trump adviser George PapadopoulosGeorge Demetrios PapadopoulosGeorge Papadopoulos urges Barr to investigate examples of 'spying' while he was campaign aide Ten post-Mueller questions that could turn the tables on Russia collusion investigators Rand Paul blocks resolution calling for release of Mueller report MORE about possible Russian hacks of Clinton emails, and relayed that to U.S. authorities.
Strzok quietly opened an investigation of possible Trump-Russia collusion on July 31, 2016, based in part on Downer’s information.
A few weeks later, Clinton allies Sidney Blumenthal, who was paid for years by the Clinton Foundation, and Cody Shearer sent the government dirt on Trump that mirrored the Steele dossier, Congress has been told.
Then, in mid- to late September, the FBI re-engaged with Steele. Yet, soon after, agents were forced to part ways with Steele when they caught him having contacts with the media, a prohibition for confidential FBI sources.
In November, the world was mostly unaware the FBI was investigating the unproven Russia-Trump allegations when McCain sent the FBI a copy of the dossier. McCain had his own animus toward Trump, dating to when the future president dissed the former GOP presidential nominee’s record as a war hero.
More important to investigators is where Team McCain got the dossier. In his congressional testimony, Simpson all but acknowledged he and Steele provided the information to McCain ally David Kramer, who provided it to the Arizona senator to forward to the FBI.
“I don't remember whether I called David or David called me, I just don’t remember, but we got in touch,” Simpson testified about his dossier-related contact with Kramer. Simpson’s lawyer stopped him from answering more.
In other words, it was a ploy using a Republican critic of Trump as the courier. | 2019-04-23T03:57:54 | https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/396307-Did-FBI-get-bamboozled-by-multiple-versions-of-Trump-dossier%3F |
0.999972 | The Tesla and SpaceX founder is single-handedly changing the future of industries through a mixture of genius ideas and new innovations -- and some of his quotes over the years explain how he's making it happen.
Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has been hailed as a visionary genius not just for his company's innovations in automotive technology and space transportation but for his thoughts on business and the future of technology as well.
Here are just a handful of quotes that sum up Musk's approach to business, innovation, and what he expects the world to look like.
Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.
-- Musk said at TechCrunch's Founder Showcase back in 2010.
Despite the joke, Musk takes his companies very seriously and invests much of his own cash to make them successful. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Musk has taken out personal credit lines totaling $475 million to fund his businesses, and has purchased shares of both Tesla and Solar City when they've needed funding. Musk currently owns a 27% stake in Tesla and 22% in SolarCity, but his stake in SpaceX is unknown (it's a private company).
I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself.
You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it. Seek negative feedback, particularly from friends.
That perspective has certainly paid off for Tesla at times, which received the highest possible Consumer Reports score for the Model S last year (though CR later dinged the car's reliability and recently called for Tesla to pull back on its semi-autonomous Autopilot driving system).
I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?.
Musk certainly believes that his companies are changing the world. Tesla's Autopilot system is often seen as the face of driverless cars. Musk thinks autonomous driving features aren't just an add-on option, but will eventually be a permanent part of automobiles.
It's not all that crazy of an idea, either. Driverless cars could save 1.25 million lives globally every year, according to Reuters.
But when Musk thinks about the future, his thoughts sometimes leave this planet altogether. While SpaceX is primarily focused on transporting cargo for NASA, Facebook, and other customers, Musk continually sees the company as an eventual vehicle for manned space exploration.
There's a fundamental difference, if you look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilization, that's out there exploring the stars... compared with one where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event.
That's why Musk has said that SpaceX will send humans to Mars by 2025.
We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.
This is why he started OpenAI last year, which is a non-profit designed to share artificial intelligence research with the hope of achieving a peaceful AI world.
I always have optimism, but I'm realistic. It was not with the expectation of great success that I started Tesla or SpaceX. It's just that I thought they were important enough to do anyway. | 2019-04-21T07:02:50 | https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/09/10/8-perfectly-genius-elon-musk-quotes.aspx |
0.999995 | Why did the chicken cross half way across the road? She wanted to lay it on the line.
Why did the chicken cross half way across the road?
She wanted to lay it on the line. | 2019-04-22T22:40:53 | http://www.funnycaptions.com/img/51232/why-did-the-chicken-cross-half-way-across-the-road-she-wanted-to-lay-it-on-the-line/ |
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0.998601 | Recommended reading:Is the gold bull market going to open soon?
gold: February gold has relative income, the main logic: 1) Under the continuation of global liquidity contraction, US stocks may maintain high volatility and benefit gold prices. 2) The downward pressure on the US economy is still limited, the actual interest rate is weak, and the impact on the value of gold allocation is neutral. 3) The downside of the US dollar index is limited, which is not conducive to a sharp rise in the price of gold. 4) At the transaction level, as of January 30, the SPDR gold ETF holdings reached 823.87 tons, an increase of 36.2 tons from the end of last month. The increase was higher than last month. It can be seen that investors' current investment preference for gold.
crude:Several potential factors supporting the rise in oil prices in February may come from the logic of supply contraction, including: 1) OPEC+ production cut-off rate data remains at a high level; Libya is expected to continue to decline due to the shutdown of the Sharara oil field. 2) The decrease in the number of US oil rigs has caused the growth of US crude oil production to slow down or stagnate. Considering the market's worries about the slowdown in global economic growth, the trend of rising oil prices also needs macroeconomic real data support.
copper: The macro economy is still facing huge downward pressure in February, and copper prices are under pressure. 1) The supply side is expected to remain stable, and the impact of disturbances such as strikes may be absent. 2) The demand side is affected by the macro economy. In February, the macro economy at home and abroad still faced huge downward pressure: the PMI index in Japan and the Eurozone fell sharply in January, while the official manufacturing PMI in China in January was 49.5, which was lower than the second consecutive month. 3) LME copper rebounded slightly in recent months and in the long-term, indicating that the market's confidence in future prices has increased, but whether it is sustainable remains to be further verified. | 2019-04-22T21:07:36 | http://finance04.com/sbdm/fund/2019/02/02103627015561.shtml |
0.998436 | Note: this is step 3 of a print / sinter / polish process.
Now that you've successfully printed with "metal" filament, and possibly sintered a solid metal part, you want to make it look nice. These steps are generally chronological, but you can always go out-of-order or do a step again. If you do plan to sinter, I highly recommend a pass of trimming & shaping before the sinter, then further cleanup after.
Note: this is an addendum to the 3rd step of a print / sinter / polish process.
Solid bronze can be finished and polished to a bright luster, not unlike jewelry. It's a very hard, beautiful metal with some cool properties. It cleans up similar to metal-filled plastics, but there are a few steps specific to solid metals.
tl;dr: pickle, brush, shape, tumble, maybe brush again, polish, buff, wax. | 2019-04-20T11:09:26 | http://austindavid.com/jm3/ |
0.999552 | I've just submitted a generic print cartridge into my HP Photosmart 2575 and I'm getting an error that an incorrect print cartridge is installed. Is there any way to override this and get the cartridge to work?
Same problem with an HP Deskjet 3940.
This is a very common problem. Apparently HP changed the roller because of this fault.
I've tried cleaning, I've tried making the roller rough. I tried to get HP to send me a new roller but they didn't even reply.
HP are a rubbish company who don't care at all about customers (and their printer software (bloatware) is even more rubbish).
The spring that holds the roller down onto the paper is too weak. I bent the end of a straightened out paper clip into a small hook then made another hook-like bend a bit further up (but kept the rest of the clip to use like a handle). the length between the two hook parts is just under 1/2 inch. Don't cut it yet - buy you will need to when it's in place.
Hold the handle end (the bit at the bottom of this sketch) so you can fiddle about in the small space and don't loose the spring altogether.
Find the spring that fixes onto the roller gadget, it hooks onto the printer body. Hook the spring off the hole in the printer body, and then catch the second (double) hook of the paperclip onto the small printed circuit board just by the roller (most of the board is empty - so hook it to the left end of the board).
Then, when it's all in place cut the rest of the paperclip off.
and here you can see where the spring used to go, and where it fixes with the clip thingy I made.
Of course this is what I did (when I was about to throw the printer away so it was a last chance survival idea), if you loose the spring, stick it onto something that goes sparky-sparky or otherwise kill the machine or yourself I can't take responsibility!
Take the cartridge out and rub the contacts with a piece of damp tissue paper and try again.
Many newer HP Printers internally keep track of your cartridges by a serial number embedded into the cartridge. When it's low, the printer remembers. This is entirely done within the printer itself, and not the printer software. Some printers EXPIRE the cartridges after 18 months according to the installation date even it is not empty.
A fix? Most HP printers will only keep 2 cartridges in memory, so if you have 2 extra cartridges, (even empty ones) you could cycle them through to reset the printers memory, and reset the ink level to full. Basically, even though you've refilled your cartridge, the printers has the cartridge's serial number stored in memory. This will reset it.
SOURCE: Printer reads "Incorrect Print Cardtridge Installed"
Remove the cartridges and do a full reset without them in by removing the wall socket and re-plugging.
More information has been answered in another thread.
You would not be able to.
The cartridge front is different and would not fit.
Also it is a requirement to have the correct cartridges to print.
go to hp site and go to support tab/ drivers download/printers/2575 and download the install file or birn it to a cd.
Help section says i can print without a color cartridge in "backup mode"....how?
Cannot get printer to accept new tricolour ink cartridge.
Hp photosmart 2575v all in one error code on lcd screen . Error oxb804000c. Prints ok. Error message stays up on lcd screen most of the time. Light flashing near the card reader port ? | 2019-04-20T16:28:39 | http://www.fixya.com/support/t182627-incorrect_print_cartridge_error_hp_2575 |
0.999318 | "Seven seconds after takeoff a row ensued in the cockpit: The captain started arguing with his crew as to which heading they had taken. The heated debate involved harsh language and insults."
The pilot is thought to have lost spatial orientation and control of the situation.
The Russian Defense Ministry has made public the results of an inquiry into the mysterious fatal accident involving its Tupolev Tu-154 jet airliner near Sochi in late 2016.
The flight bound to Syria crashed shortly after takeoff from Sochi Adler airport. All 92 on board were killed, including members of the Alexandrov Ensemble, the official choir of the Russian Armed Forces. The artists were to perform in Aleppo, which had just been liberated.
The ministry's board of inquiry concluded (in Russian) that the aircraft crashed because of the captain's "erroneous inputs."
The investigators have replicated the sequence of events down to each second of the tragedy.
The Tu-154 departed from Moscow in the early hours of Dec. 25 for Sochi (1,620 km to the south of Moscow) for a fuel before continuing its journey to Syria.
While the first leg played out without any problems, the second stage went wrong from the start.
Investigators say the captain had "difficulty establishing the aircraft's position" while still taxiing for takeoff. He could not understand which taxiway to use to get to the advised location on the runway, and was feeling nervous about it."
Seven seconds after takeoff a row ensued in the cockpit: The captain started arguing with his crew as to which heading they had taken. The heated debate involved harsh language and insults.
Investigators believe it was then that the captain lost control over the controls and distracted his crew from reading the flight parameters.
Then, as the aircraft was gaining altitude, the captain pushed the steering column, bringing the airplane's nose down and so slowing down the climb. After 53 seconds in the air, he called for the flaps to be retracted while still 157 meters above ground (the minimum flaps retraction altitude for this aircraft type is 500 meters).
All this happened while the captain's steering column was kept in the nose-down position. This resulted in the aircraft nose-diving from an altitude of 231 meters. The subsequent actions of the captain, who appeared to have totally lost control over the situation and spatial orientation, led to the airplane starting to lose altitude at three times the normal descent rate.
The investigators believe the flight was doomed from the 70th second on: It was banking 50 degrees and plummeting to the ground at an airspeed of 540 km/h.
The inquiry concluded that the critical situation had been caused by the captain's emotional and physical exhaustion, and also because he lacked experience operating in complicated scenarios.
For this reason, the investigators place part of the blame for the crash on the command of the 800th Air Base, to which the Tu-154 reported.
The inquiry believes the air base command breached over 20 directives in assigning the captain with poor CRM (crew resource management) skills to the fateful flights. This conclusion overturns a number of initial theories, including a technical malfunction and an excessive payload on board.
"The overload theory was abandoned several months ago, after specialists had found that the aircraft was carrying only 150 kg of freight (in addition to the passengers and crew)," Pavel Bulat, head of the International Laboratory of New Materials and Nanofilms for Microsensors, Microwave, and Power Electronics Component Base at ITMO University (Saint-Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics), told RBTH.
"Such a load simply cannot disrupt a Tu-154's center-of-gravity stability in any serious way. The inquiry merely confirmed the theory that the pilot lost spatial orientation."
The expert believes that command of the 800th Air Base is in fact partially responsible for what happened: "They approved the flight documentation, and so on. The problem is, the crew were still exhausted from the previous flight, and why they had to be sent on a night mission is anybody's guess." | 2019-04-22T02:38:36 | https://www.rbth.com/defence/2017/06/02/inquiry-into-fatal-crash-of-russian-military-airliner-blames-crew-captain_775450 |
0.999999 | Any ideas for neat cabling?
I'm using an L1 MKII with Tonematch - the Tonematch and an iPad for my music content fastened to my mic stand.
The consequent cables (including mic / audio feed from iPad to Tonematch / and Tonematch to powerbase feed can sometimes look at bit hairy. Does anyone have any good ideas as to how to minimise the visual impact of these in a simple manner? Is there a "down the mic stand "flexi something" to feed the cables or specific cables that make routing easier / better?
nice to "see you come up to the surface for air" (I couldn't resist that one after typing your name) .
The consequent cables (including mic / audio feed from iPad to Tonematch / and Tonematch to powerbase feed can sometimes look at bit hairy. Does anyone have any good ideas as to how to minimise the visual impact of these in a simple manner?
I use black velcro for my cables. It also has the advantage that should anyone nudge my mic-stand and the T1 should become dislodged, the cables hold the T1 and stop it from falling. The way I do it is to route anything going to or coming from the T1 from below the T1 fastened with velcro. My Microphone cable is only 1.5 metres in length therefore has only a slight loop (coming from above the T1 to below to allow me to approach the T1 from below). All cables leaving the T1 for the Power stand or coming from my Kemper Profiler (which is a few feet behind me as a rule) I also fasten to the mic-stand using a few strips of black velcro.
All my cables are black as is my mic-stand. From a short distance, the mic-stand does look pretty tidy at a gig.
I have a pic of my mic stand set up in my living room. Unfortunately it doesn't go right down to the floor, and the cables going down aren't velcroed down to the floor as I've described, but this was a rehearsal in my living room and not a gig. The pic may however help to outline what I've tried to describe here, especially around the T1 where you can see the main velcro "anchor".
Should you so wish, you could even velcro the cable coming from the microphone to the stand. I actually prefer it as it is in the picture, but that's just me.
The cabling can be made to look pretty tidy using this method, but I've not found a way to make them completely invisible up to now.
Is there a "down the mic stand "flexi something" to feed the cables or specific cables that make routing easier / better?
I've never heard of anything like that, but that doesn't mean that there isn't anything along those lines. Maybe you could find a piece of "flexi" for computer cables in black and use that? If you find a better method please let me know as I'm always open for ideas.
Has this helped in any way?
Glad to meet you and glad too that you're not flying over me while I'm up for air. Thanks for the explanation and image, gives me food for thought. As you're not running another piece of gear fixed to to mic stand it's impressive and I will certainly take on board the velcro around the cables next to the T1 for drop security. I had someone knock the stand over a few weeks back (on thick carpet) and everything survived in tact.
I'm going to see what I can do with a cable set up see if a computer tidy gizmo might work and I'll post it here.
Great velcro idea Segullman: I like the idea of protecting the T1 with velcro on the cables in case the T1 gets dislodged from the mic stand bracket. I'm going to use that idea.
Here are a few of pictures. Click any picture to read related comments.
The blue velcro straps are barely noticeable under stage lights.
All the cables are as short as possible.
The thanks should really be directed in ST's direction. The original idea of using velcro (especially as a way of giving the T1 more "hold" on the mic-stand) I adopted from ST about 6 years ago when I got my first L1 (a Compact). He's given a link to that thread in the Wiki by clicking on the pictures he's posted.
As in ST's last picture (mic-stand in bag) I also have my personal mic-stand wired up and ready to go, with bracket-clamp always in place. Saves time at the gig. I actually have one or two more cables attached for eventualities that may arise (for use with a Compact or a Model II I have a Bose Tonematch cable and a 6m TRS/TRS cable, or maybe for a second guitarist). The cables not in use at the gig are coiled up neatly under the feet of the mic-stand. I only do the sound for myself and my trio nowadays so I don't have a massive arsenal of mic-stands etc for complete bands any more. (Just to explain the extra cables).
As ST mentioned, it's also a good idea to keep the instrument/mic cables as short as possible.
I only mentioned the Black Velcro (which I tend to use) because Dave (ScubaBadger) wanted it to be as least intrusive visually as possible. I still had ST's original photos in my head with colored velcro and cables. The pictures now are excellent ST. They really speak to the aesthetic part of me .
I have loose plastic loops on the microphone stand to keep the cables close to the stand without having to strap the cables to the lower portion of the microphone stand. This gives me the flexibility to raise and lower the microphone stand without having to battle with any tight straps.
My mic-stands all have 2 loose plastic loops that came with the stands, but I've never really thought about trying to acquire more. I'll have to think about that and see if they're available individually. The two that came with the stand do get used, and are more flexible in use than velcro if you want a bit of freedom of movement. I'll look into the possibility of getting more loops. Thanks for putting me on to that idea ST.
For my own mic-stand I generally have one main setting as I tend to play on a barstool (not standing up) so once it's set up for me it's set.
Regarding ST's pics. If I were to photograph my mic-stand in a ready to go situation so that the wiring etc. was clearly visible, they would be very similar to ST's. Great photos that show exactly what's happening.
For anyone reading this thread and maybe also looking for other tips regarding almost anything L1 or F1 related, I can really recommend the Wiki which ST created years ago and which keeps growing with new information. Just click on "Encyclopedia/Wiki" and enjoy the ride.
Take care everyone, enjoy using your L1's and also the astounded faces when the people realize where the sound is actually coming from.
Yet more great tips thanks. Not previously thought of leaving cables attached to stand, I'll look at that. I'll also look for extra fastenings for further down the stand.
I had someone knock the stand over a few weeks back (on thick carpet) and everything survived in tact.
Just a thought here regarding the mic-stand and whatever you fasten to it.
The higher you fasten appendages (T1, iPad etc.) to the stand including microphone and eventual mic-boom the higher the center of gravity is, which makes the mic-stand more susceptible to toppling over if nudged.
You amy have already thought of this, but it doesn't hurt to mention it anyway.
Hadn't thought of it - but yes you are right - I will review the height of my rig and concentrate on getting all devices as low as I can from now on.
OK - so on the cables thing - has anyone seen a cable with what I'd call an optimum configuration for connecting an iPad / iPod to the T1 - something like a right angle black stereo mini jack to two black right angle 1/4" mono jacks? Struggling to find one in the UK.
My microphone cable (made by Planet Waves) has a flexible (hinged) joint that when it exits the T! does allow me to bend it downwards and get rid of most of the snag loop. The T1 CAT cable is soft enough to bend and get rid of the snag loop - I'd like to get rid of the snag loops on my audio in cable - and the cable coming out of the iPad.
I'm going to find some plastic cable grips for the mic stand and just snap them on that can carry the CAT 5 cable down the pole neatly, trouble is they have to fit a 25mm pole (Hercules MS632B stand) and Hercules only supply 1 clip with the stand. I hate loose wires and eye sores on stage.
I've seen the exact clips that Hercules supply called a CC-3 on ebay in the USA for not a bad price - it's just the postage cost to the UK that kills it. Makes you wonder how the China based makers can offer free postage - just got to find which maker makes them!
Asked the makers of my mic stand (Hercules, USA) for a price and availability of the stand clips. They gave me the part number and told me I could not buy from them.
I chose a UK dealer I've bought from before (Andertons, Guildford), gave them the part number and said "how much".
They came back with "we don't supply these".... which I find strange as a Hercules retailer. Anyone else know where I can get them?
So - back to the cables mess - I've found a cable maker in the UK and having explained the problem to them they've come up with a blinder.
and both ends are quality Neutrik connectors in black.
I've explained to them that other folk here on the Bose L1 user forum are discussing the same issue with cables. They've offered a discount for the forum - which gives 10% off which I think is kind of them.
I love it, as its tidied up my set up no end by getting rid of all the "straight out" loops.
I'm going to see if I can find a Right angle CAT 5 connector.
Yes 90° plugs are cool. I usually use them on my guitars, but for some reason not at the other end. They're also good for pedalboards. That way you can keep the pedals closer together.
Keep the infos coming Dave as and when you find out something new.
Looking good. Thanks for sharing the link to the vendor.
I have had custom cables made up by http://www.audiopile.net. They are in the US. | 2019-04-26T05:46:25 | https://www.bosepro.community/g/portable/topic/any-ideas-for-neat-cabling?reply=25939500283300877 |
0.999928 | There are a set of checks that we can carry out to investigate why messages are not being consumed at a destination on a service integration bus, when the messages are being routed through a remote message point and the consuming application is running. Follow the steps in either Investigating why point-to-point messages are not being consumed or Investigating why publish/subscribe messages are not arriving at a subscription, whichever best suits the problem. These topics contain preliminary checks and investigative tasks that you should carry out before proceeding with this task. You should undertake this task as part of either Investigating why point-to-point messages are not being consumed or Investigating why publish/subscribe messages are not arriving at a subscription. This task explains how to investigate the flow of messages in a scenario where the messages are being routed through a remote message point and the consuming application is started. The following diagrams illustrate two possible scenarios. In Figure 1, a bus contains three messaging engines, ME1, ME2 and ME3. The producing application is connected to ME1 and the consuming application is connected to ME3. The messages are routed from ME1 to ME3 through ME2, and are consumed from ME3. This scenario is only concerned with ME2 and ME3. ME3 hosts a remote message point that represents the message point hosted by ME2. In Figure 2, ME2 and ME3 host publication points that are represented by remote publication points on ME1, where the producing application is attached. Subscribing application B is connected to ME3 and receives messages indirectly from ME1, through a subscription on ME2. a remote subscription point on ME 3. These messaging engines are referred to in the following steps.
Check that the consumer is started.
If the application uses an asynchronous consumer, check that the asynchronous consumer is registered.
If the application is synchronous, check that the consumer is currently in a "receive with wait" state (this might require a modification to the application to extend the time that the application waits for a message).
If the state is Value, a message was retrieved and returned to the consuming application, but the consumption of the message has not yet completed. Check that the consuming application is correctly processing any incoming messages, for example, check that the application is committing the transaction used to consume the message.
If the state is Rejected, a message was retrieved and returned to the consuming application, which then rejected the message for some reason. Generally, this means that the consuming application rolled back the consume operation or an associated transaction.
If the state is Acknowledged, a message was returned for the request and consumed by an application. Check that the message was received by the correct application, and was not consumed by a different application.
If the state is Request, the message request has been sent to ME2, continue to the next check to investigate why a message has not been returned.
Note the Request ID. On ME2, display the message points for the destination, and view the message requests from ME3. Check that there is a request that matches the request ID on ME3. If there is no matching request, ME2 is not aware of the request. Check that the two messaging engines can communicate with each other, see Service integration troubleshooting: Checking the communication between two messaging engines in a bus.
If the request state is Requested, the request has been received but no suitable message is available. Check that the request selector matches the available message on the message point.
If the request state is "Pending acknowledgement", the request has successfully identified a matching message and attempted to transmit it to ME3. Check that the two messaging engines can communicate with each other, see Service integration troubleshooting: Checking the communication between two messaging engines in a bus.
If still having problems, contact the IBM customer service representative. | 2019-04-24T18:27:32 | http://setgetweb.com/p/WAS70/tju_pt2pt_not_consumed_remote1.html |
0.999787 | TRIVIA Which of the following characters wears a cape?
The only thing more satisfying than seeing a hero rise is seeing a villain fall. Welcome to WatchMojo.com and today we’re counting down our picks for the Top 10 Satisfying Villain Deaths in Disney Movies.
For this list, we’re taking a look at the most despicable baddies from movies produced by Disney - and including Pixar - that got what they had coming to them. Also, a spoiler alert is most definitely in order!
Some people take rejection with dignity and move on. Others just can’t let go of their grudges. Despite not having any superpowers, young Buddy Pine dreams of becoming Mr. Incredible’s sidekick. After getting turned down by his hero, he decides to take the super villain route and becomes Syndrome. With an arsenal of destructive toys at his disposal, this megalomaniac aspires to crush his enemy. Syndrome goes too far, though, when he targets Mr. Incredible’s family. As brilliant as Syndrome is, he’s essentially a bratty child trapped in a grown man’s body. It’s only appropriate that he’s destroyed by his massive ego, as well as his poor fashion sense.
Big, bad, and ruthless, Sykes views himself as untouchable. So it’s kind of ironic that a petty thief, a little girl, and a bunch of cute animals cause his downfall. In the climax of “Oliver & Company,” Sykes sets out to turn our heroes into roadkill. Behind the wheel of his dominating Cadillac, this loathsome loan shark seems like an indestructible force. Sykes takes the highway to hell, though, when he drives his car onto a third rail. Confronted by a towering train, Sykes meets his demise on a bridge. It’s far from the first time a gangster’s body has ended up at the bottom of the Hudson River, but it’s not like he didn’t have it coming.
Disney villains have a tendency to destroy themselves with the very power they seek. The Shadow Man is a prime example. As cool as they come, this witch doctor has complete confidence in his master plan. He puts a little too much faith in dark magic, however, which results in his doom. Unable to pay his debt after his voodoo charm breaks, Doctor Facilier finds himself at the mercy of his friends on the other side. With no more tricks up his sleeve, he’s dragged out of the shadows and down into the underworld. The petrified face on Facilier’s gravestone only makes his death more satisfying.
Every person is eventually reduced to a pile of ashes. Mother Gothel learns this the hard way. Kidnapping our longhaired heroine as a baby, this villain manipulates Rapunzel into believing that she’s a caring, nurturing mother figure. Deep down inher shriveled up heart, it’s possible that Mother Gothel has some affection for the young lady she calls her daughter. When push comes to shove, however, all she cares about is using Rapunzel’s magical hair to preserve her own youth and beauty. When Rapunzel’s golden locks are chopped off, Mother Gothel’s age finally starts to catch up to her. Unable to look at her decaying face in the mirror, she tumbles out the window and reaches her inevitable expiration.
Maleficent walks a fine line between being a villain we love to hate and a villain we hate to love. Either way, she’s definitely one of Disney’s most dastardly villains, placing a deathly curse on an infant princess. And to think, Maleficent only did that because she wasn’t invited to a party. She breaks out the big guns in the film’s climax, taking on the form of a fire-breathing dragon. While Maleficent throws everything she has at our heroes, Prince Phillip ultimately drives his sword through her dark heart. Good may triumph over the Mistress of All Evil, but at least Maleficent went out on a high note.
It’s impossible not to fall in love with Snow White. You’d have to be completely heartless to harm such a kind, pure soul. That’s exactly why we despise the Evil Queen so much. When her huntsman can’t get the job done, the jealous queen uses her dark magic to transform herself into a hag and kills the innocent princess with a poison apple. The Wicked Queen comes close to crushing the seven dwarves with a boulder as well. Fortunately, a bolt of lightning intervenes and gives Queen Grimhilde-as-the-Witch her comeuppance, after which vultures make sure there’s nothing left of the queen’s body. Meanwhile, the dwarves preserve Snow White’s body so she may be awakened by true love’s kiss.
Ursula is a villain of many different faces. She can be quiet and subtle, using her magic to steal Ariel’s voice and Prince Eric’s heart. This sea witch can also be booming and bombastic, particularly when she gets her hands on King Triton’s all-powerful trident. Growing to a monstrous size, Ursula nearly sends the little mermaid to a watery grave. Prince Eric storms inat just the right time, though, and impales her with a ship. This scene gave us all nightmares as children, but we can take comfort in knowing that Ursula is now sleeping with the fishes.
Scar is a royal SOB. In order to claim the Pride Lands, this devious lion murders his older brother. As if that’s not appalling enough, Scar also plots to kill his nephew, who’s only a cub. Slipping through his uncle’s claws, Simba runs away into exile. Sometime later, he returns to show Scar who the true king is. Despite his unforgivable deeds, Scar is given a chance to run away and never return. The dethroned villain refuses to accept defeat, though, and an epic catfight ensues. This proves to be Scar’s undoing, as he’s sent to the bottom of Pride Rock where his hungry minions greet him. It’s the circle of death.
Gaston actually starts off as one of the more likable Disney villains. Granted, he is rude, insensitive, and full of himself. While we can see why Belle isn’t attracted to him, there is a certain charm to his pompous nature. Throughout “Beauty and the Beast,” however, Gaston goes from being a selfish jerk to a sadistic monster that’ll do anything to get what he wants. In the midst of a heated battle for Belle’s hand, the Beast takes pity on the whimpering Gaston and lets him leave peacefully. Gaston’s hunter instinct kicks in, though, and he stabs his prey in the back. As he’s beyond the point of redemption, it’s hard to feel bad for Gaston when he ultimately plummets to his death after losing his footing.
Frollo just might be the biggest sinner the Mouse House has ever given us. This cruel justice minister murders an innocent mother, attempts to drown her deformed child, burns down people’s homes, and lusts after a gypsy he plans to either kill or make his own. Although he’s broken every commandment in the good book, Frollo is still convinced that all of his heinous actions are justified. Before he can do away with Quasimodo, Frollo loses his balance atop Notre Dame and comes face to face with a devilish sight. As the flames of hell rage below, he is sent to meet his maker. We’d say may the lord have mercy on his soul, but Frollo has no soul to save.
Do you agree with our list? What do you think is the most satisfying Disney villain death? For more entertaining Top 10s published everyday, be sure to subscribe to WatchMojo.com. | 2019-04-23T15:08:36 | https://www.watchmojo.com/video/id/16233 |
0.999999 | How difficult would it be to make it so that users can direct each drum slot (or kit piece) to any of the 10 available outputs? This would enable DAW users to use a different track EQ/comp on each tom, for example, because instead of a single track with all the toms on it, each tom could have its own track and FX in the DAW. This would also be helpful if I want to build a custom kit.
If this was my drumkit, I'd have to use a bunch of cymbal/aux.percussion samples in tom slots, and they would be subject to the same DAW FX as the floor tom. Not ideal to say the least. If I could assign each slot to its own output the problem would be solved.
Would this be possible at all? I've devised a workaround but it's tedious time consuming. | 2019-04-19T12:50:10 | http://www.superdrumfx.com/forum/search.php?searchid=47563 |
0.844642 | For someone who doesn't drive very long distances, but drives every day to and from work with short weekend trips, but almost all city driving, is it worth getting this? I read a lot about body roll on new BMW compared to old one. I must add that I never found old BMW X5 (2012) to have excessive body roll on my daily commute, is it really that much worse on 2014/2015 models?
Whoa, what happened to this place? Is it abandoned or something?
Perhaps the lack of response means very few people ordered it, myself included. I haven't noticed any difference in body roll (normal driving mode) compared to our E53 without sports package.
Personally I find the active roll stabilization a waste on older models as my E70 does great on ramps and rapid turns with VERY little body roll. I do have Dynamic Damper Control + rear axle air suspension but not active roll.
But I have a 2014 X3 M and I think the newer body styles have more roll to them granted it is an X3.
BMW's Dynamic Handling Package (ZDH) has the greatest impact on the X5 - while nice to have in the 7, 6 and occasional 5 - the X5 is where this option really shines. I have an e53 with sport suspension. I love the way it handles but I feel guilty when I have passengers. I feel like I'm punishing them. My parents purchased an e70 and it happened to have adaptive drive. I had experienced it in a friend's 7 series but the e70 w/adaptive drive felt impossibly solid - nothing seemed to disturb its chassis AND it was unbelievably comfortable. Fast forward a few years and I still feel a sense of loss each time I return to my e53 sport from a road trip in my parent's e70. Overall, I would prefer my e53 to my parent's e70. However, the e70's adaptive drive was too nice to ignore and I knew that my next vehicle would have it. My 2015 X5 (F15) entered production today and it absolutely has the new version of Adaptive Drive: Dynamic Handling Package (ZDH). I will not order another vehicle without it.
ZDH is elusive because dealers rarely order it for dealer-stock - no one pays 4500 for an option they don't understand. Customers that do understand just order it.
The Dynamic Handling Package is not something that needs to be activated, you do not need to change modes or hit "sport" to see a benefit. It is always improving your comfort, handling and safety. It is always there regardless of which mode you're in (comfort, sport, sport+) - I actually find BMW's modes to be unfortunate and misleading...unless you have DHP.
With ZDH, the the modes actually mean something: ZDH gives you the best of two previously distinct worlds. Comfort and Sport. ZDH outperforms all other suspension options on a track but, more importantly, does so in complete comfort. ZDH is also the most comfortable of any suspension option AND it is still the best performing. ZDH means you no longer have to compromise between sport or comfort...just between $ and $$$. Even if your X5 is never tracked (do people actually track their X5s?) you will always benefit from improved handling and safety - think safety maneuvers or times when you feel unsettled (like accidentally taking a corner a little too fast).
Unfortunately, given its unobtrusive manner, the Dynamic Handling Package is not something you'll truly appreciate until you lose it; when you are forced into the unfortunate experience of driving/riding in a vehicle without it - like I was, returning to my e53 from my parent's e70. ZDH changes the way you think a vehicle should perform - it makes any other vehicle, without ZDH, seem broken. Other vehicles require you to lean into each turn, cause your head to bob and sway. Rides in other vehicles will evoke an involuntary flight response - you'll want to politely scramble from such an "unsafe vehicle." Other cars will seem broken. Thats ZDH. other vehicles will seem broken/unsafe because they do not have ZDH. Reentering your car, you'll be wary of such an pompous assumption. Is ZDH really the difference? You'll be wary of entering corners and lean in, anticipating the centrifugal force. Leaning in will make you'll feel like a fool, thankful that your seatbelt kept you from falling out of your seat. Relax, you're back in your vehicle with ZDH. The dynamic handling package really does make that much of a difference.
If you have the money, buy it. If you're weighing several options, move ZDH to the top of the must-have list and go from there. You'll likely only realize how nice it is when you are forced to drive/ride in something else...but you'll never question ordering it again. ZDH gives you, silently, whatever driving style you'd like. You'll hear your tires hit bumps but the car does not become unsettled. The harshest of potholes are acknowledged but not disturbing. Curbs and speed bumps are taken in stride, a smooth transition. Winding roads and freeway onramps induce a maniacal grin.
If you're lucky enough to find an F15 w/ZDH on your dealer's lot, take it around a cloverleaf freeway onramp in comfort and in sport mode - then, immediately, swap to any other ZDH-less vehicle and do the same thing. Swap, again; repeat the same loop in the one with ZDH. The difference will be truly night and day.
Last edited by McDonaldD; 10-01-2014 at 07:39 PM.
I think this sums up pretty much why I did not get ZDH in my new X5 order. I am sure it makes a huge difference and I am coming from non-ZDH E70 to a F15, and while I really would like having it I had to sacrifice at least 2 or 3 packages to get that, it might be worth it in the end for sure but I figured F15 should not be that much worse than E70. I actually never felt the need for better stabilization or control on E70, it felt like it was glued to the road with almost no body roll unless you really pushed it, taking curves and corners were never a problem when coupled with right gear selection, all this with stock 19" RFT.
Thanks again for the comments, your post above alone could be an "editorial" piece on DHP.
Oh, I checked 3 dealers, non of them had anything with DHP, not even Air Suspension or Damper Control, nope, not one. I guess living in the city, driving less than 20 miles a day does not push people to get DHP.
Had it on both my E70s. Absolute must IMHO but I drive fairly aggressively.
Don't think you will find it on any dealer lot unless a customer backed out of the order. It was a Priority 1 option on E70 and I imagine it's the same on F15.
Don't sign another lease until you check out The Lease Kit!
FYI - Priority 1 means customer ordered car so dealer can't order cars with those options for stock, etc.
I have not driving a F15 with ZDH but I have had 3 e70's with Adaptive Drive(DHP in f15 terms). My 2011 was in the shop for 63 days straight and I was provided a 2011 with identical spec down to the wheels except it DID NOT have AD. It was very noticeable not having AD. When I finally received my 2012 replacement and I swapped from the Non AD back to a X5 with AD it was like it was a completely different model car.
I can only assume that the DHP for the F15 would provide the same results. | 2019-04-22T05:13:39 | https://xoutpost.com/bmw-sav-forums/x5-f15-forum/98265-dynamic-handling-package.html |
0.99887 | Should I Try Multiplication Games for My Elderly Mother?
Brain games and brain exercises are great for stimulating cognition, focus, and reasoning skills, but it's always important to remember to cater "brain games" to the cognitive abilities of your loved one.
My dad has always been a whiz in math, but since he was diagnosed with dementia, his rational and reasoning skills have gradually decreased.
In an effort to help him maintain focus and try to head off further decline, I did some research on multiplication games.
Actually, there are a variety of multiplication games that you can find on websites on the Internet. Most of them are catered to children, which is just fine when using them for seniors who either wish to maintain their math skills or improve them, as in my father's case.
At first my father balked at playing games designed for children, but what's the difference, really? I sat him down at my computer and I played some first.
Before I knew it, he was also getting involved and having fun. One specific site called multiplication.com has multiplication games ranging from first grade to high school and advanced levels.
They even have algebra, geometry, and precalculus! Needless to say, my dad was surprised, but pleased, and now accesses these games on a nearly daily basis on his own computer.
He's willing to do anything that will help him maintain his cognitive abilities, and multiplication games can be effective in doing just that.
Comments for Should I Try Multiplication Games for My Elderly Mother?
My grandfather, a former electrical engineer, has experienced a decline, like your father, with dementia.
After reading your comment, I also got online and found not only the site you mentioned, but others that offer a variety of multiplication and other math games.
I have encouraged him to play these games it least three or four times a week, and he has expressed a positive response to the effect playing these games has on his focus and attention.
I have long been trying to think of other types of brain exercise games besides the typical word games associated with crossword puzzles.
Sudoku is too hard for my mom, but I did access the Internet as you did and found a number of websites that provide multiplication games that my mom has enjoyed.
Some are more challenging than others, but we do them together. If they're beyond her capabilities, we move on. | 2019-04-23T06:34:18 | http://www.boomers-with-elderly-parents.com/should-i-try-multiplication-games-for-my-elderly-mother.html |
0.999993 | Find the perimeter of the given figure where AED is a semi circle and ABCD is a rectangle.
A bag contains 4 red and 6 black balls, a ball is taken out of the bag at random. Find the probability of finding a black ball.
Find the median class of the following data.
Find the quadratic polynomial sum of whose zeroes is 8 and their products is 12. Hence , find the zeroes of the polynomial.
In the figure, OP is equal to diameter of the circle. Prove that ABP is an equilateral triangle.
14. For what value of k are the points (1,1) ; (3,k) and (-1,4) collinear?
ii) a number which is a perfect square.
16. Prove that √3 is an irrational number.
17. Use Euclids division Lemma to show the square of any positive integer is either of the form 3m or 3m+1 for some integer m.
18. The sum of the 4th and 8th terms of an A.P. is 24 and the sum of the 6th and 10 th terms is 44. Find the first three terms of the A.P.
19. Solve for x and y.
21. If the point P (x,y) is equidistant from the points A(3,6) and B (-3,4) prove that 3x+y-5=0.
22. The point R divides the line segment AB, where A ( -4,0) and B (0,6) are such that AR= 3/4 AB. Find the coordinates of R.
23. In the figure ABC is a right angled triangle, right angled at A. Semicircles are drawn on AB, AC and BC as diameters.Find the area of the shaded region.
24. Draw ΔABC with side BC= 6 cm, AB = 5 cm and < ABC= 60. Construct a triangle A’B'C’ wherein the sides are 3/4 of the sides of ABC.
26. A motor boat whose speed is 18kmph in still water takes 1 hour more to go 24 km upstream than to return downstream to the same spot. Find the speed of the stream.
The diagonals of a trapezium ABCD intersect at a point O with AB parallel CD. If AB= 2CD , find the ratio ofΔ AOB toΔ COD.
28. A tent consists of frustum of a cone, surmounted by a cone. If the diameter of the upper and lower circular ends of the frustum be 14m and 26m respectively, the height of the frustum be 8m and the slant height of the surmounted conical portion be 12m, find the area of canvas required to make the tent. (Assume that the radii of the upper circular end of the frustum and the base of surmounted conical portion are equal). | 2019-04-20T12:22:40 | http://www.cbsenext.com/qbank/maths/class-x-2008 |
0.997752 | Politicians are often accused of trying to capitalise on terror attacks for their own agenda.
So when Donald Trump Jr. sent a contemptuous tweet criticising London Mayor Sadiq Khan in the aftermath of the Westminster terror attack that left three dead, Britons weren't happy.
The U.S. president's son tweeted a link to a September 2016 story in The Independent, quoting Khan as saying terror attacks were "part and parcel of living in a big city."
He added: "You have to be kidding me?!: Terror attacks are part of living in big city, says London Mayor Sadiq Khan".
The interview was taken out of context and it's not clear whether Trump Jr understood that the quote was from six months ago and not from the Wednesday attack.
In the Independent article, Khan was speaking after a meeting with New York Mayor Bill De Blasio following the bombing in Chelsea, New York City, and nearby towns that wounded 29 people.
"That means being vigilant, having a police force that is in touch with communities, it means the security services being ready, but also it means exchanging ideas and best practice."" he said.
People on Twitter were quick to slam Trump Jr. for the tweet, accusing him of exploiting the tragedy.
“I want to reassure all Londoners and all our visitors not to be alarmed. Our city remains one of the safest in the world. London is the greatest city in the world. And we stand together in the face of those who seek to harm us and destroy our way of life. We always have and we always will,” the mayor said. | 2019-04-24T12:48:49 | https://www.rickrea.com/socialmedianews/donald-trump-jr-tweeted-about-the-london-attack-and-got-instantly-dragged |
0.999986 | What is a developmentally disabled person? This includes a range of conditions such as intellectual disability (formerly called mental retardation), autism, cerebral palsy or epilepsy.
What is a mentally ill person? These are adults and children with such conditions as schizophrenia, manic-depressive disorder and serious depression.
President John F. Kennedy started the mental health deinstitutionalization ball rolling early in 1963 before his assassination later that year by a man, Lee Harvey Oswald, who some believe had an untreated mental illness.
Kennedy's signing of the Mental Retardation Facilities and the Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act eventually led to Michigan closing more than 30 psychiatric hospitals beginning in the 1980s.
Like many states, Michigan then moved the bulk of behavioral health care to community outpatient settings.
Reasons for the change were to address widespread allegations of patient abuse and civil rights violations. But new anti-psychotic drugs also allowed more patients to be treated as outpatients.
Arguably, the changes created different problems that are still being addressed. Michigan now operates three psychiatric hospitals for adults, one for children and adolescents and one for people with developmental disabilities.
Over the past 30 years, Michigan also has shifted away from using state tax funds to support behavioral health, developmental disability and substance abuse care for its citizens. Now it relies primarily on federal Medicaid dollars to fund the program.
More than 70 percent of the state's $14 billion Medicaid budget is funded by the federal government or provider and insurance company taxes.
In 1998, Michigan and 19 other states began to fund Prepaid Insurance Health Plans to manage enrollees.
To reduce costs and force administrative cost savings through the system, Michigan in 2013 reduced the number of PIHPs from 18 to 10. Funding for the three PIHPs in Southeast Michigan also has been cut by about 20 percent the past five years.
A year earlier, Michigan also began to use managed care to deliver physical health services to its growing Medicaid population, which now accounts for 2.3 million, some 23 percent of the state's population.
The state now contracts with 12 Medicaid HMOs, or health plans, on a per-member per-month basis. The payments are adjusted based on age, gender and location, among others.
It is universally accepted that Michigan's experiment into managed care the past 19 years for physical health has been a success, both in holding down costs and improving quality.
But Michigan is still fine-tuning how it delivers Medicaid behavioral health dollars.
Unlike the privately owned Medicaid HMOs, the majority of which are for-profit companies, each PIHP is managed by a public mental health authority.
Similar to Medicaid HMOs, the PIHPs receive per-member-per-month Medicaid payments from the state. Their responsibilities include qualifying individuals, authorizing services and contracting with provider agencies.
The result is that Michigan has two parallel managed care delivery and payment systems for physical health and behavioral health.
Of the 227,020 people served by the PIHPs in 2010 — there are an estimated 230,000 now — 69 percent were covered by Medicaid, the Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation said last year in a report on the state's mental health system.
Experts estimate that with Healthy Michigan Medicaid expansion the percentage of people both eligible for PIHP and Medicaid HMO care is far higher, leading to suggestions that care coordination of patients could improve quality and reduce costs. | 2019-04-24T11:01:38 | https://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20160515/NEWS/160519949/michigan-still-fine-tuning-medicaid-mental-health-system |
0.998351 | Given what we can do now a Visual Novel shouldn't be too hard right? Once we get music working correctly.
Which existing Japanese games are basically visual novels? I'm pining, I say pining, for some sort of translation effort to come out on the 3DO. | 2019-04-22T13:56:52 | http://3do.cdinteractive.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=3330 |
0.998846 | One of the hardest parts of being self employed is managing your time so that you can get everything done, and not be overwhelmed. Here are my top tips for keeping your schedule under control.
I am telling you now that you are not going to get everything you want to do or think you should do done, so stop trying! List everything you are doing now, and everything you want to be doing, for both your business and your personal life. Once you have this master list take a really hard look at what is really and truly important. For your business what activities are absolutely vital for running your business? What activities are income generating and move your business forward? For your personal life what activities are essential to running your home and the well-being of your family? What brings you joy or contributes to your personal well-being?
Eliminate the things that are not necessary and split the rest into the Must Do and the Nice To Do..and make sure your must do list includes things that address your physical, mental and spiritual needs...not just work and chores. Divide those things into categories such as personal time, family time, administrative time, business building time. On your master calendar set up a schedule based around blocks of time where you will do each of these things. In addition to categories for specific types of tasks I like to include 3 other categories - focus time, flex time and free time. Focus time is for those larger projects that you can't complete in a single sitting or that require your full focus for several hours. Flex time is just that, time for you to be flexible depending on which category needs more time that week. One week it might be time to meet with a new prospect to get their business started, another week it might be catching up on phone calls and emails and another week it might be catching up on your reading.
Set up a master calendar blocking out time for each of these categories. Some days may only include one block, for example a full day of delivering orders and visiting customers, you won't worry about administrative tasks that day. Other days will have 2 or 3 blocks such a 2-3 hours of new rep appointments and a couple of hours of customer care calls. I highly recommend having one day each campaign, or every month that is just a focus block so you can make significant progress on big tasks. And choose at least one day a week when you are not committed to any business tasks, for example my outgoing message on my voicemail lets people know that I don't return phone calls over the weekend so I can relax and not worry about how many messages are waiting for me and I schedule very few tasks that must be done over the weekend.
Decide for each category block what tasks are acceptable during that time and commit to only doing those things during that time. You can be flexible, for example you have someone ready to start their business and they are only available during a block you have set aside for customer care calls and entering orders. Obviously you can't just skip doing the calls and putting in the orders, but you do want to meet the new rep as well. Simply switch the 2 blocks for that week, or move the administrative tasks to one of your flex time blocks. Also use all the time you have set aside. If you have a 3 hour block of time scheduled for delivering orders and you only end up needing 2, spend the 3rd hour prospecting, don't just take it at free time. And if you have a block of time set aside for exercise or meditation or relaxing with a good book, think very hard before you give up that time. Can the task that is trying to infringe on that time really not be done at another time? Will you be able to move your personal time to another slot? Most things can wait.
Lastly you want to manage interruptions and distractions. Every time you get distracted, you loose your flow and use up valuable time getting back on track. The top distractions are phone calls/texts, email and social media. You can let the phone call go to voicemail, the text can wait and social media will still be there when you've finished your tasks. Silence all audible notifications and stop pop-up notifications or close windows that could be a distraction when you are working on the computer. Set 1 to 3 times a day when you will check messages and make any necessary replies.
When things come to mind that need to be done, that don't fit in with your current block, jot those down on a notepad you keep handy and when you finish your current task either take care of them or schedule them accordingly. Keep at least an hour each day unscheduled to allow time to deal with those distractions. If something comes up that you absolutely must drop everything and deal with you will have that buffer block to complete what you originally had planned.
This is not a one size fits all system, nor will you just set it and forget it. You will tweak it as you figure out what really works for you and how much time you really need to devote to each block of tasks. You will also want to evaluate your calendar regularly as your business and life evolve. I am more than happy to meet with you one on one in person or by phone to help you design a schedule that works for you, all you have to do is ask. | 2019-04-26T07:06:07 | http://www.sunrisebeautyteam.com/2014/03/ |
0.998375 | A Federal Army for Myanmar/Burma?
Many observers of Myanmar's political transition agree that the success of President Thein Sein's democratic reforms and national reconciliation initiatives hinges on his quasi-civilian government's ability and willingness to accommodate the political demands and desires of various ethnic groups.
Chief among those demands are greater political, economic and cultural autonomy in the form of federalism and control over the exploitation of natural resources in their geographic regions. But as political maneuvers and negotiations for a nationwide ceasefire agreement continue, armed ethnic groups led by the umbrella United Nationalities Federal Council have raised another condition for a final deal: the formation of a federal army combining the Myanmar Armed Forces, or Tatmadaw, with ethnic armies.
Military commander-in-chief General Min Aung Hlaing predictably rejected the idea out of hand. The top brass leader instead authorized the release and publication of a past secret memo where he squarely blamed ethnic groups for the country's political woes and made uncompromising militaristic remarks that "the army is afraid of no one".
Ethnic armed group leaders expressed their dismay and warned the remarks could undermine reconciliation and further negotiations. While the demand for a federal army at this stage of negotiations may be impractical, the commander-in-chief's strong objection has signaled a more hard-line position on the government's side.
In both theory and practice, many political analysts agree that the creation of a federal army in Myanmar is for now unrealistic. Across the world, no sovereign democratic country has more than one national army. Even in federal countries like Canada, India and the United States there is no federal army, although some have federal police forces.
There are various reasons why Myanmar's ethnic armed groups are demanding the formation of a federal army, many of them deeply rooted in political, psychological, and security concerns. During the six decades of the country's debilitating civil wars, various ethnic groups formed their own security forces or liberation armies to protect their people and territories from attacks and destruction by government troops.
Militarily and psychologically, ethnic rebel armies serve as the pride and protectors of their people. Although Myanmar's ethnic armies do not always live up to expectation, they are important institutions and symbols of resistance that many ethnic minority civilians often look to for moral support, guidance and protection from the ethnic Burman-led state.
Unlike their political leaders, ethnic armies command near universal respect from their people because of their sacrifice and perceived heroic roles in armed struggle. In the six decades of conflicts, tens of thousands of ethnic "revolutionary" soldiers have lost their lives and died in the name of freedom and autonomy for their people, just as the Tatmadaw has claimed to be the guardian and protector of the entire country.
In Myanmar's political history, General Aung San and his colleagues in the so-called "Thirty Comrades" are highly revered and regarded by the majority Burmans as national heroes and fathers of independence from colonial rule. But most ethnic people view them primarily as Burman nationalists who had little genuine interest in the affairs and well-being of ethnic minority groups.
Ask any ethnic Kachin, Karen, Shan, Mon or other ethnic person to name a national hero or days of national importance, very few would mention such prominent names as Aung San, the Thirty Comrades or days important to many Burmans such as Independence Day, Tatmadaw Day or Martyr Day . Instead, each ethnic group celebrates their own revolutionary heroes, political leaders and holidays that are mostly unknown to the majority of Burmans.
In other words, Myanmar's ethnic minority groups see themselves as distinct sovereign entities with their own sovereign armies. Therefore, the idea of dismantling or subordinating them to the Tatmadaw is unthinkable and politically unacceptable to many of them. Any central government attempt to take away such symbols of pride, power and prestige at the negotiation table or through force will continue to be strongly resisted.
Deep-seated fear, loathing, and mistrust of the Tatmadaw means most ethnic armed groups will remain reluctant to put down their arms or place their armies under government control. For over half a century, government soldiers have systemically perpetuated gross human-rights abuses against ethnic people through arbitrary killings and wholesale destruction of their communities. Their actions have forced tens of thousands to flee their lands and become either internally displaced or stateless refugees in neighboring countries.
Any move in the name of a national ceasefire to put their security completely in the hands of the Tatmadaw is unimaginable to most ethnic communities. Although Thein Sein's government has currently declared ceasefires with the majority of ethnic armies, tens of thousands of government troops still occupy ethnic territories and continue to commit human-rights abuses in ethnic communities.
Discrimination and racism against ethnic minorities has long been state policy and is a major issue discouraging ethnic armed groups from integrating their armies with the Tatmadaw, as the government attempted in 2010 through the creation of so-called Border Guard Forces.
Prior to achieving independence many people of ethnic background held important and powerful positions in both the government and military. After independence, the country's three most powerful posts in the military were held by ethnic Karen. But ever since General Ne Win took power in 1962, very few people of ethnic background in the Tatmadaw have been promoted beyond the rank of colonel.
In today's 500,000-strong Myanmar Army, for instance, no ethnic minorities hold a position equivalent to the rank of a brigadier general. The Defense Service Academy - the country's most prestigious and powerful officer training school - is virtually off-limits to ethnic minority candidates. The majority of ethnic people who join the Tatmadaw today are largely relegated to the role of foot soldiers and junior officers.
Ethnic group demands for a federal army may be viewed as unrealistic, but it does not mean that both sides cannot work towards a compromise. One possible way ahead would be for the government to integrate all ethnic armies into the Tatmadaw while allowing military leaders of individual ethnic groups to serve as commanders of their respective brigades or battalions.
This arrangement would enable ethnic armies to be part of the national army but also allow them to maintain their distinct identity and feel secure within their own ethnic-based units. It's not an unprecedented formation: during colonial period and immediately following independence, the national armed forces were still organized largely along ethnic lines. For example, there were the Burma Riffles, Karen Riffles, Chin Riffles, and Kachin Riffles, all of which were part of the Union Armed Forces but led by their respective ethnic commanders.
These ethnic armies were effective and instrumental in the U Nu government's war with communist insurgents. General Smith Don, an ethnic Karen and the first post-independence army chief, was loyal to the Union government until he was forced to resign due to an escalating armed conflict between Karen insurgents and the central government. Had other ethnic armies such as the Kachin Riffles or Chin Riffles revolted and abandoned U Nu's government, the country could have collapsed or been taken over by communist forces.
Now, if any national ceasefire is too hold, the government will need to quickly demilitarize ethnic regions and drastically reduce the number of troops now stationed in border areas. Most ethnic communities still view government foot soldiers in their regions as foreign invaders with the intention of taking their lands and exploiting their resources. As long as large numbers of government troops are kept in ethnic areas, fear and insecurity will undermine prospects for national reconciliation via ceasefire.
As part of a confidence building process to restore trust between the Tatmadaw and ethnic armed groups, the government could begin to address issues of inequality and policies that discriminate against ethnic minorities. Measures could be enacted to ensure promotions and rewards in the military are based on merit and service instead of family connections and race. While ethnic groups will continue to advocate for a federal army in exchange for a peace deal, a more inclusive Tatmadaw would be a step forward towards forging national unity.
Saw Greh Moo is an analyst and program officer at the Salween Institute. He may be reached at [email protected]. This Article first appeared in the March 25, 2014 edition of Asia Times' Speaking Freely. | 2019-04-26T16:13:17 | https://www.salweeninstitute.org/home---why-a-federal-army.html |
0.999998 | CECILIA DAVIS vs. VERMONT TRANSIT COMPANY (and a companion case [Note p248-1]).
TWO ACTIONS OF TORT. Writs in the Superior Court dated March 15, 1951.
The actions were tried before Hurley, J.
William H. Taylor, for the plaintiff.
John D. Ross, John D. Ross, Jr., & George W. Leary, for the defendants.
COUNIHAN, J. These are actions of tort which were tried together before a jury. The plaintiff seeks to recover damages for personal injuries sustained while riding in a bus owned and operated by an agent of the defendants or one of them. At the close of the evidence on motion the judge directed the jury to return a verdict for New England Greyhound Lines, Incorporated, hereinafter called New England. He submitted the action against Vermont Transit Company, hereinafter called Vermont, to the jury who returned a verdict for the defendant.
The actions come here upon a consolidated bill of exceptions of the plaintiff, alleging error in the direction of a verdict for New England and in the denial of a request for instruction in the action against Vermont. There was no error.
The actions were pre-tried together and the following order was entered: "It is agreed the bus in which the plaintiff, Cecilia Davis, was riding was owned by the Vermont Transit Co. and operated by its agent, and she brings suit against the defendants, New England Greyhound Lines, Inc., and Vermont Transit Co." "It is agreed that the accident happened on private property, the Pittsfield bus terminal." "It is agreed there is no question as to license or registration."
The evidence most favorable to the plaintiff in the action against New England may be summarized as follows: The plaintiff on March 24, 1950, purchased a bus ticket of Vermont at Bennington, Vermont, for transportation from Bennington to Waterbury, Connecticut. She boarded a bus and sat in an aisle seat on the right side of the bus about in the center of it. She noticed a suitcase lying lengthwise on the overhead luggage rack which extended about six inches over the edge of the rack. As the bus made a turn to go into the Pittsfield bus terminal it went over a curb and tipped the right side of the bus up about one and a half feet off the ground. The tipping was a "sudden jolt." "The next thing she knew was that the suitcase which she described had fallen on her head and she looked down and observed it on her lap." She sustained injury. She got off the bus and when she returned to it she noticed that the driver had on a Greyhound uniform. She continued on the bus to Torrington, Connecticut, where she transferred to another bus which took her to Waterbury. There was other evidence in both actions which contradicted this evidence.
During the trial the plaintiff introduced two regulations of the interstate commerce commission, under which she alleged the defendants operated. They read as follows: "2.094 Loading Of Busses. -- All baggage, freight, or express carried in any bus shall be so loaded as not to interfere with the free and ready entering or leaving such bus, and shall be so stowed as to prevent falling onto or against any passenger." "2.16 Vehicle Must Be In Proper Position For Making Turns. -- . . . In all cases turns shall be made with due caution, having due regard to the length of the motor vehicle and any load thereon, the width of the roadway, and other traffic." The judge instructed the jury as to the effect of regulation numbered 2.094 but refused to charge expressly as to regulation numbered 2.16.
plaintiff's brief we do not pass upon it. Rule 13 of the Rules for the Regulation of Practice before the Full Court (1952), 328 Mass. 698 .
1. We first consider the exception of the plaintiff to the direction of a verdict for New England. The judge was correct. His action was governed by the terms of the pre-trial order above referred to. "This was a `stipulation' under Rule 57A of the Superior Court (adopted April 9, 1938), [Note p251-1] which bound the parties." Abbott v. Link-Belt Co. 324 Mass. 673, 677. The rule of the Superior Court referred to provides that the pre-trial judge "shall make an appropriate order which will control the subsequent conduct of the case unless modified at the trial to prevent manifest injustice." It has also been said that the pre-trial report, "which neither party so far as appears sought to amend, governed the trial of the action." Doherty v. Shea, 320 Mass. 173, 174-175.
The pre-trial report is in the record and, although it does not appear that it was offered in evidence or directly referred to at the trial, there is nothing in the record to show that the action was not tried in accordance with the pre-trial report. "It must be taken that the case was tried in accordance therewith (Eckstein v. Scoffi, 299 Mass. 573, 576), and that the matters therein conceded or admitted were established as true." Silver v. Cushner, 300 Mass. 583, 585.
In the pre-trial report in the cases at bar, it was agreed that "the bus in which the plaintiff . . . was riding was owned by the Vermont Transit Co. and operated by its agent . . .." This concession was enough to relieve New England from any liability for this accident. Moreover there was no evidence to controvert the report on this aspect of the action against New England.
only means that the operator of the bus must make all turns without negligence. The negligence of the operator from whatever cause was the only real issue before the jury. The judge's charge is not reported. It must be assumed, however, that he instructed the jury as to the issues involved and especially that he pointed out that unless negligence of the defendant (Vermont) caused the plaintiff's injury there could be no recovery. Goltz v. Besarick, 313 Mass. 14, 16.
[Note p248-1] The companion case is by the same plaintiff against New England Greyhound Lines, Incorporated.
[Note p251-1] Now Rule 58 of the Superior Court (1954). | 2019-04-18T15:33:43 | http://masscases.com/cases/sjc/334/334mass248.html |
0.993325 | Public officials should attend events at mosques, as they do churches and synagogues, the study recommended.
(CNN) -- The terrorist threat posed by radicalized Muslim- Americans has been exaggerated, according to a study released Wednesday by researchers at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
To be included on the list, an offender had to have been wanted, arrested, convicted or killed in connection with terrorism-related activities since 9/11 -- and have lived in the United States, regardless of immigration status, for more than a year prior to arrest.
Of the 139 offenders, fewer than a third successfully executed a violent plan, according to a Duke University statement on the study, and most of those were overseas. Read the report:"Anti-Terror Lessons of Muslim-Americans"
In the aftermath of 9/11, however, as well as terrorist attacks elsewhere in the world, the possible radicalization of Muslim-Americans is a "key counterterrorism concern" -- magnified by heavy publicity that accompanies the arrests of Muslim-Americans, such as that seen in the wake of the November shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, in which 13 people were killed. Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan, a Muslim born in Virginia, is charged in connection with that incident.
Other high-profile incidents include the charging of eight Somali-American men on charges related to what authorities say are efforts to recruit youths from the Minneapolis, Minnesota, area to fight for al-Shabaab, a Somali guerrilla movement battling the African country's U.N.-backed transitional government. At least two young men from Minnesota have been killed in Somalia, including one who blew himself up in what is believed to have been the first suicide bombing carried out by a naturalized U.S. citizen.
In addition, five Americans were arrested last month in Pakistan, and police have said they are confident that they were planning terrorist attacks. A Pakistani court Monday gave police two weeks to prepare their case against the five; authorities have said they plan to prosecute the youths under the country's anti-terrorism act.
Muslim-American communities have been active in preventing radicalization.
Governments can promote and encourage the building of strong Muslim-American communities and promote outreach by social services agencies, the study said. "Our research suggests that Muslim-American communities desire collaboration and outreach with the government beyond law enforcement, in areas such as public health, education and transportation."
And the Muslim-American community can promote enhanced education about its religion and beliefs, the study said. Increased civil rights enforcement can also be an important tool.
However, policies that alienate Muslims may increase the threat of homegrown terrorism rather than reducing it, the study said.
"Our research suggests that initiatives that treat Muslim-Americans as part of the solution to this problem are far more likely to be successful," said Schanzer.
Schanzer, Kurzman and Ebrahim Moosa, associate professor of religion at Duke, co-authored the study, which summarized two years of research involving interviews of more than 120 Muslims in four different communities nationwide -- Seattle, Washington; Houston, Texas; Buffalo, New York; and Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. The study was funded by a grant from the Department of Justice. | 2019-04-23T18:15:34 | http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/01/06/muslim.radicalization.study/index.html |
0.980279 | Where did colonist settle in order to get land for farming?
Why did the colonists settle in Delaware?
The first colony was established in order to have control over more land, to raise crops since the soil wasn't as rich in the Netherlands as it was in Delaware, and last of all since Delaware was right on the coast of the Atlantic ocean so it was very simple and easy to catch fish.
Why did colonists settle in Massachusetts?
The colonists were fleeing England due to religious persecution.They set sail for America and landed at what is todayMassachusetts. They originally were headed for Virginia but becausethey were blown to the north by a storm, they decided to stay.
Were the colonists' needs on a farm different from now on a farm?
the defined needs of the colonists were, by far, the same or similar as they are today, however, the poor farmers were not kept alive by farm-subsidy programs.
Why did early colonists settle in South Carolina?
Why did the colonists settle in Jamestown Virginia?
Why did early colonists settle in Massachusetts?
Early colonists mostly settled in this particular area due toinvestments made by the Massachusetts Bay Company. The reason theysettled in America at all was most of the population was Puritanand they were escaping the Church of England.
Why did colonist settle in new jersey?
Which Colonists that settled Georgia?
Georgia was the final colony of the original 13 to be settled. Thiscolony was settled in 1732 by General James Oglethorpe.
Why did colonists come to settle in New Spain?
The majority of New France colonists settled along the St. Lawrence River. The reason they came to settle in New Spain is because there was not a lot of room left in New France and because since there was not a lot of room they came over to New Spain.
The majority of colonists who first settled in Plymouth were?
The majority of colonists who came to America for religiousfreedom. Most of the Plymouth colonists practiced the Quakerreligion.
Why did colonists settle in the Middle Colonies?
Colonists settled in the Middle Colonies because of the fertilesoil, long growing season, religious freedom and equality to all.
In sedimentation what order do the layers settle in?
Oldest at the bottom, newest at the top. OR Largest particles first, finest particles last.
Why did colonists settle in Maryland?
Lord Baltimore desired an American colony for Roman Catholics.Catholics immigrated to Maryland for this religious freedom. Thecolony was named after Queen Mary of the Scots.
What made the colonist settle in the new world?
Poor economic conditions in Europe, the hope and dream of land and property ownership in the New World and the possibility of accumulating wealth and status.
Why did the early colonists settle in Georgia?
Georgia was colonized to be a rare safe haven for debters trying to work off their debt.
Where did many colonists settle in order to get land for farming?
Colonists found that many places were suitable for farming. By the 1750s, there were some farmers in Massachusetts, but the vast majority settled in the southern or Middle-Atlantic region, especially in Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Why did colonists settle near the water?
Why did colonists settle in back country?
How did the the colonist Maryland settle?
Who were the majority of colonists who first settled in Plymouth?
Why did the colonists settle Carolina?
for religious reasons or for jobs ANSWER: The main reason for the colony of North Carolina, was for agriculture. The main reasons for the colony of South Carolina, was for agriculture and trade.
Why did many colonists settle in Britain's newly won lands?
What was unique about the first colonists to settle in Australia?
The first colonists to settle in Australia were a mixture of over 700 convicts sent from Britain, and the officers sent to oversee the new colony, under the command of Governor Arthur Phillip. There were also many marines, some of whom brought their wives and children.
Why did early colonists settle in New York?
The weather was more benign than in Massachusetts, and the Indians could be coerced into selling the entire island of Manhatten for the equivalent of $24.00.
Who settled Georgia and what were the reasons circumstances of the first colonists who settled there?
How many colonists settled in Georgia?
1000000000000000000 dead people and 3 alive people. there was a lot of heavy weaponry and cannibals.
Why did the early colonists settle in Plymouth?
Where did many colonists settle after Virginia and Maryland?
When sediments land or settle?
They accumulate and gather up into thick layers, which with time get compacted and lithified to form sedimentary rock.
Why did the English colonist settle in New Jersey?
What waterways did the colonist settle near?
The colonist settle at the fort orange(Albany) to the new Amsterdam(new York) wich the Hudson River was in between.
Where did the colonist in new jersey settle?
Most of them located in or near the present day cities of Princeton and Trenton.
What do colonists do when they land?
I expressed my thanks for a safe ocean voyage and kissed the ground. The original colonists may have had a national flag readied for planting.
Why is good farm land a place where people like to settle For how long have they settled in farming areas?
Why did Greek colonists like to settle in Sicily?
What was not one of the reasons that the colonists settled in Virginia?
Silver and Gold were found on this site, Which P.S. was not true. It was a myth from the Spanish.
What Early settlements in order of when they were settle?
I do not understand what you are asking. Can you please repeat yourquestion in a less confusing way? | 2019-04-23T19:52:28 | https://www.answers.com/Q/Where_did_colonist_settle_in_order_to_get_land_for_farming |
0.999927 | The Story Of Dark Energy, In A Nutshell : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture It wasn't long ago that we thought expansion of the universe was slowing down. Whoops! Science then identified Dark Energy as a force acting against deceleration. The discovery upended cosmology almost overnight.
Sometimes nature just throws you a loop. All your carefully laid plans, all your exquisite calculations, all your deeply held beliefs and expectations get blown away in the simple eloquence of real data from the real world. That is how Dark Energy made its appearance into the world of cosmology. Its not just that folks weren't expecting it. They were, in fact, expecting the very opposite.
Last week I explained how Dark Matter was "discovered" (inferred really), based on observations over decades of the gravitational influence it exerts on matter we can see (the stuff we are made of). Dark Energy was discovered in a similar way, except that it arrived all at once in one big, fat surprise package.
The year was 1998 and two highly competitive groups of astronomers were each rushing toward the same goal: they hoped to hunt down the effects of gravitational braking in the universe. Ever since astronomers had accepted the idea of the Big Bang, they had been out hunting for its subsequent cosmic deceleration.
While the Big Bang blows space apart (it literally stretches all points of space-time away from each other), the gravitational pull of matter should, over time, slow down that initial burst of cosmic expansion. The two research groups, (Berkeley vs. Harvard), were racing to find the magnitude of deceleration in the universe. It was a critical project since the rate of cosmic braking is directly related to the total density of mass (and energy) in the universe. It would be a Nobel Prize-worthy result.
Things didn't go quite as planned.
"I was, quite frankly, denying [it] was happening," Harvard's Brian Schmidt reportedly said. As data was gathered and analyzed, both the Harvard and Berkeley groups were stunned to find no evidence for deceleration. Instead, everything pointed in the opposite direction.
According to observations, the expansion of the universe was speeding up — it was accelerating. After exhaustively checking and rechecking their data, both groups bit the bullet and announced their results. Cosmic acceleration became big news.
Where does Dark Energy appear in all this? As Newton showed 400 years earlier, accelerations need forces. And, as the physicists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries demonstrated, forces need energy. The discovery of cosmic acceleration meant that space was being forced apart and must, therefore, be pervaded by a new form of energy acting as "anti-gravity." While Newtonian gravity only produces attractions, Einstein's more complete description of gravity — as the shape of space-time — demonstrated that repulsion and gravity could go hand-in-hand.
To make his early, static models of the universe work, Einstein had once proposed the existence of a space-filling repulsive energy. Cosmic expansion (discovered by Hubble in 1928) forced him to reject this "cosmological constant" as his greatest blunder. In 1999, however, the newly discovered cosmic acceleration made it clear that some form of anti-gravitational energy (perhaps similar to Einstein's cosmological constant) had to exist. As nothing was known about this energy, it too was called "dark", even though it and Dark Matter were entirely unrelated.
The discovery of cosmic acceleration and Dark Energy upended cosmology almost overnight. In spite of the community's incredulity, further studies, including studies of cosmic geometry, gave new support for the reality of Dark Energy. Like it or not, this unanticipated form of anti-gravity was now a powerful actor on cosmology's stage.
"Like it or not;" that is the key phrase. The history of science is stacked high with ideas and discoveries nobody was expecting, or even wanted. From the discovery of the muon ("who ordered that?" asked physicist I.I. Rabi) to climate change (the ultimate inconvenient truth), we don't get to dictate to nature how it should behave. The greatest and strangest beauty of science is, in fact, this constant reminder of just how wrong we can be. | 2019-04-24T11:23:07 | https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2012/03/20/148985296/dark-energy-and-the-joy-of-being-wrong |
0.998402 | You can earn money freelancing if you follow the rules!
Want to be a Freelance Writer? Read on!
If you're reading his, you probably want to succeed as a writer. Maybe you'd like to publish a book (or two, or three), or be a regular columnist for an online news site. Or perhaps you'd like to market your pieces to well-known publication. But you can shoot yourself in the foot if you don't follow a few guidelines to help you become known, get a following, be adored by your editors and, best of all, earn money as a writer.
Freelancing, by nature, implies you sell your work to a variety of publications or through more than one outlet. Getting the assignment is one hurdle, but pleasing editors and giving them writing they will love is another. You need to build your reputation well, and keep it on a professional level.
Here are a few unwritten rules to follow. Some are easy and some less so, but all are important tips to help you build a solid, well-paying career as a professional freelance writer.
Not all editors are evil!
The first rule to becoming a successful writer is to work well with your editors. Learn to take their comments and criticisms as lessons in how you can improve your craft. Freelancers and staff writers all have editors. If you're blogging or writing on a host site, you are your own editor, which puts you at a handicap, because writers truly do need those extra eyes to help improve their work.
Your editor will catch errors you missed, or that you didn't even recognize were mistakes. Ideally, you should make corrections yourself, because you'll learn that way. If you habitually use it's rather than its to show possession, a good editor can help you break that habit by catching it and having you enter the changes. More than likely, though, an editor will make changes electronically and you'll never notice them. If you want to learn, and you want to get on their good side, pay attention to edits made in your documents and learn from them.
Editors will often change sentence structure; this is another place to learn. See if the change makes the sentence flow better or changes it from passive voice to active voice. Does the sentence suddenly have more impact or clarity as a result of the edits? You can learn from this.
Some editors (the good ones) will change a word or two and substitute one that helps bring out your meaning. This is a good opportunity to see how the first-line reader (the editor) reacted to your work and improved it to make the ultimate reader understand it more fully.
Editors are generally not known for being nice and polite. Usually, they're rushed and on deadline, with multiple priorities tugging at them. If your editor sounds blunt or abrupt, just detach from the tone of voice and listen to the content of what he or she is saying. They have a job to do, and you're part of the means to get the job done.
If you want to see some traditional 'editor' personalities, watch All the President's Men, which is one of the best movies I've seen about the relationship between writers and editors. In almost every scene involving editors, there's sarcasm, abruptness, impatience and many other sterling qualities editors sometimes display. But the end product (in the movie and in real life) is a far better piece of writing than if the editor weren't in the picture.
If you never make mistakes, and if you have plenty of ways to earn money without going through editors (and you're actually earning the money), then fine, you don't need an editor and you don't need to put up with their changes and requests. Otherwise, you need that editor.
It's called a deadline for a good reason. You're dead if you don't meet it.
If you've accepted an assignment to turn in a story by next Monday, get it in on time, if not before. This is crucial for freelancers, especially. You live from assignment to assignment, and there are many hungry writers out there waiting to take your beat or column away from you if you make your editors angry by missing deadlines.
You don't like it when you have to wait for the plumber or the cable repair person, do you? The reason is because your time is valuable, and you're paying for that service. That's the same position your editors are in. They're offering to pay you money for a product, and they expect it on time.
If you want to be a great freelancer who is loved by editors, learn to meet your deadlines. The word will get out if you don't; writing is a small community, in the long run, and editors talk to each other. You want to be the writer they glow about, not the one that causes them to groan and reach for a second drink while they're chatting at the local bar.
Editors hate sloppy, poorly written text!
Be sure you turn in 'good copy!' Copy is what we call the document you submit for publication. Good copy means you turn in a story or article that's free of errors, the right length, covers the topic thoroughly and appropriately and is interesting to read.
Editors hate to get copy littered with errors. It might be normal to find one or two things to tweak in an average story, but they will hate you if there are errors in every paragraph and if they see the same mistakes over and over. Some writers make editors wonder if they don't know about spell checkers on computers. And some writers make editors wonder how in the world they got through high school.
Length is important, whether it's online or in print. As you know here on HubPages, there are recommended minimum lengths for hubs. These are in place to make certain the site doesn't get penalized by search engines for having content that is too short. The same issues are at play in print publications. Too short isn't good (unless the assignment specifically calls for a very short piece), and too long is not good, either.
Find out the required length for your assignment and stay within those guidelines. If you're asked for a 1,000-word article, don't turn in 1,200 words with the attitude that the editor can deal with it. It is very time consuming to go through a piece and try to pare it down to meet a given space in print publications.
Don't be 'wordy' in your work. This means to avoid rambling sentences or extra words in sentences. Write with economy and get to the point.
Check your work before you turn in it. Give it a rest for a day or two (or even an hour or two, if the deadline is close) and come back and read it again, with an eye for typos, sentence structure and clarity.
If you hope to be a professional (and well-paid) freelancer, take a look at your byline. On HubPages, that will be your username. If you have created a 'cute' name or you use initials with numbers or some other trick identity, decide whether that will ultimately move your career forward. Some made-up names on this site are very, very difficult to remember because they're acronyms or have some sort of special meaning to the writer, but not to anyone else.
Some writers have more than one account here. I understand that there can be strategic or economic reasons for this, or that you might want to write one type of article under one name and other types under a different name. If your goal is to build a following, is this helping you?
If you want to become known as a writer, use the same name for as much of your work as possible. If you want to freelance (meaning work for money by writing for several outlets), this is even more important, because you will need to turn in samples of your work in order to get assignments.
Editors in credible publications might roll their eyes (behind your back) if you turn in four items using at least three different names, some of which are too cute for words. They will also want to verify the samples they're looking at are from you. How can they easily determine this if there are multiple names, or if the name HappyDogLover doesn't really let them know who the writer is?
Having an unusual given name can work to your advantage - people may not remember it off the top of their heads, but it will register with them and they'll at least remember they have heard it or read it somewhere before. Eventually, it will stick in the minds of readers and editors. Your task is to make certain they remember it because you're a good writer who produces work people want to read.
Some writers, especially in the online world, start out with pen names out of self-consciousness. You might be able to develop a following with your pen name (which is different, by the way, from the name a blog site might have). But it is far more challenging than if you use a regular name - either your own, or a variation of it designed for your writing career.
What is your true writing style and niche? Often, if you are new to the career, you will have ideas that are all over the galaxy. You want to write poetry, you have personal anecdotes, you have information to share. Some writers are generalists (they write about many topics, which is what I do), but for many writers, that is difficult to do, especially at first.
What is a niche? Your niche is the area or topic in which you write. You can eventually have multiple niches, or become a generalist (with more years of experience), but if you're starting out, narrow your field to one or two things you feel comfortable writing about (cars, gardening, anything that interests you enough to make it your specialty area). Then add topics as you go along, if you wish.
What is meant by 'voice,' and why it matters: Your 'voice' relates way you express yourself. Do you write biting satire? Are you a humorist? Are you straightforward with your words, or do you go for edginess? As with your niche, launch your career with a voice that fits your writing style; build your skills and reputation with one type of 'voice' before exploring other styles of writing. Readers can recognize when a writer forces his or her voice into a style that's not yet a polished comfort zone.
Finding a niche: Decide on one or two topics or areas of writing you really want to explore. Do you want to write homemaking tips? Focus on that and learn how to stretch it, grow it, massage it and make yourself an expert in it. Then, when you've got a voice in that area, and maybe a following, expand to some topics that are closely related. If you write about the home, you can branch into parenting, gardening and relationship articles. Writing about cars can evolve into how to buy new cars, how to sell your used car, maintaining a car, dealing with mechanics and other topics.
The advantage to taking topics in different directions is that it helps broaden the way you think as a writer. By broaden, I mean it helps you explore a theme or topic thoroughly and know it top to bottom. You can become known as an expert in that area of writing.
New writers who don't focus on one or two niche areas will end up scatter-shooting and writing shallow pieces about a wide number of topics, none of them written in a thorough or deep way. Each product will look like that of an amateur, rather than the polished work of someone who is a professional writer in that field.
Your niche is important! For freelancers, this is especially true. Editors want to hire writers who are experts (as in, expert writers) in a specific field. They know they can rely on their food columnist to bring in a good article each month, or their garden columnist to avoid repeating a story that's already been printed. Editors know you will turn in fresh ideas on the same topic.
If you branch out and write for multiple publications, you can market yourself to new editors as a 'business writer,' or whatever. Editors don't like to have writers approach them wanting to write about areas in which they aren't experienced. You have to build up a track record in a topic to get paid in that area.
You can build a portfolio of work on a specific topic here on HubPages, and use that as your selling tool when you approach new editors. Just be aware that they will comb through everything else you have online as part of their screening process. This doesn't mean to get rid of anything outside of the topic area in which you're marketing yourself; it means you need to make certain every hub is as perfect as it can be.
Write, and write a lot. Write new twists on the same topic. Write shorter pieces to become adept at saying a lot with just a few words. Write longer pieces, to show you can sustain a topic in a longer format.
Every time you write, you learn. Every published piece is a chance to see how you can improve when you go back and read it a month later. As long as you are willing to learn and grow from your experience, there is no such thing as wasted effort. Sometimes you'll start a piece and not finish it; that's okay - it's practice, and it might have a use in the future. Save drafts of work you don't quite know what to do with; they might come in handy years from now.
Don't lose heart if the road seems long and bumpy, and if you don't always know which sign leads to success. It's rare to find a writer who hits it big the first time, with a one-shot basket into the hoop. Most writers hone their work for many years, and never quit learning.
As you gain more experience, you'll become faster and improve your writing skills. Watch how your work is edited, so you can avoid common mistakes in writing future pieces.
You'll also learn what editors want from writers; each editor and publication, whether online or in print, has its own approach. Eventually, you will find ways to convert one article into more assignments.
Many small businesses need writers for contract or project work. There are many ways you can make money as a writer, so keep at it, and keep perfecting your work, and you can turn it into your career.
Hi, Randy - thanks so much for your kind comments; I greatly admire your writing, so that means a lot to me!
I've missed this one somehow, Marcy. Very good advice and well written, as usual.
Hi, kellyteam! So glad you like the information here - I hope you have great success in your writing. Thanks for reading, commenting and sharing!
Great tips. this is a very informative and welll written hub. Thanks for sharing. Voted up, awesome and useful. Sharing.
Hi, KDuBarry - welcome to HubPages! I'm glad you like the tips here, and I hope they help you start your new career; I look forward to reading your hubs!
Thank you for these tips! It is good to know what to do, what not to do, and what to be aware of in this field. I am only twenty years old and I am attempting to start a career as a freelance writer. These are all definitely good tips I will keep close to mind when doing so; thank you very much!
Hi, Eliza - thanks for reading and commenting here! I like the way you point out that attitude is important!
Good stuff Marcie. It is great to be reminded of the tenets of freelance writing from the point of view of attitude rather than results. Thanks for sharing your ideas with us. Voted up!
Hi, Mr. Happy - You make some good points here; you're right about some input from. Editors being driven by ads. That is more rare in large publications, though, than in smaller ones. But when you think of the people who write web content to appeal to advertisers, I guess it's an issue in many arenas.
Hi, Savingkathy - Thank you so much for your kind comments! And thanks for reading and voting!
Learn to take their comments and criticisms as lessons in how you can improve your craft - What if their criticism is due to complaints from the sponsors or those who advertise and thus pay the bills? It just seems to me that journalists especially, have to sing the tune that is told to them by their superiors and such ... maybe I just have the wrong impression.
"Editors are generally not known for being nice and polite." - I can have a problem with this too. Show no respect towards others and I show You no respect. I am much like a mirror: be as You want me to be ... or I will be as You are. I suppose I just like everyone to have manners and I am not a fan of excuses.
I never thought much about the byline ... now that I think of it, I do know a lot of writers who had an alias. Good point!
I also think your rules on voice/tone, niche and practice are critical!
Thank You for all the information here. I am sure it can be of great help for those who are trying to make a living writing. I think your experience shows in the way You explain things.
Thanks for another insightful and helpful hub, Marcy. I always find your hubs to be well structured and full of great advice, and this one was no exception. Voted up and sharing!
LOL! I've never heard of 'comment writers' block,' and you cracked me up, That Grrl! Thanks for reading the hub, and of course there aren't grades or anything for comments, but I'm glad you stopped by and said hi!
I have comment writer's block. I liked your post but I can't think of more chit chatty details to add right now. This is not a reflection on your post, I've been on a commenting/ social media binge today.
Thanks, Peg - I greatly value your expert experience in our field, and I appreciate your comments here. You're right; unless someone can accept input from editors, they'll have a tough time making it as their profession.
This article was packed full of useful tips from choosing a proper name for your writing site to listening to the editor who is paid to critique your work. If all you want to hear is positive praise and you can't stand the corrections, this is not the field for you to enter. Another informative and helpful hub. Voted all the way up.
Thanks, poshcoffeeco! I'm so glad the hub is helpful for you! Keep us posted on where it takes you!
You give sound advice. I have learned a lot from your article. I will now go away and practice.
I think you did a great job of picking a memorable, descriptive and unique Hubber name, Sharyn! It is easy to spell (and you don't have to remember some sort of acronym or number tricks) and it lends itself to writing. Well done!
I'm glad to meet you here - and I enjoy your hubs! Thank you for reading and commenting!
This is EXCELLENT Marcy and extremely motivating for me. I do realize I have SO much to learn and that is why I appreciate this hub. I must say that I am happy with my "hub name." I took a long time brainstorming before I chose it. My last name is Smith and I knew I didn't want to use that. I feel my hub name gives me the ability to truly give my own "slant" to my writing. I admit, when I chose it, I was not knowledgeable enough to know the impact it would have. I think I got lucky. Thanks for this great hub!
Thanks, Vegas - I'm glad you enjoyed the hub!
Thanks, Miss Travel! I will check out your hubs - and I appreciate your comments!
Good information. Hope you check my hubs some time.
Thanks, pmmcray! I'm so glad you liked the hub, and I appreciate your comments.
Great read and good advice. Voted up, marked useful, interesting and book marked.
Thank you for reading and commenting, htodd!
Melovy - I would love to see you do some 'how-to' hubs on fiction (or maybe I need to search to see if there are some in your archives). That's one area where I want to stretch my skills. Thanks so much for reading and commenting here!
Hi, Lisa - thank you for reading and commenting, and for sharing! I always enjoy your hubs, too!
Thanks, Bobbi - I am so happy you found some good ideas here. I keep learning every year, too (despite all the years I've worked as a writer), and as with you, I love the information and support we get here on HubPages. It's a great community. Thanks for your comments!
Very interesting and useful hub Marcy. There is so much for me to digest here I will bookmark and come back for more.
Practice is so important - my experience was mostly in fiction before I came to Hubpages, and I was very slow. I am still slow at writing compared to many, but compared to how I was - wow I’m fast now! Thanks for the hub.
I love tutorial hubs with motivation. Thank you for writing this and sharing your knowledge with us. Definitely bookmarking this one in my file. Voted up and sharing!
This is a very informative hub, and it is wonderful of you to share your experience with the ones who need it (me).
Although I took Journalism— some days I cannot please myself. But I keep writing, and having fun at it; while meeting such nice people on HP, like you.
Thank you, teaches - I appreciate your comments. I hope some of the information will be helpful as you grow your writing career!
Your advice is valuable in pointing out the basics of what makes you a good writer. There is so much more to writing than just putting words down on paper and your ariticle will help to understand the breadth of this career. Thanks for sharing. I deeply appreciate your wisdom and expertise. Voted up.
Hi, Sandra - I'm so glad you enjoyed the hub. Thanks for commenting! I look forward to reading your hubs.
I don't blame you for feeling conflicted, homesteadbound. You could always start by putting your real name in all your hubs, creating a second profile, and referring people to it in hubs under this name. It can be done, but it's tedious. Since you've only been writing less than a year, there's plenty of time to make it work. Either way, you are a huge asset to this site!
This is great advice. I wish I had chosen to use my real name when I had started on HubPages. It is possible to switch, but you lose all of your followers when you do. I would hate to lose my followers.
Hi, Kavita - I know what you mean about not particularly liking editors; I've met a few like that, too! I've also met editors I enjoyed tremendously as friends, and that often mitigated the other feelings. And as you mentioned, in each case, I learned and benefitted from their suggestions. Thanks so much for commenting here!
Thank you, theastrology - I'm so glad you found ideas here that will help you in your writing career. I appreciate your comments!
Perfectly written and useful for all freelance writers, It will sure help me.
Awesome points here Marcy. I totally agree with your views on using your real name and maintaining it across all your work profiles. Editors can often be a pain in the neck, but we writers have a love-hate relationship with them. To be honest, I have never ever liked any editor who criticized my work, but I have ALWAYS benefitted from their suggestions. Voted this hub up.
Thanks, Billy - this is nice to hear from someone I respect as much as I do you! Thank you for reading and commenting.
Great tips but I would expect nothing less from you. Great hub for the established writer and the newcomer. Thumbs up all the way!
Thanks for reading, Anamika, and thanks for your comments. You're right, it's important to have a good relationship with our clients; when you have their trust, they will support you through those times when you run into problems.
Everything you have written makes sense! Deadlines often get me into trouble because most of the time things do not work the way I plan and some other work comes in between. But I have managed to develop the trust and reliability with my major clients, so they do not interfere much. As far as writing on sites like hubpages are concerned, I concentrate on writing on only certain niches I am knowledgeable about. Good Hub, Voted up!
Thanks, Crystal - I know what you mean about being interested in many topics and having trouble picking The One to start with! Just go with one you like to read about yourself, and that piques your curiosity, and it will help keep you writing as you go forward, because you're less likely to lose interest. Then start expanding, and take the next topic in various directions, too. Best of luck! I look forward to reading your hubs!
Excellent advice, Marcy. Thanks for this hub. I am still unsure what my niche area should be. I don't believe myself to be an expert at anything, and am used to writing about a variety of topics, but I think your point about having too much variety and winding up with shallow work is right on target. This has given me plenty to ponder. Voted up.
Thanks for your comments, jm72writes - using my real name has been the best choice for me. I'm sure you can convert to it, if you decide to do that! Best of luck with your writing goals!
This was an awesome, informative hub! Most of the points I already follow (especially meeting deadlines), but I really enjoyed the point about choosing a name. I've been trying to decide if I should switch my Hubpages username to my actual name. Your article gave me some more to think about. | 2019-04-18T23:03:55 | https://hubpages.com/literature/How-to-succeed-as-a-professional-writer-These-tips-will-help-you-earn-money-from-writing |
0.964376 | If you are deeply moved by a film, if you are willing to admit that it touched you personally to the point of getting a lump in your throat and tearing up, should you write a review of it? And if so, where do you begin? I have been thinking about these questions for some time now, because when I walked out of the 8:30 am screening of Terrence Malick's The Tree Of Life on Monday, I was so shaken and emotional that I surprised myself. I am not a professional film critic (this should be abundantly clear from my reviews these past few days), not used to step back a bit and analyze a film from a distance. I can do it, but when I really love something, I'm prone to just ramble like a teenager in love. And I do love The Tree Of Life. A lot. A whole lot. So bear with me.
I am somebody who, more than anything else, enjoys film on a visceral level. Of course not all films lend themselves to that kind of treatment, but I will readily admit that the last time I was truly rocked to the core by a film was with Paul Greengrass's United 93. The first time I saw it was almost a cathartic experience. When I watched Ming-liang Tsai's 2006 film I Don't Want to Sleep Alone, I did not really understand a lot of it (subsequent viewings have remedied this somewhat), but immediately afterward I knew I had just seen something that I would carry with me for a long time. So when the most anticipated film of this year's Cannes fest cut to black, when I felt so angry at the few people who booed that I wanted to punch them in the face, when I walked out of the theatre dazed and confused, I knew this same thing had happened again, and stronger than I have ever felt before.
The next question is: how do you express raw emotions that you don't even fully understand? Let me get this out of the way first: I love me some Malick. There is something lyrical in his filmmaking that has touched me in every one of his films. He is always very much in touch with the nature and subject of his films. He has an incredible visual language, and it was never stronger than in this film. I find it hard to express my emotions in words, but Malick seems to have no problem expressing them in images. The odd thing is, his films are often rife with religious meaning, and while I'm generally interested in world religions and their history, I am a stern atheïst. On the surface I should dislike The Tree Of Life then, for it is a film soaked in biblical imagery and text. But I don't think it is a film about who we are as a religious person per se. It is about who we are as a person, period. It should play just as well to an agnostic as to a Christian or a Muslim. Terrence Malick is clearly a man of faith, but he is also not afraid to question God. Several times in the film, life is created, only to be destroyed at some later point. What would be God's point in doing that?
The film starts with a quote from the Book of Job, "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth… When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" A voice-over tells us that there are two ways in life one can choose, the way of nature and the way of grace. Nature is strong but selfish, always looking out for itself, constantly trying to improve its position. Grace is empathic and will love all equally, be nurturing and forgiving. Two polar opposites almost, and Malick in my interpretation infers God as being a bit of both.
The story follows the O'Brien family, living in a Texas suburb in the 1950s. In the film's opening scene, the mother (Jessica Chastain) gets a telegram, sending her the message of her second son's death in the Vietnam war. After she informs her husband (Brad Pitt), scenes of devastation follow, with nary a line of dialogue, communicating the emotions purely visually. The boy's death will hang over the rest of the film like a black cloud, an impending doom that we already know is coming. This film is about death as much as it is about life, and Malick reflects on the meaning of life throughout the film. Is life futile, and what do you make of it? Which of the two ways do you choose, and what leads you to this choice? Again, why create life to take it away?
Malick then switches from a small canvas to a history of life and death on the biggest canvas imaginable. In an overwhelming twenty-minute sequence, we are taken from the creation of the universe and life itself, via the Big Bang, to the time dinosaurs roamed our planet, all set to soul-piercing choral and orchestral music (a mixture of existing pieces and original work by Alexandre Desplat). In one scene we see a dinosaur come upon another that is wounded. While it could go for the kill, it appears to show empathy and runs off in a display of grace overtaking nature. In yet another breathtaking shot, a meteor hits Earth, and the dinosaurs are wiped out. Malick's recurring question again.
Cut back to the O'Brien family. In a series of sequences that feel most like memory put to screen, we see Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien become a couple and start a family. They literally create life, three times to be exact. We see their boys grow up and discover the wonders of life. They plant a tree in the modest backyard (a rather obvious reference to the titular tree), and the mother muses about how the kids will someday be gone, while the tree will still be there, a musing that we know will all too soon come true. As we see the kids running through the streets of small-town America, we are overcome by the idyllic picture of family life in the 50s: hard-working father, the head of the family, loving housewife mother, healthy all-American kids playing, all in a time when you could still run safely through the streets. However, Malick will slowly pick away at the idealized memory, and the son's death is just the beginning.
The boys get a stern upbringing from their father. He believes a man has to be strong and look out for himself. Always look to improve on himself. Be disciplined. This is nature talking. You can hardly blame him, this is probably the way he was brought up himself, nobody knew any different. But his parenting puts a strain on the relationship with his kids, especially the oldest one, Jack (Hunter McCracken), as well as on his relationship with his wife. The fear of their father is pressing hard on the boys. When he is away on a business trip, the boys brighten up visibly. Even the mother, as the naive opposite of her husband, the representation of grace, joins them in an endearing burst of shots of pure bliss, as if a depressing veil has been lifted.
The way I have laid out the narrative, this all sounds rather conventional. That is definitely not how Malick chooses to present this narrative, though. The story is told through a series of longer and shorter scenes, where we often seem to just drop in, and just as easily drop out. The director recites a tone poem in images, often almost montage-like, displaying memories of childhood in small moments that we can all recognize. The camera is constantly moving, as if it were a living member of the O'Brien household, constantly a part of the love, the joy, the sorrow, the arguments, the growing up, a part of the O'Briens' life. The camera lingers on a garden hose, a sun-filled street, or a moment of affection like a hand on a shoulder. The images are filled with emotional content. Just as with I Don't Want to Sleep Alone, it is not easy to understand or express why some scenes had such an impact on me, but they did, profoundly so.
The focal point then starts to move towards Jack as an adolescent, his relationship with his father, and the turmoils that both bring him. Even though he has a palpable fear of his father, he consciously feels himself growing into his father's image. As a chance for retaliation presents itself, the doubt in Jack is heartfelt. It is a very recognizable situation, as is the whole parent-child depiction. My father was not nearly as strict as Mr. O'Brien, but the film still evoked memories of my own relationship with my father, the feeling of rebelling against your father on the one hand, but loving him on the other. Adolescence is so accurately presented, and the director is completely in tune with his subjects (always a forte of Malick). Jack is wrestling with his feelings for his dad, and finds solace in his relationship with his younger brothers. The love between the brothers runs deep, especially between Jack and R.L., the second O'Brien boy. They share a love that can only be found in a brotherly bond. Because of what we learned in the opening scene, these moments are filled with a bitter sweetness.
The film is bookended by scenes from the life of an adult Jack (Sean Penn, with hardly any dialogue), anguished and weary looking. Here the camera is even more on the move than usual, heightening the feeling of a restless soul. Using an ultra wide lens and large, soulless office buildings, Malick channels an emptiness that is overwhelming. Another critic likened the large open spaces to 'cathedrals of secularity,' a very keen observation. Jack's relationship with his father is still a difficult one, as becomes clear from a phone call. He has become his father in many ways, chosen nature over grace. In what will be surely one of the most talked about sequences, the film ends with Penn walking through a rocky desert, following, almost chasing a woman who seems to be a glimpse of the girl he had his first crush on, shown tenderly realistic earlier in the film through a couple of dialogue-free scenes. The contrast of the young boy experiencing the wonder of first love, and this lost soul in search of love, could not be greater. The final shots show Jack on a sandy beach, surrounded by people who have had an impact on him. His mother is there, as is his brother. This is clearly implied as an afterlife, but Jack's situation is left a bit ambiguous. Does this perhaps imply he killed himself? In the desert shots he steps through a doorway; has he gone from one life to another? Or has he gone from nature to grace, and are these scenes a representation of his emotional state? Food for thought and discussion.
As I tweeted in the height of my emotions right after the screening, the film is a deeply affecting poem about all of us. We may not literally have the same walk of life Jack had, but we recognize much of ourselves in it. At least I did. Never has childhood, those years of growing up and discovering life and the world, been better depicted than in this film, Malick perfectly capturing that feeling. He has a deep understanding of the story he tells, the people he follows, the life he depicts. I don't think he knows the meaning of life, but he clearly knows what living it means. | 2019-04-20T04:10:35 | https://icsfilm.org/reviews/the-tree-of-life/ |
0.999999 | Englisch-Deutsch-Übersetzungen für tie break [Tennis] im Online-Wörterbuch experience90.eu (Deutschwörterbuch). Der oder das Tie-Break, auch Tiebreak (engl. tie, Gleichstand und engl. to break, brechen, wörtlich etwa Gleichstandsbrecher) ist ein Zähl- oder. Übersetzung im Kontext von „tie-break“ in Englisch-Deutsch von Reverso Context: At the girls juniors Sophia Kovalets (UKR)/Demi Schuurs (NED) won the title.
Are you missing a word, phrase or translation? Submit a new entry. Compile a new entry. The tie-break shots are started by the team that shot second in the game winning shots.
The game ends as soon as a duel of two players brings the decisive result. Das Spiel ist beendet, sobald im Vergleich von zwei Gegenspielern das entscheidende Tor erzielt wird.
Contained were the following 3 games: Enthalten waren folgende 3 Spiele. Either the same or new players can be appointed to take the shots.
The Briton finished the season with the same points score as Egon Kaur but prevailed in the tie break after having set a larger number of fastest times on special stages.
If you want to copy vocabulary items to the vocabulary trainer, click on "Import" in the vocabulary list. If, at the end of extra time, no winner can be decided, the match goes to a penalty shootout.
Alternatively, in tournaments such as the English FA Cup , the match is replayed in its entirety, going through the aforementioned stages of extra time and penalties if the second match is drawn.
This method is no longer used from the quarter finals onwards. In the National Football League of professional American football , if both teams are tied at the end of regulation, an overtime period is played under modified "sudden death" rules.
Before the season, this period was 15 minutes in all games. Since , a minute period has been used only in playoff games in which a winner must be decided ; overtime in preseason and regular-season games consists of a minute period.
If the team that receives the ball first scores a field goal, then the opponent must receive a chance at equalising that score of their own; the first team to score a touchdown or safety wins the game; and once both teams have had possession of the ball in overtime, the first team to score under any legal means, touchdown offensive or defensive , field goal or safety, wins.
If neither team scores before the end of the overtime period, or both teams score one field goal each, the game is considered a draw and ends, and counts as a "half-win" in the standings for purposes of winning percentage for both draft order and playoff positioning.
However, in the playoffs, true sudden death rules apply from double overtime onwards. There is no tie-break for regular season matches in Australian rules football, and both teams earn two points each.
In the AFL , new rules were introduced for finals in If the match is still tied when extra time has expired, there is a third untimed extra time period under sudden death rules, and the final siren will not sound until the next team scores.
Prior to , if the scores were tied in a finals match after the final siren, the drawn final would be replayed on the following weekend, thus delaying all other finals by one week.
Due to various logistical issues that arose following the drawn Qualifying Final, the AFL replaced this procedure with extra time with the exception of the Grand Final in Until , if the scores in a finals match were tied when regulation time expired, two five-minute halves of extra time were played until a winner was determined.
This procedure was used twice: If the scores were tied after the final siren in the Grand Final, the match would be replayed on the following weekend.
If a baseball game is tied at the end of the usual nine innings , the game continues into extra innings until an inning ends with one team ahead.
Although games are occasionally ended as ties on account of weather or darkness the latter happened much more often before lights were installed on most professional baseball fields in the s , and some leagues including Nippon Professional Baseball allow only a limited number of extra innings before a game ends as a tie, professional baseball in the United States has no such limit.
The longest Major League game in history on May 1, lasted 26 innings, and a minor-league game in lasted 33 innings. Major League Baseball uses the term "tiebreaker" to refer to one or more additional games played after the scheduled end of the regular season between teams with identical win-loss records in order to determine participants in postseason play.
Field target — a precision air rifle shooting sport — uses either a sudden-death or shot count tiebreaker.
If all shooters in the tie fail, then the target is moved closer. If one shooter hits, then the next shooter s who miss are out of the competition.
If a round is complete with multiple ties remaining, the target is moved out made more difficult and the same procedure is repeated until only one shooter remains.
This procedure can then be repeated to determine further placings among the losers of the previous round. If all shooters miss all shots, the target is moved in made easier ; similarly, if all shooters hit on all shots, the target is moved out made more difficult.
If some variation in hits exists after a round, the top score gets the highest placing while those with identical scores can have a sudden-death shootout or a repeat of the multiple shot shootout typically with a more difficult target to determine other placings.
If the scores are level when all the balls are potted in a frame of snooker , the black is "respotted" placed back on the table, on its designated spot and the cue ball put "in hand".
The referee will then toss a coin, and the winner of the coin toss decides who will take the first shot. Play then continues until the black is potted or another frame-ending situation occurs.
There is no tie-break for regular season matches in Australian rules football, and both teams earn two points each. In the AFL , new rules were introduced for finals in If the match is still tied when extra time has expired, there is a third untimed extra time period under sudden death rules, and the final siren will not sound until the next team scores.
The longest Major League game in history on May 1, lasted 26 innings, and a minor-league game in lasted 33 innings.
Field target — a precision air rifle shooting sport — uses either a sudden-death or shot count tiebreaker. If all shooters in the tie fail, then the target is moved closer.
If one shooter hits, then the next shooter s who miss are out of the competition. If a round is complete with multiple ties remaining, the target is moved out made more difficult and the same procedure is repeated until only one shooter remains.
The term "tiebreaker" is sometimes used loosely outside the world of sports — for example, for an innovative weapon or strategy introduced in a war where the two opposing armies are evenly matched, a decisive political move introduced in an electoral race where the contending parties are evenly matched such as a casting vote , and similar situations in other fields.
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0.737972 | As part of a coordinated attack by the Bush campaign, Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey called yesterday for US Senator John F. Kerry to resign immediately, saying that he had missed so many roll call votes in the Senate that he wasn't representing the Commonwealth in the Senate.
Healey, Bush's campaign co-chairwoman in Massachusetts, accused Kerry of having abandoned his duties in the Senate by missing 87 percent of the roll calls this year and 64 percent last year because he was campaigning for the presidency.
''John Kerry has left the people of Massachusetts underrepresented in one of the highest lawmaking bodies in the nation," said Healey, speaking outside the governor's State House office. An immediate Kerry resignation would clear the way for Governor Mitt Romney to appoint a Republican to the seat and bolster GOP strength in the Senate, where the Republicans rule by a razor-thin majority.
Kerry brushed aside the Republican attack, saying that his absenteeism in the Senate is a necessary part of his presidential campaign effort, which is aimed at ''serving the citizens of Massachusetts and the country in the proposals I've laid out."
''I'm running to provide responsible leadership, and I intend to continue to do that," said Kerry, who spoke to reporters at the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport in Covington, Ky.
Added Kerry campaign press secretary, Michael Meehan: ''Massachusetts Republicans have tried for decades to defeat John Kerry, and that has failed. Now they hope and pray that John Kerry will quit. Well, that won't work either. Elections work best when the people do the electing, not the politicians."
The Healey attack was followed later in the day by former Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole's call for Kerry to resign.
The two events appeared to be a coordinated Republican counter-offensive just hours before a legislative committee on Beacon Hill began to consider a bill that would prevent Romney from filling Kerry's vacated Senate seat if he wins the presidency.
The legislation has drawn the keen interest of both national political parties. Massachusetts Democratic legislators are pushing the bill, which would call for a special election next spring if Kerry wins the presidency; several state Democrats in Congress are considering a run for the seat if it becomes vacant.
In calling for Kerry to resign, Healey became the public voice for national Republicans and Bush campaign officials who have been privately grumbling for months that the Massachusetts senator should be pressured -- by pundits, media columnists, and perhaps members of his own party -- to step down because of his nearly total absence from the Senate chambers since he launched his presidential bid last September.
Bush campaign officials said yesterday that they had shared information on Kerry's missed votes with Romney's office this spring and that there was general agreement that Kerry was politically vulnerable on the matter. Yet the Bush campaign aides insisted that they did not pressure Healey or the governor to call personally for Kerry's resignation.
Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt yesterday repeated Healey's attack on Kerry as an absentee senator, but stopped short of saying that the Democratic rival should resign his seat.
''The criticism is dead on," he said. ''People in Massachusetts are not being represented by two United States senators, because John Kerry has missed the overwhelming majority of his votes."
Yesterday afternoon, Dole -- the 1996 Republican presidential nominee, who resigned his Senate leadership position just before he was nominated by his party -- reinforced the GOP message during an appearance on CNN. ''I think what he should do is what I did on June 11, 1996, and to say, you know, I want to run for president, and I'm going to walk out of the Senate," Dole said.
When Kerry has skipped Senate votes on high-profile legislation, be it Iraq military funding or prescription drug policies, Republican officials have inundated reporters arguing that Kerry is hypocritical in bashing Bush on those issues while not taking the time to speak out and vote on them. The Bush campaign keeps a running log of Kerry's missed votes, now more than 130 pages long.
Kerry has pledged to return to the Capitol any time his vote would make a decisive difference on an issue. On Super Tuesday, last March 2, for instance, he canceled campaign appearances and rearranged a victory party so he could return to Washington and vote on closely fought gun-control measures, though ultimately his vote did not prove to be crucial.
Republican Party officials say that by raising Kerry's missed votes in tandem with his refusal to resign, they can reinforce the Bush campaign's caricature of him as a flip-flopper: delving into domestic and foreign policy options on the campaign trail, while missing votes and refusing to give way to someone else from Massachusetts to represent voters' interests on those issues.
Romney, avoiding the political fray, did not appear at the press conference, and his aides said he would not be available to speak to reporters. Healey said the governor backed her call for Kerry's resignation. Romney has disavowed any interest in the Senate seat, but Healey aides would neither confirm or deny that she would accept an appointment.
Massachusetts Democrats quickly accused Healey of holding a double standard for not applying her demands to George Bush's run for the presidency in 2000 when he was frequently absent from his duties as Texas governor.
''Arguably, an incumbent governor has many more administrative responsibilities than an incumbent United State senator has," said state Democratic Party chairman Philip Johnston.
Asked if George Bush should have resigned as governor of Texas in 2000, Healey stepped around the question.
''We're talking about John Kerry's current record representing the people of Massachusetts," Healey said. ''My responsibility is toward them. I was elected to represent the people of Massachusetts, just as John Kerry was. John Kerry is not doing his job, and it's incumbent on me to point out the fact that we would be better represented if he were to resign and allow that position to be filled by someone who can devote 100 percent of their time and energy to representing Massachusetts."
Glen Johnson of the Globe staff and Globe correspondent Elise Castelli contributed to this report. | 2019-04-26T08:45:21 | http://archive.boston.com/news/politics/president/kerry/articles/2004/06/16/healey_calls_for_kerry_to_resign?pg=full |
0.999851 | It's one of life's little mysteries. Why are "tackless" strips loaded with tacks?
I removed one piece of carpet from the last step on the staircase. I wanted to see if the wood underneath was any good. The wood is nice, but I don't want to ruin the floor by improperly removing the tackless strip. What do you think is the best way to remove them?
Also, why do they call it a 'tackless strip'? On one of the steps I must have received four or five pricks from the tacks on the tackless strip. Thanks a lot!
It is called tackless strip to give you a false sense of security! No, really, it is called tackless because in most situations it eliminates the need for using carpet tacks to hold the carpet in place, giving you a "tackless" installation.
For those of you looking "over our shoulders", a tackless strip is a thin strip of plywood use to hold carpet tight around the edges of a room or, in some instances, across doorways and around other types of flooring, such as wood or tile. The strips are covered with carpet tacks, with the pointy side up and angled towards one edge of the strip.
The strips are installed about a quarter inch or so from the walls or other transition, and placed so that the angle of the tacks is away from the body of the carpet. When the carpet is stretched over the tackless strip, the carpet pulls back against the angled tacks, holding it firmly in place.
Removing tackless strips is a job requiring a certain amount of patience and care if you do not intend on refinishing the floor. The trick is to use a cat's paw prybar, and to remove all the nails holding each tackless strip. Instead of trying to pry out each nail from the top... which is difficult because of the tacks... use a hammer to tap the cat's paw into the thin side of the tackless next to each nail. This will protect the floor by keeping the business end of the cat's paw above it, and also pull the nail at the same time as it splits the tackless strip in two.
If you must position the cat's paw over the floor, place it on a thin piece of wood, such as a scrap of 1/4" plywood. If the floor is oak or another hardwood, you may use a piece of flashing or a wide putty knife instead. This is because these hard woods do not dent easily. If the floor was yellow pine, for example, you would have to be more careful to avoid denting. I always get "stuck" a number of times when doing this chore. If you wear thin leather work gloves, you will get some degree of protection, but don't get too aggressive by grabbing loose strips, or you will be sorry.
And, of course, look over your work keep your work area clean. Stray tacks can hurt bare feet, and nails left in the floor can also be painful... as well as damaging to throw rugs and furniture. I make it a practice to put loose strips right into a five gallon bucket, and to vacuum up all loose chips and tacks as I go. Use that wide putty knife to check the floor for missed nails as you work. It is amazing how a nail that wasn't there one minute suddenly appears from nowhere! | 2019-04-25T15:42:47 | https://www.naturalhandyman.com/iip/inffloor/inftackless.html |
0.99992 | is it possible to use the NEC Multisync 3D Monitor with my old Amiga 500 without any scandoublers? I only want to use the original Commodore Amiga->VGA Adaptor.
I hadn't tried with a 500 but when I bought my first Amiga 2000 and 3000 in 98 (2 Amiga bbses in an auction on feebay) it had a 15" NEC Multisync monitor but I don't recall it being a 3d but it did work with the 2000 and 3000 at least.
Hardly any monitors can go as low as 15.7KHz horizontal, but i believe the NEC Multisync series could. It should work.
I have a NEC 3ds model (15khz sync) on my A1200 currently. You need one of those metal commodore adapters to VGA for it to work (it has some kind of chip inside to buffer the output). I tried using just a generic adapter and got tearing in the video, but that could just have been a A1200 chipset issue.
There are dozens of old monitors that sync down to 15khz, most of which have died and been recycled ages ago.
"Magnavox Color Display Professional Series"
I once had a Nec3D connected to my Amiga 500, the 500 I still have, the NEC long gone.
Amiga is still a top notch computer when you look at its technical feats..
Those Magnavox monitors are not all the same, some have the analog input for Amiga and some do not. I have one for a C128 that had Composite in, and digital TTL (CGA/80 column C128 mode) but the analog RGB in was never installed so there is a plug for that port.
They are basically like the Amiga 1084 monitors (Phillips made?) where there are many configurations out there. | 2019-04-26T02:13:21 | http://www.vcfed.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-14139.html?s=fa5f245907db45585a0e65a6bd8899dc |
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