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0.999993 | Prep: 1. Bring butter to room temperature. 2. Preheat the oven to 350. Grease a 9x13 inch baking dish. 3. Combine the water and the oatmeal and allow to soak while you prepare the remaining ingredients. Make: 1. Using an electric mixer, cream 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup of the brown sugar, and white sugar until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Beat in the eggs. 2. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, cinnamon, baking soda and salt. Add half of the flour to the creamed butter mixture, followed by the soaked oatmeal, then the remaining flour, mixing between additions. 3. Pour into the prepared baking dish and bake until set, 35-40 minutes. 4. Shortly before cake is done, prepare the topping: In a saucepan combine 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup brown sugar and milk. Bring to a boil, stirring consistently. Let boil for 1 minute then add coconut and remove from heat. 5. Once the cake is done, remove from oven, and then preheat the broiler. 6. Pour topping over the cake, spread, then broil for one minute, careful to not let it burn.
Depending on your sweet tooth you can reduce the sugar in this by up to half, or omit the white sugar entirely. You can also easily halve this recipe and use an 8x8 pan. | 2019-04-24T08:37:33 | https://www.gatheredtable.com/recipes/384016 |
0.999899 | Is the Vietnam Visa on Arrival Program Legitimate?
Before you take a trip to Vietnam, you probably have many questions, including how much the trip is likely to cost and what cities you plan to visit while you are there. You may also have a lot of questions concerning about the entry requirements when entering Vietnam. Therefore, it is very important to get those questions answered before buying your airline tickets, booking hotel and heading out to the local airport.
There is a number of ways to get the paperwork you need to enter Vietnam for a business trip or vacation. You obviously need a passport to get in the country, and if you have traveled internationally before, you probably already have one. But right now, in Vietnam, a few additional requirements for business and leisure travelers are just being added, and it is necessary to be prepared for those requirements.
In addition to your passport, you need to have a legitimate visa in order to enter Vietnam. There is a couple of ways to get the visa you need, one of them is going to an embassy to get the required document. The problem is that many people do not have easy access to a local embassy, which can make it difficult to acquire the documents you need.
That is why Vietnam allows business travelers and tourists to obtain the entry visa they need when they arrive at the airport in Vietnam. The Vietnam visa on Arrival Program has been approved by the Vietnam Immigration Department, an arm of the Vietnamese government. The fact that this program has been approved by the government of Vietnam shows that it is a legitimate service, not a scam like some unscrupulous travel operators have claimed.
One important thing to keep in mind about the Vietnam visa on Arrival Program is that all paperwork is prepared and verified before the traveler ever leaves his or her home country. The fact that everything has all been completed and in order ahead of time makes it easy for the government officials to process the travel documents after the businessmen or leisure travelers step off the plane.
With the Vietnam visa on Arrival Program, the person traveling simply disembarks from his or her flight, then steps up to a special area of the airport reserved for visa processing. Since all of the paperwork has already been received by the government of Vietnam, there is really nothing much to do on the visa part. The travelers can quickly continue on their way.
Unfortunately, some people have claimed that the Vietnam visa on Arrival Program is not legitimate, and that the approval letters which are being provided to tourists are not real. But seriously, nothing could be further from the truth. Any travel agency or individual who misrepresents the visa on arrival program or produces fake approval letters is subject to criminal sanctions, including a certain amount of jail time. In simple terms, the risk is simply too great for anyone to even try to cheat the system.
It is simply because the same immigration officials that are in charge of the Vietnam visa on Arrival Program are also in charge of managing the airports and enforcing travel restrictions. These officials are really good at their jobs. They not only understand the program but also understand well the people who provide legitimate travel services.
We are not aware of what the embassies and other people have been saying about the Vietnam visa on Arrival Program, the approval letters we provide, or our other services, so we are unable to comment on those specifically. However, we can assure all of our clients and potential clients that our service is legitimate, and we make that all of our travelers get exactly what they pay for. We take our responsibilities seriously, and would never jeopardize our relationship with the clients, or our connection with the government officials in Vietnam.
We will always remain committed to helping our clients get the travel documents they need, under any time that is available to them. The visa requirements imposed by the country of Vietnam can make it difficult for both business and leisure travelers, especially those travelers who live far from an embassy. The Vietnam visa on Arrival Program and the approval letters we provide, will allow the travelers to plan their trips with confidence, knowing that everything will be ready in order when their flights arrive in our wonderful country.
e) For other urgent reasons. | 2019-04-23T14:46:04 | https://www.visa-vietnam.net/is-the-vietnam-visa-on-arrival-program-legitimate |
0.999999 | Are Guns Allowed at Amusement Parks?
First there was a dry-ice bomb at Disneyland, now, a loaded gun at Disney World? When a grandma and her grandson boarded a ride in Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom, they weren't expecting this kind of thrill when a loaded gun was found on her seat.
The woman immediately reported the gun to a park attendant. It was later discovered that the gun's owner had a valid concealed weapons permit and didn't realize that his gun had fallen out of his pocket when he was on a supposedly bumpy ride.
What the gun owner also didn't know was whether or not guns are actually allowed at amusement parks. Are they?
It's a fair question, especially considering that there were no signs stating that guns weren't allowed at Disney World. Nor was there any kind of metal detector that he (or any other patron) walked through before entering the park.
Under many state laws, guns could actually be allowed at amusement parks. For example, Florida's gun laws explicitly list a number of places where concealed firearms aren't allowed. Some off-limit areas include courthouses, schools, and airports.
Amusement parks, however, aren't on that list. So, as long as the firearm isn't hoisted on your shoulder or obviously out in the open like you're planning to attack Donald or Mickey, you should be fine, right?
No. Because amusement parks like Disney World are private entities, they are free to impose and enforce their own security procedures and requirements, law enforcement sources told reporters. Therefore, a Disney patron who gets caught with a gun in the park could be charged with firearms trespass in Florida. It's a similar situation in many other states too.
It's not only common sense then, that guns aren't allowed at the happiest place on Earth. The park's policy is also backed by the law. | 2019-04-21T07:21:01 | https://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2013/06/are-guns-allowed-at-amusement-parks.html |
0.999693 | Backtesting is an unsung hero of investment banking. Why this analysis should be included in your pitchbook.
Sending a sample chart to a client in advance can save hours in pitchbook production.
Finding and engaging with new clients can be the difference between hearing about that deal, and being the one to execute it. Is your tech prepared?
Most banks don't really know how much is spent on pitchbook production. Here's how to break down the costs.
Should investment bankers optimize email subject line length?
The average person receives over 100 emails a day. How can you ensure yours is read?
Has Google made knowledge workers irrelevant?
The evolution of the knowledge worker and why bankers should consider themselves "smart creatives."
How many pitches result in a mandate?
How recording client insights, timing meetings correctly and increasing speed to meeting can boost your ratio of pitch:wins.
Asking clients to remember 12 things is asking them to work too hard. How to make your pitches more memorable.
The army's "after-action reviews" help it perfect strategies and learn from mistakes. Which is exactly why you need to adopt the process.
How tapping into the knowledge of designers can increase the visibility of your pitchbook content to make sure your key points land.
Something nearly all successful business people do is read. A lot. How to make time in your schedule for continous learning.
In banking, focusing on practical skill development will get you far, but it won't get you the corner office. Clients need to like you before you can execute their deals.
Bankers are smart... aren’t they?
Why wanting to have a beer with someone is a better predictor of success than education, experience, knowledge, or intellect.
A banker's most valuable asset is strategic advice, yet pitchbook creation means it’s what they spend the least amount of time developing.
It may have dwindled in popularity, but playing Liar's Poker allows bankers to practice and master important necessary skills. | 2019-04-20T06:20:47 | https://www.adriancrockett.com/?offset=1481646600323 |
0.9999 | Advisors blocking emails from new gTLDs?
I read that some advisors block their clients from receiving emails using a specific new domain name extension.
In more simple words, it means that a person in charge of offering the service to manage emails for you will decide that (for whatever reason) you won't receive emails from a complete domain name extension. For example, if the .TOP new gTLD is a concerned extension, it means that you won't receive any emails from any email ending in ".top".
There is a list of TLDs with the worst reputations for spam operations. It is maintained by Spamhaus and this is how it explains why a TLD can be bad: "A TLD may be "bad" in two ways. On one side, the ratio of bad to good domains may be higher than average, indicating that the registry could do a better job of enforcing policies and shunning abusers. However, some TLDs with a high fraction of bad domains may be quite small, and their total number of bad domains could be relatively limited with respect to other, bigger TLDs. Their total "badness" to the Internet is limited by their small total size".
OK, this is not a new story: some new domain name extension - because the domains they offer are cheap - are an open door to spammers and malware operators but unless I am wrong, this has always existed: don't you receive spam from emails ending in ".com" too?
What if you miss that email coming from your new accountant who's using a ".accountant" domain name in its emails?
What if you miss this email from that startup using a ".agency" because it wants to be identified as an agency online?
What if you miss ALL THESE EMAILS because your advisor doesn't like new domain name extensions?
One thousand two hundred and twenty seven new domain name extensions were introduced to the Internet. In many of these "new gTLDs", domain name registration volumes are increasing, which also means that more people are using these in their email. If you have a doubt, have a look at this report. So: do you seriously want to take that risk?
There are external advisors who "deal with domain names" and Corporate Registrars who it is the job to provide serious recommendations on how to deal with domain names and emails. They are not so many to be serious and I count five that I would recommend. On that list, none of them would ever - never - suggest their client to block a complete Top-Level Domain from sending emails.
I have a client who uses a ".top" domain name for his website and decision was taken to use a ".top" because it matches with the name of the company. My client is fully satisfied with this: he even shortened his domain name changing to a ".top" and now redirects the ".com to the ".top", as well as emails. | 2019-04-21T12:20:59 | https://www.gtld.club/2017_10_23_archive.html |
0.999999 | How is the correct spelling determined?
I asked a question about the spelling of the word 'vacumn'. As far as I was concerned, this was the accepted spelling of the word 'vacuum'. I was not alone in this belief and someone else had asked a question about it.
The topic was closed down with the comment that 'vacumn' was a misspelling, and that there were more common misspellings of such as 'vaccuum' that were not worthy of a question, let alone an open question.
Furthermore that if anyone wanted to find out how to spell 'vacuum' they could simply refer to a dictionary.
It was also pointed out by one person that I had misspelt another word, I had used an 'e' instead of an 'a'.
A word in which 'a' and 'e' are used interchangeably is 'Grey' or should that be 'Gray'.
Another example of alternative spellings is 'swap' or should that be 'swop'.
I did not find that the answers on Stack Exchange before the question was closed, that convinced me that 'vacuum' should be spelt 'vacuum'.
However I did find something on Wikipedia. Wikipedia stated that the Latin root word for vacuum contained two 'u's'.
I found this explanation quite acceptable. The question on Stack Exchange was closed down before this explanation was reached. Instead we were just left with an authoritarian response along the lines of "I am right and you are wrong".
Interesting, Wikipedia stated that words with two 'u's' are very unusual in English, which explains why a variant of the spelling without two 'u's' is quite common.
I also like to ask, why the topic is listed under 'orthography' rather than the more common and understandable English word - 'spelling'.
From Latin vacuum (an empty space, void) noun use of neuter of vacuus (empty) related to >vacare (be empty).
"Vacuum" is one of the few words in the English language that contains two consecutive >'u's.
It was closed because it's "general reference", meaning you could have easily looked it up in a dictionary. The site wouldn't be very useful if it was cluttered with simple questions and answers that just duplicate the dictionary, so questions of this kind are deemed off topic are removed.
If you had asked instead why "vacuum" has two u's (which you seem to be interested in based on your Wikipedia reference), perhaps the question would have remained open, but that's not the question you submitted.
Are typography questions on-topic or off-topic?
No communication regarding wrongly-closed question?
When is [word-choice] on topic and when is it not?
How do you explain why a word phrase is unlikely to exist?
Why was the buffalo question closed as a duplicate?
What is wrong with my question and how could I have done it better? | 2019-04-24T18:07:11 | https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2992/how-is-the-correct-spelling-determined |
0.999998 | How can details of the SPARQL protocol be hidden from clients?
SPARQL protocol URLs quickly become complex when dealing with any non-trivial query. Very large queries can be so long that some clients or browsers may have issues with length of the URLs. The only solution in this case is to switch from a GET request to a POST request. But as a query is an idempotent operation it is better to use GET, with appropriate caching headers, rather than a POST.
In other circumstances a service might want to restrict the set of queries that can be invoked against a SPARQL endpoint. Or the use of SPARQL might be entirely hidden from calling clients. In both of those cases removal of direct access to the SPARQL endpoint may be desirable.
Assign a short URL to the SPARQL protocol request. The URL maps directly to a SPARQL query that is executed on request. Clients can use the short URL instead of the full SPARQL protocol request to extend the query.
An application exposes a SPARQL endpoint at http://api.example.org/sparql and a collection of named queries from http://app.example.org/queries.
Rather than requiring clients to compose the full SPARQL protocol request for that URL it could instead be defined as a named query for the service. The query could be associated with the following URL: http://api.example.org/sparql/list-homepages. A GET request to that URL would be equivalent to the SPARQL protocol request to the endpoint, i.e. would execute the configured SPARQL query and return a response in one of the standard SPARQL protocol formats.
Named queries is useful in a number of circumstances. Assigning short URLs to queries can remove issues with dealing with lengthy SPARQL queries that might get accidentally truncated in emails or be rejected by older HTTP clients or browsers. By providing tools for users of a service to create new named queries then a community can share and publish a useful set of queries.
Another benefit of binding queries to URLs, i.e. by creating new web resources, a service can implement additional optimisations that can improve response time of queries. E.g. query results might be generated asynchronously and the cached results supplied to clients rather than the query being executed on demand.
One way to protect a SPARQL endpoint is to reduce the legal set of queries to an approved list, e.g. that won't cause performance issues for the service. Named queries provide a way to provide a set of legal queries which are then bound to URLs. Direct access to the SPARQL endpoint can then be disabled, or limited to a white-listed set of client applications. | 2019-04-26T01:49:56 | http://patterns.dataincubator.org/book/named-query.html |
0.999863 | Earlier this month, I accompanied my wife on her work trip to Cambodia. Having never visited Southeast Asia (except two brief visits to Singapore), I was excited about traveling to a country known for being home to the world's largest existing Hindu structure.
Upon my arrival in Siem Reap, once the seat of the Khmer Empire, the Hindu iconography in the Buddhist kingdom was striking. Khmer versions of Ganesha and Hanuman were present throughout the city, and both the Ramayana (known as the Reamker in Cambodia) and Mahabharata loomed large in popular imagery. In Angkor Wat, the 12th century Hindu temple structure that draws millions every year, Hindu deities loomed larger than life, including a statue of Vishnu at the entrance now worshipped as a Buddhist shrine.
As we explored the Hindu temples (some of which had become Buddhist structures during the reign of Jayavarman VII in the latter 12th century CE), I was drawn to the level of devotion with which the structures were built and how they were inscribed. Additionally, as a Tamil, I was drawn to the similarities between the ancient Khmer script (which has roots in Southern India) and Tamil.
What makes Cambodia so interesting is that it is a country that has held strongly to its Buddhist identity for nearly 700 years, transitioning from Mahayana Buddhism to Theravada Buddhism following Jayavarman VII's reign. In fact, many of Cambodia's historical institutions mark "the beginning" of Khmer history with its development into a society that patronized Buddhism. Yet, so much of Cambodia's cultural heritage - and a lot of its tourism dollars - are devoted to an era in which Hinduism was either the dominant religious tradition, co-worshipped with Buddhism, or patronized by Khmer rulers.
Even at the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, much is made about a sword believed to have been given to the ancestors of the royal family by the Hindu deity Indra. At the national museum, the various forms of Hindu divinity dominate exhibit galleries, while visitors are unable to tell between the multi-armed form of Buddha (Lokeshvara) and Vishnu. The reason? The statues were likely worshipped as both at different periods of Khmer history. Additionally, Cambodia has celebrated the return of figures from the Ramayana that were looted from the country in the years during and after French colonization.
Today, one of the challenges Cambodia faces is maintaining that rich history amidst pressure to modernize (and cater to a growing number of expatriate visitors) and investment from countries such as China, which has invested millions into highlight Cambodia's Chinese Buddhist history. As such, Cambodia's continued willingness to preserve its Hindu heritage will depend largely upon support from the global Hindu community, which might not be aware of the extent to which Hinduism influenced Southeast Asia. Even today, names such as Devi, Vidya, Rama, and Krishna are popular among Cambodians, reflecting an interesting absorption of Hinduism into Buddhist culture.
As I left Phnom Penh, I appreciated Hinduism's global expanse more than ever. Even if Hinduism no longer exists as Cambodia's dominant religion, its impact on the culture - and lasting physical legacy - cannot be understated. | 2019-04-24T17:07:49 | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cambodias-hindu-heritage_b_13792554 |
0.999983 | Kourtney Kardashian Is Under Fire for This Instagram Post Referencing a "Mental Breakdown"
Kourtney Kardashian is under fire from commenters after appearing to make light of mental illness in a recent Instagram post, Yahoo! reports. The post features the 38-year-old reality star wearing sunglasses and posing in an elevator with a champagne glass in one hand and handbag in the other, wearing a fur coat on just one arm. "Me after a mental breakdown," the caption reads.
Kourtney may be making fun of her appearance, but many are calling her out for making fun of mental illness. "I'm an advocate for mental issues," one critic responded. "Anxiety and depression [affect] so many people ... [It's] something I've struggled with for 10 years." "I suffer with [PTSD] and depression and [I] don't find [this post] funny at all," another wrote. "MAKING FUN OF MENTAL ILLNESS ISN'T FUNNY," one commenter stated. Others took issue with Kourtney's fur jacket (which, to be fair, could be fake): "Why do you feel the need to wear fur? Do you not understand animals were tortured?" one asked. "Where's your compassion?"
Kourtney, for her part, hasn't responded to the backlash. Many of her fans, meanwhile, have defended her post, calling critics overly sensitive. It's clear that whatever reactions she's inspired, Kourtney touched a nerve: Since she shared the post four days ago, it's attracted over 10,000 comments and counting. | 2019-04-20T06:31:43 | https://www.allure.com/story/kourtney-kardashian-instagram-mental-breakdown-joke |
0.99806 | Use sprouted cashews if you can find them.
2. In a medium-sized bowl combine salt, pepper, turmeric, ginger, and coconut oil and whisk together to combine. Add the cashews and mix until fully coated.
3. Spread the cashews evenly on a parchment-lined baking sheet and bake in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool for 5 to 10 minutes. | 2019-04-24T21:59:46 | https://goop.com/recipes/turmeric-cashews/ |
0.999999 | Is using a custom essay service cheating?
There are people who consider the use of a custom essay service to be cheating. They believe that students simply buy the essays and pass them on to their tutors without any alterations. There will always be the odd student who does this, but they trip themselves up at examination time because they haven't tried to learn anything from the essays they are purchasing.
The majority of students pay for a tailor made essay to use as a learning tool. Being able to see an example answer is very helpful for students who struggle with essay writing and English skills in general. They can see clearly how to structure their work and how to divide it into paragraphs that follow a logical sequence. The sample essay will help inspire the student with useful link phrases that can really increase the fluency of their work; and they'll see how to use quotations or other evidence to substantiate any claims being made. If a student is really struggling with essay writing, they can learn the skills by rewriting the example essay they have purchased. This will stretch their English skills, and allow them to acquire better thinking skills.
Custom essay services may be viewed as cheating by some, but for many they are a practical tool that helps in the achievement of higher grades. When a student buys past papers, does anyone consider it cheating? If a teacher distributes model answers, is she encouraging her pupils to cheat? Of course not, and custom essay writing services are no different. These services are of particular value to international students, who speak English as a second language, which causes a struggle with essay writing. Would it be fair to condemn non English speakers for gaining help on the kind of language they should be using and how to structure their work? Custom essay writing services can form a vital form of educational support for students who are really struggling, which can only be a positive thing. | 2019-04-23T09:01:37 | https://essaywritingserviceuk.co.uk/blog/is-using-a-custom-essay-service-cheating |
0.999061 | When we talk about sustainability and climate change, what other terms come into the conversation?
Using the interview data from both phases of the MC3 research project, this visualization shows the topics that are most closely connected to three 'umbrella' terms: sustainability, adaptation, and mitigation. A connection between two topics is here determined by sharing a context of ten words. The more connections there are throughout the entire corpus of interviews, the more closely these topics are connected. For example, 'sustainability' and 'policy' were spoken about in the same context 81 times throughout the interviews. This visualization includes only connections that occurred more than ten times throughout the corpus. Highlighted topics mean that they show up under multiple umbrella topics. | 2019-04-19T02:48:00 | https://www.changingtheconversation.ca/node/99 |
0.999886 | There has been comment about this under another topic, so I thought it might be interesting to start a debate. It has become fairly common that, when a Latin plainchant mass setting is used, it is sung antiphonally, the choir alternating with the congregation. I assume that this is a hangover from the monastic practice of singing the Office antiphonally, and they may well have treated the Mass Setting in the same way. In addition, the music is printed to facilitate antiphonal singing.
In particular, the Gloria Credo and Sanctus are hymns or acclamations assigned to all present. It is very moving when upwards of a thousand voices sing the Creed together as one body of believers. We do not say these hymns antiphonally and I personally feel that, in these times, it is better for everyone to sing them as one body. It should be noted that GIRM provides for either method.
Well I think it depends on the complexity of the chant among other things.
On the other hand other simpler bits of chant can work well - the simple Agnus Dei.
It has always seems to me that the problem with Credo III is that when the congregation sings it through the tempo drops to a crawl and it sound like a painful dirge. I have often found that, sung antiphonally with a good choir/cantor(s) the tempo can be picked up quite effectively. The other benefit is that when it is sung unaccompanied it tends to go flat, but, sung antiphonally, the pitch can usually be maintained. Things do occasionally go wrong. I well remember a Pentecost Mass in a cathedral in Malta where Mass VIII and Credo III were sung antiphonally, but at a pitch that only the choir could reach (and the choristers were struggling) - it became a very painful train wreck!
From my mempory of the 'olden days' we all sang everything - as JW remembers - with choir leading and congregation following on to the best of their ability. It was later that I came across the antiphonal singing style - sometimes as men/women. Never mind the congregation swooping on Credo III, we used to do Credo I quite often (a better one IMHO) and (my favourite!) Credo IV. Credo IV was to die for. Credo III and Missa de Angelis seem to go togther for sing-songyness.
Is the creed actually a lyrical text that is meant to be sung?
Is it not more of a prose statement that should be spoken?
For the Gloria and Credo the GIRM explicitly permits saying these antiphonally.
In the case of the Sanctus I do not think the GIRM provides for singing or saying it antiphonally.
“68. … If is is sung, it is intoned by the Priest or, if appropriate, by a cantor or by the choir. It is then sung either by everybody together or by the people alternating with the choir.
In the English translation of the Roman Missal the Gloria is printed in four stanzas. The Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed is in five stanzas. The Apostles Creed is in two stanzas. So it is clearly an option to say these hymns antiphonally.
I have not found an instruction similar to 53 and 68 about the Sanctus and it is printed as a single stanza.
AGM, thank you for the clarification and correction. And thanks to everyone else for their comments. As with so many issues we all have our own personal preferences and the pleasure of this forum is that we can examine and debate them in a friendly way!
Singing at Sunday's (14 Oct.) Canonisation Mass at St Peter's was antiphonal in the extreme - I suspect adopted as a way of working with the vast crowd of people from many nations, rather than from a desire to exhibit a preference. An excellent Order of Service was provided, but no effort was made to indicate what page should be turned to or to run through any unusual items beforehand.
Most of those seated near me were not able to join in the traditional Latin prayers and plainsong melodies. Apparently it's not only in the UK that familiarity has been lost! The sound picked up for the broadcast of the ceremony favoured the clergy and choir, providing a different impression of congregational response. Several videos can be found on YouTube, for those who are interested.
Sad for those who hanker after such things.
I reserve that word for matters such as the abuse of minors and the cover-ups that served to multiply the hurt to the victims and the damage to the rest of the church.
That is what causes me to feel shame. | 2019-04-21T16:05:03 | https://www.ssg.org.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=2035 |
0.999954 | Weaning is a process of changing from Mother's milk to a bottle or introducing juices, semi-solid foods, pureed foods, etc. The baby might refuse early and might even cry for trying new food. So in this resource I have discussed about Weaning.
Should Weaning be started at 6 weeks?
No, Babies aren't developed at 6 weeks. Their kidneys are still immature so solid foods are not right for them now. Research has shown that if Weaning is started early then a child can be at a higher risk of food allergies in future and may cough more and breathe noisily.
How will I know if my baby is ready for Weaning?
Your baby is ready between 4 to 6 months, if he is waking for night feeds again and again, and still seems hungry after feeding or is gaining weight less quickly.
When Weaning should be started?
Weaning can be started once the baby is between 4 and 6 months of age. Initially, it will be some extras for the baby whereas milk feeding will only be the main course.
Can Weaning be started at the age of one?
Weaning should not be longer than 6 months. If weaning is started late, child will become deficient in nutrients like iron, zinc and Vitamins A and D, because both mother's milk and even formula milk are poor in theses nutrients. He needs to chew his solid foods in order to help his jaw and speech to develop.
Should I reduce the milk intake when the bay starts solid foods?
No, carry on with the same amount of milk feeds. Mother's milk is still the priority, solid foods and juices are just the side meals. These are just tasters so your baby will only want tiny amounts. These meals are to be given only once and slowly you can increase it to two times in a day.
What should I give my 4 months old baby?
Try cereal (baby rice) mixed with a little warm formula milk, mother's milk or some cooled, boiled water or fruit (cooked apple, pear, uncooked banana, uncooked papaya), vegetables (broccoli, carrot, cauliflower, potato).You can even give him rice water.
Food should be cooked and then either sieved or blended until it is about the same texture as ketchup or a thick soup with no lumps.
Can I start giving him drinks along with food?
As soon as you start weaning, your baby will be more thirsty. You can give him baby fruit juice diluted with cooled, boiled water given in a trainer beaker or a cup. Other baby drinks can be high in sugar and are unnecessary. | 2019-04-21T16:46:32 | https://www.studyvillage.com/resources/2791-weaning-young-babies.aspx |
0.999929 | The C-130 fleet performs critical air mobility functions for the nation, but part of that fleet is at risk from age-related factors. The Air Force required a rigorous, objective analysis of options for recapitalizing aging C-130Es. Which alternative aircraft would provide the required performance at lowest cost?
Tactical airlift is an essential part of U.S. military operations, delivering vital supplies and equipment within a theater of operations. The C-130 is one of the workhorses of tactical airlift, but parts of the fleet are showing signs of age. C-130Es and C-130H1s, in particular, are nearing the end of their useful life due to structural fatigue issues, corrosion, and aging aircraft systems. Policymakers have debated whether to procure C-27Js as a cost-effective replacement for the retiring C-130s or to continue procurement of the latest version of the C-130 — the C-130J-30. Prior to RAND's study, the Air Force had planned to acquire some C-27Js.
Under the sponsorship of Air Mobility Command, RAND conducted a functional solutions analysis on intratheater delivery. This effort culminated in an objective study of the cost-effectiveness of various aircraft options for intratheater airlift operations.
RAND developed a methodology to determine the most cost-effective way to provide intratheater airlift, as defined in the Mobility Capabilities Study and other planning scenarios. Researchers examined a set of alternatives to meet a wide range of demands, including missions typical of major contingencies, those being flown in Iraq and Afghanistan, a long-range mission in Africa, and access to short and soft runways in remote areas. For each mission, researchers estimated how many of each aircraft would be needed to meet the requirement, then assessed the cost of each fleet.
What is the most cost-effective alternative for meeting a range of mission requirements?
The C-27J offers 40 percent of the C-130J-30's intratheater lift capability at two-thirds the cost.
The C-130J-30 and the C-27J have comparable short- and soft-field performance.
The C-130J-30 is cost-effective for all missions analyzed.
RAND helped the Air Force home in on the best recapitalization solution for the retiring C-130Es. Informed by RAND analysis, the Air Force is proceeding with plans to recapitalize retiring C-130Es with C-130J-30s. This is expected to save $17 billion over the life of the system compared to recapitalization with C-27Js. The previously planned C-27J procurement was cancelled.
Christopher A. Mouton, David T. Orletsky, et al.
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1 | My birthday is coming and my parents decided to throw a party for me, I want to invite my friends to my birthday party which would be held at a bowling alley.
Purpose: Inviting a friend for a birthday party.
Context: Greeting, venue, date and time, activities, what food would be provided. | 2019-04-22T08:53:51 | http://sst2013-s107el.blogspot.com/2013/07/scenarios-of-informal-email-by-siting.html |
0.999294 | What's up with Carl Icahn's sudden car obsession?
Carl Icahn is experiencing a sudden car craze.
Last week, the activist investor plunged $100 million into ride-sharing start-up Lyft. And in Monday's letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, Icahn used the word car or automobile 23 times in talking up the company's growth prospects and per-share value of $240.
Let's not forget that Icahn spent 2014 snapping up shares of Hertz and now owns 12 percent of the rental car company. Hertz was his fourth-biggest holding as of December, behind Apple, eBay and Chesapeake Energy.
Finding a connection among the three investments requires a fair amount of guesswork. Hertz has been saddled with accounting and operational problems that Icahn has pledged to fix. Lyft, by contrast, is a fast-growing start-up, and Apple likely won't be deep in the auto game until 2020, according to recent reports.
But Icahn is clearly doing plenty of research on the market and where it's headed. In his letter to Apple, urging the company to increase its buyback program while continuing to invest in ambitious growth projects, Icahn showed his wealth of knowledge in the movement toward driverless cars.
"As autonomous driving would release drivers' attention from the activity of driving and navigating, and perhaps even increase the time people actually want to spend inside a car, both an automobile and the services provided therein become even more strategically compelling," Icahn wrote. "The car market is more than big enough to 'move the needle' significantly, even as the world's largest company."
Icahn owns almost $7 billion worth of Apple stock, so his $100 million investment in Lyft at a $2.5 billion valuation is hardly a rounding error.
Still, he's throwing his hat in the ring of perhaps the most high-profile battle going on in start-up land, where Lyft ranks a distant second to Uber. He's bullish enough to make the announcement public and put a quote in a press release.
"I believe that ridesharing is poised to become a fundamental component of our transportation infrastructure," Icahn said in the statement. "The company's revenue growth to date has been extremely compelling, and increasing urbanization over the next five to 10 years should enable the company to maintain that trajectory."
Did Icahn and Lyft discuss the investor's broad auto industry thesis during the negotiations and where Lyft fits in? CNBC put in calls to both parties and haven't yet heard back. | 2019-04-20T05:14:57 | https://www.cnbc.com/2015/05/18/whats-up-with-carl-icahns-sudden-car-obsession.html |
0.999472 | Alaska Gov. Bill Walker said Monday he will wait to send lawmakers back to Juneau to work on a capital budget and a deficit-reduction package until they're closer to reaching a deal.
"When they have something (and) they're ready to vote, we'll do it and we'll be done," he said. "There's no reason to call 60 people back when a committee is working on something."
Walker made his comments at a news conference at his Anchorage office Monday after returning from his trip to the East Coast last week for meetings with the National Governors Association.
While he was gone, lawmakers passed legislation to eliminate a program of cash incentive payments for oil companies that are developing new projects — replacing it with a less costly system of tax deductions. The legislation, House Bill 111, was approved on the last day of a special session Walker called after lawmakers took months of extra time in Juneau before passing the state's annual operating budget.
But the Legislature didn't finish the annual capital budget bill by the July 1 start to the state fiscal year, however, and it also didn't pass any additional measures to substantially reduce the state's $2.5 billion deficit.
The Senate voted 17-1 Saturday to convene a new special session to finish the capital budget, but the House didn't take up the question before adjourning, leaving the appropriations bill in limbo. Under the Alaska Constitution, the Senate alone can't bring the Legislature back into session.
Walker said Monday that he's waiting for legislative leaders to negotiate a deal in private before using his constitutional powers to send lawmakers back Juneau to approve it. He'll take the same approach for deficit-reduction measures like taxes or restructuring the $60 billion Permanent Fund, he added.
"We will continue to stay involved in working to find a revenue structure that is amenable to the House and the Senate," he said. "What I'm saying is, we're not going to put time on the clock and just burn through a bunch of time until there's a product up for a vote."
How will the deeply divided House and Senate make any progress if they're not in session? Walker said he plans to keep talking to them. | 2019-04-20T05:04:07 | https://www.adn.com/politics/2017/07/17/alaska-gov-walker-says-he-wants-more-progress-in-negotiations-before-hell-call-lawmakers-back-to-work/ |
0.999999 | TL;DR: Our leads are getting so close to figuring out their shared trauma and yet they are so far away.
I don’t know about you, but I’m very excited that our leads are inching closer to the truth about their shared trauma. It feels like each time we have a flashback about the building collapse, we learn more about what happened to Moon-soo and Kang-doo. This time we find out they actually came face-to-face underground. The question now becomes, just how much of that does Moon-soo remember?
The Moon-soo we saw in the hospital had a head injury, a broken arm, and a broken leg (from what I recall), but in this episode’s flashback, her mobility seems to be pretty good. It has also been implied that when she was dug out of the rubble, she wasn’t near Kang-doo anymore and was practically unconscious. Did she have to move further back because of structural instability? Did she try to go get something that either one of them needed and get caught somewhere?
I originally thought that Moon-soo had been lying to her parents about not remembering what happened, but now I’m questioning that. Post-head trauma, does she legitimately not remember the boy who sang to her under the rubble? Or is it just that she never found out the name of the song Kang-doo sang and thus didn’t recognize the name of the band when he threw it at her at the memorial? She remembers portions of the ordeal on some level, considering her panic and flashbacks. It’ll be interesting to find out the particulars. At least she suspects that he was in the disaster as well, and I wonder how that will change their dynamic.
Kang-doo continues to be a caring guy, which makes me very happy, even if he shows it in unorthodox ways. When he heard the medicine seller hadn’t opened her shop, he broke in to check on her and then insisted on staying to keep her company/watch over her under the pretense of being too tired to go back home. Then he went to the hospital to ask Jae-young to come do a house call (which the medicine seller had her lie about, yikes), and he helped Wan-jin into the taxi (…which got some side-eye from me, but that’s not a topic I think I’m equipped to tackle). When Ma-ri checked up on him, he even reiterated that he wasn’t angry at the room salon girl for hitting him on Yoo-taek’s orders.
So I can trust that his kindness toward and consideration of Moon-soo isn’t a one-off thing that will make her responsible for his good behavior. Kang-doo going in search of her and rescuing her, offering her his jacket, giving her a hoodie, and going to get medicine for her isn’t just about him being nice toward the person he is developing soft, squishy feelings for—it’s about him actually being a pretty decent but prickly person.
Right now, though, I’m most worried about Moon-soo and all of the office politics she’s getting caught up in. I’m glad that her misunderstanding/fight with So-mi was resolved so quickly—internalized misogyny and hellish cultural expectations can mess with anyone—and that they seem to be on track for being office friends. It was sweet of Moon-soo to get So-mi a skincare item she had remembered she was running low on (it showed she had been paying attention to what So-mi used), and it was equally adorable that So-mi got Moon-soo an all-in-one item (because that showed So-mi knew that Moon-soo wouldn’t be the kind of person to have a complex skincare routine). I’m hoping the two of them can band together against Yoo-jin, if necessary, who is shaping up to be a much larger threat.
I find it interesting that Yoo-jin is blatant and direct about her feelings, but at the same time, she’s only doing so where it’s safe for her to do so. Joo-won correctly guessed that she hadn’t told her father that she wanted to get together with him, and he was right to stand up for himself and say he didn’t think he ought to start a relationship where you couldn’t tell the people closest to you about it. That’s as clear a signal as any that Yoo-jin won’t be making any headway with him until she’s willing to upset her father and brother by declaring her feelings openly, even if it causes problems for her in the family business. | 2019-04-24T08:12:06 | http://audreyskdramablog.com/2017/12/24/just-between-lovers-episode-3/?share=google-plus-1 |
0.999976 | Masress : Negative words or positive deeds?
Negative words or positive deeds?
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi's visit to Germany, the launching of the UAE satellite and education were some of the issues which occupied the press this week.
The editorial of the official daily Al-Ahram noted that the president's foreign visits aim to open new horizons for the Egyptian economy and attract foreign investment.
In that context, the edit said, came this week's visit to Germany. The visit acquires great importance given the special nature of the Egyptian-German relationship as well as the strong German economy that puts it in fourth position worldwide.
Besides, the edit added, there are very promising opportunities for investment in Egypt especially in the Suez Canal zone and the new administrative capital.
“Egypt and Germany can cooperate in facing common dangers and challenges including terrorism and illegal immigration. Both states agree on the importance of reaching a political solution to the conflicts in the region especially in Syria and Libya as well as the importance of achieving comprehensive and sustained development on the African continent,” the edit said.
Emadeddin Adib hailed the launching of the UAE Earth observation satellite, the first designed and manufactured in the Emirati Centre for Clean Technology.
Adib viewed it as a prominent international and Arab achievement by all standards.
“Khalifa-Sat is the first satellite made by UAE hands that are specialised in taking pictures of Earth and monitoring environmental developments,” he wrote in the daily Al-Watan.
While he hailed the achievement, he criticised Iranian policies that aim at spreading sectarianism and ethnic beliefs.
Adib concluded his regular column by questioning which is better for people: negative words or positive deeds, spreading tolerance or dispersing aggression, brainwashing public opinion or improving education, building the great Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi or a camp to train militias in Tehran?
Abbas Al-Tarabili wrote that most education experts agree that the size of classes is the core and crux of the education problem.
He asked how students can understand their lessons or how teachers can deliver in a big class.
The student is not able to understand the teacher and the teacher is unable to teach,” Al-Tarabili wrote in the daily Al-Masry Al-Youm.
Given that, he added, the problem is primarily in a deficiency in the number of classes. Thus, the solution is in building thousands of more classes.
Perhaps the solution is to use pre-fabricated walls in building classes. This way would allow schools to build dozens of classes in a short time. But, Al-Tarabili wondered whether the state will increase the budget allocated for education to allow for building the needed classes. | 2019-04-26T03:51:56 | https://www.masress.com/en/ahramweekly/125789 |
0.997883 | Faced with prospects of urban revitalization, an El Paso community fears the end of an era.
Located in the westernmost corner of the Lone Star State is the city of El Paso. Its identity -- as well as historic narrative -- is defined by its location: the city stands along the banks of the Rio Grande, which creates a natural border between Texas and Mexico.
It was this proximity to Mexico that set the course of El Paso's development. How? Three words (and eight numbers): the Mexican Revolution, 1910 - 1920. The uprising -- which evolved into a full scale civil war -- brought a rush of refugees to the border city.
But there was one particular community most affected by this influx of immigrants: El Segundo Barrio, or the Second Ward.
As Yolanda Chávez Leyva, chair of the University of Texas at El Paso, remarks, El Segundo Barrio was truly the "heart of the Mexican diaspora" as well as a definitive "port of entry."
For many new to the United States, the barrio would serve as a first (and often final) home. As such, the Second Ward became a distinctively Chicano community, bearing obvious traces of the residents' homeland culture. It was indeed an American location, but its character was of another place entirely.
El Segundo Barrio was therefore an ideal choice for the Environmental Protection Agency's DOCUMERICA project. Like Arizona's Navajo reservation and Puerto Rico's Martin Pena canal, the barrio had a distinct ethnic identity, but it was also the victim of environmental decay -- as well as deep-seated poverty.
A fair amount of the impoverishment was, of course, due to the community's immigrant status. But not entirely. Drought, in particular, threatened the financial well-being of the community since many residents in the Second Ward were (and continue to be) farm laborers, whose income could be decimated by the lack of water and healthy crops.
But at the time these photos were taken, El Segundo Barrio residents faced a far more troubling prospect: commercialization.
In their original archive form, several of the pictures featured in the gallery bore the caption, "El Paso's Second Ward Neighborhood, Which Is Losing Its Ethnic Flavor in the Wake of Urban Renewal." Urban reconstruction and renovation was clearly an emotional issue for the residents of El Paso in 1972; they felt that their unique identity (that they had worked so hard to establish and maintain) would be lost as the character of their surroundings changed. And it was clearly an obvious enough problem to attract the attention, and concern, of the EPA.
Approximately 40 years later, the community (of slightly over 8,000 residents) is facing similar fears -- and a similar struggle with urban renewal.
Just two years ago, El Paso launched a revitalization plan for El Segundo Barrio. The stated purpose of the plan was to "establish a collaboration process for residents to work with city government and community organizations to clean up the targeted area and improve the quality of life for residents in the neighborhood." The revitalization in particular aims to address El Segundo's substandard housing as well as its high levels of unemployment. And compared with the whole of El Paso, the barrio certainly has much lower levels of educational attainment.
But the plan also calls for the demolition of many historic and foundational buildings as well as the possible displacement of community members. For many residents, that's akin to the destruction of their heritage.
Still, it's clear that the residents of El Segundo Barrio need to take initiative to improve their quality of life. But they want to do it their own way since, as Leyva comments, "the hopes and suggestions of the people of the neighborhood have been ignored due to the many developer-backed plans."
Fortunately, for the time being at least, the barrio's residents seem to have been successful in preserving their community's character. But with continuing renewal efforts, their fears will likely be realized. | 2019-04-25T18:31:45 | https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/07/the-first-mexican-border-town-may-be-losing-its-character/260368/ |
0.998918 | The highly anticipated release of the movie "Torn," is one of the first American-made movies with a Muslim family in the lead roles. The movie, which opened to favorable reviews, is set in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is about a two mothers that bond when their teenage sons are killed in a suburban mall explosion, only to learn that one of the sons is the prime suspect. In this ILLUME EXCLUSIVE, writer/producer Michael Richter shared some of the behind-the-scenes drama of producing an independent film and one that deals with the controversial topics of terrorism, racism and bullying.
ILLUME: Thanks Michael for speaking to ILLUME MEDIA. Give us a brief account of what the aim is of this movie.
Richter: One of the themes I wanted to explore was how well do we know the people around us. The film examines the question on both on a personal and societal level. One of the tragedies in the film is that the two mothers really need each other for support. They are the only two people in the world who can understand what they are going through. But their friendship and lives are torn apart by the media and society. They begin by questioning how well they really know each other, but as they try to prove their sons didn't do it, they start to question whether they really ever knew the people in their own family.
ILLUME: You have said that part of making this film was to, "flip stereotypes on their head." For example, to film-goers to automatically assume the Muslim son is involved in terrorism. But there is also a social and political context – one very specific to the American experience - to this issue. Do think that a mainstream American audience will or can understand this?
Richter: We were exploring stereotypes in the story. We have a lovely, upper middle class Pakistani couple living the American dream, a white, single, working mother who can barely makes ends meet with an ex-husband who is the most fanatical character in the film, and a black FBI agent who has bought into every stereotype about Muslims. If after meeting the Pakistani couple you believe that they could really raise a terrorist, then you may be subconsciously doing the same type of stereotyping the film is trying to fight against..
ILLUME: Producing a movie is expensive and an independent film can be tough to fund. But aside form financial issues, were there any obstacles you faced as a producer/writer along the way – something that stood out.
Richter: I could talk for 10 hours about the challenges of making a film at this budget. But most interesting was when we were out pitching this film, we'd very often get the response: "That's an interesting premise. I would definitely go out and see that film, if it was in theaters." But when it came time to invest money in the film, or pick it up for distribution, they wouldn't do it. For many different reasons. Some thought it's too controversial, which I don't think it is. Others may have felt it would be too hard to find and market to the film's audience. It was a real surprise to us, because we tried really hard to make a universal film that would appeal to broad audiences.
ILLUME: Was the movie hard to cast?
Richter: The Director, Jeremiah Birnbaum, led the charge on casting. But I can tell you that it was important for us for the film to be be authentic, and for us to cast Pakistani actors in the roles. We were avoiding casting people that "looked the part." For the lead actress, Jeremiah went to Pakistan because we could not find the right actress here.
ILLUME: What has to happen to make this movie a "success" in your sense of the word.
Richter: The fact that people are thinking and talking about the film is in itself a success. Whenever you write a film about social issues, you want to start a conversation. And, so far, we've started a debate about some of the choices we made (like how we ended the film) and a dialogue around some of the issues (the harms caused by stereotyping, how well do we know the people around us). Even if it starts at a small-scale it is a success, and the hope is it can at some point, be had at a larger scale. | 2019-04-19T00:18:00 | https://illumemagazine.com/articleDetail.php?ILLUME-EXCLUSIVE-Interview-With-Torn-Producer-Writer-14510 |
0.998151 | Why is this former smoker coughing?
Shaun, 27, is a mechanic who has just started trying to quit smoking. He came into the pharmacy about a week ago to purchase some nicotine gum, and he was given full advice and support to help him in his attempt.
Shaun has now returned to the counter and is coughing uncomfortably.
"I've got this cough," he says. "It's just come on recently, but I'm pretty sure it's because I've stopped smoking the fags, because this happened when I last tried to quit. It's really starting to annoy me. Is there anything you can do?" | 2019-04-20T00:33:36 | https://www.chemistanddruggist.co.uk/cpd-article/non-smokers-cough |
0.999996 | What Is the Recipe for Subway Cookies?
Subway's cookie recipe is not publicly available. However, home cooks can create similar cookies with a copycat recipe using margarine, eggs, vanilla extract, white and brown sugar, chocolate morsels and self-rising flour.
Create a batch of those signature chocolate chip cookies to serve up with a homemade sub for dinner.
Cream the margarine and sugar with a blender. Meanwhile, sift the flour and set it aside.
Mix the eggs into the creamed margarine one egg at a time with the blender still on. Add the vanilla extract. Add the flour 1/2 cup at a time into the dough, allowing the blender to beat it into the mixture well. Add in the 12-ounces of chocolate chips and allow the beater to combine them with the mixture. When finished, cover the bowl and refrigerate the dough for one hour.
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a cookie sheet with a piece of parchment paper. Place tablespoon-sized balls of dough on the sheet evenly spaced and about two-inches apart. Bake them in the oven from eight to 12 minutes. Remove them and allow the cookies to cool for 30 minutes before eating. | 2019-04-24T18:27:44 | https://www.reference.com/food/recipe-subway-cookies-cb46c5d98bb5beab |
0.999918 | Context. The object of the research is a two-stage process of material flows allocation in the transport-logistic system, the structural elements of which are enterprises that collect a resource, is been distributed in a certain territory (centers of the first stage), and the enterprises that consume or process this resource. A mathematical model of such process is a two-stage problem of the optimal partitioning of a continual set with the locating of subset centers under additional constraints presented in the paper.
optimal solution of the two-stage allocation-distribution problem in an analytic form (the analytic expression includes parameters that are the optimal solution of the auxiliary finite-dimensional optimization problem with a nondifferentiable objective function). The proposed iterative algorithm for solving the formulated problem bases on modification of Shor’s r-algorithm and the method of potentials for solving the transport problem.
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raw material resource distribution process. Further research is subject to the theoretical justification of the convergence of the iterative process realized in the proposed algorithm for solving continuous problems of OPS with additional couplings. In future, the development of software to solve such problems with the involvement of GIS-technologies is planned.
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0.999997 | Diet How do i lose 10 lbs 2 weeks. You need to burn 3500 calories to lose a pound of fat. let's say for example you currently burn 2000 calories a day and you eat 2000 calories a day. if you dropped the calories you eat to 1000, assuming all those calories were healthy and you didn't starve yourself, you would burn 3500 calories in 3.5 days, which is 2lbs per week. a lot of my clients lose a lot more their first week because they are eating 2000 or more calories a day, and they've been retaining water.
Day 1: Drink as much coffee and water as you want. 1 piece of toast with butter, 1 egg, 1 serving of yogurt, and 1 serving of chicken with 1 salad with low calorie dressing is your meal today.
Day 2: Drink as much tea and water as you want. 1 serving cottage cheese, 2 eggs, 1 piece of toast with no butter, 1 salad with no dressing and 1 serving of beef is your meal today.
Day 3: Drink as much 0 calorie diet soda and water as you want. 1 fruit, 1 vegetable, 1 salad with low calorie dressing and 1 serving of fish is your meal today.
Day 4: Drink as much juice and water as you want. 1 serving cheese, 1 serving yogurt, 1 egg, 1 piece of toast with butter and 1 salad with meat of your choice is your meal today.
Day 5: Drink as much coffee, tea, and water as you want. 1 carrot, 1 large tomato, 1 serving chicken, 1 egg, and 1 slice of toast with butter is your meal today.
Day 6: Drink as much diet soda and juice as you want. 8 saltine crackers, 1 citrus fruit (orange, lemon, etc.), 1 serving chicken, and 2 eggs is your meal today.
Day 7: Drink only water. 1 salad with low calorie dressing, 1 fruit, and 2 vegetables is your meal today. | 2019-04-22T08:42:41 | http://naturalfruitjuices.blogspot.com/2012/12/fruit-juices-good-benefits-for-diet-to.html |
1 | This audio extract is from 'A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland circa 1695' by Martin Martin, first published in 1703. It is read here by Grant Butchart.
This audio extract is from 'A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland circa 1695' by Martin Martin, first published in 1703. It is read here by Grant Butchart.<br /> <br /> 'There was an ancient custom in the island of Lewis to make a fiery circle about the houses, corn, cattle, etc, belonging to each particular family: a man carried fire in his right hand, and went round, and it was called 'dessil', from the right hand, which in the ancient language is called 'dess'. An instance of this round was performed in the village Shader, in Lewis, about sixteen years ago (as I was told), but it proved fatal to the practiser, called MacCallum; for after he had carefully performed this round, that very night following he and his family were sadly surprised, and all his houses, corn, cattle, etc., were consumed with fire. This superstitious custom is quite abolished now, for there has not been above this one instance of it in forty years past.'<br /> <br /> Martin Martin was probably born in Bealach, near Duntulm Castle, Isle of Skye, into a minor gentry family associated with the MacDonalds of Sleat. After graduating from Edinburgh University in 1681 he tutored the heirs of the MacDonalds of Sleat and MacLeods of Harris before leaving for London in 1695. <br /> <br /> Encouraged by fellow Episcopalians and antiquarian colleagues he undertook ethnographic work on his native Western Isles, setting off for a tour of Lewis in 1696, followed by a trip to St Kilda the following year. 'The Late Voyage to St. Kilda' was published in 1698, followed by his most celebrated work, 'A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland' in 1703.<br /> <br /> Despite being promised financial remuneration for his work, the money remained unpaid and Martin returned to Skye to tutor once more. At the age of 41 he enrolled as a trainee physician at Leiden University in the Netherlands and on his return to England he continued to practice medicine, finally graduating at Rheims in 1716. He died on 9 October, 1718. <br /> <br /> Martin Martin's accounts of life in the Hebrides, before the advent of the Union, the 'Forty-Five', Highland Clearance, and Victorian Romanticism, are amongst the first printed works to describe the history, culture and traditions of an area where the old structures of society still prevailed. | 2019-04-24T04:51:39 | https://www.ambaile.org.uk/detail/en/1404/1/EN1404-a-description-of-the-western-islands.htm |
0.999999 | What do we mean by networking? Well, it has nothing to do with the array of computer systems connected to each other using some network protocol. It is all about connecting with other people within and beyond the organization.
In the professional world, networking is critically important if you want to reach new heights in the career.
When you want to get promoted in the same company, you have to establish a fantastic relationship with your boss, colleagues, and your team members.
If you are looking for another opportunity, then you should be in touch with your friends working in other companies or few good recruitment firms.
Statistics says that those who build an excellent network in the professional world grab good jobs than others. They climb the organizational ladder quickly and capture the key positions. Nobody denies the importance of caliber here, but networking gives a boost to the career for sure.
When you build a network, make sure it has a good reach. It means, there has to be the right proportion of depth and spread.
What makes a network effective?
When your aim is to grab exciting career opportunities through networking, it is very much important that you build it well. Here are top ten tips to achieve success.
Don’t join groups for the sake of joining if you want to use networking to search the job opportunity. Many people commit the mistake of joining groups that do not add any value in their mission. Thus, they don’t get expected results.
Spend adequate time in research and homework. Look for the groups that are relevant. If there are people who know you personally, then it is good to join such group. You can expect some help in future.
When you start networking, begin with a small group. Try to be in touch by posting regularly. Comment and likes are important to show that you read the posts of others. It is relatively easy to be active in a closed group than a large, open group.
Create a profile that describes you the best. If your aim is to use it for professional benefit, then make sure it displays your competency and caliber. People jumble up with personal and professional networking and end up with making pathetic profiles.
Classify the groups and tag them formal and informal. For job seeking purpose, you should focus on formal groups. Make sure your posts are neutral, balanced and do not show any political inclination. People should perceive you a thoroughly professional person. Show positive attitude and openness in views.
Try to be focused on your field of profession only. Tag yourself to the groups of like-minded people. For example, if you are banking professional, then the groups you are part with should contain people from the banking industry. Comment on the latest happenings in the banking structure and forward posts that are valuable and important. Remain focused to the subject.
Since the people in your network are people of high stature, e.g. business leaders, marketing executives, CXO’s, and directors; you should position yourself well. Seek the help of professionals if you can’t handle social media. Nowadays, it is possible to get experts for managing it.
Do not build social networking from a short-term perspective. Consider it as a tool that is going to work perpetually. You should start it early and work on it continuously so that when you are in need, you reap the benefits. When you help others when they are in crisis, you will get help when you are in a troublesome situation. It is a ‘Give and Take’ relationship always.
Stay connected by pinging others frequently. When you ping someone, others feel that you remember them. Believe it; the feeling is just awesome. Experts say that those who keep in touch with others get the best benefit of networking. They get the response when they seek it desperately.
Keep the number of contacts as many as you wish, but manage them well. When you want to leverage networking, quality always matters. Each one in the contact list should be able to extend help if required.
Even if you are not an Internet crazy person, it is very much possible to get the best benefit of keeping a large group of contacts. Don’t think just from the job perspective, but it is a good thing from the professional perspective.
It is like popularizing your profile across the world. When others across with any requirement where you can be fit in; they will contact you. Consistent and regular interaction makes you visible in the virtual world, and visibility is the key to success today.
Share your thoughts and ideas with others and get benefited from their viewpoint. It is a process of mutual development. | 2019-04-23T10:55:39 | https://www.uhr.co.in/blog/stay-connected-sure-way-success/ |
0.998391 | Phillies ace Aaron Nola, tied for the NL lead with 11 wins, was selected to his first All-Star Game.
PITTSBURGH — Gabe Kapler called a team meeting on Sunday afternoon, just before the Phillies headed out for the series finale at PNC Park..
The Phillies manager had an announcement to make: Aaron Nola was an all-star.
"It was as proud a moment for this clubhouse as you could possibly imagine when people heard that he was selected to be a major-league all-star. He earned it and every bit of praise is deserved," Kapler said. "I told them we wouldn't be where we are today without Noles' contributions, which have been off-the-charts good."
Nola was selected to be the team's lone representative In the All-Star Game on July 17 in Washington at Nationals Park. He will start Monday in New York and then pitch again on either Saturday or Sunday in Miami. Nola will not be allowed to pitch in the All-Star Game if he starts on Sunday.
The righthander joins Randy Wolf and Cole Hamels the only homegrown Phillies pitchers in the last 20 years to make the All-Star Game.
"It feels good. My first one. I watched it on TV a lot, so it will be exciting to see what it's all about and see all the all-stars," Nola said. "I wasn't really trying to pitch to be an all-star, I was just trying to do my job for the team and try to win for the team and do my part."
The Phillies were denied a second all-star despite being in first place and having 20 more wins through 87 games than they did last season. Rhys Hoskins, Odubel Herrera, and Seranthony Dominguez seemed to have a chance to join Nola. The Phillies have not had multiple all-stars since 2013.
Nola entered Sunday ranked third among NL starters in WAR (3.6), fifth in ERA (2.41), fifth in strikeouts (116), and tied for first with 11 wins. Three years after his major-league debut, Nola has emerged as of baseball's elite pitchers.
"I've had my ups and downs for sure," Nola said. "I had a decent time when I came up in '15 and then a bumpy road in '16 when I got hurt, and then last year I did well and had my back injury but finished out the season healthy. This year, I made it to the All-Star Game. Definitely had my ups and downs, but I feel like I've learned a lot about myself and who I am as a player."
The Phillies' starting pitchers entered Sunday with the highest WAR in the National League (9.8), the fourth-best ERA (3.76), and the fifth-best strikeouts per nine innings (9.11). They are able to think about the postseason because of their starting rotation. And Nola has been the leader.
"He's a calm, confident, competitive and very talented individual who really knows how to pitch," Kapler said.
Cesar Hernandez was out of the lineup for a second straight day after fouling a ball off his foot on Friday night. He was used Saturday as a pinch-hitter and Kapler said the Phillies are just trying to rest him. … Zach Eflin will start the first game of Monday's doubleheader against the Mets at Citi Field with Nola starting the second. The Mets will start righthanders Zack Wheeler and Corey Oswalt. … The Phillies have not named a starter for Tuesday. That could be pitching prospect Enyel De Los Santos. … They will add two players from the minors before the game after Drew Anderson was optioned and league rules allow a 26th player for doubleheaders. … Vince Velasquez should be activated from the disabled list to start Wednesday. | 2019-04-23T16:38:37 | https://www.philly.com/philly/sports/phillies/aaron-nola-all-star-team-national-league-starting-pitcher-odubel-herrera-seranthony-dominguez-snub-20180708.html |
0.999998 | In an interview following her election as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2843875.ece, 10 November 2007.
Context: I am as closed-up and fucked-up as everybody else. I am hell. The world is hell. "No, it isn't", I scream, but I know it is. Hell. Hell. Hell. Hell. Help. Help me. Help me. Love me. | 2019-04-18T23:01:49 | https://citacoes.in/citacoes/1164938-arthur-rimbaud-i-believe-i-am-in-hell-therefore-i-am/?page=2 |
0.996673 | The US will go to war with North Korea "if things don't change," Sen. Lindsey Graham said, acknowledging that "a lot of people would get hurt and killed." Meanwhile, Russia and China have once again urged for both sides to exercise restraint and dialogue.
"If we have to go to war to stop this, we will," the Republican senator told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday. "If there's a war with North Korea, it will be because North Korea brought it on itself, and we're headed to a war if things don't change."
Graham stated that neither he nor US President Donald Trump wants a war, but stressed that "we're not going to let this crazy man in North Korea have the capability to hit the homeland."
When asked by Blitzer about civilian casualties that would occur in a war with North Korea, including in the densely populated South Korean capital of Seoul, Graham said: "It's not lost by me what a war would look like with North Korea. One, we would win it, but a lot of people would get hurt and killed..."
However, he stressed that "the president's got to pick between homeland security and regional stability." He noted that when it comes to that decision, "the president is picking America over the region and I hope the region will help us find a diplomatic solution."
"He is ready, if necessary, to destroy this regime to protect America, and I hope the regime understands that if President Trump has to pick between destroying the North Korean regime and the American homeland, he's going to destroy the regime. I hope China understands that also," Graham said.
His comments came just hours after North Korea fired a ballistic missile that splashed down in the Sea of Japan, according to the South Korean, Japanese, and US militaries. The Pentagon's initial assessment indicated it was an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
Responding to the launch on Tuesday, Trump said the US would "take care of it...it is a situation that we will handle." His comments were made to reporters during a meeting with Republican congressional leaders at the White House.
Meanwhile, Russian Senator Konstantin Kosachev, chair of Russia's Foreign Affairs Committee, believes the US played a role in Pyongyang's latest missile launch by pushing it to react to its incendiary actions and speech. "It’s a fact that during the past two months North Korea has been demonstrating restraint and did not provoke the international community by any means. Pyongyang, most likely, expected the same restraint in response on part of the West, both in judgments and actions,” Kosachev said on Tuesday, adding that the West doesn't seem interested in such an agreement.
China, for its part, expressed "grave concern" over the launch on Wednesday. Speaking to reporters, Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Beijing hopes all parties can act cautiously to preserve peace and stability. China and Russia have long been pushing for their proposed "double-freeze program," which would see the North suspend its nuclear and ballistic missile tests in exchange for a halt in joint US-South Korea drills.
Beijing also encouraged talks between the two sides last week, after the US re-branded North Korea as a terrorism sponsor. China Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang described the situation as "sensitive" and said it would be "helpful to bring all parties back to the negotiation table instead of doing the opposite."
Earlier this month, Pyongyang ruled out negotiations over its nuclear program, citing ongoing US-South Korea military exercises in the region and Washington's "hostile policy" towards North Korea. "As long as there is a continuous hostile policy against my country by the US and as long as there are continued war games on our doorstep, then there will not be negotiations," Pyongyang's ambassador to the UN, Han Tae Song, said at the time.
The US has continued its war games in the region with South Korea and other allies, after White House spokesperson Heather Nauert rejected the plan in August. She stated at the time that the "so-called double freeze, that's not going to change. We're allowed to do it (exercises). We're allowed to do it with our ally, South Korea. We will continue to do that and that's just not going to change." | 2019-04-21T01:08:05 | https://www.rt.com/usa/411294-us-war-north-korea/ |
0.999687 | Marrying in U.S. or abroad first better for working purposes?
I'm a U.S. citizen and my fiance is from Ireland and interested in coming here to work for maybe a couple years as a truck driver (he already has the commercial license). We are trying to figure out what might be the best approach to accomplish this (not sure a work visa would really work) mostly so that he is not without work in either country for too long. It seems with a K-1 fiance visa he would have to wait here in U.S. to get the work permit for another 3 months after getting married within the 90 days, and he doesn't want to be out of work for that long (or do I have that wrong?). So it almost seems it would be better to go the K-3 route and either get married here and he goes back to Ireland (if that's possible?) or for us to get married over there first (not sure if it matters which?), so I can petition for him to come here with I-130 etc. Then he can work in his country in the meantime. This website also mentions just "immigrant visa" as an option but I'm not sure what that means. Any thoughts?
Right now EAD cards are taking more like 4-6 months, not 3.
So with the K1 & K3 it would take the same amount of time. K3 is faster to get someone to the US as opposed to Consular Processing but won't get the work authorization faster.
Basically, with K1, he gets the visa, you get married, & you file I-130/I-485/I-751/I-131. The EAD is attached to the I-485, not the I-130. The I-130 is YOUR petition for a relative. the I-485 is HIS application to adjust status. So let's say you're super prepared and you marry a week after he arrives in the US and you get the marriage docs a week or so later. He's looking at probably 5-7 months w/o work.
If you get married abroad & file the K3 application after you get the I-130 Receipt Notice, he comes to the US as a non-immigrant and applies for AOS in the US. He can apply for EAD immediately under a9 category, or he can file with the I-485. Either way, you're looking at 4-7 months.
If you marry abroad and go through Consular Processing, you'll be apart for a while but he would arrive in the US as an LPR and would immediately be able to work.
Basically, K1 gets you together the fastest, CP creates the least interruption with work.
K3 is obsolete and basically nobodies gets K3s anymore. If he is petitioned as a spouse after marriage and does Consular Processing abroad, he will get an immigrant visa directly. (An immigrant visa means he will immediately become a permanent resident the moment he enters the US with the immigrant visa.) If he is going to do Consular Processing, it doesn't matter if he marries here or there. There is just some risk that he would be denied entry when he comes to the US to marry if you guys decide to marry here.
Thank you very much! So if I understand, he could come here on his ESTA visa to marry, but could still go back home afterward then I could petition him as a spouse to come here on an immigrant visa and he can do the Consular Processing abroad?
Yes. Just bear in mind that if he comes here to get married, they might not believe that he will leave and he may be denied a visa. Certainly worth a shot, just something to consider.
Any other option besides K1 or ESTA?
Hi again, so now I'm wondering if there is a different kind of visa he could get besides using ESTA (since risky) or K1 (which would seem to force him to stay) in order to just get married here and he can return home afterwards? Thanks so much again.
To the extent of my knowledge, those are your only options for marrying in the U.S.
I just had an unofficial ceremony abroad and had my official marriage at courthouse in US when my fiance got to the US. If you get married in a different country first then technically your significant other wouldn't be coming on a k1 fiance visa, because she wouldn't be recognized as your fiance. | 2019-04-20T03:06:45 | https://www.immihelp.com/forum/usa-fiance-visa/185189-marrying-in-u-s-or-abroad-first-better-for-working-purposes?s=e38d2cc66f049934fac3a458c2d817f0 |
0.999991 | 1. Preheat your oven to 450 degrees. Line a large rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil and spray with nonstick spray.
2. Add all ingredients to a large bowl. Use your hands to mix everything together. Don't over mix.
3. Shape the mixture into walnut-sized meatballs. Adjust baking times as necessary.
4. Place the meatballs close together but not touching on the prepared baking sheet. Bake at 450 for about 10 minutes or until browned on the bottom. Serve hot.
5. To freeze: Let the meatballs cool. Use a fork or spoon to scrape the fat away from the sides. Place the meatballs on the same pan that you baked them on - without the tin foil. Place the pan in the freezer and set a timer for 45 minutes to an hour. Transfer the meatballs to a large ziplock bag, seal, and return to the freezer.
Combine sauces over medium heat in a large deep skillet and cook until bubbly. Add meatballs in a single layer and stir to coat completely. Reduce heat to medium low, cover and cook until meatballs are heated through, about 15 minutes for frozen. Remove cover and cook for several minutes. Stirring occasionally until sauce is reduced and completely coating the meatballs. Serve on their own as an appetizer or as a main dish over rice. For slow cooker method: Place meatballs in the slow cooker and pour sauces over. Stir ingredients together and cook on low for a few hours or until ready to serve. | 2019-04-24T10:53:23 | https://trishsrecipes.blogspot.com/2018/10/easy-baked-meatballs-with-cranberry.html |
0.998573 | 1. The dragon slayer St. George was born in Cappadocia. In which modern day country is Cappadocia ?
2. The great and mighty dragon Ancalagon the Black inhabited which land ?
3. Which famous dragon amused himself "along the cherry lane" ?
4. Quetzalcoatl was a serpent god amongst which tribe ?
5. In Celtic mythology the dragon 'Master Stoorworm' was defeated by a young lad named Assipattle. Stoorworms demise, it is said, led to the creation of which four islands or group of islands ?
6. In which books would one find a dragon type called Romanian ?
7. Which two countries have a dragon on their flag ?
8. Who was Jormungandr's arch enemy ?
9. An English word for a vital body part and the Chinese word for dragon.
10. The dragon Fafnir was slain by which man ?
1. Hannibal Lector had a sixth finger on his left hand. What is the medical name for this ?
2. What was the name of the hand in The Addams Family ?
3. The name of a secret Serbian society which may have played a role in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the name of the Green Lantern's nemesis.
5. Once upon a time, what was a handfasting marriage ?
6. In which songs would one find the following lines ?
7. Complete this expression meaning to be very intimate. "to be finger and ....."
9. The ring on Ringo's hand in the film Help was to be part of an offering to which sacrificial goddess ?
10. The following are the first words to which popular Ziegfeld Follies song from 1921 ? "Father has a business Strictly second hand Everything from toothpicks to a baby grand "
1. The following bad kids are found in which films?
2. An often repeated riff in Kid Rock's song 'All summer long' is identical to those from which 'monster' hit ?
3. What were the names of Darren and Samantha's two 'kids' in the tv series Bewitched?
4. Legend has it Captain William Kidd's treasure is buried on which Nova Scotia island?
5. According to the American Film Institute, what is the fifth most memorable line in cinema history?
6. The following are the first words to which songs?
7. One of the first child stars and multi millionaires in Hollywood history played the kid in Charlie Chaplin's 1921 film 'The Kid'. What was his name? Extra point for the comic- creepy role he was later most famous for.
8. How many 'kids' were there in each of the following tv series?
9. Who played the role of Billy the Kid in the following films?
10. New Kids on the Block member Danny broke his ankle at a concert in Manchester after tripping over what?
1. In film, when does the train arrive in Hadleyville?
2. What was the name of Freddie Laker's no frills bring your own lunch service between Gatwick and JFK airports?
3. How did William Huskisson make headlines in September 1830?
4. Who sang "I'm a train I'm a train I'm a chook a train"?
5. Who was the leading actor in each of the following 'train' films?
6. What is the rail destination in the song 'King of the Road'?
7. Measured in the amount of passengers, the two busiest railway stations in the world are both found in which city?
8. What is the next word in this famous poem about a rail disaster?
9. The French high speed trains are called TGV's. What do the letters TGV stand for?
1. Which 'measured' US writer said "Everybody complains about the weather but nobody does anything about it"?
2. 'Divine winds' or Kamikazes prevented which man and his horde from invading Japan between 1274 and 1281?
4. What was the name of the doomed ship in the book and film 'The Perfect Storm'?
5. Which band did Ringo Starr belong to before joining the Beatles?
6. Jim and Hilda Bloggs are the doomed couple in which tragic film?
7. Captain Robert Fitzroy, the man who was influential in introducing meteorology into GB in the 19th century was the captain of which famous ship?
9. According to a law "made a distant moon ago here, July and August cannot be too hot, and there is a legal limit to the snow", "the winter is forbidden till December" and "the rain may never fall till after sundown". Where is this magical place?
10. Which poem begins with the words "The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees, The moon a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas"?
1. Tracy di Vicenzo and Aki were both married to which man?
2. What colour is the traditional wedding dress in China?
3. For each of the following grooms, name the best man.
4. What does the Anglo Saxon word wed mean?
5. In Gilbert O'Sullivan's song 'Matrimony', what time are the couple supposed to be at the registrars office?
6. In the film Casablanca, what is the name of Ilsa's husband?
7. What are the names of Sir Michael Philip Jagger's two ex-wives?
8. Elizabeth Taylor has been married Eight times. Name the seven husbands.
9. Adolf Hitler and Ernest Hemingway were both keen on marrying which actress?10. Who sang the following songs? | 2019-04-19T10:52:38 | https://www.theenglishinformer.com/article_detail/The-Quiz-collection-for-15th-April |
0.999516 | Based on a true story, Boys Don't Cry was adapted from the life of Brandon Teena, born Teena Brandon, a woman who chose to live her life as a man and suffered tragic consequences as a result. A true story about hope, fear, and the courage it takes to be yourself, Boys Don't Cry is critically acclaimed and was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards.
Critics Consensus: Hilary Swank's acclaimed performance pays fitting tribute to the tragic life of Brandon Teena. | 2019-04-21T03:14:44 | https://itunes.apple.com/movie/boys-dont-cry/id288949168?ign-mpt=uo%3D5 |
0.999836 | Fukushima: The ice wall cometh?
Fukushima workers are attempting to build an "ice wall" to cantain contaminated runoff.
TEPCO officials have been hot to tout the frozen cordon as they scramble to contain hundreds of thousands of gallons of irradiated water leaking from the crippled reactor and spent fuel pools, and segregate it from fresh groundwater streaming down from surrounding mountains. Officials have been collecting contaminated water — which is accumulating from the water being pumped in to cool the melted cores in the breached reactors and the fuel rods in damaged spent fuel storage pools, as well from rain and snow melts — in hundreds of above-ground tanks, but the plant is running out of capacity, and the tanks have sprung multiple leaks in the last year.
But the ground freezing has never been used in anything resembling this scenario (it is more commonly used when constructing tunnels), nor has it ever been attempted on such a large scale. And, the plan also comes with risks of its own: there are fears that diverted water will accumulate elsewhere — water seeks its own level, as they say — and worries that the diverted water and the expansion and contraction of the ground caused by the freezing will further destabilize damaged structures or the collection of tubes, pipes and pumps used in makeshift emergency cooling and drainage systems.
A system designed to process and partially decontaminate the stored wastewater has never been fully functional since it came online in March 2013, and most recently missed a June target for a full restart. TEPCO now says it has resumed operation of all three lines of the system, “but only on a trial basis,” according to the Guardian. Last year, it was revealed that 300 tons of contaminated water was leaking from the nuclear site into the Pacific Ocean each day.
Plus, it is quite possible the frozen wall may never work. A smaller ice project, necessary to plug a flooded tunnel between units 2 and 3, has failed to keep water out because it has failed to freeze. “We can't make the temperature low enough to freeze water," a TEPCO spokesman said.
The larger ice wall cannot actually go forward until the flooded tunnel is drained and filled in with cement, according to TEPCO’s plans.
Even if it were on schedule, the roughly 5,000-foot barrier is not due to be finished until March 2015, and will cost upwards of $315 million. To function as planned, the wall would require a constant source of electricity estimated to be the annual equivalent of powering 13,000 homes.
The Fukushima cleanup has also been hampered by a shortage of skilled workers, as many with experience — tired of radiation exposure and low pay — have left for jobs in the alternative energy sector. There have also been reports of subcontractors with ties to organized crime replacing higher-paid workers with short-term, low-wage employees and the homeless.
I know that our employees have a strong sense of mission — the TEPCO spirit, if you like — that is being passed down from one generation of workers to the next.
Which has to inspire confidence … as the cleanup is projected to take some time.
Obviously, it's difficult to say for sure how many years it's going to take … at the moment we're talking about 30 or 40 years."
Also, the check’s in the mail. | 2019-04-21T06:31:11 | http://america.aljazeera.com/blogs/scrutineer/2014/7/14/fukushima-the-icewallcometh.html |
0.999961 | Why is this drug prescribed: Erythromycin is an antibiotic used to treat many kinds of infections, including: Acute pelvic inflammatory disease Gonorrhea Intestinal parasitic infections Legionnaires' disease Listeriosis Pinkeye Rectal infections Reproductive tract infections Skin infections Syphilis Upper and lower respiratory tract infections Urinary tract infections Whooping cough Erythromycin is also prescribed to prevent rheumatic fever in people who are allergic to penicillin and sulfa drugs. It is prescribed before colorectal surgery to prevent infection.
Most important fact about this drug: Erythromycin, like any other antibiotic, works best when there is a constant amount of drug in the blood. To help keep the drug amount constant, it is important not to miss any doses. Also, it is advisable to take the doses at evenly spaced times around the clock.
How should you take this medication: Some forms of erythromycin are most effective when taken on an empty stomach. Your doctor may advise you to take each dose at least 1/2 hour and preferably 2 hours before meals. Delayed release formulations may be taken with or without food. If the drug upsets your stomach, taking it with meals may help. Ask your doctor whether this is advisable for you. Chewable forms of erythromycin should be crushed or chewed before being swallowed. Delayed-release brands and tablets and capsules that are coated to slow their breakdown should be swallowed whole. Do not crush or break. If you are not sure about the form of erythromycin you are taking, ask your pharmacist. The liquid should be shaken well before each use. --If you miss a dose... Take it as soon as you remember. If it is almost time for your next dose, and you take 2 doses a day, space the missed dose and the next dose 5 to 6 hours apart; if you take 3 or more doses a day, space the missed dose and the next one 2 to 4 hours apart. Never take 2 doses at the same time. --Storage instructions... The liquid form of erythromycin should be kept in the refrigerator; use E.E.S. within 10 days. Do not freeze. Store tablets and capsules at room temperature in a tightly closed container.
Why should this drug not be prescribed: You should not use erythromycin if you have ever had an allergic reaction to it or are sensitive to it.
Special warnings about this medication: If you have ever had liver disease, consult your doctor before taking erythromycin. If a new infection (called superinfection) develops, talk to your doctor. You may need to be treated with a different antibiotic. This drug may cause a severe form of intestinal inflammation. If you develop diarrhea, contact your doctor immediately. If you have myasthenia gravis (muscle weakness), it can be aggravated by erythromycin. When erythromycin is used to treat syphilis in pregnant women, it does not prevent the disease from infecting their babies. The infants should be treated after birth with penicillin. Prolonged or repeated use of erythromycin may result in the growth of bacteria or fungi that do not respond to this medication and can cause a second infection.
Special information if you are pregnant or breastfeeding: There is no evidence that erythromycin will harm a developing baby, but the possibility has not been completely ruled out. If you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant, inform your doctor immediately. Erythromycin appears in breast milk and could affect a nursing infant. If this medication is essential to your health, your doctor may advise you to discontinue breastfeeding until your treatment is finished.
Recommended dosage: Dosage instructions are determined by the type (and severity) of infection being treated and may vary slightly for different brands of erythromycin. The following are recommended dosages for PCE, one of the most commonly prescribed brands. ADULTS: Streptococcal Infections The usual dose is 333 milligrams every 8 hours, or 500 milligrams every 12 hours. Depending on the severity of the infection, the dose may be increased to a total of 4 grams a day. However, when the daily dosage is larger than 1 gram, twice-a-day doses are not recommended, and the drug should be taken more often in smaller doses. To treat streptococcal infections of the upper respiratory tract (tonsillitis or strep throat), erythromycin should be taken for at least 10 days. To prevent repeated infections in people who have had rheumatic fever, the usual dosage is 250 milligrams twice a day. Urinary Tract Infections Due to Chlamydia Trachomatis During Pregnancy The usual dosage is 500 milligrams of erythromycin orally 4 times a day or 666 milligrams every 8 hours on an empty stomach for at least 7 days. For women who cannot tolerate this regimen, a decreased dose of 500 milligrams every 12 hours or 333 milligrams every 8 hours a day should be used for at least 14 days. For Those with Uncomplicated Urinary, Reproductive Tract, or Rectal Infections Caused by Chlamydia Trachomatis When Tetracycline Cannot Be Taken The usual oral dosage is 500 milligrams of erythromycin 4 times a day or 666 milligrams every 8 hours for at least 7 days. For Those with Nongonococcal Urethral Infections When Tetracycline Cannot Be Taken The usual dosage is 500 milligrams of erythromycin by mouth 4 times a day or 666 milligrams orally every 8 hours for at least 7 days. Acute Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Caused by Neisseria Gonorrhoeae The usual treatment is three days of intravenous erythromycin followed by 500 milligrams orally every 12 hours or 333 milligrams orally every 8 hours for 7 days. Syphilis The usual dosage is 30 to 40 grams divided into smaller doses over a period of 10 to 15 days. Intestinal Infections The usual dosage is 500 milligrams every 12 hours, or 333 milligrams every 8 hours, for 10 to 14 days. Legionnaires' Disease The usual dosage ranges from 1 to 4 grams daily, divided into smaller doses. CHILDREN: Age, weight, and severity of the infection determine the correct dosage. The usual dosage is from 30 to 50 milligrams daily for each 2.2 pounds of body weight, divided into equal doses for 10 to 14 days. For pneumonia in infants due to chlamydia, treatment lasts at least 3 weeks. For more severe infections, this dosage may be doubled, but it should not exceed 4 grams per day. Children weighing over 44 pounds should follow the recommended adult dose schedule. For prevention of bacterial endocarditis, the children's dosage is 10 milligrams per 2.2 pounds of body weight 2 hours before dental work or surgery, followed by 5 milligrams per 2.2 pounds 6 hours later. | 2019-04-26T09:53:06 | http://medcatalog.net/tablets/erythromycin-oral.html |
0.999694 | Bob Bryan addresses the shot at hand, while Mike Bryan looks on during their finals match against Raven Klaasen and Leander Paes Sunday at the Delray Beach Open..
Donald Young in Sunday's final at the Delray Beach Open.
DELRAY BEACH — Two questions faced American Donald Young as he took on Ivo Karlovic of Croatia in Sunday's singles final of the Delray Beach Open by the Venetian.
Could he break Karlovic's serve, what no one had done all week, and could he hold his own?
In short, the answer two both questions was no.
For the fifth time in the tournament, Karlovic boomed his powerful serve past his opponent without surrendering the advantage. He collected 13 aces to break the tournament record for the week at 92. He held the previous record, 89, set in 2010. In the final game, his serves exceeded 140 mph. Twice.
"That's what he does," Young said. "He's a server. You've got to focus on your own serve, and I didn't do a great job. I didn't get into a rhythm."
At one point in the second set, Young had three break points but couldn't convert. He had break point in the final game but Karlovic responded with three straight aces, 142 mph, 138 mph, 142 mph. And it was over.
"He played well, to be honest. He beat me," Young said.
It wasn't just Karlovic's serve. He plays a serve-and-volley style, charging the net after smashing the ball at his opponent. At 6-foot-11, Karlovic is an intimidating presence and that helped disrupt Young as it had his other opponents during the week.
Karlovic, who lives in Plantation, said he had confidence in his serve throughout the match. When faced with break point, he tried to remain focus.
"On a few occasions, I was lucky," Karlovic said. "It isn't easy being down love-40, but I believed I could do it."
Throughout the tournament, Karlovic had played night matches. The final was his first daytime start, and the wind at the Delray Beach Tennis Center tends to be more of a factor. Karlovic double-faulted a number of times. "But I was able to get out of it.
"It is unbelievable," Karlovic said. "It's really great. Also at my age, it gives me a boost of confidence."
Karlovic turns 36 on Saturday. He is the oldest player to win an ATP tournament since Jimmy Conners did it at 37 in 1989.
The doubles final, played earlier in the afternoon, was exactly what would be expected when the top two seeds compete. Americans Mike and Bob Bryan beat Raven Klaasen of the Republic of South Africa and Leander Paes of India 3-6, 6-3(4). Paes afterwards called the Bryans the "greatest doubles time of all time."
It was the 42nd time that the brothers had played a doubles match against Paes. It was the 29th time that they've won.
"We knew it was going to be tough, playing that guy," Mike Bryan said. "Raven is an up-and-coming star who's going to have a long, great career. It feels good to win our first tournament in 2015."
It was the 155th career finals for the Bryans, and the 104th win and their third in Delray Beach.
NOTES: Karlovic earned $84,250 for winning the tournament. Young took home $44,370. It was Karlovic's sixth career title, the first since 2013 when he won in Bogata. Perhaps not by coincidence, he didn't lose service in that tournament. He is now 6-8 in finals; Young is 0-2. The Bryans' payday was $26,980; Klaasen and Paes earned $14,180.
NOT QUITE ENOUGH ... Leander Paes pounces at the net to score against the Bryan Brothers in the doubles final at the Delray Beach Open. Paes and partner Raven Klaasen, however, came up short, losing in a tiebreaker, 3-6, 6-3(6). | 2019-04-25T00:26:04 | http://www.pbbusiness.com/delray-beach-finals-02-22-15.html |
0.999607 | How do I check the amount of images that I can take and the quality mode setting?
(1) Use "Image quality control abnormal detection counter Y to K display/0 clearing (08-573 to 576)"to check the abnormal occurring condition for each color.
and C, and under 220 for K are defined as low-density pattern abnormality.
pattern is abnormal. If the value is 630 or above, it is defined as high-density pattern abnormality.
quality closed-loop control / Laser power (08-557)" to "0" (Invalid).
(5) Perform "Enforced performing of image quality open-loop control (05-394)".
(6) Output the image quality control test pattern (04-270) more than one time and check the patch of the color identified in step (3) to see if the image is abnormal.
(7) Replace the image quality sensor.
quality closed-loop control / Laser power (08-557)" to "1" (Valid).
(10) Clear all "Image quality control abnormal detection counter Y to K display/0 clearing (08-573 to 576).
2. Press Right/Left button to select the Image Size mode.
3. Press the Up/Down button to select the desired image size.
4. Press the Menu button to confirm, save and exit to standby mode.
If this still doesn't work, press the menu button twice.
yes, first change the paper setting button to normal, then you can lower the image quality on copies.
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0.999991 | The word cliché can have a negative connotation — it can mean trite, shopworn, or empty. But clichés are important in daily life. If every word we spoke had to be creative and original, we'd run out of energy much earlier in the day, and we'd misinterpret each other even more often than we do.
Still, clichés do have a dark side. The more hurtful of them can become so familiar that we use them too frequently, because we forget how much they can sting. Here's Part II of my little collection of hurtful clichés. See "Hurtful Clichés: I," Point Lookout for July 13, 2005, for more.
Also: Are we clear? or, Clear?
Heard as: A command to say "Yes sir" or "Yes ma'm," as appropriate.
This is a question that really isn't a question. It's a threat. Threats have no place at work.
Heard as: What he has done is of no value.
This is an attack not only on the work that was done, but also on the wisdom of its author for having chosen to do that work. Raising questions about something so basic demeans the person as well, and erodes relationships.
Heard as: You think (incorrectly) that something is wrong.
Without actually conceding that there's a problem, the speaker is inquiring about the nature of the difficulty. Any progress begins with honoring your partner's perspective. Until your partner feels understood, you have little chance of moving forward.
Heard as: You're either stupid, or naïve, or maybe both.
take careHere the speaker uses a variant of the Straw Man rhetorical fallacy (see "Decision-Making and the Straw Man," Point Lookout for February 11, 2004) to ridicule the listeners' responses to what they heard.
Ridicule is toxic. There's no good way to gauge the gullibility of others, and it's usually irrelevant.
Can I make my point by asking myself a question and then answering it? Yes, absolutely.
Heard as: I can handle both sides of this conversation — your puny little mind is totally extraneous.
Some experience this technique as patronizing in the extreme. Although the arrogance of this approach is evident, it also sends a subtler message that the speaker is unwilling to permit the listener to frame the question.
Be direct. For instance, convert this: "Can we see the end? Not yet, but we're turning the corner," to this: "We can't yet see the end, but we're turning the corner."
Heard as: I'm so prescient that I anticipated your obvious point. And your point, though obvious, is insignificant.
Dismissing the intellect or contributions of your partner undermines the chance of achieving fruitful collaboration.
Better to address the point directly, without the commentary.
We sometimes use clichés as a means of achieving indirectness; indeed, that's one reason why phrases become clichés. For more on indirectness see "The True Costs of Indirectness," Point Lookout for November 29, 2006.
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0.9987 | There is a saying that goes like this. "Men fall in love faster than women and their feelings cool down faster." Is this true? According to a U.S. study on the subject, more than 80 percent of the respondents said they think it is true, although it did not apply to everyone. But there are also people who fall in love quickly, and yet don’t cool down easily. “Can a man put everything down for love and focus on only one woman?” Let's find out how many sacrifices this man (the hero of the movie, played by Woo-Yeon) made for his loved one (the heroine of the movie, played by Seung-Hee) in the movie On Your Wedding Day.
In the movie, Woo-Yeon gives up everything he has and his life for Seung-Hee. First, he learns boxing to get revenge on Tae-Gi and his gang and avenge those who they in high school. In their junior year, he finally takes revenge on each one of them. However, because he promised to Seung-Hee not to use his fists, he never strikes them again, even if they hit or humiliated him for no reason. So, he gave up his revenge for love.
Second, Woo-Yeon enters a university that Seung-Hee goes only to be with her. He studies day and night to go to the university she wants to go to. After a year of studying to death, he enters the physical education department of the university. A man who was far from studying succeeds in entering college with the sincere hope and heart that he should meet the woman he likes.
Third, Woo-Yeon’s shoulder gets injured in the process of protecting Seung-Hee. When construction equipment fell from the roof of the building where Seung-hui was, Woo-Yeon without hesitating for a second, jumped in to save her. He did this despite the risk that he might seriously injure his shoulder, something so important for being successful as a physical education teacher. He is willing to sacrifice his own body and his dream to save Seung-Hee.
Many people wish to meet someone like Woo-Yeon who can give up or sacrifice everything for his partner when dating. People tend to check how much love they receive from their partners through the others’ actions. At some point, people may get used to the mindset that ‘my partner will always take my side’. This can be dangerous because they may think of this acting as their ‘right’ rather than love or special care. If this situation continues, the other party will be tired of dating no matter how big the feeling of love is. They would be exhausted even if they really love you. Also, they regret what they sacrificed or gave up for you in the past. In ‘On Your Wedding Day’, Seung-Hee’s happiness was Woo-Yeon’s happiness, but in the meantime, I think, 'if he had put his own happiness before Seung-Hee's happiness, he could have been even happier,'. Even at this moment, a person who feels compassion for someone, would sacrifice for his or her happiness. This is because they believe that the happiness of the other person is also of their own. If what I have said is hard to understand, think about it through the movie On Your Wedding Day. | 2019-04-24T20:16:17 | http://gachonherald.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=731 |
0.956306 | Note: If you want to add multiple lines, simply add rows below your data and ensure that all of the series plotted on the first vertical axis have a slight gap (less than the gap of the YTD figure plotted on the secondary axis). how to build a mechanical clock There are instances when there are data series plotted on both the primary and secondary axes. For example, suppose we want to plot the two series A and B in Figure 1, with the elements in column B as the x-axis values. The A series will be a column cart on the primary axis and the B series will be a line chart on the secondary axis.
Note: If you want to add multiple lines, simply add rows below your data and ensure that all of the series plotted on the first vertical axis have a slight gap (less than the gap of the YTD figure plotted on the secondary axis).
When the Chart values vary widely from data series to data series, or when you have mixed types of data (for example, units and volume), you can plot one or more data series on a secondary vertical (value) axis. | 2019-04-25T00:38:44 | http://tomatosherpa.com/south-australia/how-to-add-a-second-vertical-axis-excel-graph.php |
0.999999 | In order for this story to make any sense, you need to know two pieces of exposition.
Expository Bit #1: In 1981, nineteen year-old Timothy Hutton won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his performance in Ordinary People. Anyone who has seen the film can clearly understand why. It was a phenomenal performance, however nothing could possibly match Timothy’s acceptance speech. Sadly, a few scant months before the awards, Timothy’s father, actor Jim Hutton, died of liver cancer. Timothy dedicated his award to his father, amidst floods of tears. By the time he was finished, everyone in the audience was sobbing, too.
Expository Bit #2: In 1973, Jim Hutton made a low-budget horror flick called Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. It was a wonderful bit of Americana-gone-wrong. In the film, a young couple moves to an abandoned farmhouse which, for some reason, has a bricked-up fireplace in the living room. The scary old caretaker (why is there always a scary old caretaker?) warns the couple not to unbrick the fireplace.
Which the wife (Kim Darby) immediately does. What she doesn’t know is that living in the fireplace, beneath the bowels of the house, are terrifying little creatures that like to reach up through the fireplace, grab people, and drag them down to their lair. The only thing the creatures are afraid of is light, and of course once the wife smashes through the bricks, the power goes out and, well, you can imagine what happens.
The point is, I loved this movie as a child (of course, I also loved The Exorcist) and was very sad when Jim Hutton died because I’d never get a chance to tell him how much I enjoyed this schlocky horror film.
In my third year of repertory, I somehow got shanghaied into entering a competition in which veteran, professional actors would be paired with schmos like me to perform various scenes. It was kind of like the Pro-Am Golf Tournament, only without Bob Barker. By sheer luck of the draw, I was paired with Timothy Hutton, whom I had never met but always thought was a marvelous actor. The whole competition was called An Evening With Noel Coward.
Timothy and I talked at great lengths about what we’d like to perform. We finally decided on Blithe Spirit, with me as Ruth and Timothy as Charles. Surprisingly, we both got very into it and we were determined to win. (I especially had a gripe with a very serious rival actress who was doing Private Lives, and I was determined to beat her).
In the weeks of rehearsal that followed, I kept trying to tell Timothy that I had been a fan of his father’s, but it just didn’t seem to work itself into conversation. Finally, with only a few days to go, I decided to just come out with it.
I blinked. “There’s a VCR in the green room,” I said.
“What are you doing tomorrow night?” he asked, grinning enthusiastically.
And that’s how it happened. Twenty-four hours later, Timothy Hutton and I were sitting in the green room, eating very bad store-bought popcorn and watching Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark.
We both jumped nervously a number of times, and for the rest of the rehearsal period we kept sneaking up behind each other and doing the scary voices that the creatures did in the film. Then we’d collapse in laughter and no one knew what the hell was wrong with us.
As it turned out, Blithe Spirit wound up taking second place, but I was consoled by the fact that I did end up beating the girl I hated.
Timothy, of course, went on to a stellar career and I still get a friendly feeling every time I watch him. Occasionally I get the urge to contact him and see if he remembers me and our terrifying night in the green room.
Only, you know, he might think I was weird.
Next time: The legendary Larry.
All summer, I have been trying (unsuccessfully) to obtain a temp job in some office somewhere since I won't get paid by Very Serious University again until the end of September, and I want to avoid debtor’s prison. On Wednesday, they finally called.
It was a two-day job. It was at the local field office of a Very Important Federal Government Agency which I can’t be specific about or I’ll go to Levonworth. The job payed a ridiculous amount of money--way more than the agency usually pays. Immediately suspicious, I asked what exactly I was supposed to do over there.
It seemed that some brainiac in Homeland Security has invented a new kind of metal detector. The Unnamed Agency is considering buying them. Before they shell our tens of millions of our tax dollars, they naturally want to conduct expensive tests.
My job would consist of walking through the metal detectors. All day. Apparently several hundred times. I had no idea why they just don't use government employees for this.
I was then told that after I finished testing them "unarmed," they were going to tape a knife to my thigh and see if I could get through with it. Well, I thought, I sort of need to shave my legs anyway. No biggie.
But wait, it gets even weirder! After the whole knife experiment, they would then give me a gun. An actual gun. I was supposed to conceal the gun somewhere on my person and try to get it through. I sincerely hoped they wouldn’t strip search me.
And here's the big one! Once I was finished with the gun, they were actually going to strap a bomb on my chest. With actual explosives. However, I was told I don't have to worry because "government explosives and demolition experts will be standing by." Yeah, that makes me feel a lot better. Thanks, guys.
(You would not believe the number of government forms I had to sign for this. I'm assuming that they're waivers so my family can't sue the federal government if I get blown up.) I also didn’t know how they would be able to drag this out for 16 hours, although I was told that there's actually a four hour orientation on the first day. Four hours. To explain about walking through metal detectors.
The following morning, I showed up at the government offices at 8:00. I went into the Visitor's Center and told the woman behind the desk that I was here for the "metal detector experiment."
"Fill this out." She passed me a form. "You're not allowed to go any further until you fill it out."
For some reason, the form seemed to deal with information about my car. She then gave me a visitor's pass and sent me over to a group of strangers who were also clutching forms and looking very confused.
Eventually, a very nice woman named Heather came in and told us to "get on the van,” which would then drive all of us to “an undisclosed location.” All of us got on the van. The van took us to a very scary-looking domed building which was surrounded by a 25 foot chain-link fence with barbed wire at the top. The driver of the van opened his window and punched some numbers into a keypad. The doors opened ominously.
"Wow!" said the guy in back of me. "It's just like when I was in prison!"
There was a woman named Lucille waiting for us outside the building. She ushered us inside and took us into a conference room where, she said, we needed to see a brief safety film.
I assumed that the film was pretty basic…telling us where the exits were and how to use the fire extinguishers. That sort of thing.
But no. The film dealt almost exclusively with "what to do in the event of a nuclear emergency." Really. There was a brief moment about fire extinguishers at the end, but mostly it was about where the bunkers are. Yes--bunkers.
We filled out another form, which was a non-disclosure agreement. Basically, we swore that we would never tell anyone what the results of the experiment were. Apparently, it's okay to talk about the experiment itself, though. (And, in case you’re wondering if it’s legal to blog about this, I showed the agreement to a lawyer friend and he said it was no problem.) Lucille collected the forms and shepherded us down the hall, then outside into a parking lot--apparently we were now going to "the lab."
For some reason, the entire paved lot was cluttered with lots and lots of suitcases, some of which were open and had clothes inside. There were literally hundreds of them. I asked, "what's all the luggage for?"
"It's not real luggage," said Lucille, in a low whisper.
Apparently, the engineers who work at that specific site are contracted to do extensive tests on luggage. I have no idea what the tests are or where the test luggage originally came from. It was bizarre.
"Don't worry. This isn't harmful. I've been scanned hundreds of times, and so far there's no brain damage." Thank you, Ted.
Bob got up. Bob talked exclusively about how proud we should be, and telling us that we're serving our country, and that we're fighting terrorism together. It was very inspiring. Lucille came back and told us that the next day the women are supposed to wear a one-piece bathing suit, a t-shirt, a button-down shirt over that, and sweat pants and bedroom slippers. The bathing suit is (and this is verbatim) "in order to protect us from the duct tape."
She then asked, enthusiastically, "do you want to see the machine?"
Of course we did. We all trooped out behind her down the hall to the lab. It doesn't look that scary, actually. It looks like a tollboth. Ted demonstrated it for us. He walked into it, planted his feet on a strip of tape, and held up his hands in the air like he was being held hostage. He stayed that way for 6 seconds, then told us we had to practice it.
Day Two started out exactly like Day One: Go to the Visitor's Center, fill out (more) forms, wait with my group, get on the van and drive to the "undisclosed location." We signed in (again) and got badges and waited in the hall. Finally, Heather lead us across the parking lot. We made our way through all the mysterious luggage again and ended up being herded into (yet another) conference room where we were briefed and introduced to the representatives from the electronics company that had actually built the scanners. We then had another pep talk by Bob and Ted about how important we were to their research.
We were all given lists of what weapons we would be given for each scan (each of us had about fifteen scans scheduled) and where on the body they needed to be placed. Reading it, I was extremely glad I had (1) shaved my legs, and (2) worn nice underwear. We were all given numbers, since they didn't appear to be interested in our names.
--Knives. Lots of knives. Steak knives, switchblades, folding knives, assassins blades, scaling knives, cleavers, choppers, dicers, and an axe.
We were also given a lot of inert objects like Chap stick, a pack of gum, mouthwash, and Tic-Tacs. We were told it was so they could test to see if the scanner was able to distinguish non-lethal items from weapons of approximately the same dimensions.
It was an impressive setup. We had to walk along a designated path to various stations. First we had to go to a table to get our weapons and to have our paper checked by the woman there. We then went into the dressing room with someone who helped us rig the weapons up to our bodies. Then we progressed into the actual scanner, which was being operated by a nice guy named Dan. Dan would yell out our number A guy who was hidden behind a wall would then yell; "Good scan!" and we'd go back to the dressing room, divest ourselves of the weapons, return them to the table where they were checked back in, and go back to the end of the line to do it all over again.
You'd think that with such precise planning everything would run smoothly. But no...after five minutes, things degenerated into what always arises when engineers attempt to interact with non-engineers; total chaos. People were wandering around the lab, deadly objects hanging off their bodies. The scanner kept malfunctioning. Dan kept pressing the button, frantically.
I was having problems of my own. My very long hair kept getting caught in the duct tape and I kept saying "Ow! Hair!" as the woman dressing me fretted. Also, I learned that removing duct tape from bare skin really, really hurts.
Then came an awful moment when one member of my group, who was obese, literally couldn't fit inside the scanner. We had to wait until the engineers dismantled it and re-configured it to accomodate him. Thoroughly freaked out by this point, Bob and Ted sent us all to lunch.
Because we were in a top-secret undisclosed location, we couldn't go to the cafeteria like normal people. We had been told to bring our lunch, so we chowed down in the conference room. Conversation was stilted since (1) we weren't allowed to talk about what we were doing, much like a sequestered jury, and (2) we already knew what we all did for a living--we were all temps. We gave up and read our books (good suggestion, Bob!) until one guy remembered he had a deck of cards.
We decided to play some poker, but of course we had all left our wallets at home (we were told not to bring them) and naturally no one had poker chips. Our problems were solved when one of the more personable engineers went to the warehouse and brought us back a box of five hundred rivets. We happily used them in lieu of chips and proceeded to play no limit hold 'em until Bob and Ted told us we were ready to go again.
Bob went on and on about how we made air travel safer for everyone and how much he appreciated us donating our time to the experiment. We didn't tell him that we were actually not really "donating" our time--that we were, in fact, being paid an obscene amount of money. In my case, I made more in two days than I do in a week as a professor.
Back in the van. Back to the Visitor's Center where they took my badges and where my car was.
I've thought a lot about it, and, weirdly, I really do feel like I helped make flying less dangerous. I was also sad, though, that we live in a world where an experiment like this is even necessary. | 2019-04-24T22:00:26 | http://beowulfgirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/ |
0.998427 | Rhinoplasty, more commonly known as a nose job, describes plastic surgery done on the nose. It can be reconstructive or functional, which means the surgery is done to correct an injury or defect. Common examples of reconstructive rhinoplasty include repairing a broken nose, removing nasal polyps, or straightening a deviated septum. Cosmetic or aesthetic rhinoplasty, on the other hand, is done to improve the appearance of the nose. The surgeon may reduce the size of the nose, remove a hump from the bridge of the nose, or make the tip less bulbous.
One rare complication is a hole in the septum, more formally known as nasal septal perforation. This complication, unfortunately, cannot always be repaired through more surgery.
The chances of something going wrong increase if the patient undergoes revision or secondary rhinoplasty to fix problems caused by a previous rhinoplasty. In a secondary rhinoplasty, the surgeon will be working on a nose that has already been damaged by the earlier operation. It may have less cartilage or bone for the surgeon to work with. There will also be more scarring, and the skin will be less elastic.
The ideal candidate for both functional and aesthetic rhinoplasty will be a healthy adult with realistic expectations. Teenagers can undergo the procedure, but the surgeon will make certain that their nose has stopped growing first.
Smokers need to stop smoking at least two weeks before the procedure, and they need to remain tobacco-free for at least two more weeks after the surgery. Smoking slows healing and increases the risks of complications like reactions to the anesthesia, infection and skin death.
Conditions like diabetes, heart disease, lung disease, arthritis, hypertension and high cholesterol all increase the risk of complications.
How Can a Patient Reduce the Likelihood of Complications?
There are two main ways a rhinoplasty patient can reduce the chances of complications: improve their own health and pick the right surgeon.
The patient should examine and improve their diet several weeks before the surgery. Good nutrition will also promote healing. The surgeon may recommend supplements like Vitamin C or Vitamin A. The patient should also avoid certain supplements like Vitamin E, gingko or ginseng, for they can increase the risk of complications. Similarly, the patient should avoid taking certain medications like blood-thinners or aspirin. They should discuss any medications they take with their surgeon in case they need a safer alternative.
The patient should check to make certain that their doctor has been certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgeons. Such certification indicates that the surgeon follows safety protocols and has kept up with the latest advances in technology and techniques. The patient should also choose a surgeon who specializes in reshaping faces and has a lot of experience.
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0.999966 | Who was this radical black woman? The more I learned, the more I was drawn to [this] black feminist who fought against multiple forms of discrimination.
I was also fascinated by the broad range of her actions, stretching from the legal defense of Black Power organizers H. Rap Brown and Assata Shakur to the struggle to legalize abortion. Kennedy stood at the center of so many battles, yet I had never heard of her, and there was not a single book or even a scholarly article about her life.
What started as a hobby of collecting information about this enigmatic black woman developed into... a full-scale biography."
Florynce "Flo" Kennedy (1916-2000) was a radical lawyer who played a pivotal role in both the the feminist and black liberation movements. In fact, she was also a very vocal proponent of equal rights for gays, the disabled and many other minority groups. For, central to her philosophy was the notion that the underclasses were substantially oppressed because of the establishment's effective employment of a divide and conquer strategy designed to keep them forever at odds instead of united against the forces exploiting them.
In an expletive-laced speech delivered on a college campus in 1976, the irrepressible iconoclast reportedly bellowed, "My main message is that we have a pathologically, institutionally racist, sexist, classist society. And that [N-word]-izing techniques that are used don't only damage black people, but they also damage women, gay people, ex-prison inmates, prostitutes, children, old people, handicapped people, Native Americans. And that if we can begin to analyze the pathology of oppression... we would learn a lot about how to deal with it."
A visionary way ahead of her time, Flo frequently found herself frustrated by the behavior of her compatriots. For example, she was disappointed by the failure of white feminists to support Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm's 1972 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Today, thanks to Sherie Randolph, the legacy of this overlooked historical figure has not been allowed to slip through the cracks. Flo's critical contributions are carefully chronicled in this painstakingly-researched biography which begins with a detailed discussion of her childhood in Kansas City where she and her four sisters were taught by her parents to always challenge authority.
Despite segregation, Flo never would accept her second-class status, a mindset which served her well in a fight to gain admission to Columbia University Law School way back in the Forties. After graduating, rather than cashing in on the license to print money, she embarked upon an enduring career dedicated to alleviating the suffering of the downtrodden and marginalized.
A fitting, overdue tribute to an unapologetic firebrand and tireless advocate that time almost forgot.
Too often are black feminists not acknowledged for their input into mainstream feminism. Yet Florynce "Flo" Kennedy's story is rich and interesting and should not be missed. If you are interested at all in the history (and subsequently the future) of feminism, pick up this book. | 2019-04-25T00:01:58 | http://www.kamwilliams.com/2015/09/florynce-flo-kennedy-book-review.html |
0.998549 | 1. In some manner or degree; in part; partly; usually followed by with.
- What with singing and joking, the time passed quickly.
4. (now rare) Used to introduce each of two coordinate phrases or concepts; both…and.
1. Which; which kind of.
- What shirt are you going to wear?
- What kind of car is that?
2. How much; how great (used in an exclamation).
- What talent he has!
1. An expression of surprise or disbelief.
2. Response that confirms that the user is paying attention (usually said unhappily).
3. (Britain, colloquial, dated) Is that not true?
1. (obsolete) Something; thing; stuff.
1. (interrogative) Which thing, event, circumstance, etc.: used interrogatively in asking for the specification of an identity, quantity, quality, etc.
2. (relative, nonstandard) That; which.
3. (relative) That which; those that; the thing that. | 2019-04-23T16:56:40 | http://wordrequest.com/word-definition/?word=what |
0.999983 | Did Jews Edit the Bible?
About 100 years ago (late 1800's and early 1900's) a common conclusion among Christian apologists was that Jews had edited the bible in order to remove Christological passages and in general to undermine Christian theology in the Old Testament. This claim was made due to advancements in Christian apology which admitted that many of the quotes made by New Testament authors (such as Paul or Matthew) had no foundation in the Jewish scriptures. The apologists concluded then that the Jews must have altered the old testament Hebrew so as to claim that the Christian texts were in error. Of course, this claim ignores the second possibility (that the Christians were the ones who altered the Hebrew). Luckily it is an easy matter to get to the bottom of this controversy once and for all.
The idea seems to make plausible sense at first glance; after all, would the writers of the New Testament really commit such a grave and grievous error? Would they really write something which was so obviously untrue? It would almost serve to undermine their case for Christianity. For if they were proven to be liars then obviously they would be false prophets. Therefore the claim is made that when the New Testament was originally written, the Old Testament would have read similar or exactly as written in the New Testament.
As this argument is made today it will usually hinge on the use of a translation such as the the Septuagint or the KJV. For example, Daniel 9:24-27 in the King James Version is well-known to be a remarkably poor translation; but (some) KJV-only enthusiasts (may) insist that it holds the original meaning and that (perhaps) sometime between now and 1611 the Hebrew scriptures had been altered. Even in cases where an alteration is not alleged, some people erroneously believe that the KJV is an inspired translation (see: Is the KJV inspired). Then (if the KJV was inspired, as the theory goes), the KJV could be granted ecumenical authority to alter doctrine as found in the Old Testament. This is only to admit that if and only if such a translation was authentic, preserved, or inspired, could it provide reasonable grounds for making the claim that the Hebrew scriptures had been altered instead.
It's unlikely for quite a number of reasons. First you will note that this was framed as a question often asked 100+ years ago. The reason why people stopped asking this question is because of the Dead Sea scrolls. All Christian scholars today admit that the Jewish scriptures we have today are virtually identical (99.9%+) to the text found in the Dead Sea scrolls – they have simply not been altered. Neither prior to, nor after the lifetimes of Herod, Jesus or Paul, or since then. Needless to say these texts all also concur with the Leningrad Codex and the Aleppo Codex. So we know in a very strong way now that the Jews have never added to or removed anything from the Bible.
Jews from different communities all over the world all agree on the contents of the Torah (Old Testament) without exception; the same Torah is used by all Jews all over the world.
For example Jews in Yemen use the same Torah as Jews in America.
Thus if the Torah was changed, it would have had to have been the greatest conspiracy of all time, involving hundreds of millions of Jews. This is very unlikely.
Scribes are taught a variety of methods to avoid error when copying the Torah. A proper Torah must be copied according to Jewish Law or it is not considered fit for use.
All the known errors are recorded and passed down, taught to scribes, so if any new errors were found that were not on the list, they would be detected.
The Torah is written forty-two lines to a column and the exact number of characters per line, per book and per Torah is known and counted while copying. This makes errors of omission or addition instantly recognizable; the layout of the entire Torah would change.
The discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls shows that the Masoretic texts (c. 1000AD) are virtually identical to the texts used prior to the birth of Jesus.
There are a small number of spelling errors made in the Dead Sea scrolls, and in no place is any doctrinal difference effected.
The spelling and grammatical errors and sloppy writing show these scrolls were not produced by professional scribes and may have been for personal or instructional use.
Later research suggests that the Qumran area was used to dispose of writings which were not considered fit for use (either too old, or improperly copied) which would explain why a large number of scroll fragments in otherwise good condition apart from a few spelling mistakes would be found there.
In fact, most Christian apologists don't bother with this topic anymore because of the Dead Sea scrolls and the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language in Israel. To change this one would have to bring a significant amount of new evidence to the table. I don't think that is possible at this stage.
Further, it seems dangerous for the Christian to raise such an issue because it inevitably leads to a discussion on how the New Testament has corrupted the word of God, a statement which seems to have no easy response. | 2019-04-21T02:44:00 | http://www.noachide.ca/wiki/did_jews_edit_the_bible |
0.999022 | How to Generate SSH Key?
Step 1: Login to the cPanel that you want to connect to using SSH.
Step 2: Under Security click SSH Access.
Step 3: Click the Manage SSH Keys button, then click in the field labeled Generate a new Key.
Step 4: Type in a strong password, then click in the field below it and type the password again.
Step 5: Click the Generate Key button, then you will see a Key Generation Complete! message. Click the Go Back button.
Step 6: On the next screen click Manage Authorization.
Step 1: Download and install PuTTYgen.
Step 2: Login to the cPanel that you want to connect to using SSH.
Step 3: Under Security click SSH/Shell Access.
Step 4: Click the Manage SSH Keys button.
Step 5: Under Private Keys click View/Download next to the Private key you want to use.
Step 6: On the next screen click the Download Key button.
Step 7: Open puttygen, and click the Load button.
Step 8: Click the PuTTY Private Key Files(*.ppk) drop-down menu, annd change it to All Files(*.*). Then, select the id_dsa file you just downloaded, and click the Open button.
Step 9: A box will pop-up asking for your Passphrase. Enter the password for your key, and click OK.
Step 10: You will see a message stating “Successfully imported foreign key,” click the OK button.
Step 11: Now click the Save private key button to download your private key file.
Step 1: Download and Open Putty, under Connection click SSH, then Auth.
Step 2: Click Browse under Private key file for authentication, then select the private key you downloaded in the last section, and click Open.
Step 4: For the Host Name, enter your domain name, or shared IP address,then click the Open button to connect. If you see a PuTTY Security Alert, click Yes.
Step 5: You will see “Login As”. Please enter your cPanel username and then hit Enter.
Step 6: Then, enter the password for your key file and hit enter. For security reasons, PuTTY will not show anything when you type your password, this is normal. You will then be logged into your account via SSH. | 2019-04-21T12:31:11 | https://www.2cohost.com/how-to-enable-ssh-access-in-cpanel-with-public-and-private-keys/ |
0.999697 | To build that employ strategic questioning by managing: 1- Scope: How broad is your questioning? Nonetheless, it took me longer to get through it than most books. Marcelino I found that this information is very powerful. Yet, credibility is a prerequisite so open-ended questions are better for expanding questions and not for establishing them. Asking allows control since prospects are often reluctant to share bad news. This, so far, is inexact as no two sales are identical and different processes will have to be followed, but having a parameter and methodology is a necessity.
The trouble is you can get someone offside by how you say something or your mannerisms. With this hands-on guide, you will learn to: Penetrate more accounts Overcome customer skepticism Establish more credibility sooner Generate more return calls Motivate different types of buyers Develop more internal champions Close more sales. Selling is a process; but sales processes are no longer linear. Freese is forthcoming in this regard. But consumer behavior and sales techniques change as rapidly as technology—and there are countless contradictory sales training programs promising results. This gives rise to the concept of Buying Facilitation which is a topic I will be covering soon on this website.
Unquestionably, the concept of asking and asking and finding better ways of asking is sound and reasonable in sales. This is an interesting proposition. Or , I think San Diego is nicer. People mismatch because they are insecure and sellers must stop facilitating such responses. This principle makes sense because in order to present solutions, you must first uncover a need.
I wish you the best! Rohrer, director of sales, Hewlett Packard For nearly fifteen years, The Secrets of Question Based Selling has been helping great salespeople live you deliver big results. After all, a salesperson does not initially have a relationship with the buyer. Now fully revised and updated, The Secrets of Question Based Selling provides a step-by-step, easy-to-follow program that focuses specifically on sales effectiveness—identifying the strategies and techniques that will increase your probability of success. As such, the salesperson needs to take charge of the sales process by asking questions. This last part is partially like bonus material. He writes about people being motivated in different ways and how you can help a prospect recognize their needs. Sarcasm aside, and not to dwell too much, what is the book like? Reduce risk by 1- asking more questions and making less statements, 2- be more credible diagnostic questioning conveys expertise and familiarity , 3 — make them curious, 4- ask, ask, ask and 5- Get into Momentum Selling.
Perhaps this marks the beginning of a new journey for you as well; as a student of the question-based sale. As I say in the homepage to this website, it's debatable whether these old sales paradigms still work. Some people might be considering both aspects. Register a Free 1 month Trial Account. People respond in a contrarian fashion.
This is where a process of mutual discovery works, one that turns prospects into informed buyers. This seems inaccurate — unless there are many courses out there that have not crossed my path — yet the premise that questions uncover needs, standing, establish credibility and gain internal champions is spot-on. They are better described as tips or perhaps factoids. Based on a questioning approach, of course. Questions that narrow your focus and entice customers to engage in conversation.
Thomas believes that by asking more questions and making fewer statements you minimize the chances of rejection and mismatching. Freese notes that some parts are more important than others and need a larger emphasis. The real game in sales is changing latent needs to active needs without needs the best salesperson is out of luck. It's commonsense approach has become a classic, must-have tool that demonstrates how asking the right questions at the right time accurately identifies your customer's needs. I am not going to let the cat out of the bag by telling you all the secrets mentioned in the Secrets of Question Based Selling.
How you sell has become more important than the product. They also suffer from information overload. How you sell has become more important than the product. It's commonsense approach has become a classic, must-have tool that demonstrates how asking the right questions at the right time accurately identifies your customer's needs. But consumer behavior and sales techniques change as rapidly as technology-and there are countless contradictory sales training programs promising results. The saving grace is that unlike so many others he actually has a few things to offer. I have been seeling for 25 years and have almost always followed a question based approach.
Testimonials Hi Greg, I am forever grateful for your mission of helping salespeople around the globe to raise the bar of service in this profession through your free articles and sharing of experiences even offering to sales coach. In Secrets of Question Based Selling Freese introduces Conversational Layering as a way to build effective business relationships. Rohrer, director of sales, Hewlett Packard For nearly fifteen years, The Secrets of Question Based Selling has been helping great salespeople live you deliver big results. Prospects have less time…yet decision makers are receiving more sales calls than ever before…Buyers are better educated than ever before thanks to the Internet. The Secrets of Question Based Selling What are They? Freese suggests asking a specific question and then delving into a series of diagnostic question. Identifying more needs also gives you more opportunities to provide value. | 2019-04-22T20:09:53 | http://getu.com/secrets-of-question-based-selling-freese-thomas.html |
0.999976 | Lincoln Police say persons of interest in the Sydney Loofe case - Aubrey Trail and Bailey Boswell - may also be linked to a series of crimes across the country.
They're believed to have passed bad checks and swindled antique dealers and auction houses from the central plains to the east coast.
Under the alias of "Allan," Aubrey Trail claimed to own a business called A&B Antiques.
As recently as June, police in Utah sent out a bulletin regarding Trail and Boswell and a theft at a coin shop.
They've also been linked to similar crimes in Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Iowa. Now - Lincoln police are asking anyone with information about these crimes to come forward.
Aubrey Trail has an extensive wrap sheet of forgery related crimes - leaving behind a trail of victims across the country - one of which is in Percival, Iowa at Finders Keepers Antique Mall.
"He was pleasant to me. He seemed friendly," said Alicia Chrastil, owner of Finders Keepers Antique Mall.
On a warm Sunday in July, a man claiming to be in the antique business wrote a check for an set of sterling silver flatware at Finders Keepers Antique mall. Seven years would pass before the man who bounced that check - Aubrey Trail - would become a person of interest in the murder of Sydney Loofe.
"He's your conman. He is a conman extraordinaire. If there one thing Aubrey Trail knows, is that's how to lie, said Chrastil.
Alicia Chrastil, owner of the antique mall, spoke with Trail that July day in 2010. She says he visited the shop several times, building up a friendly repertoire, before writing a fraudulent check for nearly $2,700 that couldn't be cashed.
"I remember when I got that check I just felt - right after he left - I knew. I kind of had a feeling in the pit of my stomach like something doesn't add up with this guy," said Chrastil. "That's why I called the bank on Monday morning because I normally wouldn't have done that for a check."
Chrastil pressed charges but law enforcement didn't catch up with Aubrey Trail until a year later in Arkansas where he was running a similar scam.
Iowa court records show he took a plea deal related to the Percival case in November 2010 and was sentenced to five years for second degree theft.
"His last name Trail is very fitting because he leaves a trail of victims wherever he goes," said Chrastil.
Chrastil says she's frustrated that she was never notified when Trail was released from prison, adding that his alleged pattern of crime around the country, is no surprise.
"I don't know why he's able to continue to do this. I don't know why they just don't lock him up for good," said Chrastil.
Aubrey Trail was ordered to pay restitution for the bounced check. She says he's only paid a few hundred dollars of the thousands he owes. She received the most recent check from Trail in February 2017.
Note (Dec. 12, 2017): A previous version of this story said that Loofe had been murdered, however no charges connected to her death have been filed against anyone. | 2019-04-25T08:42:29 | https://www.3newsnow.com/news/local-news/iowa-antique-store-targeted-by-person-of-interest-in-sydney-loofe-case |
0.999427 | What is my grade on a quiz or major exam if I do not make it up before we take the next major exam?
What two fifteenth century inventions made books more widely available?
Martin Luther was an obscure German theology professor.
Henry VIII's break with the Catholic Church occurred because he wanted to marry Anne Boleyn and have a son.
What is the beautiful French Palace built by King Louis XIV?
Which monarch (king or queen) tried successfully to bring back Catholicism to England?
____ and John Calvin were the two leaders of the Protestant Reformation.
the Puritan leader of an army fighting the king.
Who succeeded Cardinal Richelieu as minister to the French King?
He was the king of France that issued the Edict of Nantes tolerating the Huguenots.
The term describing the French Protestants.
The political and religious opposition to Charles I of England led to the execution of Oliver Cromwell by the king.
Brutal Spanish leader sent to the Netherlands to put down the rebellion.
Ornate, elaborate architectural style used in Catholic churches that celebrates the supernatural.
resulted in the murder of thousands of Huguenots across France.
He was the first astronomer to use the telescope to look at the sky.
Astronomer that built an observatory to take precise measurements and collect data.
French playwright that wrote comedy that satirized the aristocracy.
Who succeeded (came after) Cardinal Richelieu as minister to the French King?
This is the term which refers to the substitution of William and Mary for King James II on the British throne.
Puritan member of the English Parliament.
He was known as the "Sun King"
Dramatic writer that first wrote a collection of "Essais"
The first Russian ruler to use the title Tsar.
His book "On the Revolution of Heavenly Bodies" installed a revolution in astronomy.
maintained that the planets followed elliptical orbits.
The two main leaders of the Protestant Reformation were Martin Luther and ____.
Russian leader that made Russia great by involving it more in European affairs.
How did Louis XIV view the Edict of Nantes?
During the exploration period, England became the wealthiest and most powerful nation on earth.
The Protestants made up approximately 60% of France's population.
Drama was the most important art form in the second half of the sixteenth (16th) century.
The instrument of the Government is the first and only written constitution in British history.
at comic con this year, famous cartoonist chris ware gave a speech that talked about art in the past, and where comics will be headed in the future. this is an example of a(n) ______________. | 2019-04-25T16:52:26 | https://www.studyblue.com/notes/note/n/final-exam/deck/16768157 |
0.999233 | Pyeongchang: Switzerland's Michelle Gisin consigned American Mikaela Shiffrin to silver after storming to victory in the Olympic women's alpine combined on Thursday.
Shiffrin, who won the giant slalom gold in Pyeongchang but could only finish fourth in her favoured slalom, was almost a second back, while another Swiss racer, Wendy Holdener, took bronze at 1.44sec.
Lindsey Vonn, leader in the downhill, failed to finish the slalom.
The race had been touted as a rare showdown between the past and future of women's alpine skiing, but Gisin proved to be the fly in the ointment in the battle between Vonn and Shiffrin.
The combined, the last individual ski racing event of the 2018 Winter Games, was their only head-to-head matchup in South Korea.
Shiffrin skipped the downhill after the combined was brought forward a day and Vonn, battling back from a raft of injuries, missed the technical events to focus on the super-G and downhill.
The pair rarely compete against each other on the World Cup circuit because of their preferred specialities, but there was a definite feeling that the baton has been passed, not only in the US team but also globally.
The 33-year-old Vonn, who has the most World Cup victories by a female skier (81), is closing in on Ingemar Stenmark's record of 86 World Cup wins and has vowed to ski on until she breaks that mark.
Shiffrin, 22, has already racked up 41 World Cup victories. Given her age and depending on her staying injury-free, she could realistically target not only that record but also many more Olympic and world championship medals.
But the Swiss team was having none of it, the 24-year-old Gisin following with aplomb her elder sister Dominique's tracks — she won joint downhill gold with Tina Maze in Sochi.
First up for the Swiss, however, was defending world combined champion Wendy Holdener, 10th fastest after the downhill, who laid down an electric slalom run of 40.21sec to lead with 2:22.34.
Shiffrin took to the start gate with a 0.76sec advantage over Holdener, who won silver in the Pyeongchang slalom and world combined silver last year, and the American could be seen chewing her lips in stress as she readied herself.
Despite losing some time midway through the course, Shiffrin powered through to the bottom to take first place, 0.47sec ahead of Holdener.
But then came Holdener's team-mate Gisin, who ripped down a near-faultless run to leapfrog Shiffrin by almost a second.
Norway's Ragnhild Mowinckel, second fastest in the downhill and seeking a third medal of these Games after giant slalom and downhill silvers, faded as she laboured down the polished Jeongseon course under floodlights.
Vonn won downhill bronze on Wednesday. But there was to be no fairytale send-off for the American, who struggled from the offset and only lasted a couple of gates before skiing out. | 2019-04-22T21:55:04 | https://www.firstpost.com/sports/winter-olympics-2018-michelle-gisin-pips-mikaela-shiffrin-to-gold-in-alpine-combined-as-lindsey-vonn-fails-to-finish-in-slalom-4362189.html |
0.999108 | Can ribose help fibromyalgia? In case you don't know, ribose is a sugar. We make ribose naturally and it helps us make energy and form our genetic materials, DNA and RNA. Over the last several years, ribose has been marketed as a treatment for fibromyalgia. I first reviewed ribose in my book on supplements a few years ago (I was one of the first, if I do say so myself), but because of a question from my friend Teresa Giordano, a personal trainer in Maryland, I thought I’d take a fresh look at ribose and see if anything has changed. I admit, while I do have some questions, I am intrigued with the idea that ribose might help fibromyalgia. That said, what I want to do here is review the research so you make your own decision.
There is research on ribose and fibromyalgia. As far as I can tell the idea that ribose helps fibromyalgia symptoms became popular in 2004 when an interesting case study of a doctor with fibromyalgia was published in the journal Pharmacotherapy. After having only limited success with physical therapy and pain meds, she started using Ribose.
Why this doctor started taking ribose is unknown because up to this time, ribose was mostly marketed as a heart health supplement.
The brand used was [easyazon_link keywords=”Corvalen Ribose” locale=”US” tag=”mscscs-20″]Corvalen Ribose.[/easyazon_link] She took 5 grams of ribose twice a day (10 grams total per day). After 2 weeks, she started to notice better sleep and mental alertness and a decrease in joint pain and more normal bowel movements.
After another 6 weeks of using ribose, she reported major improvements in her symptoms.
Here is where things get interesting. A month later, the doctor decided to stop using ribose to see what would happen. Within 1 week, her fibromyalgia symptoms started to reappear. She then started Corvalen brand of ribose taking again (10 grams a day) and within 2 weeks her fibromyalgia symptoms started to get better again.
Then, after 30 days, she once again stopped taking ribose. Her fibromyalgia symptoms reappeared once again. When she again started taking ribose, her symptoms subsided. As far as we know she is still taking the Corvalen ribose supplement and her symptoms are gone.
This seems to be the most interesting evidence to date for the idea that ribose helps fibromyalgia symptoms.
I was intrigued with this case study because the person was a doctor and she basically performed an experiment on herself to see if ribose was actually helping her fibromyalgia.
That said this is only a case study. Case studies usually only involve 1 person and usually get written up because a doctor notices something unique or out of the ordinary. I would have liked this better if if involved 100 people but even so, this finding is intriguing.
This case study was published in 2004. It would be nice to know if this doctor is still taking the Corvalen ribose supplement and if it’s still keeping her free from fibromyalgia symptoms. Unfortunately she was never identified in the case report (the people in case reports are usually anonymous ).
In 2006 a ribose fibromyalgia treatment study was published in the Journal of Alternative and Complimentary Medicine. This study consisted of 41 people with fibromyalgia and /or chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
Of the 41, 36 people finished the study. Most of the participants were women. The people in the study were given 5 grams of ribose 3 times a day (15 grams of ribose total per day). Each person was given a container that had 280 grams of ribose and a questionnaire to complete so that they could report to the researchers how they felt after taking ribose. The supplement used in this study was [easyazon_link keywords=”Corvalen ribose” locale=”US” tag=”mscscs-20″]Corvalen ribose[/easyazon_link].
Since people were taking 15 grams of ribose per day, technically the study should have only lasted about 19 days (280 ÷ 15 = about 19 days) but on average it took people about 25 days to finish the ribose.
At the end of the study, 23 out of the 35 people (65.7%) reported that ribose helped them feel better according to the questionnaires they returned to the researchers.
The people’s responses ranged from “somewhat better” to “much better”. The researchers report that ribose caused a “significant improvement” in energy, sleep;, mental clarity;, pain intensity and well-being as well as an improvement in patients' global assessment” (how they felt overall).
A problem of this study was that it was technically a pilot study. A pilot study is basically a preliminary investigation that’s used to determine if something is worth researching further. As I write these words, it doesn't appear that the researchers have published any other studies. Why? Another issue with this study is that there was no placebo group.
I also found a little typo in the study. At one point they say the average length of ribose use was 25 days but later they say it was 28 days. It’s a minor error and no study is “perfect” but it does make me wonder if there are any other problems.
Also, of the 3 investigators in this study, one was a Valen Labs consultant and the other was an employee of Valen Labs. Valen Labs is the maker of Corvalen, the ribose supplement used in this study . The chief investigator appears to have no connection to Valen labs and donated his compensation to charity. This is all clearly stated at the end of the study.
As I write these words, the case study the pilot study seem to be the only evidence that ribose helps fibromyalgia.
A study published in 2012 also noted that Corvalen ribose helped people who had chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). This study involved 253 people with chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. People were given 5 grams of Corvalen ribose per day for 3 weeks.
The researchers reported that ribose produced significant improvements in energy, mental clarity, sleep quality and overall well being.
This is an interesting study but one problem is that it was an open label study and had no placebo group. An open label study means that the researchers knew who was getting the treatment (in this case, ribose). While these studies have merit they are not as good as a blinded study, where the researchers do not know who is getting the treatment.
The idea is that if you knew who was getting the treatment (ribose) you might subconsciously treat those people differently or let your own feelings influence the outcomes.
Ribose and Fibromyalgia: How Does It Work?
I haven’t seen a good explanation of how ribose helps fibromyalgia. On the website of the company that makes Corvalen ribose they say it “helps your body make adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the energy currency of the cell”.
Ribose does help us make ATP, our main energy molecule. There is some research on ATP and fibromyalgia. For example, one review noted that elevated ATP may be linked to fibromyalgia pain. Conversely, another study found that those with fibromyalgia had lower ATP levels inside blood platelets. Still others think magnesium is linked to fibromyalgia.
The bottom line is that nobody knows what causes fibromyalgia.
What Type of Ribose Helps Fibromyalgia?
So far, the published evidence seems strongest for a brand called Corvalen. Corvalen labs LLC is a subsidiary of the parent company Bioenergy Inc. Since they have the proof, this is what I would go with if I had fibromyalgia.
2. A study that had no placebo group – which was also sponsored by the makers of Corvalen ribose.
Even so, this gives Corvalen ribose bragging rights over other ribose supplements. Still, I still wonder why Bioenergy Inc has not done any further research on Corvalen and fibromyalgia. Their last – and only – study was in 2006. What’s up with that?
Will Other Ribose Supplements Work?
There are [easyazon_link cloaking=”default” keywords=”Ribose” localization=”yes” locale=”US” nofollow=”default” new_window=”default” tag=”sgtextlink-20″]many ribose supplements on the market[/easyazon_link]. Would these other brands be as effective as Corvalen ribose? Its possible but I don’t know because I can’t find any head to head comparisons between Corvalen ribose and these other ribose products.
This is a problem on the part of the scientific community. There is a big need for more ribose fibromyalgia research in general.
If you are searching for a ribose supplement, you may see ribose called Ribose or you may also see it labeled “D Ribose”. These all mean the same thing.
The “D” stands for dextrorotatory which is fancy chemistry talk and means that the ribose is “right handed”.
CorvalenM ribose is another version of the original Corvalen supplement. The difference is that CorvalenM has some magnesium. Currently there is no good proof that CorvalenM is any better for fibromyglgia than the original Corvalen.
Both of the lines of evidence I summarized above used regular Corvalen and not CorvalenM. I'd start with regular Corvalen first before experimenting with CorvalenM.
Here is a link for those who are interested.
How Much Ribose Helps Fibromyalgia?
If we take the research at face value, it appears 10-15 grams per day seems to be optimal for helping fibromyalgia pain. Personally I think it’s wise to start with less than this for the first few days to see how you feel and then slowly increase until you get to 10-15 grams. At this point, there is no good proof that people need more than 15 grams of ribose per day to help fibromyalgia.
Because ribose is a sugar, it's pretty safe in healthy people. In theory, ribose may promote a rise in insulin which might cause hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). It might also interact with diabetes medications.
There is some intriguing very preliminary evidence that ribose might help fibromyalgia in some people. The Corvalen brand of ribose is the type that currently has all the evidence but that doesn't mean other types wouldn't work just as well. I have personally met some people who said ribose helped and others who said it didn't. I am intrigued by what I've seen so far and wish somebody would do better studies than currently exists. If ribose helped you – or didn't – I hope you will leave a comment below so others can benefit from what happened to you. [easyazon_link cloaking=”default” keywords=”Corvalen” localization=”yes” locale=”US” nofollow=”default” new_window=”default” tag=”sgtextlink-20″] Corvalen brand of ribose[/easyazon_link] to see what others are saying.
Thanks Pam, I hope it helps you. keep us posted.
Hi Joe, I was diagnosed with Sjogren’s Syndrome 5 years ago which causes chronic fatigue, then a year later diagnosed with fibromyalgia. My Rheumatologist has never suggested any supplements to the prescription I am taking so I’ve done a lot of research and added supplements on my own. I just read about D-Ribose last week and ordered it immediately. I do take Nucigil which helps keep me awake all day, but am hoping D-Ribose will help with energy. I’ll check back with you to let you know how I’m doing.
Hi Debi, yes please let us know D-ribose works out for you. I’ll look forwarding to hearing what happens.
I was diagnosed with chronic fatigue a year ago (not fibro) and have been researching to find out what has been discovered about what helps. My main symptoms are muscle exhaustion after even short amounts of exercise, fogged head and overall malaise. I came upon this research (see http://www.meassociation.org.uk/2012/07/research-multi-centre-trial-treatment-of-cfs-and-fibromyalgia-with-d-ribose-4-july-2012/) and began using D-ribose.
The brand I went for was Solgar as they have a proven track record of producing only high quality supplements. Within days, I felt as though I had more energy – both mental and physical than I’ve had in a year! Over the month I’ve been taking it, this has maintained (I take 2 teaspoons morning and lunch).
Given that D-Ribose is an expensive product, I tried cheaper brands (DN) and really noticed a drop in effect within hours. To conclude: D-ribose is not a magical cure, but, for me, has significantly relieved some very disabling symptoms.
Hi Kate, thanks so much for sharing that study. I have updated my review to include it. I’m also glad to hear that the Solgar brand of Ribose is helping you. Corvalen sometimes seems to get a lot of the attention but I’ve met people who have had benefits with other brands.
I am really interested in trying this, but also anxious because sugar is actually a trigger for my fibro. When you ribose is basically sugar it sounds like it would actually make symptoms worse. Cleaning up my diet has helped me considerably, but I’ve been in a lot of pain lately and the brain fog is coming back. Anyone that has used diet to manage symptoms try this? Thanks.
Hi Lisa, Ribose is a different type of sugar than glucose or sugar in foods. while I don’t believe ribose will raise your blood sugar levels, why don’t you try asking your pharmacist. While I am still intrigued by the research, I do wish there was more out there. Some people with fibro have told me it helped and others said it didn’t.
I recently purchased the JARROW formulas D-Ribose. One tablet contains 1g of d-ribose 1g sugar and 1g carbohydrates. The directions say to take 1-6 I think big difference. I haven’t started, because I can’t figure out how much to take.
I’ve always had a weak stomach and now even more with fibromyalgia. That’s why I got chewable tablets, I figure it will b resolved before it enters my stomach 🙂 irk if that would make a difference. But any ways I will see how it goes.
Hi Palmira, you are right that IS a big range to take! For things you have not taken before, I often recommend starting at the least dose possible for the first week and then slowly increasing it. For this, it would be 1g.
Interesting post. I have just started a d ribose trial for chronic fatigue (not cfs).
am surprised to read how little this has been researched especially considering the amount of positive comments from fibromyalgia/cfs sufferers. The lack of placebo control in that 41 patient study is a little suspicious. Just makes me think that the company who did the research don’t feel the need to do a full study – either because it’s unnecessary for them to keep the money coming in or because they may get found out.
On the other hand all the possible sufferers who say ribose has changed their life seems hard to ignore – so where are the independent studies? It’s an expensive supplement so if it does work for cfs/fibromyalgia patients then there would be a moral duty to make it available on prescription which would make it much cheaper for people due to demand.
I will try the ribose for 2-3 weeks and post back results from my perspective. Just to clarify I have long term chronic fatigue (5 years) and depression but have not been diagnosed with either fibromyalgia or cfs.
Hi paul, I agree I wish there were more studies on ribose. I hope it does help you and will look forward to learning how it worked in a few weeks.
I have been taking Ribose for the last week and have not had any fibro pain, and that has made me less drained of energy. I haven’t found it helps me sleep any better yet. I missed a dose yesterday morning and couldn’t get home until my 2nd dose was scheduled. The pain started up in the evening and returned tonight. It proved to me, like the case study, that its working. I know after a few more days of consistency i will be feeling better again. To anyone with fibro….you have to give it a try, i wish i would have heard of it sooner.
Crystal, really happy ribose is helping you.
Joe, thanks for putting this info together. I took one dose of 2 grams D Ribose at around 6pm. Noticed nothing, but a few hours later I was unable to sleep, jittery, and when I did get to sleep, had night sweats. I had bought the pills at Whole Foods and they were very nice about taking them back and refunding my money.
Ellen, thanks for the feedback. I am glad Whole Foods gave you your money back. While I usually would not recommend taking any new supplement close to bed time, has anyone else noticed ribose kept them awake at night?
Jacqueline, just a heads up that when you search for a detox, the people should tell you what you are actually ridding your body of. If you don’t know what substances you are detoxing, then you wont know if it actually worked or not.
I had never heard of ribose even though I have had fibro for years, and thought I was “keeping up” on all the latest info.
I watched a neurologist who was diagnosed with fibromyalgia on Dr Oz and I ordered Ribose from Vitacost that same day.
It arrived today and I took my first “dose.” Shortly after, I noticed a very faint, slight head-ache which I was aware could happen. I also noticed an increase in energy, comparable to 2-3 cups of strong coffee.
I will continue this journey and report back in a week or two.
Gail, keep me posted on how you are doing with it.
Sorry, its been awhile since I’ve checked in. I stayed on the Ribose for about a year. It seemed to really help my energy levels and decrease my extreme fatigue, for awhile. I noticed that these effects started to diminish over time and I did eventually stop taking it.
Gail, thanks for the follow up. That’s so interesting how its effects seemed to go away after awhile. I will ask around to see if anyone else had similar experiences.
My fibro has been debilitating, especially through the changing seasons the last few weeks. I just discovered ribose last week. After reading a few articles I decided to order the ribose from Swanson Vitamins. I’ve only been taking it for a few days so I can’t testify to the long haul, but the improvement has been dramatic. My brain fog and fatigue are gone.
I’ve been sleeping much better, and I didn’t wake up stiff and exhausted. I’ve been able to do my normal exercise routine without crashing in exhaustion afterwards. I read in an article to start with 5 grams 3x day for 2-3 weeks and then move to 2x day. So I’m still taking 3x a day right now. I am really hoping this will continue to help, I really want to get my life back!
Checking back in- after about 4 months I was nearly pain free. I actually forgot to take it every day. Since then, I once went two weeks without and started getting stiff and pain again- realized I hadn’t been taking the Ribose and got back on it daily.
Now I have been able to exercise with just the normal muscle soreness and it has been fantastic. But I do know that if I increase activity, I require more Ribose in my routine. Is there any evidence that one can eventually no longer need to take it?
I had gastric bypass surgery any 2 years ago. The doctors said it would help w the fibro pain. I was fat but no where near the people you see on the shows. In fact most pool said” why you are not even that big ” when I told them I was having it done. My only reason for having it done was to help w my fibro pain. I was assured by the dr it would help.
Well instead it did the exact opposite. I am in 150 percent worse pain. I did lose 130 lbs. I kept it off but I felt so much better heavy. So weight loss does not always help fibro pain.
Jenn, I dont see why you cant take ribose but since you are limited to what you can eat at one time, you’ll probably have to take less than most people. I dont want you to use ribose at the expense of the nutrients you need. Until your email I’d never heard of weight loss surgery to help with fibromyalgia but a quick check online and there are those who say its helped. Sorry it didn’t help you – and that it made your fibromyalgia worse.
BTW congrats on maintaining your 130 pound weight loss. That is quite an achievement for anyone.
Sally, I have never heard of people gaining weigh with ribose so I dont think that will be a problem. Start with less than is recommended for the first week, just to see if there any side effects. I dont think there will be. Ive experimented with ribose myself and dont notice anything out of the ordinary. If it helps your./your sons fibro I hope you will let me know. I really want this post to be able to help people find answers about whether ribose might help them or not.
Five grams of ribose contains about 20 calories. Taking a 15g/day dose would mean an extra 60 calories per day. This is unlikely to cause significant weight gain by itself.
Sadie, that is a good point. Thanks for sharing that.
My fancy doctor put me on Corvalen, as well as some other stuff, and I have to say, my energy levels have improved and my pain has decreased in all but my worst spot. Still have some lingering aphasia, but I feel pretty clear headed most of the time. I’ve been on the Corvalen about 2 months, and expect to continue to improve.
I like the taste of the powder in water, which tells me this is something my body WANTS. I also get a Myers cocktail every few weeks, which is mainly magnesium with some Bs and C. I notice my feet don’t hurt when I get that regularly.
Thanks for covering this issue and supplement!
Wow, this is good info. I have had fibromyalgia for over 20 years and have tried most prescription meds and supplements available. My son told me about the D-ribose. I have only been taking it for two days and am looking forward to some positive results. I was diagnosed at about age 35 and am now 59. It has gotten progressively worse and the prescriptions only made me gain weight.
i am glad I found your information because I was only taking it once per day and now I know I need more. Thanks.
Deborah, thanks I am glad you found me and I really do hope ribose helps your fibromyalgia. I hope you will keep me posted on what happens. I’m really curious.
Thank you for this discussion. In the past I did have a significant case of fibromyalgia and somehow managed to resolve it (I’m not sure exactly how) after it ran for about 6 years. Of course I am concerned that someday, it might return.
R walker, Ive heard that eventually fibromyalgia seems to get better. how long “eventually” is I don’t know. I can imagine the emotional burden of wondering if you might get it back again. Im not an expert on if you might get it again (ask a rheumatologist to be sure) but I feel that if you stay healthy -including dealing well with emotional stress and getting enough sleep – that the odds are low. Speak to your doctor about this. At the very least, this might help you reduce your stress over this.
I use Puritan’s Pride D-Ribose capsules (powders aren’t practical for me) for fibromyalgia. Each capsule is 850mg. I take 3 capsules most mornings (after experimenting to find the smallest amount I still felt a moderate improvement from, due to budget constraints), and add 1, 2, or 3 more on some days when I expect to need an extra boost.
The effects for me are a clear consistent increase in alertness, energy, and exertion capacity. | 2019-04-25T20:48:17 | https://supplementclarity.com/ribose-fibromyalgia-corvalen-review/comment-page-2/ |
0.998484 | D.E. Fact sheet from O.S.U.
What are some products that contain diatomaceous earth?
Products containing diatomaceous earth are most commonly dusts. Other formulations include wettable powders and pressurized liquids. Currently, there are over 150 products registered for use inside and outside of buildings, farms, gardens, and pet kennels. Some products can also be used directly on dogs and cats. Diatomaceous earth products are registered for use against bed bugs, cockroaches, crickets, fleas, ticks, spiders, and many other pests.
There are thousands of non-pesticide products that contain diatomaceous earth. These include skin care products, toothpastes, foods, beverages, medicines, rubbers, paints, and water filters. The Food & Drug Administration lists diatomaceous earth as "Generally Recognized as Safe". "Food grade" diatomaceous earth products are purified. They may be used as anticaking materials in feed, or as clarifiers for wine and beer.
Diatomaceous earth is not poisonous; it does not have to be eaten in order to be effective. Diatomaceous earth causes insects to dry out and die by absorbing the oils and fats from the cuticle of the insect's exoskeleton. Its sharp edges are abrasive, speeding up the process. It remains effective as long as it is kept dry and undisturbed.
How might I be exposed to diatomaceous earth?
People can be exposed to diatomaceous earth if they breathe in the dust, eat it, get it on their skin, or get it in their eyes. For example, when applying the dust or when entering a treated area before the dust has settled. Exposures can also occur if products are accessible to children or pets. Exposure can be limited by reading and following label directions.
What are some signs and symptoms from a brief exposure to diatomaceous earth?
If breathed in, diatomaceous earth can irritate the nose and nasal passages. If an extremely large amount is inhaled, people may cough and have shortness of breath. On skin, it can cause irritation and dryness. Diatomaceous earth may also irritate the eyes, due to its abrasive nature. Any dust, including silica, can be irritating to the eyes.
What happens to diatomaceous earth when it enters the body?
When diatomaceous earth is eaten, very little is absorbed into the body. The remaining portion is rapidly excreted. Small amounts of silica are normally present in all body tissues, and it is normal to find silicon dioxide in urine. In one study, people ate a few grams of diatomaceous earth. The amount of silicon dioxide in their urine was unchanged.
After inhalation of amorphous diatomaceous earth, it is rapidly eliminated from lung tissue. However, crystalline diatomaceous earth is much smaller, and it may accumulate in lung tissue and lymph nodes. Very low levels of crystalline diatomaceous earth may be found in pesticide products.
Is diatomaceous earth likely to contribute to the development of cancer?
When mice were forced to breathe diatomaceous earth for one hour each day for a year, there was an increase in lung cancers. When rats were fed silica at a high dose for two years, there was no increase in cancer development.
Most diatomaceous earth is made of amorphous silicon dioxide. However, it can contain very low levels of crystalline silicon dioxide. Amorphous diatomaceous earth has not been associated with any cancers in people.
Has anyone studied non-cancer effects from long-term exposure to diatomaceous earth?
In a rabbit study, researchers found no health effects after applying diatomaceous earth to the rabbits' skin five times per week for three weeks. In a rat study, researchers fed rats high doses of diatomaceous earth for six months. They found no reproductive or developmental effects. In another rat study, the only effect was more rapid weight gain. That study involved 90 days of feeding rats with a diet made of 5% diatomaceous earth.
When guinea pigs were forced to breathe air containing diatomaceous earth for 2 years, there was slightly more connective tissue in their lungs. When researchers checked before the 2-year mark, no effects were found.
A very small amount of crystalline diatomaceous earth may be found in pesticide products. Long-term inhalation of the crystalline form is associated with silicosis, chronic bronchitis, and other respiratory problems. The bulk of diatomaceous earth is amorphous, not crystalline. The amorphous form is only associated with mild, reversible lung inflammation.
Are children more sensitive to diatomaceous earth than adults?
Children may be especially sensitive to pesticides compared to adults. However, there are currently no data to conclude that children have an increased sensitivity specifically to diatomaceous earth.
What happens to diatomaceous earth in the environment?
Silicon is a major component of diatomaceous earth. It is the second most abundant element in soils. It's a common component of rocks, sands, and clays. It is also abundant in plants and plays a role in their growth and development. Due to its chemical makeup, diatomaceous earth is not degraded by microbes or by sunlight. Also, it does not emit vapors or dissolve well in water.
The ocean contains vast amounts of diatomaceous earth. Many marine organisms use it to build their skeletons.
Can diatomaceous earth affect birds, fish, or other wildlife?
Diatomaceous earth is practically non-toxic to fish and aquatic invertebrates. It is commonly encountered by birds and other wildlife, and it's not known to be harmful. However, no toxicity evaluations for wildlife were found. Agencies have stated that diatomaceous earth is unlikely to affect birds, fish, or other wildlife in a harmful way.
Diatomaceous earth is made of silicon dioxide. When chickens were fed a diet that contained less silicon dioxide than normal, their bone formation was harmed. This suggests that silicon dioxide plays an important role in bone formation.
For more detailed information about diatomaceous earth please visit the list of referenced resources or call the National Pesticide Information Center, Monday - Friday, between 8:00am - 12:00pm Pacific Time (11:00am - 3:00pm Eastern Time) at 1-800-858-7378 or visit us on the web at http://npic.orst.edu. NPIC provides objective, science-based answers to questions about pesticides.
Please cite as: Bunch, T. R.; Bond, C.; Buhl, K.; Stone, D. 2013. Diatomaceous Earth General Fact Sheet; National Pesticide Information Center, Oregon State University Extension Services. http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/degen.html. | 2019-04-18T18:51:29 | http://rabbittalk.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=25909&view=unread |
0.999977 | I have a 5-year-old boy with a sternum that is to the right of centre.
There is an area of the ribcage to the right of the sternum that is not as smooth as the left hand side, and it protrudes more than the left side of the ribcage.
The result is that the whole ribcage is asymmetric.
His general health is good, what could be causing this?
I think what you are describing is asymmetrical development of the ribcage in an otherwise healthy 5-year-old child.
In your details, you say that you've noticed this in the last four to six weeks, but I suspect that has been occurring for much longer.
It is possible that the asymmetry is due to your child's spine having a painless curve in it (scoliosis) that has been getting progressively worse and is now showing in this way.
This might be due to an abnormality of the spine structure that he was born with, by uneven leg length or perhaps by certain other rarer conditions.
It is important that your child is examined by a doctor, who will be able to see what is going on much better than I can through a letter. Your child may also need an X-ray of his back.
Most cases of scoliosis can be treated with exercises aimed at strengthening back muscles and improving posture.
Sometimes treatment can involve wearing a back brace for some time. If his legs are of unequal length, a shoe lift for the shorter leg may be prescribed.
Only in severe cases is surgery required to correct the asymmetry. | 2019-04-24T22:34:48 | https://www.netdoctor.co.uk/ask-the-expert/pains/a2586/my-child-has-an-asymmetrical-rib-cage/ |
0.989834 | The scope of the Communications Data Bill needs to be significantly tightened up, a joint parliamentary committee has said, describing the draft legislation as 'overkill'. The deputy prime minister has also chimed in, calling for a 'fundamental rethink' over the proposed law.
The so-called 'snooper's charter' has run into serious trouble, with a parliamentary committee calling it 'overkill' and urging significant amendments, and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg also calling for a fundamental rethink.
The Communications Data Bill, laid before the UK Parliament in June , would give the home secretary powers to demand data about any person's communications, whether they be over mobile phones, email, Facebook or any other service — the bill supposedly refers only to data that can be supplied by ISPs and other telecoms operators, but the wording of the bill even takes into account postal services .
The bill calls for data about communications to be served up — timing, who contacted who and other details — rather than the contents of the communications themselves. However, it immediately ran into opposition from civil liberties groups, ISPs, MPs and the information commissioner .
Now the opposition is greater still. In its report on Tuesday, a joint committee set up to examine the bill said its scope needed narrowing, because the version put forward by the government would give the home secretary "carte blanche" to order any data she wants, with no meaningful safeguards.
"There needs to be some substantial rewriting of the bill before it is brought before Parliament as we feel that there is a case for legislation, but only if it strikes a better balance between the needs of law enforcement and other agencies and the right to privacy," committee chair Lord Blencathra said.
The deputy prime minister responded to the report by saying the coalition government "needs to have a fundamental rethink about this legislation".
"We cannot proceed with this bill and we have to go back to the drawing board," Clegg said. "We need to reflect properly on the criticisms that the committee have made, while also consulting much more widely with business and other interested groups."
The committee's main problem with the bill (PDF) was the wording of its first clause, which would allow the home secretary to demand any communications data. The second clause supposedly adds safeguards, but in reality it only requires the home secretary to consult with regulators before ordering the surrender of data — it does not give anyone the power to stop her.
Here, the committee said the home secretary should need parliamentary approval for any orders she issues.
However, this was not the only complaint. For one thing, the committee severely criticised the methodology behind the bill's justification: that 25 percent of communications data required by investigators is currently unavailable, due to new technology.
"We are of the strong view that the 25-percent data gap is an unhelpful and potentially misleading figure," the report read. "There has not been a 25-percent degradation in the overall quantity of communications data available; in fact quite the opposite."
"Technological advances and mass uptake of internet services since RIPA was passed in 2000, including social networking sites, means that there has been, and will continue to be, a huge increase in the overall amount of communications data which is generated and is potentially available to public authorities."
The committee also laid into the government's costing for the scheme. The estimate of £1.8bn over 10 years was "not robust", it said, because it was "prepared without consultation with the telecommunications industry on which they largely depend, and they project forward 10 years to a time where the communications landscape may be very different".
"Given successive governments' poor records of bringing IT projects in on budget, and the general lack of detail about how the powers under the bill will be used, there is a reasonable fear that this legislation will cost considerably more than the current estimates," the committee noted.
The committee also said a revised bill should have tighter definitions of types of communications data, as well as of the 'content' that cannot be requested. It also called for stricter limitations on which public authorities should have access to the data.
However, some civil liberties activists expressed dissatisfaction with the committee's acceptance of the bill's overall justification.
"The influential parliamentary committee describes Home Office evidence in numerous places as 'misleading' or 'fanciful and misleading', but its report accepts untested the motivating idea that the surveillance we already have is not too much, and not enough," No2ID said in a statement. "Large sections encourage the expansion of data-sharing.
"The core of the bill is a proposal to make access to more information about everyone's communications and internet use easier for a huge range of official purposes. By putting spy equipment into every significant communications loop, supervised not by a judge but by secret software, the ambition is to be able to collate a dossier on any citizen and his contacts at the push of a button." | 2019-04-24T12:11:06 | https://www.zdnet.com/article/lib-dems-challenge-snoopers-charter-over-claims-bill-must-be-substantially-rewritten/ |
0.998711 | Can My Dog Eat Spicy Food?
Since humans love to spice up foods, they may think their dog would appreciate a sprinkle of spice on his dinner too. But is it okay for a dog to eat spicy food? Is it okay to add a little Sriracha or chili powder on your dog's dinner? The answer is simply no. Sharing your food with pets, especially spicy foods, may cause more problems than you may realize. Spicy foods can be toxic for dogs and could cause stomach problems including pain, diarrhea, and gas. Spicy food can also cause excessive thirst, causing your dog to vomit.
Don't believe anyone who tells you that dogs can eat anything that humans eat, as there are several human foods that dogs absolutely shouldn't have. Dogs and humans may be similar in some ways, but the nutrients their bodies need and how they react to people food can be very different! For example, many people benefit from a diet filled with garlic and onions; however, dogs' red blood cells can actually be destroyed from the smallest amounts, including powdered forms of garlic or onions. So while humans may get a boost for their immune system or reduced inflammation, dogs that get garlic in their system could develop anemia.
The overall health of pets is important. Just like humans, the healthiest dogs eat well-balanced meals and get plenty of exercise. When pet parents start feeding their dog people food, they are often creating an imbalance with their dog's digestive system and overall wellness. This is especially dangerous with young dogs and puppies. One of the biggest dangers to feeding your dog or puppy human food is he may think all human food is up for grabs. Despite your best efforts to only feed your pup snacks on the "safe" human food list, chances are he won't see the difference and may be more likely to try to get into a variety of foods, any one of which could be deadly. This may be a habit that's difficult to break.
Another thing to consider is whether or not spice is something dogs will be able to actually taste. Unlike humans, dogs don't have 9,000 different taste buds. In fact, dogs have about 1,700 taste buds, and they are not nearly as sensitive to flavors as humans are, says the American Kennel Club. So, plain and simple, feeding dogs spicy food isn't worth it. They won't taste a difference, and it may upset their stomach and digestive tract. If you are looking to offer variety to your dog's diet, you do have options beyond human food. You can try different flavors of your dog's favorite food if possible, but generally speaking, dogs are perfectly happy eating the same food every day. Also, consider a dog's strong sense of smell. If you're ever got a whiff of cumin powder, you know how strong it can be. Now think about how much stronger your dog's sense of smell is than yours. Something that strong that can make your own eyes water can have an even larger impact on your dog.
Pet parents treat their dogs just like any other member of the family. However, when it comes to what they eat, keep your pup eating his own food, instead of putting his health at risk with human food and spices. | 2019-04-24T08:57:16 | https://www.hillspet.com/dog-care/nutrition-feeding/can-dogs-eat-spicy-food |
0.999989 | Researchers from the University of Sheffield's Department of Material Science and Engineering have shown that animals spin silk by pulling rather than pushing it out of their bodies. They suggest that if this process can be copied in an industrial setting, it could improve how synthetic materials are processed and offer more environmentally-friendly alternatives.
Conventional synthetic textiles are made by extrusion -- pushing a liquid feedstock through a dye and then using high changes in temperature and exposure to harsh chemicals to solidify. However, silk can solidify into a fibre at room temperature and leave only water - therefore causing less environmental damage.
Lead author Jamie Sparkes, a PhD student in the University of Sheffield's Natural Materials Group, said: "Silk is one of the most promising green biomaterials, and could be the perfect replacement for nylon and polyester based clothing.
"Traditional production process for silk is both arduous and time-consuming, but if we can bypass that by mimicking nature in an industrial setting, we could improve not only silk, but also how we process our synthetic materials."
Dr Chris Holland, Head of the Natural Materials Group, said: "While it is easy to assume that silk is propelled out of the body like we see in comic books, we wanted to put that to the test."
He added: "By combining computer models with experimental data and practical measurements, we determined the forces needed to squeeze unspun silk down the animals' silk gland and spin a fibre."
Jamie Sparkes added: "We found that to spin silk by extrusion (pushing), means a silkworm would have to squeeze itself hard enough to generate more pressure than a firing diesel engine.
"This isn't possible as the animal's body would be unable to contain that pressure. It seems that you can't squeeze silk like a tube of toothpaste."
However, by measuring the forces required to pull silk from the animal's body, the researchers found that it was well within the capability of the silkworm to pull a fibre, a process they refer to as pultrusion.
Dr Holland said: "If I gave you a piece of chewing gum and asked you to make me a fibre, you wouldn't push it through your teeth as it's too stiff. You'd grab one end and pull it out - and that's what the silkworm and spider do."
The research was conducted by the Natural Materials Group in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield. It has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 713475, and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council grant EP/K005693/1. | 2019-04-21T23:04:45 | https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-09/uos-pnp091817.php |
0.999852 | Part of the problem with innovating is that it is hard to measure your success. Many groups will work for a long time struggling to develop new ideas, refine them, and measure their likely success. For a long time, the team may feel as though it has not accomplished anything tangible. Indeed, from the standpoint of finished products, it is often difficult to tell the difference between a group that is appropriately focused on innovation and one that is just loafing.
That is why it can be hard to track the progress of innovation teams.
Rather than trying to measure the success of innovative outcomes, though, it is crucial to focus instead on whether the process being engaged. If teams working on innovation are doing the right kinds of activities, then it is important to trust that results will follow.
What is the group learning?
Innovation teams are trying to do something that has not been done before. That typically requires drawing knowledge from one area of expertise to another. In order for innovators to do that successfully, they must be expanding their base of knowledge continuously.
That means that it is important to evaluate teams on what new knowledge they are acquiring. How many articles from scientific journals have they read? How many books have they explored? How often have they engaged in conversations with other members of the company or outside subject matter experts to learn new things?
It is also important for the group's learning to be focused both on what is known about the problem being solved as well as on other areas that are not obviously related to the problem on the surface. Many innovative problems are solved by analogy, and so it is not always obvious where the key insight is going to come from.
In this vein, it is valuable to make sure that the group members diverge in their expertise. The more different branches of knowledge that team members develop, the more likely they are to find valuable nuggets that can provide new perspective on the problem.
Groups that continue to learn continue to be inspired by the new things they encounter.
How many ideas are being considered?
Studies of creativity make clear that quantity and quality are highly related in creative pursuits. The groups that come up with the best ideas tend to come up with the most ideas.
That means that you may not be able to evaluate whether any particular idea a group is working with is on the road to success, but you can assess how many ideas are being considered overall. Groups should report the ideas they are considering, even the half-baked ones that seem like non-starters. It is valuable to know that innovation teams are exploring the space of ideas as widely as possible.
To that end, when evaluating the ideas a team has developed, it can be useful to explore how diverse the ideas are. That is, when you look at those ideas, do they all seem to be variations on a common theme, or do they seem like distinct solutions to the problem. When a team is truly looking at the entire space of ideas, then the concepts they have examined should be distinct rather than clustering around a particular potential solution.
Is the market being evaluated?
Often, instructions for developing innovative ideas tell teams to ignore the constraints on the problem at first. And it certainly can be valuable to consider a few off-the-wall suggestions when working on a project.
At the same time, quite a bit of research suggests that the most creative ideas emerge as a result of the constraints on the problem. Human memory tends to gravitate back toward tried-and-true solutions to problems. Adding core constraints to the statement of the problem actually enhances creativity rather than hindering it.
A key source of the most important constraints on innovation problems comes from the market. What is the maximum price that people or firms are willing to pay for a particular solution? Are there types of solutions that people will not be comfortable with? What is the time frame for launching an innovation?
The answers to these questions often provide hard limitations on what viable options can be considered. In this way, teams are forced to find ways to adapt the ideas they generate to the realities of the world and marketplace.
To that end, a key element of innovation is doing regular evaluations of the market for the group's products and services, understanding customers' expectations and budgets, and keeping current with technical developments from other firms. In addition, groups should test new ideas against the market early on to get a sense of whether those ideas have any chance of succeeding if they are pushed forward in the development process.
Ultimately, teams that engage in these types of behaviors regularly are doing what is required to be successful at launching successful new ventures. Firms need to get in the habit of evaluating the process of innovation rather than its outcomes. | 2019-04-25T00:10:31 | https://www.inc.com/art-markman/there-are-3-key-performance-indicators-for-innovation.html |
0.999972 | John Hale appears at their doorway. However Elizabeth is a conservative woman who only lied once in order to save his husband in the court. It is a play about the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. McCarthy makes the crucible dramatic by creating dramatic actions which involves Abigail. When he does eventually tell the court of Abigail's intentions it is too late.
Playwright Arthur Miller wrote a play about the Salem Witch trials, and he was able to refer to the similarity of McCarthyism in America during the 1940 's and 1950 's. On page 28, Proctor says to Putnam,? Witchcraft plays a huge role throughout the book and if someone is being named a witch then that is a huge sin to Puritanism. This story was directed towards the topic of the witch trials of 1692 and how the people were effected by the deaths and horrific torture treatments. The character of John Proctor can also be linked closely Arthur Miller himself, both individuals stood up for what they believed in and got punished for doing so. The Crucible The Crucible by Arthur Miller is set in Salem, Massachusetts in a Puritan community. The negatives of mob mentality are usually caused by the failure of leadership and people letting themselves do whatever they feel like without thinking of the consequences. He had refused to enter a plea in order to prevent his land from being forfeited.
Feminism is described as the the advocacy of women 's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men. He grew up in New York to a Jewish family. I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! If the citizens admit to signing with the Devil, their lives will be spared. In this time period there were many people accusing others of. ? It is not surprising that the girls would find this type of lifestyle very constricting. This was a common reaction that many had when accused of witchery.
Being revengeful is another difference they have. A farmer in his mid-forties whose only priority at the beginning of the play was to maintain happiness. She promises nothing but asks to speak to him anyway. The play follows Abigail Williams on her journey of getting revenge on people while saving herself by accusing others of practicing witchcraft or working with the devil, causing horrible actions to occur. John Proctor's fear of loosing his good reputation enables him to give Abigail enough time to complete her revenge. The Crucible- Act Four Plot : The final act opens that fall in the Salem jail. Puritans believed in a strong connection between church and state.
This exploited the population's weakest qualities, and insecurities. They discuss how Parris has seemed rather unstable lately. Abaigail, I have fought here three long years to bend these stiff-necked people to me, and now, just now when some good respect is rising for me in the parish, you compromise my very character. Arthur Miller's play The Crucible is a social commentary on witch hunts in early America, as well as an Aristotelian tragedy. Once the accusations of witchery begin, fear and suspicion sweep the town like a wild fire. It Looking at the two historical events, we can see that hysteria was ever-present at the times in which they occurred. She seems to have made no mistakes in her passed life.
The darkness from the woods reveals the ominous events. When they were both put in a hard situation they both chose to tell the truth and die rather than lie and save their life. The play can be seen as a general statement on the effects that fear and fanaticism can have on human beings and how one person can cause such catastrophe. This insecure and cold spirit led to Johns affair with the house worker who was undoubtedly more confident and had a sexual appetite and appeal that intrigued John. The people of Salem went around pointing fingers at others to take the blame off of them that they could be witches. This occurred in the year of 1953.
Critics did what they do best by berating the new play. In the play there are three characters, Giles, Rebecca, and John all die at the end. The steady manner he displays does not spring from an untroubled soul. Thomas Putnam establishes conflict by vying for land with other characters. Miller demonstrates the horrifying results of succumbing to personal motives and flaws as he writes the painful story of the Salem witch trials. Not merely did John hold his ain guilt to postulate with.
Puritans believe that people were expected to work hard and express emotions and opinions. The characters seem so real and are developed very well. I am your third preacher in seven years. He was fined and given a suspended prison sentence. He is more concerned about the fate of his church than the well being Betty. Putnam displays a threatening tone towards Giles over land. The people really believed that Lucifer was roaming the streets of Salem seeking to destroy the town and seeking to destroy the institution of the church.
He also uses figurative language to exaggerate and put emphasis on things. Parris thinks that because he is a Revered, he has automatic power, but if anything were to interfere with his authority, it would cause a huge decline in his power leading to his reputation being ruined. Some of the key female characters that embody specific archetypes of women are Abigail, Mary Warren, Elizabeth, and Rebecca Nurse, and Miller uses these characters to convey both… 998 Words 4 Pages motivated by jealousy and spite. This inner struggle is clearly seen in the main character John Proctor. The events that led up to the Salem witch trails and McCarthyism was also similar. Unjust Justice Systems;A comparison of the West Memphis Three and The CrucibleImagine sitting at home one night and having police officers show up at your hose and arrest you for a crime you had no idea was committed. | 2019-04-20T00:14:59 | http://spitfirephoto.com/essay-on-the-crucible-by-arthur-miller.html |
0.9981 | In homologous transplantation or allotranplantation of limbs, the great tissue diversity causes variability in the rejection process and, consequently, its immunology is very complex. Thus, limb transplantation is the most used prototype of compound tissue transplantation among the protocols of experimental studies. Composite tissue allotransplantation represents the experimental model to study the homologous transplantation (from an individual to another) of vascularized, innervated musclecutaneous units, joints, bone or even the whole member. Groups of rats were undergone allogeneic hindlimb transplantation. The receptors were randomized and control groups were established as: Control Group A: Autograft controls (F344 rats had its limbs reimplanted) and no immunosuppressive therapy. Control Group B: Allograft controls (BN rats limbs were transplanted to F344). Composite tissue homotransplantation allows the inclusion of innervated muscle-cutaneous units, joint and bone or even the hole limb, is considerably applicable in cases of congenital absence or deformity, trauma or greater resection due to malignant tumor. For many complex deformities, these transplantations would allow a more precise reconstruction than the current reconstruction techniques.
Key words: Tissue transplantation. Limb homotransplantation. Allotransplantation. Microsurgery, method. Rejection.
Nos transplantes alógenos de membro a grande variabilidade de tecidos (pele, subcutâneo, músculo, osso, medula óssea, gânglios linfáticos, cartilagem, nervo, vasos, tendão, articulação) leva a grande variação dentro do processo de rejeição e consequentemente a sua imunologia é bastante complexa. Os transplantes alógenos de tecido composto representam o modelo experimental para se estudar o transplante homólogo (de um indivíduo para outro) de unidades músculo cutâneas inervadas, vascularizadas, articulações, osso ou mesmo de todo o membro. Os receptores foram randomizados e os grupos controle foram estabelecidos como: grupo controle A: transplante autógeno de membro em que ratos F344 tiveram o seu membro reimplantado e nenhuma medicação foi administrada e grupo controle B: transplante alógeno de membro (TAM) em que o membro dos ratos BN foi transplantado para os ratos F344 cujo membro havia sido amputado. Os transplantes homólogos de tecido composto (THTC) que possibilitam a inclusão de unidades músculo-cutâneas inervadas, articulação e osso ou mesmo de todo o membro, tem considerável aplicação nos casos de ausência ou deformidade congênita, trauma ou ressecção maior devido a tumor maligno. Para muitas deformidades complexas, estes THTC permitiriam uma reconstrução mais precisa do que as atuais técnicas reconstrutoras correntes.
The tissue transplantation are common practice in Plastic Surgery and the development of this specialty is based on breaking through biological obstacles that limit the accomplishment of transplantation from a human being to another.
During the last decades, organ transplantation has been object of intense research and there has been a continuous clinical and experimental progress in transplantation of many different organs.
Transplantation immunology of solid organs is relatively simple due to little variability in the process of rejection among the cell types of an organ and the rejection process is more homogeneous throughout the transplantation. In homologous transplantation or allotranplantation of limbs, the great tissue diversity causes variability in the rejection process and, consequently, its immunology is very complex. Thus, limb transplantation is the most used prototype of compound tissue transplantation among the protocols of experimental studies1,2.
Composite tissue allotransplantation represents the experimental model to study the homologous transplantation (from an individual to another) of vascularized, innervated musclecutaneous units, joints, bone or even the whole member.
Brown Norway (BN) rats with a RT-1n major histocompatibility (MHC) locus were donors and Fischer 344 (F344) rats with a RT-11 MHC locus were recipients2,3,4,5.
Groups of rats were undergone allogeneic hindlimb transplantation. The receptors were randomized and control groups were established as: Control Group A: Autograft controls (F344 rats had its limbs reimplanted) and no immunosuppressive therapy. Control Group B: Allograft controls (BN rats limbs were transplanted to F344).
Sodium pentobarbital at a dose of 50mg/kg intraperitoneal was administred for anesthesia. Limbs were amputated at midfemur level followed by orthotopic transfer of the BN donor limb to the F-344 recipient site: a circumferencial cutaneous incision was made in the midthird level of the right thigh of the BN rats and the epigastric and femoral vessels were isolated (FIGURE 1).
Clamping, dissection and section of the femoral and superficial epigastric vessels were done at this level (FIGURE 2).
Muscle and sciatic nerve section (FIGURE 3).
Limb amputation at the midthird level of femur (FIGURE 4).
Donor limb was orthotopically transfered to the recipient area. Bone fixation was achieved using with a gauge needle as an intramedullary rod (FIGURE 5). The muscle was approximated using 4-0 nylon. The sciatic nerve, femoral artery and vein were repaired primarily with interrupted 10-0 nylon sutures using standart microsurgical technique (FIGURE 6). During dissection, the vessels were irrigated with physiological solution, heparin (100u/ml) and lidocaine 2% to lessen the vessels spasm, when needed.
The skin was sutured with ininterrupted 5-0 nylon (FIGURE 7).
Femoral vessels suture with nylon 10-0 after muscle approximation with interrupted 4-0 nylon.
A protective wire collar was placed around the proximal thigh to prevent authophagia of the insensate limb (FIGURE 8).
No anticoagulation or antibiotic drugs were administered.
To compensate for intraoperative fluid loss and postoperative dehydration, subcutaneous saline (10cc) was injected for the first 5 days post-transplantation.
Daily, the limbs were evaluated on vascular permeability and rejection signals, including erythema, edema, cutaneous color, exfoliation, hair loss, nail growth, epidermolysis, ulceration, exudation and cutaneous necrosis (FIGURE 9).
Skin biopsies were prepared (FIGURE 10): following remotion, the pieces were fixed in formol solution at 10%, histologically processed and posteriorly imbibed in paraffin. All pieces were stained with hematoxylin and eosin. The histological pattern scale system used by Saurat was used to quantify the rejection grade detected on the skin biopsy. All biopsies were blindly analyzed by a pathologist (FIGURE 11 and 12).
The rejection day was established when the skin could be removed with a touch or was hard and scarified with hair loss2,3,4,5.
At the sacrifice moment, it was verified whether the vessels were permeable, by means of dissection and direct inspection of the femoral vessels anastomoses, in order to eliminate the possibility of ischemia, which could also lead to skin necrosis.
Composite tissue homotransplantation allows the inclusion of innervated muscle-cutaneous units, joint and bone or even the hole limb, is considerably applicable in cases of congenital absence or deformity, trauma or greater resection due to malignant tumor. For many complex deformities, these transplantations would allow a more precise reconstruction than the current reconstruction techniques8.
These compound tissue reconstruction would allow the surgeon to restore the lost contour, sensibility, movement and function making use of similar tissue reposition7.
The quest for safer and more effective immunosupressive treatment, in other words, the search for a less toxic imunotherapy, is essential because in these transplantations the skin is especially antigenic so that it is necessary a 2-3 times higher doses than in organ transplantation and the collateral effects are less acceptable since they are not vital surgeries as organ transplantation are.
. Comprehension of the genetic mechanisms of composite tissue allotransplantation.
. Other immunosupressive therapies combined in a manner to obtain a more efficient effect.
. Less toxicity by means of association of immunosupressive drugs in subtherapeutical doses.
. Better functional coverage of these transplantations with nerve regeneration studies.
. Decrease in tissue antigenicity, in determining the incidence and treatment of the graft versus host syndrome7.
. Prevention of late rejection3.
. Determine why GVHD occurs after bowel and not after limb allotransplantation9.
Ferreira LM, Ferreira LRK. Modelo experimental para alotransplantes de tecido composto. Acta Cir Bras [serial online] 2004 Vol 19 Edição Especial. Disponível em URL: http://www.scielo.br/acb. | 2019-04-19T01:36:01 | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-86502004000700008 |
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0.999823 | 본 발명의 일 실시예에 따른 영상 표시 장치의 제어 방법은, (a)사용자가 원하는 프로그레스 바의 종류를 선택하는 단계, (b)상기 선택된 프로그레스 바의 종류에 따라 사용자에게 소정의 영상 장면 검색의 근거를 제공하기 위한 체크 표시를 포함하는 프로그레스 바를 디스플레이하는 단계, (c)상기 선택된 프로그레스 바 상에서 포커스를 이동시켜 상기 체크 표시에 위치시키는 단계, 및 (d)상기 포커스가 상기 체크 표시에 위치한 상태에서 재생 버튼을 누르면 해당 장면부터 디스플레이하는 단계를 포함한다. A control method of a video display device in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, (a) step of the user and select the desired progress bar, (b) the user according to the type of the selected progress bar predetermined video scenes displaying a progress bar including a check mark for providing a basis for the search, (c) the step of moving the focus on the selected progress bar is located in the check, and (d) the focus on the checkmark pressing the play button while in a step of the display from the scene. 본 발명에 의하면, 영상물을 시청하고 있는 사용자가 원하는 영상 장면을 쉽고 편리하게 검색할 수 있다. According to the present invention, a user who is watching the footage can be easily and conveniently search for a desired video scene.
본 발명은 영상 표시 장치에 관한 것으로, 보다 상세하게는 영상물을 시청하고 있는 사용자가 원하는 영상 장면을 쉽고 편리하게 검색할 수 있는 영상 표시 장치 및 그 제어 방법에 관한 것이다. The present invention relates to a video display device, to a user in viewing a video object and more particularly relates to an image display apparatus and a control method that can easily and conveniently search for a desired video scene.
일반적으로 영상 표시 장치는 최근 들어 TV 기술이 발전하여 방송신호를 전송하는 방식도 발전하고 그에 따라 디지털 전송방식을 적용하는 디지털 TV에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. Generally, the video display device is also developed in recent years how TV technology develops by transmitting a broadcast signal, and therefore is increasing interest in digital TV to apply a digital transmission system.
이러한 디지털 TV에는 사용자가 방송을 시청하는 도중에 개인 영상 리코더(Personal Video Recorder; PVR)를 이용하여 실시간으로 영상을 저장하여 원하는 시간에 재생할 수 있는 영상 녹화 및 재생 기능이 있다. The digital TV, the user personal video recorder while viewing a broadcast; there is a video recording and playback can be played at any time by using the (Personal Video Recorder PVR) saving the images in real time.
도 1은 종래의 화면 표시 장치에서 영상 재생 화면을 나타낸 도면이다. 1 is a diagram showing an image playback display in the conventional display device.
도 1에 도시된 바와 같이, 종래의 화면 표시 장치는 해당 영상을 재생함과 동시에 화면의 하부에 해당 영상에 대한 프로그레스 바(1)를 표시한다. 1, the conventional display device displays the progress bar (1) for the image and at the same time play the image at the bottom of the screen.
그러나, 종래의 영상 표시 장치에서 보여주는 프로그레스 바(1)는 단순히 현 재 보고 있는 영상 장면에 대한 진행 시간 및 위치 정보만을 제공한다. However, the progress bar (1) showing the conventional image display device is simply provided on the progress time, and location information on the scene image in the current I measured. 따라서, 영상물을 시청하고 있는 사용자가 해당 영상에 대하여 원하는 영상 장면, 예를 들어, 하이라이트 장면, 급격한 전환 장면, 사용자가 북마크한 장면 등을 검색하고자 하는 경우에는 원하는 장면이 나올 때까지 프로그레스 바(1) 상의 포커스(3)를 이리 저리 이동시켜야 하므로, 사용자가 원하는 영상 장면을 쉽고 편리하게 찾을 수 없는 문제가 있다. Thus, a user who is watching the footage you want for the corresponding video image scene, for example, highlights, progress bar, until there come the desired scene If you want to search for a rapid transition scenes, you have bookmarked scenes ( 1) must therefore come to move the focus away 3 on, the user has a problem it can not be found easily and conveniently the desired video scenes.
본 발명은 상기와 같은 점을 해결하기 위하여 안출된 것으로서, 영상물을 시청하고 있는 사용자가 원하는 영상 장면을 쉽고 편리하게 검색할 수 있는 영상 표시 장치 및 그 제어 방법을 제공하는데 그 목적이 있다. The present invention is conceived to solve the point mentioned above, there is provided a video display apparatus and a control method in a user in viewing a video object can be easily and conveniently search for a desired video scene.
본 발명의 목적들은 이상에서 언급한 목적들로 제한되지 않으며, 언급되지 않은 또 다른 목적들은 아래의 기재로부터 당업자에게 명확하게 이해되어질 수 있을 것이다. An object of the present invention are not limited to the above object mentioned above, it is not mentioned yet another object will be able to be clearly understood to those skilled in the art from the following description.
상기 목적을 달성하기 위하여, 본 발명의 일 실시예에 따른 영상 표시 장치는, 프로그레스 바의 종류를 선택하기 위한 명령을 입력받는 선택부, 사용자에게 소정의 영상 장면 검색의 근거를 제공하기 위한 체크 표시를 포함하는 상기 프로그레스 바에 대한 정보를 저장하는 저장부, 및 상기 선택된 프로그레스 바의 종류에 따라 상기 체크 표시에 해당하는 영상 장면을 상기 저장부로부터 인출하여 디스플레이되도록 제어하는 제어부를 포함한다. In order to achieve the above object, an image display apparatus includes a selection unit for inputting a command for selecting a kind of a progress bar, a check for presentation to the user based on predetermined image scene search according to an embodiment of the present invention comprising a display storage section that stores information for what the progress, and a control unit for controlling so that the display to withdraw the video scene corresponding to the check from the storage depending on the type of the selected progress bar.
상기 다른 목적을 달성하기 위하여, 본 발명의 일 실시예에 따른 영상 표시 장치의 제어 방법은, (a)사용자가 원하는 프로그레스 바의 종류를 선택하는 단계, (b)상기 선택된 프로그레스 바의 종류에 따라 사용자에게 소정의 영상 장면 검색의 근거를 제공하기 위한 체크 표시를 포함하는 프로그레스 바를 디스플레이하는 단계, (c)상기 선택된 프로그레스 바 상에서 포커스를 이동시켜 상기 체크 표시에 위 치시키는 단계, 및 (d)상기 포커스가 상기 체크 표시에 위치한 상태에서 재생 버튼을 누르면 해당 장면부터 디스플레이하는 단계를 포함한다. In order to achieve the above another object, a control method of a video display device in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, (a) step of the user and select the desired progress bar, (b) kind of a progress bar the selected in accordance with step of displaying to the user a given video scene program including a check mark for providing a basis for the search-less bar, (c) by moving the focus on the selected progress bar comprising values above the check, and (d) a step of pressing the play button on the focus state in the check from the display scene.
상기한 바와 같은 본 발명의 화면 표시 장치 및 그 방법에 따르면 다음과 같은 효과가 하나 혹은 그 이상 있다. According to the display apparatus and method of the present invention as described above has the following effects: one or more.
첫째, 사용자에게 소정의 영상 장면 검색의 근거를 제공하기 위한 체크 표시를 포함하는 다양한 프로그레스 바를 제공함으로써, 사용자는 원하는 영상 장면을 쉽고 편리하게 검색할 수 있다. First, by giving users a variety of progress bars that contain a check mark to provide the basis of a given video scene search, the user can easily and conveniently search for a desired video scene.
둘째, 프로그레스 바 상에서 체크 표시를 따라 포커스를 이동시킴으로써, 영상의 대략적인 내용을 쉽게 파악할 수 있다. Second, by moving the focus along the check on the progress bar, it can be helpful to point out the approximate content of the image.
셋째, 기술의 발전에 따라 영상 장면 검색에 용이한 프로그레스 바를 추가하거나, 이미 설정된 프로그레스 바를 삭제할 수 있다. Third, the development of technology to add a progress bar to facilitate the video scene search, or you can delete what progress has already been set.
본 발명의 효과들은 이상에서 언급한 효과들로 제한되지 않으며, 언급되지 않은 또 다른 효과들은 청구범위의 기재로부터 당업자에게 명확하게 이해될 수 있을 것이다. Not limited to those mentioned above are the effects of the present invention effects, is not mentioned other effects will be understood clearly to those skilled in the art from the description of the claims.
본 발명의 이점 및 특징, 그리고 그것들을 달성하는 방법은 첨부되는 도면과 함께 상세하게 후술되어 있는 실시예들을 참조하면 명확해질 것이다. Methods of accomplishing the advantages and features of the present invention and reference to the embodiments that are described later in detail in conjunction with the accompanying drawings will be apparent. 그러나 본 발 명은 이하에서 개시되는 실시예들에 한정되는 것이 아니라 서로 다른 다양한 형태로 구현될 수 있으며, 단지 본 실시예들은 본 발명의 개시가 완전하도록 하고, 본 발명이 속하는 기술분야에서 통상의 지식을 가진 자에게 발명의 범주를 완전하게 알려주기 위해 제공되는 것이며, 본 발명은 청구항의 범주에 의해 정의될 뿐이다. But it is not limited to the embodiments set forth herein present to whom, be embodied in many different forms, but the present embodiments, and the disclosure of the present invention to complete, and ordinary skill in the art is furnished the chair in order to fully convey the concept of the invention to have, the present invention will only be defined by the appended claims. 명세서 전체에 걸쳐 동일 참조 부호는 동일 구성요소를 지칭한다. Like reference numerals throughout the specification refer to like elements.
이하, 첨부된 도면을 참조하여 본 발명의 바람직한 실시예에 따른 영상 표시 장치 및 그 제어 방법을 상세히 설명하기로 한다. And to an image display apparatus and describes in detail the control method thereof according to the following, preferred embodiments of the invention with reference to the accompanying drawings. 참고로 본 발명을 설명함에 있어서 관련된 공지 기능 혹은 구성에 대한 구체적인 설명이 본 발명의 요지를 불필요하게 흐릴 수 있다고 판단되는 경우 그 상세한 설명을 생략한다. As a reference in describing the present invention, if a detailed description of known functions and configurations related determines may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.
도 2 및 3에 도시된 바와 같이, 본 발명의 일 실시예에 따른 화면 표시 장치는 선택부(10), 설정부(20), 저장부(30), 디스플레이부(40) 및 제어부(50) 등을 포함한다. As shown in Figures 2 and 3, the display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, the selection unit 10, a setting unit 20, a storage unit 30, display unit 40 and the controller 50 and the like.
상기 선택부(10)는 사용자가 원하는 다양한 프로그레스 바(progress bar)(1, 41, 42, 43, ...)를 선택하기 위한 것이다. The selection section 10 for selecting the various users progress bar (progress bar) (1, 41, 42, 43, ...) desired. 선택부(10)는 화면 표시 장치의 본체(미도시)에 일체로 구비되거나, 상기 본체와 별도로 리모컨(미도시) 등과 같은 원격제어장치에 구비될 수 있다. Selection unit 10 may be provided with a remote control device or the like provided integrally with a main body (not shown) of the display device, separate from the main remote controller (not shown). 예를 들어, 선택부(10)는 화면 표시 장치가 TV, PVR 등인 경우에 리모컨의 상, 하, 좌, 우 방향키이며, PMP, PC 등일 경우에 네비게이 션 키 또는 키보드의 방향키이다. For example, the selection unit 10 is a display device TV, PVR, down, left and right cursor keys on the remote control or the like in the case, PMP, the Navigator illustration key or arrow keys on the keyboard if the PC or the like.
상기 설정부(20)는 사용자의 요구에 따라 사용할 다양한 프로그레스 바를 추가하거나 이미 설정된 프로그레스 바를 제거하기 위한 것이다. The setting unit 20 is designed to remove a variety of additional program used according to the user's request or response is what has already been set progress bar.
상기 저장부(30)는 해당 영상물 및 프로그레스 바(1, 41, 42, 43, ...) 등에 대한 정보 등을 저장하기 위한 것으로, 예컨대 하드디스크, 플래쉬 메모리 등의 저장매체를 포함한다. The storage unit 30 comprises a storage medium, such as to store such information on the video object, and a progress bar (1, 41, 42, 43, ...), such as a hard disk, a flash memory.
상기 프로그레스 바(1, 41, 42, 43, ...)는 사용자에게 해당 영상에 대한 진행 위치 상태를 보여주며, 소정의 영상 장면 검색의 근거를 제공하기 위한 체크 표시를 포함한다. The progress bar (1, 41, 42, 43, ...) shows the user the progress state position for that image, and a check mark for providing the basis of predetermined image scene search.
상기 프로그레스 바(1, 41, 42, 43, ...)는 사용자의 요구에 따라 다수 개 구비될 수 있다. The progress bar (1, 41, 42, 43, ...) may be provided in plurality according to the user's requirements. 예를 들어, 프로그레스 바는 현재 보고 있는 영상에 대한 진행 시간 및 위치 정보를 표시하는 일반 프로그레스 바(Default progress bar)(1)와 함께, 해당 영상의 하이라이트(Highlight) 장면에 대한 체크 표시(41a)들을 포함하는 제 1 프로그레스 바(41)와, 급격한 장면 전환(Scene change)에 대한 체크 표시(42a)들을 포함하는 제 2 프로그레스 바(42)와, 사용자가 북마크(Bookmark)한 장면에 대한 체크 표시(43a)들을 포함하는 제 3 프로그레스 바(43) 등을 구비한다. For example, the progress bar, check for highlights (Highlight) scenes of the video with the normal progress bar (Default progress bar) (1) that displays elapsed time and position information on the video you're currently viewing display ( a first progress bar 41, a sharp transition (second progress bar 42, a user bookmarks (Bookmark) a scene containing a check mark (42a) for a scene change) including 41a) third progress bar (43) including a check mark (43a) on and the like. 여기서, 제 1 및 제 2 프로그레스 바(41, 42)에 하이라이트 장면 및 급격한 전환 장면에 대한 체크 표시(41a, 42a)들을 나타내는 방법은 통상의 디바이스 컨트롤 모듈(Device control module; DCM) 기술을 활용하며, 제 3 프로그레스 바(43)에 북마크된 장면에 대한 체크 표시(43a)들을 나타내는 방법은 사용자가 직접 북마크를 설 정함으로써 가능하다. Here, the first and second progress bar 41, the highlight scene, and a check mark (41a, 42a) method is a conventional device, the control module indicative of for rapid conversion scene on; leverage (Device control module DCM) technique and, a third way to represent the check (43a) of the bookmarked scene in the progress bar 43 is possible by specifying the user and directly set a bookmark. 상기 DCM 및 북마크 기술은 공지된 기술로 이해 가능하므로 구체적인 설명은 생략한다. Since the DCM and bookmark technology understandable by a technique known in the specific description thereof will be omitted.
상기 체크 표시(41a, 42a, 43a, ...)는 사용자에게 해당 영상의 소정 장면, 예컨대 하이라이트 장면, 급격한 전환 장면, 사용자가 북마크한 장면 등에 대한 검색의 근거를 제공하기 위한 것으로, 프로그레스 바(41, 42, 43, ...)의 종류에 따라 위치가 상이하다. The check mark (41a, 42a, 43a, ...) is designed to provide the user with the basis for the search for a predetermined scene or the like, for example, the highlight scene, sudden scene transition, the user has a bookmark scene of the image, a progress bar the position is different, depending on the type of (41, 42, 43, ...). 또한, 체크 표시(41a, 42a, 43a, ...)는 프로그레스 바(41, 42, 43, ...) 상에 소정의 간격을 두고 다수 배치된다. In addition, a check mark (41a, 42a, 43a, ...) are arranged at a plurality of predetermined intervals on the progress bar (41, 42, 43, ...).
상기 프로그레스 바(41, 42, 43, ...)의 종류와 모양, 조작 방법 등은 영상을 시청하는 기기의 특성에 따라 바뀔 수 있다. The progress bar (41, 42, 43, ...), the type and shape, the operation method, such as can be changed according to the characteristics of the device who watch the image.
본 실시예에서는 상기와 같은 프로그레스 바(41, 42, 43, ...)들을 구비하는 구성을 예시하였으나, 이에 한정되지 않고 프로그레스 바(41, 42, 43, ...)는 사용자의 요구에 따라 다양하게 구비될 수 있다. In this embodiment, such as the program-less bar (41, 42, 43, ...), but without exemplifying a configuration, it not limited to that having a progress bar (41, 42, 43, ...) of a user It may be variously provided depending on the requirements.
상기 디스플레이부(40)는 사용자가 볼 수 있도록 해당 영상물과, 사용자에 의해 선택부(10)에서 선택되는 프로그레스 바(41, 42, 43, ...) 등을 화면에 디스플레이한다. The display unit 40 displays the corresponding video object and a progress bar is selected from the selection unit 10 by the user (41, 42, 43, ...) and so on so that the user can view on the screen. 디스플레이부(40)는 해당 영상이 재생되는 화면의 하부에 선택된 프로그레스 바를 보여주는 것이 바람직하다. Display unit 40 is preferably a bar showing progress selected in the lower portion of the screen that the video reproduction.
상기 제어부(50)는 선택부(10)에서 선택되는 프로그레스 바(41, 42, 43, ...)를 인지하고, 선택된 프로그레스 바(41, 42, 43, ...)의 종류에 따라 선택된 프로그레스 바(41, 42, 43, ...)의 체크 표시(41a, 42a, 43a, ...)에 해당하는 영상 장면을 저장부(30)로부터 인출하여 디스플레이부(40)에 디스플레이되도록 제어 한다. The controller 50 is a progress bar (41, 42, 43, ...), and whether the selected progress bar (41, 42, 43, ...) is selected from the selection unit 10, the type of depending on the selected progress bar (41, 42, 43, ...), a check mark (41a, 42a, 43a, ...) take-off display unit 40 by the image scene from the storage unit 30 corresponding to the and it controls to be displayed.
보다 상세하게는, 제어부(50)는 사용자에 의해 제 1 프로그레스 바(41)가 선택되면, 제 1 프로그레스 바(41) 상에 해당 영상의 하이라이트 장면에 대한 검색의 근거를 사용자에게 제공하는 체크 표시(41a)를 보여주며, 체크 표시(41a)에 해당하는 하이라이트 장면을 저장부(30)로부터 인출하여 디스플레이하도록 제어한다. More specifically, the controller 50 when the first progress bar 41 is selected by the user, the first to provide a basis for the search for a highlight scene of a program corresponding to the phase-less bar 41 image to the user show a check mark (41a), and controls so as to display to withdraw the highlight scene corresponding to the check (41a) from the storage unit 30. 또한, 제어부(50)는 제 2 프로그레스 바(42)가 선택되면, 제 2 프로그레스 바(42) 상에 해당 영상의 급격한 전환 장면에 대한 검색의 근거를 사용자에게 제공하는 체크 표시(42a)를 보여주며, 체크 표시(42a)에 해당하는 전환 장면을 저장부(50)로부터 인출하여 디스플레이하도록 제어한다. In addition, the controller 50 is a second progress bar 42, a second check to provide a basis for the search to the user on the progress bar 42, a sudden scene transition of the corresponding image on a display (42a) is selected the show, and controls so as to display to withdraw the scene transition that corresponds to the check (42a) from the storage unit 50. 또한, 제어부(50)는 제 3 프로그레스 바(43)가 선택되면, 제 3 프로그레스 바(43) 상에 해당 영상의 북마크한 장면에 대한 검색의 근거를 사용자에게 제공하는 체크 표시(43a)를 보여주며, 체크 표시(43a)에 해당하는 북마크 장면을 저장부(30)로부터 인출하여 디스플레이하도록 제어한다. In addition, the controller 50 is a third when the progress bar 43 is selected, the third progress bar check (43a) to provide a basis for the search for a bookmark scene of the image on (43) to the user the show, and controls so as to display to withdraw bookmark scene that corresponds to the check (43a) from the storage unit 30.
상기 제어부(50)는 제 1 프로그레스 바(41)의 동작을 제어하는 제 1 제어부(51), 제 2 프로그레스 바(42)의 동작을 제어하는 제 2 제어부(52), 제 3 프로그레스 바(43)의 동작을 제어하는 제 3 제어부(53) 등을 각각 구비한다. The controller 50 has a first control unit 51 for controlling the operation of a progress bar 41, a second control unit 52 for controlling the operation of the progress bar 42, a third Progress and a third control unit 53 and so on for controlling the operation of the bar 43, respectively.
상기 제어부(50)는 선택된 프로그레스 바(41, 42, 43, ...) 상에서 이동하는 포커스(3)가 체크 표시(41a, 42a, 43a, ...)에 위치할 때, 체크 표시(41a, 42a, 43a, ...)에 해당하는 영상 장면이 섬네일로 디스플레이되도록 제어한다. When located in the controller 50 is selected progress bar (41, 42, 43, ...), the focus (3), a check mark moving on (41a, 42a, 43a, ...), a check mark ( 41a, 42a, the video scene corresponding to 43a, ...) are controlled to be displayed as thumbnails.
이하, 도 4 내지 10을 참조하여, 본 발명의 일 실시예에 따른 화면 표시 장치의 제어 방법을 구체적으로 설명한다. With reference to Figures 4 to 10, will be specifically described a control method of a display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
먼저, 도 4에 도시된 바와 같이, 사용자가 시청하고자 하는 해당 영상을 플레이하면, 해당 영상이 재생되면서 현재 시청하고 있는 영상에 대한 진행 시간 및 위치 정보 등을 사용자에게 제공하는 프로그레스 바(1)가 화면의 하부에 보여진다. First, the progress bar (1) When the user views the image to be watched, service such as processing time and location information for the image that is currently viewed as the video is played to the user as shown in Figure 4 It is shown in the lower portion of the screen.
다음으로, 도 5에 도시된 바와 같이, 사용자가 해당 영상을 시청하면서 해당 영상에서 원하는 특정 영상 장면을 검색하고자 하는 경우, 선택부(10)의 상, 하 방향키를 이용하여 원하는 프로그레스 바(41, 42, 43, ...)의 종류를 선택한다(S100). Next, as shown in FIG. 5, if the user wants to search for a particular image scene desired in the image while viewing the image, image of the selected unit 10, by using the down arrow keys desired progress bar (41 , 42, selects the type of 43, ...) (S100). 예를 들어, TV 화면에 재생되고 있는 해당 영상에서 하이라이트 장면을 검색하고자 하는 경우, 사용자는 TV 리모컨의 상, 하 방향키를 이용하여 해당 영상의 하이라이트 장면에 대한 체크 표시(41a)를 포함하는 제 1 프로그레스 바(41)를 선택한다. For example, to search for the highlight scenes in the images being reproduced on the TV screen, the user first containing the check (41a) of the highlight scene of the image by using upper and lower direction keys on the TV remote control It selects a progress bar (41). 또한, 해당 영상에서 급격한 전환 장면을 검색하고자 하는 경우, 급격한 전환 장면에 대한 체크 표시(42a)를 포함하는 제 2 프로그레스 바(42)를 선택한다. Also, when you want to browse the abrupt transition in the scene image, and selects the second progress bar 42 that includes a check mark (42a) for rapid switching scenes. 또한, 해당 영상에서 사용자가 북마크한 장면을 검색하고자 하는 경우, 북마크한 장면에 대한 체크 표시(43a)를 포함하는 제 3 프로그레스 바(43)를 선택한다. Also, when you want to search for a user bookmark scene in the image, and selects the third progress bar 43 including the check (43a) of the bookmarked scene.
본 실시예에서는, TV 등과 같은 화면 표시 장치에서 리모컨의 상, 하 방향키를 이용하여 다양한 프로그레스 바(41, 42, 43, ...)를 선택하는 방법을 예시하였으나, 이에 한정되지 않고 PMP, PC 등과 같은 화면 표시 장치에서는 네비게이션 키 또는 키보드의 방향키를 이용하여 다양한 프로그레스 바를 선택할 수 있다. In this embodiment, the TV remote control of the screen display device such as, by using the down arrow keys, but illustrating a method of selecting a range of the progress bar (41, 42, 43, ...), not limited to this PMP, in the on-screen display device such as a PC by using the navigation key or the keyboard cursor keys may select various progress bar.
다음으로, 선택된 프로그레스 바(41, 42, 43, ...)의 종류에 따라 사용자에게 소정의 영상 장면 검색의 근거를 제공하기 위한 체크 표시(41a, 42a, 43a, ...)를 포함하는 프로그레스 바(41, 42, 43, ...)가 화면에 디스플레이된다. Next, the selected progress bar (41, 42, 43, ...), a check mark for providing to a user based on predetermined image scene search according to the type of the (41a, 42a, 43a, ...) comprises a progress bar (41, 42, 43, ...) is displayed on the screen. 예를 들어, 사용자에 의해 제 1 프로그레스 바(41)가 선택되면(S101), 사용자에게 해당 영상의 하이라이트 장면에 대한 검색의 근거를 제공하도록 상기 제 1 프로그레스 바(41) 상에 상기 하이라이트 장면에 대한 체크 표시(41a)를 보여준다(S102). For example, if the first progress bar 41 is selected by the user (S101), the highlight on the first progress bar 41 the user to provide a basis for the search for the highlight scene of the image shows the check (41a) of the scene (S102). 또한, 제 2 프로그레스 바(42)가 선택되면(S103), 사용자에게 해당 영상의 급격한 전환 장면에 대한 검색의 근거를 제공하도록 상기 제 2 프로그레스 바(42) 상에 상기 전환 장면에 대한 체크 표시(42a)를 보여준다(S104). In addition, the second progress bar 42 is selected (S103), checking for the second progress bar 42, the switching scene to the user to provide a basis for the search for a rapid transition scene of the image It shows a display (42a) (S104). 또한, 제 3 프로그레스 바(43)가 선택되면(S105), 이전에 사용자에 의해 해당 영상의 북마크가 설정되어 있는가를 판단한다(S106). Further, when the third progress bar 43 is selected (S105), it is determined whether the previous bookmark of the image is set by the user (S106). 북마크가 설정되어 있으면, 사용자에게 해당 영상의 북마크한 장면에 대한 검색의 근거를 제공하도록 제 3 프로그레스 바(43) 상에 상기 북마크한 장면에 대한 체크 표시(43a)를 보여주고(S107), 북마크가 설정되어 있지 않으면, 제 3 프로그레스 바(43) 상에 체크 표시를 보여 주지 않는다(S108). If the bookmark has been set, to show the user the check (43a) for the said bookmark scene in the third progress bar 43 so as to provide a basis for the search for a bookmark scene of the image (S107), If the bookmark has been set, first it does not show a check mark in the third progress bar (43) (S108). 여기서, 상기 체크 표시(41a, 42a, 43a, ...)는 프로그레스 바(41, 42, 43, ...) 상에 소정의 간격을 두고 다수 배치되며, 프로그레스 바(41, 42, 43, ...)의 종류에 따라 위치가 상이하다. Wherein the check, (41a, 42a, 43a, ...) has a progress bar (41, 42, 43, ...) at a predetermined interval on the number and arrangement, progress bar (41, 42, 43, ...), the position is different depending on the type of.
다음으로, 리모컨의 좌, 우 방향키를 누르면 선택된 프로그레스 바(41, 42, 43, ...) 상에서 포커스(3)가 이동하여 상기 체크 표시들(41a, 42a, 43a, ...)이 위치한 지점에 위치하게 된다(S109). Next, pressing left or right cursor keys on the remote control to the selected progress bar (41, 42, 43, ...), the focus (3) is moved by the check mark on the (41a, 42a, 43a, ...) is It is located at the point located (S109). 여기서, 도 6에 도시된 바와 같이, 포커스(3) 가 상기 체크 표시들(41a, 42a, 43a, ...)에 위치할 때, 상기 체크 표시들(41a, 42a, 43a, ...)에 해당하는 각각의 영상 장면을 프로그레스 바(41, 42, 43, ...) 상에 섬네일(5)로 보여준다(S110). Here, as shown in Figure 6, the focus 3 is displayed in the check (41a, 42a, 43a, ...) when the location on the check in (41a, 42a, 43a, ...) each image scene the progress bar corresponding to the (41, 42, 43, ...) shown in the thumbnail image (5) (S110).
다음으로, 도 7에 도시된 바와 같이, 사용자가 시청하고자 하는 영상 장면에 해당하는 상기 체크 표시(41a, 42a, 43a, ...)에 포커스(5)를 위치한 상태에서 재생(play) 버튼을 누르면(S111), 해당 장면부터 영상이 디스플레이되고(S112), 재생 버튼을 누르지 않으면, 영상 화면은 변화가 없다(S113). Next, the cost, the check mark (41a, 42a, 43a, ...) reproduction (play) in a state located in the focus (5) to a user relevant to the video scene to view button as shown in Figure 7 press (S111), if the scene from the video is being displayed (S112), press the play button, the video screen is not changed (S113).
다음으로, 도 8에 도시된 바와 같이, 리모컨의 상,하 방향키를 이용하여 프로그레스 바(41, 42, 43, ...)의 종류를 변경하면, 선택된 프로그레스 바에는 해당 체크 표시들이 보여진다. Next, as shown in Figure 8, when the phase of the remote control, by using the down arrow keys to change the type of the progress bar (41, 42, 43, ...), the selected progress bar to show the checkmark It is. 예를 들어, 제 2 또는 제 3 프로그레스 바(42, 43)에서 제 1 프로그레스 바(41)로 변경하여 선택하면, 사용자에게 해당 영상의 하이라이트 장면에 대한 검색의 근거를 제공하도록 제 1 프로그레스 바(41) 상에 상기 하이라이트 장면에 대한 체크 표시(41a)를 보여준다. For example, the second or the third first program progress bar (42, 43) when the first selection, or change to a progress bar (41), the user to provide a basis for the search for the highlight scene of the image on the-less bar 41 shows the check (41a) on the highlight scene. 제 1 프로그레스 바(41) 상에서 포커스(3)를 체크 표시(41a) 위치로 이동하면서 해당 영상 장면을 검색하여 플레이하는 방법은 도 5 내지 7에서 설명한 방법과 동일하므로 생략한다. The first is omitted the same as the progress bar 41. The method described how to move the focus (3) with a check mark (41a) to search for the position to play the video scene in Figures 5 to 7 on.
한편, 사용자의 요구에 따라 프로그레스 바(41, 42, 43, ...)의 종류를 추가하거나 제거할 수 있다. On the other hand, it is possible to add or remove the type of the progress bar (41, 42, 43, ...) depending on the user's requirements. 보다 상세하게는, 도 9에 도시된 바와 같이, 프로그레스 바(41, 42, 43, ...) 선택 화면에서, 사용자의 요구에 따라 이미 설정된 하이라이트, 장면 전환, 북마크 등과 같은 프로그레스 바(41, 42, 43, ...)를 선택하여 제거하거나, Actor1, Actor2, Actor3, Actor4,...(44, 45, 46, 47, ...) 등과 같은 새로운 프로그레스 바를 추가할 수 있다. More specifically, as shown in Figure 9, the progress, such as a progress bar (41, 42, 43, ...) in the selection screen, that has already been set highlight according to user requirements, the scene change, the bookmark bar ( 41, 42 and 43 can be added, ...) selected to remove or, Actor1, Actor2, Actor3, Actor4, ... a (44, 45, 46, 47, ...) a new progress bar, such as . 예를 들어, 하이라이트, 장면 전환, 북마크 부분을 표시하는 프로그레스 바(41, 42, 43, ...) 이외에도 등장인물에 따라 각 인물 별로 프로그레스 바를 만들 수 있고, 기술의 발전에 따라 장면 검색에 용이한 프로그레스 바의 추가도 가능하다. For example, the highlight scene change, depending on the addition bookmark part progress bar that displays (41, 42, 43, ...) characters can be made a progress bar for each figure, scene search according to the development of technology it is also possible to add to the ease of the progress bar. 이러한 프로그레스 바의 종류를 추가하거나 제거하는 기술은 통상의 DCM 기술을 활용하여 가능하다. Technique it is possible to take advantage of the conventional technology DCM to add or remove types of such a progress bar.
본 발명은 영상 녹화 및 재생이 가능한 PVR을 이용하는 모든 화면 표시 장치의 프로그레스 바에 적용이 가능하다. The present invention is applicable to all of the progress bar display device using the PVR video recording and playback possible.
이상 첨부된 도면을 참조하여 본 발명의 실시예를 설명하였지만, 본 발명이 속하는 기술분야에서 통상의 지식을 가진 자는 본 발명이 그 기술적 사상이나 필수적인 특징을 변경하지 않고서 다른 구체적인 형태로 실시될 수 있다는 것을 이해할 수 있을 것이다. Although above described embodiments of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings, that the present invention one of ordinary skill in the art to which the invention pertains may be embodied in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features it will be appreciated that. 그러므로 이상에서 기술한 실시예들은 모든 면에서 예시적인 것이며 한정적이 아닌 것으로 이해해야만 한다. Thus the embodiments described above are only to be understood as illustrative and non-restrictive in every respect. 본 발명의 범위는 상기 상세한 설명보다는 후술하는 특허청구범위에 의하여 나타내어지며, 특허청구범위의 의미 및 범위 그리고 그 균등 개념으로부터 도출되는 모든 변경 또는 변형된 형태가 본 발명의 범위에 포함되는 것으로 해석되어야 한다. The scope of the invention is intended to be included within the scope of the above description becomes than indicated by the claims, which will be described later, and all such modifications as derived from the meaning and range and equivalents concept as recited in the claims the invention do.
도 1은 종래의 화면 표시 장치에서 영상 재생 화면을 나타낸 도면. 1 is a diagram showing an image playback display in the conventional display device.
도 2는 본 발명의 일 실시예에 따른 화면 표시 장치의 구성을 도시한 블록도. Figure 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
도 4 내지 9는 본 발명의 화면 표시 장치의 제어 방법에 따른 동영상 화면 표시를 순차적으로 나타낸 도면. 4 to 9 is a view of the video screen display in accordance with the control method of the display device of the present invention in order.
상기 프로그레스 바는 사용자의 요구에 따라 다수 개 구비되는, 영상 표시 장치. The video display device, the progress bar is provided along which a plurality of the user's request.
상기 프로그레스 바는, 해당 영상의 하이라이트 장면에 대한 체크 표시를 포함하는 제 1 프로그레스 바, 급격한 전환 장면에 대한 체크 표시를 포함하는 제 2 프로그레스 바, 사용자가 북마크한 장면에 대한 체크 표시를 포함하는 제 3 프로그레스 바 중 적어도 하나를 포함하는 영상 표시 장치. The progress bar, the second progress bar, including a first progress bar, the check for the rapid conversion scene display comprising a checkmark for the highlights of the image to check for a user bookmark scene the third image display device comprising at least one of a progress bar including.
상기 체크 표시는 상기 프로그레스 바의 종류에 따라 위치가 상이한 영상 표시 장치. The check mark is an image display device is different depending on location of the progress bar.
상기 체크 표시는 상기 프로그레스 바 상에 소정의 간격을 두고 다수 배치되는 영상 표시 장치. The check is the visual display unit is arranged at a plurality of predetermined intervals on the progress bar.
상기 제어부는, 해당 영상의 하이라이트 장면에 대한 체크 표시를 포함하는 제 1 프로그레스 바의 동작을 제어하는 제 1 제어부, 급격한 전환 장면에 대한 체크 표시를 포함하는 제 2 프로그레스 바의 동작을 제어하는 제 2 제어부, 사용자가 북마크한 장면에 대한 체크 표시를 포함하는 제 3 프로그레스 바의 동작을 제어하는 제 3 제어부 중 적어도 하나를 포함하는 영상 표시 장치. The control unit, which controls the first controller, the operation of the second progress bar including a check for the abrupt transition scene which controls a first operation of a progress bar including a check of the highlights of the image a second control unit, the video display device comprises at least one of a third control unit for controlling a third operation of the progress bar, including the check of user bookmarks scene.
상기 제어부는 상기 선택된 프로그레스 바 상에서 이동하는 포커스가 상기 체크 표시에 위치할 때, 상기 체크 표시에 해당하는 영상 장면이 섬네일로 디스플레이되도록 제어하는 영상 표시 장치. The control unit may control the image display apparatus so that the image scene is displayed as a thumbnail corresponding to the check, when the focus moves on the selected progress bar to be positioned in the check.
상기 선택부는 리모컨 또는 키보드의 방향키를 포함하는 영상 표시 장치. The video display device of the selection unit comprises a direction key on the remote control or keyboard.
사용자의 요구에 따라 상기 프로그레스 바를 추가하거나 제거하기 위한 설정부를 더 포함하는 영상 표시 장치. According to user requirements the video display device further includes a setting unit for adding or removing the progress bar.
상기 프로그레스 바는 사용자의 요구에 따라 다수 개 구비되는, 영상 표시 장치의 제어 방법. A control method of a video display device, the progress bar is provided along which a plurality of the user's request.
상기 (a)단계는, 해당 영상의 하이라이트 장면에 대한 체크 표시를 포함하는 제 1 프로그레스 바, 급격한 전환 장면에 대한 체크 표시를 포함하는 제 2 프로그레스 바, 사용자가 북마크한 장면에 대한 체크 표시를 포함하는 제 3 프로그레스 바 중 적어도 하나를 선택하는 영상 표시 장치의 제어 방법. Wherein the step (a), display a first progress bar, the second progress bar, the check for a user bookmark scene including a check for sudden scene transition, including the check of the highlights of the image the control method of the third image display apparatus for selecting at least one of a progress bar including a.
상기 (a)단계는 리모컨 또는 키보드의 방향키를 이용하여 상기 프로그레스 바의 종류를 선택하는 영상 표시 장치의 제어 방법. A control method of an image display apparatus for the step (a) by using the arrow keys on the remote control or keyboard to select the type of the progress bar.
상기 (b)단계는 사용자에게 해당 영상의 하이라이트 장면에 대한 검색의 근거를 제공하는 제 1 프로그레스 바가 선택되면, 상기 제 1 프로그레스 바 상에 상기 하이라이트 장면에 대한 체크 표시를 보여주는 영상 표시 장치의 제어 방법. When the first progress bar is selected for the step (b) provides a user-based search for a highlight scene of the image, the image display apparatus, showing a check mark with respect to the highlight scene on the first progress bar A control method.
상기 (b)단계는 사용자에게 해당 영상의 급격한 전환 장면에 대한 검색의 근거를 제공하는 제 2 프로그레스 바가 선택되면, 상기 제 2 프로그레스 바 상에 상기 전환 장면에 대한 체크 표시를 보여주는 영상 표시 장치의 제어 방법. The video display device when the step (b) second progress bar is selected to provide the user with the basis for the search for a rapid transition scene of the image, on the second progress bar showing a check for the switching scenes method of control.
상기 (b)단계는 사용자에게 해당 영상의 북마크한 장면에 대한 검색의 근거를 제공하는 제 3 프로그레스 바가 선택되면, 상기 제 3 프로그레스 바 상에 상기 북마크한 장면에 대한 체크 표시를 보여주는 영상 표시 장치의 제어 방법. The step (b) is a video display showing the third when the progress bar is selected, the check on the bookmark scene onto the third progress bar display that provides a basis for the search for a bookmark scene of the image to the user the control method of the apparatus.
(e) 상기 (c)단계에서 상기 선택된 프로그레스 바를 따라 이동하는 포커스가 상기 체크 표시에 위치할 때, 상기 체크 표시에 해당하는 영상 장면을 섬네일로 디스플레이하는 단계를 더 포함하는 영상 표시 장치의 제어 방법. (E) controlling the image display apparatus further comprising: displaying an image scene that has the focus to move along the bar the selected progress corresponding to the check, when positioned in the check mark to the thumbnail in the step (c) Way.
(f) 사용자의 요구에 따라 상기 프로그레스 바를 추가하거나 제거하는 단계를 더 포함하는 영상 표시 장치의 제어 방법. (F) method of controlling a video display device further comprising the step of adding or removing the progress bar according to a user's request. | 2019-04-18T15:55:25 | https://patents.google.com/patent/KR101407636B1/en |
0.998361 | I have an application where I am using both stereo and orthographic projection. For apparently arbitrary reasons, everything in the scene will suddenly have an incorrect disparity, all too far forward or too far back, and sometimes with a spurious vertical component - as if the projection has gotten changed somewhere. It seems to happen just before or after "important" events fire, such as timer events.
I have code that can reproduce the bug reliably for me, but very subtle changes (such as changing the frequencies of the aforementioned timers) will lead to the bug going in and out of existence, so I don't know if it would be helpful at all.
Any suggestions as to what could be going wrong? I also have been trying to narrow down what exactly changes - my hunch is the screen distance, but is there any way to query its value?
I do have trackers that can be linked to the viewpoint when I'm running in cave mode, but I break the links with the viewpoint when I switch to orthographic projection (by giving a None tracker to CaveView, IIRC). Are there any problems with doing it this way?
Are you using the vizcave module? Depending on how you setup the Cave object, it will update the projection matrix every frame to account for the latest position of the head tracker. If you have other code running in a timer that tries to change the projection, then this could be the cause of the conflict. It's hard to say without seeing some sample code.
I do use the vizcave module, but even when I make sure no viewpoints are moving around (like by replacing the trackers with something that doesn't move), I get a lot of different disparity values. The disparity only seems to change when certain important code is run, too (it is when I re-apply the orthographic projection, for example).
Here's some code that reproduces the problem. Press 4 or 6 to have it repeatedly display the "stimulus". In case of no stereo equipment, the most obvious symptom is that the white box doesn't always stay in the same centered location from one trial to the next - it appears left or right by some unpredictable amount. (With stereo equipment, it's more apparent that what is happening is that the disparity is changing.) It usually starts happening by the 5th trial.
Here's the file for the stimulus part with as much code as I dared to remove taken out. I don't think most of this is too important, except that I do call orthoUpdateCaveAndView() in the restart() helper function, which is run each time you press 4 or 6.
print "WARNING: setting vertex radius to 1.0 meters"
print " for VisualAngleConstantizer to scale later"
# TODO error message if HiBall not available?
...and in the next post(s) are the potentially more-relevant hardware abstraction code. The most relevant functions are loadCave() (where I define helper functions makeOrthographic() and makePerspective()) and orthoUpdateCaveAndView(), which does the dirty work of turning off caves and such.
I edited the file so you'd get dummy VRPN sensors from localhost, which definitely don't move at all. It throws slightly-annoying "no response from server" warnings, though.
virtual reality hardware with Vizard in the lab of _______ at SUNY Optometry.
the documentation string for that attribute.
Returns the read-only value of the named private attribute.
Returns a Vizard cave optionally driven by tracker coordinates.
# to set up tracker so that stereo IPD will be correct?
Returns a view based on tracker coordinates.
view, otherwise links directly to the main view (default).
Implements a simulated positional tracker using the keyboard.
Prints the simulated keyboard coordinates to standard output.
Implements a connection to the HiBall Wide Area Tracker via VRPN.
to the active viewpoint are created by default.
+Y=Backwards, +Z=Up) are remapped (+X=Right, +Y=Up, +Z=Forwards).
The default orientational vectors are correspondingly remapped.
Prints the HiBall coordinates to standard output.
on port 3883, and returns true when successful.
Doesn't actually do anything (similar to a ping).
Factory function to return a HiBall or Keyboard tracker.
links the tracker object's position to the cave's view matrix.
headtracker to the cave's view matrix.
As I mentioned, the Cave object will automatically call <window>.frustum every frame if you specify a tracker. I noticed your code will call <window>.ortho under certain circumstances. So one call will be overriding the other, depending on which is called first. Do any of your code paths allow for <window>.ortho to be called while a tracker is specified for the cave object?
This should cause the cave object to stop calling <window>.frustum, correct?
I noticed the IPD values changes drastically from trial to trial. Are you sure this isn't causing the problem?
Yes - the center of the object is at the same distance as the screendistance used for the orthographic projection. Thus the square mark should always have zero disparity, so it shouldn't move no matter what the IPD is.
Does that line of code force the IPD value to zero? That wouldn't work for my purposes, since I do need stereo - it is adjusting the IPD value so as to "turn up" or "turn down" the stereo cue on demand, as needed by the rest of the experiment.
The IPD vector is used by vizcave to change the direction the IPD shift is applied to the view matrix. I think adding that line should fix your problem.
Just got a chance to try it, and it works! Thanks! | 2019-04-23T12:28:13 | https://forum.worldviz.com/archive/index.php/t-4138.html |
0.998335 | After months of feverish anticipation and a marketing campaign that left everyone at ScreenCrush practically speechless, 'Man of Steel' has arrived (amidst a flurry of mixed reviews) and taken its place at the top of the box office chart. Although the latest Superman film broke June box office records, it's yet to be seen whether or not the film is truly prepared for the long road ahead.
With a weekend gross of $113 million (and a current total of $125 million), 'Man of Steel' is now the proud record holder of the biggest June opening of all time. This should be a cause for celebration -- even though its big 2013 superhero competition, 'Iron Man 3,' opened to much more six weeks ago. Massive weekend aside, 'Man of Steel' was not cheap and its $225 million budget is a drop in the bucket compared to all of the other costs associated with it. So while 'Man of Steel' is off to a terrific start, it's going to need strong, powerful legs to keep it running in the weeks ahead. Like 'Iron Man 3,' it's also going to rely on strong international business. It's been suggested that Warner Bros. won't be happy with anything less than a billion worldwide and it's still a little too early to tell if audiences love 'Man of Steel' enough to push it that far. Next week is going to be the real test here.
Although you can discuss the semantics of whether or not 'Man of Steel' is a proper hit all day, there's no denying that the $32 million five-day gross for 'This is the End' puts Seth Rogen's latest clearly in the "hit" column. Considering its small budget, the hilarious apocalyptic comedy has essentially paid for itself in its first week of release. With strong buzz, the film should be able to drive all the way to the $100 million mark if 'The Heat' doesn't completely steal its audience in two weeks. In any case, this is sweet, sweet vindication for Rogen after the disappointing 'The Green Hornet,' and it's probably earned him carte blanche on his next few gigs.
Beyond the new releases, it was a solid if not particularly spectacular weekend for everyone else. In third place, 'Now You See Me' continued to showcase impressive endurance, grossing an additional $10 million for an $80 million total. $100 million is all but assured at this point, which is more than anyone saw coming for a Jesse Eisenberg-led magician heist movie. Right below it, 'Fast and Furious 6' finally surpassed 'Fast Five' to become the highest grossing film in the franchise with $219 million. It's probably eyeing $250 million at this point, but it may go farther if 'World War Z' and 'White House Down' fail to connect.
Meanwhile, last week's champion, 'The Purge,' plummeted a massive 75% and fell to fifth place. With a $51 million gross, the low budget horror movie is a massive hit already and everyone can easily shrug off this drop, but this may put a pause on all of that sequel talk. Although horror movies generally do take steep second week drops, 75% is a huge deal that may represent more audience dissatisfaction than its opening weekend suggested.
In sixth place, 'The Internship' continued Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn's slow descent into irrelevance with a $7 million gross and a $30 million total. Once again, we'll just say that this movie was released about six years too late.
In seventh place, 'Epic' continued to be the quiet winner of the year, taking in $6 million for a $95 million total. This thing is going to cross $100 million in a few days and no one has been talking about it!
In eighth place, 'Star Trek Into Darkness' is officially starting to slow down, still about $37 million short of its predecessor. Not awful, but still... ouch.
In ninth place, 'After Earth' took another massive stumble and is looking like it may make less than 'Seven Pounds,' which was previously one of Will Smith's biggest bombs.
And finally, 'Iron Man 3' is just about to exit theaters and it's less than a million bucks from $400 million. It'll get there sometime tomorrow.
Next week sees 'World War Z' and 'Monsters University' arrive in theaters. Expect Pixar to take the number one spot and 'World War Z' to... well, who knows? | 2019-04-18T14:30:07 | https://us105fm.com/weekend-box-office-report-man-of-steel/ |
0.999814 | How do I set my iPad PIN?
DrChrono offers a number of ways to secure your account information, one of which is allowing you to set a 4-digit PIN for your iPad. This allows you to step away from your iPad and know that your data and patient data is secure.
To set up your 4-digit PIN for logging into your iPad, you can do this from the website by following the below steps.
1.) Login to your DrChrono account by going to www.drchrono.com and selecting the 'Log in' button at the top right of your screen. From there type in your username and password in the provided fields. If you have not already set up a user account with DrChrono you can do so by again going to www.drchrono.com and following the steps on the welcome page.
2.) Hover your cursor over the 'Accounts' tab in your menu bar.
3.) Select 'Account Settings' from the drop-down list.
4.) You will see 'DrChrono PIN' in the fields shown under the 'Profile' section. Please enter in the 4-digit numeric PIN of your choosing.
5.) Select the 'Update Entire Profile' button at the bottom of the page. This will update your profile and you will now be able to use your 4-digit numeric PIN to login to your iPad instead of having to type in your username and password each time.
Please note: DrChrono will never ask for your password at any time, if you would like to change your PIN via the EHR Web you will need to do so from your account by following the below steps.
If you want to change or view your PIN, and you are currently logged into your iPad you can do so by following the below steps. | 2019-04-21T20:33:32 | https://support.drchrono.com/hc/en-us/articles/200142034-How-do-I-set-my-iPad-PIN- |
0.999718 | Non-cognitive skills and character competencies have as much of an effect on success as academic skill, researchers from the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution conclude in a study released today.
The study focuses on the "performance character strengths" of drive—defined as "the ability to apply oneself to a task and stick with it"— and prudence—defined as "the ability to defer gratification and look to the future." The study's authors emphasize that the helpful non-cognitive skills they explored can be nurtured and developed in students.
The research comes as schools and student advocates increasingly work to emphasize character in the classroom and develop new ways to measure, track, and develop non-congnitive strengths in students.
How did researchers measure character skills?
The researchers created a composite score derived from the the Behavior Problems Index hyperactivity scale in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. That survey was first administered to mothers of participant children in 1979, when the children were ages 5 or 6, and again when the children were 10 or 11. Mothers assessed their children's ability to concentrate, their impulsiveness, restlessness, and other factors.
The researchers found that children whose composite scores showed greater character strengths were more likely to graduate high school with a GPA greater than 2.5, less likely to be arrested as an adolescent, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and more likely to graduate from college.
"So: Character matters. Children who learn and can exhibit character strengths attain more years of education, earn more, and likely outperform other individuals in other areas of life," they write, adding that research has shown that character strengths can be developed. "Of course, many other factors matter a great deal, too: most obviously cognitive skills, but also a host of cultural, social and education variables."
And the findings about educational outcomes held true, even after researchers controlled for other factors, such as family income and race.
The correlation between character skills and academic success is comparable in size to the relationship between doing well on math and reading measures—also measured through a composite score derived from the longitudinal study—on educational attainment, researchers write.
How could this change conversations about equity?
Researchers noted that certain life factors, such as having a teen mother, correlated with weaker scores on the character index. There are all kinds of conclusions educators could draw from that. One of them: addressing these non-cognitive gaps early could help disadvantaged children get ahead later in life.
"If character strengths significantly impact life outcomes, disparities in their development may matter for social mobility and equality. As well as gaps in income, wealth, educational quality, housing, and family stability, are there also gaps in the development of these important character strengths? Relatively little research has been done on the distribution of character strengths or non-cognitive skills across the income distribution or by class. But what evidence that exists suggests there are quite marked gaps.
As with cognitive skills, gaps in non-cognitive strengths open up at an early age and persist throughout an individual's life. For example, gaps between poor and non-poor infants in behaviors such as paying attention to tasks, adapting to changes in materials, and displaying social engagement are visible as early as nine months of age and widen by the age of two."
I'm sure this study will raise questions and insights from readers. I'd love to hear your thoughts. | 2019-04-19T06:42:57 | http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rulesforengagement/2014/10/for_success_in_life_character_matters_as_much_as_academic_skill_study_says.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS2 |
0.99945 | "We don't study in the summer."
Why does "A nyaron nem tanulunk." not work?
I would understand "a nyáron" as "ezen a nyáron", "this summer", not the summer in general.
With both the -on and the -ban endings? That would be like "in at Christmas", I think.
Hungarians say "on summer" (literally translated), just like in English we say "at Christmas" -- not "in Christmas" or nyárban. | 2019-04-25T06:42:44 | https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/17384980/We-don-t-study-in-the-summer |
0.998633 | Ok, I know the music business is changing by the millisecond these days and artists have to be increasingly creative to make sure their talent and hard graft actually generates some proper wonga for them rather than their tracks being illegally downloaded by some pimply pre-pubescent in Manchester. And don’t accuse me of being anti-Manc, I’m just showing an interest in current affairs. There’s no chance of landing a six-figure advance these days to invest in the Colombian economy before getting your mate to record your magnum opus over a slow weekend in his lock-up. So everyone’s desperately looking for new ways to actually make a living from music.
There’s a whole new industry which has appeared from nowhere while our backs were turned. It’s so new that it can’t even spell its own name yet, so I don’t know if it’s syncing or synching but I’m sure it’ll soon sort out that little identity crisis. When I was a lad (before digital and mobile phones and that worldwide net thing), it was the ultimate sellout to allow your creative masterworks to be used in an advert. Neil Young got so upset about an approach from Pepsi that he wrote “This Note’s For You” about it. So who made it ok to sell your soul to Bartle Bogle Hegarty (come on, it’s so much funnier than BBH, isn’t it)?
It was Apple and the Archangel Bono, that’s who. When “Vertigo” was used on the iPod ad, the trickle of high-profile bands chasing the advertising money turned into a deluge. Everyone’s at it now. I mean, did the Stones really need the extra dosh from “Start Me Up” on the Omega ad this summer? I don’t mind anyone trying to get their music out there and get the rewards they deserve; far from it. The sync(h)ing industry helps get good new music into films, TV series and ads that generate a buzz (and a fee) for the artists and you would have to have a hard heart to complain about that.
I really have a problem with musicians who should know better endorsing totally inappropriate products. Where do I start? Is that too many rhetorical questions? Ok, Iggy Pop selling insurance, then. Iggy (or Jimmy to his friends) has to be the risk-taker supreme of the 70s; drugs, physical self-harm and more drugs followed by even more drugs and then he appears on TV advertising insurance. No insurance is as good as being the luckiest man alive, and you can’t buy or sell that commodity. Chumbawamba, 80s anarcho-punks and agit-proppers (they were so anti-establishment they threw a jug of water over John Prescott) could surely be relied on to resist the temptation of selling out to the establishment. No chance; “Tubthumping” is featured on an ad for that great anarchist enterprise of ambulance-chasing.
But the best one of the lot has to be John Lydon/Rotten for his splendid work endorsing dairy products. From the most hated man in Britain to selling butter on TV; it’s a bit of a comedown from the brilliant “World Destruction” with Afrika Bambaataa. A feature in one of the inkies a few weeks ago described our Johnny as a pantomime villain, but he’s such a caricature now that pantomime dame’s probably closer to the mark. | 2019-04-21T22:11:54 | http://musicriot.co.uk/tag/john-lydon/ |
0.999969 | The modern decoration ideas for Christmas put little on combinations and much more on the widespread use of one and the same beautiful element. Such a representative, noble and at the same time minimalistic decoration can be the garland for Christmas.
But what material can she make and how can she be beautifully displayed? Find a few pictorial answers to these questions in the following examples.
According to which criteria should we choose the garlands?
The most important aesthetic criteria are the style and the color palette. The garland must complement your home in these two ways. Wondering which effect you want to achieve exactly - should the garland complement the existing color palette by introducing the nuance of an already existing color? How to achieve a monochrome look in several layers. Or do you prefer that you provide a strong contrast?
Decorate the staircase and create a truly festive atmosphere at home!
The garland for Christmas can be created from artificial or natural materials. What are you more interested in this year? The natural materials can also touch your senses, for example, by their smell. For some people, this is unpleasant. In addition, leaves fall off yes and that provides more dirt in the room.
In addition, there are in some cases danger of allergies and in some plants - from poisoning. They can be eaten by your child or a pet.
The artificial materials are easy to care for, but they do not have the authentic beauty of the natural ones. But we must emphasize that some imitations are confusingly authentic. You can also introduce the rumors through essential oils or scented candles.
The artificial materials have the advantage that they can be used again and again every year.
Combinations of artificial and natural materials usually work poorly on garlands, except in certain cases. Such are those in which cones or other ornaments are spiced up with spray or paint.
Do you have a flat dipped in white? You should try green garlands then. It is best to use natural material, ie leaves and branches. It makes a big difference whether they are of the same kind or combine different textures. In the first case, you get a clean look and in the second you have an interesting result of several layers and smooth transitions between the different nuances.
The gigantic pine cones on green leaves leave an enormously strong visual impression. Simplicity can be so spectacular!
The garland can only be green and free of ornaments when combined with interesting interior design. Such may be this on the mantelpiece or on the banister.
Print interesting Christmas scenes and attach them to round cardboard cutouts. Tie them all together in a garland. Make sure all images are held together by a common element, such as a color or a creative.
Green with Christmas balls in red, silver or gold - that certainly transmits the mood of the quiet and holy night home. Such a garland should necessarily be surrounded by fire - for example in the fireplace or in the form of candles.
Paper garland on the staircase - Decorate every corner, every corner and celebrate the Christmas party!
The paper garlands on which many geometric shapes are used repeatedly are a good option. So that they do not look too childish and sparse, they should be used again in combination with green leaves or twigs.
What role do you attribute to the garlands in your Christmas decoration this year? Should they give the Christmassy design the finishing touch? Do you rather prefer natural or artificial materials? | 2019-04-25T14:51:03 | https://www.tobemrscollier.com/the-garland-for-christmas-so-it-can-be-tinkered-and-hung |
0.999878 | At last...."Geometry" was the category for Final Jeopardy on 10/23/07. As host Alex Trebek stated, a "very difficult-sounding category."
Assuming you had $10,000 built up, how much would you bet on this category?
The given answer was: "It's an ellipse with an eccentricity of zero."
First, Alex Trebek admitted that it was a long time since he had geometry and had no idea when he saw the clue. Then, all three contestants formed the correct question: "What is a circle?"
My question: Is eccentricity taught as part of most geometry courses? I don't think so....and I think the contestants were lucky with their guesses!
In case you have forgotten, eccentricity e of an ellipse is the constant ratio of the distance of a point on the ellipse from a focus to the point's distance from the corresponding directrix. And, for an ellipse with semimajor axis a and semiminor axis b, eccentricity e = SQRT[1 - (a/b)2]. For a circle, a = b, which implies that e = 0. | 2019-04-26T07:39:40 | http://mathnexus.wwu.edu/archive/mathlint/detail.asp?ID=121 |
0.999998 | In some cases, the matched-parenthesis condition is used to filter out paths with mismatched calls and returns. This leads to so-called ``context-sensitive'' program analyses, such as context-sensitive interprocedural slicing and context-sensitive interprocedural dataflow analysis.
the fact that there is a ``structure-transmitted data dependence'' from a to d, but not from b to d, is captured in a graph by using (i) a vertex for each variable, (ii) an edge from vertex i to vertex j when i is used on the right-hand side of an assignment to j, (iii) parentheses that match as the labels on edges that run from a to c and c to d, and (iv) parentheses that do not match as the labels on edges that run from b to c and c to d.
However, structure-transmitted data-dependence analysis is context-insensitive, because there are no constraints that filter out paths with mismatched calls and returns. Thus, a natural question is whether these two kinds of uses of parentheses can be combined to create a context-sensitive analysis for structure-transmitted data dependences. This paper answers the question in the negative: In general, the problem of context-sensitive, structure-transmitted data-dependence analysis is undecidable.
The results of this paper imply that, in general, both context-sensitive set-based analysis and infinity-CFA (when data constructors and selectors are taken into account) are also undecidable. | 2019-04-19T08:32:12 | http://research.cs.wisc.edu/wpis/abstracts/toplas00.abs.html |
0.998631 | If there are 10 people who have endorsed the Bill, and if the original acceptor defaults, which of those 10 endorsers do I go to first? The first person to endorse it, or the last person to endorse it?
I wonder if there's any rationale for doing it one way rather than the other?
You'd go to the first person to endorse it.
If that wasn't the case and it was convention to go to the last, my guess it that bills would lose velocity. As long as the next person to receive it and pass it on would have to become the senior co-signatory, they might prefer just to hold it rather than take that risk. Much less intimating to become a junior creditor.
And good post, by the way. Adding your chop is like coining silver. The original marks on the coin were also a chop, of the Spanish king.
This is good stuff. I'm wondering though, what stops someone from counterfeiting the chop, i.e. taking less-than-pure coinage, adding a chop that looks like that of some reputable "chopper" and then passing it off as good coin?
That's one of the things I was wondering about too when I was doing research on chops. I don't really have a good answer, and none of the sources I read really explained it. If chops solves the bad coin problem, what solves the bad chop problem?
what stops someone from counterfeiting the chop?
Perhaps ever more intricate chop marks? The 1854 coin shows a wide variety of Chinese characters, with the marks on the obverse being generally more detailed than the rather simple ones on the reverse.
I wonder if chop marks were also used, even by supposedly reputable choppers, to hide evidence of clipping? They could always insist that the lightening of the coin happened after they had made their mark (though I suppose reputation risk and the willingness to redeem coins for merchandise would mitigate this tendency).
I think this process, had it been allowed to evolve, would have resulted in completely overstruck coins, at which point someone would have realized that it's not the metal in the coin that matters, but how much you issue in relation to your capacity to redeem in goods, precious metals, or foreign coins. They'd reach the same endpoint as the Birmingham private mints--token coins with difficult to copy designs.
"Perhaps ever more intricate chop marks?"
"I wonder if chop marks were also used, even by supposedly reputable choppers, to hide evidence of clipping?"
I was thinking that too. But don't forget that coins passed by their weight in China, not at face value. The clipping of a coin would immediately reduce its purchasing power--so that a clipper would have nothing to gain. Clippers only gain at the expense of others when their clipping goes unnoticed, usually when coins trade at face value. The way to conduct coin fraud in China would have been to reduce a coin's purity, not its weight, and then try to pass it on with a fake chopmark. | 2019-04-24T14:11:09 | https://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2014/08/chopmarks-and-other-distributed.html |
0.999998 | Extract: Why icebergs mean oceans store more carbon Here’s how it works: as Antarctic ice sheets slowly slide towards the ocean they bump along the continent’s bedrock, picking up iron and other nutrients which become imprisoned within the ice. When icebergs melt they release these chemicals into the sea. As icebergs are essentially freshwater, their water is buoyant and ascends to the ocean surface, where the iron and nutrients are utilised by phytoplankton – tiny plant-like organisms at the bottom of the marine food web. This makes a big difference in the Southern Ocean, where limited dissolved iron – important for cell growth – restricts productivity despite an abundance of nitrate. Melting icebergs release iron in a bio-available form, so encourage phytoplankton growth, photosynthesis, and the draw-down of atmospheric CO2. | 2019-04-22T14:11:20 | http://www.lynchpin.org.au/art/how-giant-icebergs-breathe-life-into-remote-oceans/ |
0.998716 | In 2004, Google started to digitize books. All kinds of books. But, mostly classic works. The company made these books digital by creating snippets of the works by scanning thousands of books. The ultimate goal was to provide digital editions of books in Google Books.
Many authors did not like what Google was doing, and a lawsuit started to unfold. It's been a really long time coming, but a decision has finally been made in court: Google scanned books under a 'fair use' legal clause. In short, The Authors Guild that originally protested the scanning of these books has no room to argue any longer.
Google books is a massive library filled with (you guessed it) books. All of these books are in digital form, and Google has been working on building up this library for many years now. Most of the books in Google Books are the classic sort. The kinds of books that everyone should read at least once.
If you head to the Google Books website, you will see a search bar that lets you look for any topic. Entering a search term will pull up a corresponding book. From there, you can see an actual digital copy of the book. But, wait, doesn't this go against some kind of copyright law? Well, that's why the Authors Guild was upset about Google's scanning of books.
Google claims that its 'Books' undertaking is for educational purposes. Google Books attempts to make literature accessible for the entire world, but Google does make a profit from this. How? By displaying various advertisements alongside Google Books snippets. Google makes it relatively simple to purchase a digital copy of a book for your tablet too.
This is why so many people are angry that Google has won the current legal battle. Then again, Google also helps unknown artists enter a larger market by making all kinds of works accessible to a massive audience (there are some books included that aren't classic).
It's a tough call to make, though. On the one hand, Google is bringing digital books to everyone that wants to read a classic. On the other hand, Google is making some profit off of these books. So, where do you stand? On the side of Google or elsewhere?
The fact remains, though, whether the venture was educational or not, Google took copyrighted works and published those works without permission. If Google can do it - where is the line drawn? Does this mean that other companies can use copyrighted materials? Is Google above the law?
The tech world is buzzing today with news of the Google Books decision. What do you think about all of this? Is Google in the right when it comes to digitizing books that are copyrighted? Or, is this a blatant breach of copyright law, and Google should be held accountable? What side of the fence do you stand on?
Let us know what you think about this news below. | 2019-04-23T06:55:14 | http://articles.r-tt.com/software/audio-multimedia/google-book-battle |
0.998336 | A method and apparatus are disclosed which produce physical, chemical and/or biological non-local effect on a target substance through non-local processes mediated by quantum entanglement. In one broad embodiment, the apparatus includes a target substance, a first container holding said target substance; an originating substance, a second container holding said originating substance, said originating substance being quantum-entangled with said target substance; and a mean for manipulating said originating substance such that when said manipulation mean operates, said non-local effect is generated in said target substance through said non-local processes mediated by quantum entanglement. Also described are a number of implementations and methods of use of the apparatus, including a member of the manipulation mean being a Dewar filled with liquid nitrogen, a heater, a chemical substance, a laser or a magnetic coil connected to a driving device and the use being industrial, therapeutic, communicational or recreational.
1. A method of producing a non-local effect in a target through manipulating an originating substance and detecting said non-local effect which comprises the steps of: selecting said target which comprises a physical, chemical or biological system; selecting a target substance and said originating substance, said target substance being quantum-entangled with said originating substance; contacting said target substance with said target; positioning said target containing said target substance at a first location and said originating substance at a second location; manipulating said originating substance; and detecting said non-local effect; whereby said non-local effect is generated through a non-local process mediated by a quantum entanglement among said originating substance, said target substance and said target, and detected.
2. A method as in claim 1 wherein said manipulating step comprises cooling, heating or irradiating said originating substance, adding a manipulating substance to said originating substance or adding said originating substance to said manipulating substance; and said non-local effect comprises a physical, chemical and/or biological non-local effect.
3. A method as in claim 2 wherein said target substance comprises a first volume of water, oil, water-based medium or oil-based medium; said originating substance comprises a second volume of water, oil, water-based medium or oil-based medium; said non-local effect comprises a change in temperature, weight and/or pH value; and said detecting step comprises detecting said change with a thermometer, balance and/or pH meter.
4. A method as in claim 1 for non-locally transmitting a message from said second location to said first location wherein said positioning step further comprises encoding said message to be carried by said non-local effect; and said detecting step further comprises decoding said message at said first location.
5. A method as in claim 4 wherein said manipulating step comprises cooling, heating or irradiating said originating substance, adding a manipulating substance to said originating substance or adding said originating substance to said manipulating substance; said non-local effect comprises a physical, chemical and/or biological non-local effect; and said detecting step comprises detecting said change.
6. A method as in claim 5 wherein said target substance comprises a first volume of water, oil, water-based medium or oil-based medium; said originating substance comprises a second volume of water, oil, water-based medium or oil-based medium; said non-local effect comprises a change in temperature, weight and/or pH value; and said detecting step comprises detecting said change with a thermometer, balance and/or pH meter.
7. A method of producing a first non-local effects at a first location and a second non-local effect at a second location through manipulating an originating substance at a third location and detecting said first non-local effect and said second non-local effect which comprises the steps of: selecting a first target substance, a second target substance and said originating substance, said originating substance being in a first quantum-entanglement with said first target substance and a second quantum entanglement with said second target substance; positioning said first target substance at said first location, said second target substance at said second location and said originating substance at said third location; manipulating said originating substance; detecting said first non-local effect and said second non-local effect; whereby said first non-local effect is produced through a first non-local process mediated by said first quantum entanglement and detected, and said second non-local effect is produced through a second non-local process mediated by said second quantum entanglement and detected.
8. A method as in claim 7 wherein said manipulating step comprises cooling, heating or irradiating said originating substance, adding a manipulating substance to said originating substance or adding said originating substance to said manipulating substance; said first non-local effect comprises a first change of physical and/or chemical property in said first target substance; and said second non-local effect comprises a second change of physical and/or chemical property in said second target substance; and said detecting step comprises detecting said first change and said second change.
9. A method as in claim 8 wherein said first target substance comprises a first volume of water, oil, water-based medium or oil-based medium; said second target substance comprises a second volume of water, oil, water-based medium or oil-based medium; said originating substance comprises a third volume of water, oil, water-based medium or oil-based medium; said first non-local effect comprises said first change in temperature, weight and/or pH value; and said second non-local effect comprises said second change in temperature, weight and/or pH value; and said detecting step comprises detecting said first change with a first thermometer, balance and/or pH meter and said second change with a second thermometer, balance and/or pH meter.
10. A method as in claim 7 for non-locally transmitting a first message from said third location to said first location and a second message from said third location to said second location wherein said positioning step further comprises encoding said first message to be carried by said first non-local effect and said second message to be carried by said second non-local effect; and said detecting step further comprises decoding said first message at said first location and said second message at said second location.
11. A method as in claim 10 wherein said manipulating step comprises cooling, heating or irradiating said originating substance, adding a manipulating substance to said originating substance or adding said originating substance to said manipulating substance; said first non-local effect comprises a first change of physical and/or chemical property in said first target substance; and said second non-local effect comprises a second change of physical and/or chemical property in said second target substance; and said detecting step comprises detecting said first change and said second change.
12. A method as in claim 11 wherein said first target substance comprises a first volume of water, oil, water-based medium or oil-based medium; said second target substance comprises a second volume of water, oil, water-based medium or oil-based medium; said originating substance comprises a third volume of water, oil, water-based medium or oil-based medium; said first non-local effect comprises said first change in temperature, weight and/or pH value; and said second non-local effect comprises said second change in temperature, weight and/or pH value; and said detecting step comprises detecting said first change with a first thermometer, balance and/or pH meter and said second change with a second thermometer, balance and/or pH meter.
13. A method of producing a first non-local effect at a first location through manipulating a first originating substance at a second location and a second non-local effect at said second location through manipulating a second originating substance at said first location and detecting said first non-local effect and said second non-local effect which comprises the steps of: selecting said first target substance, second target substance, first originating substance and second originating substance, said first target substance being in a first quantum-entanglement with said first originating substance and said second target substance being in a second quantum-entangled with said second originating substance; positioning at said first location said first target substance and second originating substance and at said second location said second target substance and first originating substance; manipulating said first originating substance and second originating substance; and detecting said first non-local effect and said second non-local effect; whereby said first non-local effect is produced through a first non-local process mediated by said first quantum entanglement and detected, and said second non-local effect is produced through a second non-local process mediated by said second quantum entanglement and detected.
14. A method as in claim 13 wherein said manipulating step comprises cooling, heating or irradiating said first originating substance, adding a first manipulating substance to said first originating substance or adding said first originating substance to said first manipulating substance and cooling, heating or irradiating said second originating substance, adding a second manipulating substance to said second originating substance or adding said second originating substance to said second manipulating substance; said first non-local effect comprises a first change of physical and/or chemical property in said first target substance; said second non-local effect comprises a second change of physical and/or chemical property in said second target substance; and said detecting step comprises detecting said first change and said second change.
15. A method as in claim 14 wherein said first target substance comprises a first volume of water, oil, water-based medium or oil-based medium; said second target substance comprises a second volume of water, oil, water-based medium or oil-based medium; said first originating substance comprises a third volume of water, oil, water-based medium or oil-based medium; said second originating substance comprises a fourth volume of water, oil, water-based medium or oil-based medium; said first non-local effect comprises said first change in temperature, weight and/or pH value; said second non-local effect comprises said second change in temperature, weight and/or pH value; and said detecting step comprises detecting said first change with a first thermometer, balance and/or pH meter and said second change with a second thermometer, balance and/or pH meter.
16. A method as in claim 13 for non-locally transmitting a first message from said second location to said first location and a second message from said first location to said second location wherein said positioning step further comprises encoding said first message to be carried by said first non-local effect and said second message to be carried by said second non-local effect; and said detecting step further comprises decoding said first message at said first location and said second message at said second location.
17. A method as in claim 16 wherein said manipulating step comprises cooling, heating or irradiating said first originating substance, adding a first manipulating substance to said first originating substance or adding said first originating substance to said first manipulating substance and cooling, heating or irradiating said second originating substance, adding a second manipulating substance to said second originating substance or adding said second originating substance to said second manipulating substance; said first non-local effect comprises a first change of physical and/or chemical property in said first target substance; said second non-local effect comprises a second change of physical and/or chemical property in said second target substance; and said detecting step comprises detecting said first change and said second change.
18. A method as in claim 17 wherein said first target substance comprises a first volume of water, oil, water-based medium or oil-based medium; said second target substance comprises a second volume of water, oil, water-based medium or oil-based medium; said first originating substance comprises a third volume of water, oil, water-based medium or oil-based medium; said second originating substance comprises a fourth volume of water, oil, water-based medium or oil-based medium; said first non-local effect comprises said first change in temperature, weight and/or pH value; said second non-local effect comprises said second change in temperature, weight and/or pH value; and said detecting step comprises detecting said first change with a first thermometer, balance and/or pH meter and said second change with a second thermometer, balance and/or pH meter.
This application is a divisional application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/944,631 filed on Nov. 25, 2007, which claims priority from U.S. provisional application Ser. No. 60/869,511 filed Dec. 11, 2006, which applications are fully incorporated herein by reference.
The invention herein relates to method of producing non-local physical, chemical and biological effects on physical, chemical and/or biological systems through quantum entanglement mediated processes, to apparatus for such productions, and to method of using the non-local effects for beneficial purposes.
Many experiments have shown that quantum entanglement is physically real (see Aspect, A., Dalibard, j., & Roger, G. Experimental test of Bell's inequalities using time-varying analyzers. Phys. Rev. Lett. 49, 1804-1807 (1982)). It is ubiquitous in the microscopic world and manifests itself macroscopically under some circumstances (see Ghosh, S., Rosenbaum, T. F., Aeppli, G. & Coppersmith, S. N. Entangled quantum state of magnetic dipoles. Nature 425, 48-51 (2003)). Indeed, quantum spins of photons, electrons and nuclei have now been successfully entangled in various ways for purposes of quantum computation and communication (see Matsukevich, D. N. & Kuzmich, A. Quantum state transfer between matter and light. Science 306, 663-666 (2004)).
However, the essence and implications of quantum entanglement are still hotly debated and largely unknown. For example, it is commonly believed that quantum entanglement alone cannot be used to transmit binary or classical information. Further, despite of the fact that all interactions in biological systems at molecular and sub-molecular levels are quantum interactions in nature, it is commonly believed that quantum effects do not play any roles in biological functions such as brain functions due to quantum decoherence (see Tegmark, M. The importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes. Phys. Rev., 61 E: 4194 (2000)). Yet, I have recently discovered non-local effects of chemical substances on biological systems such as a human brain produced through quantum entanglement (Hu, H. P., & Wu, M. X. Photon induced non-local effect of general anesthetics on the brain. NeuroQuantology 4, 17-31 (2006), Hu, H. P., & Wu, M. X. Non-local effects of chemical substances on the brain produced through quantum entanglement. Progress in Physics v3, 20-26 (2006)).
My invention and discovery were made against such background. No process has previously been known which can produce non-local physical, chemical, thermal and gravitational effects through quantum entanglement mediated processes on targets such as physical, chemical or biological systems, so that beneficial effects or information can be delivered through said processes.
I have now invented apparatus and method for producing non-local physical, chemical, thermal and gravitational effects through quantum entanglement mediated processes on targets such as physical, chemical or biological systems.
The subject invention is originated from my research on brain functions and nature of quantum entanglement. I have theorized that nuclear and/or electronic spins inside brain play important roles in certain aspects of brain functions such as perception (Hu, H. P., & Wu, M. X. Spin-mediated consciousness theory. Medical Hypotheses 63, 633-646 (2004); also see arXiv e-print quant-ph/0208068v1 (2002)). Further, I have discovered non-local effects of chemical substances on biological systems such as a human brain produced through quantum entanglement (Hu, H. P., & Wu, M. X. Photon induced non-local effect of general anesthetics on the brain. NeuroQuantology 4, 17-31 (2006), Hu, H. P., & Wu, M. X. Non-local effects of chemical substances on the brain produced through quantum entanglement. Progress in Physics v3, 20-26 (2006)).
The subject invention is therefore based on my realizations that (1) quantum entanglement means genuine interconnectedness and inseparableness of once interacting quantum entities and can be directly sensed and utilized by the entangled quantum entities; (2) quantum entanglement can persist in biological, chemical and physical systems at room and higher temperatures despite of quantum decoherence; and (3) quantum entanglement can influence chemical and biochemical reactions, other physical processes and micro- and macroscopic properties of all forms of matters. Therefore, it can be harnessed and developed into useful technologies to serve the mankind in many areas such as communication, engineering, health, medicine and recreation.
For example, using the apparatus and method developed in this invention I have discovered that the pH value of water in a detecting reservoir can be non-locally affected through manipulating water in a remote reservoir quantum-entangled with the water in the detecting reservoir.
For another example, using the apparatus and method developed in this invention I have further discovered that temperature of the water in said detecting reservoir can be non-locally affected through manipulating the water in said remote reservoir quantum-entangled with the water in the detecting reservoir and said temperature can change against that of local environment surrounding said detecting reservoir.
For yet another example, using the apparatus and method developed in this invention I have also discovered that gravity of the water in said detecting reservoir can be non-locally affected through manipulating the water in said remote reservoir quantum-entangled with the water in the detecting reservoir and the said gravity can change against local gravity surrounding said detecting reservoir.
Key to the present invention is an apparatus for generating a non-local effect which includes a target substance; an originating substance, said target substance being quantum-entangled with said originating substance; a mean for manipulating said originating substance, such that when said manipulation mean operates, said non-local effect is generated in said target substance through non-local processes mediated by quantum entanglement.
In one broad embodiment, the invention provides an apparatus that changes the physical property of a target substance quantum-entangled with an originating substance through non-local processes mediated by quantum entanglement.
In another broad embodiment, the invention provides a method for changing the physical property of one target substance quantum-entangled with an originating substance through non-local processes mediated by quantum entanglement.
In yet another broad embodiment, the invention provides an apparatus that changes the chemical property of a target substance quantum-entangled with an originating substance through non-local processes mediated by quantum entanglement.
In another broad embodiment, the invention provides a method for changing the chemical property of one target substance quantum-entangled with an originating substance through non-local processes mediated by quantum entanglement.
In yet another broad embodiment, the invention provides an apparatus that changes the biological property of a target biological system in vitro quantum-entangled with an originating substance through non-local processes mediated by quantum entanglement.
In yet another broad embodiment, the invention provides a method for changing the biological property of a target biological system in vitro quantum-entangled with an originating substance through non-local processes mediated by quantum entanglement.
In yet another broad embodiment, the invention provides an apparatus that changes the biological property of a target biological system in vivo quantum-entangled with an originating substance through non-local processes mediated by quantum entanglement.
In yet another broad embodiment, the invention provides a method for changing the biological property of a target biological system in vivo quantum-entangled with an originating substance through non-local processes mediated by quantum entanglement.
In yet another broad embodiment, the invention provides an apparatus that enables communications between two or more quantum-entangled systems separated by arbitrary distances through non-local processes mediated by quantum entanglement.
In another broad embodiment, the invention provides method for communicating between two or more quantum-entangled systems separated by arbitrary distances through non-local processes mediated by quantum entanglement.
One benefit of the present invention is that the physical and/or chemical properties such as pH values, temperatures and gravities of two or more quantum-entangled systems separated by arbitrary distances can be, in one broad embodiment, manipulated or modified for a desired purpose. A second benefit of the present invention is that the beneficial effects of chemical substances such as medications can be, in one broad embodiment, delivered to desired biological systems such as human patients from a remote location of arbitrary distance. A third benefit of the present invention is that two or more quantum-entangled systems separated by arbitrary distances can, in one broad embodiment, communicate among themselves without the assistance of any classical channels.
My invention may be more completely understood by reference to the following detailed description considered in connection with the accompanying drawings. However, it should be understood that the drawings are designed for purposes of illustration only and not as a definition of the limits of the invention.
FIG. 1 is a schematic view of an apparatus according to one embodiment producing physical and/or chemical non-local effect in the target substance, through manipulation of the originating substance quantum-entangled with said target substance, optionally measurable by an internal probe such as pH meter or thermometer for the purpose of monitoring and/or non-local communication.
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of several embodiments of the manipulating mean for manipulating the originating substance quantum-entangled with the target substance to produce non-local effect in said target substance through non-local processes mediated by quantum entanglement.
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the apparatus illustrated in FIG. 1 producing physical and/or chemical non-local effect on said target substance, through manipulation of the originating substance quantum-entangled with said target substance, optionally measurable by an external probe such as analytical balance or spectrophotometer for the purpose of monitoring and/or non-local communication.
FIG. 4 is a schematic view of one method according to one embodiment for non-locally influencing a chemical reaction in a chemical system by first contacting said target substance with a chemical substance or mixture of chemical substances in said chemical system and then manipulating the originating substance quantum-entangled with said target substance.
FIG. 5 is a schematic view of another method according to one embodiment for non-locally influencing a biological system in vitro such as a cell culture by first contacting said target substance with said system in vitro and then manipulating the originating substance quantum-entangled with said target substance.
FIG. 6 is a schematic view of another method according to one embodiment for non-locally influencing a biological system in vivo such as a human body by first applying said target substance into said system in vivo and then manipulating the originating substance quantum-entangled with said target substance.
FIG. 7 is a schematic view of an apparatus according to one embodiment producing physical and/or chemical non-local effects in at least two targets, through manipulation of the originating substance quantum-entangled with target substances in said targets, respectively and optionally measurable by aforesaid internal probe such as the pH meter or the thermometers for the purpose of monitoring and/or non-local communication.
FIG. 8 is a schematic view of the apparatus illustrated in FIG. 7 producing physical and/or chemical non-local effects in the target substances, through manipulation of the originating substance quantum-entangled with said target substances, respectively and optionally measurable through aforesaid external probe for the purpose of monitoring and/or non-local communication.
FIG. 9 is a schematic view of the apparatus illustrated in FIG. 7 producing physical and/or chemical non-local effects in the target substances, through manipulation of the originating substance quantum-entangled with said target substances, respectively and optionally measurable through aforesaid internal probe and/or external probe for the purpose of monitoring and/or non-local communication.
FIG. 10 is a schematic view of one parallel combination of the apparatus illustrated in FIG. 1 for simultaneously transmitting two bits of information through said non-local effect from an originating location to a target location of arbitrary distance from said originating location.
FIG. 11 is a schematic view of one parallel combination of the apparatus illustrated in FIG. 3 for simultaneously transmitting two bits of information through said non-local effect from said originating location to said target location of arbitrary distance from said originating location.
FIG. 12 is a schematic view of yet another parallel combination of apparatuses illustrated in FIG. 1 and FIG. 3 for simultaneously transmitting two bits of information through said non-local effects from said originating location to the target location of arbitrary distance from said originating location.
FIG. 13 is a schematic view of one reverse combination of apparatus illustrated in FIG. 1 for exchanging two bits of information through said non-local effect between two locations separated by an arbitrary distance.
FIG. 14 is a schematic view of another reverse combination of apparatus illustrated in FIG. 3 for exchanging two bits of information through said non-local effect between said two locations separated by an arbitrary distance.
FIG. 15 is a schematic view of yet another reverse combination of apparatuses illustrated in FIG. 1 and FIG. 3 for exchanging two bits of information through said non-local effects between said two locations separated by an arbitrary distance.
FIG. 16 is a schematic view of an apparatus according to one embodiment producing non-local physical and/or chemical effects in a first substance, through quantum entanglement between said first substance and a second substance generated by a quantum entanglement generating source such as a laser or magnetic coil, optionally measurable by an internal and/or external probe such as pH meter.
FIG. 17 is a schematic view of a variation of the apparatus in FIG. 16 producing non-local physical and/or chemical effects in said first substance in which the said first substance and second substance are disposed in a reverse order of that shown in FIG. 16.
The apparatus of the present invention in one broad embodiment includes the target substance, a first container holding said target substance; the originating substance, a second container holding said originating substance, said target substance being quantum-entangled with said originating substance; and said mean for manipulating said originating substance.
The said mean will be, depending on a particular use, any mean, such as a mean for cooling, heating, irradiating or adding a specific substance to said originating substance, which is capable of generating non-local effects in said target substance when said mean operates. The selection and operating specifications of the mean will vary according to the use. The person skilled in the art will be able readily to determine the appropriate mean and operating specifications of said mean, with only routine experimentation, for optimum performance of the specific use intended.
The said target or originating substance will be, depending on the use, a single substance or a mixture of several substances and has the physical forms of a liquid, gel, powder, solid or gas, or a mixture of these said forms. Again, the selection of the substance or specific mixture of substances and their precise concentrations will vary according to the use. It will, however, from the information herein, be well within the ability of a person of ordinary skill in the art to select the appropriate mixture of substances for the particular use intended by such person, with no more than routine experimentation.
The said first or second container will be any material and form capable of supportive functions such as a simple plastic frame, a glass or plastic bottle, or polymer matrix. The container will be optional if the substance or the mixture of substances will be made into an appropriate solid.
The said target substance and originating substance will be quantum-entangled through one of several quantum-entanglement processes discovered by me (Hu, H. P., & Wu, M. X. Photon induced non-local effect of general anesthetics on the brain. NeuroQuantology 4, 17-31 (2006), Hu, H. P., & Wu, M. X. Non-local effects of chemical substances on the brain produced through quantum entanglement. Progress in Physics v3, 20-26 (2006)). For example, in one process a certain volume of a liquid, gel, gas, solid or a composition thereof such as water or a chemical solution in a suitable container will be exposed to electromagnetic radiation of a desired wavelength for a desired length of time before use. In a second process, the said liquid, gel, gas, solid or certain composition thereof such as water or a chemical solution in a suitable container will be simply left alone at a desired temperature for a certain period of time before use. Yet again, the selection and operating specifications of the quantum-entanglement processes will vary according to the use. The person skilled in the art will be able readily to determine the appropriate process and operating specifications of said process, with only routine experimentation, for optimum performance of the specific use intended.
Considering first FIG. 1, the apparatus 100 of the present invention in one embodiment includes a target 110, a source 120 and said mean 130 for manipulating said source 120. Said target 110 further includes the target substance 111, said first container 112 holding said substance 111 and said internal probe 113 inserted into said container 112. Said source further including said originating substance 121 and said second container 122 holding said substance 121.
In one particular embodiment, the target substance 111 and originating substance 121 are quantum-entangled water prepared according to one of the said quantum-entanglement process, the internal probe is a traceable-calibration digital thermometer with a resolution of 0.001° C. and repeatability of 0.002° C. in liquid near 25° C., container 112 is a small flat glassware of the dimensions about 1''×4''×6'' (thickness, width, height) with a useful internal volume of about 250 ml, container 122 is a round plastic ware of the dimensions 2''×7'' (diameter, height) with a useful internal volume of about 350 ml, and the manipulation mean 130 is a particular embodiment of mean 131 shown in FIG. 2 which includes a 25-liter Dewar and 10-25 liters of liquid nitrogen filling said Dewar. The container 112 has a removable cap so that it can be filled, emptied, closed and fitted with the said probe 113. The container 122 also has a removable cap so that container 122 can be filled, emptied and closed. It will be understood, however, that the invention is not limited only to quantum-entangled water but also applies to other quantum-entangled media. It will be further understood that the internal probe is not limited only to the said digital thermometer but also applies to other internal probes such as pH meter and conductivity meter depending on a particular purpose.
To use the apparatus having this particular embodiment for a desired purpose such as non-local signaling, control of a device or manipulation of the physical and or chemical properties of the target substance, one disposes the said target 110 to a desired location A with well-controlled environment and the said source 120 to another desired location B, operates the manipulation mean 131 by submerging the container 122 containing substance 121 into the 25-litre Dewar filled with 10-25 liters of liquid nitrogen for a desired length of time whereby the target substance 111 are remotely influenced by the operation of the said manipulation mean through non-local process 190 mediated by quantum entanglement between the target substance 111 and originating substance 121, and records readings of said probe 113 both before and during the operation of the said mean 131 for a desired period of time depending on a desired purpose.
FIG. 2 shows several embodiments of the manipulation mean 130 including said mean 131 mentioned immediately above. Said mean 131 includes a substance 131a and a container 131b filled said substance 131a such that when said source 120 is submerged into said substance 131a a non-local effect is produced in the target 110 for an intended purpose through said non-local process mediated by quantum entanglement between the target substance 111 and originating substance 121. In the particular embodiment described immediately above, said container 131b is a 25-liter Dewar and said substance 131a is 10-25 liters of liquid nitrogen filling said Dewar.
Mean 132 shown in FIG. 2 includes a manipulation member 132 disposed beneath, above or next to or otherwise enclosing the source 120 such that when said member operates a non-local effect is produced in the target 110 for an intended purpose through said non-local process mediated by quantum entanglement between the target substance 111 and originating substance 121. In one particular embodiment, the said manipulation member 132 is a household gas or electric stove. In another particular embodiment, the said manipulation member 132 is a household microwave oven.
Mean 133 shown in FIG. 2 includes a substance 133a and a container 133b filled with said substance 133a such that when the originating substance 121 contacts said substance 133a a non-local effect is produced in the target 110 for an intended purpose through said non-local process mediated by quantum entanglement between the target substance 111 and originating substance 121. In one particular embodiment, said substance 133a is a desired acidic or alkaline solution such as concentrated HCl or NaOH solution and said container 133b is a glass container of an appropriate shape and size with a removable cap. In another particular embodiment, said substance 133a is a quantum-entangled large liquid mass such as 200 gallons of quantum entangled water and said container 133b is a large tank capable of holding said large liquid mass.
Mean 134 includes a substance 134a and a container 134b filled with said substance 134a such that when said substance 134a contacts the originating substance 121a non-local effect is produced in the target 110 for an intended purpose through said non-local process mediated by quantum entanglement between the target substance 111 and originating substance 121. In one particular embodiment, said substance 134a is a desired acidic or alkaline solution such as concentrated HCl or NaOH solution and said container 134b is a glass container of a desired size with a removable cap.
Mean 135 includes a substance 135a, a container 135b filled with said substance 135a and disposed next to said contained 122, and an radiation member 135c disposed adjacent to said container 135b such that when said radiation member 135c operates said substance 135a gets quantum entangled with said substance 121 which, in turn, produces a non-local effect in the target 110 for an intended purpose through said non-local process mediated by quantum entanglement between the target substance 111 and originating substance 121. In one particular embodiment, said radiation member 135c is a laser of a desired wavelength and output. In another particular embodiment, said radiation member is a magnetic coil of desired output and an appropriate driving mechanism.
Considering next FIG. 3, the apparatus 100 of the present invention in one embodiment is a variation of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1 in which the internal probe 113 is replaced by an external probe 114 disposed beneath, above or next to said container 112. In one particular embodiment, the external probe 114 is an analytic balance with a capacity 210 g, resolution 0.1 mg, repeatability 0.1 mg and sensitivity drift 3 PPM/° C., and other elements of the apparatus are the same as the ones described in the particular embodiment of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1. The said analytic balance may further include a windshield enclosing the weight pan. To use the apparatus having this particular embodiment, one carries out same steps as those for operating the particular embodiment of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1 with the exception that instead of recording readings of the internal probe 113, the digital thermometer, the readings of the external probe 114, the analytic balance, are recorded both before and during the operation of the said mean 130 for a desired period of time.
FIG. 4 illustrates a method according to one embodiment for non-locally influencing a chemical reaction in a chemical system 140 for a beneficial purpose. The essential steps include providing said quantum entangled target substance 111 and originating substance 121, a chemical substance or a mixture of chemical substances 141 and said manipulation mean 130, contacting said target substance 111 with said chemical substance or the mixture of chemical substances 141; and operating the manipulation mean 130, whereby the chemical reaction in the chemical system 140 is remotely influenced through said non-local process 190 mediated by quantum entanglement between the target substance 111 and originating substance 121.
FIG. 5 illustrates another method according to one embodiment for non-locally influencing a biological system in vitro 150 for a beneficial purpose. The essential steps include providing said quantum entangled target substance 111 and originating substance 121, a desired biological target in vitro 151 and a manipulation mean 130, applying said target substance 111 to said biological target in vitro 151, and operating the manipulation mean 130; whereby the said biological target in vitro 151 is remotely influenced through said non-local process 190 mediated by quantum entanglement between the target substance 111 and originating substance 121.
FIG. 6 illustrates yet another method according to one embodiment for non-locally influencing a biological object in vivo 160 for a beneficial purpose. The essential steps include providing said quantum entangled target substance 111 and originating substance 121, a desired biological object in vivo 160 and a manipulation mean 130, applying said target substance 111 to said biological object in vivo 160, and operating the manipulation mean 130, whereby the said biological object in vivo 160 is remotely influenced through said non-local process 190 mediated by quantum entanglement between the target substance 111 and originating substance 121.
Considering next FIG. 7, the apparatus 100 of the present invention in one embodiment includes at least two targets 110 and 110a. This apparatus produces physical and/or chemical non-local effects in at least two target substances 111 and 111a, through manipulation of the originating substance 121 quantum-entangled with said target substances 111 and 111a, respectively measurable by aforesaid internal probe such as the pH meter or the thermometer for the purpose of monitoring and/or non-local communication.
To use the apparatus having said embodiment immediately above for a desired purpose such as non-local signaling to two locations or manipulation of the physical and/or chemical properties of said target substances, one disposes the said target 110 to a desired location A, the said target 110a to a desired location C and the said source 120 to another desired location B, operates the manipulation mean 130 for a desired length of time whereby the target substances 111 and 111a are remotely influenced by the operation of the said manipulation mean through non-local processes 190 and 190a respectively mediated by quantum entanglement of the target substances 111 and 111a with originating substance 121, and records readings of internal probes 113 and 113a both before and during the operation of the said mean 130 for a desired period of time depending on said desired purpose.
Considering next FIG. 8, the apparatus 100 of the present invention in one embodiment is a variation of the apparatus shown in FIG. 7 in which the internal probes 113 and 113a are replaced by external probes 114 and 114a respectively disposed beneath, above or next to containers 112 and 112a. To use the apparatus having this embodiment for a desired purpose, one carries out same steps as those for using the apparatus shown in FIG. 7 except that instead recording the readings of said internal probes 113 and 113a the readings of said external probes 114 and 114a are recorded.
Considering next FIG. 9, the apparatus 100 of the present invention in one embodiment is yet another variation of the apparatus shown in FIG. 7 in which the internal probes 113a is replaced by external probes 114a disposed beneath, above or next to container 112a. To use the apparatus having this embodiment for a desired purpose, one carries out same steps as those for using the apparatus shown in FIG. 7 except that instead recording the readings of said internal probe 113a the readings of said external probe 114a are recorded.
Considering next FIG. 10, the apparatus 100 of the present invention in one embodiment is a parallel combination of two apparatuses shown in FIG. 1 with each respectively including a target 110 or 110a and a source 120 or 120a. This apparatus can simultaneously produces physical and/or chemical non-local effects in said respective target 111 or 111a, through respective manipulation of the originating substance 121 or 121a quantum-entangled with said target substances 111 or 111a, measurable by aforesaid internal probe such as the pH meter or the thermometer for the purpose of monitoring and/or non-local communication.
To use the apparatus having said embodiment immediately above for a desired purpose such as simultaneous non-local transmission of two bits of information from one location to another, one disposes the said targets 110 and 110a to a desired location A and the said sources 120 and 120a to another desired location B, operates the manipulation means 130 and 130a for a desired length of time whereby the target substances 111 and 111a are remotely influenced by the operation of the said manipulation means 130 and 130a through non-local processes 190 and 190a respectively mediated by quantum entanglement between said target substances 111 and originating substance 121 and that between said target substances 111a and originating substance 121a, and records readings of internal probes 113 and 113a both before and during the operations of the said mean 130 and 130a for a desired period of time depending on said desired purpose.
Considering next FIG. 11, the apparatus 100 of the present invention in one embodiment is a variation of the apparatus shown in FIG. 10 in which the internal probes 113 and 113a are replaced by external probes 114 and 114a respectively disposed beneath, above or next to containers 112 and 112a. To use the apparatus having this embodiment for a desired purpose, one carries out same steps as those for using the apparatus shown in FIG. 10 except that instead recording the readings of said internal probes 113 and 113a the readings of said external probes 114 and 114a are recorded.
Considering next FIG. 12, the apparatus 100 of the present invention in one embodiment is yet another variation of the apparatus shown in FIG. 10 in which the internal probes 113a is replaced by external probes 114a disposed beneath, above or next to container 112a. To use the apparatus having this embodiment for a desired purpose, one carries out same steps as those for using the apparatus shown in FIG. 10 except that instead recording the readings of said internal probe 113a the readings of said external probe 114a are recorded.
Considering next FIG. 13, the apparatus 100 of the present invention in one embodiment is a reverse combination of at least two apparatuses shown in FIG. 1 with each including a target 110 or 110a and a source 120 or 120a. This apparatus produces physical and/or chemical non-local effects in said respective target substance 111 or 111a, through manipulation of the originating substance 121 or 121a quantum-entangled with said target substances 111 or 111a, measurable by aforesaid internal probe such as the pH meter or the thermometer for the purpose of monitoring and/or non-local communication.
To use the apparatus having said embodiment immediately above for a desired purpose such as non-local exchange of information between two locations, one disposes the said target 110 and source 120a to a desired location A and the said sources 120 and target 110a to another desired location B, operates the manipulation means 130 and 130a in a desired sequence and for a desired length of time whereby the target substances 111 and 111a are remotely influenced by the operation of the said manipulation means 130 and 130a through non-local processes 190 and 190a respectively mediated by quantum entanglement between said target substances 111 and originating substance 121 and that between said target substances 111a and originating substance 121a, and records readings of internal probes 113 and 113a both before and during the operations of the said mean 130 and 130a for a desired period of time depending on said desired purpose.
Considering next FIG. 14, the apparatus 100 of the present invention in one embodiment is a variation of the apparatus shown in FIG. 13 in which the internal probes 113 and 113a are replaced by external probes 114 and 114a respectively disposed beneath, above or next to containers 112 and 112a. To use the apparatus having this embodiment for a desired purpose, one carries out same steps as those for using the apparatus shown in FIG. 13 except that instead recording the readings of said internal probes 113 and 113a the readings of said external probes 114 and 114a are recorded.
Considering next FIG. 15, the apparatus 100 of the present invention in one embodiment is yet another variation of the apparatus shown in FIG. 13 in which the internal probes 113a is replaced by external probes 114a disposed beneath, above or next to container 112a. To use the apparatus having this embodiment for a desired purpose, one carries out same steps as those for using the apparatus shown in FIG. 13 except that instead recording the readings of said internal probes 113 and 113a the readings of said external probes 114 and 114a are recorded.
Considering next FIG. 16, the apparatus 200 of the present invention in one embodiment includes a first substance 211, a second substance 221 and a quantum entanglement generating source 230 for quantum-entangling said first and second substances 211 and 221. Said apparatus further includes a first container 212 for holding said first substance 211, a second container 222 for holding said second substance 221 and an optional internal probe 213 inserted into said container 212.
To use the apparatus having said embodiment immediately above for a desired purpose such as non-local manipulation of the physical and/or chemical properties of said first substance 211, one disposes the said first container 212 filled with said first substance 211 between said second container 222 filled with said second substance 221 and said generating source 230, operates said generating source 230 for a desired length of time whereby said first and second substances 211 and 221 are quantum entangled and said physical and/or chemical properties of said first substance 211 are affected by said second substance 221 through non-local processes mediated by said quantum entanglement, and optionally records readings of said internal probe 213 both before and during the operation of the said generating source 230 for a desired period of time depending on said desired purpose. In one particular embodiment, said generating source 230 is a laser of a desired wavelength and output. In another particular embodiment, said generating source 230 is a magnetic coil of desired output and an appropriate driving mechanism.
Considering next FIG. 17, the apparatus 200 of the present invention in one embodiment is a variation of the apparatus shown in FIG. 16 in which the said first substance 211 and second substance 221 are disposed in a reverse order of that in FIG. 16. To use the apparatus having this embodiment for a desired purpose, one carries out same steps as those for using the apparatus shown in FIG. 16 except that said second container 212 filled with said second substance 221 is disposed between said first container 212 filled with said first substance 211 and said generating source 230.
It will be appreciated that the particular features of the methods and apparatuses illustrated and described herein may be employed separately or in combination in any suitable manner so as to enhance the beneficial purposes. Those skilled in the art will also of course recognize that substitutions can be made, as long as the changes do not materially affect the ability of the methods and apparatuses disclosed herein.
Various experimental studies with the apparatus and method disclosed herein were carried out to evaluate the non-local effects produced on the target substance, in particular, water, using physical and/or chemical observables such as pH, temperature and gravity measured with high-precision instruments. My motivation for measuring pH change of water in one reservoir, while manipulating water in a remote reservoir quantum-entangled with the former, is to investigate whether and how pH value in the water being measured shifts under non-local influences. My motivation for measuring temperature variation of water in one reservoir, while manipulating water in a remote reservoir quantum-entangled with the former, is to investigate whether and how the thermodynamics of water being measured changes under non-local influences. My motivation for measuring gravity change of one reservoir of water, while manipulating water in a remote reservoir quantum-entangled with the former, is to investigate whether gravity is a non-local effect associated with quantum entanglement.
Further, the said experiments were achieved with the aids of high-precision analytical instruments. They include an Ohaus Voyager analytical balance with capacity 210 g, resolution 0.1 mg, repeatability 0.1 mg and sensitivity drift 3 PPM/° C., a Control Company traceable-calibration digital thermometer with resolution 0.001° C. and repeatability 0.002° C. near 25° C. in liquid such as water (estimated from calibration data provided), and a Hanna microprocessor pH meter Model 213 with resolution 0.001 and repeatability 0.002. The other key device is a 25-litre Dewar filled with liquid nitrogen and positioned remotely at a desired distance which not only provided the drastic changes in the water being manipulated but also served as a natural Faraday cage blocking any possible electromagnetic influence between the water being measured and the water being manipulated. Also important to the experiments described herein was the stable environment found in an underground room which shields many external noises such as mechanical vibration, air turbulence and large temperature change. Quantum-entangled stock water in individual volumes of 500 ml or similar quantities was prepared as described previously which might then be split into smaller volumes or combined into larger ones based on needs (Hu, H. P., & Wu, M. X. Photon induced non-local effect of general anesthetics on the brain. NeuroQuantology 4, 17-31 (2006); Hu, H. P., & Wu, M. X. Non-local effects of chemical substances on the brain produced through quantum entanglement. Progress in Physics v3, 20-26 (2006)). Briefly, in one procedure 500 ml fresh tap water in a closed plastic reservoir was exposed to microwave radiation in a 1500 W microwave oven for 2 min and then left in room temperature for 24 hours before use. In a second procedure 500 ml fresh tap water in the closed plastic reservoir was exposed to audio-frequency radiations of a 20 W magnetic coil for 30 min and then left in room temperature for 24 hours before use. In a third procedure, 500 ml bottled natural water was simply left in room temperature for at least 30 days before use. In a fourth procedure, 500 ml bottled distilled water was simply left in room temperature for at least 30 days before use. It was found previously that the stock water prepared according to these procedures is quantum-entangled (Hu, H. P., & Wu, M. X. Photon induced non-local effect of general anesthetics on the brain. NeuroQuantology 4, 17-31 (2006); Hu, H. P., & Wu, M. X. Non-local effects of chemical substances on the brain produced through quantum entanglement. Progress in Physics v3, 20-26 (2006)).
In the first key experimental setup, the apparatus illustrated in FIG. 9 having following particular embodiment was used: (1) the external probe 114a is the Ohaus Voyager analytical balance calibrated internally and stabilized in the underground room for more than one week before use; (2) the container 112a is a tightly closed round plastic reservoir of the dimensions 2''×7'' (diameter, height) with a useful internal volume of about 350 ml and a removal cap; (3) the target substance 111a is 175 ml water split from 500 ml quantum-entangled stock water and is placed on the wind-shielded pan of the balance with 1-inch white foam in between as insulation; (4) the container 112 is tightly closed round glass reservoir the dimensions 2''×4'' (diameter, height) with a useful internal volume of about 125 ml and a removal cap; (5) the target substance 111 is 75 ml water split from said 500 ml stock water; (6) the internal probe 113 is the Control Company traceable-calibration digital thermometer and/or the Hanna microprocessor pH meter Model 213 placed into the middle of the container 112; (6) the container 122 another tightly closed round plastic reservoir of the dimensions 2''×7'' (diameter, height) with a useful internal volume of about 350 ml and a removal cap; (7) the originating substance 121 is 250 ml water split from said 500 ml stock water; and (8) the manipulation mean 130 includes a 25-liter Dewar disposed at a distance of 50 or 500 feet from the targets 110 and 110a, and 15-25 liters of liquid nitrogen filling said Dewar.
Experiments with the above first setup carried out in the following steps: (1) prepare the 500 ml quantum-entangled stock water, divide the same into 175 ml, 75 ml and 250 ml portions and put them into their respective containers 112a, 112, and 122 described above; (2) set up the experiment according to FIG. 9 and let the instruments to stabilize for 30 min before any measurements is taken; (3) record for 20 min minute-by-minute changes of pH value and/or temperature of the water in the container 112 and weight of the container 112a with water before submerging the container 122 into said liquid nitrogen; (4) submerge the container 122 containing water 121 into said liquid nitrogen for 15 min or another desired length of time and record the readings of the internal and external probes 113 and 114a as before; and (5) take the container 122 out of the said liquid nitrogen, thaw the same in warm water for 30 min or longer and, at the same time, record the readings of the internal and external probes 113 and 114a as before. Control experiments were carried out in same steps with nothing done to the water 121 in the container 122.
Different variations of the above first setup were also used in the experiments. In one variation, the closed plastic container 122 was replaced with a metal container and instead of freeze-thaw treatment the water 121 in the metal container was quickly heated to boiling within 4-5 minutes and then cooled in cold water. In a second variation, the gravity portion of the experiment was eliminated and the water in the containers 112 and 112a were combined and put into a closed thermal flask, which prevents heat exchange between the water being measured and its local environment, for pH and temperature measurements. In a third variation, the gravity portion of the experiment was eliminated and the water in the containers 112 and 112a were combined and put into another plastic container for temperature, while said water 121 was, first, added with 5 ml concentrated HCl (38% by weight), second, added with 20 g NaOH powder, and, third, transferred to a metal container and heated to boiling on a stove. In a fourth variation, the 25-liter Dewar containing liquid nitrogen was replaced by a large water tank located 20-feet above the underground room which contained 200-gallon tap water sitting in room temperature for months and, instead of submersion, the water 121 in the container 122 was poured into the large water tank the purpose of which was to quantum-entangle the poured water with the water in the large tank. In a fifth variation, the gravity portion of the experiment was eliminated and the water in the containers 112 and 112a were combined and put into said plastic container which was moved to a location more than 50 miles away from the Dewar for temperature measurement.
In the second setup, the apparatus illustrated in FIG. 16 having following particular embodiment was used: (1) the quantum entanglement generating source 230 was a red laser with a 50 mW output and wavelengths 635 nm-675 nm; (2) the first container 212 was a flat glass reservoir of the dimensions 1''×4''×6'' (thickness, width, height) with a useful internal volume of about 250 ml disposed next to said laser 230; (3) the first substance 211 was 200 ml tap water filling said container 212 and sit in room temperature for more than a week without air exchange before use; (4) the internal probe 213 was the Hanna microprocessor pH meter Model 213 placed into the middle of the said flat glass container 212 which was closed to prevent air exchange; (5) the second container 222 was a tightly closed round glass reservoir of the dimensions 2''×4'' (diameter, height) with a useful internal volume of about 125 ml disposed at a distance of 500 cm from the container 212; and (6) the second substance 221 was 100 ml concentrated HCl (38% by weight).
Experiments with the above second setup were carried out as follows: (1) prepare the 200 ml tap water and set up the experiment according to FIG. 16; (2) turn on and operate said laser 230 such that the laser beam first passes through said first container 212 and then gets scattered on a nearby concrete wall; (3) let said pH meter 213 to stabilize for 30 min before any measurement is taken; (4) record for 10 min. minute-by-minute changes of pH value of water in said container 212; and (5) dispose said container 222 containing said second substance 221 on the path of the laser beam and at said distance of 500 cm from said container 212; and (6) record for 60 min or longer minute-by-minute readings from said pH meter 213. Control experiments were carried out in same steps without the presence of HCl.
Tables 1, 2 and 3 show sample data obtained from experiments conducted with the first setup on one batch of quantum-entangled water in which the manipulation mean 130 was at said distance of 50 feet away from the water 111 and 111a being measure and said water was simply individually bottled natural water with a shelf time of more than 90 days. Similar results were also obtained with water prepared according to other quantum entanglement methods mentioned above and other quantum-entangled liquid such as olive oil, alcohol, distilled water and Coca Cola as discussed later. The different distances of the manipulation mean from the target in the underground room where most measurements were done made no differences with respect to the non-local effects observed.
As shown in Table 1, within minutes after said container 122 was submerged into liquid nitrogen, during which the temperature of said water 121 being manipulated would drop from about 25° C. to -193° C., the pH value of said water 111 in said container 112 steadily stopped dropping and then started rising, but about 20 min after the frozen water 121 was taken out of liquid nitrogen and thawed in warm water the pH value of said water 111 steadily leveled off and started dropping again. In Table 1, the pH value at the starting point of measurement is set to zero.
In contrast, as shown in Table 1, the control experiments did not show such dynamics. It is known that the pH value of water increases as its temperature goes down to 0° C. Therefore, the pH value of said water 111 being measured goes in the same direction as said water 121 when the latter is manipulated. The difference in pH values from control in which no freeze-thaw was done at the point of thawing is about 0.010. However, in the second variation of the first setup, when said water 111 and 111a being measured were merged and kept in said thermal flask to prevent heat exchange with the local environment, no effect on pH value of said water 111 and 111a was observed under freeze-thaw treatment of said water 121. Statistical analysis performed on all data collected after freezing for 10 min show that the results are significantly different under these different treatments/settings.
As shown in Table 2, before the submersion of said container 122 into liquid nitrogen the temperature of said water 111 in said container 112 rose in small increments due to, by design, the slight temperature difference between the local environment and said water 111 in said container 112, but within about 4-5 minutes after said container 122 was submerged into liquid nitrogen, during which the temperature of said water 121 being manipulated would drop from about 25° C. to -193° C., the temperature of said water 111 in said container 112 first stopped rising and then steadily dropped in small increments; and then within about 4-5 minutes after said frozen water 121 was taken out of liquid nitrogen and thawed in warm water the temperature of said water 111 in said container 112 first stopped dropping and then steadily rose again in small increments. In Table 2, the temperature at the starting point of measurement is set to zero.
In contrast, as shown in Table 2, the control experiments did not show such dynamics. The temperature difference from control in which no freeze-thaw was done at the point of thawing is about 0.05° C. However, in the second variation of the first setup, when said water 111 and 111a being measured were merged and kept in said thermal flask to prevent heat exchange with the local environment, no dropping of temperature were observed under freeze-thaw treatment of said water 121. Statistical analysis performed on all data collected after freezing for 10 min show that the results are significantly different under these different treatments/settings.
The applicant also found that other liquids such as olive oil, alcohol, Coca Cola and distilled water also showed similar qualitative temperature variations under the said freeze-thaw treatment. Furthermore, experiments conducted with the fifth variation of the first setup in which the temperature measurement done at a location more than 50 miles way from the manipulation mean 130 also show results similar to those obtained at distances of 50 and 500 feet respectively.
As shown in Column 2 of Table 3, before the submersion of said container 122 into liquid nitrogen the weight of said water 111a in said container 112a drifted lower very slowly. But almost immediately after said container 122 was submerged into liquid nitrogen, during which the temperature and physical properties of said water 121 being manipulated drastically changed, the weight of said water 111a dropped at an increased rate, and after the frozen water 121 was taken out the liquid nitrogen and thawed in warm water the weight of said water 111a first stopped dropping and, in some cases, even rose before resuming drifting lower. In Table 3, the weight and temperature at the starting point of measurements are set to zero.
In contrast, as shown in Column 4 of Table 3, the control experiments did not show such dynamics. The weight difference from control in which no freeze-thaw was done at the point of thawing is about 2 mg. Statistical analysis performed on all data collected after freezing for 10 min show that the results are significantly different under these different treatments/settings. In addition, as shown in Column 3 of Table 3, the dynamics of the temperature variations during the same three stages of manipulation are also very clear.
The applicant found in said first variation of the first setup that when said water 121 was quickly heated to boiling on a household gas stove instead of being frozen in liquid nitrogen, a brief rise of weight of said water 111a in the range of about 0.5 mg were repeated observed in several experiments conducted so far.
As shown in Column 2 of Table 4, the signatures of the manipulation induced temperature changes in said third variation of the first setup were clear. The applicant further found that when said 5 ml HCl was added to the water 121, the pH value in the water being measured decreased. In Column 2 of Table 4, the general background trend of the temperature first increasing, flattening and decreasing was due to environmental temperature change.
As shown in Column 5 of Table 4, in about 30 min after the second container 222 containing said second substance 221, the 100 ml concentrated HCl (38% by weight), was disposed behind the first container 212 at the said distance of 500 cm and on the path of said laser light, during which the water 211 in the first container 212 got quantum-entangled with the HCl 221 in the second container 222, the pH value of the water 211 in the first container 212 steadily decreased. In Columns 5 & 6 of Table 4, the pH value at the starting point of measurement is set to zero.
In contrast, as shown in Column 6 of Table 4, the control experiment did not show such dynamics. Also, the said laser did not affect the temperature of the water in the first reservoir significantly during the whole treatment. The difference in pH value from control in which HCl was absence is about 0.070 after 50 min of exposure to HCl. Statistical analysis performed on all data collected after exposure to HCl for 30 min show that the results are significantly different from control.
With all experimental setups and their variations described herein, the applicant has observed clear and reproducible non-local effects with the aids of high-precision analytical instruments and under well-controlled conditions. The physical observables used for measuring the non-local effects are simple ones which can be measured with high precisions. These non-local effects are, even under the most stringent statistical analysis, significantly above and beyond what were noticeable in the control experiments.
Through careful analysis, I have excluded the possibility that the observed weight variation was a secondary local effect due to heat loss and/or sensitivity drift of balance associated with temperature change induced by the manipulation of said originating substance. First, during the period of said manipulation the total temperature change caused by said manipulation was less than 0.08° C. so the total heat loss for the 175 ml water 111a in the container 112a was about 601 In contrast, the weight loss during remote manipulation was on average about 2.5 mg which is 22.5×109 J in energy unit. Second, said container 112a and the pan of the analytic balance 114a were separated by a 1-inch white foam to prevent heat transfer to said analytic balance 114a. Even in the highly unlikely scenario that this temperature change somehow affected the overall temperature of the analytical balance 114a, the associated sensitivity drift of the balance was about 0.03 mg which is 10 times smaller than what's actually observed. Therefore, the observed gravity variation is a genuine and direct non-local effect associated with quantum entanglement.
The applicant chose to use liquid nitrogen in said 25-liter Dewar placed at said distant locations for manipulating said originating substance 121 in said experiments because said liquid nitrogen provided drastic changes in the temperature and properties of the water 121 in a very short period of time. The applicant's expectation was that, if the quantum entities inside the water 111 and 111a being measured were able to sense the changes experienced by the quantum entities in the water 121 being manipulated through quantum entanglement and further utilize the information associated with the said changes, the chemical, thermal and gravitational properties of the water 111 and 111a might be affected through quantum entanglement mediated non-local processes (Hu, H. P., & Wu, M. X. Photon induced non-local effect of general anesthetics on the brain. NeuroQuantology 4, 17-31 (2006), Hu, H. P., & Wu, M. X. Non-local effects of chemical substances on the brain produced through quantum entanglement. Progress in Physics v3, 20-26 (2006)). While the applicant does not wish to be bound by a particular suggested mechanism, the most logical explanation for all the observed non-local effects is that they are the consequences of non-local processes mediated by quantum entanglement between quantum entities in the water being measured and the remote water being manipulated as more specifically illustrated below.
First, when the pH value of the water 121 in the container 122 is high or low or is changing under said manipulations such as said cooling, heating or addition of said acidic or alkaline chemical, the pH value of said water 111 being measured shift in the same direction as that of said water 121 under the non-local influence of said water 121 in said container 122 mediated through quantum entanglement between said water 111 and 121 and, under the condition that said container 112 is able to exchange energy with its local environment, as if H+ in said water 121 is directly available to said water 111 in said container 112.
Second, when temperature of the water 121 in the container 122 is extremely low or high or is changing under said manipulations such as said cooling, heating or addition of heat-generating chemicals such as concentrated HCl or NaOH powder, the temperature of said water 111 being measured shift in the same direction as that of said water 121 under the non-local influence of said water 121 in said container 122 mediated through quantum entanglement between said water 111 and 121 and, under the condition that said container 112 is able to exchange energy with its local environment so that the local thermodynamic energy is conserved, as if the heat or lack of it in said container 122 is directly available to said water 111 in said container 112.
Third, when the water 121 in the container 122 is manipulated though cooling, heating or mixing with large quantum-entangled mass such that the quantum entanglement of the water 121 under manipulation with its local environment changes, the weight of the water 111a in said container 112a also changes under the non-local influence of said manipulation mediated through quantum entanglement between said water 111a being weighed and 121 being manipulated.
While the applicant does not wish to be bound by any particular quantum entities suggested herein, it is believed that nuclear spins and/or electron spins respectively inside the target substance and originating substance are the quantum entities responsible for mediating the observed non-local effects since nuclear spins and electron spins are the natural targets of interactions for reasons discussed below.
Water contains vast numbers of nuclear spins carried by 1H. These spins form complex intra- and inter-molecular networks through various intra-molecular J- and dipolar couplings and both short- and long-range intermolecular dipolar couplings. Further, nuclear spins have relatively long relaxation times after excitations. Thus, when a nematic liquid crystal is irradiated with multi-frequency pulse magnetic fields, its 1H spins can form long-lived intra-molecular quantum coherence with entanglement for information storage (Khitrin, A. K., Ermakov, V. L. & Fung, B. M. Information storage using a cluster of dipolar-coupled spins. Chem. Phys. Lett. 360, 161-166 (2002)). Long-lived (˜0.05 ms) entanglement of two macroscopic electron spin ensembles in room temperature has also been achieved (Julsgaard, B., Kozhekin, A. & Polzik, E. S. Experimentally long-lived entanglement of two macroscopic objects. Nature 413, 400-403 (2001)). Furthermore, spin is a fundamental quantum process and was shown to be responsible for the quantum effects in both Hestenes and Bohmian quantum mechanics (Hu, H. & Wu, M. Spin as primordial self-referential process driving quantum mechanics, spacetime dynamics and consciousness. NeuroQuantology 2: 41-49 (2004)). Thus, we suggest that quantum-entangled nuclear spins and/or electron spins are likely the mediators of all observed non-local effects reported here (Hu, H. P., & Wu, M. X. Photon induced non-local effect of general anesthetics on the brain. NeuroQuantology 4, 17-31 (2006); Hu, H. P., & Wu, M. X. Non-local effects of chemical substances on the brain produced through quantum entanglement. Progress in Physics v3, 20-26 (2006)).
In short, through the above described experiments, I have discovered that (1) the pH value of water in a detecting reservoir quantum-entangled with water in a remote reservoir changes in the same direction as that in the remote water when the latter is manipulated under the condition that the water in the detecting reservoir is able to exchange energy with its local environment; (2) the temperature of water in a detecting reservoir quantum-entangled with water in a remote reservoir can change against the temperature of its local environment when the latter is manipulated under the condition that the water in the detecting reservoir is able to exchange energy with its local environment; and (3) the gravity of water in a detecting reservoir quantum-entangled with water in a remote reservoir can change against the gravity of its local environment when the latter was remotely manipulated; Thus, among other things I have realized non-local signaling using three different physical observables--pH value, temperature and gravity.
My invention and discovery also make it clear that (1) the properties of all matters can be affected non-locally through quantum entanglement mediated processes; (2) physically, chemically and/or biologically meaningful information can be transmitted from one system or location to the other through quantum entanglement; (3) quantum entanglement can be used to deliver the therapeutic effects of many drugs to biological systems such as human bodies without ever physically administrating the said drugs to the said systems; (4) quantum entanglement alone can be used for communications of both quantum and classical information; (5) many substances of nutritional and even recreational values can be repeatedly administrated to the human body through the said technologies; and (6) quantum entanglement can also be used to entangle two or more biological objects such as human brains for legitimate purposes.
It will be evident from the above that there are other embodiments which are clearly within the scope and spirit of the present invention, although they were not expressly set forth above. Therefore, the above disclosure is exemplary only, and the actual scope of my invention is to be determined by the claims. | 2019-04-24T02:14:12 | http://www.patentsencyclopedia.com/app/20150114820 |
0.999396 | I've been into How To posts lately, so I wanted to share some tips about something I struggled heavily within the past -- staying positive.
I find myself always promising myself in the beginning of every year that I want to be more positive, however as the months pass by, I usually forget my goals and let stress take me over. Through a series of trial and error I've learned what works and what doesn't, so here are some tips as to how to revolutionize your way of thinking RIGHT NOW to create the optimal environment to clear out negativity and reach your goals!
Though it may sound counterintuitive to preventing negativity it's necessary to reflect on your past mistakes and failures. This can be difficult to approach without bias as we often try to brush our mishaps under the rug and continue pushing forward. However, acknowledging our mistakes and identifying what exactly went wrong can help us build a stronger foundation to approach future problems.
Whether it be in your business or personal life, take time to identify what didn't work out and critically think as to why that is so. With this in mind, we can set a base goal, which is our goal that we work on a daily basis to fulfill. For example, if you were laid off this year, you can create the base goal that you want to find employment that makes you happy and fulfilled in your work.
I suggest having a physical representation of your positive mindset/goals. Keep a planner, write a journal, make a mood board, etc. Anything that can remind you to slow down and de-stress!
I've talked about how to do this in more depth in my 'How To Let Go of Toxic Relationships' post, which you can read here! To summarize: Getting rid of negative energy can manifest itself in physically cleaning, such as cleaning out your home, or analyzing your current relationships. If there are people or activities that weigh you down, keeping them in your life will perpetuate a cycle of negativity. This may be easier said than done as some toxic people may be those who are extremely close to us. It's important to understand that as time goes on, building close relationships with those who will encourage and foster your growth is something that you deserve.
Surrounding yourself with people and activities that stress you out will only hinder your personal growth, and affect your self-image. If you're hesitant to transition into this type of mindset, try taking small steps towards a specified goal. Distance yourself gradually from those who do not support you, or slowly cut down on a bad habit day by day. Gradual results are still results.
If you approach a situation with a self-doubting mindset, you're more than likely to fail. Understand your strengths and weaknesses and how you can play upon those to build a better environment for your success. Don't be afraid to acknowledge things that you do well. If you are an excellent writer, try writing a blog about a topic you're passionate about to showcase your talents. If you enjoy photography, make it an active part of your life by posting your photos on social media or perhaps sharing them in a portfolio.
Imagine: You're a multi-talented, confident person who is focused, driven and can accomplish anything. Make this statement, and many other positive affirmations, a part of your everyday life. Before anyone else can put their belief in you, you must first believe in yourself. Your power stems from your image of yourself, and improving your confidence is an essential part of adopting a healthy mindset in your everyday life. | 2019-04-18T23:12:54 | https://www.sincerelyaliceblog.com/2018/03/how-to-stay-positive.html |
0.99938 | The Cayman Islands Court of Appeal decision in In the matter of the Herald Fund SPC (In Official Liquidation)1 has provided some clarity on the ranking of priority in liquidation of amounts owing to shareholders and former shareholders of a company operating as an open ended investment fund. In summary, if a former shareholder has completed the redemption process prescribed by the company's articles, s/he will be treated as a creditor (although ranking behind the general body of outside creditors). If a former shareholder has only "accrued the right to redeem", in that the redemption process prescribed by the company's articles has not been completed, then s/he will be treated as a shareholder.
Herald Fund SPC had been a feeder fund for Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities LLC prior to its collapse following Mr Madoff's revelation that he had been conducting a massive fraud.
The issue before the Court of Appeal was whether a redeemed shareholder, who had completed the redemption process in accordance with the company's articles of association but had not yet been paid because of an intervening winding up, was to be treated as a creditor or a shareholder for the purpose of the redeemed shareholder's claim in the liquidation for the unpaid proceeds of the redemption.
... this paragraph shall not apply if: i. The terms of redemption or purchase provided for the redemption or purchase to take place at a date later than the date of the commencement of the winding up" (our emphasis).
Section 37(7)(b) then sets out the priority ranking of an amount due under sub-section (a). In essence, it provides that these amounts rank behind the company's debts generally but ahead of amounts owing to members in satisfaction of their rights as members.
The Court of Appeal's decision brings some clarity to the question of how amounts owing to former shareholders and existing shareholders are treated in the winding up of a company that operates as an open ended investment fund.
The Court of Appeal's decision has confirmed that section 37(7)(a) applies where a shareholder has merely "accrued the right" to redeem his or her shares, but has not yet completed the redemption process prescribed by the company's articles. Such a shareholder would be still "redeeming" his/her shares and not "redeemed". For those lucky (former) shareholders who have fully redeemed, but have not yet been paid, they are treated as creditors and section 37(7)(a) does not apply to them.
The Court of Appeal accepted the argument that section 37(7)(a) of the Companies Law was enacted to permit a claim by a "redeeming" shareholder in a liquidation where no such claim could be made under the general winding up provisions because (firstly) the purported claimant would still be a shareholder and (secondly) a counterparty is not usually permitted to enforce a contract against a company in liquidation which requires the company to pay out money in order to acquire property.
Conversely, the redeemed � but as yet unpaid � former shareholder who is not impeded by these two considerations has a provable claim in the liquidation as a creditor for the redemption proceeds under section 139(1) of the Companies Law. In this regard, the Court of Appeal held that the claim of the former shareholder ranked behind the claims of ordinary creditors (pursuant to section 49(g) of the Companies Law), although still ahead of amounts owing to current shareholders. Section 49(g) of the Companies Law provides that no amounts owing to a shareholder "in his character of a member" are deemed a debt of the company payable to the shareholder ahead of any amount owing to an outside creditor.
The Court of Appeal reasoned that a claim for unpaid redemption proceeds, being a claim founded on the statutory contract between a member and the company, was a claim for an amount due in the former shareholder's character as a member and so would fall within the ambit of section 49(g) of the Companies Law.
In coming to its decision, Field JA of the Court of Appeal expressly rejected the reasoning of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in the decision of Western Union International Limited v Reserve International Liquidity Fund Limited ECSJ No 26 (Western Union) that considered section 197 of the BVI Insolvency Act 2003. In that decision, Bannister J held that a claim for redemption proceeds in liquidation is not founded on the statutory contract between a member and the company because redemption is a surrender of membership and so a claim for the proceeds of redemption, being consideration for the surrender, could not be made in the former shareholder's "character as a member" (being the threshold to triggering the application of section 197 and relevantly the same words used in section 49(g) of the Companies Law).
While Bannister J's decision was not reversed by an appellate court3, the BVI Court of Appeal in Westford Special Situations Fund Ltd v Barfield Nominees Limited HCVAP 2010/014 disapproved Bannister J's conclusions as to the characterisation of redemption proceeds (in the context of whether a redeemed shareholder had standing as a creditor to petition for the appointment of a liquidator to the company) and so it is doubtful whether Western Union remains good law in BVI, let alone of relevance to the Cayman Islands.
Given that over 80 per cent of Cayman Islands open ended investment funds are conducted through a company structure, it is obviously highly desirable that the Companies Law be clear and unambiguous as to how amounts owing to redeemed former shareholders and redeeming existing shareholders be treated in the winding up of a company. It is apparent, however, that section 37(7)(a) of the Companies Law suffers from some unfortunate drafting, including the absence of a definition for the term "redemption".
The Court of Appeal's decision has clarified when section 37(7)(a) of the Companies Law applies and the concomitant priority to be given in a company's winding up.
However, whether a (former) shareholder has been redeemed or merely accrued the right to redeem pursuant to an interpretation of the company's articles may still be something on which reasonable minds may differ.
This is more likely to be an issue for articles of association drafted before 2009. After the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal decision in Re Strategic Turnaround CILR 447, Cayman Islands funds practitioners tended to draft investment fund articles of association to provide greater clarity that, (subject to any powers to suspend redemptions) shares are automatically deemed to be redeemed on the relevant redemption day and the balance of the steps required before payment of the redemption proceeds could be made (for example, calculation of the net asset value) were not part of a process of "redemption" of the shares. While this decision was reversed on appeal by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the Committee noted that the relevant articles of association were unclear as to the point at which redemption was deemed to have occurred. Accordingly, in order to avoid any doubt, the practice developed as a result of the Court of Appeal's decision in Re Strategic Turnaround has continued.
The authors understand that the liquidator has appealed the Court of Appeal's decision to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
2 Section 37(7)(a) of the Companies Law (2013 Revision), being the current revision, is in the same form as that section in the 2003 Revision.
3 The authors understand that, while an appeal was made, the parties agreed between themselves to reverse Bannister J's decision and so an appellate judgment was not given. | 2019-04-18T10:43:38 | http://www.mondaq.com/caymanislands/x/532526/offshore+financial+centres/Cayman+decision+Of+Herald+Fund+SPC |
0.997729 | My daughter has offered her home which is great - but I am at a loss as to if I should sell my townhouse or move into her empty home. Being a senior retired physically limited person - I cannot even handle townhouse stairs - - but paying for both places scares me Any good advice?? I can't go upstairs and son cannot either.
Is there a good rental market in that area? If so maybe try renting it first, but go through a real estate office and screen very well because a bad tenant can be a nightmare....however most tenants are good so again screen carefully and check multiple references. But here I am giving you real estate advise when you asked about stairs. I am in my 50s and I hate stairs because I have fallen down a flight of stairs more than once in my life, and I am very happy living in a one story house.....so you probably will love it once you move in. Take care and wishing you the best of luck for a happy and healthier new year! | 2019-04-22T04:59:13 | https://www.whatnext.com/questions/post-surgery-rehab-had-to-move-to-one-story-place |
0.999986 | Why do steins have lids?
What's the point of the lid on the beer stein?
To keep the beer cool by preventing airflow from above.
To keep insects and other contaminants out.
To prevent spillage while cheers-ing and generally carousing.
See the following article on Stein Lids for more detail.
The steins with their lids seem to have come about as a result of the bubonic plague to serve as sanitary measure and thus keep flies and other insects (fleas) out of the beer.
From about 1340 until 1380, a bubonic plague, or Black Death, killed more than 25 million Europeans! As horrible as this historic event was, it prompted tremendous progress for civilization. And, of interest here, it is also responsible for the origin of the beer stein.
Recall from above that the distinction between a mug and a stein is the hinged lid. This lid was originally conceived entirely as a sanitary measure. During the summers of the late 1400s, hoards of little flies frequently invaded Central Europe. By the early 1500s, several principalities in what is now Germany had passed laws requiring that all food and beverage containers be covered to protect consumers against these dirty insects. The common mug also had to be covered, and this was accomplished by adding a hinged lid with a thumblift. This ingenious invention was soon used to cover all German beverage containers while still allowing them to be used with one hand. - A Brief History of Beer Steins.
For more information one should read The Beer Stein Book: A 400 Year History.
Beer with hops will get skunky shortly after exposure to sun light. Exposure of about 15 seconds and you can smell the change start if you hold it to your nose in bright sun light. I have one and use it during outdoor barbecues.
My Austrian father-in-law tells me that they're also handy for keeping ashes out of your beer. I don't smoke, so that had never really occurred to me until he mentioned it.
I believe the lid was also used during the Revolutionary War to keep the Kings naval soldiers from throwing a British coin into the beer of an unsuspecting drunk colonist in a tavern. Legend has it that once the ale was consumed, the remaining coin would signify that the owner of the stein would be incriminated by default, to the loyalty of the King. He would then be immediately drafted into the Naval Army of the King. Consequently, the need for a glass bottom to the stein was adopted as a precaution for colonists to be able to see the naval officers by simply lifting up the stein and prevent capture..
I visited Bavaria last November and noticed how comfortable the people were outdoors. Maybe they used the lids to keep the snow from watering down their beer. I think it’s the best!
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Why do France and Italy have so much lower beer consumption than their neighbors? | 2019-04-23T12:45:54 | https://alcohol.stackexchange.com/questions/361/why-do-steins-have-lids/1043 |
0.998776 | If someone asked you "Why do you do what you do?" what would you say in response? "What is my Why?" is a question that's been coming up a lot in my life lately.
It all started with an assignment to watch this TED Talk by Simon Sinek. Like many TED Talks, it left me thinking, "That's it? Isn't there any more?". There wasn't. Instead, I sat there, thinking about my own Why. My mind ventured into a territory it perhaps hasn't known since I was a toddler: a circle of endless questions (Why this? Why that? Why? Why? Why?). I went about my day with these questions continuing to pop up like billboards. Then of course, the inevitable came: I ended up at my blog, and the same question came: Why do I blog?
The answer came swiftly, as this blog has always had a reason behind it, but asking in such a precise way prompted me to put it into words. Why do I blog? I blog because I believe that by talking about food, we (we, the people of the internet--of the world) can change the way the world eats. We can help people eat more sustainably, bettering the health of our planet, and we can help people eat more nutrient-dense food, allowing them to take control of their health.
Bloggers--not one single blogger, but many bloggers working together- can help make healthy nutrient-rich ingredients look and taste so good that they're crave-worthy. By sharing recipes, we can give people the resources they need in order to eat better. Like this salad with Grilled Greek Meatballs--hello delicious and nutritious! I blog because it is through my blog that I am empowered to help move people towards vegetables. Vegetables, and healthy fats, and real, sustaining food. I blog because it inspires me to continue playing with my food, in the most creative of ways!
Cooking, eating, talking about food--those are integral aspects of who I am. But Why I do all of those things... that's the real story.
Now it's your turn! What's your Why?
1. Fire up your grill and heat it to medium-high heat (500°F). In a small bowl, combine the ingredients for the meatballs. Use your hands to ensure the mixture is fully incorporated and roll the mixture into a dozen evenly sized balls. Skewer the meatballs with kabob sticks (this is optional, but makes handling the meatballs easier once they are on the grill).
2. Place the meatball kabobs on the grill. (I like to grill the onions for the salad as well: cut them into wedges, and place them on a grill pan, adding the pan to the grill).
3. Cook the meatballs with the lid on the grill for about 4 minutes. Use tongs to flip the entire kabob of meatballs over, and cook on the other side for 4 more minutes, returning the lid to the grill. Stir the onions at this point as well.
4. Use tongs to pull the kabobs and onions from the grill, placing them on a serving dish.
5. Assemble the Tzatziki: Stir together the ingredients and adjust seasoning to taste.
6. Arrange a salad on each dinner plate. Top with a skewer of meatballs and a few spoonfuls of Tzatziki. | 2019-04-18T22:39:30 | https://www.forageddish.com/blog/2015/3/22/grilled-greek-meatballs-with-paleo-tzatziki-sauce |
0.999826 | Just to be clear, it was a fake app calling itself MetaMask not actually from the website MetaMask.io.
Why is this so clear to me and not to him? Is there an alternative view I'm missing here?
Or you could simply increase the maximum number of transactions per second to increase liquidity. This is a traditional problem to a non-traditional solution. Not even relevant. Also, your definition of currency is archaic in this context. XRP is a settlement currency, not intended to be a spending currency. Even if you settle in XRP; you'd still need a nation-state to adopt it as the national currency in order to spend it locally (or have it be a complimentary currency at the very least)....otherwise you'd need to sell the XRP to spend it. I think sounding the alarm bells of a future world dominated by XRP causing an even more future liquidity crisis isn't practical. And even in that scenario, refer to my first point about increasing the transaction speed to increase liquidity. You don't actually need to hold XRP to use XRP or have it increase in value either.
Earthport has a preferential deal with Ripple that predates exclusivity contracts. Earthport was one of the first Ripple gateways The value of said deal to whomever owns the contract increases proportionally to the volume of transactions being done this way. You can put the rest together Also earthport infrastructure is valuable in right hands and that alone would cover cost of the deal .
I just saw this post. Are you sure he didn't have the plausible deniability on? He may need to put a second password. I'm actually almost 100% sure this is the case. Edit: I didn't see your post. It seems I was wrong but this may be helpful for someone else. The new desktop software (the one with graphs and stuff) will help with hardware syncing issues. I had the same driver issue on multiple devices. It wouldn't pick-up my nano after entering the pin. I would had to download this secondary software for it to work. Problem was, it gave me an error when sending XRP but it actually worked so I ended up double spending. Yes. Nano drivers are buggy.
Can XRP work without crypto exchanges?
My point being is at some point won't XRP be sufficiently differentiated that the old decision to just hop onboard the crypto exchange infrastructure no longer makes sense? How inherently dependent are we on crypto exchanges?
Interesting. Seems too soon for them to be giving up on b2b connect. Maybe they're integrating earthport somehow? It would just be totally dumb to buy earthport for such a high price (300% over share price) and not be planning on using their new DLT api connected to Ripple. Earthport API drastically reduces barriers to signing up & installing Ripple products. Especially given 2019 looks to be the year when many smaller banks join team Ripple, it would be a very odd move.
When did they announce the hyperledger partnership? Because it seems Visa had bad luck in their blockchain experiments. May be a change of strategy? Or a two-pronged approach?
I was wondering if there was a way if XRP could work without cryptocurrency exchanges. Maybe a traditional bank or a large corporate structure takes over the exchange's role in xRapid. In the simplest case, imagine say Google had an exchange for all fiat currencies and XRP. No other cryptos. Would this work? Nothing would stop multiple companies doing this as well. A large multi-national firm could even use their international payment accounts to self fund a large chunk of the initial currency investment. I'm mentioning this because it could be the fastest way to get off the Bitcoin leash. I'm wondering if anyone has given this any serious thought.
This may be the biggest news I've heard in a long time that's not some pipe dream optimism. Visa is truly getting into the game.
Does that mean oil is a security? How about USD? Is that a security? Because I know plenty of investors who buy both of those with the expectation of profit Whataboutism at its finest . | 2019-04-20T16:31:50 | https://www.xrpchat.com/profile/16202-atomic1221/ |
1 | To what extent did President Woodrow Wilson provide a "New Freedom" for the American people?
In his Fourteen Points, President Woodrow Wilson spoke of a New World order being established in a League of Nations.
Wilson's domestic policy was called the New Freedom. He believed government's role was to create a level playing field for all competitors in the market place.
Alice Paul said, "There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it."
How would Alice Paul answer the above question?
Woodrow Wilson provided a "New Freedom" for the United states, but it was a freedom of finance and economy. Wilson worked to crush the special privileges received by the rich and powerful of the nation and to expand the opportunities economically for the people on the lower end of society. However, giving economic freedom is not freedom at all to a woman of this time period that had no say in who held office and governed them. To a woman who sat in a home and cared for children while the men went out and made the world and made it IN the world. Wilson had to be hounded, had to be pushed over and over before he finally made the amend. And only did he even offer this to congress when a woman was ready to die in his jail for this movement, and it was leaked to the press of the terrible circumstances of which she faced for it. Yes, a new freedom. But he didn't see the need for women to be a part of this "new freedom", until it was thrown in his face and would make him be seen as an incompetent President to foreign countries if he did otherwise.
During President Woodrow Wilson's campaign against President Roosevelt, Wilson promoted his "new freedom" as freedom for enterprise. He was outright against Theodore Roosevelt on the topic of antitrust modification. Woodrow Wilson claimed that "If America is not to have free enterprise, he can have freedom of no sort whatever." It was apparent he wanted a more free economy, but I do not believe he had intentions of tackling women's suffrage rights when he first took office in 1913. Women eventually did gain the right to vote in 1920 with the 19th amendment, which could indirectly credit him with a "new freedom" for American people. However, Alice Paul would most likely have given him no credit for granting new freedom to American people. She would say that he made it more difficult for women to acquire suffrage by clearly ignoring the women's righteous protest until the last moment.
President Wilson's "Fourteen Points" speech was basically about justifying the United States joining the Great War by saying it was being fought for just causes. He had a nice idea, no more secret arrangements, free navigation of all seas, an end to economic barriers between countries etc. Wilson included everything his new policy was going to do for the other nations of the world in his plan however nowhere did he include a solution to a major issue going on right in the U.S. During this time period woman in the U.S. were still fighting for suffrage. In Wilson's speech he says "An evident principle runs through the whole program I have outlined. It is the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak." Alice Paul would say that President Wilson greatly contradicted himself in his speech .
Sorry my last sentence got cut short. What I meant to say was..
Alice Paul would say that President Wilson greatly contradicted himself as this speech, which talked about the right of everyone to live on equal terms, was presented in 1918 and women did not gain the right to vote until 1920.
President Woodrow Wilson provided a “new freedom” for the American people because he recognized that the main issue was the relationship between big business and government. Woodrow’s main goal was to create success by reforming tariffs, banking and currency matters, antitrust modifications, negotiating foreign affairs and creating peace. In Wilson’s Fourteen Points the first five dealt with issues of broad international concern while the next eight points referred to specific territorial questions. Woodrow Wilson wanted to create peace so that it could be embraced by many populations that were enemies with one another in order to generate a hope to end the war. Alice Paul once said, "There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it." Alice Paul was a women suffragist fighter and leader who wanted equal rights for all. She believed that a new world would only exist if women were part of it having the same opportunities as men. Alice would of said that in order to make the world considered “new freedom” women would need to be included with the same rights as everyone else. Wilson tried really hard to pass the 19th amendment, giving women the right to vote but congress had denied it, women having to wait another year. Wilson did care towards women. Wilson said, “we have made partners of the women in this war...Shall we admit them only to a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of privilege and right?" Wilson basically saying that since they are in this war together why not make them permanently free, in other words give them their rights they deserve.
Alice Paul was not a big fan of President Woodrow Wilson, if nothing else, for his lack of zeal in pushing a women's suffrage bill. Wilson was reluctant to give women voting rights. In 1917, Paul said, "MR. PRESIDENT, HOW LONG MUST WOMEN WAIT FOR LIBERTY?" Paul attacked Wilson on the platform that he was waging war abroad, while ignoring the needs of womens' suffrage at home. She called this hypocritical. Though Wilson created much opportunity for the American people socially and economically, womens' voting rights seemed to fall by the wayside. This is what Paul spoke of when she said, "there will never be a new world order unless women are a part of it." Paul would say that Wilson did not help the American people as a whole, unless the voices of women were included in his quest. When women were granted the right to vote in 1920 with the 19th amendment, Alice Paul would not give muh credit to Wilson for the accomplishment, as he had very little to do with its occurrence.
alice Paul felt as if president Woodrow didn't respect woman. He flamed to be for change but wouldn't help woman's suffrage. If the president was truly for change he would have backed up Alice Paul and her group of independent woman. There for the president was not looking towards the future in the eyes of the woman. He is staying in the past believing woman can't contribute towards the future if America.
How can Woodrow Wilson say he is providing a new freedom? How dare he have the audacity to say that it is necessary for the United States to join the war in order to spread the seeds of democracy when he is the president of a country whose own democracy is being asphyxiated? President Wilson is waving a false front, standing up for freedom as a pompous bringer of light. He cares for his economy and personal gain. He doesn't care about his people, he doesn't care for the people in foreign countries. Wilson supported entering the war saying that it was purely altruistic, but this is a fallacy. He wanted to join the war because of the pressure England's trade policies were exhibiting on the economy. President Wilson pushed so avidly for a free peaceful trade network throughout the world because he wanted uninhibited economic power. When Wilson said he wanted to create an equal playing field for for all competitors he just accidentally forgot to think of the hundreds of thousands of women under his government. Oops, honest mistake I'm sure. Let's not worry about a "new" freedom before ALL citizens have a basic one.
President Woodrow Wilson provided his so-called “New Freedom” to those who already possessed freedoms to begin with, the men, just as the government of the United States had always done since its inception. The “New Freedom” is meant to level the playing field for the marketplace and yet, the playing field for equality and even for life in the United States has not yet been leveled. President Wilson’s blatant disregard for the welfare of women echoes the sentiments of many leaders in the country, all of whom are also male. It is the widely held belief that the “problems of men” are of a higher priority than ensuring the equality of all people regardless of gender. After all, why worry about equality when one already has rights? This is precisely why President Wilson’s “New Freedom” excludes women’s equality as it blazes the path of tariff, business, and banking reform with such acts as the Underwood Tariff Act, the Federal Trade Act, and the Clayton Anti-trust Act as well as establishing the Federal Trade Commission. While the “New Freedom” may have brought about a new world order for many working men in the United States, it is the unfortunate fact that “there will never be a new world order until women are a part of it” seeing as it is both ridiculous and unpractical to ignore the needs of and infringe upon the rights of half the population of this country.
"They call to us to say what it is that we desire, in what, if in anything, our purpose and our spirit differ from theirs; and I believe that the people of the United States would wish me to respond, with utter simplicity and frankness. Whether their present leaders believe it or not, it is our heartfelt desire and hope that some way may be opened whereby we may be privileged to assist the people of Russia to attain their utmost hope of liberty and ordered peace."
Unfortunately, there are some Americans who feel they do not withhold basic liberty themselves in their home country, let alone support the independence of Russia. While optimistic in his foreign affairs policies, President Wilson fails to take into consideration the role of women during the early twentieth century. After the American war entrance, suffragists believed that if the United States would defend democracy abroad, they deserved it at home, especially women, who had been long awaiting the right to vote. Angered suffragettes, led by Alice Paul in 1917, picketed outside the White House, demanding female suffrage. Wilson tipped his hat, smiled, invited the ladies in for coffee. Not very good manners or respect from an American president. As 1917 rolled on, women remained in front of the iron gates. They were arrested, detained, and sentenced to beating and force-feeding in workhouses for 60 days. They were dragged, punched, and choked by angry crowds. And yet women remained. Presidents have to remain open-minded on politically hot issues, which Wilson did with difficulty. He believed these suffragettes were unfeminine, unpatriotic, and insulting. And the only reason he began to reconsider his stance on women's rights, and even address the Senate in favor of women's suffrage (to which was rejected), was because Wilson realized that he needed women's votes, nearly half of the American population, to be in favor of his unsuccessful policies and opinions on the war.
So, keeping this political story time in mind, one can infer that if you asked Alice Paul to what extent he provided a "New Freedom" to the American people, she would scoff.
Ever sense the Presidential campaign of 1912 Woodrow Wilson didn't support women's suffrage. He wasn't in favor of women's suffrage while his opponent Theodore Roosevelt was in favor of it. So right from the start, Wilson wasn't supported by women. Alice Paul organized "Silent Sentinels who protested in front of the White House, holding banners which stated "Mr. President -- What will you do for woman suffrage?" As you can see Paul didn't much support or appreciate the President. Wilson was used to these types of protest such as the Anti-war protests outside of the White House's gates. The women while plead for suffrage a lot of the time had been anti-war supporters. Wilson had seen these protests as becoming increasingly more disruptive. One day the protectors and bystanders who supported the war went against each other and fought. Wilson had all these people arrested and many of the women "fasted" or went on hunger strikes. Because of this President Wilson was nervous about a bad reputation and didn't want his administration brandished so in January of 1919 he agreed to a suffrage amendment. Two years later the 19th Amendment was passed and women were granted suffrage. I believe Paul would say that American's were not given a "New Freedom" and that Wilson only support the businesses of the time. Wilson did pass a tariff reform,a business reform, and a bank reform but nothing for women until late in his presidency. Alice Paul would simply say that Woodrow Wilson waited too long and many women went through too much before they were granted suffrage. Also, I believe Paul would Woodrow Wilson little credit to the 19th Amendment saying that he only did this too keep his reputation from being tarnished. But I believe Wilson deserves a little more credit then he's given. In his speech to congress of September of 1917 he said this about women who were contributing to the home front during WWI, "we have made partners of the women in this war...Shall we admit them only to a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of privilege and right?". Wilson was trying to protect his self but I think hat he realized that women deserved this right and deserves some more credit then he usually receives because throughout his presidency his opinion towards women's suffrage grew in favor of it.
During his campaign against Roosevelt President Wilson won the 1912 Elections through his speeches. Wilson spoke of a better society and recieved 42% of the vote. After winning wilson addressed his "New Freedom" Through his fourteen points which spoke out against the causes of the war and economic barriers of trade in the world, Wilson believed the the government should play the field so to speak. He believed that in the business society the only way to tame monopolys were by anti trust acts.
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Wilsons idea to a new freedom began with a Stronger democratic party, he strived to replace the republican administration for placing high tariffs on commonly imported goods wilson felt that high tariffs were a economic downfall and hurt the pockets of average americans. Wilson was successful in his attempts to change the tariffs acts and congress eventually passed the Underwood act which decreased the tarriffs on all imported goods by 25%. Wilson also sought to improve the nations federal banking system which had been very inefficient up until his time of presidency. During his "New Freedom" reform Wilson only thought of himself he wanted to provide a new freedom for himself and men like him he did not think of the women or children whom were not affected by his changes directly but who felt the effect due to his attitude toward their struggles. During the 1900s women wanted nothing more than the right to a voice and to feel equal to their spouse but with a president like wilson they did not get the respect they deserved. Women like alice paul did not support Wilson because he was not supportive of them, Paul gathered a group of women to protest infront of the white house questioning wilsons support of womens reform.
In my opinion wilson did not provide a "New Freedom" he made changes that would later only affect the MEN of his caliber which was a selfsh move seeing as though he was not only the president to men but the president to every person male or female in American society during that time. He made beneficial changes but to say he provided a "New Freedom" shows his bold arrogance .
While in his first term, President Wilson enacted many policies as a part of "The New Freedom". The most important programs of this New Freedom were attempts at trying to better the economy of the U.S. While some of these programs, such as the creation of a federal reserve, were successful, some people of the time speculated that the New Freedom did not go far enough to help the other aspects of American life. One of these critics was Alice Paul, an advocate of women's suffrage. Alice Paul thought that President Wilson should have focused on the important topic of suffrage amongst his other ideas when creating the New Freedom. While much of the country during President Wilson's tenure bought into his New Freedom, a very large portion (women) thought it didn't go far enough. | 2019-04-22T17:58:35 | http://connorsapush.weebly.com/apush-discussion/-to-what-extent-did-president-woodrow-wilson-provide-a-new-freedom-for-the-american-people |
0.999961 | Given the demographic on Instagram, you have to determine if your company is a best fit for the type of audience that frequents there. If you’re not the type of business or service that is readily able to turn a sales conversion from an Instagram post, it might pay to simply view Instagram as a platform for creating a loyal fan base of customers by launching a merchandising range.
The consumer demographic on Instagram is chiefly under 35, and purchases mostly fast moving consumer goods, including apparel and entertainment items. If you want to maximise your investment in Instagram, and your business is for example a law firm, or a plumbing service, to create brand awareness should be the goal.
Instagram is an awesome platform to use to get your business out there.
Interspersing consumer branded goods and also using Instagram stories will help push you as the recognisable service in the community. To create a large Instagram following, and to create a range of merchandise if that is appropriate, adding a line of products as a passive revenue stream is a simple method of advertising and marketing.
You then enable your fan base to wear your consumer goods, and they go out among the community, creating free advertising and product placements for you, so you win as a corporate enterprise.
Simple merchandise can be created using a print on demand service, that costs you nothing up front, and these services have design tools built into the platforms.
For example a massage service in Brisbane created a range of apparel that were novel, and this created another revenue stream to support the main business. This helps maximise the opportunity for all businesses to participate and make the most of Instagram social sharing.
Instagram is the best social media sharing platform for apparel, jewellery, shoes, handbags, entertainment products, bloggers, travel writers and social media influencers. A lot of celebrities promote their line of beauty products via Instagram, and businesses can approach celebrity influencers to do product placements in order to promote their goods and services.
The types of people that use Instagram include travel bloggers, selfie and beauty product users, people with pets, home decorating enthusiasts, fashionistas and people who love the success quotes and look for daily inspiration.
The best way to make use of Instagram as a marketing platform is to think outside of traditional advertising, and instead use the platform to create a fanbase. A lot of creative ideas have been used on Instagram to successfully create sales leads, but these are also paired with campaigns on other social media platforms.
Some video bloggers encourage their subscribers to follow them on Instagram, in order to receive free PDF reports, information and enter into various competitions. Competitions are a great way to increase engagement levels on Instagram.
Knowing the statistics is important to improve your chances of success.
Posts with hashtags are 12% more likely to receive engagement than other posts.
Brighter images receive around 500% more likes than darker images.
Include a call to action to lead people to like and comment on a posting.
Include witty comments that spark more comments from other people.
The best time to post on Instagram is on Monday between 8-9 a.m. with the least likely time to get interaction on Sundays.
Posting a video at 9 p.m. on Instagram gets over 30% more interactions than at other times.
Include a link in URL in your bio, and in a post include a call to action to get people to click on your URL so they can follow your blog.
Utilise Instagram stories, which are creative ways to enhance your posts, and push a lot of great ideas. People tend to interact with these considerably more than regular posts as they are time limited.
Create banner pictures on your Instagram profile in order to get people’s attention, and this is an often overlooked strategy that works considerably well.
Videos posted to Instagram create a large amount of post engagement.
Cross promote on other social channels in order to create a larger catchment for your audience.
Use branded filters to create a uniform feel to your Instagram feed.
These are high volume sales, low cost items, and for businesses that wish to seriously take advantage of these products, it is best to either focus solely on being an affiliate sales company (using Amazon, Ali-express or Oberlo) or create your own product line of bespoke goods selling handmade goods (and using Instagram as a platform to promote an Etsy store).
Other businesses that do not strictly sell goods, but are service providers, can easily create the print on demand novelty range of merchandise.
The type of business you own will determine the way you use Instagram.
A case study is perhaps the best way to illustrate making the best use of Instagram and ensuring it is not simply a place to share photographs, but that it is giving a return on investment. A person who has retired as a retail store manager, and gone back to university is rethinking his career.
He is studying accounting and financial planning, and has previously created a range of bespoke men’s personal care products including shaving oils and facial care products. They are high quality hand made items, and would fall into the range of luxury goods.
In order to create a successful stream of income, he can use Etsy or Shopify as an e-commerce solution and then use Instagram as a suitable social sharing platform in order to promote his goods to the right demographic. His goods are at the price point in the higher end of the market due to them being a bespoke item, and the time involved in creating them.
He is aware of his unique selling position, as these goods are for the man who is wanting to purchase a luxury handcrafted item that is not readily available in the stores, and will make him feel better about his own individual expression.
To supplement his bespoke personal care range, he can create a range of apparel that promotes the values of his brand, and also offer dropshipped products such as razors, grooming tools and other personal care electric items that complement the core product offering.
Each of these product lines is part of the fast moving consumer goods, and he can create a promotion on Instagram for each of these lines, using various methods of promotion.
One of the most successful ways to bring sales conversions on Instagram is to use the banner post, which a lot of accounts have not fully exploited, and as these are time consuming are less likely to do so. Banner posts are limited by Instagram, so maximising the use of them is critical to successfully exploiting them.
One of his most expensive products could be beautifully photographed, turned into a banner image by an app such as Giant Square, and then he could instigate a competition, and use a call to action, as well as including a link to his Etsy store where he also has a content blog.
This maximises the whole marketing platform, and when he also uses Instagram in conjunction with other social media platforms, he should be making use of metrics, gathering information from Google Analytics to determine how he can further improve on his marketing methods.
Instagram can and should be used in conjunction with other digital marketing strategies.
This is just one way for an entrepreneur to take advantage of Instagram as a way to create sales conversions. Another way to fully exploit Instagram as a money making machine is to use Instagram Stories.
There are 250 million daily active users reported on Instagram Stories, and this is a fresh and vital way of creating content that, if not necessarily generating income, but creating a new potential audience that will repeated brand placement before them will get hooked into buying.
Spontaneous, authentic and fresh, it pushes you into the realm of authenticity, which is highly valued amongst a sea of contrived and crafted posts. The demographic on Instagram prizes authenticity, and it will set your brand amongst the “creatives” meaning that you will be viewed as highly relevant.
If you have thought about how your enterprise can take advantage of the large ocean of Instagram users, and you target them in the right way, it means you can succeed in meeting people where they are at, and turn them into repeat purchasers, or even better still when they purchase your brand’s merchandise, then they become walking advertisements for you company.
Could you imagine a better way to advertise than to be having a legion of thousands of followers walking around the streets of major cities wearing your branded t-shirts? It is so achievable yet so few businesses take advantage of being able to turn a whole lot of fans into walking advertising banners.
Major corporations have done it with broadcast media, and now in the age of social sharing, it is possible for the small scale entrepreneur to become hugely recognised, and then be deposited into the minds of maybe thousands of potential customers.
Large corporations use the power of repetition to push their brand, and then that becomes the go-to for many people when they are not wanting to have to think too hard about where to find the best possible product or fight against decision fatigue.
Although this is a long range strategy, it ensures that you have the best possible long term survival of your company, and also end up thriving well ahead of your competitors.
For simplicity however, you can simply stick to what you are best at, creating products that solve solutions. Sandi Krawkowski, a social media brand influencer on Facebook talks about how when you solve solutions, you become extremely wealthy.
The potential reach of customers for your business on Instagram is huge.
Remember that your market of customers are out there wanting your products and services, and that you fulfill a valuable need. You just have to get in front of the right people, and in the right connections. Social media is the best way to exploit consumer communication in the 21st century.
Outsourcing your digital marketing strategy, SEO, social media campaign design and advertising to a specialist agency is simply the easiest, most effortless and simplest way to go. If you want your story to be one of incredible success, it is a requisite of a booming business, that you outsource your marketing to a quality advertising and digital marketing agency.
Without this you are facing years of experimentation, thousands of dollars wasted on mistargeted advertising, loss of hundreds of hours of productivity having to understand all the techniques of advertising, marketing, lead generation, sales and content creation.
This is really a misnomer to think that you will save money by trying to do it all yourself. A wise person knows that it is important to be able to speculate to accumulate, but speculating on the right things, and the wisest investments will prevent you from coming to grief and your business folding.
Plan for success, and just budget your marketing and advertising into the one digital marketing agency that does things properly, you will enjoy the process of running and operating your business far more than having the headache of doing it yourself.
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0.987178 | (NaturalNews) In the tragic aftermath of the Aurora, Colorado shooting which has all the earmarks of a staged "false flag" event, a follow-up false flag now appears imminent. To be effective in achieving its political aim, it will have to be orders of magnitude larger and more deadly than what took place in Colorado. This article is largely focused on the safety solutions for you and your family, because above all I want people to be safe. But before we get that part, let's explore the logical reasoning behind why another false flag attack appears imminent.
For starters, the Batman movie theater shooting was obviously staged (https://www.naturalnews.com/036536_James_Holm...). The evidence of this includes eyewitness reports of multiple shooters, James Holmes being drugged out of his mind in court (a common tactic used against patsies), his work as a graduate student in a government-funded neuroscience program that specifically researched altered perception of time and reality, and Holmes having somehow obtained the skill set to build a highly complex maze of makeshift grenades, binary liquid explosives, intricate flammable devices, trip wires and booby traps. The attack in Aurora, Colorado was not a run-of-the-mill random violent act by a graduate student; it was a carefully planned, plotted, funded, and well-trained attack carried out for a specific purpose.
This fact is now obvious to well-informed NaturalNews readers, who, compared to the general public, tend to have far more in-depth knowledge of the way the world works. But as our stories have recently received unprecedented readership -- NaturalNews.com recently surged beyond the web traffic of the BBC (source: Alexa.com) -- it has unfortunately reached the "dumbed-down masses" who aren't regular alternative news readers and therefore have very little knowledge of reality.
So for those who don't believe any of this, simply go back to sleep and change the channel. It is not mandatory for you to understand reality in order to experience it. But for those who seek understanding and knowledge of the real forces at work in our world, keep reading.
What was the purpose of the attack?
Once you realize the attack was planned, funded and carried out for a deliberate purpose, the obvious question becomes: For what purpose was it carried out?
The answer to that question is found in many places, including the novel 1984 by George Orwell, in which the nation state is locked in a perpetual state of fabricated war in order for the government to maintain total control over its population. It is now well established that the Oklahoma City bombing was conducted for much the same purpose, as it explained in the outstanding documentary "A Noble Lie" (http://www.anoblelie.com). Do not make the mistake of thinking you know the true history of Oklahoma City unless you've seen this documentary. Had the Oklahoma City bombing been carried out today, during the time of the ubiquitous internet, it would have been almost instantly revealed to be a staged false flag attack. The official explanation of the event is so self-contradictory -- and the cover-up so sloppy -- that it only succeeded due to a mainstream media monopoly which existed at the time but has since been shattered by the rise of the alternative, independent media like NaturalNews.
A similarly fresh look at actual history is also described in the outstanding book by the progressive author Howard Zinn entitled, "A People's History of American Empire." (http://www.amazon.com/A-Peoples-History-Amer...) This book reveals the imperialist side of American history that's almost never taught in public school. An even more interesting read, by the way, is A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror (http://www.amazon.com/Patriots-History-Unite...). And I highly recommend "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" by John Perkins (http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-H...) as well as "The Secret History of the American Empire," also by Perkins (http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-History-Ame...).
What we learn from the open-minded study of history often shatters whatever youthful illusions we may have been taught in school. As it turns out, individuals in government who insatiably seek power are not just cruel and inhumane; they're often sociopathic. They have a disease, and that disease makes them think they can create a perfect world if everybody else would simply do as they're told. This disease quickly festers into tyranny; and tyranny into genocide.
The real question to ask yourself in all this is, historically speaking, how did the 9/11 attacks help President Bush, for example? If you recall, he used the tragedy to boost his own ratings in the polls to an astonishing 80% support level, then staged a "heroic bull-horning event" by climbing a heap of rubble and ground zero and delivering a supposedly impromptu -- but actually well prepared -- speech that helped lay the groundwork for the liberty-crushing Patriot Act that still haunts the ghost of a free America to this day.
President Clinton reportedly credited the Oklahoma City bombings for strengthening his reelection in 1996. One well-placed bomb, it seems, can alter the fortunes of major political players. Never mind the fact that, in retrospect, all the evidence available today clearly and irrefutably points to the event having been staged by rogue elements within the U.S. government itself. Again, see the film "A Noble Lie" for a full review of the stunning evidence.
The point of all this is that crisis always concentrates power into the hands of the government. Therefore, staging crisis accelerates that concentration of power. Because power is what all ambitious government operatives ultimately seek, this is the primary purpose of staging a false flag attack in the first place.
If Obama were high in the polls right now, with no risk of losing his re-election bid in November, the risk of a large-scale false flag attack in the months ahead would be minimal. It is the risk of him losing the election that creates the high risk of a false flag operation. Curiously, Obama himself may have absolutely no knowledge of any of this.
Most likely, the kind of dirty work that results in false flag attacks is carried out by "handlers" and unelected power brokers who control much of what transpires on the world stage. As long as these power brokers see Obama's second term as a positive thing for shoring up their global control, they will pull out all the stops to make sure he gets reelected, including (but not limited to) staging a false flag event that Obama himself may not even be aware of until the last minute. It's easier for his reaction to the tragedy to appear sufficiently authentic, after all, if he's actually not in the loop.
• The release of a nuclear "dirty bomb" in a major U.S. city.
• The ICBM nuking of a major U.S. city.
• Nuclear power plant sabotage leading to meltdown.
• The mass poisoning of Americans via a water supply chemical attack.
• The release of a deadly biological weapon.
• A large-scale bombing on the scale of 9/11.
For the purposes of seizing control over the nation, the more visually horrifying the attack, the better. This provides video footage that can be played over and over again on the evening news, searing into the minds of the public the visual horror of an attack which is blamed on a selected political enemy or even an entire political movement.
• Very large, killing not just a dozen people but thousands.
• Very bloody, for the purpose of showing such images on the news.
False flag timing: Before the election or after the election?
If an attack happens before the November election, it would support Obama and help him get reelected. If Romney wins, on the other hand, and an attack happens after the election but before the inauguration, it would support Obama declaring Martial Law and seizing control of the country under emergency powers. If Romney wins and an attack happens after the inauguration in January, it would support Romney's and make him appear heroic much like Bush in 2001. This would soon be followed by a Romney-led push for more restrictions on whatever freedoms or liberties could be conceivably tied to the attack by the mainstream (lying) media.
So the TIMING of these events tells you a wealth of information about the PURPOSE behind them. If no false flag events are witnessed between now and early 2013, it would indicate that the global controllers feel power is trending in their direction anyway and no special intervention is necessary.
False flags also tend to take place when the global controllers detect a "wave of liberty" starting to gain traction among the populace. When talk of liberty or the Bill of Rights begins to rise above the usual drone of infobabble, a false flag is often staged and then blamed on so-called "extremist" speech, which inevitably boils down to any speech that questions the credibility of Big Government. If you listen carefully to the rhetoric of any White House, you'll discover that "extremism" means anything that does not agree with that particular administration's political agenda. In 1943, growing your own food and even selling fresh milk was considered an act of patriotism -- victory gardens! But in 2012, selling fresh milk is considered a criminal activity associated with the "sovereign" movement which, itself, is linked to so-called "extremism."
This, itself, should be a red alert warning that tyranny has arrived. When the simple pursuit of life, liberty and happiness is equated with extremism by the government, it's a sign that we've all fallen deeper down the rabbit hole of tyranny than you might have suspected.
As further evidence of false flags being used to stifle the rise of liberty, consider this: The Oklahoma City bombing was staged just as "right wing" ideas were gaining audience share on talk radio. Regardless of whether you prefer the adrenaline jolt of Alex Jones or the hypnotic drone of NPR, the attempted blaming of Rush Limbaugh following the Oklahoma City bombing was one of the most cowardly and absurd political attempts to censor free speech that our nation has ever witnessed. We may or may not agree with Rush, but if we are true Americans, we must at least agree that the man has the right to speak his mind.
Similarly, in 2001 as the "patriot movement" was gaining steam, the 9/11 attacks turned the tables on the freedom movement and resulted in the suffocating "Patriot Act" being passed that gave the government vast new police powers for surveillance, arrest, detention and more. Never mind the fact that building 7 was never even hit by airplanes and yet was quite obviously brought down by an expert demolition team using a highly engineered maze of intricately-timed explosive charges that had to have been placed in the building weeks in advance (https://www.naturalnews.com/033684_911_truth_...).
Whatever next false flag event is being planned could be the final nail in the coffin for American liberty. Obama has already put in place the NDAA that denies Americans due process (https://www.naturalnews.com/034537_NDAA_Bill_...). He promised to never use it, but that promise will, of course, be instantly revoked once a sufficiently large attack takes place. One nuclear explosion, placed not only in the right city, but more importantly in the right narrative context via the media and government, could condemn an entire generation of Americans to suffocating under the boot of tyranny, stripped of all rights, enslaved by a dictatorial police state regime that they falsely believe is protecting them from the very terrorism it initiated.
Today, America is just one large false flag event away from surrendering to total government dictatorship... assuming the horrifying event can be properly blamed on the right parties -- in this case, anyone who believes in the U.S. Constitution or the Bill of Rights, or even someone who is a supporter of the ACLU and the concept of "civil rights."
• TSA on street corners, in shopping malls, movie theaters, a total police state rollout.
• The abolishment of the Second Amendment and the forced confiscation -- at gunpoint -- of all guns from private citizens, thereby concentrating control of those guns in the hands of the government. This imbalance of power is always necessary right before governments commit mass genocide.
• Total government control over the internet. An outlawing of all online speech that criticizes the government or reports the truth about anything. Only the White House version of events (fairy tales) will be allowed. All else will be censored or shut down.
• The "secret disappearance" of journalists, activists or anyone who dares to ask legitimate questions about what's going on.
• The inevitable rise of an underground railroad information network which seeks to expose the lies of government and the real story behind the false flag attacks.
• A massive, nationwide rollout of spy drones to surveil all Americans from the sky.
• The recruitment and deployment of at least 500,000 new "citizen spies" who work as informants for the Department of Homeland Security and are given cash rewards for calling in accusatory reports about their neighbors, family members or even their own parents. "My daddy said he didn't like the government!" "Don't worry, little boy, agents are on their way to make an arrest..." Watch for the rolling out of thought crimes enforcers like those depicted in the sci-fi movie Minority Report.
• The complete abolition of freedom. No home gardens, no weapons in the hands of citizens, no public protests, no banking privacy, no choice in anything that really matters. This is what's coming if another sufficiently large false flag attack is rolled out in America.
Here's the really important part of this article. First there is the question of how to protect yourself from the attack itself. And then, secondly, there's the question of how to protect yourself from the rise of the police state which follows the attack.
#1) Don't live in a major U.S. city. All the likely targets are, of course, high population density areas. They include Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, Houston and Chicago. Each day that you live in a large U.S. city is a day of risk that you will be caught in a false flag attack.
#3) Practice bugging out without using the major roads or highways. Remember, all major roads will either be clogged with traffic or held to a standstill due to TSA checkpoints. You'll need an alternate route.
Understand, importantly, that in the case of a biological attack, the higher the fatality of a biological weapon, the faster it burns out through the population. It would be a tactical mistake for an enemy of the People to develop and release a biological weapon with, for example, a fast-acting "98% kill rate" because its overall fatality would be low due to the fact that its carriers would die before they could spread it to others.
The most "effective" biological weapon to deploy in terms of an enemy attack or a false flag staged attack is one with a fatality rate under five percent. This way, 95% of the population becomes "carriers" while even a five percent death rate is enough to spread mass fear and terror and therefore accomplish the desired political aim.
A biological attack is very, very easy to blame on anyone you wish. All the evidence needed to convict someone of, for example, breaking into a laboratory, stealing biological weapons samples, then releasing them in a major airport can simply be fabricated at will. We've all seen, for example, Forrest Gump shaking hands with President Nixon (http://www.ugo.com/tv/guide-to-green-screens...), even though such an event never took place. Today's video engineering technology makes it ridiculously easy for a government to fabricate convincing evidence and thereby blame anyone they wish.
Should a biological attack actually unfold, expect to see the CDC spearheading calls for mandatory "gunpoint" vaccinations of the entire population. Anyone who resists will be condemned a "threat to public health," arrested, quarantined and forcibly vaccines. All the vaccines, of course, will be laced with infertility chemicals or stealth viruses (https://www.naturalnews.com/033584_Dr_Maurice...). This is the ultimate goal of the globalists: to get the population to voluntarily line up to be injected with what are essentially infertility chemicals and thereby remove those individuals from the future of the human gene pool.
Development of biological weapon with under 5% mortality but high spread rate --> False flag biological weapons release --> Blame framed on convenient enemy --> Outbreak of fear multiplied by the media --> CDC calls for mandatory vaccines --> People line up for vaccines --> Vaccines are laced with stealth infertility viruses --> Population reduction goal accomplished.
Bill Gates declares history and the human gene pool collapses by 50 - 90 percent, removing from the gene pool the DNA of people who are foolish enough to follow government medical instructions. In globalist circles, this is probably referred to as "natural selection," and they may actually be right about that point.
This is where things get tricky. Surviving the initial attack is relatively straightforward, but making it through the subsequent police state will be nothing short of a nightmare.
The ultimate answer to surviving the situation after the attack is to help defend and restore liberty in your country. During that effort, surviving means laying low and avoiding direct confrontation with the oppressive government while working to restore Democracy and defend the Republic.
You cannot individually achieve victory against a tyrannical police state by using force. No one person -- or even a small group of people -- can out-gun the military, for example. The real victory is achieved through information that ultimately educates the masses to the point where the military refuses to support an oppressive regime; hence the name "info war" to describe the process by which victory is achieved through education and the spread of liberating information.
Because of this, the more you take action TODAY to store food, medicine, seeds, silver, ammo and other basic necessities (even pencils and toilet paper), the better you'll be able to cushion yourself against the starvation, disease and destitution put in place by the government itself. Governments gone bad inevitably do this because every tyrant drives his own population into poverty in order to create vast wealth gaps between the enslaved masses and the government rulers. North Korea is perhaps the best example of this today, but other examples abound across the span of history (Stalin, Mao, Hitler, etc).
Thus, once again, your best defense against the aftermath of a false flag attack is to have street smarts about avoiding arrest and staying out of trouble while also having a hidden store of essential goods that can keep you healthy, alive and "wealthy" in the barter sense. Meanwhile, fight to protect and defend the Constitution (if you're an American) against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. Restore liberty, resist tyranny and stay alive.
Among all the topics I cover, I have perhaps become best known as a "survival nutritionist," meaning I specialize in survival nutrition strategies. In the Middle Ages, kings maintained power over their enslaved populations by, in part, starving them to the point of stunted growth. This is why kings, knights and royal families were physically larger and intimidating: the peons were starved into small stature while the royal families consumed an excess of calories that simply were not allowed to the working poor.
The crucial point to understand here is that if the government can separate you from real food, they can eventually control you. So one of the best defenses against tyranny is to have your own stores of highly nutritious foods -- superfoods are best. As a side note, Monsanto seeks corporate control over the world's food supply through intellectual property claims over genetically modified seeds. This, too, is a form of corporate tyranny that parallels the aims of many governments.
Importantly, getting squared away with emergency preparedness nutrition does not, in my opinion, mean rush out and buy the cheap, low-cost "survival" foods commonly sold everywhere. Most of these foods are highly processed, nutritionally depleted, laced with MSG (yeast extract) and manufactured using GMOs. The absolute best source of emergency survival nutrition is none other than sprouting seeds and a sprouting tray kit.
• They can be easily sprouted and consumed as living sprouts.
• They can be soaked in water and mixed with almost any other smoothie, baking recipe, salad dressings, etc.
• They're high in omega-3 fatty acids which will be difficult to acquire during hard times.
• They have a remarkably long shelf life.
• They're high in magnesium, a mineral that's often difficult to acquire.
• They contain amino acids, vitamins, fiber and other valuable plant-based nutrients.
• They're delicious and easy to use in all sorts of foods.
• They can be planted to grow more chia seeds. They grow best in hot, dry climates such as Southern California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona, but will also do well in places like Texas and Florida if well-drained soils are available.
For this reason, I'm including some chia seed sources for you below. If you're copying this story and pasting it on your own website, feel free to snip off that section of this story (but please give a link and credit to NaturalNews).
• Garden seeds (for growing your own food) See www.SupplySource.com for an organic open-pollinated survival seed selection.
These food staples are crucial for staying alive during a time when the government may be trying to "thin the herd" through a policy of starvation and forced immune suppression. You'll also, of course, need a source of common carbohydrates such as wheat, kamut, rice, dried fruits, and so on. Contact your local Mormon cannery for free help on getting squared away with stored foods (Mormons are, without question, the best-prepared religious group in North America). For the record, I'm not affiliated with the Mormon church or any particular church for that matter. I just know the Mormons are the best at this particular skill set. | 2019-04-24T17:02:16 | https://www.naturalnews.com/036586_false_flag_survival_protection.html |
0.998687 | If I don't use the entire amount on my gift card, what happens?
There are no maintenance or non-usage fees or charges. Any amount not used when paying for your meal stays on your gift card. You can use the remaining balance on your card at your next visit to any Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group restaurant.
Can I use my card to pay for private parties, catering events or delivery?
Classic Gift Cards, E-Cards and Holiday Bonus Cards are not accepted as payment for Private Events at any Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group restaurant.
Can I use my gift card the same day it is purchased?
Gift cards are not valid the same day they are purchased. After the date of purchase gift cards are valid (7) days a week at all participating restaurants.
Can I use my card to pay for merchandise?
Classic Gift Cards, E-Cards and Holiday Bonus Cards are not accepted as payment for merchandise at any Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group restaurant or in our online shop.
Can you replace my Gift Card if I lose it?
Are there any fees associated with purchasing gift cards?
There are no fees or shipping charges. You will only be charged the face value of the card. If you would like to have the gift card expedited via Fed-Ex 2 Day Shipping, you have the option to do so for an additional $15 at checkout. For overnight options, call 504-539-5506 to place your order.
Returns are determined on an individual basis. Gift cards are not redeemable for full cash value. If you wish to make a return, please call customer service at 504-539-5506 within (30) days of the purchase date.
Yes. To do so, go to the "Email" tab and enter your name in the "Recipient's Name" field and your email address in the "Recipient's Email" field. Complete the transaction normally. When you receive your eGift Card email, follow the instructions in the email to retrieve and redeem your eGift Card.
Simply personalize the eGift Card for your recipient, have it sent to yourself and then print it. To do this, go to the "Print" tab. On this tab, enter your own email address in the "Sender’s Email" field. Enter your recipient's name and your personal message on the eGift Card form, and complete the transaction normally. You will receive an eGift Card alert via email. Follow the instructions in this message to retrieve your eGift Card and then choose "Click to print this page." The resulting printout may be presented as a gift to the recipient and may be redeemed at any participating Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group restaurant.
What does the recipient receive when I send an eGift Card?
An email message is sent to the recipient with a link to the eGift Card you created (the design you selected, with your recipient's name and your personalized message), its value and code number. This page also gives simple instructions for printing and redeeming the eGift Card.
The eGift Card is sent as soon as you confirm your order.
Where can I use my eGift Card & Classic Gift Card?
Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group eGift and Classic Cards can be used at Ralph’s on the Park, Red Fish Grill, Ralph Brennan’s Jazz Kitchen, café b, Heritage Grill, Café NOMA and Brennan’s.
eGift Cards and Classic Gift Cards never expire and there are no maintenance or non-usage fees. Your Card will retain its full value until it is used. They are accepted for food, beverage, tax and gratuity at all participating restaurants during operating hours.
How are Classic Gift Cards sent?
Classic Gift Cards are sent through the US Postal Service from the corporate office located in New Orleans. Please allow (1) week for delivery.
Can I mail a Classic Gift Card to a recipient outside of the United States?
International orders cannot be processed at this time. We do apologize for the inconvenience.
What if my recipient does not receive the Classic Gift Card within a week?
Please call our customer support center at 504-539-5506. Gift cards cannot be traced through the US Postal Service.
You will receive an email message confirming delivery, along with a receipt. | 2019-04-21T10:44:53 | https://www.neworleans-food.com/gift-card-faqs/ |
0.999998 | How would you like to use the steam oven?
I would like to fit the steam oven in a housing unit.
I would like to use the steam oven as an freestanding appliance on the worktop.
A classic steam oven for cooking vegetables and fish, reheating, defrosting and blanching.
A steam combination oven that can be used for steam cooking as well as roasting and baking.
A steam oven with microwave function that can be used as a steam oven or microwave oven.
A steam pressure oven that can cook with and without pressure for particularly fast cooking.
What size steam oven would you like?
I would like up to 20 customised programmes that can be saved using names of my own choice.
A clear view door , as I would like to see what is happening inside the oven.
I would like to use automatic menu cooking to help me cook meals without stress and with perfect timing.
For precise temperature controlled cooking of meat and fish, including countdown indicator I would like a food probe.
In addition to Fan plus, I would also like to see other operating modes for baking and roasting, such as conventional heat and grill.
Which product features are particularly important to you?
I would like a motorised control panel.
An extra large oven interior for baking and roasting.
I would like to avoid filling the water container by having a fresh water connection.
I would like a colour display.
I would like a large TFT clear text display with sensor controls.
I would like a TFT clear text display with sensor controls.
I would like a TFT clear text display with rotary controls.
I would like a 7-segment display with sensor controls. | 2019-04-19T19:14:54 | https://www.miele.com.au/domestic/miele-buyers-guide-steam-ovens-2434.htm |
0.998562 | Q Is there any diet restriction?
No, there is no diet restriction. You can have a normal diet. | 2019-04-21T00:42:19 | https://www.lasikindia.in/faqs/q-diet-restriction/ |
0.999999 | Macs are much more popular among college students than among older Americans.
Shopping for a laptop computer for a college student? My recommendation is Apple's MacBook.
The MacBook has a huge advantage over any Windows laptop: It's immune to the more than 1 million viruses and uncountable spyware infections that plague Windows PCs. And the MacBook, like all Macs, comes with the kind of multimedia software that warms a student's heart -- iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD.
Macs are much more popular among college students than among older Americans, possibly because Macs have "caught the wave" of Apple's trendy devices popular among younger buyers -- the iPod, the iPhone and the new iPad -- and because all Macs have built-in wireless file sharing for music and photos.
The technical specs of the MacBook are typical of a modern laptop -- 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor chip, 2 GB of memory, a 250 GB hard drive, an 8X DVD/CD burner, a webcam and microphone, Bluetooth short-distance wireless connectivity and built-in high-speed 802.11n wireless.
But the MacBook stands out with 10-hour battery life and a multi-feature trackpad that offers inertial scrolling, pinch, rotate, swipe, tap, double-tap and drag capabilities.
The MacBook lists for $999.00 for the public but is sold with a 10 percent discount to students, teachers, school employees and parents of students. This is at least twice the cost of a Windows laptop, but the overall cost probably evens out because Macs historically last longer, cost less to run and have a higher resale value than Windows PCs.
Macs can be purchased online and at Apple-owned stores around the country. In Syracuse, the Apple store is located on the upper level of shops at Carousel Mall. Online, the Apple store address is http://store.apple.com/us.
A traditional argument against Macs for college students -- that students sometimes need to run Windows programs and therefore should own Windows PCs -- became a non-issue a few years ago when Apple changed the design of Macs so they could run Windows.
I recommend holding off on extra software, such as an office suite, so that the student can learn what software is actually needed. Macs include a spelling checker, a dictionary and a thesaurus that work all the time in every program, eliminating the need for a pricey word processor with those features. Apple's Text Edit, which comes with Macs, is a Microsoft-Word compatible program that probably can handle all word-processing functions a college student needs. If an office suite is needed, you don't need to pay a cent. The splendid OpenOffice suite -- it's so good I use it myself, as do many others who write about computers -- is a good way to get most of the capabilities of Microsoft Office without the bugs, failed upgrades and porky load times of Microsoft's version. For more on OpenOffice for the Mac, go to www.technofileonline.com/texts/tec090207.html. | 2019-04-20T06:52:56 | http://technofileonline.com/texts/tec080110.html |
0.999304 | How do I update the URL of a form?
There are several reasons you may wish to change the URL of your form. Maybe you are restricting access to a more limited pool of applicants and want to make sure the original pool can no longer access the URL. Maybe you are updating the form for a new cycle. Or maybe you would like the form to close but still have the ability to share a URL with select applicants if needed.
Please note, however, if you opt to change the URL, the former link will not redirect. This could have unintended consequences if you have applicants you'd like to continue accessing the application. Make sure the URL change is communicated to the appropriate parties.
In order to update the URL, go into the Data tab of your workspace, which should initially look like this.
Then click the Form Settings button in the top right.
In the top portion of Form Settings (the third field down), you will seen URL.
The first part of the URL cannot be changed; however, you can change the last part, after apps/, called the form slug. You can simply clear out what was there before and enter the new URL.
Click Save App at the bottom of the Form Settings.
You should now begin accessing the form with the new URL you just created.
If you are using an Advanced Cart, an additional step will need to be taken. From the Form Settings, click Advanced Settings to see this screen.
In the top part of the first Advanced Settings tab, you will see another field for URL.
Make sure that your desired updated URL matches up with this one as well, and update accordingly. Click Next at the bottom of the Advanced Settings screen until you hit the last tab in order to save your changes. | 2019-04-25T22:33:20 | https://support.wizehive.com/article/573-how-do-i-update-the-url-of-an-application-form |
0.999345 | When the two officers arrived about 12:35 a.m. at the store the 911 caller was not present. There was no ongoing confrontation or emergency. The cops did not witness the black man (Sterling) committing any crimes and no gun was visible. Prior to approaching him the cops did not bother to interview any witnesses in the store, such as the manager, (the owner of the store had no knowledge of an argument outside his store that led to the initial 911 call.). The cops had no idea of whether anyone else had heard the alleged threats or had seen a gun. They also had no information about the gun to know whether the caller saw an actual gun or just heard a threat about a gun. On seeing a Black man with a red shirt the cops immediately confronted Mr. Sterling and ordered him to stop and answer questions. Sterling stopped. At that time he was not free to go which means he was legally detained or seized [within the meaning of the 4th Amendment]. Seized for what crime and upon what basis? None. There was no reasonable articulable suspicion to detain and no probable cause to arrest, if you believe in such illusions.
Demockery. From [HERE] The East Baton Rouge Parish Metro Council agreed Wednesday to increase public funds available to cover the legal costs for former Baton Rouge police officer Blane Salamoni in a suit filed against him on behalf of Alton Sterling's children.
The lawsuit, filed in June 2017 in state district court, claims that when Salamoni fired the shots that killed Sterling, the officer's decision exemplifies longstanding problems within the Baton Rouge Police Department, including a culture of entrenched racist attitudes and excessive force among some officers. The lawsuit also alleges the officers violated Sterling's constitutional rights and requests damages.
Council members approved spending up to $37,500 for Salamoni's defense costs. Council approval is necessary for any contract over $17,500, so the resolution passed Wednesday was a request to increase the maximum compensation by $20,000.
It's standard procedure for public funds to be used to cover legal costs and settlements involving public officials, including police officers. Typically the Parish Attorney's Office would serve as counsel, but the office is representing the Baton Rouge Police Department — another defendant in the case — and declined to represent the two officers involved in the incident to avoid a conflict of interest. That's why the city contracted with an outside attorney to represent Salamoni.
Another request to increase the contract amount could come later because the case is ongoing. But interim Parish Attorney Andy Dotson told the council that the $37,500 "is our best estimate based on where we are right now and where the case appears to be going."
Mike Adams, an attorney representing Sterling's youngest children, said although the case continues to move toward a 2020 trial date, he is hoping the parties will reach a settlement agreement before then. He said such a resolution would be in the city's best interest because continuing litigation means mounting expenses for Baton Rouge taxpayers.
"It really becomes a question for the Metro Council of how they're using their resources — to continue having the lawyers fight, or come together at the negotiating table," he said. "I would hope that the council members, in their wisdom, would get serious about resolving this case and letting this city move forward."
The contract for Salamoni's defense is with Baton Rouge attorney Stephen Carleton. Attempts to reach him for comment were unsuccessful.
Howie Lake II, the other officer who responded to the call that resulted in Sterling's death, is also named as a defendant. The Parish Attorney's Office said Lake's legal costs are being handled the same way but haven't exceeded the allotted $17,500, and therefore haven't come before the Metro Council. Lake used a stun gun on Sterling during the struggle but didn't discharge his firearm.
Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul fired Salamoni last spring following months of criminal and internal affairs investigations. Lake received an unpaid suspension but has returned to the force. Both officers have appealed to Baton Rouge's civil service board, which oversees the discipline process for city police and firefighters.
The board received their appeals last spring and scheduled appeal hearings, which have since been pushed back multiple times at the request of attorneys involved. The latest schedule had Salamoni's slated for next week, but the board announced Wednesday it would hold a special meeting Thursday to consider a request for further postponement. The board has also agreed that Salamoni's hearing should come before Lake's because of overlapping information.
Adams said he hopes attorneys on both sides can take advantage of that extra time before the civil service hearing and "all work together to fashion a global resolution to this problem and a settlement that's in the best interest of Baton Rouge."
Metro Councilman Matt Watson emphasized the significance of the case and the importance of dedicating enough time and resources to achieve an outcome that's fair to both sides.
"This is the single most important wrongful death suit this city has ever seen, and it's going to set a precedent," he said. "Every step of this process informs what we should do if anything like this ever happens again."
Councilwoman Tara Wicker said she also recognizes the litigation process takes time and resources, but she's hoping for a resolution in the near future.
"I know this is a difficult situation, and there are going to be people who aren't happy regardless of the outcome," she said. "But I'm hopeful there will be opportunity for some compromise where both parties can agree to bring closure to this issue so that the community can move forward, and these families can move forward." | 2019-04-25T08:37:57 | https://www.brown-watch.com/brownwatch-news/2019/4/11/east-baton-rouge-parish-metro-council-forces-black-taxpayers-to-fund-legal-defense-of-white-cop-who-shot-alton-sterling-to-death-during-arrest-for-no-reason |
0.999989 | Having heard the news about the above. I was initially excited that there was going to be a Ring in London a lot earlier than expected. However I was told by someone who went to the Cardiff Ring that the playing by the orchestra was amazing but the singers were patchy and because they are all on consecutive nights there is loads of double casting. Does anyone else have some thoughts to offer on this or did anyone see the Cardiff Ring?
I can't wait for the ROH to announce the cast for this production!
"I first saw Das Rheingold on TV in my teens and loved it - I have memories of the two giants, Fafner and Fasolt, having a fight on stage accompanied to some great, dramatic music. I did see two operas "live" in that period, Tristan und Isolde and Fidelio but then life intervened and I did not see another opera for about 25 years! It wasn't until two years ago that I saw my first Das Rheingold, in the current Royal Opera House production. I've seen the remaining three operas in the ROH set in the following months but the cycle must have been spread over about 18 months or so - ROH are not doing their proper cycle until next autumn - alas, we cannot afford to go!
So you can see that I am a novice when it comes to the Ring. However, from what I've seen, read and heard, we all are, as there seem to be more interpretations than interpreters, and there are many of those!
The Mariinsky then, was my first proper Ring cycle. Now I want more! I want more, although one of the lessons that I've learnt is that you have to treat a Cycle like a holiday - stay at the resort and not attempt to do get up at 7am and do half a day's work before travelling to and from the venue! I am exhausted - goodness knows how the orchestra and the conductor, Valery Georgiev feel! - I hope their schedule allowed them a rest!
This was a very enjoyable Ring, theatrically and musically.
The settings by George Tsypin are influenced by Valery Gergiev's homeland myths: George has captured wonderfully the whole space of the stage by using four giant humanoid torsos that act as active witnesses to the enfolding events; either imbued with inner light; sporting different heads appropriate to the particular scene, taking on different postures and even moving when appropriate. For instance, the downfall of Valhalla at the very end is symbolised by these beings lying down. When you add the effective lighting, including the use of video projected textures, the end result is a captivating, ever-changing landscape against which the action is developed. Some of the scenes were incredibly striking: those in the Rhine, both in Das Rheingold and Gotterdamerung; the Nibelheim scene; the wedding scene in Gotterdammerung - but to single these out is possibly unfair. The only occasion it didn't work for me (I was not scared, had no sense of danger) was in the dragon-slaying scene in Siegfried, although Mrs. T thought this was very effective. A slight niggle for us both was that the sets creaked occasionally when being walked on by the cast: very disturbing in the middle of the quieter sections of music.
The orchestra was first-class: Valery Gergiev conducted at a slowish tempo suited to the singers and the mood of the sets but drew brilliant contrasts in power during the performances, without ever allowing his fortissimos to subdue the singers.
The Mariinsky had decided to rotate singers in the key roles - I don't know if this is standard procedure for a Ring Cycle in four days, as some of the roles are very demanding on the voice (although some of the changes were in minor roles also) - this was to an extent disconcerting but, from another aspect, a godsend as some of the singers, drawn entirely from the Mariinsky company, were not all uniformly excellent and some, unfortunately, were underpowered in crucial roles. For instance, Yevgeny Nikitin struggled as Wotan in Das Rheingold (but made a better Gunther in Gotterdamerung), whereas Mikhail Kit did a splendid job of it in Die Walkure. (Vadim Kravets was a stand-in for the indisposed Yevgeny during Siegfried and was poorer even than him). The vocal stars, for me, were Vassily Gorshkov (Loge in Das Rheingold and Mime in Siegfried), Mikhail Petrenko for his performance as Hagen in Gotterdammerung - fantastic!!, Larissa Dakota (Fricka in Die Walkure and Waltraute in Gotterdamerung). Leonid Zazhozhaev was a young and exciting Siegfried in Siegfried and I also liked the two Brunhildes - Olga Savova in Die Walkure and Olga Sergeyeva in Siegfried and Gotterdamerung. I actually preferred Sergeyeva, whose acting was also excellent, but Mrs T and a number of our friends all hated her - Emily's comment was that she was like "sulphuric acid with bare blades"! She could get a career as an opera critic!
Overall this Ring was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. At its peak, when the top singers were together, acting well in the atmospheric stage setting and complemented as ever by the excellent playing of the orchestra, we must have been pretty close to Wagner's dream of Gesamtkunstwerk!!" | 2019-04-21T22:46:27 | http://musicalcriticism.forumotion.net/t72-mariinsky-ring |
0.992237 | 2013 was another great year for movies! Although the usual qualifier, that you wouldn't necessarily know it based on the films that received heavy marketing, remains as true as ever. There were only a handful of big-budget blockbuster entertainments that really stood out for me (Gravity, American Hustle), but this was a great year for American independent films (comedies that I actually thought were funny!) and foreign character studies.
Last year I kept holding off on a top films of 2012 post until I'd seen more, resulting in the list never getting done. I'm not going to make the same mistake this year, so expect there to be a few gaps. I did see about 50 2013 releases, but I haven't yet gotten to Her, The Past, The Act of Killing, Beyond the Hills, Dallas Buyer's Club, Captain Phillips, The Wind Rises, The Wolf of Wallstreet, At Berkley and many others.
20. Room 237 - Sometimes thought-provoking, sometimes hilarious documentary in which five obsessive fans of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining air their opinions, interpretations and conspiracy theories accompanied by film clips, maps and highlighted stills.
19. Neighboring Sounds - Brooding Brazilian mood-piece in which a private security group offers their services to an upscale apartment building. A slow-burning but incredibly tense examination of privacy, security, trust and the psychology of modern (non)communal living.
18. The Hunt - Thomas Vinterberg revisits the theme of child abuse that he first examined in the breakout dogma 95 film Celebration, this time studying the opposite case: a kindergarten teacher accused of improper contact with a young girl. Less angry than his early films, and more nuanced and mature in terms of modulation and theme, this is an issues film that largely dodges the obvious pitfalls and finds its interest factor in both personal and sociological arenas.
17. Inside Llewyn Davis - A melancholy performance-driven Coen brothers snack about a talented but uncharismatic folk singer in the days before Dylan made it cool who finds himself emotionally and occupationally flailing due to a mix of his principles and pettiness. It costars my girlfriend's orange cat.
16. Computer Chess - A latter day mumblecore film covering an artificial intelligence chess competition in the 1980s. Perfectly captures the look, feel and attitude of the era and mines gentle, carefully-observed and increasingly surreal comedy from its socially-awkward milieu.
15. American Hustle - A goofy heist film in love with the trappings of early 80s and having no end of fun with a top-notch cast (Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper) that gains a lot from their mutual chemistry and a sassy script.
14. To the Wonder - Terrence Malick's little-loved follow-up to Tree of Life, tackles smaller-scale themes of love, depression, displacement, alienation and the ebb and flow of relationships, but does so with the same grace and beauty.
13. Before Midnight - The third part in a reliably smart and increasingly mature romantic trilogy that follows an American writer (Ethan Hawke) and a French activist (Julie Delpy). Each installment checks in on the relationship at 9 year intervals (both in real life and in film time). Now middle-aged, they deal with child-rearing, simmering disappointments and the acceptance of each other's flaws.
12. Ilo Ilo - Singaporean drama about a crumbling urban family, an unemployed husband, over-stressed wife and trouble-making son who finally begins to bloom after connecting with their newly employed Filipino maid during the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Humble and bittersweet. Dark horse winner of the Golden Horse (best Asian film).
11. A Touch of Sin - China's most interesting director, Jia Zhangke, was shockingly not banned by his home government despite making this controversial ripped-from-the-headlines anthology of four contemporary crimes each tied to corruption and the dubious new morality of the China's selectively-booming economy.
10. Frances Ha - A scarcely-employed dancer bouncing between cheap apartments and charming friends in Brooklyn tries to get her life together after her roommate and best friend 'breaks up' with her. The energy, wit and personality of Frances Ha, not to mention Greta Gerwig's lead performance, elevates it far above the mosh pit of indistinguishably quirky aimless twenty-something dramedies that frequently try my patience.
9. The Broken Circle Breakdown - Belgium romantic tragedy about a bluegrass hippy couple that must learn to deal with their love child's cancer diagnosis. Unabashedly emotional and melodramatic in all the right ways, while also featuring great music and cinematography.
8. The Great Beauty - 65-year-old ex-writer and self-proclaimed king of Rome's nightlife has staked his life on the outside world, the index of "beauties" that includes the natural and the artistic, the sexual and the architectural, the sacred and the grotesque. Succumbing to disappointment, not least with himself, he reflects on a memory from when beauty still stirred him inside.
7. Blue Is the Warmest Color - A long, substantive look at a lesbian teenager's first love, sexual awakening and hard-wrought search for identity. Effortlessly dives into both the shallow and deep end of love's whirlpool of emotions, pleasures and pains without simplifying or trivializing the youth and relative innocence of its characters.
6. Stories We Tell - Canadian actor/director Sarah Polley sets out to learn about her late mother by interviewing her family members and her parent's friends and associates, on one level creating a work on memory, storytelling the inevitable contradictions of multiple narrators, but also suspecting that her mother had an affair and that her real biological father is not the one who raised her.
5. Museum Hours - This virtually unsellable premise, an elderly guard at the Austrian Kunsthistorisches Museum forms a platonic friendship with a Canadian woman visiting a comatose relative, forms the surprisingly satisfying core of this peaceful, heartfelt and rather unassuming meditation on art and life.
4. Wolf Children - A rare anime that takes as its central theme the challenges of raising children, dealing first with their stressful dependence and later with their frightening independence. For Hana, a city-raised college student, it is even harder than most: she must raise her children without a husband or job, living alone in the Japanese backwoods. And also her children are werewolves.
3. 12 Years a Slave - A free African American is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South, where he struggles to survive under the ownership of a variety of men and ultimately to return home to his family. Tough viewing, but the director and his cast (including a star-making performance from Chiwetel Ejiofor) are perfectly in sync. Based on a true story.
2. Gravity - Astronauts Sandra Bullock and George Clooney are making repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope when a cloud of debris from a detonated satellite sweeps past and strands them in EVA suits adrift in orbit. They make a desperate dash between space stations, trying to find a way to land on Earth before their air runs out or their few escape options are shredded to smithereens. The long takes, nonstop tension and awe-inspiring visuals had me almost choking during my first viewing (but in a good way).
1. Upstream Color - Shane Carruth's long-awaited follow-up to 2004's Primer is a visual and auditory masterpiece and an invigoratingly inventive narrative, though it's also a bewildering headtrip that demands an abundance of attention and thought. The story involves orchids, roundworms, pigs, Walden, a hypnotist thief, a sound engineer and a couple whose moods, and perhaps even their entire relationship, is manipulated by an ecosystem of connections they will never fully grasp. For sheer originality, ambition and near-endless debatability, Upstream Color will stay in my mind for a long time to come. | 2019-04-20T16:40:50 | http://www.filmwalrus.com/2014/01/best-films-of-2013.html |
0.99998 | Block clients from booking completely (Block).
Require business approval for each appointment (Require Acceptance).
Allow a client to book without the need for approval (Allow).
1. Tap Customers at the bottom of the screen.
2. Enter the name of the customer in the search box. Then select the client.
4. Select the Online Booking option.
Block - this completely prevents the customer from booking with your business.
Require Acceptance - this requires the client to request an appointment before booking it.
Allow - this allows the customer to book with your business.
6. Tap Save at the top of the screen.
7. You can see the client's Online Booking Status in their profile. In the example below, the customer has been blocked.
6. Click Update after making the selection.
7. The client's online booking status has been updated. | 2019-04-24T09:54:54 | https://support.vagaro.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005961814-How-to-Block-a-Customer-from-Booking-Online-in-Vagaro |
0.999978 | The film begins with the traditional text: A LONG TIME AGO IN A GALAXY FAR FAR AWAY... but instantly leaps to the action. No opening crawl. In the early years of the Galactic Empire, an Imperial ship lands on a planet.
Lyra Erso (Valene Kane), her husband Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelsen) and their young daughter Jyn Erso (Beau Gadsdon) quickly scramble to gather their things. Lyra calls Saw Gerrera (Forest Whitaker) and tells him that they have come.
Galen says goodbye to his daughter and tells her that he loves her, calling her "Stardust," as he heads off to face the Empire. Lyra gives Jyn a necklace, telling her that the force will always be with her and she can trust it.
Outside, Galen meets Orson Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn), a high-ranking Imperial military officer, who tries to get Galen to come back to work for the Empire. He asks about his family, and Galen lies that his wife is dead.
When Orson tells his stormtrooper bodyguards to check the area, Lyra appears and draws a weapon on Krennic; they have a standoff. Lyra shoots Krennic, hitting his arm, but she is fatally shot by a Stormtrooper.
A stormtrooper toy is discovered, and Krennic tells his guards to find Galen's daughter (who stayed out of sight to watch all this). Jyn runs away and hides in a prepared bolt-hole under a rock in a cave, from which Saw rescues her.
Fifteen years later on the planet Wobani, an adult Jyn (Felicity Jones) is held in a cell.
At the Ring of Kafrene trading post, is the pilot Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), who meets with a man with info. Cassian learns that an Imperial pilot defected and the Empire is creating a planet-killer weapon. Stormtroopers discover them and Cassian quickly kills them and plans to scale up a wall to escape.
The noise attracts more Stormtroopers, but the man has a bad arm and would never be able to climb the wall. Whether it was to spare him from being tortured or to silence him, Cassin kills the man and escapes.
On the Imperial-occupied moon Jedha, Bodhi Rook (Riz Ahmed), the cargo pilot who had defected from the Empire and wants to join the Rebels, arrives and is apprehended by the local forces there.
On the planet Wobani, Jyn is being transferred with other prisoners to an Imperial labor camp. Suddenly, Rebel forces break in and free them. Wanting to escape, Jyn attacks the Rebels and tries to flee but is stopped by K-2SO (voice: Alan Tudyk), an Imperial enforcer droid who's been reprogrammed to work for the rebellion.
Jin along with others are transported to the Yavin 4 moon, the location of the Rebel base of operations.
They land at the Rebel Alliance Headquarters and Jin is escorted to meet with Rebel General Draven and Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly), a senator of the Old Republic Senate-turned-Imperial Senate. Cassian is also present.
Though she has been going by the name Liana Hallik, Draven reveals they know she really is Jin Erso, daughter of Galen Erso, a known Imperial collaborater in weapons development. They question her about her father, but she explains she last saw him 15 years ago.
Mothma switches to the topic of Saw Gerrera and tells Jin that he is an extremist causing problems in Jedha. Locating Saw is not the problem, it's meeting with him without getting killed. They are aware that Saw is holding the pilot as prisoner and they know Gererra would meet with a friendly like Jin. The Rebels continue that contacting Saw and the captured pilot is paramount to locating Jin's father and try to return him. Senator Bail Organa (Jimmy Smits) joins the meeting but does not talk. Mothma offers her a deal: meet with Saw, and she is free to go.
As Cassian and Jyn board the ship taking her to Jedha with K-2SO, Cassian is called over by Draven and is told to kill their target and not perform any extraction.
On Jedha, Bodhi is confronted by Saw, who now has prosthetic legs and gets supplementary oxygen from a mask. Bodhi tries to explain that he defected and Galen Erso sent him to locate Saw. Saw doesn't believe Bodhi's story, suspecting he might be a spy, responds, "Bor Gullet." Saw's men hauls him away.
We cut to the Death Star displaying it's huge satellite-like dish. Imperial Star Destroyers near it appear as tiny specks, showing how truly massive the Death Star is.
Aboard a Star Destroyer, Krennic meets with Grand Moff Tarkin (Guy Henry), the Imperial governor of the outlying areas and overall commander of the Imperial Navy. Tarkin chastizes Krennic for the security breach on Jedha and failure to retrieve the defected cargo pilot. He suggests Krennic resolve both problems by testing the "ultimate weapon" they are creating. Krennic assures him he will not fail.
Jyn has a flashback when she was a little girl, watching her father meet with Krennic, and the day she last saw her parents. Jyn, K-2SO, and Cassian arrive at Jedha. From a far distance, they see a Star Destroyer hovering over Jedha City. Imperial forces are collecting Kyber crystal, fuel for the Death Star. K-2SO is told to wait at the ship.
Back at Gerrera's home base, Saw interrogates Bodhi, bringing in a Bor Gullet, a tentacled creature that terrifies Bodhi and can read his mind.
Jin and Cassian make their way in the city and bump into a grubby mutant-like human and a bug-eyed creature - the same characters Luke Skywalker confronted in the Mos Eisley cantina. They are itching for a fight, but Cassian apologizes and moves on.
While Cassian scouts the area, Jyn meets Chirrut Imwe (Donnie Yen), a blind warrior who mentions her necklace and the quality of the stone.
Jyn and Cassian continue through the city when Jyn notices snipers and the area quickly erupts into a battle.
Rebel and Empire forces fight, and while Jyn and Cassian are nearly killed, K-2SO arrives and defeats the Stormtroopers. They run into more Stormtroopers, who think K-S20 is escorting Jyn and Cassian as prisoners.
The Stormtroopers are about to apprehend Jyn and Cassian when Chirrut intervenes. Showing excellent skill despite his visual impairment, Chirrut defeats the stormtroopers, but all, including Chirrut's friend Baze Malbus (Wen Jiang) are eventually captured by Saw's crew.
Jyn is brought directly to Saw. Saw is surprised to see Jyn, but Jyn instantly confronts him about abandoning her when she was 16. Saw replies that he did it to give her her best chance and suspects Jyn of being told to head there to kill him. Jyn says that she wants nothing to do with the rebellion at all and Saw, looking defeated, tells her that there is no rebellion without hope.
The Empire decides to test their weapon. Krennic wants to destroy the moon, but Tarkin insists destroying Jedha City only, is adequate demonstration.
While Cassian, Chirrut, and Baze are in a cell, they quickly notice that Bodhi is in the cell next door.
Saw shows Jyn a hologram sent by her father. Her father says in the message that he went with the Empire to give the rebels their best chances and that the weapon they were building is called the Death Star. He says that he made a fail-safe in the death star by placing a trap -- explode it, and the entire thing dies. He also apologizes to a tearful Jyn and tells her to fight for him and to finish what he started: "Save the rebellion and save the dream."
Suddenly, the Death Star attacks Jedha. At that moment, Cassian manages to jimmy the prison cell lock, setting him and the others free. Chirrut, Bodhi, and Baze head to the ship while Cassian gets Jyn. Despite Jyn's help, Saw acknowledges his weakness and tells her to leave him. Everyone else escapes in the ship with K-2SO while Jedha is destroyed and Saw is crushed to death.
With their test being successful and Jedha gone, the Imperial leaders rejoice. However, Grand Moff Tarkin decides to claim all the credit, shutting out Krennic, the director of the project. Tarkin threatens further action against Krennic should he protest against his or the Empire's policies.
On the ship, Cassian is secretly given instructions to kill Galen if they find him. The people on the ship discuss Jyn's report of the hologram but as she left it behind in Jedha, they don't believe her. She convinces them, however, to head to Edu and find Galen.
On Edu, an Imperial mining planet with constant darkness and rain, the crew crashes their ship and decides to find a new one. As Cassian and Bodhi head out, Jyn questions Cassian's motives. Upon hearing K-2SO say that Cassian's weapon was in sniper mode, she heads out with Chirrut and Baze.
Nearby at the Edu Mining Facility, Krennic is interrogating Galen and six other engineers working for the Empire because he believes one of them is secretly working for the rebels. When Krennic threatens to kill everyone, Galen steps forward and confesses. Krennic still kills the other engineers. While this is happening, Cassian has his rifle sights on Galen but eventually does not pull the trigger.
Meanwhile, having snuck up on the rebels, Bodhi and Jyn arrive. Jyn calls out to her father just as rebel forces arrive in X-Wing fighters and cause an explosion and a fight. When she regains consciousness, Jyn finds her father in critical condition. She tearfully reunites with her father before Galen passes away and Cassian pulls her from his body as they head out of Edu.
On the ship, an angry Jyn questions Cassian on his motives and he replies that everyone has lost something for the rebellion, and that she only truly started to care because of her father.
Krennic arrives on the planet Mustufa and reports everything to the chief enforcer, Darth Vader (Spencer Wilding and Daniel Naprous; voice: James Earl Jones). Vader is angry and Force-chokes Krennic, letting him go after ordering him to make the Death Star work without any flaws.
At a meeting back on Yavin 4, the rebel leaders, among them Organa and General Dodonna (Ian McElhinney), are doubtful of Jyn's story and her credibility. Jyn proposes to infiltrate the Empire's data storage facility on Scarif and get the plans for the Death Star, ending her argument by saying rebellions are built on hope. She fails to get approval, as Mon Mothma opposes any strike against Scarif and the other rebel leaders agree it's too risky.
Senator Organa then leaves to travel back to his homeworld of Alderaan to have a talk with his adopted daughter to try to help and seek out a former Clone War veteran who may help out the Alliance.
Outside, Cassian approaches Jyn about the mission, a dozen other rebel fighters have decided to join them. With their crew in tow, they use the call sign 'Rogue One' and head to Scarif to find the Death Star plans themselves.
At Scarif, Bodhi uses his old Imperial passwords to get through the gate in the force field that protects the data storage facility and get permission to land. K-2SO, Jyn, and Cassian head into the facility to get the plans while the other rebels plant explosives around the landing pads on the perimeter of the facility's island atoll. Director Krennic arrives on Scarif around the same time to review transmissions involving Galen Erso as well as Grand Moff Tarkin.
Soon enough, the rebels detonate explosions all over the island. With a full-on battle emerging, the rebel fleet arrives -- the leaders had a change of heart. (There's a cameo scene of R2-D2 and C-3PO in which C-3PO comments on the rebels going to battle.) The rebels' first challenge is to slip through the gate in the force field before the Imperial forces close it and block their access to the surface of the planet.
In the access room for one of the storage units, K-2SO opens the door to allow Jyn and Cassian to enter the data storage area and extract the plans to the Death Star. While they search for the plans, K-2SO fights off stormtroopers. They eventually identify the plans under the code name of the nickname Jyn's father gave her, Stardust. When they find the files, K-2SO notes the force field and tells them to deliver the plans by getting the physical media themselves.
It's in a structure that's designed to be accessed by mechanical arms, then climbing all the way to the top of the tower to transmit the data. Stormtroopers then overpower him, and K-2SO dies, permanently locking the door to the control room with Jyn and Cassian inside, where Directory Krennic has spotted them.
Outside in the battle, the rebels are able to take down several AT-AT's, and Bodhi manages to find a way to the control switch to turn on communications. He is unable to turn the switch on during the battle, so Chirrut takes a risk and walks over to the switch and turns it on. He is, however, shot on the way back and dies in Baze's hands, telling him that he will always be one with the force.
In the data storage area, Jyn and Cassian do some dangerous jumping and climbing to grab the cassette holding the Stardust file, but they're intercepted by Director Krennic. Although they take out the stormtroopers and shoot Krennic, the wounded Krennic shoots Cassian (who falls), while Jyn narrowly escapes.
While this is happening, Bodhi gets communications working but is killed by a grenade bomb thrown by a stormtrooper. Baze is inspired by Chirrut's sacrifice and fights until he is also killed by a grenade bomb held in the hands of a fallen stormtrooper.
Jyn finally makes her way to the top of the tower and sees the command console for transmitting data to the rebels. The console prompts her to recalibrate the antenna, and she does, not knowing that Krennic is headed up. The tower is hit by shockwaves from the battle, and Jyn nearly falls off.
Jyn tries to send the data but is intercepted by Krennic. He claims that she will die and her rebellion will die with her, but a surprisingly alive (though heavily injured) Cassian appears and shoots Krennic, who falls.
The rebel fleet destroys the force field gate, which is the last piece of the puzzle. Everything is now in place to allow the transmission of the plans to the Rebel fleet. Jyn starts the transmission.
While this is happening, Grand Moff Tarkin watches the carnage from the Death Star with Vader and aims the Death Star at the base on Scarif. While Scarif is about to be destroyed, the Rebel fleet retreats to note the sacrifice of the Rogue One. Jyn and Cassian, having transmitted the plans, hold hands and embrace on a beach as the Death Star obliterates them and the entire planet.
Darth Vader boards a Rebel ship and mows down scores of Rebel fighters with his lightsaber as he chases the memory card containing the Death Star plans through the Rebel flagship, arriving at the final hatch just in time to see Princess Leia's ship undock and escape. He reboards the star destroyer to pursue.
Inside Leia's ship, C-3PO asks a partly CGI Leia (Ingvild Deila, voice: Carrie Fisher) what the plans mean and she answers, "Hope," signaling the start of the first Star Wars film . . . Star Wars: A New Hope. | 2019-04-19T16:54:17 | http://www.scifimoviezone.com/StarWarsRogueOne01.shtml |
0.999883 | Analysis: Is Pakistan attack a blueprint for nuclear base raid?
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A group of highly-trained militants with night-vision goggles and the collusion of sympathetic Islamist military officials storm a heavily-guarded navy base situated only a few miles from where a unstable Pakistan stores some of its nuclear weapons.
That is the scary way of looking at the attack on the navy base in Karachi on Sunday night that destroyed two U.S.-built aircraft and killed 10 military personnel, fuelling worries about the safety of the world’s fastest-growing nuclear arsenal.
The consensus remains that Pakistan’s 70-100 nuclear weapons are safe. Security at installations is reportedly much higher. It is almost impossible for a rogue team to launch any missiles and the vetting of staff at these bases is extremely rigorous.
But each attack in Pakistan seems to up the ante, surprising analysts and military alike about how far militants can reach into the heart of the powerful military establishment — perhaps one day doing enough to steal nuclear material for a “dirty” bomb or successfully penetrating a nuclear facility.
In Sunday’s attack, attackers scaled walls with ladders to enter PNS Mehran, one of Pakistan’s most heavily guarded bases, and held off the military for nearly 17 hours.
“It reinforces the fear that terrorists have now developed a range of tactics - foreknowledge, use of uniforms, simultaneous attacks on different entry points, etc - which enable them to penetrate high-security bases and, crucially, hold space within them for hours,” Professor Shaun Gregory, director of the Pakistan Security Research Unit at Bradford University, wrote in an email.
The attack took place only 15 miles away from a suspected Pakistan nuclear weapons storage site at Masroor air base, a sign of how close the nuclear arsenal is to the growing violence from the Pakistan Taliban and other militant groups.
Even in some of Pakistan’s more nationalistic media, which for years has dismissed criticism of the safety of the nuclear arsenal as foreign-inspired propaganda, doubts have surfaced.
“This easy action by the terrorists has rightly raised concerns among the nation that neither any part of the country nor our nuclear installations are safe,” Urdu newspaper Nawa-i-Waqt said in its editorial on Tuesday.
Some commentators said it was possible that the attack could only have happened with help of insiders within the base - perhaps disaffected and low-level military personnel angry at increasingly open U.S. operations on its soil.
The fear is these kind of insiders could assist an assault on a nuclear base. Even an unsuccessful attack could sow panic in the military and spark more pressure from Washington.
The Taliban hinted at local help, but remained coy to whether there were inside the base.
“Our ‘local friends’ from Karachi helped us in yesterday’s operation but I would not say whether we had friends on the base or not,” Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told Reuters from an undisclosed location.
The attack comes after the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces sparked suspicion the al Qaeda leader may have been helped for years by sympathizers within Pakistan’s intelligence services.
Nor was this the first attack at the heart of Pakistan’s military. There was an attack at the army general headquarters in Rawalpindi in 2009. Later investigations found low ranking soldiers and officers were involved in planning the attacks.
U.S. diplomatic cables from 2006 published in local media showed then Deputy Chief of Air Staff for Operations, Air Vice Marshal Khalid Chaudhry as reporting of small scale sabotage from low ranking Islamist officials to stop aircraft being deployed in security operations along the Afghan border.
This all may lead to a nightmare scenario for the West of a small group of officials managing to steal nuclear material, load it up with conventional explosives, and set it off.
“(The) major concern is not having an Islamic militant steal an entire weapon but rather the chance someone working in government of Pakistan facilities could gradually smuggle enough material out to eventually make a weapon,” U.S. ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson said in a 2009 cable released by WikiLeaks, according to media reports.
U.S. officials have said that they do not know everything about the size and location of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, but have publicly voiced confidence in Pakistan’s ability to secure its weapons.
There are some 10,000 soldiers guarding the facilities and only 5 percent of individuals pass strict screening tests for staff at the facilities, according to a report by Shashank Joshi of the U.K.-based Royal United Services Institute think-tank.
Experts say nuclear weapons are stored separately from delivery systems - meaning any militants ability to launch weapons is almost impossible.
But analysts point to weakness in the system.
“Separate storage may provide a layer of protection against accidental launch or prevent theft of an assembled weapon, it may be easier for unauthorized people to remove a weapon’s fissile material core if it is not assembled,” The U.S. Congressional Research Service said in a report in January.
There are also concerns that any future stand-off with nuclear foe India could lead to a chaotic situation with nuclear weapons dispersed around the country, straining Pakistan’s military command structure.
Pakistan’s move to develop short range tactical nuclear weapons may also make them more vulnerable to theft or a mutiny by a group of military officers.
“If they are designed for battlefield use, they could present an easier target for terrorists to seize and use themselves,” wrote Ben Rhode, research associate for non-proliferation and disarmament at The International Institute for Strategic Studies, in an email to Reuters. | 2019-04-24T14:35:00 | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-nuclear-safety/analysis-is-pakistan-attack-a-blueprint-for-nuclear-base-raid-idUSTRE74N3L520110524 |
0.999467 | Cloud provides a new way of writing software, and with it, new tools have emerged that make it easier to write that software. One of the newest ones on the block is the Platform as a Service or PaaS. Vendors of PaaS include Microsoft's Azure, Salesforce's Heroku, Cloud Foundry, and to some degree Amazon's AWS. What is a PaaS? PaaS is the operating system for the cloud. Like a computer OS, a PaaS provides a set of APIs which applications can access to make their lives easier. Whereas a computer OS provides access to the services of a single computer, a PaaS provides access to the services of many, spread across many data centers. Whereas a computer OS provides a software API bound to specific languages, a PaaS provides access to services over a network that is bound to specific on-the-wire protocols - typically REST.
Deployment Automation: The PaaS provides a way to take your code - for example your Java application - and then get it deployed across a number of machines in different data centers in a completely automated fashion. In Heroku, this is done with a git push. Heroku monitors your repo and once you push an update, it extracts it, distributes it to the various machines that will run your code, makes sure the JVM is up and running, and starts your app. Contrast this with AWS (which does not provide this capability). On AWS you can spin up a VM, but they its your job to get your code onto the VMs, make sure the JVM is there, and so on. A PaaS does all of that for you.
HTTP Request Routing: PaaS is really tuned around web services. The PaaS will provide its own HTTP reverse proxy, handle DNS configuration, TLS termination, and make sure requests for an HTTP URI are routed to a running instance of your code. As a developer, you no longer need to worry about any of that. Just write your web app, and the platform will get the queries to a running server.
Scale and HA: If you write your app in the right way - namely, using stateless web services that store all persistent state in a shared backend database - the platform can provide scale and high availability. It can turn up as many instances of your app as is needed to handle the incoming request load. It can handle failed machines or server instances, and restart them for you. If a DC fails, through DNS it will route traffic to a backup DC to running instances of your code that are there. The trick to making this magic work is writing your app correctly and doing a good job on your database selection and schema design.
Data Storage: The PaaS will also provide databases as a service. This means there are databases up and running that you can access via some kind of protocol interface. This might be RESTful access (as in the case of Amazon S3 or Azure storage services), SQL queries for a relational database, or whatever the query protocol is for a noSQL database. As an application developer, you do not need to set up, run, or configure this database. The PaaS provides it for you.
Application Upgrade/Downgrade: A cloud service needs to always be available. If you want to upgrade your cloud software, you cannot take everything down and do the upgrade. A PaaS will typically provide some kind of rolling upgrade capability, where you can install a new version, test it while the old is still running, and once everything looks good, do a cutover to the new service instance. And then if things fail, you can roll back.
All of this used to be the stuff that made writing server side software hard. With PaaS, these hard problems are solved for you and you can focus your energy on the business logic of the app itself.
PaaS is the operating system of the cloud, and it is the future of how server side software will be built. The race is now on - who will be the leaders in providing PaaS services? Like operating systems, apps are "sticky" to their particular platform and require porting to go from platform to platform. As the set of APIs and services for PaaS's grow, the choice of PaaS becomes more crucial as the costs of porting go up. This is one of the benefits of open source PaaS offerings like Cloud Foundry - instead of being wed to the APIs of a particular vendor, the APIs are defined by a community and can be improved by contribution.
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0.999378 | I am trying to run the default PageRank provided in the analytics toolkit on a cluster of 12 nodes where each node has 32 cores.
(1) I want to control the number of computation threads per node and hence, am using --ncpus=X where I vary X from 1 to 30. However, for all of my runs, there are exactly 77 processes being created on each of the 12 nodes. Is this the correct behavior? I was expecting that there will be some threads for communication/synchronization, but 77 is a lot?
Is this trend expected? Also, the outputs for --ncpus=2 and --ncpus=4 do not match: for example, vertex 0 is 0.345408 when --ncpus=2 and it is 0.256067 when --ncpus=4. This is surely incorrect; what am I doing wrong?
(3) Is there a way to determine whether my request for --ncpus was accepted or not (maybe some kind of verbose mode)? Currently, the output does not say anything related to ncpus parameter.
I have attached the output of a run (when --ncpus=2).
Interesting. Each process spawns a ton of threads, but most of them are silent. 32 of those threads are from OpenMP (which are still used in a few places), and 32 of these threads are the internal thread-pool. That makes up 64. And a bunch of other little threads which wake up periodically to do stuff like collect logs, and stuff.
The default execution behavior of pagerank is synchronous execution with dynamic scheduling (i.e. vertices which have not converged are scheduled for execution in the next round). Executions should generally be deterministic, up to numeric precision issues (we are using double precision everywhere). If you are getting variable answers, and variable convergence behavior, your graph might be quite be particularly difficult (extremely skewed power-law graph)? In truth we have never quite encountered such a graph before.
You could consider instead fixing the number of iterations: ./pagerank --iterations=20 which in this case will run 20 complete rounds of pagerank with no dynamic scheduling, and see what you get.
My input graph is a standard power-law graph. I think the PageRank algorithm does not assume inputs to satisfy any particular graph structure and it is expected to return the same stable answer across multiple runs.
I tried fixing the number of iterations; that does not help.
Is this because I am not using the stable 2.2 release (as recommended by you in my previous post: http://forum.graphlab.com/discussion/51/unable-to-compile-graphlab-analytics-with-mpi#latest)?
Hmm... Thats interesting. When is your checkout taken? It is preferred that you use the most current head of the repository.
My checkout was taken at 03.12 PM today (March 05). I again took the latest version right now and am still facing the same issue.
Interesting. I am not sure. Let me ask another collaborator to see if he has any thoughts. Is it possible to share your data?
Sure. What data do you need?
The graph file for which you are finding that repeated runs do not give the same answer. If you can find a relatively small version of the file which has the problem, I can try to take look.
I am using the LiveJournal network from SNAP available at http://snap.stanford.edu/data/soc-LiveJournal1.html.
Hmm... We have performed runs on this graph before without issues. Let me try this on our systems and I will let you know.
I have taken a latest checkout today morning and am working on that now. After various experiments, here is what I have noticed.
If I do not set --ncpus parameter, multiple runs output the same stable answer. It takes 50 iterations with 180-200 seconds.
If I set --ncpus=30, multiple runs output the same stable answer (note that number of cores on each node is 32). Also, this answer matches the answer in case 1. It also takes 50 iterations with 180-200 seconds.
If I set --ncpus=2, multiple runs output the same stable answer. However, I do not get the same answer as in above cases. It takes 30-37 iterations with 19-21 seconds only -- this also does not match as in above cases.
If I set --ncpus=25, the algorithm does not converge in a reasonable time; the number of active nodes keeps on increasing/decreasing randomly and hence, I had to manually kill the process when it was on 64th iteration.
I am attaching the outputs for case 1, 3 and 4.
--- Which is the correct answer for PageRank?
--- Does this mean that --ncpus parameter does not work correctly? How can I fix this and move on?
--- To be 100% sure, if I do not set --ncpus parameter, then it defaults to number of cores - 2 (which should be 30 in my case since each node has 32 cores). Am I right?
Thats very interesting. Indeed default is #cores - 2. It could very possibly be a bug with the ncpus setting. I will look into it. Thanks for your debugging work!
I think I found the issue. It may impact performance very marginally if any at all.
Apply with patch -p 1 < patch.txt in the root.
I have applied the patch. Now if I set --ncpus=2, it works. However, if I set --ncpus=30 or --ncpus=25, the program crashes.
I am attaching the output here.
Progress! Got it. Silly error. Undo the last patch and apply this new one. I am only "marginally" satisfied with this solution. It introduces a potential point of contention. Let me know if there is too performance degradation.
Basically, the reason is because we allocate #cores - 2 (30 in your case) thread-local receiving buffers. Then when --ncpus is < 30, we end up skipping some of these buffers when processing received messages. I added basically a "work-stealing" thing so that when the thread is done with its own buffer, it will look around the other buffers to pick up something to process. But the side effect is that I have to add a lock.
I am not certain how contentious this lock will be in the grand scheme of things. There is already a ton of buffer combining going on so each time the lock is acquired, the thread will pick up quite a lot of messages, so the lock may not be too contentious in practice.
Hmm... I may need a lock elsewhere too. wait.
Sorry. Here it is an updated patch again.
I am really not too excited with this solution. Part of the objective of the design is that I can avoid the use of locks by making everything use thread local buffers. I can get a lot of performance that way. This sorts of ends up putting locks back. Let me know if this works, and maybe I will try to come up with a better solution some other time.
Thanks Yucheng for your help! This patch works fine; I am able to set --ncpus to different values and the answer is always consistent.
To be 100% sure that the execution is correct, is the following behavior expected? PageRank --engine=synchronous takes 180 seconds and --engine=asynchronous takes 300 seconds. SSSP --engine=synchronous takes 15 seconds and --engine=asynchronous takes 170 seconds.
I was expecting asynchronous to be faster than synchronous. If this is a correct behavior, can you please explain why?
Asynchronous might be faster sometimes, but it can be quite dataset dependent and can be hard to tune. Basically it is a balance of two things.
The Asynchronous implementation works by creating thousands of user-mode threads (fibers) per machine, each running one vertex program. So performance gains may only be evident on large graphs where there is enough work for so many fibers. Also, the number of fibers to create is somewhat dependent on the task, as well as the network type; the faster the network, the fewer fibers needed. You can tune the number of fibers with --engine_opt="nfibers=xxxx". I think the default is 10000; this seems to be about right for regular Gigabit ethernets. You can try tuning it down.
Hi, Any idea when this issue will be fixed and rolled out in a release? | 2019-04-20T23:09:23 | http://forum.turi.com/discussion/52/ |
0.99935 | BeginnerQ: can pfSense help me figure out why my internet went down at home?
I'm running pfSense 2.2 on a pfSense box at home to learn about hardware firewalls, etc. We lost internet this morning (FiOS). Is there any log on the pfSense I can look at to try to figure out why? The FiOS box connects directly into the pfSense. Any logs I can find begin after the reboot.
If it's a nano install I'm pretty sure your logs are gone unless you syslog to another server. If it's a full install they should all still be there.
From the shell you can, for example, clog /var/log/gateways.log | less and get access to everything pfSense has available. The logs are circular so new entries overwrite old ones. How much logging you have depends on how active that partucular log is.
ls /var/log to see the available log files.
Yup, it's a Nanobsd install. I rebooted when internet was down because that was always my solution before I bought the pfSense–reboot all devices and internet works again.
So lesson learned is, (correct me if I'm wrong), don't reboot until I look at the logs, or else they'll be gone.
Or set up a syslog server and log to that. | 2019-04-20T21:23:36 | https://forum.netgate.com/topic/79737/beginnerq-can-pfsense-help-me-figure-out-why-my-internet-went-down-at-home |
0.999771 | I just added a new student to the attendance class and he or she is not showing, what am I doing wrong?
2. Select the Attendance class for that student.
3. Click add Attendance for new student. | 2019-04-26T05:57:27 | http://community.gradelink.com/en/support/solutions/articles/6000175647-i-just-added-a-new-student-to-the-attendance-class-and-he-or-she-is-not-showing-what-am-i-doing-wron |
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