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0.998611 | To remove the size/density calculations from the picture, the Android framework works wherever possible in terms of "dp" units, which are corrected for density. In medium-density ("mdpi") screens, which correspond to the original Android phones, physical pixels are identical to dp's; the devices’ dimensions are 320x480 in either scale. A more recent phone might have physical-pixel dimensions of 480x800 but be a high-density device. The conversion factor from hdpi to mdpi in this case is 1.5, so for a developer's purposes, the device is 320x533 in dp's. | 2019-04-18T19:02:14 | https://www.androidquestions.org/threads/163-New-Tools-For-Managing-Screen-Sizes |
0.999999 | Kidznsnow Article: From the Eastern Front - Quebec!
Bonjour mes amis! Comment ca va? Nous avons jusqua retourné a faire du ski a Quebec, and il [was] magnifique!
Well, maybe the high school French is a bit rusty, but the intent is obvious - we’ve just returned from skiing in eastern Quebec and it was magnificent! You’ve heard of “lake effect” snow that upstate New York gets from the Great Lakes? Well, how about the “river effect” snow that Mont Ste. Anne and Le Massif receive thanks to their location on the shores of the St. Lawrence River. Now, before you dismiss that as hyperbole, remember this: in that area, the river is nearly twelve miles wide. That’s a lot of water and it helps to generate considerable amounts of snow.
Le Massif sits directly on the river. On some runs, given the steep but consistent pitch, you feel like you’re actually going to ski right into the frigid water. As a result, the skiing yields views that are truly unique - with a twisting shoreline disappearing to the east, ice flows making their way up or down river (it’s a tidal river, still affected by the Atlantic Ocean), and sometimes wonderfully eerie cloud formations drifting around below you. Just ten years ago the only uphill transportation at Le Massif was by school bus. Now there’s a top-to-bottom high speed quad that makes accessing the slopes extremely efficient. Still, out favorite section is off the “other” chair, a double that served a handful of black diamonds and one nifty trail that travels “sous bois” - under the trees. And, come next season, a major expansion will further improve things.
Mont Ste. Anne is sometimes cast as the “other” ski area in Quebec, because many folks think first of Mont Tremblant, north of Montreal. But, Mont Ste. Anne is a big hill, and one that loves kids. (Take a week here and your kids just may be speaking French by the time they go home.) They’ve even got a green-rated glades trail called La Vital Roy that was cut particularly with kids in mind. (We confess to sneaking in there unaccompanied by kids and having a very good time.) During our recent visit, however, the highlight was six inches of new snow - kept western-fluffy by prevailing cold temperatures - that provided a classic eastern powder day. We scurried all over the mountain looking for stashes, and even helped to open two trails, thus getting some fine first tracks. In between, we stopped by the trailside “cabine `a sucre” (“sugar shack”) for some “sugar on snow.” (The secret is to let the hot maple syrup cool for a few minutes before you roll it onto your wooden Popsicle stick.) Delicious.
We also spent a few nights at the magnifique Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City, North America’s only walled city. When you toss in the urbane urban element to the continental feeling that eastern Quebec exudes, you’ve got a nifty European adventure without having to cross the ocean. And, all with that fantastic Canadian dollar exchange rate. Nous l’aimerons. We love it. | 2019-04-26T12:39:00 | http://www.kidznsnow.com/5173 |
0.999969 | My objective is to have a position at the Mall of America as a cashier.
I worked at Youth Farm for about two years. I would plant and harvest vegetables. When the vegetables were ready, my team and i would sell the goods at the Farmers Market. I was in charge of the cashier. It was a great experience to know how to manage money.
My position was to be a tutor for third graders. I would help them with their reading and writing skills. My goal was to make them better readers and writers and prepare them for fourth grade. I would also help some of my third graders with their math skills. I would help the manager to print out the worksheets and i would start teaching the class and i would be there for any questions or help. | 2019-04-26T08:41:40 | https://www.livecareer.com/resume-search/r/gardener-cashier-7c143f7ea4c94378bb81f7e0ffcb16c2 |
0.995493 | With the extended Brexit departure day of April 12 fast approaching without a plan in place, the European Union and the world are anxiously watching the daily proceedings.
Britain's Parliament has voted down all revised Brexit proposals it has been presented by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May. However, Parliament itself has been unable to present a viable alternative.
The Asahi Shimbun interviewed Geoffrey Evans, a political science professor at Oxford University, who has a relatively unusual background of having first worked at a pottery factory, about why no consensus is forming in Britain over Brexit and the changes in British politics and society that are at the heart of the stalemate.
Asahi: Three years after the referendum, which led to the decision to leave the European Union, many analysts are casting a negative forecast about the economic effects of Brexit, but there appears to be no weakening of those who favor leaving. Why is that?
Evans: It's not so much about money. It's about to a large degree social conservatism versus liberal more pro-immigration values.
When you've got 52 (percent for leaving) to 48 (percent for remaining), what we've seen since Brexit is people's sense of identity of being a leaver or a remainer and their hatred of the other side growing.
I think there's been a small drop in the number of people who want to leave. However, even on the day of the referendum, the polls were showing remain ahead. So we know that the polls, they're normally Internet-based or telephone, they have a bias, probably. We don't really know what would happen in another referendum. They could just as easily go again to a leave vote.
Q: After Parliament rejected the agreement reached with the EU by the May government, it also failed to reach an agreement on an amended agreement. Why was that?
A: As soon as you go to Europe you've got divisions in both parties and that's not going to change.
You've got basically an educated, affluent, Conservative middle class and a normally less well-educated, more rural, traditional, socially conservative Conservative. You've got your progressive, middle class, educated Labor left and then your traditional working-class Labor. And their MPs reflect these mixes.
Q: Japan had considered Britain the model for its own two-party system, but why does it appear as though the system is not working in Britain?
A: The British two-party system doesn't function well when you've got a society with more than a simple poor/rich type division. Once you've got social conservatism versus social progressive--socially liberal, more pro-immigration, probably more pro-gay rights--all sorts of divisions, then it's hard to incorporate them within the two-party competition.
Q: Do you think there will be a major party realignment in Britain in the future?
A: In a proportional system, clearly Labor would have split into at least two parties and so would the Conservatives. But it isn't going to happen because it's not in the interests of the main parties.
UKIP (UK Independence Party) picked up 13 percent of the vote very quickly indeed on the basis of immigration. It was all about immigration. They had one seat in the House of Parliament and yet proportionally they should have had over 80 seats.
You've got the new Independent Group but that's not going to work as a political party. I think for Britain, the need for proportional representation is immense but you've got the main parties in positions of power, they're not going to change, because it's not in their interests. You cannot as it were break into the system. So it's a problem.
Q: What do you believe were the main factors or catalyst that led the British public to take such a negative view of the EU?
A: One of the things I've been looking at is people's sense of being European, linked in with Europe, which is weaker than all of these other countries. Britain has always scored at the bottom of all of those things. Their overseas links obviously to the former empire, the trading links, are stronger. So for a decade or more after 2004, when the European Union opened its borders to Eastern European countries, (Prime Minister Tony) Blair welcomed them in and we had a massively higher level of immigration than anyone expected or predicated. And then you can see the attitude to the European Union started to change.
At the same time, there's a more general trend, which obviously you're interested in, and this is the trend towards consensus politics. Both after 1997 and from the 1990s onwards when Tony Blair became the Labor leader, he detached its links with the working class. He deliberately distanced it massively from that. He also made it very strong pro-European.
The Conservatives have done the same thing. Because (David) Cameron's like Blair. He's a Tory Blair, basically. So they, as it were, moved to a liberal progressive consensus. They are pro-gay marriage, etc. They've moved to the middle. Basically an educated, affluent, Conservative middle class.
I think the balance changes. Let's say you had very much a working-class society with very few people getting degrees back in the 50s and 60s, and now you've got maybe 40 percent of the population, the new cohorts, get degrees, working class is a minority.
We've seen Westminster become more and more homogenous. Far more people with degrees, no trade union representatives, very few people from a working-class background. But the old and the fact that most people still don't have degrees in our society is a situation whereby those people's beliefs had been excluded from mainstream centrist politics.
Q: Are you suggesting they represent a British version of what U.S. President Donald Trump calls those left behind?
A: If you look at America, the gap between the rich and the poor and the educated and the non-educated in turnout has been there for decades. You could see then the poor stopped voting as much in America. And Trump is a reaction amongst people there who see Washington becoming a completely centralized and liberal elite takeover.
In Britain the working class were as likely to vote as the middle class. It was only after Labor in the 90s changed their image and style and appeal, then you saw a big gap open up between the educated middle class and the less well educated working class. I think to some degree the vote against the EU was the one chance people had, who don't normally get represented, of actually making a claim. It's a simple thing. Yes, no. Your vote counts.
Q: You were born in Stoke-on-Trent, which is noted for its pottery, and started out as a laborer at a pottery factory there. How has that affected your outlook?
A: I worked for Wedgwood china. I was very unhappy. I got sacked from a lot of my jobs. I wasn't very good at working in factories. And when I was unemployed I got sent to see an occupational psychologist by the local unemployment center. He gave me some test, and I got a very high IQ score and he said, "Look, you're never going to be happy; no wonder you can't hold down jobs in factories, you've got a very high IQ score, you should go to university." So I saved up some money as a van driver and eventually went and did A Levels and then I went to university, just to escape from the miserable grinding life of working-class life in Stoke. And it's a global academic community here which is great. That means that wherever you're from in Britain doesn't really matter. It's what you do research-wise that counts. That's where I found my home. I can't say I'm working class. Do I feel like I'm part of the middle class or upper middle class or whatever it is? In some ways occasionally.
Q: How do you view the opinions on Brexit held by those in that Stoke community?
A: My parents are obviously working-class people in Stoke-on-Trent and so I meet them and they are all massively leave voters and they all hate people in Westminster. People are friendly, poor, poorly educated, in bad health, many of them no longer have jobs. The main industry was the pottery industry, it was the biggest in the world; a handful of factories left. It's a classic example of a post-industrial Rust Belt-type city. And they were very thrilled to actually win the referendum and now they're getting slightly concerned that it's all going to be taken away from them, so this one little achievement that they've had is going to be torn away by Westminster politics.
Q: Do you believe that with Brexit, British society will move toward addressing inequality and the disparity gap?
A: May has been trying to bribe Labor MPs to come and vote for her deal by offering a certain amount of money to poor working-class areas they represent, where there is a lot of leave voters. But the money that they are offering isn't going to change things very much. It's sticking plaster, it is window dressing. But you're not going to change inherited wealth, housing purchase. You need rich parents to buy a house.
What we saw is the growth of the middle class as you change from industrial to post-industrial and go to professions, management-type jobs and the education to go with them. And that has slowed down, so that means actually the more people we produce with degrees the less chance they've ever got of getting good jobs with those degrees. If you don't go to university you're probably even worse off.
We saw between 2015 and 2017 a massive realignment. Highly educated people are now more likely to support Labor and income is not as strongly related to who you support any more. I think the Conservatives are in trouble because if they don't do a hard-core exit strategy they will lose all those UKIP voters they won. And they've already lost the remain voters.
Q: How do you think future political scientists will evaluate Brexit?
A: It's a set of misjudgments by political leaders leading to a collective expression of defiance against the agenda that they were setting. Having then won the vote, the political leaders threw the game away anyway. They stopped it doing too much, and probably it, to some degree, consolidated the dismal standing of democracy. It was a fight for those people who get left out, and so at that time you could see it as well; it was an expression of the excluded groups. So it's good to see the excluded groups actually winning something. However, it looks like they probably won't have won anything. I've talked to people about this and I said to hard-core Brexiteers, there could be some economic costs to this and it might affect your standard of living or your savings, and they basically said, it's worth it.
There's a well-known phenomenon called basically a status quo bias. People are risk-averse. Because there is no stability in the European Union is probably why it didn't work. And if we get a change in situation, if Europe starts to struggle economically, I think the leave tendency will grow so it's like a delayed Brexit might help Leave as well as Remain. No one knows yet. | 2019-04-24T02:07:19 | http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201904060012.html |
0.999218 | Manchester United will be without all four of their recognised strikers for the FA Cup quarter-final clash with Chelsea this evening.
Following a collision with Phil Jones in training yesterday, captain Wayne Rooney is the most recent victim of United's striker crisis, with Ibrahimović serving the first of his three-game ban tonight, Martial missing out due to injury and Rashford suffering from illness.
This cup tie will be the first time Mourinho returns to the Bridge after his side's 4-0 drumming at the hands of Conte's league runaways in October, and his return won't be made easier without a recognised target man leading the line.
So, what are the options for José tonight?
With all four natural strikers out of action tonight, Mourinho may be forced to play Fellaini up front. The Belgian, often utilised as a target man during the final moments of play during both the Van Gaal era and Mourinho's tenure, is the most natural fit for the role having played as a supporting striker during his Everton days.
Often the villain amongst fans, Fellaini's mercurial nature, sluggish movement and lack of silk-smooth football may be an ill-fit for a position that's been occupied by the worldly Zlatan this season. However, if Mourinho plans to do a "Mourinho" tonight and park ten men behind the ball, having a large presence to hold up play, be the focal point for route one football and occupy towering defenders such as Cahill may not be a bad thing. After all, Fellaini brings aerial presence and uncontrolled chaos to this United side, not to mention chest control that can absorb a universe.
Although it would be the least aesthetically appealing option, Fellaini may be best fit to lead the line tonight.
Mourinho could also opt for an alternative tactic by having Mkhitaryan lead the line as a false nine. With seven goals from midfield under his belt this season, Miki has proved his ability to find the net while his impressive performances at Old Trafford this season suggests that the Armenian is cute enough to adapt to the unorthodox role.
However, a lack of pace could make it tough for him to stretch a solid Chelsea defence, and playing with his back to goal could stop him from doing what he does best: ball-play from a deeper role and dictate with this movement and passing.
Mario Götze failed to adjust to the position despite his talents. Maybe Mourinho will think the same with Mkhitaryan.
Similarly, Mata could occupy the false nine role. Smart, agile and a willingness to adapt to any role for the team (having played on the wings for a large part of his United career despite being a natural number ten) make Mata a good fit to play the position which was first put on the scene by fellow Spaniard Cesc Fabregas.
Again, pace as well as a lack of physicality would make it hard for the little wizard to bully and stretch David Luiz and co. But if Mourinho needs someone with a footballing brain to dictate United's pressing game, then Mata could be his man.
Lingard scored a coolly-taken goal at Stamford Bridge last season, and has shown in his last three appearances at Wembley for United that he has the direct running and pace to occupy and worry defences (as well as a goal in his arsenal).
And although slower than fellow fledglings Rashford and Martial, Lingard is still more dynamic and explosive (see goal vs Leicester City) than tonight's other striking options while his defensive qualities would most definitely prevent Chelsea from overrunning United's three-man midfield.
He may not be a natural fit for the role, and could potentially get bullied off the ball tonight, but his youthful energy, direct style and willingness to sacrifice for the team could be the ideal foil for a Mourinho cup side which often sits back and hits on the counter-attack. | 2019-04-19T23:02:17 | https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/chelsea-vs-manchester-united |
0.999994 | Losing sight of or being deflected from your original goals. Imagine that you plan to teach children to dance or develop their sporting skills but the only funds available are to reduce obesity in children via exercise and healthy eating.Perhaps you believe this is a realistic compromise but it wasn't your original intention. Your goals have been displaced by economic pessures.
How do you measure displacement?
Water displacement is simply when something (e.g. a block) is put into water, and the water level rises. This is because the block is taking up space, and the water has to move somewhere, and the only place to go is up..
The shortest path between the initial and the final point is known as displacement. It is a vector quantity. Displacement can be 0, positive and negative.
How do you find displacement?
What is the disadvantage of displacement?
\nTends to lead to destabilisation of the self; identity is no longer fixed or knowable, thus displacement threatens all that one knows or believes to be true.\nSense of loss or bewilderment.
What is the displacement method?
There is no simple formula for calculating the volume of something with an irregular shape. Instead, you can make use of a simple fact: two oblects cannot take up the same space at the same time. This method of measuring is called the DISPLACEMET METHOD.
What is a water displacement?
What is the displacement of a battleship?
The four Russian Borodino class battleships during the battle of Tsushima in 1905 displaced about 15,000 tons fully loaded..
Displacement is the shortest distance between the initial and finalpoint. The formula for displacement is X=1/2(v+v0)t. V is velocity,v0 is initial velocity, and t is time.
What is a displacement can?
A displacement can is a can with a spout coming out one side at the top. When an object is placed in the can the water rises and runes through the spout at the top. collect this water in a beaker to see how much water was displaced.
What is the displacement of water?
A displacement reaction is one where a more reactive element displaces a less reactive element from its compound. Example: MgCl + Na ---> NaCl 2 + Mg Here, Na or Sodium is more reactive than Mg, so it displaces Mg from its compound.
How do you solve for displacement?
Displacement is nothing but the shortest distance between the starting point and the ending point. FORMULA- D= v/t. hERE d is displacement, v is velocity and t is time.
Example. AB + CD --> AD + CB A double displacement reaction. Species have changed partners.
What is displacement in physics?
Displacement is a vector quantity. This means it has both size AND direction. Therefore, displacement is defined as distance in a given direction. Rather then simply 'distance'. Distance itself is a scalar quantity... and only has size. No direction. 20m - Distance. 20m upwards - Displacement.
What is displacement of water?
Displacement of water refers to placing an object into a sample of water, which will cause the water level to rise. The rise in water level is the displacement.
What is a displacement hull?
A hull designed to cut through the water while staying immersed inthe water, a "V" shaped hull.
What is a displaced homemaker?
It means that you are taking your anger at one person or situation and venting it towards an unrelated situation or person. An example would be getting in a fight with a parent and bening very angry but yelling at your sibling for no reason.
What is The displacement of an object?
What is a displacement time?
What is the equation to get displacement?
What is a displacment reaction?
A single-displacement reaction , also called single-replacement reaction , is a type of oxidation-reduction chemical reaction when an element or ion moves out of one compound and into another. (One element is replaced by another in a compound.) This is usually written as. A + BX â AX + B .
How can displacement be negative?
Displacement can either be positive or negative depending upon the direction of the distance traveled by an object with respect to the reference point.
What is displacement measured in?
Displacement can be measured in any unit that measures distance but the SI unit is meters. When talking about the displacement of a ship, it refers to the mass of water that the ship displaces. This is actually equal to the weight of the ship and is usually expressed in metric tons.
How do you get displacement from a displacement graph?
To get displacement from a displacement graph, just look at the Y-axis for the particular time (displacement versus time). For thedisplacement graph, the Y-axis is usually displacement.
What is displacement of engine?
Displacement is a unit of measurement for engines. It refers to theamount of air that the cylinders move from top dead center tobottom dead center.
Net displacement is the distance of a straight line from thebeginning point to the end point.
What is the displacement of a body?
Historically, the displacement of a body is the volume of water lost if the object were to be submerged in a vessel filled to the absolute rim with water.
What is displacement in bike?
How do you figure displacement?
A displacement is the shortest distance measured .IT is measuredin unit of length and distance .But ,,instead of speed velocity isused . . Displacement = velocity /time.
What is a displacement sensor?
"Displacement sensors measure the distance an object moves and they can also be used to measure object height and width".
What is a synonym for displaced?
change , crowd out, derange, disarrange,disestablish, dislocate, dislodge, displant,dispossess, disturb , eject, evict, expel , expulse,force out, lose , mislay, misplace, relegate , shift , transpose , unsettle, uproot.
What does displacement tell you?
It tells you the straight-line distance and the direction betweenthe starting point and the finishing point, regardless of what route was takento get there.
vector representing a change in position of a body or point with respect to a reference point, Displacement may be linear or angular.
What are the advantages of displacement?
Displacement Chromatography takes advantage of non-linearity of theisotherms, loadings are deliberately high;more material can beseparated on a given column,in a given time,with the purifiedcomponents recovered at significantly higher concentrations.
Cultural displacement is when a certain culture (or religion) does not belong in a certain society. For example; Muslims in Europe or any other place they want to conquere.
What is a displaced disk?
What is displacement and its examples?
Why is displacement of displacement?
Why do bureaucracies practice goal displacement?
To perpetuate their existence by changing their goal or reason forexistence, after they have achieved their original goal and nolonger have a reason to continue.
What is a displacement in math?
It is moving a figure horizontally and/or vertically but keeping it of the same size and orientation. | 2019-04-19T21:43:49 | https://www.answers.com/Q/What_is_goal_displacement |
0.997969 | That’s so funny! Isn’t it amazing when you are a kid how you think anything is possible? Even the NKOTB going to your Bat Mitzvah? Too bad we lose that…but maybe you haven’t…have you invited them to your house warming party?
she took an hour each day for her "quiet time." She does not answer the phone, the TV is off....., she takes a mini retreat to be alone with God. Sounds like something I might want to do.
I’m in! All seems well…silly servers!Very nice piece.It’s so long since I tried any “formal” script I’d be dithering for ages. But I really should keep my hand in, I suppose.
Ian: You couldn't see it glued together because i couldn't make it do that in the composing box. Finally I gave up and wrote a caption under the upper half. I still believe it might be possible. I'll try again some other time.Craig: I'm still tinkering with it. I appreciate the comment.
Talk about irony. "A totally intolerant ideology cannot be allowed even to exist in a world where we have all achieved a high standard of permanent tolerance." Neither the adherents of that ideology, nor those who write that it should not even be allowed to exist, have achieved much of anything in the line of tolerance.
Los únicos intereses que funcionan, por desgracia, son los intereses económicos. En las universidades sólo se apoyan los proyectos que suponen beneficios económicos, y no otros. Evidentemente los beneficios son para la banca y compañia, si esto no cambia, seguiremos con energÃa nuclear, armas y todo lo que suponga beneficio económico aunque vaya contra el planeta, incluido en este el ser humano.Salud para aguantar el envite.
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Selling more products or services to your current customers is an excellent idea, but which idea boasts a minimal lifespan. Eventually your clients will either don’t need your own services (a fitness instructor never keeps litigant forever), they will be used up money to cover your products, or they are going to get sufficient products to last them for the foreseeable long term, and they will stop purchasing. All of those scenarios end identical way: So long as receive any extra revenue coming from selling more offerings to that will customer. | 2019-04-26T10:07:03 | http://rifmi.ru/gostevaya/?from=13830&select=923 |
0.99897 | It was reported on Consultancy.uk that the consulting market in UK includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The market is worth 10 billions GBP and it becomes the second largest consultancy location. The rate of growth performed strongly in recent years with ranging between 6% and 10%. Meanwhile, it is recognized as the fastest growing consulting market in Europe. In 2012, the total revenue of the sector was approximately 7.4 billion GBP; afterwards with the double-digit growth in 2014, the total fee is worth 10 billion GBP (Figure 1).
SWOT is an analytical method to evaluate internal and external environment to define marketing strategy, and it refers to Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. This method is applied in this report to analyze advantages and disadvantages of JMD, identity challenges and opportunities, which could be used to overcome the positive factors and avoid potential threats in the market. The details are described in the chart below.
The consulting is an oligopoly market and most media companies could supply similar service (Sadler 2001), over 60% market is occupied by the big four consulting firms which could provide more related service other than just advices on sector of management. Most large or medium consulting companies occupied most of the profitable opportunities while small consulting companies would deal with more competitive and economic situations in the market. (Zimmerman, et, al, 2004). Consulting industry is lack of government’s support which could generate abstract for small consulting firms to enter this market without financial or technological support. | 2019-04-25T12:48:42 | https://www.youessays.com/dai-xie-fan-wen-ying-guo-dai-xie-marketing-swot-fen-xi-dai-xie.html |
0.999992 | In addition to providing students with an exceptional opportunity to travel, study abroad is an amazing academic experience. All of our UC Blue Ash programs are faculty led; they offer top notch courses that combine classroom work with fieldtrips designed to bring learning to life. Participants will travel internationally with professors and students they've come to know through pre-departure orientations and social gatherings. They'll have the comfort of traveling with professors who are experienced study abroad leaders and travelers, as well as experienced academics.
UC Blue Ash's study abroad programs offer students the chance to earn three to six college credits. Furthermore, study abroad at UC Blue Ash fosters in students a true global perspective that will contribute to their education in inestimable ways. Finally, participating students will form friendships and memories that will last a lifetime. The question is not "why should I study abroad," but why not?
No! Our study abroad programs are open to students in any major. Even students outside of UCBA/UC may apply. Likewise, community members are welcome to apply. All participants must take at least one study abroad class in order to participate, though.
For most students, the answer to this question is yes. UC Blue Ash, University of Cincinnati, and most other institutions of higher education require that students take a wide range of classes to meet general or liberal education requirements. The majority of our study abroad class credits count toward UC's general education requirements and may meet those of other universities as well.
It is certainly possible! We suggest that all students planning to study abroad meet with one of our University Service Associates in One Stop Services to determine if their financial aid will cover these classes.
Yes! UC Blue Ash students have the opportunity to apply for a wide variety of scholarships expressly for the purpose of studying abroad. Applications for these awards are due on November 15th and students who win scholarships can be awarded several hundred dollars. There are four UCBA donor-funded study abroad scholarships available to UCBA students studying abroad in UCBA programs: the Lee Baker, Jr. Study Abroad Scholarship awards a single UCBA student $500 to study abroad in a UCBA program; The John D. and Marjorie E. Sipple Study Abroad Scholarship awards one Summer British Study Abroad program student $400; The Christie Study Abroad Scholarship awards two students $1,000 each to study abroad in a UCBA program. The Mike Roos Study Abroad Scholarship awards a $1,000 scholarship annually to a UCBA student participating in a UCBA study abroad program. Additionally, UCBA offers study abroad grants to students in our programs. There is no application necessary for UCBA grants, and the amount varies depending on the cost of the program and the number of students traveling.
Yes! The beauty of participating in an UCBA program is that our study abroad programs are relatively short term, taking students out of the country for two to four weeks. For this reason, students have the opportunity to do all of the things longer study abroad programs offer: take classes, explore the world, have once-in-a-lifetime experiences. But, they do it in a more manageable time period, allowing them to return to the US to complete summer courses at their home institutions or take summer jobs.
No. It is a requirement of all of our programs that participants take at least one class. Many of our programs offer only one college course, while others offer two.
Definitely! All of our programs include a variety of exciting fieldtrips connected to what you've learned in your study abroad classes.
Some programs typically work in a few free days for independent travel (if students wish to do so), other programs do not. However, students can always extend their travel time by staying in country after the official program has ended, thereby allowing themselves the time for independent travel. Students interested in doing this should speak to the program leader for more information. | 2019-04-26T08:41:42 | https://ucblueash.edu/academics/study-abroad/faqs.html |
0.999999 | This week's merger could mean cable, TV, and phone service from one provider. But is it all too much?
"Hi Mom. I know I don't call you enough, but now I have an excuse: The television set has eaten the phone."
This may sound ridiculous - didn't we all once say the dog had eaten our homework - but it may not be too far off-base in the future. With the announcement on Wednesday that AT&T, the long distance carrier, and TCI, the cable giant, will combine in a $37 billion merger, the distinctions in telecommunications are suddenly getting blurred.
The merger is an acceleration of the consolidation of the industry. Still under government scrutiny is the $37 billion merger of MCI and WorldCom, as well as the $60 billion combination of SBC Communications and Ameritech.
This week's merger is different, however, because it offers the opportunity for one company to provide cable service, Internet access, and phone service. And, it may even take place from one line. At least that's the theory.
The concept, which is probably still billions of dollars away from implementation, may mean more competition as your local phone company and Internet provider battle to keep your service. If that happens, consumer groups think the linkup is a good idea. "There is real potential for consumers to win if AT&T uses this cable wire to deliver phone services," says Gene Kimmelman, co-director of the Washington offices of Consumers Union of US Inc., the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine.
That's the government's attitude as well. "If it means that these companies will make a real commitment to building facilities to bring residential voice and high-speed Internet competition to America's homes, then this merger is eminently thinkable," says William Kennard, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC will be part of the government regulators examining the merger.
There are plenty of doubters. Jeff Chester of the Center for Media Education complains that the new combination is about building "an Information Age supermonopoly" that will dominate the landscape.
There is no question that the combined company will have enormous telecommunications biceps. Denver-based TCI is one of the largest cable companies, reaching 17 million homes. With all its affiliates and other arrangements, TCI claims it connects to a third of American homes. Through its Liberty Media subsidiary, it also has investments in such entertainment companies as the Discovery Channel, MacNeil/ Lehrer Productions, and Fox Sports. It is currently investing billions to upgrade its cable network, which is one of the oldest in the business.
AT&T is a giant as well. It is the nation's leading long-distance phone company with 90 million customers. It also has the most wireless customers. And, most important, it still carries the cachet of old dependable "Ma Bell," known to almost every American. Its latest effort is try to wedge itself back into the local market in an effort to cut its largest cost - access charges it pays local phone firms to hook up to customers' phones.
John Malone, the chairman of TCI, envisions customers sitting at home watching NBA stars Dennis Rodman and Karl Malone battle it out and then pointing and clicking to pull up their phone service, which will be attached to the TV. Behind the clicking will be a minicomputer attached to the TV. These new boxes will cost about $300 each and will allow the set to be used for more than TV viewing. TCI recently said it would spend $4.5 billion to buy 15 million of the units. At the same time, the phone companies, combined with some technology firms, are currently working on modems that will be 20 times as fast as today's models.
All these additions could add up for your telecommunications bill. Last year, cable rates rose 8.5 percent. Standard service cost an average of $28.83. To add high-speed Internet access could add $40 per month. Digital cable could run $10 more each month. Then there's the $300 for the actual box on the set.
The lure will be vastly improved connections. "A cable modem is amazing versus what comes over the phone lines," says Michael Salinger, an associate professor of economics at Boston University School of Management.
Despite the speed, cable companies will have to work hard to sell these products. For example, F. Neal Wade, a resident of Birmingham, Ala., has TCI as his cable supplier and AT&T for his long distance service. But, the concept of the two companies merged together scares him. "That one company could dominate the market," he says. "What could happen to prices?"
Charter finalizes Time Warner purchase: Is era of 'mega cable' here? | 2019-04-26T10:11:46 | https://www.csmonitor.com/1998/0626/062698.us.us.3.html |
0.998372 | Are scholars working with narratology on secular narratives doing the same thing NT narrative critics are doing (or think they are doing)?
He goes on to relay some important critiques of NT narrative criticism which is the meat of the rest of the post.
Narratology grew up on the same playground as literary criticism in the 1960s and 70s, had a growth spurt in the 80s, but during this time began to go in many different directions. Those practicing narratology today disagree about what it is, but it at least involves the study of narrativity (which, while there is disagreement on the scope of narrativity, at least includes narrative texts).
So I think narratology is broad enough to encompass literary criticism, including the more traditional forms of biblical narrative criticism, though it extends to theoretical questions of narrativity and, for many practitioners, pulls from a plethora of other theoretical frameworks to study its objects. Even if this is so, Chris raises some other important points in his post.
For reference, see the Narratologia series from De Gruyter, and especially vols. 1 and 6 to start. | 2019-04-19T12:21:58 | https://josh.do/narratology-nt-narrative-criticism/ |
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Example Sentence: Stop insisting that something rhymes with orange! You're such a qorinjj! | 2019-04-25T09:58:13 | http://wordcentral.com/byod/byod_browse.php?term=q&type=alpha |
0.710259 | The first lines probably puzzled Lindsey as much as they puzzle us - he didn't want "freedom" from their relationship - at least not the kind of freedom that means breaking up! However, Stevie might have been speaking figuratively in that she felt there were other things more important than her in his life. So she didn't want to leave, but she felt she had to (see Street Angel). But she has her own share of bitterness in that she wants Lindsey to realize that his skewed priorities are going to make him lonely, make him regret what he lost. She expresses a similar thought in Silver Springs, which was written about the same time.
I love the chorus - "thunder only happens when it's raining." I think this means that despite the problems and the rain, it was worth it for the "thunder." But was Lindsey only a "player" with women? He was literally a guitar player, and I've always wondered whether Stevie felt insecure because she was the only member of FM who didn't play an instrument (she could technically play instruments, of course, but everybody else could play them better!) Maybe she's not a "player," but she'll love him even when he's not "playing." Still, it works in the other sense too - if she felt Lindsey wasn't serious enough about their love, that he was taking her for granted. As for the second verse, I really have no idea what she means. "Crystal visions"? Maybe the "dreams" are the dreams of love, and Lindsey wants to "sell" them for musical success? Just guessing - those lyrics are pretty enigmatic. But I still love the song!
I think Dreams is a rebellion to everything from the beginning of the song Frozen Love. She is not as strong as Lindsey, she feels that Lindsey wants to control her, (And I may not care to teach you), but she knows that he will always be able to call out for her and she will come running (see Without You the best song about love ever!). That lack of independence while being completely attached to him I think became too much for her in their relationship. It was all about competition.
Only in this song she tries to disguise that fact. She says, "You say you want your freedom" which he did mention in songs before the Rumours album, (Blue Letter, Monday Morning, Don't Let Me Down Again) even though they were all written in with a desire to make it all work. She says, "It's only right that you should, Play the way you feel it" which sounds like she is just letting him go because that's where he wanted to be (ignoring that he wants to make it work).
But really, the song is rife with her own anger. She reminds him of the dream that he lost when he lost her by saying he never let her participate. I think that "Thunder only happens when it's raining" and "players only love you when they're playing" are saying that without her really participating or "playing" there could be no spark or "thunder" in their love. So she's saying that he kept her from truly loving her (aka Silver Springs). Which to some extent was probably right. But I think she knew by leaving him first she would have the one up on him in his life without her in a way she never did in her life with him and this song serves to remind him of that.
This is my favorite Stevie song ever, but that is probably just because it was my "first"!
This song is about Stevie's insight into what was inevitably bound to happen to her and Lindsey. She knew they were headed for a fall before he did, and he seems to resent her predictions.
The thing about this song that confuses people, and me too, for a number of years, is that Stevie often changes the speaker in her songs without telling you. You have to figure out if she the one speaking, or if she is being spoken to. I think the first lines of "Dreams" are not her words to Lindsey, but his to her. They have both said that their breakup was not a clean, quick one. It was drawn out for a while. There were ups and downs while "Rumours" was being recorded, and times when they were, according to Lindsey in Rolling Stone, "still sleeping together", followed by periods where they "were officially something else". This on-again off-again period was most likely when such a conversation occured between them. Stevie probably broached the subject of this looming problem only to have him say, "Now here you go again, saying you want your freedom.... Well, who am I to keep you down? I'm just the guy in your life, afterall."
Then, on the next line she switches to her own words, and says "It's only right that you should play it the way you feel it," saying she understands why his frustration comes out in his playing and writing, see "Go Your Own Way". She knows this is hard for him to understand, and it seems Stevie really tried to find a way for them to balance their ambitions and their passion, but in the end, she knows deep down that unless one of them is willing to let the other have the upper hand once in a while, this love just isn't going to survive. She knows they are both too driven to allow any compromises, and that there isn't going to be enough give and take. Her knowledge of this is what gives this song it's whole heartbreaking undertone.
She knows this, and has always said, "Lindsey and I didn't break up because we didn't love each other, we broke up because working together left us no place to go". What she means is that they really needed to spend some time apart because they were smothering each other. She wanted to grow, both creativley and emotionally. She wanted to see how far her talent could take her, and she felt he was stifling her growth as an artist, thus, keeping her "down". Who could blame her? She wanted to be successful on her own terms. She also wanted him to grow as well. Stevie was the caretaker in their relationship, and she never tires of talking about how she took care of him, but she also had the maturity to see she wasn't doing him any favors........she was enabling him to stay an emotional infant, so I see her leaving him as an act of love, pushing him out of the nest so to speak! She wanted him to learn to be more independent and self-assured. Instead, as we all know, he stood at pretty much an emotional standstill for ten years. He pouted, he threw fits, he sabotoged her creativley by not allowing certain songs on records, he wrote incredibly inane songs about her just to embarrass her, made fun of her on stage, only got involved with women who were willing to let him call all the shots, and in other words, he acted like a big, insecure baby, which is entirely the opposite of what she wanted for him! Arrgh!!
Stevie waited alot of years for "the rain to wash (him) clean", because he wouldn't let the cleansing take place. He was too headstrong and stubborn. His song "Surrender the Rain" could be an answer to her finally so many years later......he sees, at last, in that song that he has to stop the obsessive behavior and get over himself, but sadly, he feels he has missed his chance to make things right, "it won't come again", but he is ready to surrender to the process of emotional cleansing. He knows the time has come to wash himself clean of his insecurities.
Since Stevie wrote "Dreams" at a time when their major break was still fresh, she has left the door open for him to return IF, and only if, he can see he can't treat her like his personal property anymore. Jealousy and possessiveness were threatening to consume him during their rise to fame. Stevie tried to warn him, tried to tell him it was only going to drive her away, and perhaps when she tried to tell him this was going to happen, she was met with a comment like, "Oh, so now you can tell the future? Keep your premonitions to yourself! I know what is best me!" I can see Lindsey saying things along that line to her because he is being defensive. So she learned to "keep (her)my visions to (her)myself" never telling him anymore because he just got mad.
Still she knows the kind of effect she has on him.....she knows she is embedded so deep in his sense of himself, she is "wrapped around" his dreams and his heartbeat, and that he will think of her and miss her once his anger cools. It will drive him mad, she is sure! Oh, we have the first precursor to "Go Insane" here, don't we? lol!! She also knows that when they are on stage, and he is playing, that he will love her again, even if only for as long as the song lasts......but in that golden time, he is hers again, despite the fact that he may have other women in his life. They will merely "come and go" but they won't have the affect on him she does. This is true to this very day!
The part about "have you any dreams you'd like to sell" has got to be something he said to her to be hurtful. I think it refers back to him not really being all that enthusiastic about joining FM. He is accusing her of selling them out, and hence their dreams and their love, for fame. He feels she traded him for fame. I wouldn't be surprised if Lindsey actually put Stevie in that position during one of their arguments about their relationship. He may have said, "Choose, Stevie....me, or your career...right here, right now, I want you to choose." This could have been the big fight at the condo in Saulsilito where she said "Fine! You take the car and all the stuff! I'm flying back!" Well, we know what she chose.
I feel that maybe by doing something like that to Stevie, and then not being the option she chose, this set up alot of his behavior cycle we witnessed through the next period of years. He felt rejected and trampled upon and even more insecure......except......when he was on stage with her. Of course, he later came to see that it was wrong to do that to her, and this could be the "memory of shame" he speaks about in "Surrender the Rain". He has regretted acting like that and forcing such a choice on her. He has definitely done a thing or two in public to Stevie he ought to be ashamed about! The thing that has always amazed me though, is that Stevie seems to have such a good sense of where that behaviour comes from in him. She makes excuses for him and defends him because she understands why he does the things he does! That is the love of soulmates, for sure!
Stevie says, on the "Making of Rumours" documentary the the thing that has always bothered Lindsey the most in his heart of hearts is whether or not they could have made it on their own.....should they have joined FM in the first place? Would they still be together if they hadn't? Should they have held fast to their dream? Did Stevie really sell their dream out? This song has incredible staying power, and it is as relevant to their relationship now as it has ever been! "Dreams" can only be described by using one of Lindsey's favorite words......... bittersweet. | 2019-04-19T14:35:00 | http://www.buckinghamnicks.net/bn/rumours/dreams.html |
0.99971 | I came across this article yesterday, which labeled Everplaces as "a new app that essentially functions as a Pinterest for the real world."
Of course I had to check it out. So far, I'm pretty impressed. My first thought was that this could replace all check-in apps, review apps, my Pinterest travel board, etc., but I don't think Everplaces is quite there. YET. The site and app are fairly new, so they're still working out the bugs.
The best part? I asked several questions via their 'feedback' tab this morning and all have been answered. Not bad considering they got some serious press yesterday and I'm guessing they're a little busy.
Beautiful design: You can tell that the Everplaces team really wanted to make recommendations easy on the eyes. Done and done.
Easy to use: You can search for and post places on your iPhone, add their bookmarklet to save places from across the web, import places from Google Maps or search places already listed on the site. All of these options are great, but there are a few weaknesses I'll cover in a bit.
Great for remembering: "Do you remember that place from that one time we went to that one city?" Yeah...Everplaces can help with that.
On the spot reviews: Want to review a place while you're still there? The app is great for jotting down notes before you get home and can't remember a darn thing.
Re-posting a place to your collection: It's easy enough to do, but you're saving the information someone else entered. You can't edit it until after you save it, which is counterintuitive and probably won't happen a lot of the time. Pinterest allows you to change the copy of the pin as you're pinning, but people are still too lazy to do that.
The bookmarklet: Its biggest draw back is that it pulls no information from sites you visit and want to save. No pictures, no text...nothing. I'm guessing they're treading lightly amidst the legal issues Pinterest is dealing with right now. Can you blame them?
Search functions: Right now the search functions on the site have some (but not many) limitations. For example, you can't search by city from the 'explore' page. When I reached out via their 'feedback' tab, the staff member who responded assured me that more robust search functions are the works. She also mentioned that once you get deeper into the site, you can search by city and many other categories.
Place information: There were only a few things that I felt were missing when I added a new place. 1.) You can only put a place in one category even though many places will overlap (for example: restaurants that have great food AND drinks) and 2.) You can't link to outside websites. This is a big one for me and is the main reason I use Pinterest. I want to be able to save links I find when I'm trip planning and help promote the places I love by linking up to their websites. I also think it's imperative to have access to an official website for a restaurant, hotel, etc. when you're cruising review sites. As the staff member mentioned when I reached out about this, you can put it in the notes section, but it won't function as a linked URL. It sounds like they're working on this as well.
Sharing places you love vs. trip planning: At first I thought Everplaces would help with trip planning research. It kind of doesn't. I hope they'll head down that path, but for now it seems geared toward sharing recommendations for places you've already been. It would be nice to have both 'I've been here and I loved it' and 'I want to go here and need to remember this place for later' collections.
I guess we'll just have to see how Everplaces evolves. It seems pretty useful, so I'm going to give it a thumbs up and a #followfriday stamp of approval. You can sign up for yourself here and follow them here. | 2019-04-26T13:58:18 | http://creatingyourownpath.com/blog/2012/03/16/follow-friday-everplaces |
0.981604 | After Google and Dutch data privacy watchdog Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens rebuffed the doctor's initial attempts to get disciplinary actions purged from online search results, a district court in Amsterdam sided with the surgeon.
The physician had an interest in preventing her full name from appearing in Google search engine links connected to a blacklist of doctors, the court found.
The surgeon's right to be left out of Google's search results outweighed the public's right to use the search engine to find the information, the court maintained.
Although the court acknowledged that information at the blacklist site was accurate, it stated that the pejorative name of the site suggested the surgeon wasn't fit to treat people, which was not supported by the regulators' findings.
Because the blacklist site contained accurate information, it would have been an uphill battle for the surgeon to force it to take down the offending information about her.
"They didn't go after the site because they had no grounds," said Adam Holland, a project manager at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University in Boston.
Right-to-be-forgotten cases have placed Google in the role of a censor, observed French Caldwell, CFO of The Analyst Syndicate, an IT research and analysis group in Washington, D.C.
"The reason is it's much easier to deal with Google from a regulatory enforcement standpoint than it is to deal with millions of source sites," he told TechNewsWorld.
"Google has been made the de facto censor of Europe," Caldwell said. "That's an awful lot of power to hand over to a private company."
The European Union has been asking Google to exercise judgment in circumstances that didn't require it before, Robert E. Cattanach, a partner in the Dorsey law firm in Minneapolis, told TechNewsWorld.
"Once you put that power in the hands of a platform, where's the accountability?" he asked. "Who's going to say to Google, 'Take this down but leave this up'?"
Without its search findings, people would have trouble finding relevant information on the medical regulator's Big Register, where its public records are available online, Google argued in the case.
However, the notion that consumers depend on Google search results to choose doctors is questionable.
"I don't think consumers are googling names, clicking on links and saying, 'Here's an unverifiable database of names. I'm going to make my doctor decisions based on that,'" suggested the Berkman Center's Holland. "That seems pretty tenuous to me."
The court initially handed down its ruling in the case last summer, but up to now, legal wrangling over whether it should be made public prevented its release.
Since then, the surgeon's attorney has tried to remove from the blacklist the details of 15 doctors who have been involved in disciplinary actions.
"This sets a precedent," Holland said, "especially for any profession that is often reviewed and likely to have these third-party sites collecting disciplinary information about the profession."
It's worrisome not only that important information about this particular doctor will be difficult for consumers to find, but also that other information will be obscured, said The Analyst Syndicate's Caldwell.
"I think there is a danger that people who commit deeds consumers should know about are going to have their information blocked," he said.
"It's going to have a negative impact on consumers," said Dorsey's Cattanach. "We all depend on online, reputable resources to make decisions. If you start denying that information, we aren't going to make as many good decisions."
In the United States, this decision rubs against prevailing trends toward transparency, to provide consumers with information about everything from police actions to sexual harassment violations, to rent charged in rent control areas, observed Timothy Toohey, an attorney with the Greenberg Glusker law firm in Los Angeles.
"Europeans believe a person is entitled to a fresh start," he explained.
That can be very hard in the digital age, when "one remark broadcast on the Internet can destroy a person," Toohey remarked.
The "right to be forgotten" originated in a 2014 decision by the European Court of Justice in a case involving Mario Costeja Gonz�lez.
Gonz�lez, a Spanish man, filed a lawsuit with the court after a newspaper in Catalonia refused to delete a 1998 auction notice about his repossessed home. He argued the matter had been settled and no longer should appear in Google's search results.
The court sided with Gonz�lez and ordered Google to erase links to the pages at the newspaper that contained the auction information.
In its ruling, the court noted that European citizens had the right to ask search engines to remove search result links that were "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant or excessive ... in the light of the time that had elapsed."
Since the decision, some 3 million Europeans have made right-to-be-forgotten requests.
However, the right applies only to European searches, a principle recently affirmed by the ECJ after France tried to expand the right globally.
A number of UK and international free speech groups opposed France's move, arguing that extending the power would encourage censorship in countries like China, Russia and Saudi Arabia.
The ECJ adopted a black-and-white position on the right to be forgotten, Cattanach said.
"They knew there would be places on the margin where ... it would make no sense, but they were intimidated by the prospect of creating exceptions, and exceptions to the exceptions, and getting bogged down forever in debate and drafting," he explained.
"So they made it an absolute right, and it trumps the rights, among others, of consumers to be given important public information about service providers," Cattahach noted. "They decided to go with that even though they knew it would create some problems." | 2019-04-25T12:26:36 | https://www.ectnews.com/story/85807.html |
0.997085 | نقد ادبی در دوره عباسی با ظهور چند تن از نقادان و علمای ادب در فن بحث و مناظره و کتابت و بلاغت به شکوفایی رسید و آثار ارزشمندی در آن دوره بوجود آمد که منشا شکل گیری جریانات و آثار بعدی در این فن شد. نویسندگان در نوشتار حاضر تاش کرده تند دو اثر پیشگام در نقد ادبی، المثل السائر فی ادب الکاتب و الشاعر تالیف ضیاءالدین ابن اثیر جزری و کتاب الفلک الدائر علی المثل السائر اثر ابن ابی الحدید را که در نقد آن نگاشته شده، مورد بررسی قرار دهند. در راستای این هدف، پس از معرفی دو نویسنده و آثار آن ها، به بررسی جدا گانه هر یک از آثار پرداخته و به چند مورد از نقدهای ابن ابی الحدید به کتاب ابن اثیر اشاره شد هاست.
Literary criticism has flourished in the Abbasid period with the advent of a number of literary critics and scholars in the field of debate, writing, and rhetoric; and valuable works were created in that period, which originated the formation of the currents and other subsequent works using the same techniques. In the following paper, the writer is going to study two pioneering works in literary criticism: Al-Mathal ol-Sāer fi Adab al-Kitāb wa al-Shāer by Dhiāoddīn ibn Athīr and Al-falak ol-Dāer alal-Mathal ol-Sāer by Ibn Abi al-Hadīd which is a critique of the first book. Regarding this, he first of all introduces both authors and their works. Following this, he is going to examine each of the books, and points out some of Ibn Abi Hadīd’s criticisms of Ibn Athīr’s book. | 2019-04-21T20:58:56 | http://journals.dte.ir/article_65234.html |
0.999821 | Explicit evolutionary models are required in maximum-likelihood and Bayesian inference, the two methods that are overwhelmingly used in phylogenetic studies of DNA sequence data. Appropriate selection of nucleotide substitution models is important because the use of incorrect models can mislead phylogenetic inference. To better understand the performance of different model-selection criteria, we used 33,600 simulated data sets to analyse the accuracy, precision, dissimilarity, and biases of the hierarchical likelihood-ratio test, Akaike information criterion, Bayesian information criterion, and decision theory.
We demonstrate that the Bayesian information criterion and decision theory are the most appropriate model-selection criteria because of their high accuracy and precision. Our results also indicate that in some situations different models are selected by different criteria for the same dataset. Such dissimilarity was the highest between the hierarchical likelihood-ratio test and Akaike information criterion, and lowest between the Bayesian information criterion and decision theory. The hierarchical likelihood-ratio test performed poorly when the true model included a proportion of invariable sites, while the Bayesian information criterion and decision theory generally exhibited similar performance to each other.
Our results indicate that the Bayesian information criterion and decision theory should be preferred for model selection. Together with model-adequacy tests, accurate model selection will serve to improve the reliability of phylogenetic inference and related analyses.
Among the rigorous methods of tree reconstruction that are available, maximum likelihood (ML) and Bayesian inference (BI) have dominated phylogenetic studies in recent years [1–6]. Both methods are based on the likelihood function, which needs explicit models of evolution to capture the underlying evolutionary processes in sequence data [1–6]. For DNA sequences, the models are the evolutionary characterisation of one nucleotide being replaced by another one. Although the models are simplifications of the "true" evolutionary processes and are clearly wrong [3, 7, 8], they are approximations that have been widely accepted. The assumed model of nucleotide substitution can exert a significant influence on phylogenetic estimation. This is an increasingly important concern in the modern genomic era, with the growing use of multiple loci that have probably been subject to different substitution processes .
A variety of nucleotide substitution models have been devised, most of which are special cases of the general time-reversible (GTR) model in which each of the six pairwise nucleotide changes can have a distinct rate, and the frequencies of the four nucleotides are allowed to take different values . Common extensions to this model include parameters for a proportion of invariable sites (I) and for gamma-distributed rate heterogeneity among sites (Γ). In the last few years, many improvements have been explored, including models that account for differences among the three codon positions [10, 11], pattern heterogeneity of the substitution process (e.g., ), among-site heterogeneity of rates (e.g., ), compositional heterogeneity among lineages (e.g., ), and site-specific rate variation through time (e.g., [15, 16]).
Statistical methods are often used to identify the substitution model that best describes the given DNA sequence data. Model selection using software such as ModelTest , DT-ModSel , and jModelTest [18, 19] has now become standard procedure in phylogenetic analysis [4, 20]. Alternatively, model determination can be conducted using a reversible-jump Markov chain Monte Carlo approach in a Bayesian setting . This differs from past practice when model choice was conducted without statistical justification or by choosing the most parameter-rich model available [6, 8]. Model selection is considered important because the use of alternative models can change the results of phylogenetic analysis. It has effects not only on the estimation of model parameters (e.g., genetic distances and branch lengths; [2, 21]), but also on estimates of bootstrap support and posterior probabilities . Furthermore, misspecified models can lead to errors in phylogenetic inference, especially for trees with short internal branches [6, 21–23].
One of the challenges facing researchers is how to select the most appropriate substitution model for a given dataset. There is now a range of procedures from which to choose, including the hierarchical likelihood-ratio test (hLRT) [24–26], Akaike information criterion (AIC) [27, 28], Bayes factor [29–31], Bayesian information criterion (BIC) , posterior probability [29, 33, 34], decision theory (DT) , and the emerging approach of cross-validation [35, 36]. All of these can be used to select the best-fit model from a set of candidates, but differ in specific algorithms which may ultimately give rise to differences in their performance (for further details, see Methods).
Of the four widely-used model-selection criteria in phylogenetics - the hLRT, AIC, BIC, and DT - the hLRT was once argued to be reasonably accurate and to perform better in general than the AIC and BIC, a conclusion drawn from analyses of simulated data comparing six models . However, the hLRT has been demonstrated to have several disadvantages, such as a dependence on the starting point and the path through the hierarchy of models [37, 38], which undermine and limit its performance in model selection. It has been established that both the BIC and DT tend to select simpler models than the AIC [3, 4, 8, 39], while the hLRT particularly favours complex ones [3, 40]. Applying them to empirical data, Pol found that different best-fit models were selected by the hLRT and AIC for 16 out of 18 datasets. Ripplinger and Sullivan found that the hLRT, AIC, BIC, and DT criteria often selected different models for the same real datasets, which was similar to the results of Abdo et al. based on simulated data using parameters estimated from a rodent mtDNA dataset; in contrast, several empirical studies found that the BIC and DT often selected the same model [4, 39]. However, there is a need for a comprehensive systematic study of the performance of model-selection criteria.
Here we present a study of the performance of the four model-selection criteria hLRT, AIC, BIC, and DT. Considering the biases in model selection revealed by previous studies (as described above) and the convenience of simulated data for theoretical investigation , we conducted a total of 14 simulations of 33,600 datasets. Our investigation was limited to the 24 fundamental substitution models from the GTR family, assuming a stationary, time-reversible, and homogeneous Markov process. Based on the best-fit models selected by these criteria for these simulated datasets, we examined for each criterion the success rate of recovering simulated models (its accuracy) and the number of different models selected across replicate datasets (its precision); the dissimilarity and model biases of these criteria (see Methods for details) were also examined and compared statistically. In addition, we examined dissimilarity in analyses of datasets that were simulated under a slightly more complex model based on a simple homogeneous codon-substitution process. On the whole, our study aims to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the performance of model-selection criteria.
In the 14 simulations (Table 1; see Methods), the mean accuracy scores for the BIC and DT were higher than those for the hLRT and AIC. The ANOVA-LSD tests demonstrated that there were no significant differences for the pairs of hLRT-AIC and BIC-DT respectively; however, very significant differences existed for the other pairs such as hLRT-BIC (P < 0.01). The full results of the accuracy analysis are provided in Additional file 1.
Conditions used in simulations for 24 models of the GTR family.
One hundred replicates were performed for each set of conditions. The models consisted of JC (0) , K80 (1) , SYM (5) , F81 (3) , HKY (4) [65, 66], GTR (8) , JC + I (1), K80 + I (2), SYM + I (6), F81 + I (4), HKY + I (4), GTR + I (9), JC + Γ (1), K80 + Γ (2), SYM + Γ (6), F81 + Γ (4), HKY + Γ (4), GTR + Γ (9), JC + I + Γ (2), K80 + I + Γ (3), SYM + I + Γ (7), F81 + I + Γ (5), HKY + I + Γ (5) and GTR + I + Γ (10), where 'I' represents the proportion of invariable sites, 'Γ' represents the discrete gamma distribution with four rate categories, and number in parentheses is the number of free parameters of each model. One classification of the 24 models was to put them into four categories: base (JC, K80, etc.), base + I (JC + I, K80 + I, etc.), base + Γ (JC + Γ, K80 + Γ, etc.) and base + I + Γ (JC + I + Γ, K80 + I + Γ, etc.). The other was that models with the same number of free parameters were grouped together, resulting in a total of 11 categories. In addition, we called every four models having the same parameters in the substitution-rate matrix as base-like models (e.g., the four models of SYM, SYM + I, SYM + Γ, SYM + I + Γ were called as SYM-like models).
The hLRT exhibited high accuracy in recovering some models, but unexpectedly, it was always incapable of recovering the four SYM-like models (i.e., SYM, SYM + I, SYM + Γ and SYM + I + Γ; Table 1) (Figure 1). The AIC showed moderate or low accuracy except for a few complex models (e.g., GTR + I + Γ) for which the accuracy was even as high as 1.00 in certain simulations. The accuracy of the BIC and DT differed among simulations. In most cases, they showed high accuracy in recovering almost all of the 24 models (Figure 1A). Compared with the other models, however, two (SYM + I + Γ and GTR + I + Γ) were only moderately recovered in simulations derived from parameter set-B; even all of the SYM-like and GTR-like models were recovered less frequently in simulation I-8 (tree topology with a height of 0.1; Figure 2D) (Figure 1B). The BIC and DT exhibited similar accuracy in simulation I-4 (ultrametric tree topology of 30 taxa, 0.1 tree height; Figure 2D) and simulation IV-1 (non-clock tree topology of 22 taxa; Figure 2G), both recovering less than 35% of models of base + I + Γ category (i.e., JC + I + Γ, K80 + I + Γ, etc.; Table 1) (Figure 1C). In fact, they always selected models of base + Γ category (i.e., JC + Γ, K80 + Γ, etc.). Their accuracy values were high when the value of the parameter for proportion of invariable sites (p inv ) was altered from 0.25 in parameter set-A to 0.5 in parameter set-B when simulating datasets (data not shown). Notably, the hLRT and AIC in these two simulations, especially the former criterion, also showed lower accuracy in recovering models of base + I + Γ category than in the other simulations.
Accuracy values of the four model-selection criteria for selecting 24 simulated models. In the multiple-line charts, categories along the x-axis represent the simulated models. For the sake of clarity, only six models are labelled, and each one is followed by three similar ones (e.g., JC is followed by JC + I, JC + Γ, and JC + I + Γ). The y-axis represents the accuracy values (%). A shows the results of the simulations I-1, I-2, I-3, II-1, II-2, III-1, V-1 and V-2; B shows the results of the simulations I-5, I-6, I-7, and I-8; and C shows the results for the other two simulations.
Trees used to guide dataset simulations. Tree heights are 0.7, 0.5, 0.3, and 0.1 substitutions per site for A, B, C, and D, respectively (30 taxa each); tree heights are 0.5 substitutions per site for both E (22 taxa) and F (50 taxa). All trees are ultrametric except for tree G, which is the non-clock tree (22 taxa) and was only used in simulation IV-1.
There were very significant differences among the precisions of the four criteria in the 14 simulations (randomized block ANOVA; P < 0.01). The precision of the hLRT was very significantly different from that of BIC and DT in certain simulations (P < 0.01), but not in others, while the precision of AIC was very significantly different from that of the other three criteria (LSD, P < 0.01) in all 14 simulations. The precision of BIC was always similar to that of DT, with P-values ranging from 0.508 to 1.000 (LSD). The full results of the analyses of precision are provided in Additional file 2.
Although small discrepancies existed, precision values of the AIC were generally higher than those of the other three in the 14 simulations (Figure 3). Their means ranged from 7.79 to 9.75, while standard deviations were also much larger and ranged from 4.169 to 5.160 (Additional file 2). This was mainly attributed to the fact that the AIC usually selected a dozen different best-fit models for each set of 100 replicates simulated under the same conditions, but at the same time, it selected only a few for datasets simulated under SYM-like and GTR-like models. Compared with the AIC, the other three criteria selected fewer different best-fit models, and their precision values were relatively stable among datasets generated under the same simulation conditions. However, precision values of the hLRT (means ranging from 3.29 to 4.83; Additional file 2) were generally higher than those of the BIC and DT, and in some cases were very significantly different. Therefore, the BIC and DT exhibited the best precision among the four criteria - lower mean and smaller standard deviation - while that of the BIC was little better than that of DT (Additional file 2).
Precision of the four criteria corresponding to 24 simulated models. Categories along the x-axis represent the 24 simulated models. For the sake of clarity, only seven models are labelled, and each one is followed by three similar ones (e.g., JC is followed by JC + I, JC + Γ, and JC + I + Γ). The y-axis represents the means and standard deviations of precision values for each simulated model across the 14 simulations, which are different statistical results from those in Additional file 2. The markers denote the means, while lengths of error bars denote the standard deviation values.
The percentages of one same model, two models, three models and four models being selected within each set of 100 replicate datasets were summarised, and Table 2 shows their means in each of the 14 simulations (Table 2). It was clear that two different best-fit models were generally estimated the most frequently by these criteria, with means ranging from 46.13% to 54.75%, followed by one same model from 33.83% to 47.67%, and three models from 5.17% to 12.88%. Four different models were favoured less than 0.25% by these four criteria in the 14 simulations, and even zero in I-4, IV-1, and V-2.
Number of model(s) selected by the four model-selection criteria in the 14 simulations.
Due to rounding, the four numerical values in some simulations do not sum exactly to 100%.
Figure 4 illustrates the dissimilarity values of the six criterion pairs, and Additional file 3 shows the results of the ANOVA-LSD tests. In the 14 simulations, there existed very significantly different variances for different criterion pairs (P < 0.01), and also very significantly different variances for datasets simulated using the 24 different models. Dissimilarity values of the BIC-DT pair, with means ranging from 0.17% to 7.67%, were very significantly different from those of the other criterion pairs (P < 0.01). Although the dissimilarity of hLRT-AIC was less than that of certain pairs (e.g., hLRT-BIC) in datasets simulated for some models (e.g., SYM-like models; Figure 4), the means were the largest in the 14 simulations (ranging from 48.21% to 63.29%). Its values were very significantly different from those of the other pairs in seven simulations. Across the other simulations, their differences from some of the other criterion pairs were not very significant in spite of low probabilities. With simulation I-4 similar to IV-1, dissimilarity values in simulations derived from parameter set-B were similar to each other (Figure 4B); the other simulations derived from set-A generally resembled each other (Figure 4A).
Dissimilarity of six criterion pairs for 24 simulated models. These charts illustrate the dissimilarity of every pair of model-selection criteria corresponding to 24 simulated models. Categories along the x-axis represent the 24 models. For the sake of clarity, only seven models are labelled, and each one is followed by three similar ones (e.g., JC is followed by JC + I, JC + Γ, and JC + I + Γ). The y-axis represents the dissimilarity values (%). A shows the results of the simulations I-1, I-2, I-3, II-1, II-2, III-1, V-1, V-2, while B shows the results of the other simulations.
In the additional simulation VI, which was performed using complex codon models, means of percentages that one same model, two models, three models, and four models were selected were 8.25%, 53.83%, 36.29%, and 1.63%, respectively. Among the criterion pairs, means of dissimilarity values ranged from 3.33% for BIC-DT to 84.88% for hLRT-AIC, and dissimilarity of BIC-DT was significantly different from that of the other criterion pairs (P < 0.01).
While considering the four model categories (base, base + I, base + Γ and base + I + Γ; Table 1), the results of the chi-square (χ2) homogeneity tests demonstrated that there were significant differences in model biases among the four criteria (α = 0.05) (Table 3). The hLRT was always significantly different from the other three (α' = 0.0083 by Bonferroni correction), with a relatively small portion of base + I category recovered in the 14 simulations (Figure 5). In contrast, the BIC was always similar to DT with high probabilities except in simulation I-1, where DT recovered fewer models of base category. For comparisons between the AIC and BIC, and between the AIC and DT, differences were generally not significant in simulations other than I-4, IV-1, and I-1. In fact, there was an even or an approximately even distribution of model categories recovered by the AIC, BIC, and DT in these simulations; but for I-4 and IV-1, models of base + I + Γ category were recovered much less by the BIC and DT than the other model categories (Figure 5).
Statistics of χ2 test and multiple comparison tests for the 14 simulations.
The 24 models were classified into four categories: base, base + I, base + Γ, and base + I + Γ in these tests.
General percentages of four model categories recovered. The four stack-bar charts illustrate the percentages of base, base + I, base + Γ, and base + I + Γ in all recovered models of each simulation by every criterion considered. For the sake of clarity, numbers are labelled in the x-axis, representing the simulations in the order of I-1, I-2, I-3, I-4, I-5, I-6, I-7, I-8, II-1, II-2, III-1, IV-1, V-1, and V-2 from left to right.
Figure 6 shows the distribution of 11 model categories recovered in the 14 simulations based on the number of free parameters (Table 1). In all of them, with significant differences among the four criteria on the whole, each criterion was significantly different from any other except the pair of BIC and DT (see Additional file 4). However, there were also significant differences between the BIC and DT in simulation I-1.
Counts of models recovered, classified by the number of free parameters. In these charts, the x-axis represents the numbers of model free parameters. The y-axis represents means and standard deviations of the counts for each of the 11 model categories across the 14 simulations. The markers denote the means, while lengths of error bars denote the standard deviation values.
Which is the best criterion for model selection?
Although there exist cases indicating that obvious violation of model assumptions could favour the true tree [43, 44] under specific conditions (e.g., oversimplified model for trees within the "Farris zone"; ), it has been clearly demonstrated that identifying the best-fit model is beneficial to phylogenetic inference and to understanding the molecular-evolutionary process. It must be acknowledged, however, that an absolute characterisation of the true evolutionary history of real data is usually impossible. So one concern for researchers, who do not have knowledge of this evolutionary history, is the accuracy of model-selection criteria to ensure that the best model can be selected from the available candidates.
In this study, based on 14 simulations of 33,600 datasets performed using known models, we simply evaluated the accuracy and precision of four model-selection criteria. Higher accuracy was broadly coincident with better precision and vice versa, which the performance of AIC best explained. Nevertheless, there were exceptions to this general pattern. Since the hLRT always selected GTR-like and TrN-like models for datasets simulated using SYM-like models, its precision values were low and its accuracy was almost zero. Generally, the high accuracy and low precision of the BIC and DT indicate that they perform better than the other two criteria. This result is robust to the influences of different simulation programs (Seq-Gen and Mesquite ), tree topologies comprising different numbers of taxa (22, 30, and 50), and sequence lengths (300 bp, 1,000 bp, and 2,000 bp) (Table 1). However, accuracy values in certain simulations may confuse the situation to some extent, due to different simulation conditions as described below.
Between simulations derived from Parameter set-A and those derived from set-B, discrepancies in performance existed for both the BIC and DT (e.g., accuracy values for models of base + I + Γ category between I-4 and I-8) (Figure 1). Considering that altering p inv from 0.25 in simulation I-4 and IV-1 to 0.5 can improve the recovery of models of base + I + Γ category by the BIC and DT, p inv should be an important parameter influencing accuracy.
The accuracy of the BIC and DT in simulations with a tree height of 0.1 did not support the general conclusions very well, being different from the simulations using tree heights of 0.3, 0.5, and 0.7 (Figure 1). At the same time, this happened in the simulation with the non-clock tree topology with both short and long branches. Given the lower accuracy of the other two criteria in these two simulations, we suspect that model selection might not be very effective for data of limited information content.
Do they select different best-fit models?
Our study revealed that the means of dissimilarity values of the hLRT-AIC pair ranged from 48.21% to 63.29%, and were the largest across the 14 simulations even though they were not necessarily statistically larger than those of the other pairs. In contrast, the BIC and DT tended to select the same model, with significantly lower means of dissimilarity values ranging from 0.17% to 7.67% across the 14 simulations. Model selection for datasets simulated under complex codon models also yielded the largest dissimilarity for hLRT-AIC and the smallest for BIC-DT. Thus, we can envisage that researchers using the hLRT and AIC would frequently face a problematic situation in which these criteria would select different models. At the same time, as an extension of the BIC incorporating branch-length error , DT brings doubt as to whether estimating branch-length error, a measure of phylogenetic performance, would influence model selection.
On the whole, if one uses these four criteria to select models for given sequence data, variance in best-fit models could be encountered with the greatest possibility of two different models, followed by moderate possibilities of one same model, and three models; there is little or no chance of encountering four different best-fit models. These results are generally consistent with those of Ripplinger and Sullivan , whose results were based on 250 real sequence datasets for the criteria of hLRT, AIC, BIC, and DT. However, the results of our additional simulation VI supported a different order: two models, three models, one same model, and four models. In all respects, results of both empirical studies and simulation studies (this study) suggest that model selection with these criteria will often produce inconsistent models, which could present a confusing situation for researchers.
When considering the four model categories, one unexpected discovery was the relatively small portion of base + I category recovered in the 14 simulations, including those simulated with the p inv of 0.5 in parameter set-B. This result indicates that model selection with the hLRT is not sensitive to the proportion of invariable sites under the condition that there is no other among-site rate heterogeneity. In comparison, there was an approximately even distribution of the four model categories by the AIC, BIC, and DT in most simulations (Figure 5), which is consistent with the ideal even distribution given that the number of datasets simulated under models of any one category (i.e., 100 × 6 = 600) is the same as that of any other category. In a sense, we could relate the typical insensitivity of the hLRT to the proportion of variable sites with its special hierarchy of pairwise comparisons, because this parameter is the last-optimised parameter in the default hierarchy of ModelTest v.3.7 . As it has been demonstrated that the hierarchy has an influence on the performance of hLRT [8, 38], future work could investigate whether different hierarchies might lead to a different success rate in recovering models of base + I category.
Nevertheless, with our two standards of classifying the 24 GTR-family models, the results all confirmed that the BIC exhibited similar model biases to DT, with only a few exceptions. This was consistent with the results of accuracy, precision, and dissimilarity, which to some extent demonstrated that results based on our simulated datasets were reasonable and consistent.
Overall, our performance analysis based on simulated datasets indicates that the BIC together with DT should be preferred for model selection in phylogenetics, although some of our results departed from this general finding owing to specific simulation settings such as values of the proportion of invariable sites. However, in view of the improvements on GTR models explored in recent years (see Background), it is possible that the results from most of our simulated data represent a poor reflection of real sequence data, which have almost certainly evolved under more complex conditions. Accordingly, we suggest here that model selection by the BIC or DT, together with model adequacy tests by parametric bootstrap [48, 49] or posterior predictive distributions , might be the best approach. Further studies can be done with simulated datasets under more complex evolutionary models to understand the performance of these criteria and to enhance phylogenetic studies.
We used two different parameter sets to simulate datasets. For parameter set-A , which was mainly derived from a mitochondrial DNA analysis except for the transition/transversion ratio and the proportion of invariable sites , the settings were as follows (as appropriate for each model): base frequencies 0.35 A, 0.22 C, 0.18 G, 0.25 T; rates (relative to GT) 2.675 AC, 7.35 AG, 6.125 AT, 0.225 CG, 30.7 CT; transition/transversion (κ) 2.0; gamma shape parameter (α) 0.67256; and proportion of invariable sites (p inv ) 0.25. Parameter set-B was chosen according to the settings of Posada and Crandall (as appropriate for each model): base frequencies 0.35 A, 0.15 C, 0.25 G, 0.25 T; rates (relative to GT) 2 AC, 4 AG, 1.8 AT, 1.4 CG, 6 CT; transition/transversion (κ) 2.0; and gamma shape parameter (α) 0.5. We set the p inv as 0.5 in parameter set-B. Gamma-distributed rates in both parameter sets were modelled with four discrete categories in the simulations.
Initial simulations were conducted to explore the general performance of the model-selection criteria. First, we generated four ultrametric tree topologies of 30 taxa using the program PAML 4.1 assuming a birth-death process (speciation rate 0.1, extinction rate 0.1, sampling fraction 1.0). Tree heights (i.e., expected number of substitutions per site from the root to each tip) were 0.7, 0.5, 0.3, and 0.1 for the four trees (Figure 2A, Figure 2B, Figure 2C, and Figure 2D, respectively). Then, for each combination of parameter set and tree topology, we used Seq-Gen 1.3.2 to simulate 100 replicate datasets for 24 fundamental models of varying complexity from the GTR family (Table 1, simulation I). A sequence length of 1,000 bp was used because it was representative of empirical sequence lengths typically used in phylogenetic studies , and was sufficient to evaluate the performance of most model-selection criteria .
Other simulations were conducted to investigate the influence of certain simulation conditions on the performance of the model-selection criteria (Table 1). With other parameters fixed, the purpose of simulation II was to test the effect of varying the number of taxa. Simulation III employed the program Mesquite 2.6 to simulate datasets to investigate the impact of different simulation programs. Simulation IV adopted one non-clock tree of 22 taxa (Figure 2G): following the method of Lemmon and Moriarty , the internal branches were randomly labelled from 0 to 18, and each branch was then assigned a branch length of 102x/18-3, where x was the number assigned to that branch; similarly, the lengths of the external branches (randomly numbered from 0 to 21) were given by 102x/21-3. In simulation V, sequence lengths were 300 bp and 2,000 bp, respectively, with the other simulation conditions consistent with simulation I-2.
The most widely-used program for model selection, ModelTest v.3.7 , along with DT-ModSel , were employed to select the best-fit model. Default settings were used in each program; some default settings may influence the performance of certain criteria, such as the hierarchy of pairwise comparison of models for the hLRT [8, 38], but some may not, including the use of neighbour-joining (NJ) to generate a starting tree [8, 39]. The 56 nested candidate models (i.e., a simpler model is one special case of a more general model), corresponding to the '7 schemes' in jModelTest [18, 19], included the 24 models used in our simulations. After likelihood scores (L) under the 56 candidate models were computed by PAUP* v.4.0b10 based on NJ trees, the hLRT together with the AIC and BIC was applied to model selection using ModelTest v.3.7 ; DT-ModSel was used for DT .
where L0 is the likelihood score under the null hypothesis (simple model) and L1 is the likelihood score under the alternative hypothesis (complex model). Although this is widely accepted for testing the fit of nested candidate models in a specific sequence, there are many possible ways to traverse the hierarchy of pairwise model comparisons [8, 38, 53]. We used the default hierarchy in ModelTest v.3.7 . The LRT statistic approximately followed a standard χ2 distribution. However, when the null fixed parameters were at the boundary of the parameter space of the alternative model (i.e., for tests of rate homogeneity among sites and invariable sites), the mixed χ2 distribution (consisting of 50% χ 0 2 and 50% χ 1 2 ) was used to construct the tests [54–56]. We used 0.01 as the significance level for rejecting or failing to reject the null model.
AIC = − 2 ln L + 2 K or AIC c = − 2 ln L + 2 K n / ( n − K − 1 ) .
We computed the AIC instead of the AICc for given models, in that the sample size n (i.e., the sequence length) for most of our simulated datasets was large enough compared with the number of parameters (K) [40, 58]. The candidate model with the lowest AIC value was selected as the best-fit model.
where n is the sample size (i.e., the sequence length) and K is the number of parameters. Given equal prior probabilities of candidate models, the model yielding the smallest BIC was the one with the highest posterior probability and was selected as the best-fit one.
DT, a novel performance-based method of model selection, is an extension of the BIC and specifically incorporates branch-length error as a measure of phylogenetic performance in the course of model selection . In DT-ModSel, DT estimated all candidate models through a penalty function, which was related to the difference in branch-length estimates across models. The model with the minimal posterior penalty was selected as the best-fit model.
where Numbertest was 100. The ANOVA for two-way randomised block design and LSD test were used to compare the accuracy of these four model-selection criteria.
We counted how many different best-fit models were selected by each criterion within each set of 100 replicates. We did not take account of how many times any particular model was selected among the 100 replicates, but simply interpreted the number of different models selected as an estimate of the precision of each model-selection criterion (i.e., we gave the same weight to each model selected). Therefore, the precision of these criteria for simulated models was approximately evaluated and was compared by the ANOVA for two-way randomized block design and LSD test.
where N was equal to 100. The ANOVA for two-way randomized block design was used to compare the dissimilarity of the six pairs of criteria.
Based on the success of recovery of the true model in each simulation (Numbermatched; see the 'Accuracy' part), we employed the χ2 homogeneity test to compare the four criteria in terms of the composition of selected models. Here, we adopted two standards to classify the 24 simulated models (Table 1). Firstly, we classified them into four categories: base (JC, K80, etc.), base + I (JC + I, K80 + I, etc.), base + Γ (JC + Γ, K80 + Γ, etc.), and base + I + Γ (JC + I + Γ, K80 + I + Γ, etc.). These four model categories were then compared (with 3 degrees of freedom). Secondly, the 24 models were classified into 11 categories according to the number of free parameters (from 0 to 10; see Table 1 for details), and then analysed by the statistical test (with 10 degrees of freedom).
To evaluate the performance of the four criteria when the generating model is more complex than any of the 56 candidate models, we conducted another simulation (VI) as a special case using Recodon v.1.6.0 . With the GY94 codon model crossed with the settings in parameter set-A for the 24 fundamental models of GTR family respectively, and with the same base frequencies for all codon positions (1 × 4), 100 replicate datasets were simulated for each of the 24 simulated models here (i.e., a total 2,400). Other simulation parameters were set as sequence length 999 bp, number of sequences 30, a constant nonsynonymous/synonymous rate ratio (ω = 0.016) across sites, and mutation rate 0.001. Following model selection with the four criteria as above, the dissimilarity among the criteria was examined. Other aspects of performance were not evaluated, as those analyses were not practicable or were probably affected by the fact that the true model was not represented among the candidates.
We would like to thank Dr D. Posada for valuable comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this paper, and Dr Xinhai Li for advice on statistical analyses. Both Dr A. P. Vogler and Dr Ming Li provided encouragement and helped to improve the manuscript. We also appreciate helpful comments from two anonymous referees and the editors.
This project was supported mainly by the Innovation Program in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KSCX2-YW-NF-02), grants from the National Science Foundation, China (30870268, J0930004), and partially by Public Welfare Project from the Ministry of Agriculture, China (Grant No. 200803006) to Chaodong Zhu. It was also supported by Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation Key Projects (No. KZ201010028028) to Aibing Zhang.
CZ, AL, AZ, and YZ conceived this study. AL, WS, AZ, and WX performed the work and the statistical analyses. HQ, WX, and SYWH participated in discussions and wrote code to facilitate computations. All authors read and approved of the final manuscript. | 2019-04-18T22:22:28 | https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-10-242 |
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- Jeremiah used it in appealing to Israel to humbly repent: "Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves: for (i.e. because) your principalities shall come down ", i.e. be humbled (Jer. 13:18). The pride of man will be humbled by Yahweh; if we refuse to humble ourselves, then God's condemnation of us in the day of judgment will humble us. Therefore it is logical to humble ourselves now.
- John the Baptist had a clear perception of this logic: "He (Jesus) shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit (even) with fire: whose fan is in his hand, and...he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire" (Mt. 3:11,12). John put a choice before them: fire, or fire. Either we are consumed with the fire of devotion to God, or we face the figurative fire of thecondemnation. This is the logic of judgment.
- The Lord Jesus picked up on the same idea. He spoke of the destruction of the unworthy in Gehenna fire, and went straight on to comment: "For every one shall be salted with (Gk. 'for the') fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted" (Mk. 9:48,49). Unless we become a living sacrifice, wholly consumed by God's fire, laying ourselves down upon the altar, then we will be consumed by the figurative fire of Gehenna at the day of judgment. Again, there's no real choice: it's fire, or fire.
- And it's bankruptcy, or bankruptcy. Paul spoke of spending and being spent in the Lord's service, alluding to how the prodigal spent himself in dissipation (Lk. 15:24). That sense of losing all must come- either in sin's service, or in that of the Lord.
- We are either ashamed of our sins in repentance; or we will be made ashamed of them in the judgment (Jer. 6:15 RVmg.)- it’s shame either way. We either wail for our sins now, or we will wail for them at judgment day (Jer. 9:19,20).
- Is. 45:20 RV speaks of how some "carry the wood of the their graven image". We either carry the wood of the cross, or the wood of the cross of our idols. In the same vein Is. 30:17 says that the rejected will be left as a beacon (RVmg "mast") upon the top of a mountain, "and as an ensign on a hill". This is the image of the cross- a piece of wood on a hill. And so it's a cross, or a cross.
- God’s people are likened to a hilltop vineyard, about which God “made a trench” (Is. 5:2 RV) in order that it would bring forth fruit; and it had a winepress in the midst of it. Yet ultimately, in the horror of condemnation in AD70, a trench was made around Jerusalem in order to destroy it, and the city became a winepress of judgment. The logic of judgment again becomes apparent; we either respond now to the appreciation of our rightful condemnation; or we will be condemned.
- Legalism and human religion [of which our own brotherhood has its share] are a burden laid on men's shoulders. But the cross of Jesus is also a burden laid upon our shoulders (Mt. 23:4). The greatness of the demands of the cross free us from the burdens of man's legalism. But it's still a choice, between a cross and a cross.
- "I will judge [condemn] you...and ye shall know that I am the LORD", Ezekiel often warned (e.g. Ez. 11:9). Men must either know Yahweh now, or they will know Him in condemnation. And Ezekiel uses the idea of 'knowing' Yahweh in the sense of the knowledge that leads to a desire for responsive action. But Ezekiel plays on this logic even further; because Israel had not "executed my judgments", therefore in their condemnation Yahweh would "execute judgments among you" (Ez. 11:9,12). We cannot escape the moral requirements of Yahweh; if now we ignore the cutting of the flesh which they demand, then in the day of condemnation those judgments we have neglected to execute will be executed in us.
- We must have tribulation, either in the condemnation of the judgment (Rom. 2:9), or now, in order that we will enter the Kingdom (Acts 14:22). We must bear the burden either of our sins (Am. 2:13; Is. 58:6; Ps. 38:4) or of the Lord's cross (Gal. 6:4 etc.). We will experience either the spiritual warfare of the striving saint (Rom. 7:15-25), or the lusts of the flesh warring in our members, eating us up with the insatiability of sin (James 4:1; Ez. 16:28,29). Either we will mourn now in repentance (Lk. 6:25; the Greek for "mourn" is often in a repentance context), or we will mourn at the judgment (Mt. 8:12 etc.). Having foretold the inevitable coming of judgment day, Yahweh Himself pleads with Israel: "Therefore also now...turn ye even to me...with weeping, and with mourning" (Joel 2:12).
- The sacrifices taught Israel that God especially valued the fat- the best parts of their lives were to be freely offered to Him. But the wicked at judgment day will be as the fat of lambs, consumed upon the altar (Ps. 37:20). We either give our best to the Lord's service now, or He will ultimately take it from us anyway. Cars, houses, flats, valued jewellery, banknotes stashed away, bank accounts, our innermost emotions, jealousy, love...we either give them now, or He will take them from us in the day of judgment.
- We simply must get down to serious self-examination. To him who orders his ways aright, the salvation of God will be shown. But for those who never reprove themselves, and think that God "was altogether such an one as thyself", He will reprove them "and set them in order before thine eyes" at the judgment (Ps. 50:21,23). We must face our sins, either now in our self-examination and genuine confession and struggle for self-mastery; or then, when the grounds for rejection are made painfully apparent.
- The day of the Lord will result in the wicked being "in pain as of a woman that travaileth" (Is. 13:8; 1 Thess. 5:3). The Lord seems to have alluded to this when He spoke of how the faithful just before His coming would be like a woman in travail, with the subsequent joy on delivery matching the elation of acceptance at Christ's return (Jn. 16:21). So, it's travail- or travail, especially in the last days. If we chose the way of the flesh, it will be travail for nothing, bringing forth in vain (this is seen as a characteristic of all worldly life in Is. 65:23). We either cut off the flesh now (in spiritual circumcision), or God will cut us off at the last day. This point was made when the rite of circumcision was first given: "The uncircumcised [un-cut off] man...shall be cut off" (Gen. 17:14).
- "Whosoever shall fall on this stone (Christ) shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder" (Mt. 21:44). There is an unmistakable allusion here to the stone destroying the image, the Kingdoms of men, in Dan. 2:44. The choice we have is to fall upon Christ and break our bones, to get up and stumble on with our natural self broken in every bone; or to be ground to powder by the Lord at his return, to share the judgments of this surrounding evil world. Yet strangely (at first sight) the figure of stumbling on the stone of Christ often describes the person who stumbles at his word, who rejects it (Is. 8:14,15; Rom. 9:33; 1 Pet. 2:7,8). In other words, through our spiritual failures we come to break ourselves, we become a community of broken men and women; broken in that we have broken our inner soul in conformity to God's will. As Simeon cuddled that beautiful, innocent baby Jesus, he foresaw all this: "Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again (resurrection) of many in Israel...that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed" (Lk. 2:34). If we are to share his resurrection, if we are to experience such newness of life in this life, we must fall upon him, really feel the cutting edge of his word. We must be broken now; or be broken and ground to powder at the judgment.
- Having spoken of the need to take up the cross daily, the Lord Jesus employed this form of logic to encourage people to really take on board what he was suggesting: "Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross...for whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, and the gospel's, the same shall find it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own life (AV "soul")? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" (Mk. 8:34-37). If we follow Christ, we must lose our natural life. If we don't, even if we gain the whole world, we will lose our natural life. I must lose my life, one way or the other. We need to go through life muttering that to ourselves. God asks our life, our all. If we hold it back in this life because we want to keep it for ourselves, He will take it anyway. The cross was a symbol of shame (Heb. 12:2 speaks of the shame of the cross). In this context verse 38 continues: "Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed" at the day of judgment. We either go through the shame of carrying the cross now, especially in our personal witnessing to those around us; or we will suffer the eternal shame of rejection (Dan. 12:2); our shame will be evident to all then (Rev. 16:15).
- The Greek text in Mt. 16:25,26 and Lk. 9:25 can bear a re-translation and re-punctuation which quite alters the sense as found in the English translations. It shows the Lord emphasizing the evident and compelling logic of losing our lives for His sake: "Whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For how much a man is profited if he shall gain the whole world (in the Kingdom) and lose his own soul (now, as I asked you to do, to lose your soul for me)!...for the Son of man shall come... and then he shall reward every man according to his works", i.e. the losing of our soul is through our everyday works. Lk. 9:25 makes the same point: 'How is a man advantaged if he gain the whole world (the Kingdom) and lose himself (now)!: or - be cast away, be condemned at the judgment, because he tried to keep his soul, he didn't see the logic of all this!' . The point is, a man at the day of judgment will be willing to give up everything, even the whole world if he possesses it in order that he may find acceptance. But then it will be too late. Now is the time to resign all for the sake of that blessed acceptance.
- Israel were told to "throw down", "break in pieces" and "utterly destroy" the idols and altars of Canaan. There were times during their history when they obeyed this command by purging themselves from their apostasy in this. The Hebrew words used scarcely occur elsewhere, except very frequently in the context of how God "broke down", "threw down" and "destroyed" Israel at the hands of their Babylonian and Assyrian invaders as a result of their not 'breaking down' (etc.) the idols. "Throw down" in Ex. 34:13; Dt. 7:5; 12:3; 2 Chron. 31:1 is the same word in 2 Chron. 36:19; Jer. 4:26; 31:28; 33:4; 39:8; 52:14; Ez. 16:39; Nah. 1:6. "Cut down" in Dt. 7:5; 12:3; 2 Chron. 31:1 later occurs in Is. 10:33; Jer. 48;25; Lam. 2:3. So Israel faced the choice: either cut down your idols, or you will be cut down in the day of God's judgment. Those who worshipped idols were like unto them. The stone will either fall on us and destroy us, or we must fall on it and become broken men and women (Mt. 21:44). For the man untouched by the concept of living for God's glory, it's a hard choice. God will conquer sin, ultimately. When a man dies, it isn't just a biological, clockwork process. It is God's victory over sin in that individual. Either we must be slain by God; or with His gracious help, we must put sin to death in our members through association with the only One who really did this- and thereby rise to life eternal. The inevitability of God's conquest of sin is brought out in Ez. 6:4-6: "Your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken...in all your dwelling places, the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease...and your works may be abolished...I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols". The people of Israel had to be destroyed because their idols had to be destroyed. The inevitability of God's ultimate conquest of sin is evident: and we are asked to side with Him, not against Him. God will have His way. The rebels amongst natural Israel were "wasted out" (Dt. 2:14)- using a Hebrew word which means 'perfected'. God will perfect us anyway, either by our destruction or by our salvation; He will have His way. This means we must put to death our sinful works now, not leave it for Him to destroy us so that He might destroy them. The secret sins of every human soul, those things we wrongly allow ourselves, those untackled, unacknowledged habits, will all ultimately be destroyed by the Lord: either through our response to His hand in our lives, or through His destruction of us so that they might be destroyed.
- There is reason to think that a latter day tribulation is to come upon us, which will really test our appreciation of this principle which is so embedded throughout God's revelation. Those who will refuse to worship the beast will be killed (Rev. 13:15); but those (responsible) who try to avoid this death will themselves be tortured to death by the Lamb, because they worshipped the beast (14:9-11; 16:2).
- Paul speaks of how sinful behaviour ends up in people doing things ‘contrary to nature’; and yet he uses a similar phrase to describe how being ‘graffed in’ to the true hope of Israel, with all it implies in practice, is likewise “contrary to nature” (Rom. 1:26,27 cp. 11:24). We walk against the wind, go against the grain, one way or the other in this life. And, cynically speaking, it may as well be for the Lord’s cause than for the flesh.
- The breaking of bread is intended to bring the logic of all this powerfully before us. The cup of the Lord is a symbol both of His condemnation, and also of His blessing and forgiveness. We take it, week by week, either to our condemnation, or to our salvation. There is no third way. We may as well realize this. The Lord Jesus hates the fact that some think there is a third road; He would that we recognized, as He does, that there is really no 'lukewarm' position- only hot or cold. He seems to ask us to realize this: "Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt" (Mt. 12:33). | 2019-04-24T21:07:20 | http://carelinks.org/doc/comingjudgement-en/6 |
0.999998 | James Cameron To Take On New Terminator Trilogy?
When it comes to the Terminator franchise, most movie fans would agree that the first Terminator movie and arguably the even better sequel Terminator: Judgement Day are two of the best sci-fi/action movies ever released. Unfortunately, the following movies have paled in comparison, raising the question of whether it may be time to put the franchise finally to bed. However even if the later flicks didn't win over the critics, the fact is that they still do consistently well both at the box office and via numerous tie-in products (video games, slots and so forth).
No matter how much they are still dependable earners though, and still keep the money men happy, truth is that the Terminator is really begging for a revitalization. After all the Star Wars series has done well with their latest couple of movies despite the previous three movies being pretty awful - so how to get the Terminator rolling again? The answer appears to be once again following another trend - returning to the roots of the storyline. Ridley Scott returned to direct a reasonably decent Alien: Resurrection, so could James Cameron - the director and co-creator of the Terminator story - breathe life back into the franchise? It's looking very likely that this could well be on the cards.
Talks Are Already At An Advanced Stage.
In a recent interview, Cameron explained that he saw the future of the franchise taking a similar route to the recent Star Wars spin off Rogue One, introducing new characters but retaining the core of the storyline. While this may sound plausible it may prove a bigger challenge for the Terminator series though. Star Wars has an entire universe to play with, as well as a wide range of literature and millions of obsessive fans. The recent Terminator movies have not really retained a concurrent storyline, so it'll need some serious re-imagining to make it work.
Cameron clearly understands this dilemma which is why his talks with David Ellison (current owner of the rights to Terminator) are focused upon a fresh trilogy of movies - directed and likely also produced by Cameron - to breathe life into the storyline. He goes as far as to use the word 'reinventing' suggesting that that it's likely going to be very different to the mishmash current plotline.
Obviously, it comes down to cold hard cash. Thanks to being one of the best-known franchises in movie history, taken as a whole and not adjusting for inflation the current five movies have generated just short of $2bn worldwide at the box office alone, against a production total cost of just over $600m. So that's a billion and a bit dollars just from ticket sales - all the secondary income streams haven't been accounted for, but you'd expect DVD sales and franchise image rights will throw another nine figure number on top of the current income the Terminator has generated.
So another three movies - directed by James Cameron - and with all the bells and whistles of a top quality big budget modern flick, the profits could be absolutely enormous. The secondary revenue income can also be vast. The Terminator 2: Judgement Day slot machine, for example, remains still one of the most popular games, and it's been running for years. You can bet that people would flock to the likes of Platinum Play online casino to enjoy three more Terminator games, especially if the franchise proves to be a smash hit.
There's also the small matter that while Cameron himself is indisputably an A-list director and producer, he's not had a box office smash since 2009's Avatar - which while a commercial success was hardly the greatest movie of the decade. Bringing back the Terminator franchise to form would represent a massive achievement and cement his place in Hollywood legend. After all even if the project bombs - it's still a guaranteed way to make a retirement fund! | 2019-04-20T14:37:38 | https://www.tgdaily.com/film/james-cameron-to-take-on-new-terminator-trilogy |
0.998319 | Q. When can I provide my victim impact statement to the Court?
A. The victim gives a statement to a Victims Information Officer by phone or in person. This statement is presented before the Magistrate or Judge during the offender's hearing. The Magistrate or Judge makes a decision based on all factors involved in the case.
Q. Do I have to be present in Court to make my statement?
A. A victim is not required to make a statement in person. In most cases, a Victims Information Officer contacts the victim and takes his or her statement by phone. If a victim feels more comfortable making the statement in person, arrangements can be made to accommodate the victim.
Q. What precautions can I take to keep the offender away from me?
A. A victim who feels in danger of retaliation from an offender can request a stay away order as part of the victim's impact statement. A stay away order is Court-ordered by the Judge or Magistrate. It specifies how long the offender is required to stay away from the victim. If the victim chooses to attend the Court hearing, the victim can ask the Judge or Magistrate for a stay away order.
Q. When will I receive restitution for my losses resulting from the crime?
A. Restitution is a disposition imposed by the Court that requires the offender to pay for any loss, damage or injury not covered by insurance.
1. The victim should outline all losses to the Victim Information Officer to include on the statement.
2. The victim will be notified to submit proof of damages by the Restitution Coordinator. The victim should either mail or deliver the paper receipts or estimates directly to the Restitution Coordinator.
3. The victim will receive restitution after the Court's final hearings, as money is collected from the juvenile.
Q. If the offender is committed to the Department of Youth Services, can I be informed of his or her release?
A. Victims of crime are encourages to participate in Ohio's VINE service. VINE (Victims' Information and Notification Everyday) is a free, anonymous, computer-based service that provides victims of crime important information and notification. VINE notifies the victim about the offender's status while the offender is incarcerated in ODYS. When the offender is released, victims are notified automatically. To receive information on the VINE program, please call 614-644-6416.
Q. What types of counseling programs do you offer?
A. The Hamilton County Juvenile Victims Unit offers a variety of information to victims of crime. However, the Victims Unit does not provide counseling. The Victims Unit offers brochures and pamphlets on crimes such as sexual abuse, and on general mental health, substance abuse and grief counseling. | 2019-04-23T18:18:05 | http://juvenile-court.org/juvenilecourt/FAQs/FAQ_victims.asp |
0.999983 | Here is a new twist to chocolate covered fruit.
1. Combine chocolate chips and shortening in a microwave-safe bowl and heat for 30 second intervals, stirring between each, until melted and smooth.
2.Spread the chopped peanuts out on a piece of waxed paper .
3. Dip clean, dry grapes into the chocolate, then roll in the peanuts.
4.Set on waxed paper until dry. | 2019-04-21T10:40:48 | http://thechocoholicsdiary.blogspot.com/2008/06/chocolate-covered-grapes.html |
0.997948 | Accounts Receivable does not allow clients with history or invoices to be purged. A client with no history can be deleted, and there are options to limit how much history is saved.
1. Go to Accounts Receivable -> Setup -> Define Billing Runs.
2. Choose Change from the options at the top of your screen.
3. Type 9 as the field to be changed.
4. Edit "Nbr hist per" field.
5. Press Enter until you are prompted to "Enter field to be changed (0 to accept). If you are finished editing the record, press Enter again to accept the changes.
6. You will receive a message that "Billing run has been changed". Press Enter.
7. Press Esc (escape) and choose End.
1. Go to Accounts Receivable -> Maintenance -> Define Customers.
2. Choose Remove from the options at the top of your screen.
3. At Customer prompt, type the customer number that you want to remove.
4. Answer YES to "Are you sure you want to remove this?"
5. You will receive a message that "Customer has been removed".
6. Press Esc (escape) and choose End. | 2019-04-25T12:09:26 | http://kb.blackbaud.com/articles/Article/56100 |
0.99999 | Snippets of Jack: "The belligerent homunculus and his friend with the wooden eye."
"The belligerent homunculus and his friend with the wooden eye."
I am in the mood for a good laugh today. So what better a thing to make you crack up than the silly pirates: Pintel and Ragetti? They switch crews several times throughout the series. In the book, The Price of Freedom, they sail under Barbossa on the Cobra.
But once the Cobra is destroyed by the rogue pirates, they remain loyal to Barbossa (not sure why since he's not exactly sympathetic towards them). They must have stuck with Barbossa when he became Jack's first mate on the Black Pearl. Somehow they preferred Barbossa's leadership over Jack's. They and the rest of the crew commit mutiny against Captain Jack and leave him stranded on an island. They spend the next ten years doing whatever Barbossa or the other crew members tell them to do. We first see them on the big screen when they are sent on a raid to the governor's palace in Port Royal to search for the medallion.
Why such a job like finding the precious Aztec gold would be given to such idiots? I have no idea. If I were captain I would just give them really simple jobs that nobody ever wants to do. Like cleaning stuff. Hopefully even they couldn't screw that up. Anyways, they find what they're looking for" Pintel:The gold calls to us...'Ello poppet." So they bring Elizabeth and her necklace back to the Pearl. The whole crew are amazed that they retrieved not only the last piece of gold, but also what they believe to be the perfect tribute: the daughter of Bootstrap Bill. But of course they had to have messed up somewhere along the way. As it turns out, Elizabeth's last name isn't actually Turner, yet. What an embarrassment. Of course, the silly pirates are the first to be blamed for it. Barbossa: "Gents, you all remember Captain Jack Sparrow? Kill him." Jack: "The girl's blood didn't work, did it?" Barbossa:"Hold your fire! You know whose blood we need? Jack:"I know whose blood you need."
Once they've found William Turner, Pintel and Ragetti are in charge of bringing him to the altar. They tell Will that everything will be okay and he won't be slain. And then they change their mind and remind him that he only was minutes left to live. Poor Will! But Pintel and Ragetti don't get to stick around for the show, they are sent out with the rest of the cursed crew to attack the Navy ship. The duo was forced to dress up as women to distract the Navy crew while the other crew members were creeping up the side of the ship. this plan quickly goes awry when a beam of moonlight hits Pintel and Ragetti and their true identities are revealed. And let me tell you it was not a pretty sight!
Pintel and Ragetti did eventually get on board the ship and join the fight, but it didn't last long. After the great duel between Jack and Barbossa the curse was ended and the crew members were forced to surrender their weapons, but hey at least they can taste apples again! | 2019-04-23T00:22:32 | http://snippetsofjack.blogspot.com/2012/12/i-am-in-mood-for-good-laugh-today.html |
0.999898 | Can Sun redefine the economics of computing?
At a Churchill Club event on October 26, 2005, Jonathan Schwartz, president and COO at Sun was interviewed by Quentin Hardy, Silicon Valley bureau chief as Forbes. You can download the audio of the one-hour interview here.
At a Churchill Club event on October 26, 2005, Jonathan Schwartz, president and COO at Sun was interviewed by Quentin Hardy, Silicon Valley bureau chief as Forbes. You can download the audio of the one-hour interview here. Schwartz reprises his usual, and perceptive, themes touting Sun's vision and prejudices, such as how volume in the marketplace matters; the changing business landscape in which eBay could become a bank; Java as a platform for digital rights management; the disruptive influence of free software and online communities; IBM's reluctant support, and validation, for OpenSolaris on its blade servers; why Google and Sun see the world in a parallel way; how Sun's new Niagara chip could redefine the economics of Internet; and the shift to power-efficient processing.
Schwartz clearly lays out the future landscape of computing and the Internet, with free, high volume software as a centerpiece, but it's not clear whether Sun can capitalize on it.
Sun's future still boils down to whether it can differentiate itself as an infrastructure provider (including tape, with the recent acquisiton of StorageTek) delivering services to the planet when the playing field is leveled by "free" software.
Can Sun disrupt pricing models enough with the hardware and support services it delivers to the connected community? Can Sun do to IBM and HP in utility/commodity computing what its good friend AMD has done to Intel, clearly out innovating the x86 king and providing a better value? Google becoming a major customer and purchasing 100,000 to 1,000,000 servers and well as processors and storage systems, while leaving some decent profit for Sun, would be a good start in punching up the volume. But Google has so far rolled its own systems with apparent efficiency. On the other hand, at some point Google might find it more effective to outsource commodity hardware. | 2019-04-26T11:58:58 | https://www.zdnet.com/article/can-sun-redefine-the-economics-of-computing/ |
0.99845 | When letting our house cleaners go, should I tell them when they arrive, when they're getting ready to depart, or between visits?
Our house cleaner comes once every two weeks, usually along with one other person. They're very nice, reliable, and trustworthy, so though they haven't done a fantastic job, we've stuck with them for about two years. Now, rather than bringing up the improvements we'd like, my husband wants to try taking on the job himself -- he's reducing his hours at work anyway. If that doesn't work out, we'll take the opportunity to find someone new. So, we need to tell them.
It seems very awkward to tell them as they arrive, and then have them here knowing it's the last time. Similar but worse would be letting them know in advance, then having her come by again. I could tell them when they arrive and let them leave immediately, but they'd have schlepped here on the bus and would have to wait for the next, infrequent one. Plus I'm giving them one extra (two weeks') payment, and in that scenario, I feel like I'd have to give them the current one in addition, which I'd rather not do without having them clean.
It also seems very awkward when they're departing, after I've greeted them normally and sat there being friendly and pretending everything is fine while they scrub. Plus, they leave straight to catch that bus, so I'd have to predict when they're getting close to done and interrupt, rather than waiting until we're saying goodbye anyway.
Telling them when they're not here seems much easier, but complicates getting them the extra payment, and getting back the key. I guess I could send them a check and a SASE for the key?
What's the right time to do this?
Just tell them at the end of the cleaning job. You're way overthinking this, which is nice of you, but this is not personal. I think framing this as a layoff is not really necessary either. Just tell them your husband is reducing his work hours and that therefore you won't be continuing with their service, give them the extra pay, and stop feeling guilty!
Yeah you're over thinking this. I'd tell them at the start that this will be the last time so you can see them off nicely after they have completed the job, express your gratitude and willingness to provide references (if you are indeed willing to) as they leave. They are professionals, are used to the precarity of their field, and any awkwardness will probably be in your own mind. Don't tell them between cleans - they will have to find a new position and would probably be grateful for as much time to do so as possible.
Similar but worse would be letting them know in advance, then having her come by again.
I don't understand what's so bad about this idea. Giving them some warning, e.g. 'The appointment we have scheduled for the 23rd is going to be our last one,' seems considerate to me. You don't have to present this as punishment or expect them to hang their heads in shame. Just say your schedules have changed and you're able to handle the cleaning yourself now.
I personally would tell them between visits because it would be easier to do it over the phone or email, which is perhaps somewhat cowardly, but it has the virtue of letting them choose whether or not to show up for the "last time." They may simply want to move on and find a replacement customer with their time rather than coming out to you.
It's better to give a heads-up to the cleaners farther in advance so they can start booking their next clients, make arrangements, etc. I would call/email in advance to explain the situation but you could also have a quick huddle with them when they arrive for the next cleaning (but before the last appointment).
"Do you have a few minutes? I need to let you know that [because of reasons], we won't be needing cleaning sessions anymore." Thank them for the two years of cleaning they did (and offer the extra pay--I'd probably frame it as thanks for their good work). Then let them know the last cleaning date and your plans for money/key exchange ("I'll give you the check at the end of [date/session]," etc).
You're not the first client to discontinue services. It's part of routine business for them. No need to make this awkward.
I think it's preferable to be upfront with expectations rather than springing it on them on the last day and at the last minute.
If you tell them ahead of time, do make sure to tell them you're paying them for the extra weeks!
On a personal note, if it's at all possible in terms of schedule and so forth I'd offer them some coffee and cookies or something and sit down with them a bit in addition to the severance pay (if that's not something you do already). Obviously you don't actually have to do that, and yes in the end it's just a business transaction, but anything that makes people feel a little more recognized and a little more like their good work mattered is a good thing, imo.
"Next time you come will be our last appointment- my husband is reducing his hours at work so he's going to take on the house-cleaning duties at home. Thanks so much for everything!"
PS - When money gets tight, unnecessary luxuries like cleaners are the first thing to go - they are used to this and it's not a big deal.
Telling them between visits is what I would do, just because it prevents any weirdness (unlikely though that would be). But the suggestions above of giving advance notice is probably the kinder option.
"... I need to let you know that [because of reasons], we won't be needing cleaning sessions anymore." Thank them for the two years of cleaning they did (and offer the extra pay--I'd probably frame it as thanks for their good work). Then let them know the last cleaning date and your plans for money/key exchange ("I'll give you the check at the end of [date/session]," etc).
It is very kind and generous of you to provide the additional pay, most would not think to do that. I have never expected same personally, but have been quite touched by the gesture in recent past, for a client needing to move into a nursing home. While I mainly rely on the income from my regular clients for the bulk of my living expenses; any professional has safeguards in place against last-minute cancellations, unforeseen circumstances, outright need to cease services, etc. If these people do not have safety nets in place for any reason, your thoughtfulness could well save them from a rough financial patch.
Should you find yourself in need of cleaning from someone new down the line; the very best practice is to delineate up front at hiring any and all duties/expectations, policies concerning cancellations on either side, what will occur should either side wish to cease service, rules for your house key, how possible damage or breakage of personal property is to be handled, how any dissatisfaction with services provided will be ameliorated, and/or any other topics of importance. Leave no room for miscommunication or misunderstanding.
I would wait for them to do whatever the upcoming appointment is, then call them the day after to let them know that you have decided to discontinue their services, that you will be mailing them a "bonus" check to thank them for their past services and that you would be more than happy to provide a positive reference in the future. This effectively gives them four weeks until they would need to replace you on their appointment schedule, which is more than fair.
Thanks, everybody! Sounds like most people think it's not too awkward to have them come again after I've told them ahead of time that it will be their last visit, and that even with the extra payment, it's still worth giving advance notice. So, that's what I'm going to do, and I appreciate the help! | 2019-04-24T19:08:12 | https://ask.metafilter.com/312207/Logistics-of-laying-off-our-house-cleaners |
0.999997 | Here is a good place to describe a list of your hobbies, projects or interests.
Interest 1 Provide a description, picture, or perhaps a hyperlink here.
Interest 2 Provide a description, picture, or perhaps a hyperlink here.
Interest 3 Provide a description, picture, or perhaps a hyperlink here. | 2019-04-19T23:10:42 | http://amgoldho.tripod.com/Content/interest.htm |
0.999606 | Intend to unblock a person on facebook that has blocked you? How To Unblock Facebook Friend: On Facebook, it is impossible to either block someone that has blocked you or unblock a person that has blocked you. Here's the reason why you can neither block a person that has blocked you or unblock somebody that has actually blocked you.
- You can not look them or see their account on Facebook once again. This suggests that the connect to their Facebook account has been disabled for you.
You can not unblock them since you did not block them to begin with. You could only unblock someone that you have previously blocked. | 2019-04-24T03:56:10 | http://www.ecarsweb.com/2019/02/how-to-unblock-facebook-friend.html |
0.999103 | A Brooklyn man who was told by two judges to stay away from his ex-girlfriend became so enraged when he found out that she was seeing another man that he boarded a plane from Miami yesterday, went to her Brooklyn apartment and shot her dead before turning the gun on himself, the police said.
The woman, Ramona Martinez, 27, was shot in the stomach and pronounced dead on arrival, said Officer Cheryl Cox, a police spokeswoman. Her assailant, Julio Tavarez, 24, died as he was being taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center with a gunshot to the head.
Investigators and family members described Mr. Tavarez as an abusive man who repeatedly beat Ms. Martinez repeatedly during their five-year relationship. The couple had a 4-year-old daughter, and Ms. Martinez had two other children from a previous relationship, according to Mr. Tavarez's family.
The abuse had gotten so bad, the police said, that Ms. Martinez requested and received restraining orders against Mr. Tavarez from judges in Brooklyn Criminal Court and Queens Family Court late last year. The order issued by the Brooklyn court was valid until December 1998, the Queens court order until January 1999.
In a telephone interview last night, Mr. Tavarez's brother, Victor Tavarez, 22, said Ms. Martinez was hospitalized on two different occasions after Mr. Tavarez beat her with his fists.
The police said that despite the court orders, Mr. Tavarez showed up at Ms. Martinez's third-floor apartment at 111 Pine Street in the East New York section of Brooklyn at about 2:30 P.M. yesterday and demanded to speak with her. Ms. Martinez, the investigators said, refused to admit him, saying she was entertaining guests. When Mr. Tavarez asked her to step out into the hall for a conversation, she reminded him of the court orders, and Mr. Tavarez responded by shooting her and then himself, investigators said.
According to his brother, when the order of restraint was issued in January, Mr. Tavarez left the couple's apartment, their child and her two other children and went to Miami in a fit of rage.
Every other day, his brother said, Mr. Tavarez called his mother, grandfather or friends in the neighborhood to check up on Ms. Martinez. He also called her apartment, and when a man answered the phone, Mr. Tavarez became enraged, although he had been cut out of Ms. Martinez's life months before, Victor Tavarez said.
Mr. Tavarez, according to his brother, emigrated with his family from Santa Domingo in 1990. Three years later, the brother said, he met Ms. Martinez in a Manhattan factory at 37th Avenue and Eighth Street.
Yesterday, Victor Tavarez said the families were left to wonder how they would bury their dead, and what was to become of the children. | 2019-04-24T00:46:20 | https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/29/nyregion/man-ordered-to-stay-away-kills-woman-then-himself-police-say.html |
0.998829 | Is Social Work necessary in Assessments?
Hot on the heels of a story which extols the virtues of a ‘new’ social enterprise set up by social workers in Lambeth, comes a report from the Audit Commission, published yesterday, which urges councils to reduce spending on qualified social workers in order to save money on assessments in adult social care.
In some ways, it’s very easy to see these two apparently separate news items discretely but it’s also too tempting to run them together to see a pattern of where adult social work is heading.
I briefly read through the Audit Commission report this morning – it is intended for ‘managers and senior managers in adult social care’ and the scope is to look at how local authorities can save money through the assessment processes in this sector in order to have more money to spend on care services.
Interestingly, it pulls out the ‘personalisation’ card in terms of identifying the different ways that assessments are being conducted (more self-assessments – for example) – and that’s true but I hope I would have always put the individual at the centre of every assessment I did – even before ‘personalisation’.
An assessment is a key to eligibility in adult social care and with self-assessments being introduced, it is basically allowing people to self-exclude earlier in the process without having as much professional involvement – which actually, isn’t a problem for those who are below the criteria but what the report misses is how much the process of assessment by a skilled person (whether qualified or not) can scratch the surface of the forms that are completed – particularly when the forms are tailored towards people with physical disabilities and physical health problems – and uncover needs that would meet the eligibility criteria.
The report pushes the somewhat dangerous opinion (in my view) that delivering personalised services will necessarily create lower costs. That’s a stumbling block which has led to poor implementation in my view. I actually don’t have any problem with support planning/brokerage and assessment being pushed to different organisations – but it still has to be done well. It’s interesting that while the Topaz team in Lambeth are looking at working with people who fall below the eligibility criteria, local authorities are looking at people who are eligible having more support from less qualified people – to save money. Lets not forget that’s what it’s about.
But I don’t want to get too fixated on the qualified/unqualified dichotomy because qualified doesn’t always mean better. But it doesn’t mean worse, either.
A paragraph in the report refers to savings being made in ‘back office’ roles – well, honestly, there is a greater need for administration and ‘bureaucracy’ in personalised care packages because we want to be able to offer people different options to manage their own care – either direct payments, individual service funds, trust funds or managed budgets. Of course we don’t have all those options available for all (yet) but imagining that costs can be cut by reducing ‘back office’ roles is honestly, facile. Cuts to ‘back office’ roles has and does put much more pressure on ‘frontline’ jobs. False economies in the extreme.
The report talks about improving online information and.. oh.. leaflets to provide information and to (they hope) deter people from requesting an assessment in the first place. I can see that being useful – and I’m glad they didn’t get ‘online overboard’ and some of the sites produced by local authorities to signpost people are appalling so it’s good advice, it’s just sad to think a report has to be compiled to give that advice. It is a bit depressing that call centres are seen as a solution in any part of social care though particularly when the role of the call centre is to ‘reduce the need for formal assessments’ – in other words it is to filter people out of the system at an earlier stage – so much for preventative work.
The headline of the report though – is that it recommends ‘changing’ the skill mix in adult social care to ‘reflect’ personalisation by shifting from social workers to social work assistants and that’s where some of my main concerns and thoughts lie.
Does a ‘professional’ need to Assess?
Having worked in adult social care teams, I know that there are some awful qualified members of staff and some fantastic non-qualified members of staff. Experience levels vary and I don’t have a problem with a mix of staff. I have no problem with some assessments moving away to third sector organisations and user-led organisations in particular (I will not give a wholehearted ‘bye’ to social enterprises though as I believe ‘social enterprise’ is a VERY broad term that can have a lot of different meanings). Some assessments are basic, many assessments are best completed without the need of any input but some, and this is the key, really do need expert input. Sometimes it’s the conversation that arises in an assessment (which, by the way, is not merely a ‘form-filling’ process) that can lead to further information being garnered. The more lax the assessment process, the more likely that opportunities to provide ‘early intervention’ or identify harder to define needs may be lost.
I mentioned above that all the assessment processes I’ve seen from adult social care are very biased towards physical health needs – it can take a more skilled assessment to draw out mental health needs or more complex family dynamics between the person being assessed and their families. I worry that bypassing the importance of assessment and the skill needed, we may lose carers’ needs which need to be identified much earlier.
So while I don’t think a ‘professional’ needs to assess in every case, what is very important (and missing from the Audit Commission report’) is an appreciation of the importance that professional training, experience, understanding and working with social work theories relating to assessments and an understanding of current research and a commitment to reflection and sensitive communication is and can be to assessments and safeguarding process.
In many ways, this is the key question for adult services and one that has been asked for years – since the move to the ‘care management’ models after the NHS and Community Care Act (1990) was enacted and it became clear that care management was not a social work exclusive role.
The question is more easily answered, I think, in children services and in mental health services where the social work roles are, I think, better defined. Perhaps the separation and specialisation into different ‘fields’ has damaged adult social work more than the others as it has become harder to define.
In adult social work there’s a need for a much stronger professional voice to explain and expound the importance that social work training has in delivering effective outcomes all round. Assessment is a skill and skills can be trained but it need to be linked with knowledge, understanding and reflection to create a picture in more complex (and sometimes the step between simple and complex can be one question, one statement, one gesture) situations.
As a society we undervalue the social work training and role at our cost but increasingly, I can see the role for social work being pushed back to safeguarding functions and ‘complex’ work – that’s easily said and I’m sure it appeals to the Audit Commission but it’s important for us, our professional bodies such as the College and Adult Social Care departments and academics to push that we often find the ‘safeguarding’ and ‘complex’ work by doing some of the things that could be done by ‘someone else’.
Community Care has responses from BASW and the College which say similar things. I think it’s important that as social workers in adult services, we also prove our own worth internally. We talk about research we have read in team meetings, in our supervision, we explain why we did what we did in terms of the theories we know and use. We talk professionally, we respond professionally and we become what we want our profession to be.
We need to all take responsibility to prove our own worth. | 2019-04-23T11:58:10 | https://unsafespaces.com/tag/personalisation/ |
0.999992 | One way of the answering the question "Why did Jesus die?" is to ask another related question and that question is "How did Jesus live?" What was it that drove Jesus as to what he chose to do and what not to do? The questions are related because Jesus' death is simply the last thing he did in his life.
So let us ask this second question "How did Jesus live?"
When we think about the way in which Jesus led his life we are forced to consider what it was that motivated him, what it was that drove him to act as he did in each and every situation. This the Bible tells us is very clear terms.
All of us have a choice to make. We each have a decision to take. We all have to decide who we are going to try to please by the way we live.
The same was true for Jesus – what do we know about his choices?
Jesus himself spoke about what his choices were in this regard and the apostle Paul summarised it for us too.
Jn.4:34 "Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work."
Jn.5:30 "I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me."
Jn.6:38 "For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me."
Jn.8:29 "And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."
Rom.15:3 "For Christ did not please himself,"
Jesus was motivated throughout his life by the firm desire and intention of doing what his Father wanted him to do. And in carrying out the will of the Father Jesus always pleased him even when it might have appeared that this was done to the detriment of his own immediate interests.
This is confirmed too by what the Father declared concerning his Son. Do you remember those occasions when a voice spoke clearly from heaven expressing divine approval of the Son?
Mt.3:17 (at his baptism) "and behold, a voice from heaven said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.""
Mt.17:5 (at his Transfiguration) "He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.""
Mt.12:18 (quoting Is.42:1) "Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles."
So, according to the unanimous testimony, Jesus did what he did, acted as he acted, in order to please his Heavenly Father and his Heavenly Father was very pleased with all that the Son did.
Throughout his earthly life Jesus had successfully carried our his desire of pleasing his Father – he did not need, therefore, to do anything to try to secure his Father's good pleasure because he already had it.
When we've let someone down we may well try to do something special for them in order to "make it up to them" and to try to put us back in their favour. But Jesus did not need to do anything of the sort.
So when Jesus died as a voluntary sacrifice for our sins he was not desperately trying to curry favour with the Father. If Jesus were to die the death of such a willing substitutionary sacrifice then it must be because the Father wanted this to happen. Jesus would offer his life freely as this sacrifice for our sins because the Father wanted him to. So Jesus laid down his life in order to carry on pleasing his Father as he had always hitherto done.
Is.53:10 "Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand."
Mt.26:53 "Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?"
Jesus knew that the Father was not about to force the issue by obliging him to do what he wasn't ready to do – happily for us and for all Christians everywhere Jesus was ready to offer even this submission to his Father's will!
And yet the sufferings were very real and the natural desires of the human frame for self-preservation were sorely tested as the moment drew ever closer for our Lord to carry out the will of the Father.
Mt.26:39, 42, 44 "And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will."… Again, for the second time, he went away and prayed, "My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done."… So, leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words again."
Eph.5:2 "And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God."
This type of language recalls the language used of several of the OT sacrifices which as they were offered became "a pleasing aroma to the LORD". In other words Jesus' death upon the cross functioned in just the same way – his voluntary offering of himself was pleasing to the Father.
When we realise then that Jesus lived to please his Father we are ready for the question "Why did Jesus die?" The answer is straightforward: he died to please the Father.
The context is all about Jesus laying down his life – he did so because this pleased the Father and accomplished his plan and purposes.
We should never for one moment imagine that Jesus tried to force a reluctant Father's hand when he died upon the Cross of Calvary. We are not to imagine that the Father was somehow backed into a corner by the Son who loved us when the Father didn't!
No, the Bible tells us plainly that Jesus came into the world to accomplish the divine plan, a plan that had been established in eternity past and brought to fulfilment in the space/time history of 1st century Israel. That plan included the Jesus' death.
Jesus in dying pleased his Father. It wasn't that the Father was tricked or deceived it was precisely what the Father wanted to achieve.
In the counsels of eternity the Father offered a people to the Son and the Son agreed to secure this people offered to him. He would do so by dying in their place, for their sin. He take onto himself the wrath of God that his people's sin deserved and in so doing he would please his Father! The Spirit too was involved filling and equipping the Son as he carried out his ministry, a ministry that would find its climax in the cross of Calvary.
How we should rejoice and be glad at just how good our God is! Salvation is not something that he is reluctant to grant but is his plan from the very outset. As the plan progressed he was pleased with his Son, pleased, pleased and very pleased! So pleased that he raised the Son to newness of life at the resurrection! We can be confident of the loving kindness of this God, our Father.
How glad we should be with our Lord Jesus Christ! We know how easy it is to put our own selfish interests to the fore – but he didn't do that. All the time he did what was pleasing to his Father. When we think of this difference between him and us how full of thankfulness we should be towards him and how ready we should be to place our trust in him.
When we think of how the Lord Jesus lived and how he secured such tremendous benefits by his willing obedience to the Father in such extreme circumstances – how much more ready and enthusiastic we should be in ourselves following such an example. No, we won't by our efforts at obedience add to our salvation – that is the work of Jesus Christ alone and his work being complete needs no attempted additions from us – but our obedience, now that we have been put right with God by Jesus' death, is to be our way of pleasing the Father and, who knows how fruitful he will choose to make such obedience in the lives of others? | 2019-04-21T04:32:56 | http://sunnyhill.org.uk/to-please-the-father.html |
0.999998 | This suggests we can't understand anything without (independently of) the use of concepts, which are human and mental things. But evolution through natural selection seems to suppose a world that existed before our understanding and is independent of our concepts. Is this possible?
There is physical reality - independent of humans and their understandings.
There is personal reality - each human has their own "reflection" of reality inside their brain/consciousness.
There is religious reality - includes personal reality, deities, and intangible places.
In addition, we must come to an agreement on what we mean by "reality."
I think this is possible; by trying to see how the contents of a situation can THEMSELVES be sufficient to bring about what occurs, or what we are trying to understand. This does not PROVE that what we come up with is independent of our understanding, but in as far as we seem successful there is no evidence it does depend on our understanding.
An example of this is evolution through natural selection, which in turn was influenced by uniformitarianism; the view that the natural world should be explained by the continuation of objects properties and processes currently observable. It is by the continuation of these things that the contents of a situation can seem themselves sufficient.
This in turn gives a different answer to Hume's questions why we suppose the continued (and independent) existence of body; Because, if we can suppose the continued existence of some object as a situation develops, we don't have to draw a conclusion beyond its original existence, so the continuation of that objects original existence must appear sufficient for its part in the development of the situation. For example, if we suppose an object that travels to disappear behind a screen and then re-appears on the other side of the screen; if we can suppose it is the same existence that continues and re-appears, since we don't have to draw a conclusion beyond that original existence, it appears sufficient to account for the subsequent appearance. But if that original existence is to account in this way for the subsequent appearances it must exist behind the screen even in those parts we haven't imagined or thought of.
In this way cause and effect can be made objective sense of insofar as we can avoid drawing conclusions beyond factors in a situation, making the situation a re-arrangement. So, instead of Hume's example of the collision of two billiard balls, we can take an example similar to Archimedes's thinking, that of a ball being pushed into a bucket of water. Since the volume of ball and water continue, as do their other properties (known by experience) such as impermeability of the ball, and fluidity of and weight of the water; as the ball is pushed into the water volume of ball-plus water is more than volume of water alone so the water level rises (and I believe you can see why, if these things continue together in the situation that result should be necessary; no other result is compatible with their continued existence together in the situation). The effect is a re-arrangement, not something essentially new.
Since we are trying to avoid drawing conclusions beyond 'objects' this is different from having to add any description to the situation. So, again, what we are up to is not something obviously added to the situation by us. But of course, it is not the only possible way/attitude towards handing the situation.
" Let me get this straight, you are saying that you can look at a "situation" and understand what is happing without prior knowledge of any concepts to facilitate such understandings? I could believe that if you can describe to me such an instance, i.e. describe a concept that noone has heard before without using composites of known concepts – christo183 2 "
The thing is why you say something is conceptual? Because someone's heard of it before? Or perhaps because there are alternative ways of handling 'reality'? I don't think either of these require it must be conceptual. If a ball being pushed into a bucket of water makes the water level rise because the volume of the ball + water is greater than the water volume alone, so the water must go somewhere else, so it rises in the bucket. This shows how the ball being pushed into the water is sufficient for the effect, but if it needed to depend on our concepts the ball and the water could themselves be sufficient.
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Does Kant have a Fourth Critique? | 2019-04-23T16:35:37 | https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/55522/is-it-possible-to-make-sense-of-reality-that-is-independent-our-understanding |
0.999494 | Sedat developed tailored high-resolution microscopic techniques that illuminate previously unobservable objects. His research is aimed at understanding higher order chromosome structure and characterizing the relationship between chromosome structure and function.
The scientific efforts are directed toward deciphering higher order chromosome structure, an unsolved problem, using Drosophila as a model system. Interestingly, those studies have required development, in collaboration with his colleague, David Agard, of several microscope systems, both optical and electron microscopic, to adequately visualize and quantitate the intricate chromosomal organization. The microscope system development continues. The biology research has two main, complementary directions. The first concerns the defined, three-dimensional folding patterns of Drosophila chromosomes and possible changes in the three-dimensional architecture as a function of development. The polytene chromosomes were chosen as a model for interphase nuclei. The results indicate defined folding patterns of interphase chromosomes in polytene nuclei within larval organs and in diploid nuclei in early embryos. Efforts are also directed to ask questions as to function, for example, do the mechanisms of maintaining such order play any role in complex genetic phenomena? The second research direction is the analysis of the structure of diploid anaphase chromosomes. The chromosomes are ordered structures, as shown in three-dimensional structural approaches. | 2019-04-22T05:14:39 | https://nrc88.nas.edu/pnas_search/memberDetails.aspx?ctID=2529082 |
0.998888 | East Rutherford, 27 June 2016: Lionel Messi sensationally announced his retirement from international football here Sunday after Argentina crashed to an upset defeat against Chile in the final of the Copa America.
The heartbroken Barcelona superstar was distraught after missing a spot-kick as Chile snatched victory in a penalty shoot-out -- Messi's fourth straight defeat in a major final while representing Argentina.
"For me the national team is over," the crestfallen 29-year-old told reporters.
"I've done all I can, I've been in four finals and it hurts not to be a champion.
"It's a hard moment for me and the team, and it's difficult to say, but it's over with the Argentina team."
Messi's dramatic announcement followed Argentina's third loss in a major final since 2014. They were beaten 1-0 by Germany in the final of the World Cup in 2014 and lost on penalties, also to Chile, in the final of the 2015 Copa America.
Despite a glittering career that has seen him be named FIFA World Player of the Year on no fewer than five occasions, Messi has often faced baffling criticism from Argentina fans.
Messi's failure to match the achievements in the Argentina jersey of Diego Maradona, who single-handedly carried the team to victory in the 1986 World Cup, has often been held against him.
Maradona himself has often taken potshots at Messi, criticizing him on the eve of the tournament for a perceived "lack of personality."
"He's a really good person, but he has no personality," Maradona said in Paris shortly before the start of Euro 2016.
"He lacks the character to be a leader." Messi's bombshell decision comes after a gruelling season which was disrupted by injury last year.
He recovered to help Barcelona win the Spanish title once more and was relishing the prospect of leading Argentina to glory in the Copa America Centenario.
His commitment to playing for Argentina was reflected in his decision to fly from Spain to Argentina for a low-key friendly against Honduras shortly before the tournament, where he suffered a back injury.
He then returned to Spain to give evidence at his trial for tax fraud before jetting off to the United States to join up with his Argentina team-mates.
Although he was injured for his team's opening group game against Chile, he came on as a substitute in a 5-0 hammering of Panama to score a hat-trick in 19 minutes.
He then equalled Argentina's international goalscoring record of 54, held by Gabriel Batistuta, in the quarter-finals before setting a new mark with his 55th international goal in the semi-final win over the United States. | 2019-04-22T00:40:36 | http://www.udupitoday.com/udtoday/sports_Messi-retires-from-international-football-after-Copa-loss_579.html |
0.999983 | Who should I captain in FPL?
In FPL the captain that you appoint will obtain double points. Thus it is important that you pick a player that has a high probability of doing well and obtaining a good haul of points.
In my opinion you should pick a captain that can ideally get you at least 16-20 points from one match. It is rare for a goalkeeper to do this as one goal conceded would mean a poor match score, where as a clean sheet won't obtain more than 12-14 points. A goalscoring defender who keeps a clean sheet and gets maximum bonus points could score you up to 30 points, but they are a rare breed. The safest choice would be an attack minded midfielder who have a decent probability of assisting or scoring regularly or a forward that scores on a regular basis.
Don't stick to one captain for the whole season. Regularly change captains, depending on if their team plays home or away, plays a strong or week team and so forth.
What constitutes a good GW from a bad GW?
0-20 points - shamefully abysmal.
21-39 points - a bit of a disaster.
40-49 points - not great, but tolerable.
50-59 points - average, acceptable & ideal minimum.
60-74 points - consider this a good GW score.
75-99 points - very good, your team & captain must have done well.
100+ points - a great team performance and a personal achievement on your part.
*Please note, this chart may not be true in rare GWs where the average score was very high and your GW score did not meet the average GW score but was deemed "good" by this chart, i.e. scoring 60 points in a GW when the average score was 70 points.
Should I regularly undertake team transfers?
Yes and No. There is no point in having players with long term suspensions or injuries in your team, especially if they are valued at a high FPL price. You may be inclined to transfer a player with poor form. But you may regret it, if they bounce back and do after you have sold them off. It may be useful to purchase a player from a strong team that is due to play a string of weaker opposition teams. But do bare in mind that you only get one free transfer per gameweek. If you exceed this, you will be losing gameweek points which will affect your classic league positioning. Try avoid doing too many transfers per gameweek, as you will lose out on points. As a rule of thumb, "if it ain't broke don't fix it" - don't sell players unless you have to, i.e. bad loss of form, long-term injuries or suspensions. At the very most don't exceed two transfers per gameweek, i.e. your one free transfer, plus one extra which will cost you -4 points.
The answer is we don't know for sure when. However, for more insight read this article here.
How do I find out about last minute injuries and suspensions?
Is FPL driven by luck, simple probability or natural skill?
In my estimation it is primarily skills-based probability, i.e. Come the end of the season, the best and most dedicated managers will end up highest in their respective leagues. Sure, an element of luck is also in play as you don't know how a player will perform on the day, and a novice FPL gamer that never changes his/her team may do well in one or two gameweeks. But FPL is not about one or two gameweeks, it's about thirty eight, stretching from August to May! Probability dictates that over the course of a season the best players from the best teams (or any team) will generally attain more points. Thus, those that endure till the end and are most skilled (with the best hunches) will always do better.
What is a wildcard? When should I use my wildcard?
A wildcard allows you to change your entire selected team for any gameweek without having any points deducted from your overall, classic and head-to-head league tallies. You have two wild cards available at your disposal - one for the first half of the season and the other for the second half. My advice would be to use your wildcards after gauging form and when you definitely need to replace at least 33% of your squad, i.e. perennial bad injuries, long-term suspensions or poor form for a significant number of your team's players.
What is a Double Gameweek (DGW)?
DGW's may occur once in a while, such as due to the postponement of fixtures. The good news is that advance notice will be provided for this and you can potentially double up points provided you have picked the relevant DGW players. The flip side is that the team may not play any fixtures the week after, thus sensible selections are required.
What is a differential in FPL?
When are suspensions automatically imposed without a red card in the Premier League?
If the 5th yellow card is received after 31st December.
If the 10th yellow card is received after the 2nd Sunday in April.
If the 15th yellow card isn't received before the end of season.
What are Chips in FPL? | 2019-04-20T22:11:14 | https://fantasypremierleaguehints.blogspot.com/p/faqs.html |
0.99681 | Alexander Hamilton, born at Nevis in the Leeward Islands in either 1755 or 1757, emigrated to New York in 1772. There, he entered King's College (now Columbia University) in 1773 but interrupted his studies to become involved in some of the events which led to the American Revolution by authoring several pamphlets. When the war did come, he was commissioned the captain of an artillery company. Hamilton participated in the Long Island campaign and the retreat through New Jersey before attracting General George Washington's attention and becoming his secretary and aide de camp in March 1777. He served in that capacity, in the rank of lieutenant colonel, until February of 1781 when, as a result of a quarrel with Washington, he resigned his post. Washington, both magnaminous and pragmatic in regard to Hamilton's ability, allowed him to be appointed to head an infantry regiment which he led brilliantly during the Yorktown campaign.
When the war ended, Hamilton read law at Albany, N. Y., and was admitted to the bar. He served a single term in the Continental Congress before returning to private life and beginning the law practice in New York City. However, he remained active in his support for a strong federal government. Hamilton was appointed a delegate from New York to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 though his work at the convention was of little importance. Far more significant was his almost lone struggle in New York to secure ratification of the Constitution. He waged a fierce newspaper war in favor of its adoption and concocted the idea for the Federalist Papers, most of which he wrote alone or in cooperation with James Madison. Though New York at the time was extremely particularist, the sheer force of Hamilton's arguments carried the day and secured the state's adherence to the Constitution at the Poughkeepsie meeting in July 1788. In that year, the young lawyer returned to the Continental Congress and figured prominently in the formation of the new government.
Hamilton was appointed Secretary of the Treasury in September 1789 and immediately set out to establish the nation's credit on a sound basis. On 14 January 1790, he submitted his plan to the House of Representatives; and the document remains one of his lasting contributions to the foundation of the federal government. He argued that the central government should be responsible for all debts contracted during the Revolution-foreign and domestic-including those debts contracted by the individual states. Though the measure encountered fierce opposition, he finally secured its adoption on 4 August 1791.
Hamilton's tenure of office as Secretary of the Treasury lasted until 1795. During that period, the verbal battles with Jefferson, Hamilton's natural antagonist, rose to fever pitch. Both conducted propaganda campaigns in the press, and Jefferson's attacks finally culminated in the introduction of nine resolutions of censure against Hamilton into Congress. The defeat of those resolutions early in 1793 proved a vindication of Hamilton and his policies. Hamilton exercised a great deal of influence over John Jay's negotiations with Great Britain which secured a treaty favorable to the new nation's domestic economy. This meddling in foreign affairs no doubt influenced Jefferson's resignation as Secretary of State at the end of 1793. Jefferson intensified his anti-Hamilton campaign after that because he felt Hamilton to be too speculative at home and pro-British abroad. Domestically, however, Hamilton was secure. He proved that in 1794 when he played a leading role in the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion. He regarded the Federal action at this time as an outstanding opportunity for the central government to exhibit its strength.
The third Alexander Hamilton (SSBN-617) was laid down on 26 June 1961 at Groton, Conn., by the Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Corp.; launched on 18 August 1962; sponsored by Mrs. Valentine Hollingsworth, Jr., the great-great-great granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton; and commissioned on 27 June 1963, Comdr. Norman B. Bessac (Blue Crew) and Comdr. Benjamin F. Sherman, Jr., (Gold Crew) in command.
Between 28 June and 18 October, Alexander Hamilton carried out two shakedown cruises, one for her Blue crew and a second for her Gold. Following those operations, she conducted post-shakedown availability. After trials early in 1964, she departed the east coast on 16 March to deploy to Rota, Spain, her base of operations. She conducted deterrent patrols out of that port for the remainder of the year as a unit of Submarine Squadron (SubRon) 16. In January 1965, the fleet ballistic missile submarine transferred to SubRon 14 and based at Holy Loch, Scotland. Her cycle of patrols from there lasted until 2 June 1967 at which time she returned to the United States at Charleston, S. C. Later that month, she moved north to New London, Conn., and thence into the Electric Boat yard on the 18th to begin her first overhaul and nuclear refueling.
Alexander Hamilton completed the overhaul on 28 June 1968 and conducted post-overhaul trials, inspections, and shakedown training until early October. In November, she was deployed to Rota and conducted a deterrent patrol en route to her new base where she arrived on 30 December. For the next four years, the submarine operated from that Spanish port-again as a unit of SubRon 16. At the conclusion of her 31st deterrent patrol, she returned to Charleston in November 1972 and, in January 1973, began her second refueling overhaul, combined with a conversion to carry Poseidon missiles, at the yard of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. The work on those two modifications lasted for over two years. The submarine carried out shakedown in April of 1975 and devoted the remainder of the year to training and various post overhaul trials. She conducted deterrent patrols 32 and 33 in the early part of 1976. Alexander Hamilton concluded the latter patrol at Holy Loch, Scotland, in May 1976 and conducted her next three patrols from that base. While on patrol 36, the fleet ballistic missile submarine visited Port Canaveral, Fla., and New London, Conn., before concluding that patrol at Charleston, S.C., in March 1977. During March and April, she completed refit and conducted refresher training. In July, she departed Charleston for another deterrent patrol which ended with her arrival at Holy Loch in September.
From that Scottish base, the fleet ballistic missile submarine conducted deterrent patrols 39 and 40. She departed Holy Loch in May 1978 for patrol 41 and concluded it at Charleston in July. The warship remained there until August when she got underway for New London. She arrived at New London early in September and, after exchanging crews, embarked upon deterrent patrol 42 later that month. She ended that patrol at Holy Loch in October. Over the next year, she made four patrols from the base in Scotland. On 31 October 1979, Alexander Hamilton departed Holy Loch on her 46th deterrent patrol, ending it at Charleston on 7 December. Early in January 1980, the ballistic missile submarine departed Charleston on deterrent patrol 47. She concluded that patrol at Holy Loch on 17 March 1980 and, for the remainder of the year, operated from that base.
Alexander Hamilton's, deterrent patrols out of Holy Loch continued until 1986. At that time, she was to have been decommissioned in order to remove her from the fleet as a gesture of goodwill in accordance with the terms of the unratified SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty. Upon her arrival in Groton early in 1986, the ballistic missile submarine began preparations for deactivation. The grounding of Nathanael Greene (SSBN-636), however, forced the Navy to change its plans. What had been a deactivation overhaul quickly became a four-week maintenance availability to get Alexander Hamilton ready for active service. In April, the warship sailed to Charleston, S.C., for further work conducted in the floating drydock Alamogordo (ARDM-4). While at Charleston, she also served at sea occasionally as a training platform. In mid June, the warship returned to Groton. During the summer of 1986, Alexander Hamilton participated in training cruises for Naval Academy and NROTC midshipmen.
In August, she learned that her refueling overhaul would be conducted by the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. The nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine departed Groton on 1 October to begin the long voyage to Bremerton, Wash. Steaming by way of the Panama Canal, she arrived at her destination late in November. Alexander Hamilton formally began her refueling overhaul on 30 November and, as of the beginning of 1987, was still at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. | 2019-04-21T02:51:43 | https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/a/alexander-hamilton-iii.html |
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0.999962 | Your cover story about Haines Fullerton ["Dave, Fame & Haines," September 16, 2004] was far from fair, balanced, and accurate. It's clearly no more than the latest installment in Mark Roebuck's public attack on Haines' character.
I was a fairly close friend of both Mark and David McNair in the early '90s, and a very close friend of Haines from '93 until his passing. I speak from grounded experience, not speculation, nor projection– nor reckless, unfounded attack.
According to a longer version of the article currently posted on McNair's website, Mark had repeatedly encouraged his good friend McNair to write about Haines. Who was the main source of information for the article? Mark, who admits he had not spoken with Haines for years before his death, and that he had "hated him for years."
The article was about Mark and David McNair's feelings of unworthiness and envy, not about Haines. McNair never knew Haines well (contrary to the impression given in your paper), and Mark was simply out of the loop for years. They are in no position to understand what Haines was going through during his final years, let alone offer their explanations.
Yet, instead of admitting that they can't understand, they have invented a believable story to explain it all– that Haines was crazy. And many of those who also can't understand appear to have accepted this explanation without question.
Anyone who knew Haines well during his final years would find Mark's assertions laughable, except that his aggressive assault on Haines' character, which began well before his death and continues to this day, is in no way funny.
These attacks and lies have effects, at a minimum on Haines' beautiful children who deserve respect and care regarding their father. Wouldn't a "health professional," a social worker, wish to uphold a higher standard than this? This public campaign of slander is part of the reason why I chose to move Haines' and my daughter out of Charlottesville.
Amazingly, McNair has never bothered to ask me directly about Haines. Hawes Spencer chose to use an article based on such a questionable source for his cover story, while he barely used the information he spent hours collecting from family and friends close to Haines.
This type of "journalism" is beyond sloppy. It is recklessly irresponsible. Truth has not been served. | 2019-04-20T03:03:10 | http://www.readthehook.com/95792/letter-haines-was-sane |
0.998833 | ruuH seukL dtuaaM aehngM reermF seumM sapH khwaamM bpenM khohnM groongM thaehpF maakF kheunF thookH theeM I feel that I am increasingly becoming a Bangkok person.
meuuaF wanM yootL yaaoM sohngR graanM kheuuM huaangF waehM laaM theeF jaL jamM seenR dtawngF yuuL naiM baanF laeH yuuL naiM groongM thaehpF thaaenM gaanM glapL baanF theeF chiiangM maiL This past Songkran extended holiday I celebrated at home in Bangkok, rather than returning to my family home in Chiang Mai.
haehtL theeF dtawngF yohkH wenH gaanM glapL baanF theeF chiiangM maiL thangH thangH theeF khraiM gaawF yaakL bpaiM sohngR graanM chiiangM maiL phrawH saL phaapF aaM gaatL chiiangM maiL naiM deuuanM maehM saaR yohnM nanH maiF phiiangM khaaeF raawnH dtaaeL saL phaaM waH foonL khwanM phitH nanH saaR hatL maakF kheunF thookH bpeeM The reason that I had to give up going home to Chiang Mai (even though everyone else wanted to spend Songkran at Chiang Mai) was that the weather there during April was not only hot, but the poisonous smoky and dusty conditions was worse than in prior years.
nakL theungR khanF leuuatF aawkL jaakL jaL muukL haaiR jaiM dtitL khatL meeM siiangR weetH aawkL jaakL lamM khaawM ganM leeuyM theeM diaaoM [This condition] was so bad that people experienced nose bleeds, difficulty breathing, and wheezing sounds from the throat.
laeH eekL haehtL phohnR theeF samR khanM maiF phaaeH ganM kheuuM naiM chuaangF thaehtF saL gaanM chenF neeH dtuaaR khreuuangF binM gaawF phaaengM phruaatF phraatF yaangL naaeF naawnM And, one additional important reason was that during this period the price of airline tickets jumped up.
maiF napH saL phaaM waH gaanM jaL raaM jaawnM dtitL khatL khapH khangF In addition traffic conditions were horrendous: vehicles were bumper-to-bumper.
samR rapL meuuangM theeF maiF saaR maatF bpaiM daiF duayF thaangM khreuuangF binM yaangL khaoR yaiL kho:hM raatF huaaR hinR bpraanM booL reeM khaoF jaiM waaF rohtH jaL dtitL naiM raH dapL theeF dtawngF nangF phaaM waH naaM ganM bpaiM dtaL laawtL thaangM johnM gwaaL jaL theungR jootL maaiR bplaaiM thaangM For cities and towns which were not connected by air like Khao Yao, Khorat, Hua Hin, Pranburi, I understand that the traffic was so congested that passengers had to sit and stew during the entire journey until they reached their destination.
chanR neukH theungR reuuangF neeH kheunF maaM langR jaakL henR khaaoL waaF thaawM thaawM thaawM laeH ratH thaL baanM phaH yaaM yaamM jaL graL dtoonF reuuangF gaanM thaawngF thiaaoF meuuangM raawngM naaeF naawnM I got to thinking about this after I saw the news that the Tourist Organization of Thailand and the government were trying hard to stimulate tourism to the secondary cities.
thaaF thamM daiF gaawF theuuR bpenM gaanM graL dtoonF saehtL thaL gitL dooyM chaL phawH yaangL yingF naiM phaaM waH theeF khohnM bohnL ganM leuuaR geernM waaF thamM maaM khaaH khaaiR maiF khlaawngF aoM siiaR leeuyM If they are able to do this, it is believed that it would be a stimulus to their economies (especially in situations where people complain loudly that they are not good at making their living through commerce).
naH yo:hM baaiM sohngL seermR gaanM thaawngF thiaaoF baaepL meuuangM lakL lakL meuuangM raawngM neeH gaawF naaF sohnR jaiM The policy of encouraging tourism in both primary and secondary areas is interesting.
aL raiM theeF thamM haiF meuuangM yaangL chiiangM maiL phuuM getL glaaiM bpenM meuuangM thaawngF thiaaoF meuuangM lakL naaeF naawnM waaF meeM dtohnF thoonM theeF dtitL dtuaaM maaM dtaaeL deermM That which makes cities like Chiang Mai and Phuket become primary tourist destinations were certainly assets which existed there from the beginning.
chenF phuuM getL meeM thaH laehM suayR meeM haatL saaiM suayR meeM bpraL watL saatL khaawngR gaanM bpenM meuuangM baaepL siL no:hM bpro:hM dtooL gaehtL meeM khwaamM bpenM meuuangM meuuangR raaeF gaoL meeM watH thaH naH thamM phaawF khaaH For example, Phuket has a beautiful ocean and lovely beaches; it has a history associated with its Sino-Portuguese past; it was formerly a tin mining center; and it has a commercial culture.
dangM nanH jeungM meeM thangH thamM maH chaatF laeH saL naehL thaangM bpraL watL saatL watH thaH naH thamM Therefore, [these cities] have a combination of natural [beauty], historical attraction, and culture.
chiiangM maiL meeM dtohnF thoonM thaangM thamM maH chaatF kheuuM bpaaL khaoR namH dtohkL lamM huayF theeF leuuaR naawyH lohngM reuuayF Chiang Mai has natural assets including forests, mountains, waterfalls, streams (which are becoming increasingly scarce).
meeM bpraL watL saatL theeF khaawnF khaangF bplaaekL thangH dtuaaM bpraL watL saatL jingM thangH bpraL watL saatL baaepL faaenM dtaaM seeM meeM seeR sanR [Chiang Mai] has a fairly unusual history, including both actual historical figures, and fantastical, colorful stories.
meeM bo:hM raanM saL thaanR meeM watH waaM aaM raamM There are ancient sites, temples, and monasteries.
meeM bpraL phaehM neeM bpraL ditL maiL maaM dtaawpL saL naawngR nakH thaawngF thiaaoF yaangL dtaawL neuuangF It has continually invented new customs and traditions to satisfy the needs of tourists.
meeM sinR laH bpaL hatL thaL gamM theeF khleeF khlaaiM dtaawL yaawtF bpaiM daiF reuuayF chenF ngaanM maaiH ngaanM phaaF naiM chuaangF langR yangM bpenM meuuangM haengL hatL thaL gamM aaM haanR gaaM faaeM laH [Chiang Mai] has art and handicrafts which are continually improved, including, woodwork and weaving and most recently it has become a place for local food production, coffee brewing, and other items.
naawkF jaakL dtohnF thoonM theeF dtitL dtuaaM maaM laaeoH meuuangM thaawngF thiaaoF meuuangM lakL meeM khaawF daiF bpriiapL kheuuM meeM saL naamR binM laeH bpenM saL naamR binM naaM naaM chaatF In addition to these inherent assets, these major tourist destinations have a significant advantage, that is, they not only have an airport, but an international one at that.
thamM haiF gaanM deernM thaangM bpaiM meuuangM laoL neeH saL duaakL ruaatF reoM [These elements] make traveling to these places both convenient and fast.
yaaL leuumM waaF nakH thaawngF thiaaoF suaanL yaiL meeM waehM laaM thiaaoF anM jamM gatL Don’t forget that most tourists have only a limited amount of time to travel around.
dangM nanH khwaamM ruaatF reoM khaawngR gaanM deernM thaangM jeungM bpenM bpatL jaiM samR khanM naiM gaanM leuuakF meuuangM theeF bpenM jootL maaiR bplaaiM thaangM Therefore, speed in transport is a critical factor in choosing travel destinations.
duayF maaeH graL nanH singL neeH maiF kheeuyM daiF rapH gaanM gaaeF khaiR yaangL jingM jangM thangH theeF saawngR meuuangM yaangL chiiangM maiL phuuM getL bpenM meuuangM thaawngF thiaaoF khaawngR meuuangM thaiM maaM laaiR thohtH saL watH Despite this fact, these elements have not been truly improved even though two cities, Chiang Mai and Phuket, have been Thai tourist spots for many decades.
geuuapL khreungF saL dtaL watH duayF saamH thamM raaiM daiF haiF gapL bpraL thaehtF chaatF bpeeM neungL maiF ruuH thaoF raiL For almost almost half a century [these cities] have generated an unmeasurable amount of national income.
meeM suaanL naiM gaanM saangF jeeM deeM pheeM haiF bpraL thaehtF chaatF maaM maiF ruuH thaoF raiL I don’t know how much [they] have contributed to the GDP of the country.
dtaaeL maiF meeM khraiM jingM jangM gapL gaanM theeF saawngR meuuangM neeH maiF meeM khohnR sohngL saaR thaaM raH naH theeF meeM bpraL sitL thiH phaapF siiaR theeM But no one is serious that these two cities should not have eufficient public transportation.
maiF meeM khraiM khitH leeuyM reuuR waaF phiiangM dtaaeL meuuangM thaawngF thiaaoF lakL khaawngR meuuangM thaiM thookH meuuangM jaL meeM wiH theeM gaanM deernM thaangM theeF meeM bpraL sitL thiH phaapF ruaatF reoM naiM raaM khaaM theeF sohmR haehtL sohmR phohnR phiiangM khaaeF neeH Is there anyone who thinks that only primary tourist destinations in Thailand should have fast and efficient transportation at a reasonable price. Only these a no other places.
manM jaL graL dtoonF gaanM thaawngF thiaaoF daiF eekL sakL thaoF raiL How much would [such transportation improvements] be able to stimulate tourism?
yaaL dtaaeL meuuangM lakL It should not be only large cities.
meuuangM raawngM naiM chiiangM maiL khaawnR gaenL ooL bohnM ooL daawnM naH khaawnM phaH nohmM phiiangM dtaaeL meeM khohnR sohngL muaanM chohnM theeF deeM saL duaakL ruaatF reoM reuunF rohmM Secondary cities in Chiang Mai, Khonkaen, Ubol, Udorn, Nakorn Panom all have excellent, convenient, fast, and pleasant public transport systems.
gaanM thaawngF thiaaoF jaL graL jaaiM bpaiM yangM dtamM bohnM euunL amM phuuhrM euunL theeF maiF chaiF jootL maaiR bplaaiM thaangM lakL deermM khaawngR gaanM thaawngF thiaaoF Tourism has expanded to other districts and subdistricts which had not been primary tourist destinations.
laeH manM jaL graL dtoonF saehtL thaL gitL daiF eekL akL kho:hR And, [this activity] will stimulate the economy considerably more.
sinR khaaH pheuuaF gaanM thaawngF thiaaoF nanH maiF jamM bpenM dtawngF bpenM dtohnF thoonM theeF dtitL dtuaaM maaM dtaaeL gamM neertL chenF namH dtohkL thaH laehM thamM maH chaatF dtaaeL bpenM singL theeF maH nootH saangF kheunF gaawF daiF It is not necessary that valuable tourist spots be those that have been around from time immemorial such as waterfalls, seas, and natural areas; but they may also include things constructed by man.
samR rapL chanR ruuH seukL siiaR daaiM o:hM gaatL khaawngR gaanM thaawngF thiaaoF naiM laaiR pheuunH theeF khaawngR bpraL thaehtF thaiM yaangL yingF As for me, I feel really bad about the [the lack of] opportunities for tourism in many areas of Thailand.
chenF baangM muuL baanF baangM dtamM bohnM meeM gaanM thamM namH dtaanM maH phraaoH theeF aL raawyL theeF sootL baangM theeF meeM gaanM thamM namH bplaaM deeM theeF sootL For example, certain villages and subdistricts produce delicious coconut sugar; some places manufacture absolutely the best fish sauce.
baangM theeF meeM ngaanM jakL saanR suayR sootL baangM theeF meeM gaanM thamM bplaaM raaH yaangL aL langM gaanM theeF sootL Some places have beautifully crafted woven goods while others produce the most fancy fermented fish.
baangM theeF meeM bplaaM sohmF baangM theeF meeM goongF jaawmL Some places have pickled fish while other places have pickled shrimp.
baangM theeF meeM bpanF maawF baangM theeF meeM thamM senF guayR dtiaaoR Some places produce pottery while others produce rice noodles.
baangM dtamM bohnM meeM thamM meetF baaepL haaenM maehtF ngohtH ngaamM laH Some subdistricts manufacture beautiful handmade knives, and so forth.
laoL neeH bpenM thangH laengL thaawngF thiaaoF laengL riianM ruuH All of these are both tourist destinations and areas of educational interest. | 2019-04-23T22:19:14 | http://thai-lexicon.com/id/590607 |
0.999999 | Succulent pears simmering in spring honey with the gentlest breeze of lily carried in a homespun infusion of honeysuckle flowers.
The last of the three scents that I was sent is from the NCD bee inspired collection. While I’m not huge on most floral scents, I love pear and honey, and honeysuckle can sometimes work as well. It also sounded perfect for spring!
In the bottle: Thick, gorgeous, golden honey with a sweet, floral sweetness. The honey note here is just beautiful, and the pears and honeysuckle pair perfectly with it. I can’t detect any lily yet, but we’ll see what happens on the skin.
On the skin: This is absolutely gorgeous. Pears and honey are the first things that I smell, and the combo is sweet without being cloying or super foodie. I swear I can detect some ginger in there as well. The honeysuckle balances the sweetness with that thick, heady floral aroma. I can’t pick out the lily, but there is a freshness to the scent that might come from that. The scent has good throw for such a light blend. This might be a weird analogy, but this is the olfactory equivalent of the painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat. It’s spring in a bottle.
TL;DR: Sweet honeyed pears and heady honeysuckle. Fresh and springy. 5/5.
A sacred incense of amber and sandalwood, Bartlett pears poached with vanilla bean, and a scattering of dry tea and patchouli leaves.
The second scent of the three I received is another one from the famous, influential women collection. This perfume was inspired by Sojourner Truth. Again, in NCD’s own words: “She was born into slavery in New York, fled to freedom with her daughter, then attained legal custody of her son, becoming the first black woman to successfully sue a white slave owner. She spoke widely as an abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Her groundbreaking 1851 speech, later titled “Ain’t I A Woman,” was delivered at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention.” The combination of pears and vanilla with patch, incense, and tea seemed very intriguing for me.
In the bottle: Warm, yummy, and very familiar. Seriously, this smells very similar to something else that I can’t quite put my finger on. This scent is both comforting and powerful.
On the skin: Once applied, the pears vanish, but the patch, sandalwood, and incense become much more prominent. There’s a distinct powderiness that occurs as well, but it’s not a bad thing. I can detect a nice smoky undertone as well, probably from the tea and the incense. This actually reminds me of a combination of two scents from the famous Bourbon French Perfumery in New Orleans’ French Quarter: Kus Kus and Voodoo Love. What’s interesting about this is that it was very foody in the bottle, and it changed completely on the skin. I do think that this is a little too powdery for my personal taste, but it is objectively a nice, womanly scent for someone with different skin chemistry.
TL;DR: Smoky, powdery incense, sandalwood, and patchouli. The kind of scent for a mature, no-nonsense woman. 3.5/5.
I was recently contacted by the lovely folks who own and operate Nui Cobalt Designs, a indie company who sells “talismans, tools, and supplies for the Magickally-minded.” They blend their own perfumes and fragrances, and they wanted me to review a few scents. I picked three that seemed the most up my alley: The Children’s Champion Audrey Hepburn, Ain’t I a Woman Sojourner Truth, and The Bee’s Cotillion! All of these fragrances are available on their website, nuicobaltdesigns.com.
Over the next week, I will be posting individual reviews for these three scents, so stay tuned! As always, the reviews will be 100% honest. A big thank you goes to Nui Cobalt Designs for letting me have this opportunity! | 2019-04-22T13:56:00 | https://thescenturion.wordpress.com/tag/nui-cobalt-designs/ |
0.999995 | Q. How can I find John Calvin's comments on Pslams 121?
The best way to find Calvin's comments on different scripture passages is to look through Calvin's Commentaries.
Calvin's commentary on the Psalms is available at the Fuller library under the call number BS491 .C168 v. 4 (parts 1-5). 19th century English translations of Calvin's Psalms commentaries have also been digitized by the internet archive collection of public domain works. Complete is the 3 volume edition printed by Talboys: London, 1840.
Additionally, you can look through the index of biblical passages in Calvin's other writings to see if he references a particular passage. While it does not currently include Calvin's commentary on the Psalms,the full text of many Calvin writings in the original French and Latin are available through the Calvin and Geneva 16 Database. | 2019-04-26T03:42:48 | http://libraryanswers.fuller.edu/faq/155990 |
0.998695 | Make this the last burst of hilarity before you tie the knot! The penultimate bridal shower scavenger hunt! Why host a boring bridal shower when you can have some real excitement with a scavenger hunt around town! View the sample game materials below for the game instructions and some sample tasks! Break the tradition! The bride will be thanking you all the way down the aisle if you giver her a bridal shower like this! We promise it will be memorable!
TASK 9: Go to any store and try on the following outfit: A red jacket, purple shirt and yellow pants. The picture proof must be of the team member modeling the outfit in the dressing room.
TASK 10: Jump on any kind of trampoline. The picture proof must be of one team member mid-flight above the trampoline. The team member must be making a goofy face for the picture proof to count.
TASK 11: Find Gas-X, Preparation-H and Ex-Lax and take a picture proof holding the items with any pharmacist. The pharmacist must hold one of the items. | 2019-04-25T06:36:15 | http://scavengerplanet.com/bridalprp.html |
0.999999 | Credit score is simply put as CREDIT CAPABILITY. From ‘Credit Score’, we have the word ‘Credit’ and the word ‘Score’, which implies the rating or scoring of how well you can pay back debt based on your credit history. The main idea behind credit score generate out from this question; “Will I get my money back from this borrower?”.
It has and will always be the concern of creditor how he or she will get his or her money back from the debtor and even before the word credit score surface, it has been the practice of the creditor to make findings about the person he/she is about to lend money so that they will be sure that though the person may not have money at present, he/she has what it takes to pay back the borrowed money.
The criteria used by agencies like bank, bureau, and others financial institutions are all different but they still follow a regular pattern. The first and foremost thing that stand to be the major determinant of a good or a poor credit score is the credit history.
How long you have been taking credit?
How frequent you take credit?
The limit of credits you take?
Have you been missing payments at its due time?
How the late payment interest has been affecting you?
Are you having more than one unsettled credit together at some point?
Do you have things worthy of collateral if you cannot meet up with the credit any longer?
If you have a good credit history, the easier and better it will be for creditors, banks and other financial institution to grant you another credit and all together the better your credit score will be.There may not be a general way of calculating a credit score but it is a general procedure that is used in calculating credit score.
Your credit report is used to generate your credit score but it is relieving to know that there are various software that can also calculate your credit score. Both offline and online free apps though some are not free.
It is another way being used to calculate credit score. According to a source; “is the percentage of borrower’s total available credit” which is presently in used by various agencies to calculate credit score.
Credit score: It is a major determinant for securing Loans. The big questions still stand and it needs to be answered before any creditor can proceed to lend the debtor money: “Is the person capable of paying back?”, “Is the person measure up to the debt in terms of financial ability?”, “will the person be able to meet the time frame given to pay the debt and any interest attached to it?”. On and on go those questions.
Creditors and especially financial institution do not like to be involved in risky practices when it comes to money. We’ve heard of debtors borrowing some amount and because of un-foreseen circumstances, they were unable to pay back which is not good enough.
So there is great need for credit score check and it is something we should be able to do ourselves not waiting for the creditor to do that because we like it or not, before any lenders can accept our propositions, they will do their own credit score checks (i.e. Hard Check) on the borrower.
Yes, this is called Hard Check because a thorough check is done on the credit reports by the prospective lenders so as to make decision pertaining to lending out money to the borrower. While we have a hard check, so also is the soft check which is the soft background credit score checks going on without the knowledge of the person. It is usually done when your credit reports are being checked without you knowing about it.
I said major credits score bureaus because we have numerous credit score bureaus but those are they three major bureaus. The bureaus do not work together meaning so many times credits report of each bureau are not consistent with each other.
The credits report of the same person may be different across each bureau which is not supposed to be so. So how do we maintain balance? This is where FICO score enters.
Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO) are not another credit bureau that goes about to gather credit reports as other credit agencies does but instead they are just there for check and balancing. Making sure all credits reports from all bureaus are consistent with each other and how did they achieve this? They achieve this basically by going to the credit bureaus to gather reports and they try to bring and juxtapose them together to reach a balance point of consistent credit reports across the credit bureaus. They therefore, come out with FICO score.
To attain a credit score as high as that is not something you sweat on. You make sure you monitor on regular bases your credit reports and probably score too!!! That way you’ll know what you’re doing that makes the score to go high and down. | 2019-04-23T19:55:25 | https://creditscoregeek.com/ |
0.998665 | ""Modification by the exalted beings"
"Yea, in the writings and utterances of the Mirrors reflecting the sun of the Muhammadan Dispensation mention hath been made of "Modification by the exalted beings" and "alteration by the disdainful." Such passages, however, refer only to particular cases."
I was curious if anyone knew about a reference by the Imams to "Modification by the exalted beings"? I am particularly curious because the reference to "exalted beings" makes it appear as though this is talking about a "corruption" (or perhaps correction) of the text which was beneficial. | 2019-04-21T10:48:41 | http://bahai-library.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5389 |
0.9902 | Let’s imagine a scenario: You invested a great deal of time and money in a brilliant, first-person account of how your company’s solution helped a highly-recognizable customer solve a major business problem. The customer has been enthusiastic throughout the process and has gladly given great quotes touting the benefits she’s realized from deploying your solution. You’re in the home stretch and extremely close to publishing a great story that will help close even more deals.
B) Convert the content into an anonymous case study by obscuring any details that might give away the customer's identity.
Just typing those words makes my eye twitch.
In the end, you’ve got a watered down version of the truth, the arduous task of answering to stakeholders when they ask “where is the BMW case study you promised us?”, and a story that won’t help prospective customers envision the solution at their own organizations.
Have hope! There are benefits to a well-written anonymous case study.
The customer is happy that you got the case study published and respected their company policy simultaneously.
You’ve learned that you should not pursue a case study with that customer in the future.
Most importantly, you’ve still learned crucial details about this customer’s deployment and how it’s helped them.
Most customers with “no case study” policies are still willing to speak to other customers one-on-one, and now you have the information you need to connect them with other prospective buyers. Most are also open to participating in analyst activities, as long as they’re not quoted (surveys and informational interviews for example).
It’s not ideal, but being blindsided by an anonymous case study isn’t all bad. The most important thing is to preserve the relationship with the customer and find advocacy activities suited to their policies.
Where do you stand on anonymous case studies? Do you see opportunity in them, or do you cancel the project?
*It’s important to note that BMW is just an example of a great brand and they have not pulled out of a case study. We actually published a case study with them last year. | 2019-04-22T00:24:35 | https://www.metia.com/blog/anonymous-case-studies-aren-t-ideal-but-they-can-still-deliver-value/ |
0.998855 | Demonstrate creative thinking to generate new ideas and products using a variety of technology tools and resources.
Create and share new ideas, products, and processes related to curriculum content.
Work individually and collaboratively to create, display, publish, or perform media-rich products.
Use models and simulations to identify problems and propose solutions.
Use technology resources to gather and depict data, recognize trends, and project outcomes.
Use a variety of technology tools to work collaboratively with others inside and outside the classroom.
Use telecommunication tools efficiently to communicate information and ideas to multiple audiences.
Access remote information using technology.
Appropriately contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems using technology.
Create a plan or process that utilizes digital tools and resources to investigate and answer issues, questions, or problems.
Locate, organize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media.
Access information for specific purposes, and assess the validity of the information source.
Identify, select, and organize data. Discuss and describe the results.
Choosing from a variety of real-world issues and/or problems, use technological resources to develop and refine questions for investigation.
Use technological resources to conduct research and complete a project.
Identify trends or solutions or assist students in making decisions.
Identify and explore diverse perspectives and processes to find multiple solutions to problems.
Demonstrate awareness of the dangers of sharing personal information with others.
Demonstrate an understanding of what electronic theft and plagiarism are and why they are harmful.
Identify the positive values of using technology to accomplish tasks.
Use technology to explore and pursue personal interests.
Show others how to use new technologies, and use technology in a way that assists, rather than prevents, others from learning.
Select the most efficient and appropriate technology tool for a specific task.
Begin to identify the source of a problem with technology, and, if necessary, identify the appropriate support personnel.
Apply prior knowledge of technologies to new technologies.
Design, develop, create, and/or test digital technology products.
Individually or collaboratively create media-rich products and display, publish, or perform them for a variety of audiences.
Use simulations to help understand complex, real-world systems, identify problems, develop models, and analyze the output.
Investigate global issues and make informed choices based on knowledge of technology systems, resources, and services.
Interact and collaborate with peers, experts, and others using technology.
Contribute to a content knowledge base by creating, producing, and sharing information, models, and other creative works.
Efficiently use technology tools and resources for communication and to access remote information and exchange it with a variety of audiences.
Engage in learning activities with learners from other countries and/or cultures using telecommunication tools to create, produce, and share information, models, and other projects with a global or cultural focus.
Share knowledge and skills with local or distant teams of peers, experts, or others using technology tools and resources to create group works and/or innovative solutions.
Create a plan for the use of digital tools and resources to investigate a real-world issue.
Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information from a variety of sources and media and use this information in a legal and ethical manner.
Evaluate resources in terms of their usefulness and validity for research.
Use technological tools to select data and organize it into a format that is easily understood by others.
Identify real-world issues and analyze technological resources for developing and refining questions for investigation.
Effectively use multiple technological resources to develop a systematic plan for conducting research. Develop possible solutions or a complete product to demonstrate knowledge and skills.
Use technology to gather, analyze, and assess data and its effectiveness to design, develop and test possible solutions that assist students in making decisions.
Analyze and evaluate information from a variety of perspectives and resources in order to assess multiple solutions and investigate them from differing viewpoints.
Use technology efficiently and in a manner that does not harm them or others.
Demonstrate awareness of legal and ethical responsibilities when using copyrighted material, and how a disregard of legal and ethical responsibilities affects others.
Use online resources to work with others to complete a task and accept responsibility for the results.
Identify capabilities of contemporary technology resources.
Develop examples of how technology systems and services can assist them in pursuing personal interests.
Utilize technology for everyday use and understand how technology systems can be applied to various situations.
Select and use technology applications to conduct research, solve problems and produce finished products.
Identify the source of a problem with technology, and, if necessary, the appropriate support personnel needed.
Apply knowledge of technology to explore other technologies and be able to identify commonalities among them. | 2019-04-23T08:28:26 | https://ileadencino.org/academics/technology |
0.999999 | Rural cruise through the lovely Cheshire countryside to Timperley and catch a 15 minute tram ride into Manchester city centre where there is a wealth of culture, restaurants and cafe's.
Also for some excitement try the new Crystal Maze experience to test your skills , also no visit to Manchester would be complete without a visit to one of the country's most famous Football clubs, Manchester City. If cars are your thing then visit the Museum of Transport where you will find the largest collections of its kind in the country.
Cruise through tunnels and pretty villages, with only one lock each way the route is ideal for novices, and for those wanting a large city to explore.
Northbound (Saltersford Tunnel to Preston Brook) - Entry on the hour until 20 minutes past the hour.
Southbound (Saltersford Tunnel to Barnton) - Entry 30 minutes past the hour until 10 minutes to the hour.
Northbound: open on the hour, and remains open until 10 past the hour.
Southbound: open at half past the hour, and remain opens until 20 to the hour.
Opening times are as follows: mid Mar, Apr, May - 8am-6pm. Jun, Jul, Aug - 8am-8pm. Sep - mid Nov - 8am-6pm, Mid Nov - mid Mar Weekdays 8am-4.30pm. Weekends 10am-2pm. Closed for lunch daily 12pm-12.45pm. Closed 24 Dec 09 - 04 Jan.
Leaving Anderton, you will be heading towards Barnton Tunnel, which emerges onto a hillside overlooking the River Weaver, with a fantastic view down to Saltersford Locks. Do make sure before you enter the tunnel, that there are no boats coming from the other side, as it is only wide enough for one boat at a time.
At the east end of the tunnel, you will see some handy shops, so maybe a good time to stock up, if you have not already done so.
Moving on, you will now enter Saltersford Tunnel, again, two boats cannot pass in this tunnel, so do take care when entering and leaving it.
Passage is timed - northbound is on the hour to 20 past , southbound is half past the hour for 20 minutes.
Once through the tunnel, you will again be in open countryside and not far from your mooring for the night which is by bridge 209.
Not too far from the mooring about 1/4 mile to the north of Bridge 209, so take the road to your right by the bridge, you might like to have a meal in The Holly Bush Inn, Little Leigh, Northwich. Food is served at lunchtimes and evenings, along with traditional ales. There is a large beer garden with children's play area, so the whole family can relax before settling down for the night, ready for tomorrow's journey.
You should now have travelled about 4 miles in 1.45 hours.
Today you will head towards Timperley Bridge No. 33, where you will need to turn around for the return journey.
When you leave your moorings, you will soon enter some woodlands, just prior to Preston Brook Tunnel which is 1239 yards long. From the North end of the tunnel, you will see a sign announcing that from here onwards, you are now on the Bridgewater Canal.
You will notice that the canal now splits into two, where you will need to bear right. If you have the time, and want to visit Runcorn, then bear left for the 1½ hour cruise to the end of the canal, otherwise, keep left and make for Stockton Heath, a suburb of Warrington.
Runcorn (if you chose this route), has a really impressive road bridge, called the 'Silver Jubilee Bridge'. It links Runcorn to Widnes and is around 1,082 feet long, and it really is worth taking the detour to Runcorn just to see it.
Back towards Preston Brook Marina, bear left on a rural stretch until you reach Higher Walton, which is a pretty estate village, with local shops and amenities. A nice place to stop for lunch is the Walton Arms in Higher Walton. Children are welcome here, but only if they are dining with adults.
If you have time, you might like to visit Walton Hall in Higher Walton. This beautiful house and its gardens makes a nice day out for all the family, with play area's for the children.
And moving on, towards Stockton Heath, it becomes more urban and is a popular area for walkers and fishermen. Stockton Heath is North of London Road Bridge No. 15, and is a suburb of Warrington. This side of the canal is quite built-up, but on the South side, it is still very much unspoilt and open.
Next, you will pass by Grappenhall and Thelwall, where there is a pub called The Penny Ferry Inn. You can get a drink and maybe a snack here whilst waiting for the Penny Ferry to transport you across the Manchester Ship Canal, for a minimal fee.
Once back on your boat, you will cruise towards Lymm.
Lymm is a pretty little town with the streets tumbling down to the canal side. If you want to stop here and have a look around, there are 24 hour moorings, which is handy for the fish and chip shop! In the town centre is Lymm Cross, built in C17th, and the centre-point of the town.
You will now pass through some small villages – Oughtrington, Bollington and Dunham, to name but a few. The Swan With Two Nicks is a nice pub in Little Bollington, near the canal, and not far from Dunham Massey Country Park.
As you leave here, you will notice it becoming more built-up as you approach Sale. You will need to moor at Timperley Bridge No. 33, where you will turn ready for the journey back to Anderton.
From Timperley, you can get the Metrolink tram into Manchester, where there is a wealth of culture, restaurants and cafe's. On the canal side, you will find The Waterside Arts Centre and The Robert Bolt Theatre. In the Waterside Plaza, you might like to eat in The Waterside, a modern bar serving food all day, with a patio area overlooking the canal. They have a strict dress code, so do check first.
Try the new Crystal Maze experience in Manchester. - You and your team must test your skills, solve mysteries and overcome challenges both mental and physical. They’re in four adventure zones – Medieval, Industrial, Aztec and Futuristic. Plus they’re all against the clock. The more challenges your team completes successfully, the more Crystals you win and the more time you’ll get to catch tokens in the iconic Crystal Dome.
If cars are your thing then visit the Museum of Transport where you will find the largest collections of its kind in the country.
No visit to Manchester would be complete without a visit to one of the country's most famous Football clubs, Manchester City. Begin at the museum and learn about the club's 130 year history. Have a go at commentating on some of the glorious goals or relive the greatest moments on the video jukebox.
Take a look behind the scenes when your tour guide will give you an insight into the day to day activities of the club or walk in the footsteps of your football hero's.
You might also like to take the tram as far as Stretford, if you have time.
You have cruised 22 miles, and navigated 1 lock, in just under 7½ hours.
Today you make your return journey to Anderton Marina.
All the above stops and locations are suggestions only and you are free to moor elsewhere if it is safe to do so. | 2019-04-24T18:21:22 | https://ukcanalboating.com/Manchester-and-return-from-Anderton--Cruising-Route.html |
0.999932 | Do you know the No. 1 question I get asked when leading writing workshops? It's these five words: "How long should copy be?"
The answer is simple. Copy and content need to be as long as they need to be to do their job: Make a sale. Generate a lead. Provide sought-after information. Establish credibility.
As direct response writers know, the only way to know for certain whether longer or shorter "copy works better in a specific situation is to test, track and analyze results.
But sometimes it's not feasible to test, so here's my suggestion: Use common sense.
Is your objective to generate a one-step sale? If so, then common sense tells you that you need to provide a complete and compelling sales argument for why your reader should buy now, not later. This includes product benefits and specifications, answers to buying objections and a lot more. You also need to explain where and how to make the purchase. Online. In a store. By phone or mail. The result is one-step sales copy typically is longer than other marketing messages.
When your goal is different from selling off the page in one step, your copy strategy will be different, as well. Here are eight marketing scenarios in which less—in regard to copy—is more. But remember, when in doubt, test to confirm.
Whether you're writing a lead generation email, direct mail letter or space ad, the goal is to leave your readers wanting to know more. So don't reveal your entire sales pitch. If you do, your readers will make a yes-no buying decision without giving you the opportunity to identify their initial interest.
Here's a tip: Pick the most tantalizing product benefit for your targeted audience and tease with it. Then ask your reader to click, call, mail a card or scan a QR Code to learn more. At that point, you've identified (and owned) a qualified lead, and you can take your time nurturing that lead into a solid customer. | 2019-04-19T09:21:53 | https://www.targetmarketingmag.com/article/8-marketing-scenarios-make-more-sense-shorter-copy/ |
0.999999 | In Short: Niantic has announced that Pokemon from Sinnoh, originally seen in Pokemon Diamond, Pearl and Platinum on the Nintendo DS, have invaded Pokemon GO, and it seems that they're scattered all around the globe. Niantic's announcement only mentions the three starter Pokemon for the generation by name, but the attached video shows many more, including legendary Pokemon Giratina, known in its game for control over dimensions. Some of the new Pokemon have already been found to be exclusive to certain regions of the world. Carnivine can only be found in the southeastern United States, Chatot hangs out in Australia and Brazil, and Pachirisu is mainly found in Canada, with limited sightings reported in Alaska.
Background: This rollout is likely going to be handled similarly to new-generation rollouts in the past. When the game first unveiled Johto Pokemon, they came out in waves, with some introduced in special events that made them available worldwide no matter where their usual home was. It was the same when third-generation Pokemon hit the scene. Legendary Pokemon have been handled a bit differently and somewhat out of order; Deoxys, a third-generation legendary, for example, came out before Celebi, a second-generation legendary. It should be noted that legendary Pokemon with significance or heavy mythology in the Pokemon universe, such as Mew, Mewtwo, and Celebi, seem to come out a bit later, and often out of generational order. Many Pokemon, particularly stronger ones, are exclusive to special events and raids even though they're not legendary. Absol, a very powerful and strategically versatile Pokemon from the third generation, is one of the most obvious examples; it seems to only appear in raid battles. Given the random nature of Pokemon that hatch from eggs, it's quite possible that some of these exclusive Pokemon could be found in eggs, as was the case with the likes of Chansey and Kangaskhan in the first generation. It's worth noting that there have not been any verified reports of legendary Pokemon coming from eggs.
Impact: Players can expect to see generation four starters appearing in the game right now, along with any region-exclusive Pokemon that may apply to them. The rollout will be happening in waves, so it will be a while, perhaps even a few months, before all of the fourth generation's Pokemon become available in the game. Niantic has yet to officially state what Pokemon will appear and when, or where for that matter. In fact, Niantic has not even officially confirmed that any Pokemon are region-exclusive. As for legendary Pokemon, since Giratina appears in the trailer video, it will almost certainly be appearing in a major event at some point in the near future. It's part of the Sinnoh creation trio, accompanied by Dialga and Palkia. This generation is also home to the God of the Pokemon universe, Arceus. Shaymin, a multi-forme Pokemon that appeared in a movie centered around Giratina will also likely be heavily featured, along with Darkrai, a legendary Dark Pokemon who was briefly the face of premium booster packs for the Pokemon card game. | 2019-04-18T22:51:06 | https://www.androidheadlines.com/2018/10/pokemon-go-sinnoh.html |
0.997854 | According to reports, the officer was called to the scene after someone called in to report that the man was unresponsive. Once the officer arrived, he started a conversation with the man, who is alleged to be a homeless man in the area. The fire department and paramedics were dispatched to check on the man's well-being and overall health. When the officer attempted to keep the man in the vicinity, so his health could be assessed, he became uncooperative.
The officer was punched in the face as the man allegedly became violent, then continuing his attack by tackling the officer. Medics were on-scene and were able to restrain him until backup arrived. He was then arrested on suspicion of felony assault on a peace officer, resisting arrest and possession of drug paraphernalia. Bond is set at $5,000 at Alameda county jail.
It's unclear what caused the man to become so angry, so quickly. However, his actions could certainly land himself a criminal conviction. However, due process will need to occur first. How much intoxication could have led to the man's alleged outburst is unclear. | 2019-04-24T18:48:41 | https://www.fredremer.com/blog/2018/07/drug-paraphernalia-assault-charges-for-man.shtml |
0.999995 | My friends call me “Jack”. I’m from Tashkent; it’s the capital city of Uzbekistan. I have 2 younger brothers and a sister. The first year of attendance at this college was for ESL classes. After some time I decided to take a break and go back to Tashkent. Back home, I spent some time with family and friends and worked with one of the best Travel Agencies while I was taking time off from college. I have to say it was a great experience. Then after 3 years I finally came back to Seattle to finish my education at SCCC. So here I am completing my AA Degree and looking forward to transferring to a university.
As we all know, every single student wants to be a part of good school, college or university. Keeping that in mind, I always wanted to attend a better college after high school. One day, I had a talk with my father, and he gave me the best advice and that was to go the United States in order to get a better education. After that I did countless research of the best colleges in United States. I found an article with the following topic: (Seattle Central Community College was named Time magazine's Community College of the Year in 2001). It inspired me, so I decided to attend SCCC and to be part of this college.
I couldn’t be happier with the overall experience. This college taught me to find my path to success, be more focused and live an independent life. There are numerous things you can do at this college. For instance, you can start your own club by getting involved at Student Leadership, and meet many international students as well as US students. My friends and I came up with an idea of forming a Seattle Central Soccer Team and it’s been an amazing experience. It helped me a lot to improve my English skills, express myself and share ideas among the leaders of the club. In creating our soccer team, we have gathered many student players from all over the world. Currently, we are working on forming a new soccer team for the college. I have met so many people and friends from all over the world, and now with no hesitation I have the right to be proud of things I have achieved here. So there are a lot of new things to look forward to!
Tashkent and Seattle are considered sister cities so I feel like many things in Tashkent matches in comparison to Seattle. Seattle is one of the best cities in the United Sates and it has many beautiful places and parks with amazing views to Puget Sound or Mount Rainer. People in Seattle are very friendly and humorous, and no matter whom you meet or see, it feels like you have known them for a while. People in Tashkent are all very friendly and are always willing to help as well. One difference I can think of is the school system in Seattle. For example: teachers are different in terms of the way they teach and communicate with students. There are certain things which you cannot be open about with respect to the system in Tashkent. It is oriented more towards listening to the teachers versus discussion based lectures here. You feel like you don’t get to know the teacher as much as you do here. I feel that you get more help here from the teachers.
In the beginning I was taking classes for computer programming. After talking to my academic advisor and researching my options, I found a lot of things I can do with a business major. I changed my major to Business which I feel is better for me. Lately, I have been interested in working at a bank. I like the system here. My future plans after graduating Seattle Central is to transfer to University of Washington or Seattle University. I have many friends who are attending UW at this time, and they really like it. After graduating I would like to get a good job here in Seattle. We will see what’s going to happen.
I am involved in extra curricular activities. I work at the gym on campus and also at the student leadership office. I work as an assistant for the sport clubs. I work on researching and updating the website about the clubs and activities on campus. I communicate a lot with people from different countries and it has helped my communication skills. I want to say to new students, try to speak in English as much as possible. When I first came here, I lived with a host family which was very helpful to me. I learned a lot of new things about American lifestyle and it helped my adjustment here be easier. If you are trying to learn English better and faster, it is good to make a lot of friends from different countries and from the US. It helped me improve my English.
7. What are your favorite things to do in Seattle?
My favorite things to do in Seattle are to play soccer with my friends, go to the movies in Downtown, go to Public Place Market/ Waterfront and enjoy the beauty of Seattle with its unpredictable weather. There are a lot wonderful places, and no matter where you go, you will like them all. | 2019-04-24T18:21:56 | https://intl.seattlecentral.edu/jakhongir.php |
0.999418 | washington - The US Secretary of State Rod Rosenstein (Justice) sees no reason to dismiss the special prosecutor charged with investigating possible Russian influence on the elections. 'If I thought he was doing something inappropriate, I would intervene,' Rosenstein said to a committee of the House of Representatives.
Republicans openly question the impartiality of those involved in the investigation of special prosecutor Robert Mueller. 'We only now get an idea of how big the bias is in the team of Mr. Mueller', wrote committee chairman Bob Goodlatte in the run-up to the hearing with Rosenstein.
The Republican Goodlatte pointed out that two former members of the 'dreamteam' of Mueller have been rather disdainful about Trump, 'the person they are investigating. 'The FBI agent and a lawyer who worked on the investigation would have called the president in text messages a' complete idiot 'and' a disgusting person '.
Rosenstein showed that he was not yet planning to drop the prosecutor appointed by him. According to the Secretary of State no one asked him for this. He said that Mueller acted correctly by expelling the FBI agent, Peter Strzok, from his team after the text messages had leaked. 'The investigation of the special prosecutor is not a witch hunt,' Rosenstein said during the session. | 2019-04-24T11:53:23 | https://www.hotrecentnews.com/news/minister-of-state-us-defends-special-prosecut/32704 |
0.992172 | Actor Arjun Kapoor, who is reuniting with his former "Ishaqzaade" actress Parineeti Chopra for Dibakar Banerjees film, says working with the director was always on his wish list.
During the promotion of his forthcoming film "Mubarakan", Arjun was asked about teaming up with Banerjee for Yash Raj Films' "Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar".
The actor said: "It is very exciting. This is the first time Parineeti and I felt like pairing with each other again because of the story of the film. Dibakar Banerjee is one such filmmaker who has been on my wish list since a long period of time."
"It will be different from 'Ishaqzaade'. YRF is a home film, Parineeti is a special co-star and the material of the film is something different so, this combination will make this film more special."
"I feel when you work with co-actor with whom you have already worked, then it needs some kind of freshness so, it is an interesting space for us and we will start shooting for the film in October," he added.
"Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar" is about a man and woman, who represent two completely different India, and also deals with their love-hate relationship.
Moving on to "Mubarakan". What prompted him to do a film like this?
Arjun said: "I wanted to work with Anees Bazmee and the icing on the cake was having Anil chachu (Kapoor) on board and doing a double role because that's the challenge you look for as an actor."
"The film was not generic and I really believe in the script of this film. I really feel it is genuinely funny film and it's a wholesome family entertainer. I haven't done something like this earlier.
"The closest family film that I done was "2 States", but this slightly more light-hearted and time pass film. But in the end, this also has some emotions and gives a message to the audience."
Expressing his views on young actors and directors not attempting much comedy, Arjun said: "There hasn't been much written when it comes to comedy films these days. Actors cannot go and sign scripts beyond a point. Actors make decisions on what is being offered to them and also directors have to see the potential in you to fulfill it."
"Anees Bazmee must be having some faith in my performance abilities to offer this film. Comedy is not something that everybody can do," he added.
"I also feel that younger directors are not pan India in their thinking. Their upbringing is more digital and they are more into younger thought process and problems of today's world."
"Comedy in India always worked when it was relatable to everybody. If you see Kapil's (Sharma) show, he does things that everybody can understand and that is why he does so well." | 2019-04-23T10:34:45 | https://www.ghaintpunjab.com/ghaintpunjab/Article/7174/dibakar-banerjee-arjun-kapoor |
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0.998813 | Shooting video of a lumpy moon crossing the Sun and turning it into a giant googly eye is not a new activity for Curiosity, but I get a fresh thrill each time I see one of these sequences downlinked from the rover. A big pile of data from the most recent Phobos transit just landed on Earth, and I had to assemble them into an animation and share it with you. The animation runs faster than natural speed, but not a lot faster; Phobos transits take less than a minute. The data were taken on Curiosity's sol 713 (August 8), and downlinked just a couple of hours ago in the wee hours of Curiosity's sol 730. I believe I can see a pair of sunspots here, too, although they're a little hard to make out in the fuzz of the JPEG artifacts.
Note: an earlier version of this post had animations that were running backwards. Oops! I've uploaded fixed versions.
Curiosity watched on sol 713 as lumpy Phobos passed across the face of the Sun. There are 84 images in this animation, which runs faster than natural speed. A couple of sunspots are faintly visible. The animation is composed of raw JPEG images, so contains artifacts, particularly at the high-contrast areas at the edges of the Sun and Phobos.
What do I mean by JPEG artifacts? When the Curiosity team shares its images with the public, they first adjust their contrast and convert them from a proprietary format to JPEG format. (Opportunity and Cassini do this too, and so will New Horizons.) JPEG is great for making images have small file sizes, but it is a "lossy" compression scheme that introduces artifacts, particularly in places where there are sharp edges between bright and dark things -- like the edge of the Sun against the much darker sky.
I'll have to return to the sol 713 animation when its data are released publicly. Alas, we have just crossed a data-release boundary (data from sols 584 to 707 will be released on December 5), so I won't be able to get my grubby fingers on these data until March 16.
Are those really sunspots in the animation? I'm pretty sure that they are. You can find a picture of the Sun on Aug 8 at NASA's SOHO web site; here's a link: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/synoptic/sunspots_earth/sunspots_512_20140808.jpg You can see two large sunspots to the left, with the label "2135" over them. Now, the view of the Sun from Mars is a bit different, since it's about 60 degrees from the Earth in its orbit right now, but my guess is that the double-blob-feature near the center of the Sun's disk in the animation may be these two spots.
Michael, thanks so much for tracking down those sunspots -- I didn't have time to check for them myself. | 2019-04-24T19:54:12 | http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/08251427-curiosity-watches-phobos.html |
0.998783 | What is the REAL international legal status of Yehuda and Shomron? Is or is not Israel's occupation of the West Bank illegal by international law !? Judea and Shomron were taken from Jordan in the 1967 war, after it attacked Israel, together with Syria and Egypt , and since occupied by Israel (today partly). The basic precept of international law concerning the right of a state victim of aggression, which has lawfully occupied the attacking state's territory in the course of self defense, is clear. And it is still international law after the Charter, which gave to the UN General Assembly no power to amend this law. This precept is that a lawful occupant such as Israel in 1967 is entitled to remain in control of the territory involved pending negotiation of a treaty of peace. These territories were never the land of Palestinians neither were they legally ruled by Jordan ( only two states in the whole world recognized Jordan's right). So the right status of Judea and Shomron is "disputed territories" and not Palestinian territories, until arrangements acceptable to Israel, which was the state victim of Arab aggression, are reached in a peace treaty . | 2019-04-26T06:21:31 | http://takeapen.org/Takeapen/templates/showpage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=112&FID=580&PID=0&IID=925 |
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0.999994 | Does Al Gore's home consume twenty times as much energy as the average American house?
Al Gore's residence uses considerably more energy than the average American home.
Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.
The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh – more than 20 times the national average.
The specific numbers involved were disputable (the TCPR claimed Gore’s home used electricity at a rate more than “20 times the national average,” while the Associated Press reported that their own review of bills indicated that the Gores’ Nashville household used more than 12 times the average for a typical household in that area), but the basic gist of the claim — that the Gores’ Nashville residence consumed a larger proportion of energy than the average American home — was true.
Some important points not covered in the report, however, included whether equating the Gores’ home to the average American home was really a relevant comparison. A spokesperson for the Gore family responded by noting some mitigating factors, such as the fact that the Gores’ Nashville residence isn’t an “average” house: it’s about four times larger than the average new American home built in 2006, and it essentially functions as both a residence and a business office since both Al and Tipper work out of their home. The Tennessean also noted that the Gores had been paying a $432 per month premium on their monthly electricity bills in order to obtain some of their electricity from “green” sources (i.e., solar or other renewable energy sources). Other factors (such as the climate in the area where the home is located and its size) made the Gore home’s energy usage comparable to that of other homes in the same area.
A carbon footprint is a calculation of the CO2 fossil fuel emissions each person is responsible for, either directly because of his or her transportation and energy consumption or indirectly because of the manufacture and eventual breakdown of products he or she uses.
Al Gore, who was criticized for high electric bills at his Tennessee mansion, has completed a host of improvements to make the home more energy efficient, and a building-industry group has praised the house as one of the nation’s most environmentally friendly.
The former vice president has installed solar panels, a rainwater-collection system and geothermal heating. He also replaced all incandescent lights with compact fluorescent or light-emitting diode bulbs.
“Short of tearing it down and staring anew, I don’t know how it could have been rated any higher,” said Kim Shinn of the U.S. Green Building Council, which gave the house its second-highest rating for sustainable design.
Gore’s improvements cut the home’s summer electrical consumption by 11 percent compared with a year ago, according to utility records reviewed by The Associated Press. Most Nashville homes used 20 percent to 30 percent more electricity during the same period because of a record heat wave.
Drew Johnson, a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank, wrote the August 2017 piece. (Johnson appears to have been behind the 2007 claims about Gore’s energy use as well.) In that article, he cited his own report for National Center for Public Policy Research (without making it clear that he authored the report), in which he found that Gore’s electricity bill for September 2016 was 34 times more than the national average. However, Johnson, as well as other sources that replicated his claims — including the National Center for Public Policy Research’s own press release — implied in the headlines or bodies of their articles that Gore’s home “consistently devoured” 34 times more energy than the average home, which was not the case: that figure was based on estimates for a single month during the previous year, and that single month was August, a time of the year when energy usage typically spikes due high mid-summer temperatures.
I don’t believe the DC title intentionally misrepresented the report. I just gave an unwieldy title that needed to be trimmed down. And although I wish there was a qualifier (“up to”, “as much as”, “in one month”), it was based off of a legitimate number.
If one were to compare electricity consumption in Al Gore’s home in April (the month of lowest usage) to the national average, the multiplier drops from 34 to 10. Of course, comparing any single month to an annual average is problematic, as monthly electric use fluctuates throughout the year (and also in response to local conditions, such as weather and climate patterns).
ABC News. 26 February 2007.
San Francisco Chronicle. 14 December 2007.
The Tennessean. 26 February 2007.
The Boston Globe. 28 February 2007.
 : The Washington Post. 1 March 2007 (p. A8). | 2019-04-20T18:35:51 | https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/al-gores-energy-use/ |
0.99901 | The tools you need are there for the taking. It’s a matter of realizing it, identifying them, and reaching out to combine the internal knowledge you hold and carry with those external tools that are at your disposal.
No one can take that first step but you. No one can force you. Being forced into it in one way or another does not create value. True value comes from truly understanding what your skills and value are and executing them in the right way, in order to complement those outside tools and resources.
If we ourselves haven’t made the decision to at least try and step out of ourselves to learn what’s out there for us, there won’t be enough power within us to deliver that of which we are wholly capable.
If you don’t believe it in, the level of commitment, effort, and ability will falter.
Much in the same way companies need to grow by learning, evolving, and avoiding complacency, each of us needs to understand the difference between reacting to what is given to us and being proactive to see, and work toward, what we believe we deserve.
Most often, what sets the successful person apart from those who are not is the determination, drive and focus to influence one’s environment, target the value they know they can provide, and adjust accordingly based on the outcomes. Those who have achieved their own version of success step up for what they believe they deserve. This isn’t meant necessarily in a entitled fashion, although some people might work that way. Knowing what you deserve comes from knowing what you can deliver and not settling for an environment where you’re not receiving value comparable to what you’re delivering.
This Reactive vs. Proactive comparison is about getting to where it is you can and want to be, not just staying where you feel safe and things are predictable.
For each person you come across, that’s an opportunity to learn, whether it is from them or them introducing you to something — not just someone — new.
Wherever you are right now is fine as long as utilizing 100% of your effort, desire, personal strategy and self-reflection, and drive is what has gotten you to this point. But if you feel like you have much more inside you to tap into to make a difference for either yourself or others, or both, you have more work to do.
The easiest and hardest part of doing this is getting started.
It’s the hardest because we might be fearful of the unknown, but what is fear really? What is at stake? Yes, outcomes and consequences need to be considered and weighed to move forward. But risks should be taken which are calculated. You have to ask yourself about the consequences of taking on certain risks outside of your comfort zone. Are the consequences you fear financial or perceptual?
With regard to the financial, if things don’t work out will you lose financially to a dangerous degree? This must be weighed carefully as this is your life and well-being on the line.
With regard to perceptual, are you afraid of what others might think? Their thoughts? The thoughts that…can’t harm you physically?
In the end, with regard to your reputation, if things don’t work out when you try to make moves, you can’t be ashamed or embarrassed for trying. At least you’re trying. If someone makes you feel bad for falling short of a goal, then it’s not someone you want around you. You need people that allow you to work toward your goals. But if someone makes you feel embarrassed, they don’t belong in the circle of support that you need as they don’t have your best interests at-heart (or common courtesy). They’ve shown their true colors and there are way too many other people out there that would provide both great support and invaluable insight.
The hardest part of something typically is the first step. It will take some steps to gain momentum after that, but everything is a work-in-progress.
Related Post: In Your Journey, How Do You Think About Fear And How It Holds You Back?
But getting started is also the easiest because usually it takes a minimal amount of effort at first by way of asking questions.
Ask yourself what it is you truly want. Ask yourself if the resources (people, funding, network, etc.) are within your reach to start working in that direction. And ask yourself how bad you want it and what regrets you might have if you don’t at least try.
What do you feel is missing in the world? Can you deliver that?
No two people are alike. There are different personalities, desires, and goals. This advice doesn’t need to be a consideration for some.
For the rest of us, reconcile where you stand and then get going!
Yes, it’s not a race, but it is your life.
With some rare exceptions, no one is going to fight for you with the energy, passion, and desire you will to get what you want.
Are you just going to roll with life’s punches or are you going to counter-punch?
What do you tell others who strive to focus their drive to their success? Do you take your own advice?
What percentage of your approach is reactive and how much is proactive? Is that the split that you want?
What has stopped you from being what and where you want to be?
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0.998448 | When I say that all the European gods are the same, that the different names of the gods and goddesses are but different faces of the European divine concept, I am often met with ridicule and aggressive contempt. For some reason many refuse to accept that the same divine being is called by different names in different parts of Europe – including in those areas that used to be European or ruled by Europeans, such as Ancient Egypt, Sumer, Persia and the Indus Valley.
The origin of our European religion lies of course in the European race, and tribes belonging to this race have moved about for ages, in Europe, in Asia and even in Africa. They all had their preferences in relation to deity names, they were all influenced by different natural forces, social events, alien races and ideas, so it is no wonder that they all, by the time the settled down somewhere, called the deities by different names. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure that out. We all speak different languages for the same reason – and I would be surprised if I was met with ridicule and contempt for claiming that. We all know that as a fact.
E.g. love is love, no matter what language you use to describe it. However, some might name a deity of love after her beauty (Roman Venus, "beautiful") or fairness (Celtic Aine, "brightness, radiance, beauty, glow"), some might name her after the way she was born (Greek Aphrodite, "risen from [sea] foam"), some might name her after the word for love (Scandinavian Freyja, "love, liberty, free"), and others might name her after her other properties, such as one of the animals associated with her, or perhaps some other characteristic of hers (like the Slavo-Scythian Shieba and the Sanskrit Shiva, both meaning "auspicious one"). Love can also be either seen as masculine or feminine, or perhaps both.
We have the word ven (as in Venus) in Norwegian as well, and naturally it means "beautiful" in Norwegian as well, as found in the (Old Norwegian) description of Freyja as a "vana-dis" ("beautiful goddess"). To understand this name you need to know the Greek myth about Paris, who gives an apple to the most beautiful goddess, Aphrodite (Freyja). So why would she not be called the "vana-dis"? She won the contest and is the most beautiful goddess! And why would love not be the most beautiful concept? And is it common to all Europeans or is it a purely Scandinavian concept? Of course it is common to all Europeans! Our goddess of love is the same wherever we live, whatever language we speak and however we build our temples!
When a deity is listed with a different gender than the PIE original deity this simply means that in this particular culture this particular deity was seen as of a different gender. It is however still the same deity. This can play a role for characters born in this particular culture, because the deity will be of a different gender in his culture. See Birth Date (Character Generation & Development).
A few of the names (such as Scandinavian Íðunn from PIE Eduno and Celtic Epona, probably also from PIE Eduno) unveil themselves as being basically the same name, even though they are from different regions and tribes of Europe, but most of the names and their different sound and meaning can be explained by what I wrote in the first part of this article. Naturally this list only includes the names of deities included in the RPG, but you can also find a more comprehensive list of (only the) Scandinavian, proto-Nordic and Greek names in SRAS, if you care to.
To me it is obvious that all the Europeans had a common culture and religion in the past, and I hope that more and more of you begin to share this view with me. This will be important after the soon-to-come (i.e. in the coming years) collapse of the Judeo-Christian civilization, when we (or rather those of us who survive) are to rebuild Europe and reconstruct our common Pagan heritage, for use as our new European culture, world view and religion. We must make sure that we unite as a race, in a European tribal confederacy, and for all future stop all slaughter of racial brethren. Our race is our nation, and Europe is our homeland!
May I add that there is no reason to reconstruct what is lost just for the sake of reconstructing it. We must do so because we have very good reasons indeed to reconstruct our ancient culture, our world view and our traditions; Paganism was really valuable, positive and good for us, because it was in accordance with our European blood and spirit, and it generated positive energies and cultivated honour in us. If we want any form of harmony and peace of mind we need to have a mind working with our European nature, not against it. | 2019-04-23T21:55:22 | http://www.burzum.org/eng/library/paganism19.shtml |
0.998731 | The roots of several street trees on the East Rock Road side of the building have grown and lifted the sidewalk, raising sections of the pavement so much that pedestrians often trip.
In June and again in August I reported a missing sign at the corner of Prospect and East Rock. Since the issue was closed and I hadn't seen a sign, I walked up to the corner and searched for the sign. Yes there is a sign, but it was placed on the southwest corner of the intersection in such a way that it is totally hidden by a tree from two of the three possible approaches to that corner. In other words, it is not visible heading west on East Rock Road or heading south on Prospect. There is a wooden utility pole on the northeast corner of that intersection that is perfectly visible from all directions. That pole still has the brackets from an older sign. Can't the signs be moved so they are visible in all directions? What good are signs that cannot be seen?
Our block of East Rock Road was recently repaved. The new blacktop was layered on top of the old material, raising the level of the pavement to such an extent that there is no longer a curb along most of the block. In some parts of the block the strip of yard next to the street is lower than the street. Because of that, during storms, water pours from the street onto and across the strip of yard. Can something be done to give us curbs?
On June 6, I reported that there is no street sign at the intersection of Prospect and East Rock. I got a notice that the issue was closed on July 24, but there is still no sign indicating either Prospect St or East Rock Road. What can be done about this?
There is no street sign at the corner of East Rock Road and Prospect St. I's hard to tell visitors to turn off Prospect onto East Rock if there's no sign. | 2019-04-24T08:26:35 | https://seeclickfix.com/users/128440 |
0.999282 | Guy: Your eyes are like the stars.
Girl: Is it because the way they sparkle?
Guy: No because they are really far apart. | 2019-04-22T11:03:48 | https://www.objectiface.com/posts/74902-celeb-faces |
0.998987 | What is the best way to measure the power of a laser that is, unfortunately, not stable, where the power is drifting upwards or downwards. I am making a measurement taking readings by hand and logging to computer?
The best way to measure in such a condition is to take statistics of a number of readings. In order for the sample to be truly random, you should a given intervals look at the reading and take it down as seen with no attempt to wait for it to stabilize or reach a "better" value.
Setting your thermal sensor up in energy mode for the best accuracy and repeatability. | 2019-04-25T23:44:43 | https://www.ophiropt.com/laser--measurement/knowledge-center/article/2607 |
0.999893 | Tracy, CA has 50 investment property private money lenders offering loans within the city. The median amount for loans in the city is $298,572. Interest rates for loans average about 11.1%. 26 months is the median term for loans issued in the city. The average origination for the loans is 2.8 percent. Lenders offer on average a 70% loan-to-value (LTV) on deals in Tracy.
Marissa wants to acquire an investment property in Tracy, CA for $150,000 using a private loan from East Star Investment Company . Marissa and East Star Investment Company agree to a 85% loan-to-value (LTV) so they will fund 85% of the sales price and Marissa will have to bring the other 15%. The additional guidelines of the deal are as follows: 1) a 5 year, interest only note, 2) a 9% rate of interest, and 3) 1 origination points paid at closing. Marissa will need to fund $22,500 of her own money upon the close of the deal (based on the 85% LTV) in addition to the $1,275 in origination fees (1% x the $127,500 principle), plus she will also start paying $956 monthly when the deal is executed.
Estelle is a real estate investor in Tracy, CA. She finds a rental house she wants to purchase for $220,000 but she doesn't have enough cash so she takes out a hard money loan from Oak Hill Funding Company . The lender agrees to loan Estelle 85% of the list price of the house (LTV), so she will have to pay the remaining 15%. The other parameters of the loan are as follows: 1) a 3 year, interest only note, 2) a 12% interest rate, and 3) a 1 point origination fee paid at the closing. According to this scenario, Estelle will need to put $33,000 of her own cash in the deal in addition to the $1,870 origination fee (1% x $187,000 principle loan). She will then be required to make interest payments of $1,870 per month. | 2019-04-20T00:21:44 | https://www.hardmoneyhome.com/investment-property-loans/tracy-ca |
0.999929 | Which one should you heed?
Volatility, volatility, volatility. It's all the financial world can talk about lately... and, well, for good reason. In the past few months, the world's stock markets have endured some of the most gut-wrenching price swings since the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
But for many investors, it's still not clear what this volatility means for the status of the bull market in U.S. stocks.
Take, for example, this summer. Before U.S. stocks fell off the cliff this August, the market was about as volatile as a yoga retreat. The trend was a slow, calm, and steady ascension to a higher self. In fact, the ultimate "fear gauge" known as the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) had dipped below 12 for the first time since 2014.
Got it? Low volatility is a bull's best ally.
But wait! Come August, the yoga-retreat-like market went from "Om" to "Oh My!!" via triple-digit daily leaps and losses (oh yeah, and one quadruple-digit intraday drop on August 24).
"Yes, the Markets are Volatile -- That's A Good Thing... Stocks have been too nonvolatile for too long. You don't get up-a-lot markets, big moves fast, without abundant gyrations. You should expect this bull market to raise its tenacious head soon, bucking off all the fear skeptics can hurt at it."
So to summarize: Volatility down means "up" for stocks. And -- "up" is also "up"?
How about a different take altogether?
See, the mainstream experts did a first-rate job of determining that low volatility is bullish -- AFTER years of record calm. And, that high volatility is bullish -- AFTER months of record turbulence.
Elliott wave analysis, on the other hand, anticipated a historic reversal from low to high volatility BEFORE the tide turned. Here, the July 2015 Elliott Wave Financial Forecast warned "Here Comes High Volatility"
This chart confirms the deep complacency. It shows the open interest in puts relative to calls on the VIX, which indicates the ratio of investors' open option contracts betting on a VIX move. On June 19, the ratio dropped to 0.248, its second lowest level since February 16, 2007 (0.165), when the financials peaked, as just noted.
Monday's sell-off appears to be just the start. When the stock market's decline kicks into high gear, volatility will spike to record levels as will the p/c ratio. The era of low volatility will be replaced by head-spinning stock market moves that will shake global stock markets to their foundation.
So, has a new era of volatility begun? And what does it mean for the U.S. bull market of the past six years?
No longer is extreme volatility contained to Greece or China. The massive waves are here in the States, just as our analysts predicted. Learn what's behind the recent market chaos. Read excerpts and see eye-opening charts from Robert Prechter's Elliott Wave Theorist, The Financial Forecast and our Short Term Update.
This article was syndicated by Elliott Wave International and was originally published under the headline The Two Faces of Stock Market Volatility. EWI is the world's largest market forecasting firm. Its staff of full-time analysts led by Chartered Market Technician Robert Prechter provides 24-hour-a-day market analysis to institutional and private investors around the world.
You know the expression "God works in mysterious ways"?
Well, according to an August 6 CNBC article, the price action of one financial market -- i.e., crude oil -- has out-mystified even God himself. Or, rather, the well-heeled star of the oil world, Andy Hall -- a.k.a. "God Trader."
According to CNBC, Hall's oil-focused commodity hedge fund plunged 17% in July, its second-biggest monthly loss ever. And one that left the fund "$500 million poorer."
"Last month was brutal for most commodities and anyone investing in them."
No argument here: July was a "brutal" month, as crude oil prices crashed 21% for their biggest monthly decline since the 2008 financial crisis.
And, yes -- many oil experts (despite their God-like reputations) failed to anticipate the roiling "market shift." The reason why they failed to see it coming, though, may surprise you.
Here's the thing: From its March 2015 low to June high, oil prices had soared 40%-plus to enjoy their strongest rally in six years. Not to mention a positive fundamental backdrop including strong demand and escalated violence in the Middle East, led by protests in Libya and conflict in Yemen.
"Figure 14 marks our predictions and updates prices. On a near term basis, the latest rally is now nearly the size of the rally of early 2014. The 'No Bottom in Sight' articles have stopped appearing, and the Daily Sentiment Index (courtesy trade-futures.com) has hit 86%. The rally should be about over."
Let's be honest. We're all human. There's no such thing as omnipotence in the world of trading or market-forecasting. Elliott wave analysis is not about 100% certainties. But it is about identifying the most likely turning points in advance -- not by reading the news, but by reading the Elliott wave patterns unfolding on the price charts themselves.
In a new FREE report titled "Peak Oil -- and Other Ways Crude Oil Fooled Almost Everyone," we show you how Elliott wave analysis has remained one step ahead of not just the July sell-off, but the major peaks and lows that have occurred since oil's all-time 2008 high near $150 a barrel.
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This article was syndicated by Elliott Wave International and was originally published under the headline Crude Oil Works In Mysterious Ways. EWI is the world's largest market forecasting firm. Its staff of full-time analysts led by Chartered Market Technician Robert Prechter provides 24-hour-a-day market analysis to institutional and private investors around the world.
Why the 32% slide in the Shanghai Composite is more than just a "hiccup"
'Agricultural products in my view are collateral damage in this selloff," said [one] fund manager...'Pigs are still going to eat, so what does this stock market stampede have to do with soybean meal?'"
Good question. But if you remember the darkest days of the 2008 financial panic and the now proverbial "liquidity crunch," the situation in China should sound remarkably familiar.
Familiar, because when everything falls in price, it's called deflation. We in the U.S. had a strong brush with it in 2007-2009, Europe has been struggling with deflation over the past couple of years -- and now, it seems, China has caught deflation bug, too.
"The financial media seemed to breathe a sigh of relief that stocks were not down more from the results of Greece's referendum. But these stories miss the entire point of what's transpiring, in our opinion. Greece's default is not the cause of the current financial malady but the result of a trend toward an increasingly pessimistic social mood.
"The negative mood trend will eventually manifest throughout financial markets and in culture more generally. Greece, Puerto Rico, China and a variety of 'risk' assets that are declining are just the first step in a broader and longer trend toward economic and financial contraction."
"As Bloomberg summed it up, 'when you can't sell what you want, then be prepared to sell what you can.' There is a lot of indiscriminate selling to come."
Get this special report about the unexpected but imminent and grave risk to your portfolio PLUS 29 specific forecasts for stocks, real estate, gold, new cultural trends -- and more (excerpted from Prechter's New York Times bestseller Conquer the Crash -- You Can Survive and Prosper in a Deflationary Depression).
This article was syndicated by Elliott Wave International and was originally published under the headline China: What Deflation Looks Like. EWI is the world's largest market forecasting firm. Its staff of full-time analysts led by Chartered Market Technician Robert Prechter provides 24-hour-a-day market analysis to institutional and private investors around the world. | 2019-04-22T12:45:46 | https://coachingtip.blogs.com/what_can_it_be/books/ |
0.998557 | Note: all these games should be compatible with all versions of windows from windows 98 up.
"Meander - Verb - To follow a winding or intricate course"
Meander is a strategy boardgame. Your task is to find matching pairs of blocks that have a clear path between them. You are scored based on the length of that path. Can you find the pair with the longest path between them? There is also a non-software version of the game on the board/card games page.
Check out the rules for this Fast Eddie original solitaire game on the Board/Card Games Page.
Nineball Solitaire is a solitaire game of my own invention. It is a more strategic version of solitaire with a billiards theme. You must think ahead in order to not get stuck and clear each 'rack' of cards. How many racks can you run? That will depend on a little luck and a good dose of strategic thinking.
In Cluster you drive a bulldozer and your job is to push blocks around so that they all touch eachother. Sounds easy, but there is a catch. Once blocks touch, they fuse together, making them tougher to move around the oddly shaped rooms. Cluster comes with 50 challenging levels, and a level editor, for you to make and share your own levels.
If you enjoy Cluster and design any of your own levels that you would like to share, please go to the Contact page and send them to me so that I can post them for all to enjoy.
Chameleon is a strategy game inspired by the boardgame Reversi. Like Reversi, you are trying to have more orbs of your color on the board than any of the other colors. The difference with this game is that you can play with up to four players, and there are computer controlled AI players. Also, there are several different board layouts, not just the plain square setup.
Liar's dice is a classic dice game that is all about luck and bluffing. It is a one player game with a computer AI opponent. Can you outwit, outbluff, and outroll the computer? You'll need to if you want to win this game.
Mini Golf Solitaire is a PC version of a classic card game from legendary game developer Sid Sackson. It is a thinking man's solitaire that requires you to think ahead in order to do well. The cards are layed out in a grid and you need to putt your ball to the goal card (the hole) in the least amount of strokes.
Cave Dudes is all about primitive warfare. You are a caveman on one side of a hill, and you pick up and throw rocks at your enemy on the other side of the hill. Cave Dudes is four games in one. It has a strategy mode and an arcade mode for one or two players. In the strategy mode you choose the power and angle for your throws as you chuck rocks over the hill. In the arcade mode you just pick up and hurl rocks as fast as you can before you get nailed by the other guy. Rocks bad. Cavedudes good. | 2019-04-23T14:08:11 | http://www.fasteddiessoftware.com/videogames.htm |
0.9998 | I may have mentioned that the school district here, in combination with the government, provides free lunch all summer long to all kids everyday. It is a great program: free food, lots of toys and playground equipment to play with, programs for the kids, and adult interaction for me. There are a lot of moms available to talk to, which is usually a really great break for me. My kids play pretty well, and Tommy is typically sleeping during that time, so what better time to talk to other moms?
Lately, however, I have been feeling a little less than enthusiastic about the adult interaction. J, a mom whose daughter was in Danny's class, comes to the lunch most days, and we talk. The problem is, the conversation almost always turns to something highly negative, whether it is her complaining about her sister-in-law, her son's teacher, or any number of other people, most of whom I have never met. This makes me really uncomfortable. First off, I have been trying really hard (and ok, I have definitely failed a few times, too, but I AM trying) to avoid gossip and negative talk. And secondly, the complaints seem rather ridiculous to me, as if she is actually looking for things to be upset about. I don't know what to do to extricate myself from these discussions. Any advice?
Another issue came up the other day at the lunch. A mother, whose name I don't even know, was complaining about services at the school. Her son is autistic, and apparently she has had difficulty getting services for him. All fine and well. I understand her frustration. What bothered me was that when J was sharing some difficulties she had with her son's teacher (who thought the boy had Asperger's) the mother refused to listen to J. Instead, she plowed through and explained what J should do to get a diagnosis (even though J is convinced her son is not autistic), how it is hard to face the truth sometimes, but that J needed to do so, etc. I guess this made me uncomfortable, because I got the distinct impression that this woman actually wanted J's son to be diagnosed with autism. She spoke as if it were a foregone conclusion that something was wrong with J's son, though I don't think the mother knew anything at all about the kid.
It doesn't help that a couple of years ago this same mom told me Danny was autistic. I know her heart was in the right place, but it really rubbed me the wrong way for many reasons, not least of which was the fact that she had never actually met me or my son before. The only facts she was basing her diagnosis on were what she observed on Danny's school field trip. It was his first field trip ever and he was way overstimulated and had major difficulty calming down. Because Danny was exhibiting some similar characteristics to her son, she was convinced that Danny was autistic.
The woman may have had some really good points to make, but she never even introduced herself; she just went ahead and diagnosed my son, despite the fact that her only experience with autism involved her son.
I understand the impulse to help someone, especially when you think they may be struggling with problems similar to your own. I have spoken to a few friends about SPD when they have told me of challenges their kids face. The difference is I have never actually told someone that their kid had SPD. I just encouraged them to do some research themselves to see if it might apply in their case. Also, it has always been with a friend whose child I knew and it was only after the mom shared her concerns with me.
I don't know. I am not even sure why this particular woman has bothered me so much. As I said before, I am certain her heart is in the right place, but it was just difficult for me to watch and listen as she steamrollered over J, interrupting her and talking over her, trying to convince J to face the truth. I just felt so overwhelmed. So tired of analyzing every single quirk and foible of my children. So weary of talk of development and milestones and why my kid is so different from "normal" kids.
So, I excused myself from the conversation and played some games with Danny and Charlotte.
Which was exactly what I needed to put everything back into perspective.
summer vacation, SPD-style or help, I need some advice!
So far, summer vacation has been going pretty well. I made up a chart to show Danny what we would be doing on any given day and he seems to enjoy helping me put up the pictures that represent our activities for the day. And though our schedule seems to be running smoothly, there have been a few issues that I am unsure how to deal with.
The biggest issue has to do with when we have visitors. We have had a lot of people over in the last few weeks, especially kids, and this tends to overstimulate Danny. For that reason, we have always been pretty careful about how often we have people over. This summer, though, we have not only had his friends over, but we have babysat kids and also had people over to help us with a huge project (we had 5 trees taken down this past weekend and some teenagers from church came to help us out with all the work.) Even though, he rarely gets crazy overstimulated at other people's houses, having people over here consistently messes him up and I can't figure out why or what to do about it.
Danny does a lot better if we spend time outside, but still that doesn't always guarantee the visit will go well. Also, it doesn't seem to matter who is actually visiting. I used to think that he got overstimulated because the kids who were over were very hyper and difficult to deal with, and while I definitely think that contributed to Danny's difficulties, it can't be the only factor, since those particular kids haven't visited our house in almost 2 years. Even when the visitors are adults or teenagers who aren't at all contributing to sensory overload, Danny gets overloaded.
What happens typically is he will play well for a while and then start yelling and getting angry. Typically, his anger is targeted towards Charlotte, whether she is provoking him or not. He will get really frustrated with her, yell at her because she isn't doing something exactly how he wants, or he will refuse to share with her. These behaviors do not occur nearly as much when we have no visitors, and his anger and frustration escalate to levels that are atypical.
Does anyone else have any experience with this type of behavior? Do you have any insight or advice for me? I would really love to hear it!
Do you have any idea what I would give for a couple solid hours of time completely my own? Time with absolutely no one to answer to, worry about, provide snacks, discipline, or timeouts for. Time in which I can do whatever I want except for laundry, cleaning, dishes, cooking, and wiping dirty behinds. I want to be able to go out in public without a little girl to scream and embarrass me. I want to go a few hours in which I do not need to constantly ask someone if he/she needs to go to the bathroom. I want to be able to retreat to the solitude of my bedroom without kids following me and demanding to know why I am lying down.
I guess I need a break. Does going grocery shopping alone count? It ain't much, but it's better than nothing.
OK, anyone who has read my blog much knows that I am a bit obsessed about potty training my kids. I think, though, that anyone in my situation would be a bit desperate. After all, my son will be 6 years old in July and he still poops in his pants. And as of last week, my 3-year-old daughter showed no interest in using the toilet.
Yes, you read that right: as of last week. This week? Whole different story. I had been putting her in underwear so that she would connect the feeling that she has to go with actually going. This is the strategy that finally worked with Danny at age 4. Yes, I know. Please don't judge. My self-esteem is tenuous enough already.
So, I kept putting Charlotte in underwear despite the fact that she seemed to be making no progress for a couple of weeks. I was getting discouraged but had no idea what to do. I didn't know what was going wrong. I mean, Charlotte doesn't have developmental delays like Danny, so what was taking her so long?
I have no idea, just as I have no idea why she suddenly started using the toilet. Wednesday morning, I happened to get her to sit on the toilet before she went in her diaper and she has not had a single accident (pee-related accident, that is. We are still working on the poop) since then. Not only that, but she has told me a couple of times when she needed to use the potty in public.
As I told my friend D, I feel like I have won the lottery, and I am truly not exaggerating. I had almost given up hope on being able to potty train any of my kids, but now I know it is possible. And with this renewed hope, I have devised a potty training plan to help Danny poop on the toilet. I am not sure if it will work, but it involves major incentive for him, and I plan to say many, many prayers. I am so hoping he is totally potty trained by kindergarten. I mean, I am not being unreasonable here, am I? We'll see.
I now know what burning flesh smells like. More specifically, I know what my burning flesh smells like, and let's just say it's not a scent anyone is going to make into a candle anytime soon.
I went to the doctor today to have a mole removed because it was apparently suspicious looking. My doctor gave me the option of waiting and watching it or just removing it. I opted for removal because I am already paranoid enough about cancer (it seems to run in my mom's side of the family--she and three siblings have had it), I figured it was better to be safe than sorry.
I have been seeing this doctor for over 3 years and like him, for the most part, but my experience with him today left me feeling a bit disheartened.
First off, I really wish he had explained the procedure in a bit more detail. It drives me nuts when a doctor works on me, but tells me nothing about what he is doing. Rather than prattle on and on about the waterfall he is planning on building in his yard, it would have been nice to have been prepared for the stench of my own burning flesh. Instead, I had to put 2 and 2 together to realize that Dr. B was in fact cauterizing my skin to stop the bleeding. I don't know, it just seems that if someone is going to sear your skin, they should at least warn you first. But maybe that's just me.
What really bothered me, though, about my interaction with Dr. B today was that he bagged on his wife at least 5 times in the short time I was in his presence. He has never done this in previous appointments, but there has never been a cute, young nurse in the room before either. It seemed as if he was flirting with the nurse and trying to either impress her or make her laugh.
This incident gave me pause. I felt sympahy for Dr. B's wife. It wasn't that he said anything exceptionally cruel, but he wasn't very nice either, and I know it would have probably hurt her feelings to know that her husband was making fun of her behind her back. At least I know it would have hurt mine, had I been in her shoes.
As I thought of this incident I realized how lucky I am to have a husband who doesn't do that. He never makes jokes at my expense in front of other people and he doesn't engage when men are sitting around talking smack about their wives. I also know I can completely trust him not to flirt with other women. He is extremely careful not to put himself in inappropriate situations; he even avoids being alone with other women and never gives me cause to be jealous or unsure of his fidelity. I am grateful for this, because I know it is rare.
I know I am extremely lucky. And all it took was some seared flesh to help me realize it.
Monday Mumbers--I promise there's no poop in this one!
5:30 AM The time that I have agreed to meet my friend everyday to exercise. Are we crazy or what? We are doing the Couch Potato to 5K training program and just started. And as we both have a passel of kids each, 5:30 in the morning is the only time we can run/walk without any kids attached to our hips. If this doesn't help us both shed the unwanted pounds then nothing will. D promises me that in 2 months I will be able to jog a 5K without stopping. As of right now, I can jog about 90 seconds without stopping. This must be some kind of miracle training program.
1 Number of times Danny has helped me this week with our garden. He was a great little helper and pulled a bunch of weeds. After weeding, I told Danny that he could help me pick some basil, but that he should wait until I retrieved a bowl from the kitchen. In an attempt to be super helpful, he uprooted the entire plant and brought it to me. Apparently, he didn't realize that picking basil is entirely different from picking weeds. Luckily, we managed to replant the basil with little harm to the plant.
32 Number of popsicles I have made this weekend. My kids LOVE popsicles, but I have been trying to eliminate as many artificial colors from their diet as possible. Some of them seem to make Danny super hyper (as was made abundantly clear this weekend after Bil bought a bag of cheese curls. Danny has been bouncing off the wall, and if there is one characteristic that I would most preferNOT to amplify in my son's personality, it is his excessive energy.) I found some really cheap popsicle molds at Wal-Mart and we have been making them with fruit juice. The kids can't get enough of them and have no idea that they are a bit healthier than the colored frozen sugar water they used to get.
1 The number of times Charlotte actually went pee on the toilet this weekend.
54 The number of accidents Charlotte has had this weekend. On the bright side, at least one of the accidents happened right in front of the toilet while she was attempting to pull down her pants. I think she is finally figuring out what we expect of her and any little progress is enough to brighten my day.
Everyone reassures me that my kids will be potty trained before grade school, that no kid goes to high school still in a diaper. As true as that probably is in most cases, I still have my doubts. I'm beginning to wonder if Tommy will be the first fully trained Pancake kid.
2 Number of baby bottles I have lost in the last month. It's not too big of a deal except that I wonder where I left these dirty bottles. Will friends of mine find some random, probably moldy bottle in a few weeks and wonder where it came from?
That actually happened to me once. I came upon an old bottle of Danny's when he was a baby that had slid under our couch. It had to have been under there for weeks, maybe longer and the residue of formula was all moldy. I know this makes me sound like the worst housekeeper ever, but really I am not that bad, typically. Under normal circumstances the only mold in my house can be found in my refrigerator (no matter how often I clean it out, which if I am honest, is not all that often, I still find some random container of moldy ricotta cheese or a liquefied bell pepper I have forgotten about). OK, actually, in the interest of full disclosure, maybe I should admit that I have found mold in other places just this week. Someone in my house put a wet towel all crumpled up in the bottom of Charlotte's laundry basket and piled clothes on top. With all the heat and humidity, the clothes in her basket got all moldy.
So, I guess I really am a pretty crummy housekeeper. But, I can still quote a couple of Shakespeare sonnets and can spell most words easily, so I don't need to base my self-esteem on how clean my house is, right? Sigh. If only quoting Shakespeare actually helped me in my duties as hausfrau. Or helped me earn some money. Or even really entertained anyone besides me and a few of my more nerdy friends. Well, if nothing else, surely I can use this talent to someday embarrass my kids in front of their friends, right?
a) Neither of my kids ever complains about what is being served.
b) It saves me at least an hour (or more) in the kitchen everyday. I not only do not have to cook or clean up the mess, but I am not expected to be a short-order cook. I don't have to read Charlotte's mind pertaining to what she wants to eat. And I don't have to undergo the infuriating process of preparing something for her only to have her demand an entirely different meal. Yeah, fun times.
c) After eating their lunches, the kids run off to play and I get to talk to my friends.
d) They even have programs at the school during the lunch time, one of which is a cooking class taught by a woman at our University of Illinois Extension office. She teaches kids simple cooking techniques and encourages healthy eating. Ostensibly.
On Friday, the cooking lady (who is really, really nice) taught the kids how to make this yummy apple salad which consisted of apples, canned pineapple and its juices, a box of butterscotch pudding and some Cool Whip. It sounds good, but isn't something my kids are likely to eat. Danny has a major texture aversion and doesn't eat foods that are mixed together. Plus, butterscotch pudding has red food coloring which we think gives me migraines and which we try to avoid with the kids, because I swear it makes Danny even more hyper than usual.
Anyway, what I found disturbing was what the cooking lady said as she hyped her creation. She claimed that the most unhealthy part of the dessert was the pineapple and apples because those have sugar, while the pudding was sugar and fat-free and the Cool Whip was also fat-free.
Why is it that people automatically assume that if something has sugar it is evil? How could apples be less healthy than pudding that is full of all kinds of chemicals and artificial flavors and sweeteners?
Don't get me wrong, I am not some kind of health food extremist. I don't have a big problem with eating junk food once in a while. (OK, when I say "once in a while" I really mean often. I can't make it through the day without at least a little bit of chocolate.) I can totally see using those types of food to stave a craving and minimize caloric intake. But to eat a sugar-free candy bar INSTEAD of fresh fruit would be not such a healthy choice. My concern is that people erroneously think that just because a food is sugar or fat-free it is a healthy food. What's more scary is that this is being taught to our kids.
And please don't think I am criticizing the wonderful cooking lady; I'm totally not. It seems like everyone, even some nutritionists believe that sugar-free foods are good for us. Weight Watchers definitely does. They push their products all the time and most of them are so full of artificial stuff it's hard to understand how it could be considered food.
If we really want to be healthy, shouldn't we be eating more natural foods more often? I know I, for one, could really improve in this area and I am making strides to do so. Maybe someday society will go back to more natural and whole foods. I know I always feel better when I eat like that. So, my new goal is to eat more fruits and vegetables and fewer processed foods.
But I'm still not giving up my drug of choice: Mint Three Musketeer bars. I just can't do it.
** So, I went to the doctor's yesterday to have several suspicious moles checked out. The ones I was most nervous about? Turns out they are age spots, and the way my doctor gave me this news, you would think I had a terminal disease. Apparently, I am too young to have age spots. All I could think of was hey, it's better than the cancer I was sure I would be diagnosed with. With reddish hair, skin the color of Elmer's glue, and tons and tons of freckles, I have had my share of sun damage, so a few age spots are not surprising.
It makes me think of those magazine articles where dermatologists use some special technology to show you the damage your skin has been subjected to because of your lack of sunscreen usage when you were a kid. In this particular article, they actually told the women what age their skin was as opposed to how old it should be. Why, why would anyone really want to know how damaged their skin is? It's all irreversible, right, so why give yourself more angst? Not me, I'd rather not know that my skin is so damaged it is like the skin of someone 30 years older. I have enough insecurities, thank you very much.
**Speaking of insecurities, our town's pool has opened and we have bought our passes. Last night as I splashed around with my kids in an oversized t-shirt ( gotta prevent more skin damage and age spots, right?) and baseball hat, I spotted what no insecure, frumpily dressed woman wants to see: a woman with an absolutely perfect body. This woman was wearing a tiny bikini and looked like a model. And even though she had two small boys with her, she had no stretch marks at all. None.
Is that even legal? How does anyone birth two kids and not have any stretch marks???? I wanted to hate her, I really did, but then I remembered my new have-a-positive-attitude-give-others-the benefit-of-the-doubt-don't-gossip-and-for-pete's-sake-don't-hate-people-for-arbitrary-reasons goal. Yeah, I just set it this week totally forgetting how hard it would be to keep during swimsuit season.
**Did you know that if you break a graham cracker on an angle, the broken piece will likely resemble the state of Nevada? Danny pointed this out to us last night. He has many of the states' shapes memorized and now often sees the shapes of states in things like broken graham crackers. I don't know what this means, but I choose to take it as a sign of my son's genius.
**Speaking of genius kids, I recently read about a study that showed that babies with moms who have a lot of belly fat are smarter than those whose mothers are skinny. Yes, this thought occurred to me last night at the pool when I saw skinny, model-mom. I had the fleeting thought that my kids will definitely be smarter than hers what with my belly fat and all.
But, hey, as soon as the thought entered my mind, I remembered my new goal and I banished the evil thought with happy, positive thoughts about how pleasant and wonderful model-mom probably is. It wasn't easy.
**This morning as I was cleaning up the kids' room, I found a mini-red potato under Charlotte's bed. A couple of weeks ago, Charlotte started playing with this potato and even named her Nicey. She took the potato with her everywhere for a couple of days. She fed it and played with it and made it dance. I thought she had forgotten about it, so I returned Nicey to her family in the pantry the other day. Almost immediately after the tater family reunion, Charlotte went in search of Nicey, so I had to break up the family.
I have heard of pet rocks, but pet potatoes? If she is still into veggies this Christmas, I plan on saving some money by shopping in the refrigerator crisper.
~Danny is still not pooping on the toilet.
~Charlotte, who we are in the process of pottty training, pooped all over her undies and her pjs the other day, when of course, it was my turn to clean it up. Bil was really happy to have dodged that bullet.
~There is an animal who is pooping in our garden every single night. We can't tell if it is a dog or cat, but man, the thing leaves little piles all over the garden.
~My friend's dog just pooped in our front yard this week. She asked me if I wanted her to clean it up and I thought, "Hmmmm....how do I say this nicely? Of course, I want you to clean it up!!!!" I will clean the poop of my kids, my friends' kids and even possibly kids of people I don't like, but I draw the line at cleaning up dog poop. Is that so wrong of me? | 2019-04-24T14:26:14 | http://pancakesgoneawry.blogspot.com/2009/06/ |
0.999991 | Who Should Play Steve Jobs In the Now Inevitable Steve Jobs Biopic?
I very much doubt Steve Jobs would have approved of a movie about his life, beyond what's been produced already, but in this case it doesn't really matter anymore, does it?
Word is Sony Pictures has inked a deal with Steve Jobs biography writer Walter Isaacson for $1 to $3 million to produce a movie based on his upcoming book. And yes, this is the same Sony Pictures that's been on a tear lately with real life, books-become-movies biopics like The Social Network and Moneyball.
Here's hoping they can apply the same kind of touch to Steve Jobs: Title TBD that they have done with those two flicks. | 2019-04-19T00:28:47 | https://gizmodo.com/who-should-play-steve-jobs-in-the-now-inevitable-steve-5847915 |
0.999817 | Question 1: Which of the following statements about the hydropathy plot above is true?
A. This is a plot of allowable protein conformations as a function of the peptide chain angles Φ and Ψ.
B. This is a plot of a quantitative measure of hydrophobicity vs. primary structure.
C. This plot provides useful structural predictions for soluble proteins but cannot be used to make any structural predictions in the case of integral membrane proteins.
Question 2: Which of the following statements about the hydropathy plot above is correct?
A. The plot above measures the hydrophobic index for each amino acid side-chain R group as a function of that amino acid’s position in the primary structure.
unfavorable because of steric hindrance.
C. This plot can be applied to soluble proteins as well to membrane-associated proteins.
Question 3: Which of the following statements about the hydropathy plot above is true?
A. The Y-axis plots of side-chain group acid strength versus amino acid sequence position on the X-axis.
B. One would expect leucine and lysine to have similar hydropathy indices.
C. They can be used to predict highly detailed overall tertiary structures for proteins.
D. They can be used to predict regions of soluble proteins that are likely to be buried in the interior of a protein with good accuracy.
Question 4: Which of the following statements is true?
A. Proteins are more negatively charged below their isoelectric points than they are above their isoelectric points.
B. Proteins are more positively charged below their isoelectric points than they are above their isoelectric points.
C. Proteins are, in general, most soluble at their isoelectric points.
D. Determination of the isoelectric point for proteins can be accomplished using an electrophoretic technique that depends on the presence of the detergent SDS.
Question 5: Which of the following statements is true?
A. The conjugate acid of the side-chain guanidino group of arginine is a stronger acid than the conjugate acid of the side-chain carboxylate group of aspartic acid.
B. Increasing the concentration ratio of conjugate base to acid from 1:1 to 10:1 will decrease the pH of a buffer solution by 1.0 pH unit.
C. Increasing the concentration ratio of conjugate acid to base from 1:1 to 10:1 will increase the pH of a buffer solution by 1.0 pH unit.
D. In a group of weak acids, the strongest acid will be the one with the smallest pKa.
Question 6: Which of the following is true about amino acids?
B. Serine is more likely than valine to be found on the portion of the outer surface of an integral protein that is in contact with the hydrophobic core of a phosopholipid membrane.
D. Serine is more likely than valine to be found on the outer surface of a soluble protein.
Question 7: Which of the following statements about histidine is false?
C. It can function as a general acid/general base catalyst for some enzymes.
D. Its side chain is a suitable ligand for Zn2+.
Question 8: Which of the following is true regarding the isoelectric points of amino acids?
A. The pI of glutamic acid can be calculated by averaging the pKa values of its side-chain and its alpha-amino group.
B. Glutamic acid is negatively charged at pH values greater than its pI.
C. Aspartic acid is positively charged at pH values greater than its pI.
D. The pI of lysine can be calculated by averaging the pKa values of its side-chain and its C1 carboxyl group.
Question 10: Which of the following amino acids is most likely to be found in membrane-spanning helix of an integral membrane protein?
A. absence of rotation around the C—N bond because of its partial double-bond character.
B. plane of rotation around the Cα—N bond.
C. region of steric hindrance determined by the large C=O group.
D. region of the peptide bond that contributes to a Ramachandran plot.
Question 12: Which of the following best represents the backbone arrangement of two peptide bonds?
A. alternate between the outside and the inside of the helix.
B. are found on the outside of the helix spiral.
C. cause only right-handed helices to form.
D. generate the hydrogen bonds that form the helix.
A. always side by side.
B. generally near each other in sequence.
C. invariably restricted to about 7 of the 20 standard amino acids.
D. often on different polypeptide strands.
Question 16: Which of the following statements about the peptide bond is true?
A. The energy barrier to free rotation around the C-N peptide bond is very low.
B. The peptide C/O bond is significantly shorter than “typical” C/O double bonds.
D. None of the resonance forms that contribute significantly to the best electronic description for the peptide bond contain charges on any atom.
Question 17: Which of the following is true about peptides?
A. Incorporation of an amino acid with an acid/base functional group in its side chain into a peptide usually has little effect on the pKa value of the side-chain group.
B. Formation of a peptide bond is an exergonic reaction.
C. Formation of peptide bonds is an example of ester formation.
D. Formation of a peptide bond is an example of a hydrolysis reaction.
Question 18: Which of the following statements about beta-sheets is correct?
A. Interactions between amino acid side chains play an important role in stabilizing beta-sheets.
B. Parallel sheet hydrogen bonds are less stable than anti-parallel sheet hydrogen bonds.
C. There are no known examples of proteins that contain both helices and sheets.
D. Parallel sheet hydrogen bonds are more stable than anti-parallel sheet hydrogen bonds.
Question 19: Which of the following statements about primary structure determination is true?
A. Carboxypeptidase is often used to cleave proteins at positions that contain an amino acid with a carboxylic acid group in its side chain.
B. Sequencing of protein fragments, after suitable pre-treatment, obtained from cleavage of proteins with intact disulfide bonds can be used to locate the positions of disulfides in the native protein.
C. Cyanogen bromide cleaves protein at positions where methionine is present and does not chemically modify the methionine side chain.
D. Mass spectrometry can distinguish all 20 of the common amino acids from each other, based on differences in mass between the amino acids.
Question 20: Which of the following statements about peptide bonds is true?
A. Cis configurations around peptide bond are generally more favorable than trans configurations.
B. As there is free rotation around peptide C-N bonds, the terms “cis” and “trans” are not applicable when describing peptide bond conformations.
C. The geometry of the peptide bond itself is very different in alpha helices than it is in beta-sheets.
D. Cis configurations around peptide bond are generally less favorable than trans configurations.
Question 21:The enzyme above exhibited activity in a range of pH values from 6 to 12, with the maximum activity at pH 8. Which statement below is correct concerning the protease?
A. Physiologically, the enzyme likely functions in the buffered region (pH values 7-10).
B. Physiologically, the enzyme likely functions in the buffered region (pH values 7-8).
C. Physiologically, the enzyme likely functions at pH 8, an alkaline environment.
D. Physiologically, the enzyme likely functions at pH 8, an acidic environment.
A. Changes in pH may change the shape of the enzyme.
B. Changes in pH may change the charge of the substrate so that either the substrate cannot bind to the active site, or it cannot undergo catalysis.
C. Changes to the pH have a more drastic effect on the stability of the enzyme, not enzyme activity.
Question 23: Which of the following statements is true?
A. Cyanogen bromide cleaves peptides on the carboxyl side of cysteine residues and simultaneously modifies the cysteine side chain.
B. Cyanogen bromide cleaves peptides on the carboxyl side of methionine residues without modifying the methionine side chain.
C. Cyanogen bromide cleaves peptides on the carboxyl side of lysine or arginine residues.
D. Trypsin catalyzes the cleavage of peptide bonds on the carboxyl side of amino acids with positively charged side chains.
Question 25: Which of the following statements about amino acid sequencing is true?
A. Trypsin catalyzes the exergonic cleavage of peptide bonds on the carboxyl side of arginine and lysine residues.
C. Cyanogen bromide catalyzes the exergonic cleavage of peptide bonds on the carboxyl side of methionine residues without producing any chemical modification of the methionine side chain.
D. The most important use of the reagent phenylisothiocyanate (PITC) is as a fluorescent modifier used exclusively for N-terminal amino acid identification.
A. Involves a Zn2+ ion at the catalytic site.
B. Includes a step in which the unprotonated imidazole side chain of a histidine residue removes a proton from the substrate, generating an alkoxide-like species that is an excellent leaving group.
C. Utilizes a glutamate residue at the active site to make a water molecule a better nucleophile.
D. Proceeds through a 2’,3’-cyclic phosphodiester intermediate.
Question 28: Which of the following statements about lysozyme is true?
Question 30: Which of the following statements about chymotrypsin and trypsin is true?
Question 31: Which of the following statements about the myoglobin saturation curve (above) are correct?
A. Fractional Myoglobin Saturation, also referred to as YO2, is the percent of myoglobin (Mb) that is bound to oxygen at a given unit of pressure.
B. The X-axis can also be represented in “torrs”, which is a unit of pressure, being the pressure necessary to support a column of mercury one millimeter high at 0°C and standard gravity.
C. Both A & B are correct answers.
D. Pressure has nothing to do with oxygen binding to myoglobin, so, none of the above answer choices are correct.
Question 32: Which of the following statements about the myoglobin saturation curve (above) are correct?
A. The value of PO2 at which myoglobin is half-saturated is the KM, and in physiological conditions is equal to 2.8 torr.
B. The value of PO2 at which myoglobin is half-saturated is the P50, and in physiological conditions is equal to 2.8 torr.
C. The value of YO2 at which myoglobin is half-saturated is the P50, and in physiological conditions is equal to 2.8 torr.
D. The value of PO2 at which myoglobin is half-saturated is the P50, and in physiological conditions is equal to 5.0 torr.
Question 33: Which of the following statements is true with respect to the curve labeled “37°” on the Mb-Saturation Curve (above)?
A. A drop in temperature would cause a so-called “left-shift” in the myoglobin-saturation curve, which is now represented by the curve labeled A.
B. Raising the temperature would cause a so-called “left-shift” in the myoglobin-saturation curve, which is now represented by the curve labeled A.
C. Decreasing the pH from 7 to 6 would cause a so-called “left-shift” in the myoglobin-saturation curve, which is now represented by the curve labeled A.
Question 34: Which of the following statements is true with respect to the curve labeled “37°” on the Mb-Saturation Curve (above)?
A. Raising the temperature from 37°C to 40°C would cause a so-called “right-shift” in the myoglobin-saturation curve, which is now represented by the curve labeled B.
B. Increasing the concentration of dissolved carbon dioxide in the blood would cause a so-called “left-shift” in the myoglobin-saturation curve, which is now represented by the curve labeled A.
C. Increasing the concentration of dissolved carbon dioxide in the blood would cause a so-called “right-shift” in the myoglobin-saturation curve, which is now represented by the curve labeled B.
Question 35: Which of the following statements is true with respect to the curve labeled “B” on the Mb-Saturation Curve (above)?
A. Compared to the curve A, curve B has a higher fraction of binding sites occupied by oxygen.
B. Compared to the curve A, curve B has a lower fraction of binding sites occupied by oxygen.
C. Compared to the curve labeled “37°C”, curve B has a higher affinity for oxygen.
D. None of the above statements can be made with any level of confidence.
Question 36: Which of the following statements about myoglobin is true?
A. The oxygen-binding curve for myoglobin is hyperbolic, rather than sigmoidal.
B. Its primary location in mammals is in erythrocytes (red blood cells).
C. Its primary physiological function is to serve as an oxygen transport protein.
D. It contains a single heme that is covalently bound to the protein through two covalent thioether bonds.
Question 37: Which of the following statements about myoglobin is correct?
A. The distal histidine serves as an axial ligand to the heme iron.
B. The oxygen-binding pocket is surrounded by highly conserved polar amino acids.
C. The O-O-Fe geometry in oxymyoglobin is linear.
D. The ability of myoglobin to bind oxygen is considerably higher if the heme iron is in the Fe3+ ferric state than is the case for the Fe2+ ferrous state.
Question 38: Which of the following statements about myoglobin is correct?
A. Oxygen binding causes a change in heme geometry that make the tetraporphyrin macrocycle less planar.
B. Oxygen binding causes the proximal histidine to move by ca, 0.6 Å.
C. Cooperative oxygen binding by myoglobin results from interactions between its different subunits.
D. Binding oxygen causes the heme Fe to move out of the average plane of the porphyrin.
Question 39: Which of the following statements about myoglobin is true?
Question 40: Which of the following statements about myoglobin is true?
A. Its primary location in mammals is in the erythrocytes.
B. Its function as an oxygen-binding protein requires that the iron present in its prosthetic group be maintained in the Fe3+ ferric state.
C. Binding oxygen produces a change in the geometry of the porphyrin portion of its heme group, making it less planar.
D. The geometry of the Fe-O-O linkage in oxymyoglobin is a bent, non-linear one.
Question 41: Which of the following statements regarding the data presented above is correct?
A. The plot above depicts the reaction run in the presence of Mg2+ (Graphs A & C) or Mn2+ (Graphs B & D).
Question 42: Based on the data above, which of the following combinations of subunits shows the largest fold-increase in Vmax?
Question 43: Given that all of the Km values are decreasing from CD; and based on your inferences from the data above, which of the following combinations of subunits shows the smallest decrease in Km?
Question 43: Assume that the previous two questions called for you to use the percent formula (%=Actual / Theoretical). In this case, which number corresponds to “Actual” with regards to the fold-increase in Vmax for Gycα-88EL?
Question 44: Which of the following values represents the fold-increase of the Vmax of Gycα-88EL?
Question 45: Assume that that the concentration of substrate increased from 6.94 to 8.9, and all other data regarding Gycα-88EL + Gyc-89Db is held constant. What is the value of initial velocity (V0)?
Question 46: Which of the following is true of enzyme catalysis?
C. In the Michaelis-Menten model k-1 and k2 are second-order rate constants.
D. (k-1 + k2)[ES] ≈ k1 [E][S] is a mathematical statement of the steady-state approximation used in the Michaelis-Menten model.
Question 47: Which of the following statements is true?
A. Expanding the Michaelis-Menten model for enzyme-catalyzed reactions to include additional intermediates will not alter the basic mathematical form of the equation derived from the model.
B. The use of the Lineweaver-Burk Equation, instead of the Michaelis-Menten Equation, eliminates the need for making an assumption that the steady-state approximation is true.
C. KM is an accurate measure of the enzyme/substrate affinity for all enzymes.
D. It is specifically the steady-state approximation that allows one to ignore contributions from reverse reactions in the Michaelis-Menten model for enzyme- catalyzed reactions.
Question 48: Which of the following statements is true?
Question 49: Which of the following statements is true?
B. Reactions with positive ΔS0 values are always exergonic, regardless of the value of ΔH0 for the reaction.
C. The ΔG0 for a reaction depends only on the identity of the reactants and products and is independent of the mechanism involved in getting from reactants to products.
Question 50: Which of the following statements about enzymes is true?
A. Covalent bond formation between substrate and enzyme is a feature of all known enzyme mechanisms.
B. There are no known examples of enzymes that are able to distinguish between two pro-chiral forms of a substrate.
D. In general, the transition states in enzyme-catalyzed reactions lie at higher energies than do the transition states for the uncatalyzed reactions.
Question 51: Which of the following statements is true?
A. A catalyst can accelerate the rate of a reaction without affecting ΔG‡ for the reaction.
B. ΔG‡ can be either positive or negative.
C. ΔG‡ is always smaller in the forward direction than in the reverse direction for a reaction that is exergonic in the forward direction.
D. Catalysts decrease the ∆G0.
Question 52: Which of the following is true?
A. The presence of a catalyst alters the ∆G‡ for a reaction but not the ∆G0.
B. The presence of a catalyst alters both the ∆G‡ for a reaction and the ∆G0.
D. The presence of a catalyst alters the rate for a forward reaction without affecting the rate of the reverse reaction.
Question 53: Which of the following statements regarding enzyme inhibition is true?
Question 54: Which of the following is true of enzyme catalysis?
Question 55: Which of the following statements is true?
Question 56: Which of the following statements about competitive inhibition is true?
Question 57: Which of the following statements about competitive inhibitors is true?
Question 58: Which of the following statements is true?
Question 59: Which of the following statements about Lineweaver-Burk plots for enzymes that display Michaelis-Menten kinetics is correct?
Question 60: The reaction of phosphofructokinase-1 (PFK) is the committed step of glycolysis. All earlier reactions can also lead to other pathways. This makes it the principal regulator of the flux of carbon through glycolysis; and this control is accomplished by a number of different effectors and mechanisms (shown above). These effectors and mechanisms also influence another enzyme, Fructose-1, 6-bisphosphatase (FBPase), the corresponding reaction of gluconeogenesis. Which of the following best defines why the same effectors that push carbon flux down the glycolytic path also attenuate gluconeogenesis?
A. This prevents a futile cycle of the simultaneous occurrence of glycolysis and gluconeogenesis.
B. This allows for the simultaneous occurrence of glycolysis and gluconeogenesis.
C. This allows for isozymes in different tissues to respond differentially to hormones released, for example, in response to blood glucose levels.
Question 61: PFK-1 is inhibited by high citrate concentrations. Which of the following best describes why this is so?
A. High citrate concentrations indicate sufficient material for biosynthesis or for oxidation in the citric acid cycle.
B. High citrate concentrations indicate insufficient cellular-energy, and thus metabolic flux is pushed towards gluconeogenesis.
C. High citrate concentrations indicate insufficient cellular-energy, and thus metabolic flux is pushed towards gluconeogenesis.
D. High citrate concentrations do not inhibit PFK, but enhance its activity. There is an error in the schema presented above.
A. F6P inhibits 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase & activates fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase, thus increasing the fructose 2,6-bisphosphate–level. This promotes PFK activity (feed-forward activation).
B. F6P activates 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase & inhibits fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase, thus increasing the fructose 2,6-bisphosphate-level. This promotes PFK activity (feed-forward activation).
C. F6P activates 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase & inhibits fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase, thus increasing the fructose 2,6-bisphosphate-level. This promotes PFK activity (substrate-level attenuation).
D. F6P activates 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase & inhibits fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase, thus increasing the fructose 2,6-bisphosphate-level. This promotes PFK activity (oxidative phosphorylation).
A. Insulin allosterically inhibits dephosphorylation. Dephosphorylation (which is activated by glucagon) reverses the situation and decreases the fructose-2,6-bisphosphate-level. PFK is inhibited and FBPase is activated, the reaction is shifted from glycolysis to gluconeogenesis.
B. Insulin allosterically activates phosphorylation. Phosphorylation (which is activated by glucagon) reverses the situation and decreases the fructose-2,6-bisphosphate-level. PFK is inhibited and FBPase is activated, the reaction is shifted from glycolysis to gluconeogenesis.
C. Glucagon allosterically inhibits phosphorylation. Phosphorylation (which is activated by insulin) reverses the situation and decreases the fructose-2,6-bisphosphate-level. PFK is activated and FBPase is inhibited, the reaction is shifted from gluconeogenesis to glycolysis.
D. Insulin allosterically inhibits phosphorylation. Phosphorylation (which is activated by glucagon) reverses the situation and decreases the fructose-2,6-bisphosphate-level. PFK is inhibited and FBPase is activated, the reaction is shifted from glycolysis to gluconeogenesis.
Question 64: What role does epinephrine (adrenaline) play in the regulation of glycolysis in muscle cells?
A. Epinephrine is released in response to a fight-or-flight situation to meet the demand for rapid catabolism of sugars, which will provide quick energy.
B. Epinephrine is released in response to a fight-or-flight situation to meet the demand for rapid anabolism of sugars, which will provide quick energy.
C. Epinephrine is released in response to a fight-or-flight situation to meet the demand for rapid catabolism of sugars, which will provide more ATP as compared to the catabolism of fatty acids.
D. Epinephrine is released in response to a fight-or-flight situation to meet the demand for rapid anabolism of sugars, which will provide more ATP as compared to the synthesis of fatty acids.
Question 65: What role does insulin play in the stimulation of gluconeogenesis in muscle cells?
A. Insulin inhibits the formation of cAMP, which prevents the subsequent phosphorylation of bifunctional enzyme that would drive metabolic flux toward pyruvate.
C. Insulin prevents the transfer of acetyl-CoA from the mitochondria to the cytosol (where both glycolysis and gluconeogenesis take place). Therefore, new glucose will not be synthesized in muscle cells under the influence of insulin.
Question 67: Which of the following consists of two opposing metabolic reactions that function together to provide a control point for regulating metabolic flux?
Question 68: Which of the following is the slowest step in a multi-step sequence, such as a metabolic pathway, whose rate determines the rate of the entire sequence?
A. Always the first step of a metabolic pathway.
B. Always the last step of the pathway.
C. The rate determining step.
Question 69: Which of the following describes the rate of flow of metabolites through a metabolic pathway?
Question 71: Which of the following statements about ion-exchange chromatography is true?
Question 72:Which of the following statements is true?
Question 73: Which of the following statements about ion-exchange chromatography is true?
A. Anion-exchange chromatography utilizes a stationary phase that consists of fixed negative charges.
B. In anion-exchange chromatography, proteins with lower isoelectric points will generally bind more tightly to the stationary phase than proteins with higher isoelectric points.
C. It separates proteins based on their hydrodynamic radii.
D. Octyl-Sepharose is a widely used stationary phase for cation-exchange chromatography.
Question 74: Which of the following statements about ion-exchange chromatography is true?
A. The amino groups present in DEAE (diethylaminoethyl) cellulose make it a suitable medium for anion-exchange chromatography.
B. The carboxyl groups present in CM (carboxymethyl) cellulose make it a suitable medium for anion-exchange chromatography.
C. The lower the isoelectric point (pI) of a protein, the more tightly it will be bound to a cation-exchange chromatography column.
D. The molecular mass of a protein plays the most important role in determining the affinity of a protein for the stationary phase during ion-exchange chromatography.
A. Denature proteins by forming hydrogen bonds with the protein.
B. Denature proteins through hydrophobic interactions between its non-polar dodecyl group and non-polar groups on the protein.
C. Denature proteins by cleaving disulfide bonds that are essential for stabilizing the native structure.
D. Cause the protein to migrate towards the cathode during electrophoresis.
Question 77: Which of the following statements about electrophoresis is true?
A. Electrophoresis of a completely pure sample of bovine insulin in the presence of SDS plus 2-mercaptoethanol always results in a single Coomassie Blue-staining band.
B. The greatest contribution, in energetic terms, of SDS binding to proteins is the result of ion/ion interactions.
C. In a two-dimensional electrophoresis experiment, the SDS-PAGE step is done first and is then followed by the isoelectric focusing step.
D. The addition of SDS to the 2-D gel above would cause all proteins migrate towards the positive electrode (i.e., the anode) when the electric field is turned on.
Question 78: Which of the following statements about isoelectric points is true?
A. A polymer with a large number of acid/base groups has more than one isoelectric point.
B. Proteins at pH values above their isoelectric points are positively charged.
C. Proteins are least soluble at their isoelectric points.
D. Isoelectric focusing is a two-dimensional technique that separates proteins first by differences in isoelectric point and then by differences in molecular mass.
Question 79: Which of the following statements about isoelectric focusing is true?
A. In two-dimensional gels, SDS-PAGE is first carried out in one dimension, followed by isoelectric focusing in the perpendicular direction.
B. Isoelectric focusing is a high-resolution technique, capable of separating proteins that differ only slightly in their pI values.
C. When a protein arrives at the point in a pH gradient where the pH exactly equals its isoelectric point, the protein will begin migrating towards the cathode.
D. When a protein arrives at the point in a pH gradient where the pH exactly equals its isoelectric point, the protein will begin migrating towards the anode.
Question 80: Which of the following statements about isoelectric points is true?
D. A stable pH gradient can be established in the presence of an electric field across a gel that contains no components other than buffer and polyacrylamide.
Question 81: Which of the following statements about polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) is true?
A. Treatment with the detergent sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) will cause dissociation of subunits in an oligomeric protein whether or not the subunits are linked by disulfide bonds.
C. In two-dimensional PAGE, it is always best to run SDS-PAGE in the first dimension.
D. In SDS-PAGE, all proteins migrate towards the cathode.
Question 82: Which of the following is true of the PAGE (polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis) portion of this 2-D Gel?
A. The principle role of SDS is to cleave inter-subunit disulfide bonds.
B. Proteins migrate towards the cathode during PAGE.
C. During SDS-PAGE, the relative migration distance of any one protein in a mixture of proteins is generally proportional to the log of their molecular mass.
D. The migration velocity of proteins during 2-D PAGE depends on both the molecular mass of the protein and its isoelectric point.
Question 83: Which of the following statements is true?
A. Treatment of a protein with 2-mercaptoethanol would be expected to change the results of a SDS-PAGE electrophoresis pattern obtained for a heterodimeric protein in which no disulfide bonds between the two subunits are present.
B. Membrane ultrafiltration can be used for concentrating protein samples but not as a technique for changing the buffer composition of a sample.
C. Gel filtration of a solution containing fetal hemoglobin will result in the separation of its alpha (α) and gamma (γ) subunits.
D. The isoelectric point of a protein will not affect the way it will migrate during SDS-PAGE (polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of the denaturing detergent SDS).
Question 84: Which of the following is true of PAGE (polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis) of proteins in the presence of SDS (sodium dodecyl sulfate)?
B. Proteins migrate towards the cathode during SDS-PAGE.
D. The migration velocity of proteins during SDS-PAGE depends on both the molecular mass of the protein and its isoelectric point.
Question 85: Which of the following statements about isoelectric focusing is true?
A. All proteins migrate towards the cathode.
B. 2-mercaptoethanol is added to the gel to produce a pH gradient.
D. All proteins migrate to a position in the pH gradient where the pH is equal to the isoelectric point of the protein.
Question 86: Which of the following statements about isoelectric points is true?
A. The pI of an amino acid with a carboxyl group in the side chain can be calculated by averaging the pKa values of the side-chain carboxyl group and the alpha-amino group.
B. The further the pH is lowered below the pI, the greater the positive charge on a protein.
C. Proteins with many side chains that contain acid/base groups have more than one pI.
D. The further the pH is lowered below the pI, the greater the negative charge on a protein.
Question 87: Which of the following statements about oxygen, proton and CO2 movements in mammals is true?
A. The affinity of hemoglobin for O2 increases with increasing solution acidity.
B. The binding of one O2 to hemoglobin causes the uptake of approximately 0.7 H+.
C. The pH in rapidly respiring muscle tissues is usually significantly higher than is the pH in the lungs.
D. The binding of one O2 to hemoglobin causes the release-of approximately 0.7 H+.
Question 88: Which of the following statements about protein purity is true?
A. The most likely explanation of the presence of two Coomassie Blue-staining bands of comparable intensity in a SDS-PAGE gel of a protein-containing sample is that one is dealing with a pure sample of a protein that is a homo-dimer.
B. During each step in a well-designed purification protocol for an enzyme, the specific activity should decrease.
C. During each step in a well-designed purification protocol for a heme-containing protein like cytochrome c, the ratio of absorbance at 420 nm to that at 280 nm would be expected to increase.
D. The presence of only a single Coomassie Blue-staining band in a SDS-PAGE gel is always guarantees that only a single protein is present.
Question 89: Which of the following statements about ion-exchange chromatography is true?
B. Elution of proteins during anion exchange chromatography typically results in proteins with lower isoelectric points being eluted before proteins with higher isoelectric points.
C. Cation exchange chromatography at pH 7.0 is likely to be better suited than anion exchange chromatography at pH 7.0 to the separation of proteins with isoelectric points above 7.0.
Question 90: Which of the following statements about A (The Y-axis) on the graph above is likely to be true?
A. It is a measure of the percentage of enzyme activity.
B. It is a measure of inhibitor concentration.
C. It is a measure of reaction velocity, V0.
D. It is the Km for the enzyme.
Question 91: Which of the following statements about B (The X-axis) on the graph above is likely to be true?
Question 92: How would you go about determining what the concentration of inhibitor required to cause a 50% inhibition of enzyme activity in the case that the Y-axis is a measure of enzyme activity and the X-axis measures the concentration of inhibitor?
A. Find “50%” on the X-axis, draw line to the portion of the slope where it intersects the Y-axis. You would then add 5 + 7.5; divide it by two, to get an inhibitor concentration of 6.75.
B. Find “50%” on the Y-axis, draw line to the portion of the slope where it intersects the X-axis. You would then add 5 + 7.5; divide it by two, to get an inhibitor concentration of 6.
C. Find “50%” on the Y-axis, draw line to the portion of the slope where it intersects the X-axis. You would then add 5 + 7.5; divide it by two, to get an inhibitor concentration of 6.25.
D. It is not possible to find 50% inhibition of enzyme activity, because the Y-axis increases in increments of twenty.
Question 93: With regards to the plot above, which of the following statements is correct?
Question 94: Compare the lines on the plot above that correspond to (-0-0-) & (-X-X-). Which of the following statements is correct regarding the absolute value of 1/V?
C. The concentration of inhibitor is decreasing.
D. The Km is increasing.
Question 95: Compare the lines on the plot above that correspond to (-0-0-) & (-X-X-). Which of the following statements is correct regarding the absolute value of -1/KM?
A. The Km of the enzyme is increasing.
B. The Km of the enzyme is decreasing.
D. The Km of the enzyme is not affected.
Question 96: The plot above depicts which of the following types of inhibition?
Question 97: Which of the following statements about Lineweaver-Burk plots for enzymes that display Michaelis-Menten kinetics is correct?
Question 98: Assume that SNTI is a competitive inhibitor of trypsin, which of the following statements about is true?
Question 99: Assume that SNTI is a competitive inhibitor of trypsin, which of the following statements about competitive inhibitors is true?
Question 100: Which of the following statements is true? | 2019-04-26T01:57:09 | https://axilogy.com/free-mcat-questions/ek-mcat-question-of-the-day |
0.998609 | Can anyone out there advise on which is the best version of Alice Sweet Alice AKA Communion on DVD? I am not bothered about extras, such as trailers or a commentary.
Though obviously inspired by The French Connection and The Godfather this 1972 crime film also strongly recalls Machine Gun McCain. The reason for this is the presence of one of McCain star John Cassavetes frequent collaborators, Ben Gazzara.
It’s a powerful scene and one which subsequent ones generally do not match up to. An exception is some fascinating documentary-style footage of heroin production in rural Turkey.
Before we get to this point, however, the filmmakers introduce Gazzara’s character and the narrative in which he is at the centre. Gazzara plays a would-be big shot from New York, Joseph Coppola (note the surname), who has come to Turkey with the intention of masterminding a heroin deal that will take the drugs to Sicily, then Marseilles, then New York.
With each new encounter, however, Joseph, finds himself being forced to take a smaller and smaller cut of the deal. Things get worse as the consignment nears New York, as an old enemy seeks to cut him out entirely.
Gazzara gives a good performance, albeit as a character who is not particularly likeable. While the same could be said of the Corleone family in The Godfather we also have a sense of why they do what they do, along with indications their enemies are worse. Likewise though Popeye Doyle is an unpleasant racist we understand this to be part of a more complex, rounded character.
It is true that the final reversal(s) re-contextualise what has gone before, but they come too little too late and still don’t give us much insight into Joseph’s motivations.
On the plus side the film also features plenty of familiar Eurocrime favourites, including Luciano Rossi, Teodoro Corra, John Bartha and, most notably, Luciano Catenacci as a colleague of Joseph’s. Interestingly Catenacci also has a production role, recalling Kill Baby Kill. In this regard, the film also benefits from good use of its locations.
Ferdinando Baldi's direction is decent, but not particularly memorable.
Not the best, nor the worst Italian crime film I've seen.
Saddened to hear of Sage Stallone's passing. He was one of us -- i.e. a fan -- putting out the likes of The Beyond, Cannibal Holocaust, Cannibal Ferox and Massacre Mafia Style because he believed in them, regardless of their commercial potential.
Based upon author Kate Egan's PhD thesis, Trash or Treasure presents a three-part, broadly chronological academic examination of the British “video nasty” phenomenon from the early 1980s to the early 2000s, highlighting the shifting and contested meanings attached to the films by various cultural and subcultural groups over this period.
The first chapter examines the discourses employed by the British critical establishment, with Egan emphasising a general tendency to 'other' the assumed audience for horror films as “not like us”. She also notes the particularly anti-American nature of much of this criticism, through an examination of three case studies --- The Funhouse, Visiting Hours (whose Canadian origins are mentioned in passing, but not otherwise explored; an odd omission given that it was shot in Montreal) and The Evil Dead.
Another important limitation of Egan's discussion, albeit one that is entirely understandable in the context of academic research, is that her focus throughout remains firmly upon that group of films originally classified as “video nasties” in the early 1980s. She is uninterested in seeing how the term subsequently became a floating signifier that commentators sought to attach to other films, such as Child's Play 3 or Natural Born Killers.
The second chapter highlights contradictory understandings of the early 1980s, whether Kim Newman's golden age/plague years pairing or, more significant on a wider scale, that tension in Conservatism under Thatcher between economic liberalism and social conservatism.
Egan indicates how this relates to the marketing strategies employed by companies such as Vipco, Go and Replay, in that they operated as ideal(ised) Thatcherite entrepreneurs should, but with a product that was beyond the pale as far as more traditional Conservative elements (Thatcher's “Wets”?) were concerned.
This leads neatly on to the third and final chapter of this section, where Egan looks at the video nasty campaign as it emerged in the media, particularly The Daily Mail. Egan identifies the real or implied Daily Mail reader of the time as someone who was more socially conservative than economically liberal, or thereby not quite the (Althusserian interpellated subject?) Thatcherite ideal, whereby economic liberalism was privileged over social conservatism.
In relation to this perhaps the most significant underacknowledged aspect of the video nasties campaign is that the first politician to raise their concerns was not a Conservative but a Labour MP, Gareth Wardell. This is of particular interest, insofar as it represents an area where Egan criticises Martin Barker's contemporaneous analysis in The Video Nasties (1984), in which Thatcher and the Conservatives tended to be presented as the prime movers in the affair, proactive rather than reactive.
In contrast, Egan argues that the Daily Mail and its alternate vision of [C|c]onservatism were to the fore and that, following the failure of Wardell's campaign, the Conservatives then modified their position to be more like that of the newspaper --- i.e. political conservativism was prioritised over economic liberalism. Put another way it seems to be that the tail, The Daily Mail, wagged the dog, the Conservative party.
The fourth chapter explores the particular position occupied by the UK horror magazines/fanzines Fear and, especially, The Dark Side in constructing fan subcultures and discourses around the “nasties” (two other unexplored titles are worth noting here: Samhain and Shock Express).
Egan contends that (1990s) Dark Side constituted its identity in opposition to the (1980s-) US publication Fangoria, which it presented as too mainstream. While Dark Side was more mainstream than fanzines, its subcultural credentials were also established by discussing these publications.
Curiously, given the US/UK element identified in the first section, Egan does not say much about whether the Fangoria/Dark Side distinction (at least from the latter side) has broader associations.
She does, however, provide a compelling analysis of the role(s) played by the magazine's editor and public face, Allan Bryce, as gatekeeper / gamekeeper / groundsman of (a particular) subcultural know-how around the video nasties. This extends to Egan's reading of the magazine's small ads, whereby the reader-initiate was required to learn how to decode their particular shibboleths, whether the names of key directors (D'Amato, Franco, Fulci) or euphemisms (rare pre-certs), or Bryce's sometimes cryptic responses to readers' letters.
The fifth chapter looks at online discourses, as found on websites and discussion forums, with an emphasis upon the (male) nerd/geek type and their (his, my?) struggles over subcultural capital and masculinity. I didn't get much out of this. Whether this was mostly because I reacted against it as a male nerd/geek type; Egan's own lack of personal involvement (there is never any indication of why she chose the nasties as a research topic, nor the kind of existential commitment sensed when reading something written by a “true” fan, that this film/these films really matter); the material appearing dated; the difficulties of examining a nation-specific phenomenon in a post-national internet context; that many academic debates are equally petty territorial pissings (the politics of X are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small, to paraphrase Henry Kissinger); and/or being unsure that her sample was genuinely representative, I don't know.
The issue of representativeness is also evident in the sixth chapter, where Egan provides a detailed analysis of collector “John's” particular approach to the video nasty --- or, more precisely, pre-cert videos with nostalgic associations. What is good about this chapter, besides Egan's provocative comparison of John's video collection with Walter Benjamin's library, is the anthropological “thick description” of John's learning and using specific competences in car boot sales to avoid being taken advantage of and to take advantage of others (the return of the repressed Thatcherite entrepreneur?).
A major aspect of John's approach to the nasty is/was his specific interest in the original, authentic, video versions of the films. This leads into the third part of the book, where Egan looks at the re-release and re-evaluation of a number of nasties in the late 1990s and 2000s --- a period marked by the emergence of DVD over video (the VHS/Beta/Video 2000 aspect of collecting and rarity is neither explored nor mentioned, presumably because John had a VHS machine) and a new approach at the BBFC which allowed many previously banned nasties to be certificated, albeit often in cut versions.
The seventh chapter looks at the retrospective marketing of the nasties, with a particular focus upon the Vipco label. Egan identifies Vipco (founded in 1979 and intermittently ongoing to the point where her research ends) as a company who sought to position themselves as the home of the nasties via a cheap and cheerful approach, this in contrast to their more upmarket rivals Redemption.
The eighth and final chapter examines how selected nasties, most notably Last House on the Left, were re-contextualised as art works through their screenings in cultural contexts.
Here, I remember first seeing Craven and Cunningham's film at one of these events, namely Edinburgh International Film Festival screening, where it was introduced by Mark Kermode. Part of the reason for this screening was supposed to be as part of a campaign aimed at getting rid of the VRA. While that didn't happen, one now wonders about it and the BBFC's relevance, except as burdens on UK-based distributors who want to abide by the law: They paid to get inferior (because cut) product certificated while UK consumers bought uncut versions from Ebay, Amazon and so on; if we did buy UK releases, it is because of unique material, perhaps itself engaging with the history of the nasties, as with Egan's discussion of the Anchor Bay's US and UK versions of The Evil Dead, where the latter drew upon the legacy of Palace's distribution and defence of the title in the 1980s. | 2019-04-23T02:06:20 | http://giallo-fever.blogspot.com/2012/07/ |
0.999082 | What a tender detail it is when that special someone who loves you sends a text messages at night just before you go to bed. We are all waiting and wishing for a sign of affection, because knowing that our partner thinks of us at every moment is very nice.
In the following article you will find a list of phrases that we have developed especially for saying good night to our beloved one. Do not hesitate of sending a nice message, for your partner will be glad to know that he or she is next to someone so loving and detailed. Check the list and copy the messages you want.
:: "It's time to sleep, and I know you look and feel beautiful. I send you a kiss thinking about you and hoping to see you again in my dreams. Good night, my love".
:: "Good evening to all, rest and tomorrow wake up with your energies recharged. See you again tomorrow!"
:: "When stars shine in the sky, I think you're next to me. Good night, my darling. In my dreams I will go and get you."
:: "As much as I love you every day, in my dreams at night I do not stop loving you. Sweet dreams, my love. Have a good night."
:: "Goodnight, my love, rest and sleep well. Tomorrow is another day and I'll see you even more radiant than ever, I love you forever, my life."
:: "I think about you every night before I go to sleep, this time is no exception, as I miss you, my sweet love. See you tomorrow and I hope you to have beautiful dreams, for you truly deserve them."
:: "You are the only one in my heart, rests so we can meet again tomorrow. I love you, my sweet love, have a good night."
:: "Friends, good night; may Morpheus give you the present of having the best dreams, and wake up tomorrow with your energies recharged with positivism to finish the day. See you tomorrow."
:: "Sweet dreams, my dear, that the light of the stars illuminate your dreams. Tonight, like all other nights, you will be part of mine. I love you, my beloved."
:: "Because only you give meaning to my life, you are the person that I love and respect. Thanks for being by my side. Good night, my sweet love."
:: "Sleep well, for this was a tiring day, but tomorrow we expect many surprises. Good night to all my friends."
:: "Never doubt my love, for I will always provide you with fervor. Have a very good night, my love. I'll be thinking of you tomorrow and all day long. Sweet dreams."
Now you know it, sending a nice message before sleeping gives us a very special display of affection. Send your partner a goodnight message and have her sleeping thinking about you, you will see that you will make her very glad.
Love must be shown forever, even if your relationship has been going on for a long time. Do not let that spark go off and give her a token of love, for it will always make her smile. Come back soon for more posts, we’ll be waiting for you with many more. See you soon, remember that all of our phrases are free! | 2019-04-22T16:38:41 | https://www.seekinusa.com/good-night/good-night-texts.asp |
0.999896 | He was Hitler's favourite Nazi commando, famously rescuing Mussolini from an Italian hilltop fortress, and was known as "the most dangerous man in Europe".
After World War Two, he landed in Argentina and became a bodyguard for Eva Perón, with whom he was rumoured to have had an affair.
So when Otto Skorzeny arrived in Ireland in 1959, having bought a rural farmhouse in County Kildare, it caused much intrigue.
At 6ft 4in and 18 stone, known as 'scarface' due to a distinctive scar on his left cheek, Skorzeny was an easily recognisable figure as he popped into the local post office.
In Irish press reports at the time Skorzeny was portrayed as a glamorous cloak and dagger figure, as Dublin-based journalist Kim Bielenberg recalls.
"Skorzeny was depicted as the Third Reich's Scarlet Pimpernel. The tone in newspaper articles was one of admiration rather than repulsion.
"He seemed to be admired for his military prowess," he said.
But concerns about why this pin-up boy of the Nazi party had come to the country led to questions in the Irish parliament. What was Skorzeny doing there? Did he intend to start Nazi activities in Ireland?
Born in Vienna in 1908, Otto Skorzeny joined the Austrian Nazi party in the early 1930s. At the outbreak of WW2 he was initially involved in fighting on the Eastern Front, taking part in the German invasions of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union.
By April 1943, he had been made head of German special forces, in charge of a unit of elite SS commandos.
When Hitler's ally Benito Mussolini was overthrown and imprisoned in Italy, Skorzeny was chosen by Hitler to lead the rescue mission.
With this success, Skorzeny further enhanced his reputation with Hitler and was promoted to major.
He gained international renown when Mussolini was paraded in front of the media with Skorzeny at his side. Winston Churchill even described the mission as "one of great daring".
He became the Nazis' go-to man for such operations. Another occurred in 1944 when Skorzeny and his men captured the son of the Hungarian regent, Admiral Horthy. Securing Miklós Horthy Jr after a brief fire fight, Skorzeny's team then rolled him up in a carpet and put him on a plane to Berlin.
Skorzeny's last major mission in WW2 was during the Ardennes offensive (more commonly known as the Battle of the Bulge), in December 1944.
Skorzeny commanded Operation Greif, where English-speaking Germans dressed in American uniforms used disguised tanks to get behind Allied lines.
The plan caused confusion and panic among the Allies.
Rumours spread that Skorzeny's men were planning to assassinate General Eisenhower, with the increased security leaving Eisenhower temporarily confined to his Versailles headquarters during Christmas week.
Ten days after Hitler took his own life in May 1945, Skorzeny surrendered to the Americans.
At Dachau in 1947 he stood trial for war crimes, but the case collapsed and Skorzeny was acquitted.
Skorzeny still had to answer charges from other countries and remained held as a prisoner of war. Typically, he escaped - with the help of former SS comrades.
He ended up in Madrid and set up an import/export agency. Although much of its business was legitimate, this was said to have been a front for Skorzeny's involvement in organising the escape of wanted Nazis from Europe to South America.
Indisputably, Skorzeny made many trips to Argentina, where he met Argentinean President Juan Perón and even became a bodyguard to Perón's wife Eva, reportedly foiling an attempt on her life.
Skorzeny travelled from Madrid to Ireland in June 1957, where he had been invited to Portmarnock Country Club hotel in County Dublin.
Kim Bielenberg reflects on the welcome Skorzeny received at the reception held in his honour.
"He was feted by the Dublin social glitterati, including a young politician, Charles Haughey, who was later to become Ireland's most controversial prime minister."
"According to the Evening Press account, 'the ballroom was packed with representatives of various societies, professional men and, of course, several TDs [parliamentary representatives]'," the journalist said.
Bielenberg believes this warm welcome may have encouraged him to buy Martinstown House, a 160 acre farm and mansion in the Curragh, County Kildare, in 1959 and assesses the impression Skorzeny created with the locals.
"He could be seen driving across the Curragh in a white Mercedes and would visit the local post office for groceries.
"Reggie Darling, a local historian, told me he remembered coming across Skorzeny on the Curragh.
"He recalled him as a big man who stood out because of the scar across his face (which was the result of a duelling contest as a student), but that he wasn't particularly friendly and he didn't really mix with local people," he said.
Rumours and conjecture surrounded Skorzeny's regular visits to Ireland over the coming years.
Documents at the Irish National Archives in Dublin reveal that he was granted temporary visas to stay in Ireland, on the undertaking that he would not enter Britain.
State records from 1958 mention his indignation at the continual refusal of the British authorities to allow him entry.
Newspaper reports in the 1960s alleged that Skorzeny had opened up an escape route for ex-Nazis in Spain and that his farm in Ireland was a place where fleeing Nazis could hide, but no evidence was found to substantiate this claim.
In the post-war period, Europe was still haunted by the spectre of Nazism and there were concerns that it would return as a political force.
With that in mind, the former Irish minister for health Noel Browne was very concerned about Skorzeny's presence in Ireland and raised the matter in the Irish parliament (Dáil), in 1959.
The minister expressed concern that Skorzeny was engaging in "anti-Semitic activities".
On another occasion Browne told the Dáil: "It is generally understood that this man plays some part (in neo-Nazi activities) and, if so, he should not be allowed to use Ireland for that purpose."
There were a number of memos and letters involving Irish government departments, such as the Department of Justice and the Department of External Affairs, addressing concerns about Skorzeny's presence in Ireland.
When interviewed, Skorzeny denied that he was involved in Nazi activities or politics.
He said that he would like to buy horses and that one day he wished to retire to Ireland. But that did not happen and he was never granted a permanent Irish visa.
He lived out his remaining years in Madrid, where he died of cancer in 1975.
Skorzeny never denounced Nazism and was buried by his former comrades with his coffin draped in the Nazi colours.
In addition to Skorzeny, a number of high-profile Nazis, including Albert Folens and Helmut Clissman, came to Ireland in the aftermath of WW2.
In Hidden History: Ireland's Nazis, a 2007 documentary by Irish state broadcaster RTÉ, presenter Cathal O'Shannon estimated that between 100 and 200 Nazis moved to Ireland.
O'Shannon, who was an Irish-born Royal Air Force (RAF) veteran, described how he felt that anti-British sentiment in Ireland led to Nazis receiving a warmer welcome than he did when he came home after the war.
Kim Bielenberg believes it is important to consider the context of the time.
"They must have felt reasonably welcome, and were probably left alone, or even feted, as Skorzeny was. I am not sure that the full horror of Nazi atrocities had sunk in in Ireland," he said.
"There also may have been an attitude among certain nationalists that 'my enemy's enemy is my friend'. Irish attitudes to Nazis changed from the 1970s on, as issues such as the Holocaust entered public consciousness."
For Bielenberg there is also a personal link to Skorzeny, as he explains.
"Skorzeny was involved in rounding up and torturing members of the German resistance after their attempt on Hitler's life. One of these plotters was my own grandfather, Fritz von der Schulenburg", he said.
"After he was arrested with other resistance leaders, Skorzeny arrived and pulled off their military badges. The plotters were then forced to listen to a speech given by Hitler on the radio, confirming that the fuhrer was indeed still alive and well.
"My grandfather was executed in Berlin in August 1944."
"My mother came to live in Ireland and married the son of Peter and Christabel Bielenberg, associates of senior resistance figures. She lived in the same county as Skorzeny.
"I only discovered the house's past and the Skorzeny link when I went to dinner there with my German family just after her death." | 2019-04-19T20:03:12 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-30571335 |
0.998385 | Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told CBS's ''Face the Nation'' that the judge overseeing the Trump University case has treated him ''very unfairly,'' and that ''there is something going on'' adding that he is biased. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) STORY: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told CBS's "Face the Nation" that the judge overseeing the Trump University case has treated him "very unfairly," and that "there is something going on" adding that he is biased. Trump has accused U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel of harboring a bias against him in lawsuits involving fraud allegations against Trump University, the New York businessman's now-defunct real estate school. "This judge has treated me very unfairly, he has treated me in a hostile manner, and there is something going on," Trump said. The presumptive Republican nominee has suggested Curiel's Mexican-American heritage had influenced the judge's opinion because of Trump's campaign pledge to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. "We have to stop being so politically correct in this country," Trump told CBS. "And I am not blaming... I am proud my heritage, we are all proud of our heritage, but I want to build a wall. Now, the Hispanics, many of them like what I am saying, the are here legally, they don't want people coming and taking their jobs and taking there house and every thing else, they don't want that." "I am doing very well with the Latinos, the Hispanics, the Mexicans, I am doing very well with them, in my opinion," he said. | 2019-04-24T04:05:54 | https://uk.reuters.com/video/2016/06/05/trump-escalates-attack-on-judge?videoId=368790607 |
0.997497 | Resumo: O objetivo deste trabalho é examinar as propriedades das construções do português brasileiro com a expressão capaz, como Capaz que a Maria viajou. Essas construções podem ter significados diferentes, dependendo do padrão de entoação a elas associado. Com uma entoação plana, capaz é interpretado como um modal epistêmico, enquanto com a acentuação em capaz, tal como falado na região sul do Brasil, essa expressão passa a ser interpretada como um marcador pragmático, expressando surpresa ou o ponto de vista contrário do falante. A hipótese defendida no trabalho é a de que essas leituras estão associadas a duas estruturas sintáticas distintas: as sentenças com capaz epistêmico são bioracionais, ao passo que as sentenças em que capaz funciona como marcador pragmático são mono-oracionais. Com base nas propostas de Speas e Tenny (2003) e de Hill (2007, 2014) acerca da existência de uma projeção associada ao ato de fala (denominada Speech Act Phrase – SAP) e visível para a computação sintática, propomos que capaz como um marcador pragmático é uma expressão que sofreu um processo de mudança linguística denominado pragmaticalização (DOSTIE, 2004) e, em consequência dessa mudança, é inserido diretamente no núcleo de SAP, projeção que faz a interface da sintaxe com a pragmática conversacional.
Palavras-chave: modalidade epistêmica; marcador pragmático; interface sintaxe-pragmática.
Abstract: The main aim of this paper is to examine the properties of Brazilian Portuguese constructions involving the expression capaz ‘capable’ (Capaz que a Maria viajou, literally ‘capable that Maria travelled’) which can have different meanings depending on the intonation pattern associated to it. With a flat intonation, capaz can be an epistemic modal; with an intonation stressing capaz, as spoken in Southern Brazil, it can be a pragmatic marker, expressing the speaker negative point of view or the speaker’s surprise. The hypothesis defended here is that these readings are related to two different structures. Constructions with epistemic capaz are treated as biclausal structures, whereas constructions with capaz functioning as a pragmatic marker are analyzed as monoclausal structures. Based on Speas and Tenny (2003) and Hill (2007, 2014), who assume the existence of a Speech Act Phrase (SAP), a projection associated with the speech act and visible for the syntactic computation, we propose that when it acts as a pragmatic marker, capaz is an expression that undergoes a process of linguistic change called pragmaticalization (DOSTIE, 2004) and, as a consequence, is externally merged into the head of SAP, a projection at the interface of syntax with conversational pragmatics.
Keywords: epistemic modality; pragmatic marker; syntax-pragmatics interface.
modalidade epistêmica; marcador pragmático; interface sintaxe-pragmática; epistemic modality; pragmatic marker; syntax-pragmatics interface.
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0.997983 | The QAbstractVideoBuffer class is an abstraction for video data.
The QVideoFrame class makes use of a QAbstractVideoBuffer internally to reference a buffer of video data. Quite often video data buffers may reside in video memory rather than system memory, and this class provides an abstraction of the location.
In addition, creating a subclass of QAbstractVideoBuffer will allow you to construct video frames from preallocated or static buffers, in cases where the QVideoFrame constructors taking a QByteArray or a QImage do not suffice. This may be necessary when implementing a new hardware accelerated video system, for example.
The contents of a buffer can be accessed by mapping the buffer to memory using the map() function, which returns a pointer to memory containing the contents of the video buffer. The memory returned by map() is released by calling the unmap() function.
The handle() of a buffer may also be used to manipulate its contents using type specific APIs. The type of a buffer's handle is given by the handleType() function.
Identifies the type of a video buffers handle.
QAbstractVideoBuffer::NoHandle 0 The buffer has no handle, its data can only be accessed by mapping the buffer.
QAbstractVideoBuffer::GLTextureHandle 1 The handle of the buffer is an OpenGL texture ID.
QAbstractVideoBuffer::XvShmImageHandle 2 The handle contains pointer to shared memory XVideo image.
QAbstractVideoBuffer::CoreImageHandle 3 The handle contains pointer to macOS CIImage.
QAbstractVideoBuffer::QPixmapHandle 4 The handle of the buffer is a QPixmap.
QAbstractVideoBuffer::EGLImageHandle 5 The handle of the buffer is an EGLImageKHR.
QAbstractVideoBuffer::UserHandle 1000 Start value for user defined handle types.
Enumerates how a video buffer's data is mapped to system memory.
QAbstractVideoBuffer::NotMapped 0x00 The video buffer is not mapped to memory.
QAbstractVideoBuffer::ReadOnly 0x01 The mapped memory is populated with data from the video buffer when mapped, but the content of the mapped memory may be discarded when unmapped.
QAbstractVideoBuffer::WriteOnly 0x02 The mapped memory is uninitialized when mapped, but the possibly modified content will be used to populate the video buffer when unmapped.
QAbstractVideoBuffer::ReadWrite ReadOnly | WriteOnly The mapped memory is populated with data from the video buffer, and the video buffer is repopulated with the content of the mapped memory when it is unmapped.
See also mapMode() and map().
Constructs an abstract video buffer of the given type.
Destroys an abstract video buffer.
Returns a type specific handle to the data buffer.
The type of the handle is given by handleType() function.
Returns the type of a video buffer's handle.
In some cases the video buffer might be stored in video memory or otherwise inaccessible memory, so it is necessary to map the buffer before accessing the pixel data. This may involve copying the contents around, so avoid mapping and unmapping unless required.
Returns a pointer to the mapped memory region, or a null pointer if the mapping failed. The size in bytes of the mapped memory region is returned in numBytes, and the line stride in bytesPerLine.
See also unmap() and mapMode().
Returns the mode a video buffer is mapped in.
Independently maps the planes of a video buffer to memory.
Not all buffer implementations will map more than the first plane, if this returns a single plane for a planar format the additional planes will have to be calculated from the line stride of the first plane and the frame height. Mapping a buffer with QVideoFrame will do this for you.
To implement this function create a derivative of QAbstractPlanarVideoBuffer and implement its map function instance instead.
QVideoFrame calls QAbstractVideoBuffer::release when the buffer is not used any more and can be destroyed or returned to the buffer pool.
The default implementation deletes the buffer instance.
If the MapMode included the QAbstractVideoBuffer::WriteOnly flag this will write the current content of the mapped memory back to the video frame. | 2019-04-23T22:41:53 | https://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-5.6/qabstractvideobuffer.html |
0.999995 | I weep as I witness outrageous verbal attacks on Israel. What makes these verbal assaults and distortions all the more painful is that they are being orchestrated by President Obama.
For me, the situation today recalls what occurred in 70 AD when the Roman emperor Vespasian launched a military campaign against the Jewish nation and its ancient capital of Jerusalem. Ultimately, Masada, a rock plateau in the Judean desert became the last refuge of the Jewish people against the Roman onslaught. I have been to Jerusalem and Masada. From the top of Masada, you can still see the remains of the Roman fortifications and garrisons, and the stones and earth of the Roman siege ramp that was used to reach Masada. The Jews of Masada committed suicide rather than let themselves be taken captive by the Romans.
In Rome itself, I have seen the Arch of Titus with the sculpture showing enslaved Jews and the treasures of the Jewish Temple of Solomon with the Menorah, the symbol of the Jewish state, being carted away as booty during the sacking of Jerusalem.
Oh, you may say, that is a far fetched analogy. Please hear me out.
The most recent sacking of the old city of Jerusalem - its Jewish quarter - took place under the Jordanians in 1948 in the first war between the Jews and the Arabs, with at least five Muslim states - Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq - seeking to destroy the Jewish state. At that time, Jordan conquered East Jerusalem and the West Bank and expelled every Jew living in the Jewish quarter of the old city, destroying every building, including the synagogues in the old quarter and expelling from every part of Judea and Samaria every Jew living there so that for the first time in thousands of years, the old walled city of Jerusalem and the adjacent West Bank were "Judenrein" -- a term used by the Nazis to indicate the forced removal or murder of all Jews..
Jews had lived for centuries in Hebron, the city where Abraham, the first Jew, pitched his tent and where he now lies buried, it is believed, in a tomb with his wife, Sarah, as well as other ancient Jewish patriarchs and matriarchs. I have visited that tomb and at the time asked an Israeli soldier guarding it - so that it was open to all pilgrims, Christians, Muslims and Jews -- "where is the seventh step leading to the tomb of Abraham and Sarah," which was the furthest entry for Jews when the Muslims were the authority controlling the holy place? He replied, "When we retook and reunited the whole city of Jerusalem and conquered the West Bank in 1967, we removed the steps, so now everyone can enter," whereas when Muslims were in charge of the tomb, no Jew could enter it. And I did.
I am not a religious person. I am comfortable in a synagogue, but generally attend only twice a year, on the high holidays. When I entered the tomb of Abraham and Sarah, as I recall, I felt connected with my past and the traditions of my people. One is a Jew first by birth and then by religion. Those who leave their religion, remain Jews forever by virtue of their birth. If they don't think so, let them ask their neighbors, who will remind them. I recall the words of the columnist Robert Novak, who was for most of his life hostile to the Jewish state of Israel in an interview with a reporter stating that while he had converted to Catholicism, he was still a cultural Jew. I remain with pride a Jew both by religion and culture.
My support for the Jewish state has been long and steadfast. Never have I thought that I would leave the U.S. to go and live in Israel. My loyalty and love is first to the U.S. which has given me, the son of Polish Jewish immigrants, so much. But, I have also long been cognizant of the fact that every night when I went to sleep in peace and safety, there were Jewish communities around the world in danger. And there was one country, Israel, that would give them sanctuary and would send its soldiers to fight for them and deliver them from evil, as Israel did at Entebbe in 1976.
I weep today because my president, Barack Obama, in a few weeks has changed the relationship between the U.S. and Israel from that of closest of allies to one in which there is an absence of trust on both sides. The contrast between how the president and his administration deals with Israel and how it has decided to deal with the Karzai administration in Afghanistan is striking.
The Karzai administration, which operates a corrupt and opium-producing state, refuses to change its corrupt ways - the president's own brother is believed by many to run the drug traffic taking place in Afghanistan - and shows the utmost contempt for the U.S. is being hailed by the Obama administration as an ally and publicly treated with dignity. Karzai recently even threatened to join the Taliban if we don't stop making demands on him. Nevertheless, Karzai is receiving a gracious thank-you letter from President Obama. The New York Times of April 10th reported, "...that Mr. Obama had sent Mr. Karzai a thank-you note expressing gratitude to the Afghan leader for dinner in Kabul. 'It was a respectful letter,' General Jones said."
On the other hand, our closest ally - the one with the special relationship with the U.S., has been demeaned and slandered, held responsible by the administration for our problems in Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East. The plan I suspect is to so weaken the resolve of the Jewish state and its leaders that it will be much easier to impose on Israel an American plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, leaving Israel's needs for security and defensible borders in the lurch.
I believe President Obama's policy is to create a whole new relationship with the Arab states of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt, and Iraq as a counter to Iran - The Tyrannosaurus Rex of the Muslim world which we are now prepared to see in possession of a nuclear weapon. If throwing Israel under the bus is needed to accomplish this alliance, so be it.
I am shocked by the lack of outrage on the part of Israel's most ardent supporters. The members of AIPAC, the chief pro-Israel lobbying organization in Washington, gave Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a standing ovation after she had carried out the instructions of President Obama and, in a 43-minute telephone call, angrily hectored Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Members of Congress in both the House and Senate have made pitifully weak statements against Obama's mistreatment of Israel, if they made any at all. The Democratic members, in particular, are weak. They are simply afraid to criticize President Obama.
What bothers me most of all is the shameful silence and lack of action by community leaders - Jew and Christian. Where are they? If this were a civil rights matter, the Jews would be in the mall in Washington protesting with and on behalf of our fellow American citizens. I asked one prominent Jewish leader why no one is preparing a march on Washington similar to the one in 1963 at which I was present and Martin Luther King's memorable speech was given? His reply was "Fifty people might come." Remember the 1930s? Few stood up. They were silent. Remember the most insightful statement of one of our greatest teachers, Rabbi Hillel: "If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?"
We have indeed stood up for everyone else. When will we stand up for our brothers and sisters living in the Jewish state of Israel?
If Obama is seeking to build a siege ramp around Israel, the Jews of modern Israel will not commit suicide. They are willing to negotiate a settlement with the Palestinians, but they will not allow themselves to be bullied into following self-destructive policies.
To those who call me an alarmist, I reply that I'll be happy to apologize if I am proven wrong. But those who stand silently by and watch the Obama administration abandon Israel, to whom will they apologize?
The Honorable Edward Irving Koch served New York City as its 105th Mayor from 1978 to 1989.
American Friends of Likud is a non-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization dedicated to promoting public education about Israel and events taking place in the Middle East. Through our work we also aim to raise a general awareness of Zionism. | 2019-04-24T00:44:14 | http://list.freeman.org/pipermail/freemanlist2/2010-April/025657.html |
0.999999 | Plot After the retirement of their Supervisor, Carl is promoted into the position and later, Homer is promoted to be his assistant. Meanwhile, to raise money for charity, Marge suggests that she and the Charity Chicks do a pin-up calender. Julio, the photographer gets Marge drunk, she and the calendar become the talk of the town, much to the annoyance of Bart. <br /><br />Powered by her libido, Marge wants to make love to Homer, but he's exhausted due to all the work Carl puts him through. Carl phones Homer up and informs him that they both have to go to Paris for a Power Plant expo. Marge feeling ignored throws a mallet at Homer but misses hitting Ned Flanders instead. <br /><br />Marge invites Flanders to dinner as an apology. The innocent dinner nearly turns romantic though, but Marge spots her wedding photo in Flanders's glasses. Meanwhile Homer annoyed with Carl returns to Springfield without his permission and threatens to tell President Sarkozy, the President of France that Carl has been dating his wife, Carla Bruni. | 2019-04-24T12:29:41 | http://babysimpson.co.uk/index.php?action=epguide;ep=LABF17 |
0.905823 | Have you been in an auto accident? Are you unsure of what your next steps should be? If you haven't been obviously injured, it does not mean you haven't been injured at all. There are all kinds of soft tissue injuries that are common in car accidents, and the signs and symptoms of most of them do not start to show up until a few days after the accident.
If you have been in a car accident, but don't seem to be injured, don't take the chance that the symptoms of soft tissue injuries will sneak up on you. Instead, do the correct, proactive thing, and schedule an appointment with a car accident doctor, such as our chiropractor in Austin, right away.
An automotive accident can leave you with serious injuries that may never heal properly without chiropractic care. Therefore, it is important to seek care immediately after an accident occurs. Otherwise, you could suffer from neck and back pain, along with a host of other injury complications, for years to come.
Whiplash is a common soft tissue injury caused by car accidents, but there are others. You will soon start to feel soreness and stiffness in your muscles, your range of motion may diminish, you may get some inflammation in the injured area, and you might eventually experience severe and long-lasting pain there. Of course, this is what can happen if you don't take the appropriate first step after a car accident that doesn't involve an obvious injury.
With the help from one of our chiropractors, you can rest assured that you will receive the following benefits.
The forces endured during an auto accident often cause the muscles, tendons and other structures to sustain serious damage. When this happens, you will be left with serious neck and back pain. Whiplash, in particular, can cause severe pain that impacts your ability to participate in personal and professional activities. A chiropractor in Austin, TX, can help you recover from the injuries, causing your pain levels to drop considerably in just a few visits.
The bodily damage sustained in a car accident can cause serious complications without prompt auto injury treatment. You can keep whiplash and other issues from developing into lasting issues by acquiring care from your Austin chiropractor. The chiropractic care will realign your skeletal system and reduce pressure on your bones, joints, and muscles. When your system remains in proper alignment, the damaged tissues can receive healthy blood flow that prevents the injuries from worsening over time.
With professional car accident injury treatment from a TX Austin chiropractor, you can recover from your injuries much faster than those who do not seek care. You will need to commit to a series of appointments that allow your Austin chiropractor to make gradual adjustments to your system. The adjustments will slowly bring your body back into a proper alignment, which facilitates the full healing of your soft tissue injuries as well.
How Can a Chiropractor Help After an Auto Accident?
A chiropractor is an expert in diagnosing and treating soft tissue injuries. Immediately after your car accident, once you've talked to your local police department and your insurance company, whether you were the at-fault party or the victim, call a chiropractor. If you live in Austin, you will want to call Whitehead Chiropractic. Get in there before any symptoms of a potential soft tissue injury manifest themselves, and you may save yourself a ton of pain and suffering down the line.
Your chiropractor will take x-rays of your spine, test your range of motion, examine you for painful areas, look at the way you stand and walk, and feel for any inflammation. Tight or tense muscles can also be pinpointed, as well as any muscle swelling, bruising, or painful movement. The x-rays will show if any of your vertebrae were thrown out of alignment by the accident.
Once your chiropractor knows what your issues are, treatment can begin before the symptoms appear. Treatment will depend on your particular injury, and may involve chiropractic adjustments, massage therapy, physical therapy, or other treatments. The important thing is that you will be taking a proactive step toward healing at the beginning, when it's easiest to heal fully and well.
If you were involved in a minor to a severe automotive accident, acquire care from your Austin chiropractor at Whitehead Chiropractic by calling 512-451-0015. We will help you find the best auto injury treatment option by evaluating your injuries and overall health status. By working with our chiropractors, you can quickly heal from your car accident injury, including whiplash and back pain. | 2019-04-19T12:16:00 | https://www.whiteheadchiro.com/blog/10570-why-seeing-a-chiropractor-after-a-car-accident-is-important |
0.999538 | Better Buy: Gilead Sciences Inc. vs. Biogen Inc.
Both biotechs have been big winners in the past, but which is the better pick now?
For much of the past decade, Biogen (NASDAQ:BIIB) ruled as perhaps the best big biotech stock around. That changed over the last year, though, as Biogen's stock dropped like a rock. If you look at best stock performance over the past 10 years among big biotechs, Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD) now ranks at the top. But which of these biotechs is the better buy now for long-term investors?
Few biotechs are priced as attractively as Gilead is right now. The stock trades at an earnings multiple below eight for both trailing-12-month earnings and forward earnings.
Gilead reported sizzling 31% year-over-year revenue growth in 2015. Earnings soared nearly 50% compared to the previous year. Much of that improvement stemmed from Gilead's phenomenally successful hepatitis C drug Harvoni.
To put things in perspective, Harvoni became a blockbuster drug in just a few months at the end of 2014. In its first full year on the market, the drug racked up sales topping $13.8 billion. Gilead's hep C lineup, consisting of Harvoni and its predecessor Sovaldi, made a combined $19.1 billion in revenue during 2015.
And that's not all. Gilead first made its name in the HIV/AIDS therapy market. The biotech's HIV franchise generated sales of almost $11 billion last year. Meanwhile, non-antiviral products kicked in another $1.9 billion in 2015.
As if all that weren't enough to get investors excited, Gilead also is one of the few biotechs that pays a dividend, sporting a forward yield around 2%. As you might expect for a company making over $18 billion in profits, Gilead boasts a low dividend payout ratio. Low actually might be an understatement, actually, for a payout ratio of under 11%.
What's the bad news? Harvoni has competition. Merck (NYSE:MRK) recently introduced its own hep C drug, Zepatier, with pricing well below Harvoni's list price. To add insult to injury, Merck also won a court decision that requires Gilead to pay $200 million for patent infringement. Another decision could ultimately force Gilead to pay royalties to Merck on all future sales of Harvoni and Sovaldi.
Biogen also can claim an attractive valuation, albeit not to the degree that Gilead can. Biogen's forward earnings multiple of 12.5 is well below that of the S&P 500.
The big biotech reported a solid 2015, with revenue up 11% year over year. Earnings grew 21% compared to the prior year. As with Gilead, one drug led the way for Biogen.
Sales for multiple sclerosis (MS) drug Tecfidera increased 25% to $3.6 billion in 2015. Biogen also saw impressive growth from another MS drug: Revenue for Plegridy jumped to $338.5 million from $44.5 million in 2014.
Biogen experienced success with its hemophilia lineup as well. Sales for Aprolix climbed 67% year over year, while sales for Eloctate more than quadrupled. Combined, the two drugs generated over $554 million last year.
Looking toward the future, Biogen has five phase 3 clinical studies in progress and one drug awaiting regulatory approval (daclizumab). Perhaps the biggest potential winner in the biotech's pipeline is aducanumab, which targets treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Clinical studies thus far for the drug have produced both excitement and disappointment. If aducanumab does ultimately gain approval in this difficult indication, it could be a game changer for Biogen.
What's the downside for Biogen? Revenue from two of the company's blockbuster MS drugs, Avonex and Tysabri, is declining. There's also considerable risk associated with Biogen's pipeline, especially for aducanumab.
In my view, either of these biotech stocks would be good picks. If I had to pick just one, though, I'd go with Gilead Sciences.
Gilead is trading at a valuation well below that of its peers. That's mainly because of concerns about Merck gaining market share with Zepatier, but so far those fears seem to be overblown. And Gilead has another likely hep C winner on the way: A combo treatment for all types of hepatitis C awaits regulatory approval in the U.S. and Europe. In addition, Gilead has a couple of HIV drugs and a hepatitis B drug that could hit the market relatively soon if all goes well with regulatory reviews.
On top of all that, Gilead has eight other late-stage studies in progress. What's especially encouraging for the biotech's long-term outlook is that five of those are in areas outside of Gilead's traditional antiviral focus.
I like Biogen's MS franchise and pipeline potential. However, I really like Gilead's valuation, hep C and HIV franchises, pipeline potential, dividend, and (not to leave anything out) its enormous cash stockpile. Better buy? Definitely Gilead Sciences. | 2019-04-19T18:39:56 | https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/04/04/better-buy-gilead-sciences-inc-vs-biogen-inc.aspx |
0.999426 | Best ways to use coconut milk?
I have half a dozen cans of coconut milk sitting in my pantry, and I need to think of ways to use more of it on a day to day basis! I like the taste, and it's great in curries or similar meals, but I wish I had more options. Can y'all suggest some new, different things to do with it?
I've tried drinking it straight, but while I like the taste, in large quantities it starts tasting...weird. Dunno why, but I don't like it.
Honey can help with allergies, but that comes with the conditions that it has to be raw and local to get the benefits.
+1 for totally delicious. I add a bit of fish sauce and some squeezes of lime.
I like it just plain over frozen berries of any kind, maybe a few almond slivers on top.
Laren, you are right. A little bit of honey sometimes is great.
I use unsalted curry powder from Spice Hunter. I keep some around at home and at work.
That sounds really interesting, Laura. Any particular kind of curry powder you're using?
@Tim That sounds good. I'll give it a try. Thanks!
@ahh Sometimes I chill it enough that it solidifies partially. It totally depends on what I feel like. Some days, I like it very liquidy, and others I like it thicker. Experiment and see what you enjoy.
Laren - I agree - a little local honey is not over the top and is suppose to help with allergies.
Anything that's mostly paleo and uses dairy, I call primal.
Quiche is basically an egg, milk/cream and cheese base. I use coconut milk instead of regular milk, add whatever meat and vegies I have on hand, and cook it in a cast iron skillet as you would a frittata, top with cheese when the bottom has set and finish under a broiler. The texture is more quiche-like. My family likes the crust on quiche though, so sometimes I'll top with almond flour, butter and cheese for a crusty top.
I don't think a bit of honey is out of order. You guys get a bit silly about it. It's not like a bit of honey will cause you to pass out and require an ambulance!
A good snack just pouring whipped coconut milk over coconut flakes, nuts, and frozen berries, is a pretty fast and good option to ice cream, too!
I've not used it as salad dressing, but I usually pour a couple cans into a container and whip 'em up with a mixer. Then chill. It makes the milk creamy smooth and a little thicker.
Is the idea to chill it enough to make it solidify?
That's a bit sugary for paleo.
Mix in a blender, should freeze up into ice cream.
I freeze it in ice cube trays and just take a few out and throw them into stuff. A few cubes with a bag of frozen spinach and a pinch of spice is delicious and super fast and easy.
I will throw some cubes in with fresh fruit that's about to go bad with a little stevia to make an ice cream in the Magic Bullet.
Makes great chocolate truffles...uh, so I've heard.
-Poaching chicken tenders or breasts in it leaves them incredibly moist and tasty.
I made a chocolate ganache for a pie- heat a can on the stove top, pour over unsweetened chocolate, mix well (i added some stevia) and refrigerate over an almond meal crust for an incredibly rich dessert.
-add to soups to make them really creamy. a thai sweet potato would be good.
Make a Thai curry. Get a can of green or yellow thai curry paste. Saute whatever meat you want, or fish, or shrimp, or just about anything in coconut oil. Dump the curry paste into the pan, stir, let it get hot and aromatic. Lower heat, add 1 can coconut milk, stir, simmer a bit, add whatever veg you want, and eat it. Thai curry is completely unlike Indian curry and the prep is incredibly flexible and it's a great way to use up oddbits of leftover meat/veg.
Mix chilled coconut milk and cocoa powder well with a hand mixer. Add vanilla and stevia. Mix well. Chill in fridge until set. Enjoy.
Heat coconut milk over medium-low heat in sauce pan, stirring constantly. When thoroughly heated, add other ingredients to taste. Stir well. Enjoy!
My favorite treat...2 squares dark chocolate and decaf Celestial Seasonings Chai with a few drops of Stevia and half a cup of coconut milk.
I like using it to poach salmon or shrimp. You can also cook bananas in it to create a nice dessert. I like to top it with macadamias and cinnamon.
Seriously though, Thai curries are fantastic and easy. Using it in soups or smoothies is delicious. But my personal favorite is to make chai tea or hot chocolate with it.
Shake can vigorously. Open can with Pampered Chef smooth-edge can opener so there are no sharp edges. Drink happily.
Shake can. Open can with can opener. Stir well to ensure there are no lumps. Put lid back on can (yes, you can do this if you use the smooth edge can opener) and stick can in fridge for several hours. It'll turn into a smooth, creamy concoction. Locate a spoon. Eat happily.
Adding blueberries or blackberries to the chilled version works too.
Put it in your coffee.
Cut an apple into little cubes (skin included, no middle), add 2-3 teaspoons of coconut milk, and mix it well. Incredibly tasty.
mix 5 egg yolks with about half a can of coconut milk and microwave (or use pressure cooker/steamer if you have one) for 2-3 minutes -- quick breakfast, low protein, and quite tasty.
mix coconut milk with unsweetened cocoa powder, sea salt, and some macadamia nuts, freeze it for 20-30 minutes. great snack.
I just put a table spoon or two of full fat coconut milk over a cup of berries with nutmeg and a teaspoon of vanilla. It was so good and I'm full. A great dessert!
I mix in curry powder, shake, and then dilute with an equal amount of hot water for my breakfast beverage. Tasty stuff.
I mixed it with Kefir, Coconut Kefir is delicious. A little cinnamon tastes Good in it And a good soup base as well.
Also, it's quite refreshing to drink straight up. I recommend drinking it in small amounts to start with, because larger amounts often upset peoples' stomachs. | 2019-04-26T00:19:57 | https://www.paleohacks.com/coconut/best-ways-to-use-coconut-milk-736 |
0.999472 | As technology becomes available to possibly enable more deaf to 'hear' via cochlear implants and specialized hearing aids, this discussion will likely continue to evolve. There are 2 very good sides to this argument. Being the only one in my family that had hearing loss as well as a child entering grade school in the 1960's, there were not many options in the education system at that time to figure out what to do with me. Having the availability of a really good speech therapist as a 6 year old enabled me to overcome the language deficit and at least try and succeed in the education mainstream world that existed then.
Fast forward 45 years and the opportunities for children with hearing loss are greater and fraught with more emotional decisions for the parents. Imagine coming from a family that is Deaf and growing up with ASL (American Sign Language), only to find out that there is a very strong possibility that the school you were planning on sending your ASL speaking child to may no longer be an option? On the other hand, imagine being a child with some residual hearing, access to good hearing health providers, parents able to afford the solutions that will enable their child to hear and process sounds (most insurance companies won't pay for hearing aids) and then being told that you should not mainstream your child when it comes to their education? Which scenario is right for the child?
In my opinion, both are. There is very little known about the Deaf Culture by those that are not hearing challenged. In my case, I didn't even meet any Deaf persons until the past few years. I'm still struggling with how best to communicate with them since my ASL skills are very weak (most people with hearing aids don't know ASL) and it's so much easier to just forget about trying to forge a relationship with someone that 'doesn't speak your language'. I know that's the easy way to solve it, but I've met some very intelligent and wonderful people that are Deaf and I would really like to learn more about what they think as well as their opinions on everyday things in our world. (the old days of being classified as deaf and dumb was a misnomer and totally untrue in most cases) I finally got up the courage to admit my lack of understanding to a few of those in the Deaf Population and after some initial awkwardness, we are now learning from each other as our professional as well as personal friendships grow.
One of the bigger challenges that I am finding is that even though both groups (Hearing Challenged and Deaf) have one of their senses deficient, we have never looked at ourselves as being in the same situation. Thus the culture differences come to light. The best way that I can explain this for those of you not in Hearing Loss world is to think about the challenges of communication and interaction with someone that either does not speak your language or has elected to interact with those that are only similiar to them. It's a tough situation to fix. Very similiar to how some feel about different races in a lot of ways.
In my case, I would have loved to experience ASL in my youth as another form of communication. Of course, at the time, there were not even hearing aids that would work for me. And, I don't remember anyone in my school system that knew or taught ASL. In todays' world, there are many more opportunities for students. But, the parents need to ask the pertinent questions of the school in order to learn of the programs. For some, the best option, at least in their mind is to just enroll their kids in the local school and tackle the frustrations and problems as they evolve. This puts everyone behind right from the start.
With the current budget/economy situation, the days of being able to depend on government programs and initiatives is waning. The non-profit groups such as National Assoc. for the Deaf, Hearing Loss Association of America, ect. are going to have to step up and take on some of the responsibility for educating parents on what services, programs and tools are available for them and their children. I would love to see a program at the elementary school level that teaches normal hearing children what a child with hearing loss goes through. A similiar program would also be great for the kids that have hearing loss so that they can learn how to interact with the 'normal' kids. There were many days as a child and even now, that I would have loved to be considered a 'normal kid'. | 2019-04-18T15:15:51 | http://www.austar-hearing.net/htm/hearing-loss/hearing/2012_0806_115.html |
0.999997 | We will solve for g using quadratic formula -b +/- sqrt(b^2-4ac)/(2a), graphical method and completion of squares.
Step1: Divide all terms by the coefficient of g2 which is 2.
Step 2: solve for root g1.
Step 2: solve for root g2. | 2019-04-23T10:44:27 | http://www.b254.com/factoring/2gsquare2plus4gminus15.html |
0.999719 | Several hundred supporters decided to share McDonnell’s message.
Why? What does this intervention in the debate reveal? What McDonnell is doing is spouting slogans. In no way is he making a case. For all the good it will do politics, you might as well share toilet paper.
This is not an argument about how social media dumbs down politics. This is an argument about the fact that in politics we are no longer having arguments.
Maybe it is unfair - but fun - to pick on the Shadow Chancellor. His leader had more than 140 characters when he gave his conference speech. His speech outlined Labour’s programme for government. At times, he was received with rapturous applause.
He said that Labour would bring back into public ownership key public services. He stated why but he did not build a case. There was a wide gap between identifying a problem and the proposed solution.
Jeremy Corbyn instead attacked on his opponents. His speech reasoned that Britain is in its current state because the Tories want it to be so: they actively want the poor to get poorer, the vulnerable to remain powerless.
Attacking opponents is not the beginning of an argument. It is an attempt to shut down argument. Saying that Britain’s malaise is because the Tories are a bunch of wicked, greedy crooks means that opponents do not have to justify their own positions.
It is arrogant. Not only in its attempt to build windows into people’s souls, but by doing so, it refuses to make a case for an alternative.
Unfortunately, this denial of debate is not confined to the left of the Labour party. Theresa May built her premiership on a series of slogans. “Brexit means Brexit,” she declared - but never declared what Brexit meant except Brexit. She based her whole election campaign upon “Strong and Stable” but never argued why she was the best person to bring that strength and stability. When confronted with a soundbite - "the dementia tax" - over her social care policy, May could have tried to calmly reason with voters. Instead she u-turned and pretended she hadn't.
Had she levelled with voters, she might now be sitting on a healthy majority. As it is, when the structure failed - without a substantial argument - the emptiness of her politics was revealed.
What has been lacking from the whole Brexit saga is argument and debate.
In his account of the referendum and its aftermath, Tim Shipman recounts a story where Michael Gove admitted that leaving the EU would mean leaving the European Single Market. Remain campaigners spotted a gaff. Their glee was misplaced. First, voters did not know what the Single Market was; second, Remain failed to build a case in its favour.
It was not until too late in the campaign that David Cameron made a detailed argument on its benefits.
It is a disservice to democracy to deny that voters were ill-informed. They were ill-informed not only because of their own efforts but because politicians refused to inform them. Maybe with more information they would have made the same decision. But at least they would be committing national self-harm in an informed way.
The poison is our politics is that a substantial proportion of the country do not recognise Brexit’s legitimacy. There are many factors here, including the closeness of the result and the dubious relationship with truth of Leave campaigners. Might it also be that Brexit was never tested? The referendum was a series of focus group-tested slogans. It was not a debate, it was a shouting match.
Politics has never been a pleasant spectator sport. It has never been conducted as if in a university Senior Common Room. There is a faint irony though that, once again, politics is conducted at ideological polars, yet there is a lacuna of debate.
If you read any of Margaret Thatcher’s speeches they contain an argument. And actually very often, well-reasoned arguments. That does not mean she was right, but she constructed a case. It might be why - despite public scepticism of many of her policies - she remained in Downing Street for twelve years - aided, in part, because all voters heard from her opponents was abuse and name-calling.
Tony Blair was almost paranoid about making a thorough argument. In speeches, he takes the voter through each step, acknowledging counter-arguments before knocking them down until he finds the solution. He stays just ahead of any open-minded voter so they reach the conclusion at the same time.
Both Thatcher and Blair studied at the bar. They were used to building arguments and convincing doubters. Cameron, May and Corbyn had no such training. Each are creatures of their parties. May climbed the greasy poll as Tory activist; Corbyn has spent his thirty years in politics talking to rallies of converted.
Support in favour of policies, parties or leaders - whether from party members or public opinion polls - does not make reasoned debate redundant.
By failing to contest arguments, politicians are denying themselves legitimacy. They will win wars only to find that they are actually battles.
And voters should be asking one question: have they actually made a case or do I just want to believe they have? | 2019-04-25T12:39:18 | http://www.disclaimermag.com/politics/it-s-a-case-of-legitimacy-why-voters-and-politicians-need-proper-debate-5541 |
0.998383 | Do lifestyle expectations ever fully change for a woman, to the point that she can be happy? - Dating :: sidetaker.
Do lifestyle expectations ever fully change for a woman, to the point that she can be happy?
I make decent money ( $130,000/year) but I'm not rich. I am pretty generous (in my eyes) with my money for my gf. We go to an expensive restaurant once a week. For Christmas, I spent over $2000 for a necklace for her. I have only been going out with her for 7 months. I also bought her a $4,000 Chanel bag early in the relationship. I didn't want to, but basically she asked me for one and I said "yes", thinking to myself that I would get it on her birthday or something. She, however, expected it that week, and threatened to break up with me if I didn't get it. FInally, on her birthday, most girls get a birthday dinner....she got a vacation to the Caribbean, paid by me of course. Meanwhile, my savings is dipping for the first time in my life, and I don't like it.
You may be wondering why I'm still with her. Well, here's why....I ended up breaking up with her over it a while ago. She was being too demanding and I said screw it. She ended up begging me to take her back. Since then, whenever she asks for something I can't afford, I just say "no" and that's that. She has said that she is ok with it now, and doesn't demand anything. However, she keeps asking me to get a new job and ask me what my ambitions are. I don't want to sound like a loser with no ambitions, but I think I am doing just fine.
Anyway, this is the problem. Her parents are loaded. She is used to a certain lifestyle from her dad. Now, I could care less how much her parents have and I don't want a penny of it. What I am concerned about is whether or not she can accept not having that kind of money for the rest of her life. In a way, I can't fault her. If I were asked to downgrade my standard of living, I don't think it's that easy to do. Also, she is trying. From where we started to where she is now, she is more reasonable. Unfortunately, the only way I can get her to change is to break up with her when she is being a spoiled brat.
Is there hope here? I don't want to spend the rest of my life trying to live up to a standard of living that I don't even feel is necessary. I also don't want a wife who always feels that she took a step down in life. Finally, I am worried that she's just changing to keep me, and if we get married, she will revert back. | 2019-04-21T16:58:17 | https://www.sidetaker.com/page/question/2678/do-lifestyle-expectations-ever-fully-change-for-a-woman-to-the-point-that-she-can-be-happy |
0.988319 | Nonetheless, a significant number of people have accounts in these systems and are to some extent contactable there.
Many marketing campaigns that have been successful today, whether they are crowdfunding, political activism or just finding a lost cat claim to have had great success because of Twitter or Facebook. Is this true? In reality, many users of those platforms follow hundreds of different friends and if they only check-in once a day, filtering algorithms show them only a small subset of what all their friends posted. Against these odds, just posting your great idea on Facebook doesn't mean that more than five people are actually going to see it. Those campaigns that have been successful have usually had something else going in their favour, perhaps it was a friend working in the media who gave their campaign a plug on his radio show or maybe they were lucky enough to be slashdotted. Maybe it was having the funds for a professional video production with models who pass off as something spontaneous. The use of Facebook or Twitter alone did not make such campaigns successful, it was just part of a bigger strategy where everything fell into place.
Should free software projects, especially those revolving around free communications technology, use such platforms to promote themselves?
It is not a simple question. In favour, you could argue that everything we promote through public mailing lists and websites is catalogued by Google anyway, so why not make it easier to access for those who are on Facebook or Twitter? On top of that, many developers don't even want to run their own mail server or web server any more, let alone a self-hosted social-media platform like pump.io. Even running a basic SIP proxy server for the large Debian and Fedora communities involved a lot of discussion about the approach to support it.
The argument against using Facebook and Twitter is that you are shooting yourself in the foot, when you participate in those networks, you give them even more credibility and power (which you could quantify using Metcalfe's law). The Metcalfe value of their network, being quadratic rather than linear, shoots ahead of the Metcalfe value of your own solution, putting your alternative even further out of reach. On top of that, the operators of the closed platform are able to evaluate who is responding to your message and how they feel about it and use that intelligence to further undermine you. In some cases, there may be passive censorship, such as WhatsApp silently losing messages that link to rival Telegram.
How do you feel about this choice? How and when should free software projects and their developers engage with mainstream social media technology? Please come and share your ideas on the Free-RTC mailing list. | 2019-04-22T12:31:55 | https://danielpocock.com/promoting-free-software-and-free-communications-on-popular-social-media-networks/ |
0.999958 | In this article, I am going to write key points about what is UTF and difference between UTF-8 and UTF-16.
UTF stands for Unicode Transformation Format. It is a family of standards for encoding the Unicode character set into its equivalent binary value. UTF was developed so that users have a standardized means of encoding the characters with the minimal amount of space.
- UTF-8 is a variable-width encoding that can represent every character in the Unicode character set.
- UTF-8 was designed for backward compatibility with ASCII.
- UTF-8 is byte oriented format and therefore has no problems with byte oriented networks or file.
- UTF-8 uses 1 byte at the minimum in encoding the characters.
- UTF-8 is also better in recovering from errors that corrupt portions of the file or stream as it can still decode the next uncorrupted byte.
- UTF-16 is a character encoding for Unicode capable of encoding 1,112,064 numbers (called code points) in the Unicode code space from 0 to 0x10FFFF.
- UTF-16 uses 2 bytes at the minimum in encoding the characters. | 2019-04-23T22:12:04 | https://www.morgantechspace.com/2014/02/difference-between-utf-8-and-utf-16.html |
0.999978 | What Happens? How is the Test Conducted? When will I know the result?
At the test centre, after registration, you will be allocated a booth containing a computer.
In the booth, you'll find instructions on how to use the computer. If you want to, you can work through a practice test for up to 15 minutes to get used to the system before you start the actual test. There will be 50 questions for you to answer. You'll have a maximum of 57 minutes to complete the test. An on-screen clock is displayed so that you'll always know how much time you have left.
All the questions are multiple-choice and they vary between straight text, text with graphics of road signs and text with photographs of road and driving scenarios. By touching the screen, you can choose one or more answers from the options shown. Most will ask you to choose one option from a choice of four, but some will ask for two, three or four correct answers from a choice of up to six options.
You'll have to answer every question to complete the test. If you're not sure of the answer and want to return to the question later, you can remind yourself by using the 'flag' system. When you've got to the end of the questions, you'll get the chance to revisit your flagged and incomplete questions, or to review the whole test if you want to. If you've got time, it's always a good idea to check through your answers carefully.
After you've done the multiple-choice part of the test, you can take a break of up to three minutes and then the hazard perception section of the test will begin automatically. You'll be shown a tutorial video first featuring sample footage with a commentary sound track that explains how to complete the test. You'll be given the opportunity to watch the tutorial a second time if you need to.
The test itself is comprised of 14 one minute long video clips. The clips feature various types of hazard, such as vehicles, pedestrians and road conditions. You have to presume that you are the driver of a car as these clips are played out. You need to respond to each different scenario by clicking your mouse as soon as you see a hazard developing that could result in having to take some evasive action, like changing speed or direction. The earlier you spot the hazard and click the mouse, the higher your score.
When you've finished both parts of the test, you'll return to the waiting room where you'll be given your results. For the multiple-choice test, the pass mark is 43 correct answers from 50 questions. For the hazard perception section, you can score up to a maximum of 5 marks on each hazard. The test contains 15 scorable hazards and the pass mark is 44 out of a possible 75 for car drivers.
You need to pass both parts of the test at the same session to pass your Theory Test. Your test pass then stays valid for two years, during which you'll need to pass your Practical Test. If you fail the Theory Test, you can retake it after waiting at least three working days, and there's no limit to the number of times you can retake it. | 2019-04-23T18:19:41 | http://adrivetuition.co.uk/driving-test/the-theory-driving-test |
0.999516 | The punch line in the lyrics of the song, “Allah ke bande” written by Vishal Dadlani according to me is, “Khoke apne par hi to usne tha udna seekha”. The meaning of this line is related to, “A blessing in disguise” idiom and spirituality.
Context: The lyrics mention about a bird falling from the sky to the ground losing its wings making it incapable of flying again. But the bird is not feeling low at all. On the contrary, it is quite optimistic.
Meaning: Khoke apne par hi to usne tha udna seekha means after losing the wings the bird learnt to fly. Nobody wants problems. But, sometimes problems are good as they make us look at the things from a completely different perspective and new solutions emerge. The spiritual meaning of the line is that you find the real You when you lose the false you (doer). Kabir says, “Jab mein tha tab Hari nahin, jab Hari hai mein nahin” which means when I (doer) was there God was not, when God is there I (doer) am not. Hari is pure consciousness and not someone sitting above the sky. | 2019-04-21T23:09:40 | http://vedanta.manishverma.site/allah-ke-bande/ |
0.997434 | Translation:The stores are not tall.
A shop that's in a tall building.
The building is tall. The shop isn't. It's just as tall as any other office sitting on the first floor.
It does sound weird in Hungarian, too. But you never know... Grammatically it is good.
Maybe they are selling huge chandeliers, or cranes.
What if there is a 3-floor building, and the store occupies all the floors.
Why Tall and not big?
Because the üzletek are described as being magasak and not nagyok.
A nagy épület could be big without being tall (for example, by being very wide instead).
Could it mean "high", for example shops that are in the top of a tall building or on a mountain?
If the shops are on top of a mountain, then "Az üzletek magasan vannak"
No. The structure of the sentence (missing "vannak" and the adjective in plural) clearly shows, that the "magasak" is an attribute of the "üzletek". What are they? They are some tall buildings.
The question was not whether magasak is an attribute of the üzletek but whether magasak in this sentence could refer to something that is located at a high altitude, rather than merely something that extends to a high altitude.
Yes. What I wanted to know is whether this adjective always means great in vertical extent or also great in vertical distance. "High" means both. "Tall" only means the former. I guess I got my answer. | 2019-04-25T02:31:53 | https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/16831976/Az-%C3%BCzletek-nem-magasak |
0.998927 | Why Scientists Aren't Fans Of Creating On-Demand Meteor Showers A Japanese company is proposing a venture to create on-demand meteor showers using small spheres dropped from a satellite. Scientists aren't really keen to the idea.
A Japanese company is proposing a venture to create on-demand meteor showers using small spheres dropped from a satellite. Scientists aren't really keen to the idea.
If you've got a boatload of cash and someone you really want to impress, a Japanese company says it can help. It says it will soon be able to make meteor showers to order.
SHAPIRO: Sounds like it could be pretty. But if the idea of manmade spheres hurtling through the atmosphere also sounds alarming, you're not alone. Some scientists have objections. For one thing, they say we need to be able to observe objects beyond our atmosphere.
MORIBA JAH: Having something that is designed to be really, really bright for human beings tends to then saturate these astronomical instruments that are looking for very dim signals.
SHAPIRO: That's Moriba Jah at the University of Texas at Austin.
CHANG: And science writer Claudia Geib says it's already hard to get people excited about real meteors. And this will make that even harder.
CLAUDIA GEIB: They always tend to be at the coldest part of the night and the earliest part of the morning. Many, many people have never actually seen a meteor shower just because it's so hard to get yourself out of bed.
CHANG: But meteor shower purists might not need to panic yet.
BILL COOKE: It's not exactly the same as a regular meteor.
CHANG: Bill Cooke is a scientist with NASA. He says these Japanese objects just won't come down fast enough.
COOKE: We have no way of replicating the speed at which a meteor can enter the atmosphere.
SHAPIRO: That makes Cooke curious about how they're going to give customers a bang worth their bucks.
COOKE: These guys say they can do it with a slower speed. So they've got to have some special stuff in their particles because if you were just chucking a normal rock out of a spacecraft, it would not be very spectacular at all.
SHAPIRO: Astro Live Experiences says it hopes to test those made-to-order shooting stars next year.
CHANG: Or if you're short on cash, you can check out the naturally occurring Lyrid meteor shower, which is expected to peak around mid-April. | 2019-04-24T01:29:46 | https://www.npr.org/2018/03/27/597390684/why-scientists-arent-fans-of-creating-on-demand-meteor-showers |
0.999883 | I like the idea I have seen of a mana denial-based Wizard book, but unfortunately currently only have access to a single core set - and my opponent is using two Nullifies, so only three remain. Given this restriction, how can I build something along those lines?
buy another core set or find a singles dealer.
That... is not a very helpful response, honestly. From what I could tell before purchasing it, and from even what I've played, it seems this is a very skill-intensive game as opposed to the more common pay-to-win-type models. Am I wrong?
The two aren't mutually exclusive.
Mage Wars is skill-based. But it also needs an investment in cards depending on the type of deck you're planning to build. That's why they're released the Core Spell Tome packs (and, ummm, expansions), so you can expand it. I think it's (mostly) feasible to create a competent deck out of the core set, but I recommend 1 core set per player.
Having said that, my play style only uses two Nullifies, so depending on the build, I wouldn't say that having access to only 2 Nullifies is a deal-breaker.
I have three Nullifies to work with, for the record, either there are five in core or he went down to one.
I'm not looking for an optimal decklist, of course that won't be possible, but when rather than advice about what I should do I get "buy more cards", that reminds me of Magic and I honestly don't really want to think about Magic's business model at this time. As is, I'd like to build some sort of (ideally 1-creature (Huginn)) mana denial/control deck out of what I can, and any advice regarding such is appreciated.
If it is just you and a friend playing, proxy what you don't have.
money then build with what you have or proxy it.
Regarding the response, I suspect it's because you started with a leading question. You started it with a misleading question (not having enough Nullifies) and a partially ambiguous title. And since you're sharing cards, it's hard to know which cards you have that are available/not available.
If it's advice you want, my general commentary is to avoid such a strategy altogether. It's a rather advance concept and if you're coming from a Magic: The Gathering paradigm when it comes to mana denial, you need to readjust how you envision your strategy.
Mana denial in this game is the equivalent of casting Armageddon (nullifying both of your mana) in Magic: The Gathering, rather than a slow ramp-up in the mana supply chain like Stone Rain. The only card that's close to the latter is Mana Siphon, and that's a Legendary Card, in addition to putting you in a mana deficit (it takes a few turns before you start "earning" from the spell). If you want to deprive your opponent of mana, the most efficient method is Drain Power, but it's an expensive proposition (assuming you're in range), and on average, breaks even (costs you 16 mana, opponent loses 8 mana, you regain 8 mana). Also because of the way of the turn structure, this method of mana denial (same goes for creatures) is that it's only effective every other turn, when you go first.
I'd be more concerned with developing a winning strategy (however you deem that best), and employ mana denial to retain that advantage, as opposed to building a deck with mana denial as an end in itself. It doesn't work, and you'll probably end up handicapping yourself.
Having said that, there is value in gaining a "Mana Advantage" (i.e. Arcane Ring + Mana Crystals), or using cards that penalize the opponent unless they spend mana.
My intent was more of the "taxing" type: as I can play cards like the Obelisk/Orb and then simply play no (or one) creature(s), the effects aren't really symmetrical, and Suppression Cloak is also asymmetrical, yes? Further, there exist Essence Drain, etc.
The reason for the Nullify comment was that I recall seeing a sample decklist for a similar idea on this forum, playing six copies. This signified to me that it was probably somehow rather important and that it might be worth stating.
The Magic decks I've played that did make use of mana denial were of the Death and Taxes, Prison (Winter Orb), or Stasis types, so I do think I am thinking more along the lines of what seems to exist in this game than just mono-red land destruction (which I have never actually played in Magic, actually.) Correct me if I am wrong, and either way, thanks for the advice.
Suppression Cloak might be a nice support in general (although to be honest, there might be better solutions, such as better armor, or not getting hit in the first place), but the rest I find to be better suited as a "sideboard" (and I think every deck should devote a few points to sideboard spells) rather than the core of a a deck.
The problem with Suppression Orb and Mordok's Obelisk is that it presumes your opponent will be using a lot of creatures. Against a Beastmaster summoning lots of low-level creatures, it's fantastic. But against a deck with a few creatures or even a solo mage (or a mirror match), it's not as effective. Of the two, Suppression Orb is probably the least effective, because it's also not as useful against creatures with Ranged Attacks. And sometimes, battle becomes confined to one or two squares, so the mana-for-movement isn't so much of an issue.
And again, there is also the issue of recouping your investment in mana. These conjurations costs 8 mana, so if your opponent is only using one or two creatures, it'll take eight (or four) rounds before you recoup your investment.
In general, I don't like these cards because 1) it gives the power of choice to the opponent (i.e. they can choose not to pay it), and 2) it doesn't really solve the existing dilemma that your opponent has creatures/permanents that are a threat to you. Or in the worst-case scenario, you've built all this setup, while the enemy Mage themselves moves right next to you and start pounding you (Beastmasters and Warlocks deal more damage than you and have more life from the get-go).
If you're looking for some kind of "control" deck, I'd probably recommend inflicting various status conditions on the opponent. Lightning effects tend to have a good chance of stunning, while the Basilisk can Cripple them, and the Gorgon Archer can Weaken them.
Makes sense - so far, I've only played against creature-heavy decks (the issue with only having one opponent, I suppose), but I can certainly see my deck being much worse against a less creature-focused deck. I am definitely looking for some sort of control deck, though not entirely sure how to build it - what I've seen is that much of the time if I don't explicitly make time in the first few turns to cast creatures I end up feeling too pressured to actually do so. W.r.t. Essence Drain, as long as it only goes on creatures that cost 8+ I'll get a mana advantage regardless (and it was mainly going on 21-cost creatures). Speaking of which, I need a better answer to that Lightning Angel.
Beyond this, is there any answer to Dispel other than Jinx? Losing Circle of Lightning basically lost me my last game, for instance. | 2019-04-25T00:12:04 | http://forum.arcanewonders.com/index.php?topic=5505.0 |
0.999997 | Was Into the Wild's Chris McCandless unlucky or just terribly unprepared? The book's author, Jon Krakauer, now claims to have finally found the solution, which suggests that faulty science may have been to blame.
Maybe the adventuring Chris McCandless wasn't quite so ignorant and ill-planned after all. The cause of death of the self-styled wilderness explorer made famous by Jon Krakauer's book Into the Wild has been debated for some time. But now, Krakauer claims to have finally found the solution to this discussion in an blog post for The New Yorker, as the author blames the death not on a McCandless blunder or wilderness ignorance, but a toxic substance that he could not have possibly known about.
McCandless may have been unprepared when he entered the Alaskan woods with little more than a rifle, a book on local plants, and some camping gear, but he didn't cause his own death, Krakauer argues. If not for the dearth of information on Alaskan toxic plants, "[McCandless] probably would have walked out of the wild in late August with no more difficulty than when he walked into the wild in April, and would still be alive today," Krakauer writes.
The author has wavered back and forth on this issue since Into the Wild was published in 1996. He initially blamed the death on McCandless's confusion between a toxic sweet pea plant and nontoxic potato plant, but he has hedged on that theory in the time since then. In a post today for The New Yorker's Page-Turner blog, Krakauer argues that he's found the true cause of death — and he did so with the help of Nazi tests on concentration camp prisoners.
The cause of McCandless's infamous demise is not just an interesting historical factoid; it's the basis of his legend, which has since been made into a major film by Sean Penn. Was his death at a weight of just 67 pounds the result of an accidental poisoning that could have happened to even the most experienced outdoorsman? Or did he die of starvation due to his own unpreparedness, and, more critically, a failure to tell apart a toxic plant from a nontoxic one, as his detractors argue?
Krakauer now says that the evidence "validates my conviction that McCandless wasn’t as clueless and incompetent as his detractors have made him out to be," he writes. McCandless could not have known that a key part of his diet, wild potato seeds, were in fact toxic. Neither his ecology guidebook nor local Alaskans were aware of that, either.
Those who will be hit the hardest are always young men between the ages of 15 and 25 and who are essentially starving or ingesting very limited calories, who have been engaged in heavy physical activity, and who suffer trace-element shortages from meager, unvaried diets.
Sounds a lot like McCandless while in the Alaska woods, who survived on plants and meager hunting for those 100 days.
He wasn’t truly starving in the most technical sense of that condition. He’d simply become slowly paralyzed. And it wasn’t arrogance that had killed him, it was ignorance. Also, it was ignorance which must be forgiven, for the facts underlying his death were to remain unrecognized to all, scientists and lay people alike, literally for decades.
So McCandless is not explicitly to blame in his own death; blame the lack of knowledge on toxic wild potato plants. Debate solved, it seems, at least for Krakauer, at least for now. | 2019-04-19T04:53:39 | https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/09/into-the-wild-once-more/311141/ |
0.999999 | Given a factorization sequence f, create the enumerated sequence containing the same pairs of primes and exponents.
Any ideas how can I rewrite this line in Sage?
Short answer: For an element f of a finite field F with 2^K elements, one can use for instance its integer representation, then take its binary digits, padded to K digits (at least). For instance, here are three random elements of F, written as sequences.
Let us try to reproduce the above in a dialog with the sage interpreter. Magma is a foreign language for me, but somehow i suppose that F.1 is the class of $x$ if we model the field with $2^8$ elements as $\mathbb F_2[x]$ modulo the polynomial that can be extracted from the line where we print F.1^8 . So let us first construct the field in sage. | 2019-04-24T22:17:32 | https://ask.sagemath.org/question/39678/factorization-sequence-to-enumerated-sequence-in-sage/ |
0.998046 | - There are many causes of back problems, and different back conditions may respond better to specific types of beds, mattresses and sleep positions.
- There is a high degree of personal preference for mattresses, and what works well for one person may not work well for another. - There is very limited scientific study published on mattresses and back pain, and findings from the studies that have been completed are inconclusive. - Overall, the causes of back pain can be quite complex, and it’s difficult to isolate whether or not a person's mattress has played a significant role in improving the pain or making it worse.
If comfort is not the only thing making sleep difficult, it is advisable for the patient to consult his or her family physician to discuss other possible causes and treatments for sleeplessness. Experiencing significant or persistent back pain may indicate an underlying back condition that has nothing to do with the mattress. It is always advisable for people with back pain to consult with a health care provider for a thorough exam, diagnosis, and treatment program. As a reminder, sleep comfort is first and foremost a matter of personal preference. No one should expect that switching mattresses or beds will cure their lower back pain, and changes in the type of bed or mattress used should be made solely for the sake of comfort.
- Osteoarthritis. Patients with pain from osteoarthritis of the facet joints may prefer to sleep on their sides with their knees curled up (in the fetal position). This helps open up the facet joints in the spine and can relieve any corresponding pressure. Alternatively, sleeping in a reclining chair or an adjustable bed that allows the head and knees to be elevated can also relieve pressure on the facet joints.
- Degenerative Disc Disease. Patients with pain from degenerative disc disease may prefer to sleep on their stomach as this can relieve pressure on the disc space. Patients may feel most comfortable using a relatively firm mattress and placing a flat pillow under the stomach and hips, which can further reduce stress on the lower back. - Spinal Stenosis. People with pain from spinal stenosis may prefer to sleep on their sides with their knees curled up (in the fetal position). This helps relieve pressure on the nerve root. Sleeping in a reclining chair or an adjustable bed that allows the head and knees to be elevated can also relieve pressure on the nerve. - Bursitis. Patients who have inflammation of the bursa over their hips (greater trochanteric bursitis) can be especially susceptible to pain from a mattress that is too firm. If the mattress is too hard, a new mattress with thick padding on top, or placing an egg crate foam mattress cover over the old mattress, can help provide some relief from the firmness. - Hip Pain. Patients with hip pain who sleep on their sides can usually find some pain relief by placing a pillow between their knees. This decreases stress across the hip. - Herniated Lumbar Disc. The most comfortable sleep position depends on the position of the disc. For a paracentral disc herniation (most common), patients will tend to do better lying on their stomach. For a foraminal herniated disc, sleeping on the side in a fetal position is usually better tolerated. | 2019-04-25T02:51:17 | http://chiropracticnyc.com/blog/2015/09/28/how-to-select-the-best-mattress-for-your-back.html |
0.99846 | One of the most rewarding things about becoming a member of the veterinary profession is the interdisciplinary nature of the field. I am constantly challenged in ways that I never expected.... Botanist careers focus on the usage, development, classification and monitoring of the Earth's plant life. Some botanists focus on teaching or fieldwork, while others enter either theoretical or - most commonly - applied research as there is still much that scientists do not know about the application of plant compounds to human life and health.
This time of year would not appear to be the most conducive for any botanising, given the cold weather and fact that flowers have all died back and plants are now lying dormant until next spring.
What are some requirements for being a self-taught botanist? Is it possible to get a decent job as a self-taught botanist, or are college courses and degrees necessary? Is it possible to get a decent job as a self-taught botanist, or are college courses and degrees necessary?
Long before I reached my college years, I already had a powerful interest in Natural History. By fourth grade I was dabbling with science experiments, and by fifth grade I was paging through field manuals to identify plants, birds, and rocks that I found on our acreage. | 2019-04-23T00:02:02 | http://renaissancewritings.com/alberta/how-to-become-a-botanist.php |
0.999682 | Follow the first hallway on the left towards the Barnicke Wing. There will reach a point where the hallway splits into three directions: to the left will be a washroom, to the right another washroom, and also a hallway that continues forward. Continue forward and head through the double doors at the end of the hallway. Once there, head left towards the East Wing, and the sleep lab is located at the end of the hallway.
Head towards main elevators then make a right towards East Wing. Follow hallway down East Wing and the sleep lab is located at the end of the hallway. | 2019-04-24T16:37:15 | https://stjoestoronto.ca/directory/sleep-lab/ |
0.999084 | Bill Text - AB-1854 Motor vehicles: headlamps: inclement weather.
An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 24400 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.
AB 1854, Simitian. Motor vehicles: headlamps: inclement weather.
(1) Existing law requires, with limited exceptions, that, during darkness, a motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle, be equipped with at least 2 lighted headlamps.
This bill, additionally, would require, on July 1, 2005, a motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle, to be equipped with headlamps during inclement weather, as defined.
Because this would expand the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(a) During darkness, every motor vehicle other than a motorcycle, shall be equipped with at least two lighted headlamps, with at least one on each side of the front of the vehicle, and, except as to vehicles registered prior to January 1, 1930, they shall be located directly above or in advance of the front axle of the vehicle. The headlamps and every light source in any headlamp unit shall be located at a height of not more than 54 inches nor less than 22 inches.
(b) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2005, and, as of January 1, 2006, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that is enacted before January 1, 2006, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
(a) During darkness and inclement weather, a motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle, shall be equipped with at least two lighted headlamps, with at least one on each side of the front of the vehicle, and, except as to vehicles registered prior to January 1, 1930, they shall be located directly above or in advance of the front axle of the vehicle. The headlamps and every light source in any headlamp unit shall be located at a height of not more than 54 inches nor less than 22 inches.
(c) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2005. | 2019-04-20T03:18:34 | http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1854 |
0.999984 | Summary: After the Quest. Legolas is unaware that he and Gimli are the target of a madman.
"Crazy Elf, what do you think you are doing?"
Legolas froze and slowly turned to face the angry dwarf. Gimli was sitting in a soft chair next to an empty bed and was glaring at the blonde elf. Legolas sighed. Gimli had been asleep only a moment ago and Legolas had hoped to escape the room unnoticed. Unfortunately, it seemed Gimli had not been as deeply asleep as he had hoped.
"Well?" Gimli asked again, when it seemed as if Legolas' attention had slipped. He was angry, but was also worried about the elf.
"I have work to do, Gimli," Legolas answered, looking longingly at the closed door. "The gardens-"
"Can wait," Gimli interrupted. The dwarf stood and walked towards his friend. "You need to rest, Legolas," he said, placing his hand on the elf's back and gently pushing him back towards the bed.
Legolas frowned and moved away from the dwarf, moving again to the door. "I am not tired."
Gimli swung around and placed himself between his friend and the room's only exit. He glared up at the tall elf, but his expression softened when he saw the fatigue in his friend's face. "Legolas," he said gently, "Ever since the War ended, you have worked non-stop to restore Gondor's gardens. You are exhausted." He frowned, suddenly remembering something. "And when was the last time you ate?"
Legolas cocked his head, thinking. "I….I don't know, Gimli. I guess I forgot."
"Forgot?" Gimli shook his head. "Only an elf would forget to eat." He stared worriedly at Legolas, who seemed about to fall asleep on his feet. He took the elf by the arm and once again tried to lead him to the bed. "You need to slow down, Legolas. Do you remember what happened this afternoon?"
Legolas tried to get his tired mind to focus and didn't protest when Gimli helped him sit on the bed. He remembered being in one of the palace gardens, trying to decide where to put the plants his father had sent from Mirkwood, and then….nothing. He shook his head and let Gimli push him down so he was lying on the bed. "I don't know, Gimli."
Gimli pulled the blankets over his friend and made sure Legolas was comfortable. "You collapsed, Legolas. One of the guards found you unconscious in a garden." He took a deep breath and smoothed Legolas' hair away from his face. "You gave me quite a scare."
Legolas closed his eyes, finally realizing how tired he actually was. "I'm sorry."
Gimli smiled and kissed Legolas on the head. "Get some rest, Legolas. I'll be right here." He smoothed Legolas' hair and laughed quietly when he realized that the elf was already asleep. | 2019-04-19T14:43:29 | http://axebow.hakaze.com/fic/fic-cheysuli-hidden.htm |
0.999797 | A stock option for which the option's grant price is higher than the current market price for the underlying stock.
In view of the context for this phrase, "under water" seems to be a "buzzword" term used by stock traders to describe or characterize stocks that have sunk, usually quickly and drastiscally, in their market value.
For example, if you have options to buy your company stock at a strike price of $50, and the stock is currently trading at $30, you're $20 underwater on each option. You can see how the next step may be drowning -- financially speaking, of course. | 2019-04-23T00:33:08 | http://www.qwoter.com/dictionary/under_water.html |
0.999132 | Q. Can I print double-sided?
My professor requires we print on both sides to save paper.
Yes, the black/white printer will do that. | 2019-04-20T15:15:19 | http://libanswers.hiu.edu/faq/40560 |
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