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0.999988 | Question concerning Stalin - Soviet-Empire.com U.S.S.R.
I have read long time ago somewhere that Stalin has offered his resignation four times during the period in which he was a member in the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. is this a historical fact that can confirmed by historical documents ( ex: files or papers from the soviet archive )? or it is just a rumor?
It seems that no one of the comrades has heard about this resignation thing.
That's the first time I've heard of anything like this, so I can't really comment on it. Plus I can't read Russian and reading Soviet archives would be quite a problem for me.
First, I disagree with Yeqon. If he did present a resignation, it sounds pretty interesting. In my mind, it would be merely a gesture, since he knew that it wouldn't be accepted, but it still speaks a lot about political stratagems and protocol, and the circumstances for each attempt at resignation should also be an indication of the seriousness of a certain setback or of the need to reassert leadership.
Now, as to the question at hand. I remember reading in this board that Stalin presented his resignation when Lenin's much debated "last will" was presented.
Googling around, the answer came up on Ludo Marten's Another view of Stalin, where the author directly quotes Stalin's "The Troskyist Opposition, Before and Now.
A year later I again put in a request to the plenum to release me, but I was obliged to remain at my post.
So that's twice. It's not too farfetched to think he again has resorted to this, as a way of obtaining a vote of confidence.
Perhaps I was being a little careless with my choice of words. Okay, so I was being very careless. I mostly agree with what praxi has stated. There was indeed political manoeuvring in mind when he offered resigning. From what I've read nobody in the central committee ever thought that the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party was or would be of especially high significance politically. They surely wouldn't have let Stalin retain that position if they had known that this very post would be critical to him expelling them and ultimately leading the country.
I don't think that even Stalin back then knew that this post would serve as the de facto highest in the Soviet Union. So the answer to the original question that the opening poster made is yes. Stalin has offered resigning from this post in the past.
I also remember something akin to this during the civil war when differences between him and Trotsky would arise on military questions.
Thank you all for trying to answer the question, but I think the core of the question is not touched even in a superficial way. I have myself read that Stalin offered his resignation four times: after reading Lenin's recommendation to his comrades (It is said that the whole members of the central committee Including Trotsky refused this demand of resignation), two times during the second world war, and some other time which I do not remeber exactly, but the question here, is there, if there can be, any historical document that confirms this '' rumor '' clearly and undebatably?
I can only speculate but I would doubt any attempt at resignation would occur during the war of all times, if anything it would likely be between 1921 and 1924 when the Soviet State was first developing... there was a lot of chaos developing government structures and figuring out whats going to work and what isn't and there were many times certain commissars disagreed with others, so perhaps ultimatums that involved a resignation occurred??? I'd search that period of time for the answer.
It seems to us that a national leader so persistently boosted, and so generally admired, has, in fact, become irremovable against his will, so long as his health lasts, without a catastrophic break-up of the whole administration.
The "catastrophic" bit at the end applies more to the time the Webbs were writing than when Stalin died a little less than twenty years later, but the quote is still basically correct.
Stalin himself confirmed for the 1st resignation. I might also have heard about something after WWII, but during the war itself, that seems highly unlikely. | 2019-04-21T08:29:43 | http://www.soviet-empire.com/ussr/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=54524 |
0.999999 | 18 weeks and not really showing?
Hi ladies! im 18 weeks pregnant today and ive noticed and looked at pics of other woman as far along as me and i look no where near to them! i can actually still fit in my jeans. i weighed 115 when i got pregnant and i weigh 121 now. we went into the doctors last week and got to hear the heart beat an everything so i know the baby is ok. i just want to know when ill start showing! this is my 1st baby, i'm 5'2. help?
Probably by 24 weeks. I popped out around 6 months pregnant with my first baby and have found that a lot of other women don't show much with their firsts either until that 24th. week or so.
I agree with all the previous posters. I didn't pop out until around 24 weeks and then I was still small with both of my pregnancies. Its different for everyone.
Don't worry about showing. Everyone starts showing at different times. A lot of people start showing later with their first pregnancy. Good luck!
Yeah, it is different for everyone. And you're only 4 months? I know height makes a difference too. I honestly didn't start showing until I was 7 months pregnant. When i had my baby shower, some people were disappointed that I didn't have the "baby belly". Sometimes you don't show because you're carrying her in your back. I had a small stomach through my whole pregnancy and my baby was born 8lbs 5 oz.
My first baby i didn't wear maternity clothes until i was 20 weeks. Then my belly grew fast. My second pregnancy was 11 months latter. I had lost all the weight but because my stomach muscles were looser i was starting to show very fast.
It's very normal for you to start showing later with your first pregnancy. I really "popped" right around 22 weeks and it literally does seem to happen overnight. One morning you'll wake up and look and the mirror and suddenly you'll look pregnant. | 2019-04-26T10:17:22 | https://www.babycenter.com/400_18-weeks-and-not-really-showing_6766643_293.bc |
0.999166 | Why do so many people oppose the death penalty for racist murderer Dylann Roof?
Recently, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch stated that the Charleston church shooter will be facing the death penalty in court. One year ago, Dylann Roof opened fire at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine people, all African-American. This was a racially motivated hate crime, as Roof was known to tout white supremacist views and targeted a black church. However, despite the horrors of this crime, there are some people who contest the choice to seek capital punishment for this case.
The death penalty has been a highly contested issue for a long time. While some U.S. states have outlawed it, 31 states remain where capital punishment is still legal. The most infamous of these states is Texas, which has seen the most executions since 1976. Shockingly, the death penalty was also legal for those under 18 years old until Roper v. Simmons in 2005.
Supporters of capital punishment often praise its intended deterrent effects. While execution remains the possible consequence of terrible crimes like homicide, it should prevent people from committing murders in the first place. Many supporters of the death penalty also agree that execution is often the most appropriate punishment for those who commit heinous crimes.
Those who oppose the death penalty may do so for ethical reasons, but other reasons are also cited. For example, throughout history, the majority of those who are sentenced to death row have been non-white, mostly African-American. They are also overwhelmingly low-income. These racial and wealth disparities lead people to believe that capital punishment discriminates based on those factors, and indeed, many studies have been done with affirming results. Court cases such as McCleskey v. Kemp (1987) have even brought these disparities to the judicial arena in an attempt to have them considered, but to no avail.
Another major reason for opposing the death penalty is, of course, the possibility of innocence. The criminal justice system is not perfect, and there have been numerous instances where people are exonerated while on death row or even in the years following their execution.
Furthermore, while the Supreme Court ruled in 1976 that the death penalty is not considered to be cruel and unusual punishment, many people will argue that it does in fact violate the Eighth Amendment. The morality of different execution methods such as lethal injection, electrocution, hanging and even firing squad are often debated.
Around the world, capital punishment has even further implications as it is often the sentence for acts that should not be criminalized, like being gay. For reasons like this and the ones above, Amnesty International opposes the death penalty in all circumstances. In addition, over 100 countries have abolished the death penalty.
The ethics of capital punishment is a complex issue, and will likely remain debatable for a while. When considering Dylann Roof, it can get even more confusing — he was clearly a racist murderer, so the arguments about racial disparities are not applicable to him. There is no chance that he will later be found to be innocent. So why shouldn't the punishment reserved for the most heinous crime be applied to him?
In a 2013 article opposing the death penalty for Boston bomber Dzhokar Tsarnaev, Ian Millhiser and Zack Beauchamp argue, "The moment we say one victim, or set of victims, must be avenged by death, we lose the ability to consistently limit the death penalty’s application to rare cases — and the uncertainty and arbitrariness that plagues capital sentencing generally comes flooding back." | 2019-04-21T14:08:25 | https://www.theodysseyonline.com/capital-punishment-controversial-issue |
0.999999 | What is a No-Sticky Bonus?
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So what is this No-Sticky Bonus thing and how does it work? Here is an example of a online casino bonus: You claims a 100% bonus and makes a 100€ deposit. If you would take a Sticky Bonus, your 100€ will combine with the 100% bonus and you will have 200€ bonus money that you can't cashout until you would fulfill the wager that the bonus has.With a No-Sticky Bonus, you will first start to play with 100€ cash balance and if you win with that balance, you can just cancel the bonus and withdraw your balance. If you loose those 100€, you will start playing the 100€ bonus money, that need to be wagered before you can withdraw it.So, you see, the No-Sticky bonus is one great deal for the players.
It is critical that a player knows whether the casino bonus is sticky bonus or a no-sticky bonus. The main way a player will know this is by looking at the terms and conditions of the bonus he wants to take. In the event that the terms and conditions don't clarify this things, the best way is to contact the casino support and ask them before you accept the bonus.
Another way to know if a bonus is no-sticky or sticky are the "dream bonuses". Those bonuses are most of the time sticky, you would not see casinos to offer no-sticky bonuses with very big percentage, so if a bonus is 400% there is a very big chance the bonus is a sticky one. Most of the no-sticky bonuses are around 100%-200% with some exceptions.
The vast majority of players lean toward no-sticky bonus since they consider them to be an opportunity to profit, yet no-sticky bonuses are once in a while that simple to transform into money, particularly at online casinos. Most online casinos will limit players to utilizing their bonuses on particular slots and sorts of wagers.
In spite of the fact that players don't tend to like sticky bonuses to such an extent, they do have their favorable circumstances. To be specific, the huge sums enable players to take in the amusements by having higher risks with wager and and experimenting with systems they wouldn't have attempted something else.But you should also know the bet limit, as some casinos will not let you play with high stakes bets and have a limit which if you go over it they might increase the wager or even delete your bonus money/wagered balance.
The primary contrast between an online casino sticky and a no-sticky bonus lies in its money out properties. A no-sticky bonus may require 30 times wagering of the bonus balance before it can be cashed out however with an online casino club that gives a sticky bonus you may just need to wager 10 times all the balance. So what is the catch? Would it be a good idea for you to choose to cash out your money after those 10 times of wagering or should you chose to play first with real cash and then the bonus, giving you the opportunity to cashout the balance after just a few spins? Well we highly recommend you to use no-sticky bonuses, but at the end, it is up to you if you want to wager a big sum or play first with real cash and have a bonus balance if you loose the cash.
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0.999913 | A new opportunity has arisen to join BEAR Scotland’s expanding media and communications team as Media & Communications Assistant.
As Media & Communications Assistant for one of Scotland’s leading roads maintenance and management company’s you will work with the Media & Communications Manager and the external public relations agency to help deliver a 24/7 Press Office, enhance the organisation’s digital content strategy and support the internal communications needs.
This is an exciting and varied role with lots of potential for an enthusiastic, hard-working individual looking to develop a career in public relations and communications.
The role would suit a recent communications, media or marketing graduate with first-rate writing skills as well as a keen interest in all forms of media, from traditional journalism and broadcast to social media platforms. They should have an ability to develop a news angle, an eye for design and the ability to translate ideas into strong content and good visuals.
1. Job Purpose: To assist with the delivery of the Media & Communications strategy across the business. Working as part of the team which operates a 24/7 Press Office and digital strategy on behalf of our client, one of Scotland’s largest public sector organisations.
· To assist with delivering a 24/7 Press Office (in partnership with BEAR’s external agency team), including providing responses to media enquiries, copywriting of press releases and newsletters, issuing statements and the development of media strategies for proactive communications.
· Prepare, design and create content for social media channels, in-line with digital strategy.
· Develop and write content for the BEAR website and other marketing literature.
· Assist with designing and creating quarterly stakeholder newsletters using Adobe Creative Suite programmes.
· Support on the implementation of communications campaigns utilising print, broadcast and online channels, in-line with client/business objectives and key messages.
· Development of internal communications content including an employee newsletter and bidding documents.
· Provide input into both proactive and reactive communications (in partnership with BEAR’s external agency team).
· Assist with application of the corporate brand guidelines.
· Generate reports, evaluation and analysis of communications activities on an ongoing basis.
· Communications, media or marketing degree or equivalent. The role would suit a recent graduate with excellent written and verbal communication skills, a keen interest in all forms of media, from traditional journalism and broadcast to social media platforms.
· Strong ICT skills - confidence in the use of social media and digital communications and an awareness of data security and the need for careful management of information.
· Experience of writing compelling content such as news articles, social media posts or marketing collateral.
· Awareness and understanding of the Scottish media landscape.
· Ability to develop a news angle and first-rate writing skills.
· An appreciation of plain English with creative flair.
· An eye for design and the ability to translate ideas into strong content and good visuals.
· Mobile with the ability to travel throughout Scotland (North East and North West areas as covered by BEAR).
· Experience of using Adobe Creative Suite packages an advantage.
· Experience in utilising Microsoft Office.
o Client, Shareholders, Local/National/Broadcast/Trade Media and Public, Agencies. | 2019-04-24T14:30:47 | http://bearscot.com/Careers/8074/Media+and+Communications+Assistant+Perth/ |
0.993813 | Living in a big city means that we must confront lives we would rather not know about. And living in an apartment in a big city means that the walls will never be thick enough to keep out neighbors' problems, problems we can be forced to deal with.
A few months ago the doorbell of our apartment rang around midnight. I blinked awake and heard my husband's footsteps pad across the living room.
"Who is it?" he demanded in an aggressive tone he uses only after dark. Recently, we'd been awakened several times after midnight as one of the many dozens of drunken, high teenagers lurching past our window mistake our apartment door for our neighbor's.
"Hey, man," I heard a young male voice say. "I'm sorry about all the noise that's been coming from over at our place. I just come by [sic] because I wanted you to know that a couple of guys tried to break in to my house [sic] this week. I'm moving out tomorrow, but if you hear anything, please, please call the cops for me."
"That was weird," my husband said when he returned to bed. "He seemed scared."
I rolled over to face him. "Yeah, and I bet it's not just that someone's trying to just 'steal something.' We heard all that yelling the other night. I bet this is about a deal gone bad."
My husband shook his head. "You're probably right."
I eyed the wall we shared with our neighbors. "I have to ask you this: If there's a gun involved, are our walls thick enough to stop a bullet?"
"Oh, no. A bullet would go right through those walls."
We stared at the wall, and it stared back at us.
OUR NEIGHBORS had lived beside us three months, but they still didn't have a single piece of furniture, not even a bed. They often left their door open — perhaps to help release the thick clouds of marijuana smoke — and we could see right in when we passed on our way to work. Six or seven teenagers would be hanging out, and in the absence of furniture, everyone sat on the floor.
We knew they weren't just using drugs, but also dealing drugs, because of the constant flow of foot traffic and because they had gotten into the habit of sitting on our patio furniture and they sometimes discussed grams and prices right in front of our window.
My husband and I work for non-profits and run our own small businesses. We work hard, and we are law-abiding citizens. Our apartment complex in Memorial-Westchase is far from being the nicest in town, but it's not bad, either. The rest of our neighbors are like us: hardworking families who pay their bills. So we were shocked when lawbreakers moved in.
And, truth be told, we were sick of them. We'd spent many nights enduring their insane parties. For our neighbors didn't just party on weekends, they partied on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays — even Sundays. No night was sacrosanct. Nearly ever night my husband and I fought to fall and stay asleep amidst drunken sing-alongs; loopy, pot-prolonged laughter; and the pounding of fistfights. Yelling, crying, slammed doors. Wailing or screaming girls. Erratic stomping that seemed to never end.
But even though our neighbor's apartment was now silent, this was by far the scariest night we'd encountered with them.
We found that we couldn't sleep in our bedroom because of the shared wall, so we dragged the thin Futon mattress from our living room couch into our office, the only room in our one-bedroom apartment that would offer us any distance from our neighbors. We pulled sheets from the closet and knelt on the carpet to make our temporary bed. Our office has a tall window that covers a third of the wall. My husband moved two chairs in front of it, just in case.
My husband called the number of an off-duty cop that our apartment manager gave us when we went to complain to her, but the off-duty cop didn't answer.
We lay down on our futon mattress and tried to read a few minutes, then turned out the light. We kissed stiffly and said goodnight. "If you hear anything, please wake me up and I'll call the cops," my husband urged me. "Whatever you do, please don't go outside and try to talk to them."
"Don't worry. I won't go outside." My husband feels like I'm not careful enough, but I understood the danger we could be in.
We lay beside one another and listened in the dark. I wanted to reach over and hold him, be near him, but I was too terrified by the idea of a stray bullet whistling through the window.
I asked myself, why hadn't I called the cops before tonight? Even though our neighbors drove us crazy, I realized that I also admired their recklessness. I used to be wild in my teens, and I remembered what it felt like to be wild and belong to no one. The experience had been madly exhilarating, if also lonely. I remembered what it felt like to feel like to treat my body as a tool for thrills, rather than as a gift to protect and nourish. I remembered what it felt like to burn intensely — to burn glamorously, like Jack Kerouac, Mick Jagger, and one-eared Vincent van Gogh. I liked to think that even though I've settled down into a productive adult life, I still retain that sense of daring, that I still surf the blessed edge. I hadn't called the cops because I'd secretly been enjoying the flaming beauty of these boys' rage.
Maybe I was partly to blame for the danger we were now in.
I SOMEHOW fell asleep, then awoke again — this time, to the menacing laughter of a boy and two girls on the front porch. I grabbed my phone — 3 a.m. — and snuck into the living room. I crept toward the sliding glass door. I hung tight against the wall and peered between the blinds.
The boy had something —a stick? a belt? Something he was snapping. Whatever it was, it sounded like gunfire.
The group stood casually, as if they were discussing a movie or a football game. Then the boy pointed and cocked his index finger. "I'd put it right to his head," he said, "pull the trigger, and bam, blood spilling out all over the place."
A girl laughed. "That's right. He'd be done, then."
They stood inches in front of our neighbor's glass doors. What if the boy speaking was the angry boy we'd heard yelling two nights before, the one who felt he'd been cheated by our neighbor, the one our neighbor had circuitously warned us about? What if this boy decided to carry out his threats? Over a decade ago I'd lost a friend to a gunshot, and I remembered the look in his mother's eyes the day before his funeral.
Back in the office, I shook my husband awake and repeated what I'd heard. He called the off-duty cop.
"I'm going to call the real cops," I said. "The Houston Police Department."
A FEMALE dispatcher took my information, and twenty minutes later, an officer returned my call.
"We've been dealing with this a long time," I confided from my and my husband's makeshift bed. "I really didn't want to get anyone in trouble, but these kids are in way over their heads. I think about how they must have families."
"Thank you for calling," he said. "You did the right thing. We're on our way."
I set my phone beside the thin mattress and took a deep breath.
I felt better. The confidence in the officer's voice made me feel better. The fact that I had done everything I could made me feel better. The fact that I belonged to my life—to my husband, to my career, to my responsibility to protect others—made me feel better. The fact that my infatuation with an exciting but vapid idea of freedom truly belonged in the long-ago past made me feel better.
My husband lay with his back to me. This had been his one night to catch up on sleep after eight straight twelve-hour days of taking birdwatching groups to view birds at parks near Houston. Before he dozed off again, I wrapped my arms around him and held him close. I kissed his face, his head, his neck, his shoulders. Over and over, as if he were my precious child just saved from the nick of death, or as if I were the child that had been saved.
UPDATE: Soon after I wrote this essay, thieves broke into another apartment in our complex. They stole $15,000 worth of camera and computer equipment, and the police discovered fingerprints that led them to my troublesome neighbor. Our apartment manager evicted him, but two weeks later, the parties still raged on. I called the cops again, and it turned out that our neighbor had sublet his apartment to three friends without notifying them that he had been evicted. They were ordered to leave, and management changed the locks. Now that our neighbors are gone, my husband and I feel safe again.
Elizabeth White-Olsen is the director of Writespace, Houston's new writing center.
Bookmark Gray Matters. We're sorry about all the noise that's been coming from over at our place. | 2019-04-24T22:08:24 | https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/Are-our-walls-thick-enough-to-stop-a-bullet-6387138.php |
0.999943 | tl;dr: If you can get past the fact that meeples are now called "keyples," and a torrent of other "key" puns, then you'll experience the true bliss involved here in turning wooden bits into other wooden bits.
Getting to the Game: Those who follow EBG reviews are well aware of my crusade to get developers to include as many plastic baggies as are physically possible into their boxes. Imagine my delight, then, when I opened Keyper and was immediately greeted with not one, but TWO thick rolls of baggies. Review over. Buy this game.
Setup: I submitted that review, but my editor said it was too short. Ugh. Fine. Setup for Keyper is slightly more involved than your average game, but all Euros have to be graded on a curve. On that scale, I'd place Keyper in the middle-to-low range of complexity of setup. Each player will need a player board, scoring discs, improvement tiles, and a "Keyper" (meeple with its hand raised), all in their player color. To that, set in the middle of the table one farm board for each player, each having the next successive player identifier tile showing. (A three player game will require three boards, one with the one-player tile showing, the second with the two-player tile showing, and the third with the three-player tile showing.) In addition, you'll draw 8 tiles from the spring collection, 4 random boat tiles, assign each player a set collection of starting "keyples," their own keyp tile, and then randomly give each player one fair tile for each season. Whew. Ok. Now we can play.
Explaining Keyper is an exercise in trust. I know that every gamer ever, when they sit down to teach a game on the slightly-more-complicated scale starts out with "Trust me, it's not as hard as it looks." There's even an entire Onion article dedicated to the bit. As you sit down at the table with tiles literally everywhere, tiny wooden bits and animeeples laid out in a dozen stacks, you're going to be either freaking out or absolutely salivating. For the former group, let me assure you: It really is much easier than it looks. To the latter: Yes. You're right.
Playing the Game: Keyper's rulebook is a couple dozen pages, a sizable chunk of which is devoted to outlining exactly what each of the game's few dozen tiles do. A full page is a very handy chart, which is a little tough to read until you understand the game well enough to not really need it. Even more pages are used to break down the minutiae of Keyper's cardinal actions: placing a keyple and joining a keyple. Once you understand these two things, you're ready to play. On your turn, you'll place one of your colored keyples somewhere on a board or tile. When you do, you'll gain the benefit of that space one time. If it grants you a raw material, you get one. If it grants you an animal, you get one. If it gives you an action, you get one. If, however, the keyple you've placed matches the colored border of the space (white keyples are considered to be whatever color you want them to be), you'll gain an additional use of that space - two actions or resources. Once you've done this, starting with the player to your left, everyone gets a chance to "join" you in that effort. They have the option of placing either the same colored keyple as you just did, or a white, and that will add an additional action or resource for both you and them, up to a possible three total uses of the space. Once you're joined by one player, the window closes, and no further joining is possible.
That's literally all you do in this game on your turn. The elegance of the actions on the spaces, how they're selected, and how they're distributed around the table is all for the benefit of the clarity of your turn: put a keyple down, get some number of things. Keyper, then, becomes this metagame of efficiency; how effective can you be with your keyples versus how many opportunities do you present your opponents with to be more effective than you. The joining mechanic is such an elegant solution to a complex problem that the first time your fellow players "get it," there's going to be a giant smile of appreciation. Obviously, there are some subtleties that come into play with different spaces, but once you grasp this basic concept, it's really just variations on this simple, delicious theme.
Those variations are splendidly done, and with some ingenious execution. The country boards that live in the center of the table are the home of two of Keyper's best inventions. First off, some readers may have already noticed that the keyple colors aren't player colors, they're specialization colors. How, then, would you keep track of which keyples are "yours"? The answer is...you don't. I mentioned earlier that each player gets a keyper meeple in their player color at the start of the game. On each of the country boards, there's a keyp space always showing. As an action, you can place your keyper on that space, and at the end of each season, you have claimed that country board and all of the keyples on it for yourself. This is perhaps the single most important decision you'll make every season: when to claim a board. If you claim too early, your opponents won't place keyples on that board, denying you additional workers. If you claim too late, all the good boards will be gone. It has come up a few times that players who don't have enough keyples feel like they're set too far back. There's some baked-in mitigation for this, but it's important enough to stress again: make deciding when to claim a country board a priority.
The country boards themselves have an extraordinary role to play. At the end of each of the game's three seasons (technically Keyper plays over all four seasons, but after winter the game ends and there's just scoring to do), you will pick up the country board you claimed earlier, put the keyples on your player board and Keyp tile, and then literally choose the folded orientation of the country board. The only rule you have to follow is that the Keyp square with the proper upcoming season must be visible, and when you're done folding it, it has to be a 4x4 grid. You get to choose which actions are available to players in the next season by folding the board. It's an incredibly elegant way to customize the gameplay, and it's very satisfying to carry out at the table.
Artwork and Components: With nearly-perfect animeeples (you'll spend longer than you want trying to determine the difference between cows, horses, and deer), acrylic gem tokens, gorgeous and consistent artwork across player boards, boats, tiles, and country boards that perfectly captures the agrarian theme, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better looking game on the table. The fact that there are even animeeples at all should be a signal that this game is doing things right.
If you can put your hands on the Keyper Character Edition, you should. All of the keyples are silk-screened, and look outstanding.
The Good: Outstanding Euro gameplay, great mechanics, component quality is top notch. Country boards are a brilliantly executed element, worthy of theft by other games. Overall, a nearly-perfect tabletop experience.
The Bad: Losing the country board/keyple battle can lead to a serious setback in time and efficiency. Could be game-breaking if it happens early. Obtuse rulebook that belies simple gameplay. Sheer number of scoring options could trigger AP (analysis paralaysis) players, or those new to the style of choose-your-own route to victory.
Score: It should come as no surprise here at the end that I'm a huge fan of Keyper. It's accessible to a group willing to keep an open mind, and with only a few minor drawbacks on top of absolutely gorgeous artwork and attention to detail across components, picking this one up is a no-brainer. I'm giving Keyper a score of It's a Keeper. | 2019-04-20T16:49:13 | http://www.everythingboardgames.com/2018/04/keyper-review.html |
0.999258 | Wawrzyk and Wilder were being randomly tested -- blood and urine -- under the rules of the WBC's Clean Boxing Program, which is overseen by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association.
According to the letter sent by VADA president Dr. Margaret Goodman notifying those involved of the positive test and obtained by ESPN, Wawrzyk was given urine tests in Warsaw, Poland, where he lives, on Jan. 15 and 16. The results of both tests, which were returned Tuesday night, were positive, and the parties were notified.
According to the VADA letter, Wawrzyk's samples were "analyzed for anabolic agents, diuretics, beta-2 agonists, stimulants and drugs of abuse. The results of the analysis for each specimen is as follows: Adverse. Urine specimen contains stanozolol metabolites."
Although Wawrzyk promoter Leon Margules of Warriors Boxing was aware of the positive results, he said the fighter did not yet know because it was the middle of the night in Poland.
The letter from VADA noted that Wawrzyk "has the right to promptly request analysis of the 'B' samples at his expense." It is extraordinarily uncommon for a "B" sample to return a result any different from the "A" sample.
Wilder promoter Lou DiBella told ESPN that the card, scheduled to take place at Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama -- Wilder's home state, where he is a major attraction -- will go on as planned, with a new challenger to be determined to face Wilder.
"I just found out about the positive test [Tuesday night] and already every promoter with a heavyweight who can breathe is texting me or calling me trying to get the fight," DiBella said. "I'm sitting here with my trusty iPad, and I am going to look at YouTube videos and rankings, and we're just going to work. We'll get a new opponent for Deontay. Feb 25 is going to go ahead as planned.
"But I'm just shaking my head. Deontay is just shaking his head. But we have a month before the fight, so we have time to get another opponent. The show will go on. I'm not happy about this, but I am much happier to find out now instead of finding out a few days before the fight."
It is the second time in a row Wilder's original opponent failed a drug test and the bout was called off. In May, Wilder was scheduled to face mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin in Moscow. But Povetkin tested positive for the banned substance meldonium less than two weeks before the fight, and the bout was canceled. The camps are in litigation over the cancellation, and the case is due to go trial in U.S. federal court in New York next month.
Wilder (37-0, 36 KOs), 31, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, instead faced Chris Arreola in July and knocked him out in the eighth round of a one-sided fight to retain his belt for the fourth time. In the bout, Wilder broke his right hand and tore his right biceps, which required surgery and kept him out of action for the rest of the year.
The 29-year-old Wawrzyk (33-1, 19 KOs) was a dubious title challenger to begin with, though he was ranked in the WBC's top 15. He has no significant wins, although he has won six bouts in a row since suffering his lone loss, a third-round knockout to Povetkin in 2013 in a world title bout in Moscow.
DiBella said the recent positive tests -- Povetkin failed a second test in December for the banned muscle building substance ostarine -- illustrate why the WBC's Clean Boxing Program is so important.
"They're going to prevent an injury or a real problem," DiBella said. "People have been blowing tests left and right in the program. My point of view is that there is a need for the Clean Boxing Program and VADA. And it's working, because people are being caught.
"We have a clean champion named Deontay Wilder who has nothing to hide, and we'll make sure when he gets in the ring, he gets in the ring with another guy who is also clean. Steroids and any kind of PED are not safe for the people taking them and not safe for the guy he is going to fight. Obviously, there is a problem, but the WBC and VADA are doing their part to help clean it up." | 2019-04-24T01:00:29 | http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/18548198/heavyweight-andrzej-wawrzyk-tests-positive-anabolic-steroid-stanozolol |
0.601705 | The Laches (/ˈlækiːz/; Greek: Λάχης) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato. Participants in the discourse present competing definitions of the concept of courage.
Laches - Athenian general and statesman, son of Melanopus.
Lysimachus, son of Aristides, and Melesias, son of Thucydides (not the historian Thucydides), request advice from Laches and Nicias on whether or not they should have their sons (who are named after their famous grandfathers) trained to fight in armor. After each gives their opinion, Nicias for and Laches against, they seek Socrates for counsel.
Socrates questions what the initial purpose of the training is meant to instill in the children. Once they determine that the purpose is to instill virtue, and more specifically courage, Socrates discusses with Laches and Nicias what exactly courage is. The bulk of the dialogue is then the three men (Laches, Nicias and Socrates) debating various definitions of courage.
Nicias argues in favor of an education in fighting in armour for young men. He mentions that it promotes physical fitness, prepares a man for military duties, gives an advantage over untrained opponents, helps one understand military strategy, makes one braver, and gives one a martial appearance.
Laches argues against the need for fighting in armour by claiming that the Spartans do not practice it; the instructors that Laches has seen are not brave soldiers and so have not benefitted from this knowledge; and it causes cowards to take foolish and damaging military risks.
Melesias and Lysimachus ask Socrates to decide which side is correct. Socrates begins by trying to clarify what the actual topic is. He determines that the issue is the care of young men's character and asks if there are qualified teachers for this. Socrates confesses not to be skilled in this and assumes that Laches and Nicias are either versed in character building or else know of experts in that field. Socrates proposes to question them about this to see if they have qualified expertise.
Nicias warns about Socrates' philosophical methods of getting the interlocuter to examine their own conscience. Laches states that he likes to hear discussions that are "musical", when a person's discourse is in tune with their actions. Paraphrasing Solon, Laches agrees to participate in Socrates' inquiry because he likes to learn from good men.
Socrates uses a medical analogy to help define goodness: If eyes can be improved by adding sight to them, then a boys' character can be improved by adding goodness to it. As knowledge of what sight is is necessary before it can be considered as an improvement, so too it is necessary to have knowledge of what good is before it is used to improve a character. Rather than try to define what the whole of goodness is, Socrates thinks it would be easier to define an aspect of goodness that is relevant to the question: bravery.
Laches advances that to be brave is to be a soldier who can hold his position in combat without running away. Socrates explains that his definition is very specific to military infantry and what he was really looking for is a notion of bravery that pertains to all military situations and extends to all situations in life.
Laches offers an opinion that courage is "a certain perseverance of the soul". However, Socrates challenges this idea by arguing that there are many instances in battle when the prudent thing to do is to withdraw or flee. Since courage is a virtue, Socrates argues, it cannot contradict prudence, and therefore the idea that courage always demands perseverance must be false. Laches is forced to admit this contradiction.
Socrates expresses his perplexity in trying to account for bravery. Laches wishes to pursue the conversation, saying that he has a sense of what bravery is, but is not able to express it properly. Socrates states that like a good huntsman pursuing a trail, they must persevere in the search for their quarry. They invite Nicias to give his definition of bravery.
Nicias then offers another definition. He suggests that courage is "knowledge of what is to be feared and hoped for both in war and in all other matters".
Since bravery is the knowledge of what is fearful and encouraging, Socrates asks if a pig could be brave. Nicias denies that animals can be brave as he believes that a certain amount of wisdom is necessary for bravery and that very few people can be considered brave. Socrates playfully suggest that Nicias is being influenced by a sophist named Damon and offers to respond to Nicias' assertion.
Nicias agrees that something 'fearful' is the expectation of a future evil and something 'hopeful' is the expectation of a future good. Socrates then argues that full knowledge of any subject involves an understanding not only of future matters, but also of past and present. Thus if courage is the knowledge of future evils and goods, it must also necessarily be the knowledge of those of the present and past too. He then asserts that Nicias' definition actually amounts to a definition of all virtue (since it implies knowledge of all good and evil) and therefore, since courage is in fact only a part of virtue, a contradiction arises and the definition must be false.
And so, in the end, Socrates finds both his companions' theories to be unsatisfactory, and the dialogue ends in aporia, an English term derived from the ancient Greek ἀπορία meaning "philosophical confusion".
There are many different interpretations as to why the dialogue ends in aporia. Certain commentators, such as Iain Lane, view the Socratic method of elenchus as an end in itself; that debate is the central premise and function of the dialogue. Others, such as Gregory Vlastos, see the dialogue ending because of the specific deficiencies of the characters' definitions.
This page was last edited on 31 August 2018, at 05:08 (UTC). | 2019-04-21T15:04:40 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laches_(dialogue) |
0.999912 | Why Kansas’ mini-Trump, who looks to be the state’s GOP nominee for governor, is going to be so hard for Democrats to beat in November.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach leads Governor Jeff Colyer by fewer than 200 votes in my state's Republican primary. Neither has conceded, and even the least contentious possible outcome will inevitably involve further delays, possible recounts, and bad feelings. A divisive Republican primary is hardly bad news for local Democrats, of which I’m one. But I'm confident that a clean win by Colyer, rather than Kobach, would have been the best news of all.
This may strike you as as surprising. Wouldn't the Democratic candidate (longtime state Senator Laura Kelly, a close friend of former Democratic Governor Kathleen Sebelius and a politician well-connected to the state’s Democratic power base in the northeast corner of the state) prefer to run against a polarizing and unpopular figure like Kobach?
After all, this is a man who has barnstormed across the country, selling barely hidden nativism and immigrant-bashing, involving himself in failed lawsuits and political crusades that have left cities with legal bills in the millions and personal contempt charges that he's been able to foist upon Kansas taxpayers to pay in his behalf. He embraced President Donald Trump's groundless claims about “millions” of undocumented residents voting in American elections, and was appointed by Trump himself to lead a panel determined to expose this scandal, which ignominiously disbanded when no evidence could be found. Accusations about the false information Kobach peddled through that panel are plentiful. (Kobach's personal crusade to find illegal voting has resulted, after nearly eight years in office, in all of nine convictions.) On top of all this, Kobach simply hasn't done a terribly good job as secretary of state. Technological election glitches and confused voter instructions—at least some of them arguably related to Kobach’s legally blocked campaign to change citizenship requirements for voting and to create new rules for purging the voter rolls in Kansas—continue to be endemic.
So why wouldn't Democrats want to run against a target like that, especially in a conservative state like Kansas, where Democrats need to divide the opposition and recruit moderate Republicans to their cause? In brief, because a Colyer candidacy would more likely make the Kansas gubernatorial race a referendum on something unpopular: former Governor Sam Brownback’s ruinous tax cuts. Whereas a Kobach campaign is likely to make the election a referendum on something far more popular among Kansas voters: President Donald Trump.
Coyler, the current governor, has barely had six months to build any kind of momentum, and as Brownback's lieutenant governor, he has a tightrope that's nearly impossible to walk. He has been obliged, by fiscal reality, legislative action, and state Supreme Court decisions, to acquiesce to dialing back Brownback's irresponsible tax-cut vision and moving toward more sustainable approaches to taxation and school funding. As a result, Colyer, otherwise quite conservative, found himself occupying a “moderate” position in the state's Republican constellation.
Yet he couldn't easily embrace that position, rejecting Brownback's legacy and casting himself on the side of those who always fought against Brownback, because, of course, he was central to the Brownback wing of the party. Which means that the script that a Democratic opponent to Coyler would follow writes itself: emphasize his position in what is widely regarded throughout Kansas—even by many members of his own party—as a failed Republican administration, watch him contort in his efforts to distinguish himself from his disliked predecessor while not alienating the true-believing base which forms the conservative faction in the party, and reap the benefits.
Hanging Kobach with Brownback’s failures wouldn't be impossible, but it would be harder. Sebelius is often credited with an adage in Kansas politics: “Democrats don't win in Kansas; Republicans lose.” That is, when the Republican Party can't unify its conservative and moderate factions, or when they are burdened with a candidate that various intraparty factions dislike, Democrats have a window of opportunity.
This is what Democrats—and really, everyone on the left in Kansas—have been anticipating since the 2016 election. While nationwide, the election of Trump left millions of liberals, progressives, socialists and just plain ordinary Democrats feeling shellacked, here in Kansas those of us on the left could console ourselves with local results that showed the “Brownback Revolution” finally coming apart. As is well known to anyone who ever Googled “Kansas” or “Brownback” or "tax experiment" in the past six years, Brownback, elected governor in 2010, brought with him into the legislature a core of passionate, deluded believers in the old supply-side economic gospel. In 2012, he orchestrated successful primary challenges against multiple moderate Republicans, which when all was said and done effectively put one conservative faction entirely in charge of the state Republican party.
The result was an essentially uncontested “march to zero” plan to turn Kansas into a no-income-tax state, a plan that flew in the face of fiscal reality and had devastating consequences for Kansas’s education funding, roads and social services, to say nothing of the state’s credit rating and socioeconomic health. The dispiriting nadir for Kansas Democrats was Brownback's reelection in 2014. Since then, through the 2016 primaries and general elections when Republican moderates and Democrats finally started to push back, and through Brownback's departure for a diplomatic post in January with a miserable approval rating, we have been watching the window for Democrats to make a showing in the state capital of Topeka. It seems to have only widened.
Even so, I think it would be widest with Colyer at the top of the Republican ballot, rather than Kobach. One thing to remember is that it's not enough to say that Kansas is a conservative state. It is, of course, for a host of demographic and cultural reasons. But it is even more so a profoundly Republican state, with a close association between that political party and the attitudes and perspectives of the majority of the state's (white) citizens that extend back practically to the moment of state's entrance to the union on the brink of the Civil War. The Republican Party’s lock on Kansas politics isn’t absolute, but it’s pretty close. Kansas hasn't elected a non-Republican to the U.S. Senate since 1939, and the last time Republicans lost control of the state Senate was 1917. Thomas Frank was right to observe that Kansas was more riled by the Populist insurgency of the 1890s and early 1900s than any other state. But unlike elsewhere in America, the Democrats were not able to build on that insurgency, and Republican dominance returned in force.
The result of this longtime party rule has meant, naturally, that factions within the dominant party became more entrenched and, sometimes, combative. Since the 1950s and 1960s, it has been an accepted fact in Kansas politics that policy would always be determined by the relative, shifting, factional strength of three groups: conservative Republicans, moderate Republicans, and—always in third place—the Democrats. Over the past four decades of the 20th century though, that triangulation enabled Kansas's political class to maintain fairly stable, and relatively sustainable, fiscal policies, not to mention generally only moderately conservative cultural policies, with Democrats occupying the governor's mansion for 28 of the past 60 years.
Whether she runs against Kobach or Colyer, Laura Kelly has a shot at being the latest Democratic governor in Republican Kansas. I've no doubt that she will follow essentially the same anti-Brownback playbook no matter whom her opponent ends up being. But I wonder if it would work as well against Kobach, simply because he will carry so much national baggage into the campaign. I expect Kelly to struggle to keep a monotonous focus, campaigning against the Brownback legacy, in such a target-rich environment.
To complicate the race further, we also have Greg Orman—a wealthy, smart, relatively young and attractive, socially liberal, business-friendly independent from the Kansas City area—running for governor. With a socially conservative state politician as his running mate, Orman seems to have designed his campaign in anticipation of Kobach winning the nomination. He has checked all the boxes that would be necessary for him to be appealing to moderate Republicans who can’t stand Kobach.
With a less-polarizing figure leading the Republican race, the appeal of Orman’s proclaimed independence would be lessened somewhat. Part of his argument is that he is outside the familiar battles between conservatives, moderates and Democrats from Kansas history. A race that was a referendum on Brownback, a referendum that could borrow from patterns familiar with Kansas voters—an unbalanced Republican Party in need of correction!—might arguably have given his pox-on-both-houses rhetoric less purchase. But with Kobach as the nominee, Orman would definitely be in the hunt—and the effects a serious independent candidacy would have on Democrats in this Republican state are easy to guess.
The key for Kelly will be to keep the race as Kansas-specific as possible. Unlike Colyer, Kobach aggressively embraces the Brownback tax legacy, promising to restore the cuts that the state House partially repealed last year. But with the national attention and money that follows Kobach everywhere he goes, preventing him from transforming the race into a referendum on Trump and the future of American civilization, as opposed to on a Kansas Republican governor’s legacy, would be difficult.
Every one of us on the left in Kansas should be hoping, I think, for absentee ballots or some other unanticipated event to swing the Republican nomination back in Colyer's direction. Either way, though, our work is cut out for us. But of course, that's nothing new. | 2019-04-21T14:38:05 | https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/08/kris-kobach-kansas-governor-219162 |
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0.999606 | Is a Camellia Plant Poisonous to Cats?
Cats are meat-loving animals, but are known to sample plants from time to time. Many cats munch on plants out of boredom or to get your attention. Cat owners must take care to place plants inside their homes or yards that are not toxic to cats, if ingested. Camellia is a good choice for homeowners, as it does not produce plant poisoning symptoms if ingested.
Camellia is not poisonous to cats.
Camellia are broadleaf evergreens and members of the Theaceae family. These plants are often placed around patios or home foundations and are a lovely specimen of shrub for lawns. Camellia are also known as common camellia, peony camillia and by the scientific name Camellia japonica. Camellia are characterized by their lovely blooms in shades of pink, red, yellow, purple and white.
Cat owners who place camellia in their yards or gardens do not have to fear poisoning symptoms if their cat consumes part of the plant. According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, camellia is not toxic to cats, dogs and horses. However, cats that consume plant material often have uncomfortable gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea and vomiting. Choking is another common problem when animals consume leaves, flowers and plant stems. It is also possible for animals to have allergic reactions to certain plants, which can cause serious symptoms.
Like young children, kittens often put non-food items in their mouth. Eating a small amount of plant material is normal for adult cats, but can be a problem if cats consume excessive amounts or poisonous plants. Certain disorders can cause cats to eat non-food items. According to the ASPCA, pica is a disorder that causes cats to eat things such as plants, rubber bands and pantyhose. Cats can also suffer from compulsive disorders that cause them to eat fabric, plants or other non-food items. Burmese, Siamese and Eastern breeds are at an increased risk of developing compulsive disorders.
Keep your cat from eating your plants by limiting your cat's access to them. Placing the plant out of your cat's reach can eliminate the problem. Repellents or deterrents help keep your cat from nibbling. Place these repellents on non-toxic plants to make them have a bad taste. Growing herbs that cats can nibble on may also help keep them from eating your prized plants. Wheatgrass and catnip are favorites for cats that are safe for munching. Placing these herbs within easy reach may keep your cats from eating your favorite plants. Consult a veterinarian if you fear your cat has a compulsive disorder or pica. These can be life-threatening for cats if they consume products that damage their intestines.
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0.998625 | We were recently contacted by a researcher from University College Cork, Ireland.
They have asked if we could encourage members of the Inkbunny site to take part in a simple online survey to help advance a professional academic study of the fandom.
" I (like most people in their early 20s) spent quite a lot of my childhood and teenage years on the internet - while I myself do not subscribe to the Furry fandom, I have been interested in them since happening across fanart, fanfiction, documentaries and articles (of which there are few), and forums, both Furry and non-Furry.
I am very interested in the interaction of people and technology, and so furries are of particular interest to me as a researcher. The use of the internet to support a shared interest and activity is very interesting to me, and I also am curious about the more sexual side to the fandom.
My study will attempt to determine two things - 1) Who are the furries? (assessed by simple demographics) and 2) What is the place of the Furry fandom in the context of the existing literature on internet behaviours?
We will ask the researcher to stay in touch with us as I'm sure many of you will be interested in any conclusions they draw or any further requests for assistance.
Not everyone sees these news announcements or +watches the Inkbunny account, so please spread the word to anyone you think might be interested in helping.
Interesting. The "If you could become 0% human, would you?" question needs an "other" answer. Or needs to be changed to, "If you could become your fursona, would you?" No furry is 0% human. Even ferals have human intelligence, right? If I could take the form of my fursona, I would, but I wouldn't want to be a standard "dumb" animal.
True. It doesn't seem to offer an anthro option, which is pretty much the core of furries. Even 'ferals' aren't completely non-anthro.
Agreed, as written it’s an all or nothing proposition.
I was about to comment about that question and "Do you consider yourself to be less than 100% human?" as well. Several ways to take & answer that question and still be 'right', but that means nothing for this survey which is going to take these questions at face value.
So I could answer Yes to both questions, one because I don't feel like I behave or think like most humans do so maybe I'm not 100% the same as other humans. Physically I am 100% human, but we're all animals and share DNA with other animals around us. Answering for mentally or spiritually can produce a different result, and I'm not sure exactly what they're talking about specifically.
I was about to comment about that question and "Do you consider yourself to be less than 100% human?
Hi all, I'm the researcher in question. Thank you so much for your participation and comments, and thanks especially to Starling for helping out by advertising the study. I'm really interested to hear that the need for an 'other' box was felt during that particular question - your comments will definitely inform both the study itself and the next iteration of the survey so please mention anything at all that you felt was lacking or that could be changed. It would be great to engage in discussion about the survey and any questions arising from it here if anyone is interested!
Thanks so much again, everyone!
The survey was pretty fun! But yeah, the 0% human thing is badly worded. Try writing "If you could become your furry identity, would you?" We don't really want to be dumb animals, as it's been said above----anthropomorphic beings are usually bipedal, sapient animals. Think an animal-human crossbreed that "looks" like an animal but "acts" like a human.
I tend to agree, but given the choice between human and animal, I'd choose animal in a heartbeat.
In that we have no idea who you are, or how this data will be actually be used, I politely decline.
They're from University College Cork, Ireland. And it's a anonymous survey, so there's not much negative they can do with it.
I find it odd that a legitimate University research project uses 'Survey Monkey'.
Faster, easier and less expensive than coding your own, I'd imagine.
All my contact with Inkbunny has been done through my University College Cork account and so I suppose the moderators here know that I'm who I say I am; however, if you have any misgivings or feel uncomfortable at all about completing a survey such as this, that's perfectly fine - you don't have to after all! Thank you for your comments.
It is perfectly fine to decline, but just going to throw in here that while I was in college at the University of Oklahoma a lot of the lower end surveys were hosted on Survey Monkey. It is just a fast, cheap, and pretty well trusted site for hosting surveys.
Being an "oldtimer" in the furry community (not a fandom, like Star Trek or anime, but an actual diverse community) for the past nearly 28 years, I've seen many changes and how the community has evolved. One of the things that makes this a true community is how diverse the term "furry" is to many people, and how they participate.
If you're serious about studying our community and its subculture, I would suggest asking questions, especially that require written responses, and request brief essays from various furs who choose to respond, with the option to follow up if you have further questions.
I'm having to agree with many of the other commenters, while I am far more than happy to contribute to the survey, many of the questions lacked the flexibility for me to feel that I could give a truthful, and accurate, answer.
Hi Flygon, thanks for that. Unfortunately because of the kinds of data we're gathering here (quite basic demographics to really gauge the population at hand on a quite facetious level) the questions asked are definitely quite 'black and white' and I agree, more in-depth questions are needed to get a full understanding of the 'whys' and 'hows'. This is something we'll definitely look at in the future. Thank you for contributing!
Alright. Thank you so very much for replying to my comment!
I didn't think that you would reply directly lol. This is very good though.
In my opinion, a survey like this will never give you anywhere near the accurate results that you are looking for. You would need to have intimate knowledge of every subgroup and every site where they reside. Choosing one site like this and having the yes or no answers that you have, is absolutely inadequate. Everyone joins the furry fandom for different reasons. Think of every other fandom, and all the other sub-groups they have, from every country. Now, combine ALL of that with an animal element. That is what ties us all together as furries. We are literally composed of every other conceivable group, but we are all united by that animal eliment.
BTW, I didn't actually finish the questionnaire. I enjoyed looking at it though. It told me alot about the general idea people in the scientific community have, that have no idea who or what furries are lol.
With the single exception of the 0% question it seems a very impartial and straight forward survey for a baseline demographic.
I’m curious to see if my longstanding supposition that the furry community demographic breaks down nearly identical to that of most any other creative art community holds true.
Reading over the tread only germane quibbles I noticed where mainly due to the evolution of broader more accurate definitions relating to gender and sexual ordination though in all fairness those are items of debate even within the medical and psychological communities.
Thank you for inviting us to participate.
In that we have no idea how this data will be used or by whom, I politely decline.
I think there should be more questions to do with the fandom and what you think being a "furry" means.
Thanks for your comments! That is definitely something I'll look into next time around.
Hi IamRy, thanks a million for the input. That's definitely something I'm very interested in and something I think we will include in the future :) thanks again!
Done, though the last page did make me smile.
I can't wait to read the case study.
Done! And for those who mentioned the 0% thing as I'm not a furry I viewed the question a little different; 0% human would be human conscience sans physical form. IE: Brain in a jar, computer program, cyberman, etc. You have to assume the wording was meant to include anything anyone might want to be not just furries and overthinking the question slows down the survey.
Glad I could do my part to skew the bell curve.
The results should be interesting if not hilarious!
a.) The confusion between furries and Otherkin, and probably also the whole fuss about fursuits and whether they're sexual or not. I guess you could design a 4-point matrix as to where one considers one's "furry identity" closest to: 1.) Anthro aka "funny" animals from comics and cartoons, 2.) plush (mascots and fursuits), 3.) real feral animals, 4.) totems, shamanism, hybrids, and chimerae.
b.) Being that my (and many other people's) reason in moving to IB from FA due to a certain ban, I wonder if the researcher is aware of what they may be getting into when asking about sexual orientation (the number of replies to which I thus found lacking). I've been taking part before in a number of surveys in that regard as well (and read many, many of those and the corresponding literature as part of my overall interest in Critical Theory, prejudice studies, deconstruction, post-structuralism, plus psychology, history, cultural anthropology, and social sciences at large), none of which were ever much acknowledged, published, or, if published, taken seriously at all.
It was and simply is that way regarding controversial subject matter because the Ego is not master of its own house within a positivistic culture based upon the sado-masochistic, social-Darwinistic Authoritarian personality type, driven by ethnocentric, numinous prejudices and instrumental reason. Thus, true objectivity is inachievable even within a large part of that one social agency that we know as the scientific community and that is solely concerned with affirming the positivistic, ethnocentric status quo by means of producing universally-accepted pseudo-science comparable to racial knowledge as we know it from Whiteness studies and Critical race theory, where everyone within the dominant, hegemonical in-group agrees about things as "self-evident facts" regarding alleged qualities and behaviors that marginalized minority out-groups are associated with as a form of both labeling and othering.
It especially happens within a scientific community that regards the humanities as an inferior, "soft" science or even just a mere "art" that could never command the same validity and legitimacy as supposedly "hard" natural sciences. So due to its blind admiration within "hard" natural sciences, this scientific community is unaware that all data, methodologies, categorizations, and interpretations of "hard" natural sciences are subject as well to the filtering and distortions of cultural construction of reality as according to the prevalent ethnocentric, positivistic prejudices inherent to the in-group culture that researchers are part of. Whereas the only group of scientists that would ever pay attention to all these glaring, but widely ignored problems are those associated with the belittled and trivialized "soft" sciences of the humanities.
Is there any way to just see all the question and answers without participating if I'm just curious?
According to the intro page, the results are not submitted until you finish the last page.
I was using a lot of words to critizize the options given at "sexual orientation" and warn the researcher that they may not know what they're getting into specifically with IB folk as due to the recent ban on FA.
Hi DaddyDuckyBE, thanks for your input. While the results of the survey are not viewable to the public at the moment, I will make sure to get back to each website and community which helped once the analysis has been completed. I'm unaware of any issues concerning a recent ban on FA so I'm sorry to say I can't comment there. Is this something that directly relates to the survey itself?
Thanks again for your comments - they are very welcome and any and all input will certainly be something that will inform the study at hand.
Oh, I wasn't interested in the results at this early point, just all the questions and what replies can be chosen.
I guess that might give you an idea as for what I was going on about when I was talking about labeling, othering, "self-evident facts", ethnocentric prejudice, and cultural construction of reality, considering that my academic knowledge taken from the non-fiction literature regarding Western and Indo-European morals on this specific issue goes back until at least the mid-19th century, and several millennia further when it comes to Indo-European repression of putatively or factually sexual deviance in general.
so much critique, I liked, relatively the psychological test seemed pin pointed.
"psychology" just doesnt dare to be precise.
I don't usually like this kind of thing but seeing so many other people having done it assured me that this isn't a hoax, scam or tease. It was an interesting little quiz, and I answered truthfully. | 2019-04-21T07:04:18 | https://inkbunny.net/j/49927 |
0.999999 | How about 'On nie jest tutaj.'?
but I cannot imagine it with "here".
"Nie ma" is more common and natural.
why not? what if this "he" is somewhere else? e.g. "on nie jest tutaj, on jest u diabła na rogach"
Very creative sentence, I would still use "nie ma" or maybe say "on nie jest tutaj, tylko tam"
and you need that second part.
"tam gdzie diabeł mówi dobranoc".
No it is an expression, I think of it as opposite of "es gibt"
That would mean "he doesn't have here", with a missing object and awkward word order.
thanks, that's interesting what would be the correct word order?
I agree with vytah's translation, but not his remark about word order. "On nie ma tutaj [konta]"(He doesn't have [a (bank) account] here) is in my opinion perfectly normal word order.
Side note: What you wanted to construct in first comment would work if it would be: "Jego nie ma tutaj", but that word order is not usual, at least in my opinion.
Why not "Tu nie ma go"? The word order with Tu/Tutaj is ASTOUNDINGLY confusing to me, as is why the sentence is phrased like that at all (Don't have him here).
I would say: "Tu/Tutaj go nie ma". Polish doesn't like to leave unaccented pronouns at the end of the sentence so it would be moved before "nie ma". And why it is phrased so? It's not so uncommon even in English as you have noticed earlier..
Quick question on why 'Jego nie ma' is not accepted. I would assume that the 'tu' is implied.
You could say so but it is not precise translation of English sentence.
This is an interesting discussion. Coming from an English-speaking background I fell for the false construction of 'on nie jest tutaj.' So, the correct answer 'nie ma go tutaj' would be translated literally into English as 'There is no him here," I suppose. :-) Now, when you say "He is here.", would that be "On jest tutaj."?
Literally, that's even weirder: "There has no him here" ;) But at least the positive sentence is logical, "He is here" = "On jest tutaj".
Reminds me of the German, "Du fehlst mir, " which means that I miss you, rather than You miss (or lack) me.
According to the sentence: How can I know if is speaking about "he" or "she" if do not appear "on" or "ona"?
The gender is explicitly put in this sentence, it's just that the construction is grammatically very different. You shouldn't look for "ona" or "on", because the Polish way of saying "He is not here" could literally be translated as "There has no him here". So you're looking for "him" (or "her") and then you find it as "go". Which indeed is "him", ergo, we have a sentence about a guy.
"Nie ma go tutaj " is too corect.
"Tutaj go nie ma" is too corect.
"Nie ma go tutaj" is the main answer.
"Tutaj go nie ma"... well, sounds kinda like hide-and-seek, but yeah, that may work. Added.
P.S. "is correct too" :) Or maybe better "is also correct" or "is correct as well".
And I juggled the words around - again! :) Can you say "Nie ma tu jego" though, if you wanted to stress that it's him that's not here, like in "she's here, alright; it's him that's nowhere to be seen"? | 2019-04-21T04:38:15 | https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/13720073/He-is-not-here |
0.998798 | Alcoholic beverages are served at many holiday celebrations. Just as there are a zillion types of holiday cookies, there are many festive alcoholic beverages. The creative drinks can be fun, but a challenge to moderation and good health.
During the holidays, it is easy to overdo it with alcoholic beverages, so take some time to think it through before you jingle out the door to events waiting for you. Perhaps consider who you would like to team up with throughout the holiday season to set your limits. Whether it is family member, significant other or a friend, this kind of partnership can be powerful and effective.
Time: Arrive early and depart before the heavy drinking ensues. As a courtesy, it is a nice touch to alert the host or hostess when you plan to leave.
Travel: Make sure you have reliable sober transportation or be prepared to call for a ride. Choosing a designated driver is a practice that college students are encouraged to follow, and the practice should apply to everyone during the holiday season. Keep an eye on each other – even a little alcohol can impair driving skills and judgment.
Consumption: If you have decided not to drink alcohol, bring your favorite beverage and consider pouring it in a party glass to fit in with the crowd. If you will be drinking alcohol, make a pact to have one drink then switch to water or a soft drink.
Health always: Consider taking a walk now and then as a health break to mix with the merriment.
Indulging in alcoholic drinks in moderation really means having no more than one standard drink a day for women and up to two standard drinks for men age 65 and younger, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It can be easy to exceed these limits, especially when someone else is topping off your glass. The CDC accepted measure long-term for moderate drinking means women who drink more than seven drinks per week and men who drink more than 14 drinks week after week are at risk.
Okay, so why can men can drink more than women? What is the science? Two facts: 1) Women tend to have less muscle tissue than men. Muscle tissue contains water, and alcohol dissolves in water and is thus diluted. Due to the fact that men have about 10 percent more water in their bodies, they can drink more alcohol than women without becoming intoxicated; 2) Men also have more of an enzyme in their stomachs that metabolizes alcohol. This is important to know and important to share with young drinkers.
Perhaps you just want everyone to be safe in a general sense or you want to be part of setting good examples. If you are comfortable sharing your personal concerns with family and friends, consider being open with them. If you are recovering from alcoholism or another SUD (Substance Use Disorder), it may make sense to talk about triggers with your support circle Practice your pat response for declining a drink. Recovery will be as private or public as you want it to be, depending on how much you want to share with others. Likewise, if you are coping with depression, it may make sense to talk about what makes you feel safe and supported during this time.
Consider the overall events and activities of the holiday season.
Which activities make you feel good? Sometimes volunteering to help with various causes that are important to you intensifies your sense of purpose.. Check the mix.
Which activities foster genuine connection to the people in your life? Concentrate on taking part in events that involve little or no drinking. Perhaps a concert with holiday music or a tour of holiday decorations are among activities to keep everyone in a healthful state of mind.
What should your plan look like? Focus on a few key events and limit the amount of time at events that don’t support your values and your health. Your planning can be as simple or involved as you like.
Finding the right mix of healthy habits is key to mental health during the holidays and day to day. If you have a mental health concern about yourself or a loved one, we are glad to consult with you at Community Reach Center. To get more information about our metro Denver mental health centers visit communityreachcenter.org or call 303-853-3500. We have centers in the northside Denver metro area including the cities of Thornton, Westminster, Northglenn, Commerce City and Brighton.
Life is made up of many components, and two of the most critical aspects are physical and mental health. It is challenging to have a healthy and balanced life without both. Focus on one at the expense of the other can be detrimental to one’s wellbeing. However, as we tell people at our Denver mental health center, with a little time and effort, you can improve both essential components.
Taking care of your body delivers a range of benefits, from fewer aches and pains to reduced risk of disease, to an increased energy level. Below are five things you can do to treat your body right.
Get regular aerobic physical activity. Some people have a negative opinion of “exercise” for one reason or another. However, you don’t have to run five miles a day or do hours of yoga or Pilates every week to improve your physical health. Just taking a brisk 20-minute walk daily can make a difference.
Eat a balanced diet. What and how much you eat has a major impact on your health. Fruits and vegetables, lean meats, fish and whole grains are good for you. Sugar, processed foods and refined carbohydrates are not. And, all foods should be consumed in moderation.
Stay hydrated. Not only does your body need water to function properly, but staying hydrated can also boost your metabolism and help you maintain a healthy weight.
Quit (or don’t start) smoking. It’s not easy to quit smoking, but there are counseling programs and medication that can help. If quitting cold-turkey feels impossible, start small by smoking one less cigarette a day.
Get plenty of sleep. Being tired isn’t the only consequence of getting inadequate sleep. Sleep deprivation can cause everything from cognitive impairment to hormone problems and weight gain.
Most people know that there are actions you can take to improve your physical health. However, many are surprised to learn that the same is true of mental health. Too often we assume that our mood and outlook on life simply fluctuate and there is nothing we can do about it. On the contrary, there are many steps you can take to help achieve and maintain a state of wellbeing. Some of the most effective are listed below.
Practice living “in the moment.” In our busy lives, it is easy to think about anything other than what we are doing in the present. It can be a tremendous stress reliever to learn to practice “mindfulness.” That means when you are washing your hands, focus on the simple pleasures of washing your hands, like the coolness of the water running through your fingers and the smell of the soap, When taking a bite of a sandwich, focus on the freshness of the ingredients and how the flavors blend together. Learning mindfulness requires some work to make this a habit, but the payoff is significant.
Create and maintain positive relationships. The connections we have with our family members, friends, coworkers and others in our life are crucial to our mental health. It is important to invest time and effort in ensuring they stay strong.
Keep track of what you’re grateful for. Even in the toughest of times, there are things we can be thankful for. Making a mental note of them (or better yet, recording them in a gratitude journal) on a regular basis can keep you focused on the positive.
Do something nice for someone. Even the smallest acts of kindness can deliver big mental and emotional benefits, both to the recipient and to you.
Think positive thoughts about yourself. How you think about yourself affects how you feel about yourself, and that affects your sense of confidence and overall perspective within the world. Reminding yourself regularly that you have many positive qualities and avoiding comparison to others, helps build a solid foundation for your mental and emotional health.
The strategies above can be very useful, but when you need expert insight into mental health challenges, our team at Community Reach Center can help. Visit communityreachcenter.org or call us at 303-853-3500 Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. for more information about our services. We have centers in the northside Denver metro area of Adams County including the cities of Thornton, Westminster, Northglenn, Commerce City and Brighton.
There was a time when being bullied was considered a rite of passage some children simply had to endure. The prevailing thinking was that they would “get over it” and it might even “toughen them up.” Fortunately, parents, schools and the U.S. government now have a more proactive view of addressing this behavior, which can be very painful for the victims and leave lasting emotional scars. That awareness is reflected in a number of weeks - or month-long, anti-bullying observations, typically occurring in the fall as children return to school. At our mental health clinic, we encourage parents to learn more about what can be done to prevent bullying.
While teachers, parents and adults, in general, have an obligation to take action when they become aware of bullying, it is also helpful for children to know how to handle a bully on their own. Below are some strategies children can use to stop a bully.
Find supportive peers. If a school has a bully, it is likely that there are multiple victims. By supporting, and getting support from, those students and others, a child can give a bully second thoughts about continuing threatening behavior.
Talk to adults. Bullying behavior that seems obvious to victims may not be immediately detected by parents and teachers. Children should know that telling adults about bullying isn’t “tattling” but is instead speaking up about a dangerous behavior and that doing so may help keep other children from being bullied.
Take action right away. The longer a child submits to bullying, the more empowered the bully will feel and the more aggressive their actions are likely to be. If a child takes a stand immediately, a bully will be more inclined to discontinue the behavior.
Be assertive. Often children who are being bullied either put up with the abuse or go the other way and lash out at the bully. Both of those approaches tend to elicit an elevated level of abusive behavior. Assertiveness sits between those two extremes and is the best way for a child to show a bully they won’t be intimidated.
Use logic rather than emotion. Bullies tend to feed off the emotions of their victims, whether that is fear or anger. Children who learn to control their emotions and respond to a bully with confidence are less likely to be targeted.
Portray confidence through body language. Bullies look for physical signs that their abuse is having an impact on a victim. Children should learn that looking the bully in the eye, speaking slowly and in a calm voice and using the bully’s name are some of the best ways to show that they won’t put up with this behavior.
One of the most serious consequences of bullying is that it can create or exacerbate an anxiety disorder in a child. Parents, teachers, coaches and other adults should pay attention to signs that a child — especially one who they suspect might be the victim of a bully — is suffering from anxiety. If a child starts withdrawing from friendships, avoiding activities they previously enjoyed and in general isolating himself or herself from others, it may mean that treatment for anxiety is needed.
Learn more about our services at communityreachcenter.org or by calling us at 303-853-3500 Monday through Friday. We have centers in the northside Denver metro area of Adams County including the cities of Thornton, Westminster, Northglenn, Commerce City and Brighton.
The campaign to reduce mental health stigma is a topic covered often in our blogs, and we proudly report progress is being made. The 2017 Colorado Access Survey of more than 10,000 households reported that stigma as a reason for not receiving services decreased to from 47.7 percent in 2015 to 38 percent. On that good note, we will keep working on it.
In continuing efforts to reduce stigma, the comment is often made that mental health issues are like other health issues. Further, they should be talked about openly to share information and in turn help those experiencing a mental health problem. The idea is that when we can talk about mental health as openly as we talk about a stomach ache, we are making progress. Increasing open conversations about how we feel is a positive shift.
Many parallels exist in considerations between general health and mental health. Interestingly a person with a mental health or a general health challenge does not always know they need help. That is where people need each other and need to watch out for each other. And while we want to talk openly as possible about mental health there is another parallel in privacy to remember. When someone is in treatment, he or she might not want to discuss all the details and symptoms that they are working through with their mental health professional, just as someone with a physical health issue may want some privacy. Compassion and paying attention are always key.
We tend to talk about caring for our general health openly. To stay healthful in the winter, we talk about washing hands. All year round we talk about drinking enough water and eating vegetables. We talk about having enough exercise and the importance of walking. As it turns out all these habits support good mental health. Habits so key to mental health, such as having enough down time and a support system, connect with general health as well, and we should always encourage these conversations.
To counteract stigma and improve the environment, take time to sharpen your mental health knowledge and vocabulary. For example, it is good to know that someone who is clinically depressed would have at least one of two symptoms for at least two weeks: An unusually sad mood or a loss of enjoyment and interest in activities that used to be enjoyable. Statistically, a depressive disorder like this effects about nearly 7 percent of the United States population is a given year, and with professional help this can often be treated before the symptoms worsen.
Much in the way we discuss aches and pains before we make an appointment with a primary care physician, we should discuss: sadness, anxiety, guilt, mood swings, lack of emotional responsiveness, feeling of helpless, hopelessness and irritability in relation to mental health.
There are numerous sources online and in bookstores to learn about mental health, and if you would like to take a Mental Health First Class, which is often free, please visit Mental Health First Aid. The class teaches general mental health signs and symptoms, and how to assist someone who is facing a mental health challenge until help arrives.
And as you learn more about mental health, please notice how to show respect to people with mental health concerns. For example, it is better to say, “Emily has schizophrenia,” than “Emily is a schizophrenic.” The label equates the person with the illness and perpetuates a negative label. Emily is a person, not a diagnosis. She has a mental illness, but it doesn’t define who she is as a person. Put the person first no the illness.
If you have a concern about yourself or one of your loved ones, we are glad to consult with you at Community Reach Center. To get more information about our metro Denver mental health centers visit communityreachcenter.org or call 303-853-3500. We have centers in the northside Denver metro area including the cities of Thornton, Westminster, Northglenn, Commerce City and Brighton. | 2019-04-25T02:14:22 | https://www.communityreachcenter.org/2018/11/ |
0.998545 | A jilted Chinese man has spent £24,000 on hundreds of tickets for the new Transformers film - just to prove to his ex-girlfriend how rich he has become.
The businessman block-booked the screenings of Transformers: Age of Extinction - seven years after his lover dumped him when he was unable to afford to take her out to watch a film.
He snapped up hundreds of tickets at four of Beijing’s six IMAX theatres for the movie, which stars Mark Wahlberg and Jessica Gomes, in a bid to prove how successful he had become since she left him.
And to hammer home the point, he then decided to give them all away for free on the internet – sparking a frenzy on Chinese social media, the South China Morning Post reports.
The website, which gives the man's surname as Wang, reports how his girlfriend ditched him and moved from their home city of Nanjing to Beijing.
But after ‘striving hard for seven years’ and setting up his own company in Shanghai, he was able to spend 250,000 yuan (around £24,000) on the tickets - said to be half his monthly earnings.
He is said to have written on his Weibo account: ‘I only want to say that you might have been wrong when you made that decision,’ before offering the tickets for free in return for his message being shared.
His post quickly went viral on the internet in China.
The South China Morning Post said that as of Thursday, the comments had been shared more than 110,000 times and drawn around 35,000 comments while more than 1,590 bloggers had picked up a free ticket. | 2019-04-20T06:40:15 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2671215/Thatll-teach-Jilted-man-spends-24-000-hundreds-IMAX-tickets-new-Transformers-film-prove-ex-girlfriend-wealthy-is.html |
0.999955 | The Prince of Wales has announced that his son, Prince Harry, is engaged to American actress Meghan Markle.
LONDON (KABC) -- The Prince of Wales announced that his son, Prince Harry, is engaged to American actress and Los Angeles native Meghan Markle.
Clarence House - the official residence of Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall - made the announcement in a letter early Monday morning.
According to the official announcement, the couple got engaged in London earlier this month and their wedding will take place in the Spring of 2018. The news comes after weeks of speculation.
The newly engaged couple also gave their first joint interview after the announcement, and described the moment Harry proposed at the place they now call home.
"It was just so sweet and natural and very romantic," Markle recalled, giggling, as she stared at Harry. "As a matter of fact, I could barely let you finish proposing. I said, 'Can I say yes now?'"
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle give their first interview about their royal proposal.
The announcement means another grand royal wedding is in the offing - the first since William and and Kate married in 2011.
In some ways, Markle - a mixed-race American from Southern California, outspoken full-time actress and divorcee - makes a surprising addition to Britain's monarchy. But the institution has moved on with the times, and the romance between Markle and Harry - who has repeatedly stressed his wish to lead as "normal" a life as he could - has a decidedly unstuffy, modern feel to it.
The 36-year-old was born in the Los Angeles area, where she grew up and attended Catholic school.
Markle, best known for her role as an ambitious paralegal in the hit U.S. legal drama "Suits," surprised many when she shared her feelings for Harry in a September cover story for Vanity Fair. Asked about the media frenzy surrounding their courtship, Markle said: "At the end of the day, I think it's really simple ... we're two people who are really happy and in love."
Here's a timeline of the relationship of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Harry - once known for his "bad boy" antics, including being photographed playing strip billiards in Las Vegas - has largely won over the British public with his winning smile, his military career and his devotion to charities aimed at helping disabled veterans and other causes. | 2019-04-19T16:34:26 | https://abc7.com/society/prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-are-engaged/2701571/ |
0.998606 | How do I move my database to a new computer?
Moving your database typically requires a number of adjustments in your MainBoss configuration. The same adjustments are required if you rename the database, or the computer where it resides, or the instance of SQL Server that manages the database. Renaming is essentially the same as moving, even if data isn't actually moved elsewhere.
Note: If you are using MainBoss Service (formerly called @Requests), there are a number of important steps for dealing with that service on the old and new computers. If you are not using MainBoss Service, you can ignore these steps.
In both scenarios, the version of SQL Server on the new computer must be at least as up-to-date as the one on the old computer—you cannot transfer from a newer version of SQL Server to an older one.
This section gives an overview of how to move a database from one computer to another, using MainBoss Advanced Version 4.0. Detailed information on each step can be found in the MainBoss Installation and Administration Guide.
In MainBoss, go to Administration | MainBoss Service and click Delete Windows Service for MainBoss (found on the drop-down list for Configure the Windows Service for MainBoss).
Make sure that everyone has quit using MainBoss.
Make a backup of the database (e.g. by using Administration | Backups or by making the backup directly with SQL Server).
Copy the file containing the backup to the new computer.
On the new computer, login to an account with Windows Administrator privileges.
Go to Administration | MainBoss Service | Configuration and make sure your configuration options still make sense for the new database location.
Go to Administration | MainBoss Service and click Configure the Windows Service for MainBoss.
For each MainBoss user, edit the Maintenance Organization information so that it refers to the new location of the database.
If you are using MainBoss Advanced 3.3 or later: Emergency moves are essentially the same as planned moves. The only difference is that you can't begin by taking an up-to-date backup; you have to work with the most recent backup you have, since an emergency move is only necessary when there's some malfunction in the computer that holds the MainBoss database. Apart from that, the restoration process is the same.
Start with the most up-to-date backup of the database that you can find.
Copy the backup file to the new computer.
Start MainBoss on the new computer and use "Create New Organization from Backup" (in the "Select Maintenance Organization" window) to create a new MainBoss database from the backup file.
Go to Administration | @Requests.
In the resulting window, click the drop-down arrow beside Uninstall and click Clear Service Association.
When MainBoss asks if you want to clear the service association, click Yes.
Install the @Requests service on the new machine and start it.
If you have MainBoss 3.0 or 3.0.1: Click here for instructions on how to uninstall the @Requests service.
The MainBoss Users table records the domain as part of each user's login name. Therefore if you move the database from one domain to another, the old user records won't work, even if the users have the same login names in the new domain.
For MainBoss Advanced 3.4 and up: Edit all the existing Users records to refer to the new domain.
For older versions of MainBoss Advanced: Delete all the old records from the Users table and create new ones for the users in the new domain. Note that in this situation, the only way to start running MainBoss will be to login to Windows under a name that has Windows Administrator privileges, then start MainBoss by using "Run as Administrator". Start MainBoss in "Administration" mode by clicking the arrow beside "Open Organization" and selecting "Administration".
In the most recent releases of SQL Server, having Administration privileges does not automatically give you permissions to access databases. Instead, administrators must use SQL Server Management Studio to give themselves appropriate permissions.
If you restore a MainBoss to a different instance of SQL Server, we recommend that you use Windows Update to check for SQL Server updates. Newer versions of SQL Server have features that MainBoss can use to improve performance.
After moving your database, we recommend going to Administration | Database Management and clicking Update Database Statistics. This performs various checks and updates which might improve performance. | 2019-04-25T22:51:18 | https://www.thinkage.ca/support/faq/3/movingdb.htm |
0.996709 | Reason For Hope: Are psychics for real?
The Bible speaks out against spiritists or psychics, people who consult and talk to the dead. But how do they seem to have the incredible insight you hear and see about?
These practices are manipulative, meaning spiritists know when someone comes to them, that they are open and susceptible to any suggestions. Spiritists have more training in psychology and human behavior, reading people's faces, body language and dress, than possessing the power to talk to spirits.
Here are some tricks of the trade that could make psychics appear to know things that no one else knows.
INTUITION - Some people can just read people, their body language, the tears that fall from their eyes, the inflection of their voice. Psychics are intuitive and can tell by the way people answer questions that they need to keep focusing on a certain topic.
ATTENDANCE - If someone comes to see a psychic, chances are there is someone who has died in their life or they have some sort of pressing need, usually relational. It's not a stretch to ask "Someone close to you has died" or "You been through a difficult relationship." Most can say yes to these questions and if they are at a psychic, it usually means one of these two things have happened to them.
QUESTIONS - Psychics ask a lot of questions, leading them to the right answer. They get lots of "no's" before they get to the "yes." Is it really that amazing if you say, "Is there a person in your life whose first name begins with a J?" Most people know someone with the letter J in their name. If the answer is no, the questions go to "Or it's an M?" Why must psychics ask so many questions? Why is it amazing that that they get a YES after the third NO? "Wow, how did you know?" The answer is...they guessed.
TV EDITING - We see psychics on TV where the shows are edited. The wrong guesses are edited out making the audience at home think the psychics are right all the time.
ENCOURAGEMENT - Psychics tend to be encouraging, making people like them and respond positively to them. "Your loved one wants you to know everything is okay." We all want to hear that about loved ones who have passed and we’re willing to believe anything to make it true.
UNVERIFIABLE FUTURE EVENTS - Psychics make predictions about things that sound good, but at the time we have no idea if they will happen. We give them credit for making the prediction but not for the prediction coming true.
NON SPECIFIC PREDICTIONS - Psychics make common sense predictions. "I predict this year will be tough with lots of change." Sure, most years have change. But to say "Tomorrow at 9:32 a bomb will explode in a building" is different story. Psychics are very general in their future predictions.
REAL SPIRITS - Sometimes the readings are amazingly accurate leading us to one conclusion, the psychic is speaking to spiritual forces that have information from the other side. If this is true, then one should avoid a psychic because we cannot trust these spirits because they may be trying to deceive us.
The demonic world can tell us information about things that happened. However, demons cannot read our mind. They can see a person at a psychic and feed the medium information that has occurred in that person's life with impressions and whispers to the psychic.
Demons know conversations and events that they have witnessed but that's the limit of their effectiveness. The demonic world cannot tell us with pinpoint accuracy what will happen in the future.
Anyone who reads their astrological forecast, consults a palm reader, goes to a séance or reads a book about a guy who talks to the dead is saying that there are spirits and practices outside the Lord that control or know our destiny. It is saying that God shares his power with these spirits or that God doesn’t exist at all.
Only God can be trusted with what happens in the spiritual realm and with our future. We don't need mysterious spirits telling us the future or comforting us with false hope. | 2019-04-20T07:01:40 | http://www.reasonhope.com/2012/01/are-psychics-for-real.html |
0.998464 | Are there any tutorials for how to configure Google Analytics in the Cloud? The documentation I've found seems to suggesting editing templates, but I can't get that to work in the Cloud based on administrator permissions, I assume due to the cloud hosting.
It's actually much easier in recent versions of VB 5.x, including vBCloud. No template editing is necessary.
There is a Yes/No for Enable Google Analytics, set it to YES.
And then there is a box where you paste in the Google Analytics code they give you.
Save changes and you're all set.
Can you give me some detailed instructions on the steps necessary to enable the Google location to work on events please. I went to Google to get a code, but not sure what to do with it.
Is Google Analytics track the pages visited?
Been a while, where do I input this again? I don't see it in the vb5 Admin Control Panel. | 2019-04-24T02:48:35 | https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum/vbcloud/vbulletin-cloud-questions-problems-and-troubleshooting/4027566-configuring-google-analytics-in-vbulletin-cloud |
0.996451 | Howard - I'm interested in photosynthesis and the driving force for life on earth, which is how plants acquire carbon and potentially sequester carbon. This may be part of the system that might help maintain the balance of carbon going into the atmosphere.
Chris - Why is carbon so important?
Howard - We are changing the atmosphere. In the last 200 years, carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has gone up by one third, and it's quite possible that plants have absorbed the remaining two thirds of the remaining carbon that we have emitted into the atmosphere.
Chris - A 30% increase is a huge amount.
Howard - It certainly is, and this is why we know there is the so-called greenhouse effect. These gases help to trap the heat within the earth's atmosphere and that's led to a 0.6 degree warming in the last 50 years. This is at a global level rather than just a regional level.
Chris - What else do you work on?
Howard - I also work on what I think is the most important enzyme in the world: rubisco. It's the basis for life on earth and has been around for 3800 million years. It's products through photosynthesis ultimately led to the products that drove the industrial revolution. I'm interested in how the enzyme is regulated under a whole host of modern conditions. I look at how plants might respond to climate change in the future and whether trees will continue to sequester carbon and bury it below ground.
Chris - If you are growing tomatoes on your greenhouse, you can make them grow better if you pump in extra carbon dioxide. Don't our activities here on earth translate into better growth for plants?
Howard - That's the theory, but in fact for natural vegetation, they are nutrient limited. Although we are seeing plants responding and they are continuing to sequester carbon, we won't see this rampant growth that you might expect from your greenhouse plants.
Chris - You said at the start that CO2 concentrations have gone up by 30%. What does this actually add up to, because if there isn't much out there to start with, you don't have to add much to get a 30% increase.
Howard - It's now going up at an exponential rate. At the moment, we have 0.038% of CO2 in the atmosphere. Back in 1800, it was somewhere in the region of 0.028%. It's projected to go on increasing to 0.05 or even 0.08% by the end of this century.
Chris - How much CO2 does the average person put out? How much do I account for as an average British citizen on an annual basis?
Howard - If you were to fly to the United States, each person on the flight would emit about half a tonne of carbon. Just heating your house every year, you're probably producing about 6 tonnes of carbon, and if you drive around in your car for about 12 000 miles per year, you're probably emitting about 3.5 tonnes of carbon.
Chris - So when people say 'let's plant a tree', that's not going to solve the problem.
Howard - Funnily enough, it could in principle. There's been lots of publicity about celebrity forests recently, including Joe Strummer having one on the Isle of Skye. About a hectare of oak woodland can sequester about 3.5 tonnes of carbon per year, which is what everyone on earth uses on average. However, there are 6 billion people on earth, so it's quite a tall order to sequester all that carbon. It is impracticable. We need to think about other ways of reducing carbon. The worse thing that could happen is the northern boreal region or peat lands start to release their carbon, making them sources instead of sinks. The World Bank has now set up a system of carbon credits so that countries such as Mozambique and Uganda can set aside areas of forest. Richer countries can then pay for them to retain those resources.
How do plants grow upwards? | 2019-04-22T14:58:02 | https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/carbon-dioxide-climate-change-and-role-plants |
0.99879 | To build a PCB from Diptrace files you need to export the necessary Gerber and XYRS files, which you can then upload into your MacroFab PCB project.
Diptrace does not have an easy way to import Design Rule Checks. The template will have to be manually entered. In the PCB Layout window open the Design Rules window by clicking “Verification” then “Design Rules…”.
Change the values to what is shown in the above picture on the “Clearances” tab. Then click over to the “Sizes” tab.
Change the values to reflect what is in the above picture then click OK. To run the DRC just press F9 and a window will pop up to show any DRC errors.
To open the Export Gerber RS274X window click File -> Export -> Gerbers… The left side of the window contains all the layers which are the different gerber files Diptrace will generate.
Some options will be greyed (N/A) out which means they can not be changed for that layer. The layers should have the following options selected.
Dimensions should be in inches. Enable G54 and Mirror should be unchecked for each layer. The Offset should be set to X: 0” Y: 0”.
Next the file names need to be set. Click “Files” on the upper right of the Export Gerber RS-274X window.
Change the names of the files to the settings above then press OK. Click on Apertures which is in the upper right corner of the Export Gerber RS-274X window. Click the “Auto” button in the lower left corner then close the window. Click “Export All”. Diptrace will then ask where to save all the gerber files.
Now go back to “Files” and click Export N/C Drill. In the “Export N/C Drill” window click “Auto” which will set the tooling. Check the box labelled “Use Design Origin” then click “Export All” and save the file. Diptrace does not generate a separate milling file. If you have internal cutouts it is best to place them in the board outline layer.
To properly export the XYRS, each component in the layout must have the value field populated with the part number of the component. If the value field of the component is left blank, the part will be ignored on the bill of materials. To find the value field of a component, double click on the component in the Diptrace Schematics or PCB Layout program.
Generate the data needed to make the XYRS and then PASTE file by clicking File -> Export -> Diptrace ASCII… Choose the destination of the file. This file will be uploaded with the Gerber files into your project.
You have now generated all the needed files to get your PCB into MacroFab! | 2019-04-24T06:18:30 | https://macrofab.com/help/eda-tool-help/diptrace/ |
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Now, what about the last year?<p> Since [[NAME EVENT]/[NAME CURRENT MONTH] of last year], has [he/she] wet the bed at night?
In the last year, has [he/she] wet the bed three or more times?
In the last year, were there three months in a row when [he/she] wet the bed each month?
Did [he/she] wet the bed as often as twice a week for several weeks in a row?
Did [he/she] wet [his/her] bed this often for as long as three months?
Now what about the last four weeks?<p> Since [[NAME EVENT]//the beginning of/the middle of/the end of [LAST MONTH]], has [he/she] wet [his/her] bed twice a week or more?
Has [he/she] wet [his/her] bed two or more times in the last four weeks?
In the last four weeks, has [he/she] wet [his/her] bed at all?
In the last year, did [he/she] wet [his/her] bed as often as twice a month for three months in a row?
Now what about the last four weeks?<p> Since [[NAME EVENT]//the beginning of/the middle of/the end of [LAST MONTH]], has [he/she] wet [his/her] bed two or more times?
Now what about the last four weeks? Since [[NAME EVENT]//the beginning of/the middle of/the end of [LAST MONTH]], has he/she] wet [his/her] bed?
In the last year, has [he/she] suffered from any medical condition that made [him/her] wet the bed during the night?
Did a doctor ever say that [he/she] wet the bed because of this medical condition?
Thinking about [his/her] whole life, has [he/she] ever gone a whole year without wetting the bed at night?
Now you just told me that [he/she] didn't wet the bed at night for a whole year, but that in the last year [he/she] wet the bed again.<p> How old was [he/she] when [he/she] started wetting the bed this time?
Did [he/she] start wetting the bed again more than a year ago that is, before [[NAME EVENT]/[NAME CURRENT MONTH] of last year]?
You said that in the last year __________ wet the bed at night. <p> Now I'd like you to think back to the time in the last year when [his/her] wetting the bed at night caused the most problems.<p> At that time, did [you (or [his/her] [CARETAKERS])/[his/her] [CARETAKERS]] get annoyed or upset with __________ because [he/she] wet the bed?
How often did [you (or [his/her] [CARETAKERS])/[his/her] [CARETAKERS]] get annoyed or upset with [him/her] because [he/she] wet the bed? Would you say: a lot of the time, some of the time, or hardly ever?
At that time, did wetting the bed keep __________ from doing things or going places with [you (or [his/her] family)/[his/her] family]?
At that time, did wetting the bed keep [him/her] from doing things or going places with other [children/people [his/her] age]?
When the problems were worst, did wetting the bed [make it difficult for [him/her] to do [his/her] schoolwork or cause problems with [his/her] grades/make it difficult for [him/her] to do [his/her] work]?
At that time, did wetting the bed cause __________'s [teachers/boss] to be annoyed or upset with [him/her]?
When the problems were worst, did it seem like wetting the bed at night made __________ feel bad or made [him/her] feel upset?
How bad did wetting the bed seem to make [him/her] feel? Would you say: very bad, bad, or not too bad?
In the last year that is, since [[NAME EVENT]/[NAME CURRENT MONTH] of last year] has [he/she] been to see someone at a hospital or a clinic or at their office because [he/she] wets the bed at night?
Does [he she] have an appointment set up to see someone because [he/she] wets the bed?
In the last year that is, since [[NAME EVENT]/[NAME CURRENT MONTH] of last year] has [he/she] taken any medicine for bedwetting?
If a [ ] response was coded in YDQL01E, go to YDQL14.
You said that there was a time before the last year when [he/she] wet [his/her] bed at night. I want to ask you about that time.<P> Since [he/she] turned five (INTERVIEWER: point out age five on whole life chart), was there ever a time when [he/she] wet [his/her] bed at night as often as twice a week or more?
Did [he/she] wet [his/her] bed this often for as long as three months in a row?
Did wetting the bed cause any serious problems for [him/her] at home, at school, or with [his/her] friends?
Did wetting the bed seem to make [him/her] feel really unhappy or bother [him/her] a lot?
Did [he/she] ever see a doctor, counselor, or some other person like that because [he/she] wet the bed?
How old was [he/she] when [he/she] stopped wetting the bed?
Before [he/she] was [NAME AGE IN E/NAME GRADE IN E], did [he/she] ever go a whole year without wetting the bed?
How old was [he/she] when [he/she] started to wet the bed again?
Again, thinking back to when __________ was five years old, until now, was there ever a time when [he/she] wet [his/her] pants during the day?
In the last year that is, since [[NAME EVENT]/[NAME CURRENT MONTH] of last year] has [he/she] wet [his/her] pants during the day?
In the last year, has [he/she] wet [his/her] pants during the day three or more times?
In the last year, were there three months in a row when [he/she] wet [his/her] pants during the day each month?
In the last year, did [he/she] wet [his/her] pants twice a week for several weeks in a row?
Did [he/she] wet [his/her] pants this often for as long as three months?
Now what about the last four weeks?<P> Since [[NAME EVENT]//the beginning of/the middle of/the end of [LAST MONTH]], has [he/she] wet [his/her] pants twice a week or more?
Has [he/she] wet [his/her] pants two or more times in the last four weeks?
In the last four weeks, has [he/she] wet [his/her] pants at all?
In the last year, did [he/she] wet [his/her] pants as often as twice a month for three months in a row?
Now what about the last four weeks?<p> Since [[NAME EVENT]//the beginning of/the middle of/the end of [LAST MONTH]], has [he/she] wet [his/her] pants two or more times?
Now what about the last four weeks? Since [[NAME EVENT]//the beginning of/the middle of/the end of [LAST MONTH]], has [he/she] wet [his/her] pants?
In the last year, has [he/she] suffered from any medical condition that made [him/her] wet [his/her] pants during the day?
Did a doctor say that [he/she] wet [his/her] pants during the day because of this medical condition?
Thinking about [his/her] whole life, has [he/she] ever gone a whole year without wetting [his/her] pants during the day?
Now you just told me that [he/she] didn't wet [his/her] pants for a whole year, but that in the last year [he/she] wet [his/her] pants during the day again. How old was [he/she] when [he/she] started wetting [his/her] pants this time?
Did [he/she] start wetting [his/her] pants during the day more than a year ago that is, before [[NAME EVENT]/[NAME CURRENT MONTH] of last year]?
You said that in the last year [he/she] wet [his/her] pants during the day. <p> Now I'd like you to think back to the time in the last year when wetting [his/her] pants during the day caused the most problems. <p> At that time, did [you (or [his/her] [CARETAKERS])/[his/her] [CARETAKERS]] get annoyed or upset with __________ because [he/she] wets [his/her] pants?
At that time, did wetting [his/her] pants during the day keep __________ from doing things or going places with [you (or [his/her] family)/[his/her] family]?
How often did wetting [his/her] pants keep [him/her] from doing things or going places with [you (or [his/her] family)/[his/her] family]? Would you say: a lot of the time, some of the time, or hardly ever?
At that time, did wetting [his/her] pants during the day keep [him/her] from doing things or going places with other [children/people [his/her] age]?
How often did wetting [his/her] pants seem to keep [him/her] from doing things or going places with other [children/people [his/her] age]? Would you say: a lot of the time, some of the time, or hardly ever?
When the problems were worst, did wetting [his/her] pants during the day [make it difficult for [him/her] to do [his/her] schoolwork or cause problems with [his/her] grades/make it difficult for [him/her] to do [his/her] work]?
At that time, did wetting [his/her] pants during the day cause __________'s [teachers/boss] to be annoyed or upset with [him/her]?
When the problems were worst, did it seem like wetting [his/her] pants during the day made _________ feel bad or made [him/her] feel upset?
How bad did wetting [his/her] pants seem to make [him/her] feel? Would you say: very bad, bad, or not too bad?
In the last year that is, since [[NAME EVENT]/[NAME CURRENT MONTH] of last year] has [he/she] been to see someone at a hospital or a clinic or at their office for help with any of these problems?
Does [he she] have an appointment set up to see someone because [he/she] wets [his/her] pants during the day?
In the last year that is, since [[NAME EVENT]/[NAME CURRENT MONTH] of last year] has [he/she] taken any medicine for wetting [his/her] pants during the day?
If a [ ] response was coded in YDQL14E, go to YDQL27.<p> All others, continue.
You said that there was a time before the last year when ________ wet [his/her] pants during the day. I want to ask you about that time.<P> Since [he/she] turned five (INTERVIEWER: point out age five on whole life chart), did [he/she] ever wet [his/her] pants twice a week or more?
Did wetting [his/her] pants seem to cause any serious problems for [him/her] at home, at school, or with [his/her] friends?
Did wetting [his/her] pants seem to make [him/her] feel really unhappy or bother [him/her] a lot?
Did [he/she] ever see a doctor, counselor, or some other person like that because [he/she] wets [his/her] pants?
How old was [he/she] when [he/she] stopped wetting [his/her] pants?
Before [he/she] was [NAME AGE IN E/NAME GRADE IN E], did [he/she] ever go a whole year without wetting [his/her] pants?
How old was [he/she] when [he/she] started wetting [his/her] pants again?
Since __________ turned four (INTERVIEWER: point out age four on whole life chart), has there ever been a time when [he/she] soiled [himself/herself]? By soiled, I mean has [he/she] had a bowel movement, pooped in [his/her] pants, or on the floor, or somewhere not in a toilet.
In the last year that is, since [[NAME EVENT]/[NAME CURRENT MONTH] of last year] has [he/she] soiled [himself/herself]?
In the last year, did [he/she] only soil [himself/herself] when [he/she] was physically sick and had diarrhea?
In the last year, did [he/she] soil [himself/herself] every month for as long as six months?
Did [he/she] soil [himself/herself] every month for as long as three months?
Now what about the last four weeks? <p> Since [[NAME EVENT]//the beginning of/the middle of/the end of [LAST MONTH]], has [he/she] soiled [himself/herself]?
In the last year, has [he/she] suffered from any medical condition that made [him/her] soil [himself/herself]?
Did a doctor ever say that [he/she] soiled [himself/herself] because of this medical condition?
Thinking about [his/her] whole life, has [he/she] ever gone a whole year without soiling [himself/herself]?
Now you just told me that [he/she] didn't soil [himself/herself] for a whole year, but that in the last year [he/she] soiled [himself/herself] again. <p> How old was [he/she] when [he/she] started soiling [himself/herself] this time?
If [age/grade] given was child's current [age/grade] minus one, continue.<p> All others, go to YDQL30.
Did [he/she] start soiling [himself/herself] more than a year ago that is, before [[NAME EVENT]/[NAME CURRENT MONTH] of last year]?
You said that in the last year ___________ soiled [himself/herself]. <p> Now I'd like you to think back to the time in the last year when soiling [himself/herself] caused the most problems.<p> At that time, did [you (or [his/her] [CARETAKERS])/[his/her] [CARETAKERS]]get annoyed or upset with __________ because [he/she] soiled [himself/herself]?
At that time, did soiling [himself/herself] keep ________ from doing things or going places with [you (or [his/her] family)/[his/her] family]?
At that time, did soiling [himself/herself] keep [him/her] from doing things or going places with other [children/people [his/her] age]?
If child did not attend school or work in last year, go to YDQL35.
When the problems were worst, did soiling [himself/herself] [make it difficult for [him/her] to do [his/her] schoolwork or cause problems with [his/her] grades/make it difficult for [him/her] to do [his/her] work]?
At that time, did soiling [himself/herself] cause __________'s [teachers/boss] to be annoyed or upset with [him/her]?
When the problems were worst, did it seem like soiling [himself/herself] made __________ feel bad or made [him/her] feel upset?
How bad did soiling [himself/herself] seem to make [him/her] feel? Would you say: very bad, bad, or not too bad?
In the last year that is, since [[NAME EVENT]/[NAME CURRENT MONTH] of last year] has [he/she] been to see someone at a hospital or a clinic or at their office because [he/she] soiled [himself/herself]?
Did the doctor or person [he/she] saw say the problem was due to constipation?
Does [he she] have an appointment set up to see someone because [he/she] soils [himself/herself]?
In the last year that is, since [[NAME EVENT]/[NAME CURRENT MONTH] of last year] has [he/she] taken any medicine because [he/she] soiled [himself/herself]?
You said that there was a time before the last year when ________ sometimes soiled [himself/herself]. I want to ask you about that time.<p> Since [he/she] turned four (INTERVIEWER: point out age four on whole life chart), was there ever a time when [he/she] soiled [himself/herself] as often as once a month?
Did [he/she] soil [himself/herself] this often for as long as three months in a row?
Did soiling [himself/herself] seem to cause any serious problems for [him/her] at home, at school, or with [his/her] friends?
Did soiling [himself/herself] seem to make [him/her] feel really unhappy or bother [him/her] a lot?
Did [he/she] ever see a doctor, counselor, or some other person like that because [he/she] soiled [himself/herself]?
How old was [he/she] when [he/she] stopped soiling [himself/herself]?
Before [he/she] was [NAME AGE IN E/NAME GRADE IN E], did [he/she] ever go a whole year without soiling [himself/herself]?
How old was [he/she] when [he/she] started soiling [himself/herself] again?
Repeated voiding of urine into bed or clothes (whether involuntary or intentional).
The behavior is clinically significant as manifested by either a frequency of twice a week for at least 3 consecutive months or the presence of clinically significant distress or impairment in social, academic (occupational), or other important areas of functioning.
Chronological age is at least 5 years (or equivalent developmental level).
The behavior is not due exclusively to the direct physiological effect of a substance (e.g., a diuretic) or a general medical condition (e.g., diabetes, spina bifida, a seizure disorder).
Repeated passage of feces into inappropriate places (e.g., clothing or floor) whether involuntary or intentional.
At least one such event a month for at least 3 months.
The behavior is not due exclusively to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g., laxatives) or a general medical condition except through a mechanism involving constipation. | 2019-04-19T23:00:24 | https://wwwn.cdc.gov/Nchs/Nhanes/limited_access/YDQL.htm |
0.999924 | The best new tracks added to Double J this week.
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It's just so great to have Kathleen Hanna back. The Julie Ruin's new album, Hit Reset, will be out early in July. Let's hope it's all as wonderfully noisy as this first single.
'Hi & Low' is the latest cut of melancholic, left-of-centre pop from Danish favourites WhoMadeWho. It is the first taste of their latest album Body Language Vol. 17, which follows on from 2014's hugely successful Dreams.
If this big, sweeping pop gem from New York's Lucius isn't enough inspiration for you to check out their latest LP Good Grief, then we don't know what will be.
World class psych-funk grooves from Brisbane City. The Francis Wolves have certainly got skills, but, more importantly, they play with feeling.
Paul Kelly could sing anything and we'd probably lap it up. So it's no surprise that Paul Kelly singing the words of one of history's greatest ever writers is beyond amazing.
Here's some advice. When The Kill Devil Hills release a new single, listen to it as soon as you can. They're one of the most consistently interesting and affecting rock bands in the country. 'Hydra' is no exception.
Anyone who has seen Nahko & Medicine For The People on one of their recent Australian tours will attest to the incredible energy they bring to their live performance. 'San Quentin' is proof they can back that up on record. It's an intense but surprisingly uplifting song about lead singer Nahko going to San Quentin Prison to visit the man who murdered his father.
There's every chance you're gonna fall in love with Andy Shauf as soon as you hear 'The Magician'. It's one of those songs that immediately grabs you, thanks to his super sweet voice and the luscious piano and strings that drive the song. Classic singer-songwriter pop with substance. Keep your eye out for him.
Just the latest in a long list of examples that Australian artists are making some of the best neo-soul and alternative R&B in the world right now. You might have seen producer Silentjay and vocalist Jace XL with the mighty Hiatus Kaiyote in recent times, but they're making equally awesome music in their own right. Check them out.
A beginner’s guide to Dinosaur Jr. | 2019-04-19T07:01:05 | https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/music-reads/features/best-new-music---the-julie-ruin-paul-kelly-whomadewho-and-more--/10270088 |
0.999999 | During a recent presentation, a business owner was given the following challenge. If 10 of his 100 employees were asked to name the top 3 organizational goals for the current year as they perceived them to be, would he receive the same 3 goals from everyone or would he receive 5, 10 or even 25 different goals? The business owner shook his head and thoughtfully responded, "No, I am sure that I would receive more than 3 goals." He was then asked to consider what these misdirected actions from his employees were costing him in terms of missed opportunities.
At another presentation, a business owner was asked if she set goals? She responded quite enthusiastically, "Of course, I set goals." She was asked a follow-up question: "Can you state with 100% conviction that your employees know how to consistently achieve both their personal and professional goals?" After a few moments, she replied "No." She was then asked how this lack of knowledge potentially affected her bottom line?
A president of a company was asked: "Have you ever seen behavior inconsistent with your strategic plan?" He quickly answered "Yes!" A second question was asked, "What did you do about it?" "Well, we sent them to training and within 6 months we had to send them back again?" A final question was then posed to the President. "Are these performance failures a result of a lack of knowledge or skills or due to poor attitudes and habits?" The president immediately said "Why bad attitudes and poor habits." Again, the facilitator asked another question: "What are all these re-do's costing your company?"
During the annual meeting, the CEO of a manufacturing company informed her executive team that she wanted to achieve a 10% growth during the next 12 months. The VP of Operations made plans to purchase new manufacturing equipment for some new products while the VP of Marketing & Sales began to implement a plan selling existing products. The CFO decided to cut budgets to capital improvements and marketing. All three executive team members believed that their actions would help achieve the 10% growth.
These scenarios shared four critical success factors (CSF's) that impede all organizations from achieving consistent results: communication, goal setting and goal achievement skills, attitudes and alignment.
Critical Factor #1: Communication is the key to unlocking the potential within businesses as well as individuals. When the goals are in alignment with the vision and consistently communicated from top down, then performance excellence is much more likely to happen. Inconsistent communication contributes to missed targets and lowers the performance for the entire organization.
Critical Factor #2: Goal setting and goal achievement are learned skills. Unfortunately, many presume that these skills are acquired during the K-12 educational experiences through the "Osmosis Process." Also, these skills are not actively taught in the corporate setting. Yet, consistent goal achievement or the results are what every organization seeks.
Critical Factor #3: Attitudes drive behaviors that result in change. Many companies focus on trying to change negative behaviors because they are experiencing negative change. However, when the negative attitudes are replaced with positive attitudes, those attitudes will drive positive behaviors creating positive change. By failing to address negative attitudes, new trends, changes or initiatives, the result is wasted resources creating a negative drain on the "KASH Box."
Critical Factor #4: Alignment is necessary to ensure that the desired results are achieved. Performance excellence happens when the strategies, systems and people are working together to build loyal internal customers that drive loyal external customers. The much heard adage about "Getting everyone to row in the same direction" is true, but probably should be amended to include the following "by using the same paddles."
1. Do I know with 100% accuracy that every employee can clearly articulate the top 3 goals for the organizations?
2. Does every person within the organization consistently sets and achieves all of his or her personal and professional goals?
3. Does everyone within the organization at ALL times consistently demonstrate positive attitudes?
4. Are the strategies, systems and people in alignment to build loyal internal customers? | 2019-04-20T02:25:14 | http://smallbizguide.net/60464.php |
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0.999385 | Emmanuel Macron's Visit to Mauritania: Fighting Terrorism But At What Price?
On July 2 and 3, Emmanuel Macron will travel to Mauritania for the African Union summit, followed by an official visit. This is the first time since 1997 that a French president will visit this country in the Sahel. With the Mauritanian presidential election just a year away, there is little doubt that the ruling party will capitalize politically on this visit. So why not take advantage of this trip to demonstrate, in a concrete way, France's commitment to freedom of expression and rejection of the death penalty?
French President Emmanuel Macron talks with Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz during a G5 Sahel summit, in Bamako, Mali, July 2, 2017.
Discussions between the French president and his Mauritanian counterpart, General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, will probably mostly focus on the fight against terrorism in the Sahel, a top priority for Macron. In the past, the Mauritanian president has praised Macron's "pragmatism," but it is essential that Macron does not forget the principles and values, including those relating to human rights, that he claims underpin French diplomacy. During his first official visit to West Africa in November 2017, Macron had wanted to lay the foundations of a new dialogue with his African counterparts and proposed "inventing a friendship to act," reminding them that "the bond of friendship means telling each other everything from the start."
Under Abdel Aziz, Mauritania has set itself up as the guarantor of the fight against the growing terrorist threat in the Sahel region, while adopting restrictive laws with excessively vague definitions of terrorist offenses, allowing the authorities to muzzle opponents and activists whose rhetoric is not to the government's liking. The anti-terrorist law adopted in 2010 led to Abdallahi Salem Ould Yali, an activist from the Haratine community — Arab-speaking, dark-skinned Mauritanians who are descendants of enslaved people — being charged with incitement to ethnic or racial fanaticism — a form of behavior that constitutes a "terrorist offense." His "crime" was to have sent audio-messages in a WhatsApp group denouncing discrimination against his ethnic group and calling on its members to stand up for their rights. Yali has been in detention since January 24.
The same charge has been leveled at Oumar Ould Beibacar, a retired colonel of the National Guard, who had the courage to denounce the summary execution of his fellow officers in 1992 in a purge of black army officers and to demand that the Mauritanian government account for these crimes that the authorities would rather ignore. Following his statements in 2015, the authorities placed Beibacar under judicial control and confiscated his passport. Three years on, the justice system has refused to take a decision on his case or to close it.
In a recent interview with Jeune Afrique, President Aziz stated that "all freedoms are guaranteed in Mauritania. We don't have a single political prisoner." Apart from Abdellahi Yali, two anti-slavery activists are currently serving a two year prison sentence in Bir Moghrein prison, on the edge of the desert, following an unfair trial.
The most revealing case remains that of Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir, a Mauritanian blogger arrested in January 2014 and sentenced to death for apostasy after publishing an online article questioning the use of religion by some of his compatriots to legitimize caste discrimination. The irony is striking: Here is a State that claims to stand as a fortress against religious extremism and its diktats, but whose courts impose the death penalty for a speech offense deemed offensive to the state religion.
Last November, the Nouadhibou Court of Appeals commuted Mkhaitir's sentence to two years in prison, making him eligible for immediate release. However, he remains detained in an unknown location, without any valid legal ground. Only external pressure seems likely to alter the course of events for this young man. The French president should therefore appeal to the Mauritanian president to release Mkhaitir as soon as possible, in compliance with Mauritanian and international law.
Macron should also question his counterpart on the hardening of laws on freedom of expression and association in Mauritania. In April, the National Assembly passed a law that makes the death penalty mandatory for any Muslim found guilty of apostasy or blasphemy, with no possibility of filing a plea for clemency if the defendant repents. This law violates numerous international law guarantees protecting freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial, and the right to life. Experts from the United Nations and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights have urged parliamentarians to reconsider the law, which President Abdel Aziz has justified as a demand from "the street".
The difficulties raised by cooperating with repressive governments in the fight against terrorism are not new. But how can it be productive in the long term if the partner State uses its anti-terrorism tools to repress peaceful demonstrations and punish apostasy and blasphemy with the death penalty? Macron should not miss the opportunity of his meeting with his Mauritanian counterpart to state clearly that in order to be effective, the fight against terrorism cannot involve suppressing fundamental rights and silencing all critical voices. | 2019-04-19T09:15:15 | https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/06/28/emmanuel-macrons-visit-mauritania-fighting-terrorism-what-price |
0.998919 | My wife, Louise, has drawn me into her explorations of polyhedra and polytopes over the years. This piece more or less forced itself on me because of a misstep in putting together a model of a classic Petrie-Coxeter skew-regular infinite polyhedron. It was striking in that it appeared to be a portion of a semi-regular (rather than regular) space-filling polyhedron, but with dodecahedral symmetry, which is not possible. Another striking aspect was that the surface appeared to separate space into a union of soccer balls on one side and a union of truncated tetrahedra on the other side. So, what was it? The one section of the polyhedron had its own compelling beauty and seemed worthy of a careful rendering for a math-art display.
A portion of a polyhedron with 4 hexagons at each vertex that appears to extend naturally into 3-space, but with dodecahedral symmetry. The gaps shown in pink along the outer boundary of the model betray the fact that the surface cannot be accommodated in 3-space without distortion.
The polyhedron exists inside a polytope in Euclidean 4-space as a finite surface bounded by 120 truncated icosahedra on one side and 600 truncated tetrahedra on the other side. The surface has 2400 hexagonal faces, 7200 edges and 3600 vertices. If one fills in the triangular and pentagonal holes, then one obtains the semi-regular "bi-truncated 120-cell". This object consists of 720 3-cells, 4320 faces, 7200 edges and 3600 vertices. | 2019-04-22T02:41:45 | http://gallery.bridgesmathart.org/exhibitions/2017-bridges-conference/franklin-r-gould |
0.999995 | Was Louisiana once part of Florida?
Charles Ruse, a reader from central Florida asks: Was part of Louisiana once West Florida?
At first blush, the answer to this question seems simple: The Louisiana Purchase did not include any part of Florida, so that's impossible.
Expecting a war to break out between Great Britain and France just after the turn of the 19th century, President Thomas Jefferson directed delegates to head to Paris in the spring of 1803 to negotiate the purchase of the vast Louisiana Territory. All it took was a cool $15 million, a price commonly referred to as one of the best deals in American history.
The land in the Louisiana Purchase was so large, in fact, that no one was exactly sure where its boundaries were at the time. The best map delegates could go on was likely one Aaron Arrowsmith made in 1802, which left much of the western half of the current United States mostly blank. Still, a few things were certain: The southern border was definitely the Gulf of Mexico, and its eastern edge was the Mississippi River and wherever that might start. Oh, and West Florida was definitely not part of the deal, despite Jefferson's hopes then that the United States could acquire it.
Two-hundred years ago, West Florida encompassed present-day East Baton Rouge, East and West Feliciana, Livingston, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa and Washington parishes, as well as parts of present-day Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, all the way to the Apalachicola River a little west of Tallahassee.
Today, the area in Louisiana previously part of West Florida is still sometimes referred to as the Florida Parishes.
What all of it meant was, by the time everybody in Paris was deciding how to sell off a massive tract of land in the middle of North America with boundaries nobody could really pinpoint, the people actually living in West Florida could be divided into three groups, according to KnowLA. They included those who were loyal to Spain and its fairly lax approach to managing the area, those who wanted to join up with the United States and others who hoped for (though likely had realistically low expectations for) an independent republic.
In the years immediately following the Louisiana Purchase, things got a little dicey in West Florida thanks to a failed rebellion and growing sentiment for throwing off Spanish rule, likely thanks in large part to urging from American interests.
In the end, another rebellion, this one in 1810, resulted in the Republic of West Florida, which lasted for 74 days before a military force sent in by President James Madison succeeded in annexing the territory between the Mississippi River and the Perdido River, near Pensacola. That land was then divided between Louisiana and the Mississippi Territory, later to be divided further when part of it became Alabama.
Less than a decade later, in 1819, the Adams-Onis Treaty was signed, giving the United States the rest of Florida. | 2019-04-18T22:48:56 | https://www.nola.com/opinions/2018/09/was_louisiana_once_part_of_flo.html |
0.998925 | I have a weather station with a wireless temperature/humidity sensor. Instead of looking at the LCD on the wall, I'd like to have that data on my phone. A graph of historical data would be nice as well.
What am I starting with?
This is a Sharp SPC775, and the FCC has pictures of it.
From the FCC test report, we get operation frequency of "917.19MHz" and modulation of "GFSK". On the last page of that report, you can see the spectrum analyzer output showing two peaks roughly 25kHz apart. These would be the two frequencies to look for.
What does the transmission look like?
I turned to a sdr to start looking at this data. The LED on the probe blinks when it is transmitting, which is useful to confirm which signal is the right one. I found my probe's transmissions centered at 917.187MHz +/- 35kHz, which is a 3kHz/3ppm error. That's a much lower error than I would expect. I used FM decoding mode in my SDR software to hear the two different tones.
You can see the transmission in the SDR waterfall (bottom half), it's the two bright horizontal yellow lines that fade into purple. The left and right lines represent the two different frequencies this is transmitting on. It's a very short transmission at 0.15 seconds. It repeats every 57 seconds.
What does the transmission sound like?
To look closer at the transmission, I took an audio recording of it from my SDR and imported it into Audacity.
The FM decoding results in this audio recording going low when the frequency is low, and the recording goes high when the frequency goes high. You can see the major features of this transmission - the slow changing parts at the start for synchronization, the faster moving data sections, everything is repeated three times, and it ends by going low. You can hear it below. The audio compression prevents this from being a useful way to see the data sections, but it's good enough for a general idea. | 2019-04-19T03:20:37 | http://blog.dan.drown.org/sharp-wireless-weather-station/ |
0.999796 | The founder of eBay has called for leniency towards 14 members of Anonymous accused of a carrying out a cyberattack on PayPal.
The group, which has become known as the 'PayPal 14' were arrested in 2011 and charged with taking part in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against PayPal on 8 December 2010.
They are due to appear before a Federal Court in the US this week, all facing two federal felony charges, which carry a combined maximum sentence of 15 years in jail and a $500,000 (£306,000, €369,000) fine.
It is unknown how many members of Anonymous took part in the attack, but only 14 people were ever arrested. It was reported that the vast majority of traffic was directed by two large botnets, controlled by hackers, who directed all infected computers towards the PayPal site.
The Anonymous-organised attack was a response to PayPal's decision to suspend Wikileak's account with the online billing service.
PayPal's website was down for an hour on 8 December and another brief period on 9 December. The company estimates the damage caused by the attack was $5.5 million and it provided the FBI with 1,000 IP addresses of its attackers.
Pierre Omidyar is the founder and chairman eBay, PayPal's parent company, and in an article for the Huffington Post has caleld on prosecutors to show leniency towards the PayPal 14.
Omidyar says that as someone "deeply committed to government transparency, press freedoms and free expression, these issues hit close to home."
Omidyar has been in the news recently for his new online publication called NewCo which will feature Glenn Greenwald as its star journalist and will have "the First Amendment at its core."
The eBay founder said that prior to the cyberattack on 8 December, 2010 he expressed concerns to company management about the decision to suspend Wikileak's account.
The attack on PayPal not only effected the company but also the people who rely on it to do business: "An attack on PayPal's servers hurts these vulnerable people far more than it hurts a multinational company."
"I can understand that the protesters were upset by PayPal's actions and felt that they were simply participating in an online demonstration of their frustration. That is their right, and I support freedom of expression, even when it's my own company that is the target."
The sentence handed down to the PayPal 14 will be based on the amount of damages prosecutors say was caused by the attack on PayPal's servers. However the 14 defendants are likely to be charged with the total amount of damage caused by all those taking part in the attack - which could have numbers in the thousands.
Prosecutors are also planning to tell the court that the damages figure should include the cost of upgrading PayPal's systems to protect them from such attacks in the future.
Omidyar believes this is unfair and that each individual should only be charged for the damage they caused and for "the pay and overtime pay required for employees to respond to the attack."
"Prosecutors should also look at the circumstances of each defendant, and examine whether or not they were aware of the excessive impact their actions might have. They may have believed they were participating in a legitimate online protest and not aware of the multiplicative effect of the tools they were installing."
The eBay founder believes the charges the PayPal 14 are facing are too serious for the crime committed: "In those cases, I believe justice requires leniency. In my view, they should be facing misdemeanor charges and the possibility of a fine, rather than felony charges and jail time." | 2019-04-26T07:46:46 | https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ebay-founder-pierre-omidyar-calls-leniency-paypal14-527504 |
0.999987 | By now we have all flipped the calendar to 2019, worked through most of those lingering e-mails from the end of December and might have peaked at our year-end investment balances following the holiday rollercoaster stock market ride. With the arrival of January, it’s time to use the extra daylight we are getting to focus on 2019 priorities such as ensuring that our employees are connected, engaged and committed to being part of the team for the coming year and beyond.
Many in supervisory roles have experienced those awkward moments when approached by an employee who says, “can I speak with you privately” and then announce that they intend to move on to another company for a variety of reasons. While these conversations are inevitable and ultimately unavoidable due to some factors that are out of our hands, there are several ways employers can help improve retention and avoid trying to find a replacement for a valued longer-term employee in the three-week period before their departure.
Scenario one: New employee Ron enters on his first day, waits at the reception desk for 20 minutes until a member of the HR team greets him and brings him to a generic conference room to fill out a stack of paperwork. After completing it, Ron is informed that they are still working on creating his e-mail address and configuring his computer, so they provide him with some reading materials such as the employee manual while he waits to meet with his supervisor, who is running late and apologizes through a message from the HR rep.
Scenario two: New employee Meghan arrives on her first day and is immediately greeted by her supervisor who shows her to her office space that is properly set up technologically and features a company-branded coffee mug and some fresh flowers with a hand written welcome note. She is asked to drop off her belongings, gets a tour of the office space and is introduced to individuals in her department that greet her warmly. After meeting with her supervisor – who invites her out to lunch – she meets with a member of the HR team in a tastefully branded conference room with posters that describe the organization’s mission and priorities to put customers first.
It’s pretty clear that Meghan probably had a better first day. But the commitment to corporate culture and employee engagement goes well beyond those first impressions. Employees want to know more about the organization than the policies in the handbook. They want to know what the organizational goals and challenges are and how they fit into moving the organization forward. While they may be subject to hitting certain performance metrics, they want to feel valued, respected and appreciated and see opportunities to contribute and grow professionally. And yes, they like to be rewarded for a job well done.
Building and maintaining a positive corporate culture requires a commitment from the CEO that is shared through the management team. It needs to be built into all aspects of operations and not given lip service. Employees in an organization are by far the most valuable resource, and investing in corporate culture and doing good while doing well will enhance your retention and your reputation.
While Meghan’s new organization might appear to have a fantastic corporate culture as compared to Ron’s, is it ingrained or did Ron’s onboarding just go wrong? Hiring and retaining top-notch employees starts at day one and is a journey for the employer and employee. With New Hampshire’s 2.5% unemployment rate, it is essential that we start the year with a renewed emphasis on employee retention to meet those 2019 goals and continually nurture a working environment that becomes the Glassdoor envy of others.
Kelley Small is a principal at Standish Executive Search, a New England-based firm that works with business owners and leaders seeking accelerated growth, change or succession. Standish employs its unique Standish Model© to identify, attract and retain the right leaders. Learn more by contacting Kelley Small at [email protected], or 774.261.0143. | 2019-04-18T22:49:30 | https://www.standishsearch.com/2019/01/21/creating-a-workforce-culture-that-retains-your-best-and-brightest/ |
0.999937 | Patients seek integrative medicine for preventive approach to optimize health.
CONTEXT: Despite the tremendous growth of integrative medicine (IM) in clinical settings, IM has not been well characterized in the medical literature. OBJECTIVE: To describe characteristics and motivation of patients seeking care at an IM clinic. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Patients from a nine-site practice-based research network participated in this cross-sectional survey. Clinicians documented patients' medical conditions. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Patients provided information on demographics, lifestyle factors, and reasons for seeking care at an IM center. Clinicians documented the medical condition treated and procedures performed at the visit. RESULTS: A total of 4,182 patients (84.5% white; 72.7% college-educated; and 73.4% female) reported their most important reasons for seeking IM. Top-ranked reasons were (1) "to improve health and wellness now to prevent future problems" (83.9%); (2) "to try new options for health care" (76.7%); and (3) "to maximize my health regardless of whether or not my illness is curable" (74.6%). Interestingly, the same top reasons were reported by subgroups of patients who sought IM for wellness, acute care, or chronic illness. Patient reports of lifestyle also demonstrated healthier behaviors than national samples indicate. Patients seeking clinical care at IM centers desire an expanded paradigm of health care, one that seeks to maximize health. | 2019-04-19T20:35:21 | https://scholars.duke.edu/display/pub768814 |
0.999638 | Vitamins are organic compounds, essential for health, normal growth and reproduction. The human body either synthesizes them in a very small amount, or it can not generate them at all. Therefore, they must be eaten through food.
There are totals of 13 and we can distribute them to water-soluble vitamins (vitamin B complex and vitamin C) that are easily absorbed and the excess is extracted through urine and vitamins soluble in fats (A, D, E, K).
This group of vitamins, unlike water-resistant, can be kept in the body for days, and some of them for months. In this article, you will find the best vitamin supplements for weight loss and how to use them.
Vitamins antioxidants are A, C, D, E, K. They neutralize free radicals and have huge importance for health and immunity.
Prevention of hypertension, and others.
Causes of vitamin deficiency can be inadequate nutrition or increased needs. In a group whose body requires a higher amount of vitamin belongs chronically ill, pregnant women, nursing mothers, alcohol and tobacco consumers, as well as athletes.
A bad, unhealthy diet, stress exposure, a decline in immunity, chronic fatigue and a high level of sports activity are just some reasons why people are taking vitamin-based supplements.
Frequent headaches, chronic fatigue, drop in energy, etc.
Vitamin C is the most famous vitamin with many functions. Successfully used in the prevention of various diseases and plays an important role in normal growth. It is necessary for the preservation of healthy gums, bones and in strengthening the immune system.
It promotes the absorption of iron and the production of blood cells, reduces cholesterol and provides protection against the effects of carcinogens. Athletes and smokers have an increased need for vitamin C because their immune system is more overweight.
Vitamin C is one of the most important antioxidants, which reduce the amount of harmful metabolic products in the body, contributing to a better general state of the body.
Ingredients: L-ascorbic acid; whey proteins (from milk); antioxidant: dicalcium phosphate; stearic acid, magnesium stearate; pharmaceutical glaze.
How to use it: Take one dose (1 tablet) daily, after breakfast, with a glass of water.
It is not recommended for persons sensitive to any of the ingredients and persons under the age of 18. Also, very important, recommended daily doses should not be exceeded.
for normal growth and development, nervous system, healthy liver, weight loss, energy metabolism and others.
Vitamin B-12 is a hydro-soluble vitamin that is effective in very small, micrograms doses. It is a red crystalline compound containing phosphorus and cobalt. It is found exclusively in food of animal origin (liver, kidney, meat, milk, eggs, cheeses, fish, shells), but is largely destroyed during food preparation.
It participates in the metabolism of fat and carbohydrates and in the synthesis of proteins.
Vitamin B-12 stimulates liver regeneration, ejecting excess calories through stool, plays a role in the prevention of sterility, and with C vitamin has an anticancer function.
It is an integral part of therapy in many psychiatric disorders. B-12 is poorly absorbed through the stomach, and is associated with proteins of salivary and gastric juice – this vitamin should be taken in the form of lozenges or sublingual tablets (placed under the tongue).
The absorption of vitamin B-12 helps calcium, vitamin B complexes and vitamins A, C, E, and reduce tobacco, coffee, alcohol, laxatives, and problems in the functioning of the thyroid gland.
Recommended use: Adults 1 tablet a day. You should melt under the tongue, do not swallow.
The primary role of vitamin D is the maintenance of homeostasis and the constant concentration of calcium and phosphorus in plasma.
It resembles their absorption from the digestive tract. It contributes to stronger bones and healthier teeth and is very effective in developing children.
It is a vitamin that is not in sufficient quantity in any food of our daily diet. It is found in the skin in the form of provitamin, which under the action of ultraviolet rays is transformed into vitamin D. It deposits in the liver from where it is used by the body as needed.
The lack of vitamin D leads to a lack of calcium and phosphorus or general demineralization of the bones, bone pain, spontaneous fractures, and muscle weakness. This can lead to rachitis – a metabolic bone disease. The bones become soft and tend to deform, while the teeth become defective.
Recommended use: 1 soft gel capsule daily with a meal.
Vitamin B is a water-soluble vitamin that plays an important role in cell metabolism. Group B vitamins have similar names that differ in their chemical composition and are often found in the same food. Supplements containing all eight vitamins B are called vitamin B complex.
B12 – cyanocobalamin, choline, inositol.
Vitamins B has many benefits. First of all, they affect cardiovascular health and weight loss. Research has shown that the optimal amount of vitamins, especially folic acid and vitamin B12, significantly contributes to a decrease in the likelihood of heart and stroke.
Then, vitamins B are excellent anti-depressants (stress is one of the main culprits for weight gain) and affect the good mood, especially B12, B3 and B1. Neurotransmitters are those that give a sense of satisfaction, and they come from proteins (specifically, amino acids that are their integral part), and B6 is extremely important for the very synthesis of amino acids.
B-50 also helps to eliminate fatigue and increase energy. Vitamin B1 is crucial in the process of converting carbohydrates into glucose from which our body draws the needed energy.
On the other hand, vitamin B2 is excellent in the production of energy from fats. With the lack of this vitamin, our body can not efficiently utilize energy from the fat cells.
Dosage and administration: 1 capsule daily after meals.
Vitamin C is the most commonly used vitamin supplement for nutrition. It is a hydro-soluble vitamin, which means it is easily soluble in water. In nature, it is mostly found in green leaves and dog rose, and then only in citrus fruits and other fruits and vegetables, and a man brings it into the body through diet or in the form of nutritional supplements.
The most famous effect of C vitamin is the participation in the formation of collagen, an important protein involved in skin buildup; and necessary for the development and restoration of tissue, tendons, ligaments, gums, teeth, scabies, bones and blood vessels.
Vitamin C belongs to antioxidants, so it serves to detoxify the body and neutralize harmful free radicals. Vitamin C, E, beta-carotene, bioflavonoids and other antioxidants prevent the damage of cells that occur under the action of free radicals and prevent the development of the disease and the aging process.
1000 mg Time Release is a supplement that will help you to enjoy all the benefits of vitamin C, contained in this new formula. Vitamin C has been one of the most important vitamins in human nutrition since ancient times.
Unlike animals, a human body can not synthesize vitamin C itself, and it has to bring it through food or supplements.
If there is not enough of this vitamin, there are many adverse health conditions – from the collapse of immunity to the creation of a higher amount of free radicals that can eventually lead to tumor and malignancy.
For these reasons, I can conclude that supplements with vitamin C are necessary and contribute to better health and vitality of the body.
1000 mg Time Release is a unique formula that contains a protected mixture, vitamin C, which includes esterified vitamin C, B vitamins, zinc, biotin, thiamine, riboflavin, and folic acid.
It provides exceptional assistance to your body, especially during the winter period, when it naturally weakens the immune system. A more recent form of vitamin C, which is esterified, works gradually over a long period to maintain its level in the body, which is most important for the manifestation of the benefits of vitamin C.
Most of the vitamin C supplements on the market contain standard L-ascorbic acid that is very short in the body and often requires small doses, which is not the case with 1000mg Time Release where one tablet is needed daily because it works all day.
The special positive side of the 1000 mg Time Release is that it can be used by everyone, even those with a very sensitive stomach, because the pH is neutral (neither acid nor basal), as opposed to most vitamin C in the market pH = 2.4 (acidic environment), so it does not cause gastric problems and heartburn.
Recommended use: Take one dose (1 tablet) daily, preferably with a meal.
Vitamin A – Soluble in fat. Its disadvantage may be reflected in eye problems (night blindness and dry cornea). A food rich in A vitamin is spinach, carrots, liver, butter, sweet potatoes, zucchini, eggs, apricots, and others.
Vitamin B – Soluble in water. The lack of this vitamin can be caused by beriberi and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. It is found in pork, eggs, carfiol, potatoes, oranges, brown rice, whole grains of cereals, etc.
Vitamin B2 – Soluble in water. A disadvantage in the body can cause ariboflavinosis (hypersensitive eyes). The source could be asparagus, beans, bananas, fish, dairy products.
Vitamin B3 – Soluble in water. His lack can cause diarrhea, dermatitis, and even some forms of mental disorder. It is found in avocados, intestines (liver, heart, kidneys), chicken, beef, fish, nuts, mushrooms.
Vitamin B5 – Soluble in water. The lack of this vitamin causes parenthesis (burning, tingling of body parts). It is found in meat, whole grains of cereals, avocados, broccoli, and others.
Vitamin B6 – Soluble in water. Its deficiency can cause anemia or damage to parts of the nervous system. The sources are meat, nuts, bananas, vegetables, whole grains of cereals and milk. With milk, we have to be careful. Milk powder contains twice the amount of this vitamin, and its freezing and preservation also affect the decrease in concentration B6.
Vitamin B7 – Soluble in water. The lack is caused by dermatitis or enteritis. The sources of this vitamin are yolk, liver, vegetables and others.
Vitamin B9 – Folic Acid. Soluble in water. It is recommended that women take this vitamin one year before pregnancy. In nature, it can be found in the seed of sunflower, beer, pulses, bakery yeast, and others.
Vitamin B12 – Soluble in water. The lack can cause megaloblastic anemia. Sources are soy, chicken, fish, shellfish, eggs, dairy products, etc.
Vitamin C – Soluble in water. Its lack in the body can cause anemia and significantly affect the immune system and general state of the body. It is found in fruits and vegetables, especially in the south. High temperatures destroy this vitamin.
Vitamin E – Soluble in fat. The consequences of the lack of this vitamin are rare, but dangerous, especially for children. Sources are kiwi, almonds, avocados, nuts, milk, cold-seeded vegetable oils and others.
Vitamin D – Soluble in fat. The biggest influence is on the bone system. Lack of this vitamin can affect the weakening and softening of the bones. It can be found in oily species of fish, eggs, mushrooms, and others. The sun’s light stimulates its creation in the skin. It is therefore important to spend as much time outdoors.
Vitamin K – Soluble in fat. Its lack negatively affects the vascular system, and unusual susceptibility to bleeding may develop. Natural sources are leaves of green vegetables, kiwi, avocado and parsley.
I have read online several times on the vitamins supplements for weight loss but I think your article is well explanatory and precise in points.
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That’s right, vitamin C is one of the most popular vitamins that can help in both losing weight and improving overall health. We intake very small doses of vitamin C through some food or drinks but when we consume supplements than our need for this vitamin is complete. It is a great antioxidant which is great for burning excess kilograms, improving immunity, cellulite and more.
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Are they very expensive? because this is what I have been looking for because I want to lose my belly fat. Not that I have a huge stomach but I just need my stomach to be flatter than it is.
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Assesses the educational needs of patients.
Contacts the previous educational setting (providing an adequate release is available) and/or reviews all available written records.
Assesses supervises or approves the educational needs of the patient before the Diagnostic Conference date.
Prepares assessment in adherence to established departmental format.
Prepares daily lesson plans consistent with evaluations and /or IEP�s and overall hospital treatment plan.
Generates lesson plans no later than the second day of educational programming.
Writes lesson plans to reflect all major areas of instruction appropriate to the academic level of each patient.
Provides lesson plans in sufficient details to allow a substitute to implement these plans.
Makes lesson plan available in a conspicuous place on the teacher�s desk.
Reviews and updates lesson plans weekly.
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Provides each child with academic assignments and required materials at the beginning of the school day.
Clearly defines classroom rules and schedules through verbal or written instruction.
Provides each child with individualized instructional help as indicated.
Is dependable punctual and professional.
Reports to work on time prepared for daily work assignments.
Plans in advance for special days off; does not abuse time.
Gives adequate notice for all scheduled leave time.
Gives adequate notice to supervisory personnel when calling in sick or late according to hospital and departmental policy and procedures.
Conducts themselves in dress and behavior in a professional manner.
As required is responsible for IEP preparation and presentation.
Is responsible for completing an IEP prior to the date of the IEP conference. The IEP form will be completed according to approved departmental format and will be of high professional quality. Any exceptions must be approved by Senior Teacher.
Reports on child�s academic progress through written or verbal communication.
Is able to state the child�s grade level and or functional level in all academic subjects.
Is able to state the child�s progress in behavioral terms.
Identifies those factors which impede academic progress.
States specific strategies employed to promote progress.
Is responsible for assisting in the discharge process for all assigned patients.
Ensures that child�s local school system has been informed regarding date of discharge and academic recommendations.
Submits a discharge summary according to departmental format.
Demonstrates the ability to function as an effective member of the interdisciplinary team.
Maintains a positive working relationship with team members.
Consults with other clinical staff regarding patients.
Uses expertise of team members in planning and implementing educational and behavioral programs when appropriate.
Assists other team members in interpreting evaluation of findings.
Is an active member of the Special Clinical Services Department.
Participates actively in departmental staff meetings.
Attends at least 80% of department meetings.
Accepts and performs delegated responsibilities on departmental committees.
Suggests improvements in department functions as it relates to the educational services hospital-wide.
Shares expertise and provides support to other educational staff members.
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Bachelor�s degree in special education; certification from the Rhode Island Department of Education (to include levels of handicapped certification appropriate to the hospital�s population).
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Goals are a method of deciding where you want to put your energies and resources. Setting goals focuses yourself. Think of a goal as a destination. Once you've determined the destination you'll need a road map and directions. Objectives are the road map. When you've achieved an objective you've reached a milestone on the way to your destination. And those directions? Those are the strategies you'll need to achieve the objectives. Strategies are the actions and resources are how you get to each objective.
An easy way to set goals is to think about where you want to be, or where you want your company to be in one year. Write a paragraph of that description. If you prefer you can also use bullet points.
Here's an example that's not business related. At the end of 2008 you want to be thinner and healthier. The objectives then would be to lower your cholesterol by 10 points, stop smoking, and lose 25 pounds. The strategies to achieve the objective of losing 25 pounds might be to lose 5 pounds per month by cutting out all sweets from your diet and implementing a plan of walking for 30 minutes each day.
And here's another example that is business related. The goal: At the end of 2008 your company will have doubled its revenue. The objectives could be to introduce 2 new products. The strategies would be to research the market place, decide on the products, have the products developed and so forth. Each strategy is assigned a target and if necessary broken into smaller tasks.
Goals can help you get where you want to be in your life and in your business. | 2019-04-24T06:00:17 | http://businessplan-basics.com/create-a-business-plan.html |
0.999971 | South Australian keeper to make..
Alex Carey will make his one-day international debut for Australia on Friday after Tim Paine succumbed to illness.
The Adelaide Strikers star, 26, was drafted into the squad on Thursday as cover for the unwell Paine, who had been struggling with a gastro bug.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Carey will wear the gloves for the second ODI against England at the Gabba, Cricket Australia confirmed prior to the toss.
Carey hit a match-winning century for the Strikers against Hobart Hurricanes in the Big Bash League on Wednesday.
Jhye Richardson is also in line to make his ODI bow, with paceman Josh Hazlewood battling illness, while Ashes hero Pat Cummins is set to be rested.
Australia are looking to level the five-match ODI series after losing the opener by five wickets in Melbourne. | 2019-04-20T08:34:46 | https://www.3aw.com.au/south-australian-keeper-to-make-debut-in-second-odi/ |
0.998288 | [[html]]<img src="http://petersheatingandair.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/MHSCWebImages30_P_full.jpg" width="396" /><br><br>Timber-burning stoves are increasingly popular these days. Suitable for both traditional country cottages to ultra modern urban kitchens they're the latest €must have' green object.
<br><br>Marc Barlow, Managing Director of Bonfire explains the need for lumber-burning stoves and cookers indicates a continuous increase, especially in the last 12-18 months.
<br><br>He continued to spell out a lumber-burning stove is appealing to an entire crosssection of individuals from the ones that have an interest in the environment to those who merely find an economic heating and cooking option because of their house.
<br><br>€We are also experiencing a continual upsurge in the amount of domestic building specialists who take time out to visit our showroom and check with us. These are designers right through to interior designers and contractors. They realize that a second heat supplier is preferred by planners€.
<br><br>Plus it doesn't end there. Based on many local property agencies, people love timber-burning stoves since they create a residence so cosy and customers are aware how cost effective they are aside from being green.
<br><br>While many woodburners have been in a conventional model such as these made by Josef Davidsson of Sweden and available solely from Bonfire Silchester, near Reading you'll find modern contemporary models available and also the new Viking v 75 is proving to become popular, also constructed by Josef Davidssonis.
<br><br>Viking 75, while the name suggests, is actually a 75 cm wide wood burning range. It's a product that delivers an additional roomy range with soapstone top and big fireplace for quick and enjoyable cooking. The productive and environmentally sound technology indicates the utmost vitality of the lumber may be removed to supply uniform heat. The maintenance is really as straightforward as it is great. The complete hob features as being a hotplate. The free hot plate may be removed to make space for a wok. To get a newer appearance, a glass ceramic hob can be acquired as an option. The product range can be attached to the flue at the rear, top or in the side.
<br><br>Though open fires are preferred they are far from energy efficient. Open fires draw hot air out from the area which is replaced by cold air from outside.
<br><br>Today's wood-burning oven however, in general, operates at over 80% efficiency. Placing records in a rather than a fireplace produces 3 or 4 times the total amount of warmth.
<br><br>Moreover, you could be ready to make use of the top of the range to boil a kettle or make toast, and some models even have integrated ranges, so you may prepare a meal if you are warming your house.
<br><br>Lumber will be the initial carbon-neutral gasoline and though it releases carbon dioxide when it's burnt, the amount provided off could be the identical to was stored by the tree when it was growing.
<br><br>Are you aware when the pine were left to rot while in the woods it'd produce the same amount of carbon emissions as are produced by using it?
<br><br>Many lumber in this nation originates from sustainable sources, so for every tree cut down another is grown, along with the carbon produced from your felled tree will be absorbed by another tree. Using the support of new technology, a wood-burning oven can be even greener. Using the clean burn or clear heat system, the gases made once the timber is burned are distributed back into the range and burnt down. This improves warmth and reduces emissions <a href="http://manchesterheating.co.uk/wood-burning-stoves">central heating Manchester</a>.
<br><br>In case you are interested in experiencing a display Bon Fire Silchester near Reading are open Monday to Thursday and will welcome you to get a look around their 4000 sq ft contemporary shop and get any concerns you might have. The team at Bonfire have 50 years combined experience and therefore are extremely knowledgeable. They recognise that you might choose merely to have a detailed trip of the showroom to learn what options are available without feeling pressurised into creating a ultimate decision on your first visit.
<br><br>Modern woodburners are extremely extraordinary in terms of the smoking and also the number of ash they developed to be cleaned up.
<br><br>Even in daily use the range should not require cleansing more than every couple weeks. Infact, a sleep of ashes helps the wood to burn.
<br><br>And when the stove has self-washing airwash glass a clear view of flickering flames is assured and what's more, several ranges are now actually clear enough to become legally utilized in elegant smoke-free zones.
<br><br>There are numerous suppliers producing the soothing traditional-style wood-burners that look wonderful in interval qualities and contemporary homes. Should you prefer something a little more bold, the ultra modern freestanding stoves with big glass windows surely produce a record. Marc Barlow at Bonfire, Silchester near Reading explains that the Josef Davidsson range is just a superior decision simply because they keep the Swedish convention and craftsmanship associated with castiron ranges alive. To assure product quality they use selected Remedial and foreign foundries. And in their modern factory in Reftele, experienced and skilled artisans take over. They put the finishing touches to all and enhance them, before building the amounts by hand.
[[html]]<img src="http://www.ecotechukheating.co.uk/images/stove3.jpg" width="257" /><br><br>The popularity with wood stoves has increased drastically over the last few years. This is due in part for the growing high-cost of gas to warm our homes nevertheless they also have become more productive because of newer research and engineering. They're considered more affordable and green. Their way to obtain fuel, lumber, is green and inexpensive. However, determing the best wood ranges in the hundreds of types available, takes a bit of research.
<br><br>Wood stoves are usually made from cast iron, welded steel, soapstone, or porcelain or perhaps a mix of these materials. They are obtainable in various shapes, patterns and designs from common, traditional to very modern. Possibly renovated traditional ranges have been in demand and also have become an alternative solution to conventional fireplaces. They're deemed a lovely and functional element of many houses. With an increase of homeowners considering the purchase of the wood stove for the artistic looks in addition to the advantages of burning wood. Many people need to know what are the best stoves for heat effectiveness? Experts in the industry say that there is really no distinction, however, cast iron stoves be seemingly chosen because of their looks and large selection available. Welded steel ranges are similar to the castiron, however, they require a tad bit more maintenance. Soapstone stoves using their stunning natural stone enhance the decoration in a home <a href="http://www.manchesterheating.co.uk/wood-burning-stoves/">south manchester heating</a>.
<br><br>Choices to be produced, for example could it be much of your heat supply or perhaps a secondary resource for warm, comfortable times across the fireplace? The top wood stoves are roughly 30% more efficient than nearly all of present day central heaters. They have longer burn times than the previous older models and provide lasting warmth all day. Wood stoves are considered from the temperature output and heat capacity which really is a rating in British Thermal Units (BTU's). Nearly all present day wood stoves create between 25,000 and eighty,000 BTU's, easily heating properties from 1000 to 2000 sq ft., depending on age, efficiency, situation and amount of surfaces.
<br><br>Another option is to obtain catalytic or low-catalytic stoves. Years ago, there is problem using the catalytic stoves, but engineering has increased these stoves greatly. Catalytic stoves provides more heat and have an extended heat output, however, they require more maintenance for example washing, fixing or changing pieces They also require some technical understanding and so are more costly, however, they're able to burnup to 40 hours and use one third less wood.
<br><br>Low-catalytic burners provide happier and more desirable fireplace, less maintenance and so are better to use. Some may choose a stove that provides maximum temperature and economy with some information needed. Others can look for the stoves offering beautiful warmth and ease of use. All wood stoves sold in america, must be EPA accepted and are low-emission designed with-or-without the catalytic converters.
[[html]]<img src="http://www.sinwi.com/products/000Stove%20heat%2010-1.jpg" width="366" /><br><br>Stoves are among the most familiar devices which might be found in cooking meals and heating specific places in a home. It is a kitchen appliance that has experienced use centuries before and is still used even today. And given its long history to be within kitchens, there are numerous various kinds of stoves which have been mass produced and produced on the market. And multi fuel stoves are merely one of the various types of ranges which have long been used in kitchens.
<br><br>A multifuel stove is obviously much like the look another kind of stove, and that's the wood-burning stove. The stove's title actually describes the stove's capability to burn supplies including timber, wooden pellets, peat, and coal. The main difference between these two types of ranges may be the presence of the steel grate in a multi fuel range, whose intent would be to help boost the flame which will prepare the foodstuff. A removable container which will be used to include ashes in the burnt wood and other resources can be an extra feature of additional stoves that use multiple fuels <a href="http://manchesterheating.co.uk/wood-burning-stoves">manchester heating and plumbing company</a>.
<br><br>You will find other styles of ranges that may be driven by timber, including stoves that have the capacity to spark fires on top of bedrooms of ashes, but these can't use coal or peat as powers and so are thus not considered as truly multi fuel.
<br><br>As previously mentioned before, this variety of stove includes a rich history and have been in use within nations just like the Great Britain and Ireland because the nineteenth century. During these situations, multi-fuel stoves were not simply applied to make dishes, but also doubled as boilers that can warm water. Individuals even attached these types of ranges to radiator devices in order to boost the central heating for your of the domicile.
<br><br>Together with the growth of gasoline and electric-powered stoves, this type of oven has since experienced a decline. In this time, nevertheless they continue to be heavily used by people who carry on camping and hiking trips in rural spots, since energy is not for sale in such places and holding gas tanks may end up being problematic. On the other hand, multifuel stoves are undoubtedly lighter and much more lightweight compared to gasoline and electricity-powered stoves, using the only disadvantage being the difficulty of setting up the stove itself.
[[html]]<img src="http://woodheatstoves.com/images/stoves/93344.jpg" width="250" /><br><br>There are lots of internationally renowned wood stove makers which make a wide range of quality products. Some firms focus on creating conventional wood stoves while other produce leading edge ranges with fresh and technologically advanced features. Some major wood stove companies are State Flame, Morso, and Krog Iversen <a href="http://manchesterheating.co.uk/wood-burning-stoves/">manchester heating didsbury</a>.
<br><br>State Fire has been building wood stoves since 1978. This Missouri based company makes a wide array of goods including wood stoves, fireplaces, furnaces, and fireplace inserts. State Flame introduced their wood stove as an economical solution warming alternative for people who were struck hard from the downturn. Now, State Relationship is on the cutting edge of wood stove manufacturers, earning the famous Vesta merit in 2002 at the National HPBA Show.
<br><br>The Danish firm Morso is a key wood stove company since 1853. Morso started out making wonderful cast iron wood stoves for people throughout the planet, and proceed that tradition to-day. Now, not simply do Morso create a few of the greatest conventional cast iron-wood stoves on the market, they are also creators, continuously coming up with fresh and original patterns to appeal to buyers having a newer taste. Some new designs appear almost like creatively made TV sets. These types feature glossy, gleaming iron construction and utilize the innovative technology to distribute their heat.
<br><br>Another Danish firm named Krog Iversen also makes worldclass wood stoves. Krog Iversen was started in 1978 through the global oil crisis. President Henning Krog Iversen understood that there was a great interest in heating systems which used powers apart from gas. He imagined that classic wood stoves might provide a good option to additional costly and inefficient heating systems. His thought paid, and Krog Iversen has become a respected wood oven company, transferring its products to countries around the globe.
<br><br» DoN't place any flammable materiasl near your wood stove. Additionally you maintain the sanitation of the hearth region.
<br><br» Your fireplace and range must be swept and inspected annually. It should be performed with a certified fireplace user.
<br><br» Retain the air inlets from the stove available. This may decrease the build up of creosote that triggers chimney fire <a href="http://www.manchesterheating.co.uk/wood-burning-stoves/">central heating Manchester</a>.
<br><br» Buy wood burning stoves Swindon that comes with integral thermometer for stovepipe. It will also help you determine if the stovepipe also warm plus it needs to be neutralized.
<br><br» Select metal mesh screens to include wood sparks and coals as part of your range or fireplace. This may reduce any fire danger or for fire to achieve mats and flammable materials.
<br><br» for Your walls around your stove, use fire resistant components such as stone or material. It will certainly decrease the threat of fire and will retain your property safe.
<br><br» When starting a wood-fire, don't use flammable liquids.
<br><br» Choose experienced hardwood like timber. Woods which might be gentle, wet and wet pushes for creosote build-up thus building your stove susceptible to fire.
<br><br» Make your fire electronic as much as possible. With less smoke, less creosote can acquire inside your chimney. Furthermore, air pollution is likely to be minimized and you will have cleaner air at home.
<br><br» Your ceiling should really be free from leaves, pine needles and other normal yet flammable materials.
<br><br» DoN't leave your wood burning stoves Swindon unattended.
<br><br» Possess A smoke alarm in every degree of your home. Test drive it every month if it still works correctly. Change the batteries twice per year. You must also provide CO2 monitors.
<br><br» avoid cardboard boxes as fuel for your fireplace.
<br><br» Little warm fires are greater and better because they make less smoking.
<br><br» Remove excess ash from the intake ports of the burner to avoid the wood burning stoves Swindon from blocking. Every degree of your home needs to have a smoke alarm. Examination if each month to determine if they still work correctly. Replace the batteries twice annually. It would also be greater in case you'd install CO2 monitors.
[[html]]<img src="http://www.readingstove.com/images/models/Large_Swatara.jpg" width="394" /><br><br>Multifuel ranges are an upcoming development and the main reason why people are changing up to them could be the fact that the rates of gas, electricity as well as other forms of energy only keeps growing exponentially.
<br><br>These ranges are not simply employed for cooking, you could possibly utilize them to heat-up your complete property within the winters and that is the reason why they're called modern fireplaces. All you have to to do is turn on the range and turnoff your Air Conditioning (whether it's a dual means AC - or heater in case you have one) <a href="http://manchesterheating.co.uk/wood-burning-stoves/">wood burning stoves in Manchester</a>.
<br><br>Multifuel stoves essentially use timber and therefore are generally termed as wood burning stoves.
<br><br>Frequently we use our multi-fuel stoves to heat-up the house. But, if you place them in a fire, just that single-room would be heated up. However, we require the entire property to be heated. In these instances it would be wise to make use of a fireplace insert.
<br><br>By range size in addition it implies the amount of lumber you're going to be burning at any given position of time. If at all the walls of one's property are not excellent insulators you might need to burn a lot so that you can keep a constant temperature.
<br><br>Furthermore, if you keep your windows open or if there are cracks you are planning to eliminate heat substantially. In such instances you may need to use a larger multi-fuel range.
<br><br>There are lots of fuels that you might use on your multi-fuel stove and hence it's got that name. However, the top powers to use are coal and timber. Coal is definitely preferred because it's got an increased portion of carbon and therefore could be able to burn completely. You could actually use Peat which can be also a form of coal - essentially it is coal in its initial phases.
<br><br>If you prefer to use timber, you need to make certain that it's absolutely dry as wood tends to collect humidity really fast which reduces the overall performance if you burn it.
[[html]]<img src="http://www.tamworthfireplace.co.uk/images/P/flavel_cv15_central_heating_stove.jpg" width="315" /><br><br>A wood burning oven or multifuel stove could be element of a central heating system to keep your house comfortable and supply hot water. Though there are many approaches to achieve this, the basic theory is generally the exact same: a number of the heat energy made by burning wood or additional energy in a is used in the water inside your container which is pumped towards the radiators at home <a href="http://www.manchesterheating.co.uk/wood-burning-stoves">manchester heating didsbury</a>.
<br><br>Installation costs of the range and boiler can be just like the value of setting up different home heating systems. However, as wood burning or multifuel stoves are usually more energy efficient than other heating units, many people realize that a stove attached with a central heat helps to significantly reduce monthly gas costs and carbon emissions. Because the price of fuel and electricity remains to go up, a growing number of of us are changing to wood burning stoves to warm our homes.
<br><br>1) which kind of boiler do I would like?
<br><br>To provide maximum productivity, economy and comfort, your oven and furnace need to fit the particularities of one's house and heat requirements. Your final decision might be determined by whether you're introducing a furnace to a preexisting oven or adding a totally new central heating system. A clip-in back boiler may be added to a different oven, while an intrinsic back boiler, which tends to be better, is fitted to the stove by the manufacturer.
<br><br>The substance of the furnace may also be a consideration. For instance, while metal or glass-covered steel boilers have a tendency to cost significantly more than steel boilers, their durability could possibly be seen as a long lasting investment.
<br><br>2) What's the mandatory heat output?
<br><br>A qualified heating engineer will be able to assess heat output, scored in kilowatts (KW), needed for your home. This will depend on factors including the size of the property, insulation, the average array of temperatures anticipated for that physical area and the structure of heat necessity dependant on the domestic program of you as well as your family.
<br><br>3) What'll suit my taste and decor?
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<br><br>To begin with, it's understood to be an equipment that's useful for warming properties and any type of house setting. The appliance is usually a steel case which can be made-of iron or every other durable product. Within the situation can be a storage space using a put starting where the records might be held to start the burning process. Lumber may be the standard energy that is utilized in they. They may be attached with a fire or anywhere that has a ventilation capability for the smoke to release.
<br><br>€ Know about the standard - This refers to the quality of the material from which the event is built <a href="http://manchesterheating.co.uk/wood-burning-stoves">manchester heating didsbury</a>. Generally, those that are produced from castiron go longer than others. Another advantage of using cast iron manufactured ranges is the fact that they retain heat to get a longer time frame which decreases the need to burn extra lumber. Thus, you save a large amount of energy in the process.
<br><br>€ understand different versions - Contemporary wood burning stoves can be found nowadays which can be applied to offer multiple characteristics at a time. With some, you're able to heat water at the same time that is available in your water reservoir. Some may also be designed to provide as an oven for simple cooking functions. You are able to choose these multipurpose ranges to meet multiple need in a single point of time.
<br><br>€ the lowest priced energy resource - Wood, which can be the outstanding gasoline is easily available, but isn't that cheaper. Coal, another energy supply is just a significantly inexpensive gasoline that go longer than wood logs. Yet another source of gas that is effortlessly available is peat, which really is a decomposed plant matter. You are able to select the gasoline basing to the availability of the origin as well as their value.
[[html]]<img src="http://www.wpsi-kaiptc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/propane-vented-heating-stoves.jpg" width="278" /><br><br>Not more than 100 years back all of the heat and cooking was according to burning wood. Nowadays, together with the increased variety of urban population, we've found different way of warming our properties and organizing our food. Especially for the individuals living in blocks the neighborhood central heating system is the only means they're able to avoid freezing. Gasoline fires or energy cookers may also be extremely popular <a href="http://manchesterheating.co.uk/wood-burning-stoves"></a>.
<br><br>If we were to imagine that these networks and devices might fail one-day, we'd understand that we have no separate supply of temperature. Nevertheless, inside the countryside issues will vary. Even when they're linked to every one of these civilized developments, they still possess a fireplace or a oven, where they could burn wood or sawmill waste in the event of an electric decline, or if a gas tube explodes or stops.
<br><br>But that sort of independence could possibly be obtained by any person. There are several varieties of multi-fuel stoves, a lot of which are specially built to fit the environment of a flat. These will offer you crisis options, or they are able to just fulfill your need of reading the wood cracking inside your home. If you are linked to the local heat, you'll have the ability to have a hot household actually in those spring or autumn months when your air ovens are cool, by just creating a good fire.
<br><br>Multi fuel ranges come in black tones helping to make them simple to match any previous environment. They can be within small shapes, becoming easy to easily fit in your home without lowering the space, or in significant people, when you're able to make use of them to electricity home central heat and hot water systems. These stoves can work largely on lumber, but different powers may be used. Pellets are easy to shop and they have large heating energy. Timber must be used with much consideration for your environment.
[[html]]<img src="http://www.yeomanstoves.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Yeoman-CL8HB-2-mi.jpg" width="377" /><br><br>Wood stoves are utilized for home cooking needs together with for heating applications. Wood stoves can be found in different local shops and areas and contain a variety of sorts, according to their operating methods. The utilization of wood stoves is quite affordable within this age of expensive oil and gas fuels <a href="http://manchesterheating.co.uk/wood-burning-stoves"></a>.
<br><br>Wood stoves can vary depending on the type of gasoline used, the kind of substance used due to their manufacture as well as the different models used for their building. Local furniture stores, household items showrooms and antique stores are some preferred place where a person should buy a range.
<br><br>Distinct local shops have various wood stoves available for purchase. Clients could move and have a look at these wood stoves and verify their efficiency. These wood stoves come in many colors, shades as well as in beautiful models. Buyers can chose a suitable colored wood stove matching their house decor. It creates a great appearance in their residence. Regional and family shops usually offer comparable costs. Consequently, the buyer should visit numerous stores in order to obtain the best option. Bargaining can also be permissible at such shops, increasing the likelihood of finding a better deal.
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0.998721 | These truths can be verified by anyone with just a little bit of research.
Fact - All footage of "space, the solar system, orbiting satellites, distant planets, asteroids, so called 'space probes' & telescopes like the Hubble & 'space stations' like the ISS" are ALL FAKE CGI composites, CGI animations, or paintings. There's NOT ONE REAL PHOTO to show for "50 years of space exploration."
Fact - No experiment has ever (nor will ever) succeed in detecting movement or curvature in the Earth. All experiments of this kind have irrefutably proven the flat & stationary Earth & so their results have always been covered up.
Fact - The North Star Polaris (situated above the "North Pole") can be seen from anywhere in the world - including the most Southern regions. This is obviously not possible on a ball. Polaris has also been aligned with the Axus Mundi (in the "North Pole") for thousands of years, despite us being told we're spinning, wobbling & flying through "space"
Fact - No continuous footage of any rocket going all the way from Earth to "space" exists - nor will it ever exist.
Fact - No continuous, inside footage of an "astronaut" leaving the airlock to embark on a "space walk" exists - nor will it ever exist.
Fact - The so-called Bermuda Triangle is characterised not by the statistical data of disappearing vessels & people (as it has no statistical difference from any other location in that respect) but by the fact that so many of them remain unexplained. It just so happens that this area is where NASA's "spacecrafts" are known to fall into the ocean, after flying out of sight - but they can't have witnesses running around telling people, can they??
Fact - Rain & snow drifts block your "satellite TV" signal (sometimes from miles away) as do large trees - & that wouldn't happen if you were actually getting their broadcasts from above now, would it?? Take a look at the direction your "satellite dish" is pointing - something's up with that story ....but it ain't no satellite!
Fact - No 'flat earther' has ever been sued by NASA or any other "space agency" for openly & publicly calling them liars & frauds (which they obviously are) - the simple reason for this is that they have never (nor will they ever) be in any position to prove us wrong.
Remember that lies cannot be substantiated!
I could go on forever - but these are very simple observations that anyone can make & verify for themselves.
Research flat Earth - but not on Youtube - they're aggressively censoring all 'flat Earth & Holocaust questioning' content.
They've shut down yet another one of Eric Dubays' channels - that speaks for itself ....big time! | 2019-04-20T12:29:04 | https://nyalpurcell.com/flat-earth/blog/science-fact-not-fiction |
0.999974 | Routing Digital In audio to Line Out speakers?
Is there any way to route the sound which is going into my Pmac G5s "Digital In" (spdif) port to the analog Line Out port?
I'd like to be able to connect an external component to the Mac via spdif and have the Mac play the audio through the analog speakers I have connected to it...or even the internal speaker. I've tried the Sound control panel and while the bar/meter for Digital In shows that it is indeed getting audio from my external device, it does seem to output it to any speakers. | 2019-04-21T06:47:10 | https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/49286/routing-digital-in-audio-to-line-out-speakers |
0.998407 | Looking for marketing graduate jobs in London, and want to work for a fast-growing SaaS startup used by a number of the world's biggest brands? You're in luck- this multi award-winning employee-to-candidate engagement platform are now on the hunt for a Marketing Executive to join their fast-growing London team.
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0.999389 | Why do I find myself reflecting on weddings and graduations? Because I am conducting two weddings this spring and will be attending my third graduation this year, not to mention an Air Force officer commissioning. It is certainly not out of the ordinary for a pastor to conduct weddings in the spring, however in one of these weddings, I will be both giving away the bride and conducting the service (pray for me). It is also certainly not out of the ordinary for anyone to attend graduations in the springtime, however at the third graduation, I will also be observing a young man graduate and later get commissioned, to whom I will be giving that bride that I mentioned earlier. He is a young man whom I look forward to being able to call son. So as I get teary-eyed even as I write this, I guess I have a love / hate relationship with ceremonies.
I think if we are honest with ourselves, we recognize the value of doing things right and doing them big. We can all acknowledge that in most cases, the ceremony was not the point of whatever we achieved. However, it did serve to hold up hard work and success as a goal for ourselves and others to strive for. We can also see that all societies, even primitive tribal ones, have ceremony and rites of passage to encourage and instill in the whole community the values that serve to keep a community safe, peaceful, secure, just and prosperous. There is a strange parallel between healthy societies of the past and the efforts they took to uphold a code of ethics that in most cases looks and sounds a lot like the Ten Commandments. I would suggest that God designed His creation to work well for those seeking to function in harmony with His will, so even when hard times come, they are able to push through difficulty using His precepts and the peace only He can provide.
So even though I am often not excited about attending another ceremony (I got a lifetime’s worth of that in the US Navy), I am never disappointed when I go through the time and effort to adorn myself appropriately for the event because I appreciate what the whole process provides for societal values and stability.
I must take a moment to differentiate between worship and ceremony. While all divine worship is ceremonial, not all ceremony is worship. I bring this up because we have civil ceremony and divine worship coming together in Christian weddings. It is definitely good for a society to recognize and legally protect this divinely established building block for healthy communities and nations. However, all non-worship ceremony is man-centered, while worship is and necessarily must be Christ-centered. This distinctly sets apart Christian weddings from all others. Being legally married is a matter for the state and that is what the license is for. In weddings conducted by other religions, the individuals are central, to the point of excluding the deity, giving him a wink, or prayer, or offering. But a Christian wedding is two people acknowledging before God what He instituted in creation as a great gift. Those who are blessed to partake of this great gift get a small glimpse of what God’s pre-sin creation must have been like. As in all divine worship, in a Christian wedding the congregation and the couple are served by God as His sweet Gospel is proclaimed, and all marital relationships are affirmed as a God-pleasing way to live our lives in accord with His will.
So enjoy this spring’s weddings and ceremonies with a deeper understanding of their benefit and blessing in your life. | 2019-04-21T00:59:54 | http://smokymountainreflections.blogspot.com/2012/05/ |
0.99994 | This paper presents a mathematical model describing the variation of temperature along the length of a horizontal well during the process of water injection. The model is obtained from a theoretical treatment accounting for both mass transfer and heat transfer between a horizontal well and a reservoir. The treatment is 1D linear in the wellbore and 1D radial in the reservoir. A numerical algorithm for reservoir temperature calculation is proposed and an analytical solution is derived on the basis of some realistic assumptions. The analytical solution can be used to generate the temperature profile in a horizontal injection well for any assumed distribution of injection profile along the length of the well, including injection profile that is uniform, skewed toward the heel or the toe, or exhibits some discontinuity (e.g., leakoff into a high permeability streak or fracture). This paper also presents comparison of temperature profiles obtained with the analytical solution given in this paper and those obtained with a numerical reservoir simulator with temperature option (ECLIPSE), which shows that the analytical solution yields reasonable temperature propagation profiles along the wellbore. The effects of injection rate and the injection profile are analyzed, and a quick in-situ injection pattern-recognition method is proposed. Finally, examples are given to show the practical application of the theoretical model.
Use of horizontal wells for injection purposes is now commonplace. This is because maturing fields produce increasing amounts of water, and horizontal wells enable disposal of large volumes of fluid. Therefore, disposal objectives can be met with a fewer number of wells. This is important in offshore operations, in which well numbers are limited because of slot constraints on the platform.
In terms of pressure maintenance, horizontal wells are also attractive. In saturated reservoirs, in which voidage replacement is fundamental to achieve a good recovery factor, horizontal wells help achieve injection volumes commensurate with production volumes in the field. Therefore, they are instrumental in reservoir management. Finally in terms of recovery, horizontal wells are effective in achieving a good volumetric sweep, particularly in thick reservoirs in which gravitational forces and stratification tend to undermine sweep.
Measurement of injection profile in horizontal wells is also a common requirement for assessing the efficiency of drilling or completion process, cleanup or stimulation process, and injection or recovery process.
Injection profile in horizontal wells can be estimated with "production logging?? technology, but this may require coiled tubing to access the full length of the well. Even with coiled tubing, there are practical limits of how far the well can be logged (e.g., currently of the order of 1 to 2 km). "Interventionless?? means of determining the injection profile in horizontal wells are therefore of interest to operators. A feasible interventionless approach in horizontal wells is efficient completion designs for deployment of the fiber optic line. There are published cases in the literature with fiber optic-distributed temperature sensors deployed in horizontal wells. These are deployed either through an extended tail pipe (i.e., "stinger?? completion) (Al-Asimi et al. 2002/2003), or through a groove in the sand screen.
The technology for measurement of distributed temperature on a periodic or continuous basis is a well-established technology and has been widely applied to reservoir and production monitoring (Brown et al. 2000, 2003, 2006; Laurence and Brown 2000; Ouyang and Belanger 2006; Nath et al. 2007; Lee 2006; Johnson et al. 2006).
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Brown, G.A., Kennedy, B., and Meling, T. 2000. Using Fibre-Optic DistributedTemperature Measurements to Provide Real-Time Reservoir Surveillance Data onWytch Farm Field Horizontal Extended-Reach Wells. Paper SPE 62952 presentedat the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Dallas, 1- 4 October.DOI: 10.2118/62952-MS.
Brown, G.A, Storer, D., McAllister, K., al-Asimi, M., and Raghavan, K. 2003.Monitoring Horizontal Producersand Injectors During Cleanup and Production Using Fiber-Optic-DistributedTemperature Measurements. Paper SPE 84379 presented at the SPE AnnualTechnical Conference and Exhibition, Denver, 5-8 October. DOI:10.2118/84379-MS.
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Elsaid, M.E. et al. 2007. Detecting and Analysing Fractures inthe Subsurface: The Critical Steps in Modeling Fractured CarbonateReservoir. Paper SPE 105707 presented at the SPE Middle East Oil and GasShow and Conference, Bahrain, 11-14 March. DOI: 10.2118/105707-MS.
Evensen, G. 2007. Data Assimilation—the Ensemble Kalman Filter. NewYork City: Springer.
Gang, T. and Kelkar, M. 2006. History Matching for Determinationof Fracture Permeability and Capillary Pressure. Paper SPE 101052 presentedat the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas,24-27 September. DOI: 10.2118/10152-MS.
Gao, G. 2005. Data Integration and Uncertainty Evaluation for Large ScaleAutomatic History Matching. PhD dissertation, Tulsa: University of Tulsa.
Gao, G. and Reynolds, A.C. 2006. An Improved Implementation of theLBFGS Algorithm for Automatic History Matching. SPEJ 11 (1):5-17. SPE-90058-PA. DOI: 10.2118/90058-PA.
Gao, G., Zafari, M., and Reynolds, A.C. 2006. Quantifying Uncertainty for thePUNQ-S3 Problem in a Bayesian Setting With RML and EnKF. SPEJ11 (4): 506-515. SPE-93324-PA. DOI: 10.2118/93324-PA.
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Izgec, B., Kabir, C.S., Zhu, D., and Hasan, A.R. 2007. Transient Fluid and Heat FlowModeling in Coupled Wellbore/Reservoir Systems. SPEREE 10(3): 294-301. SPE-102070-PA. DOI: 10.2118/102070-PA.
Johnson, D., Sierra, J., Gualitieri, D., and Kaura, J. 2006. DTS Transient Analysis: A New Toolto Assess Well-Flow Dynamics. Paper SPE 103093 presented at the SPE AnnualTechnical Conference and Exhibition, San Antonio, 24-27 September. DOI:10.2118/103093-MS.
Kocabas, I. 2006. An AnalyticalModel of Temperature and Stress Fields During Cold-Water Injection Into an OilReservoir. SPEPO 21 (2): 282-292. SPE-88762. DOI:10.2118/88762-PA.
Laurence, O.S. and Brown, G.A. 2000. Using Real-Time Fiber OpticDistributed Temperature Data for Optimising Reservoir Performance. PaperSPE 65478 presented at the SPE/Petroleum Society of CIM InternationalConference on Horizontal Well Technology, Calgary, 6-8 November. DOI:10.2118/65478-MS.
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0.999998 | The Neighbours star was thrust into fame during her late teens in mid 2015.
And Mavournee Hazel claims co-star Rebekah Elmaloglou has helped her with years of self-discovery, including giving 'personal advice' on struggling with her sexuality.
The star has remained single for most of her time in the spotlight, and has worried she was 'broken' because of this.
She says she is consistently questioned on why she remains single, claiming she's trying to figure out the reasons herself.
'I don't want to label this as my coming out because it's definitely not that. I don't identify as gay. I just think I'm a people person. I just fall in love with a person for who they are as a person rather than what they are born with,' she added.
When she joined the cast of Neighbours to play 17-year-old Piper Willis in 2015, she was already eyeing her first big international career move and the shadow of Margot Robbie loomed over her decision.
The actress told TV Tonight that while she always planned to work in England, the temptation to follow Margot to Hollywood was real.
'I don't know if I will go to the UK or do the whole pilot season US and try to follow Margot's footsteps,' she told the website.
Mazournee said the expectation levels on the current batch of Ramsay St residents are set very high thanks to the career trajectories of their most famous alumni, particularly the Suicide Squad star.
The Adelaide native always dreamed of acting while working in a fruit and veg shop growing up and attended the Ann Peters School of Acting followed with courses run by McLeod's Daughters alumni Doris Younane.
She risked her savings and her position at Sydney Uni to travel repeatedly to Melbourne in order to audition for the Melbourne based soap, but the gamble paid off.
Now she is steaming up our televisions with her role on the Network Ten soap.
Mavournee has previously spoken about how she strives to match Margot's work ethic on the Neighbours set.
She told news.com.au in August that 'Margot's work ethic (on Neighbours) was impeccable. She always arrived on set knowing her lines.
Work it like Margot: Mavournee told news.com.au that 'Margot's work ethic was impeccable. She always arrived on set knowing her lines. | 2019-04-23T06:15:14 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5115375/Neighbours-star-Mavournee-Hazel-struggles-sexuality.html |
0.999094 | Is there another way to say "tea" since that 차 is short for "a car"?
Is there another way to say "there" since "they're" is short for "they are"?
Homophones happen in every human language. In the wild, there are usually context clues to help you figure out which meaning is intended. For now you'll just have to guess, and not be afraid to make mistakes.
There and they're are still different words AND spelled differently. Your answer didn't even address what this person was actually asking. Do you even know if there is another word for tea? Or do you just feel the need to post arrogant replies to people's questions? Edit: If you do, you should just say it without being rude about it.
차 for car is short for 자동차. The fact that it sounds the same as 차 for tea is an unfortunate accident and a result of how language works.
And no, there isn't another Korean word for tea.
Since the only word for car taught before this exercise is the full form, no one has any way of knowing that the answer that they're looking for is "car." Duolingo accepts "tea" as a correct answer, but it has to be typed in since it's not in the word bank.
In Indonesian, it's 'teh'. I suppose that counts as tea.
Italian is 'tè' which I consider to count.
So this can mean tea, or car? just depends on context?
I'm confused between car and tea.
Cha as in Tea is almost the same as tea in Japanese (pronounced Ocha).
yeah even though you don't need the O in front of cha. In Japanese you can also just say cha.
doesnt ocha mean green tea?
No; that's the Japanese word お茶, which is an honorific, or slightly more formal, form of the word cha for tea. 抹茶 "matcha" is a specific preparation of green tea; perhaps that's what you were thinking of.
Is it true that the word 'car' really does have Konglish word, '카' ?
I'm confused why "tea" and the short word for "car" are the same hangul symbols. I understand why "자동차" is shortened to "차" but why isn't tea a different word? Is there a different word? Please explain.
In a nutshell, both words are borrowed from Chinese, and the Chinese words sound somewhat similar, so the Korean pronunciations converged. In fact, 차 is the Korean pronunciation of a huge number of Chinese symbols! A lot of Korean vocabulary is borrowed from Chinese, which is cool because most of these words also got borrowed into Japanese. The problem being, all modern Chinese languages, as well as the variety of Chinese where most of these loanwords came from, are tonal languages, meaning some words are different from each other only in the pitch of the speaker's voice as they're said. For example, 馬 is pronounced mǎ in Mandarin, with the voice starting middle pitch and dropping low before immediately rising up high at the end, while 媽 is pronounced mā, with the voice staying somewhat high in the register and at the same point for the duration of the word. Korean is non-tonal, so when these words get borrowed in they end up sounding the same.
The 차 in 자동차 is the Korean reading of the hanja 車 (Mandarin pinyin: chē), which means "vehicle" (the whole word is borrowed from the Chinese 自動車 (pinyin: zìdòngchē), meaning "self-moving vehicle"). The vowel and tone combination in the original Chinese is basically impossible to directly import to Korean (the "e" in this syllable is used for a sound something like the 'e' in "other"), so we wound up with 차 "cha"; similarly, the Japanese read this kanji as しゃ "sha".
차 for "tea", meanwhile, comes from the Chinese 茶 (pinyin: chá); the Korean reading of this hanja is much closer to the Chinese word, but is also unfortunately pronounced exactly the same as a number of other hanja with similar-sounding Chinese origins. The Japanese, by the way, pronounce this word as ちゃ "cha".
Why is the shortened form of "they are" (they're) pronounced the same as "there" referring to a location in English? It's just a quirk of the language. 99% of the time, outside of learning exercises, you'll see the word with enough context to be able to tell the difference.
Until then, assume either is correct and report any usage you think should be correct but isn't.
The answer must be typed in because "tea" is not an option in the word bank. There is no reporting option for that.
I thought "차" meant "tea?" What happened there?
we can say cha for both car and tea !!
It should be "tea". "the car" is 자동차. How it can be wrong?
Both "tea" and "car" are correct translations; if either got tagged wrong, flag it.
차 means "tea" but is also used as shorthand for 자동차, especially in informal contexts.
Is tea and car the same?
자 is tea or not??? Why se it that is car??? | 2019-04-25T16:06:12 | https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/24622102/%EC%B0%A8 |
0.998915 | When I press the Submit button, no error msg appears ie like: "some errors to the send mail"
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0.999999 | KOPUWAI - OBELISK- OLD MAN ROCK What's in a name? This is a short history about the naming of the Old Man Range in Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand. By John Douglas.
There are many versions, Maori and European of why the large tor on the top of the Old Man Range can be known as either Kopuwai, Obelisk or The Old Man as well as the naming of the mountain.
Like the rock, the mountain range to the south of Alexandra has also been called many names. The Maoris had it named as Kopuwai - a wet place? (Reference - Government Survey Map of Maori place names of the South Island) although the Maori interpretation comes from an ancient tradition belonging to the people of Waitaha, and preceding that of the Ngai Tahu and Ngati Mameo. The 26.6 metre tall rock is Kopuwai, a giant able to step from one mountain to another but in petrified form. Accompanying the giant is his pack of ten two-headed dogs. It was said they lived in a lair down by the Mataau (Clutha) river. As retribution for capturing a young girl that he had kept in his lair but later escaped, a party set out and clubbed both Kopuwai and his two-headed monsters to death.
The great early Otago/Southland Province chief surveyor, John Turnbull Thompson on his November 1857 Maniototo Expedition, travelling as far south as Tiger Hill, Raggedy Range, would have seen the large tor on the skyline to the south but was not likely named then. Likely it was named the Obelisk after Alexander Garvie's 1858 survey of the Clutha Valley. Obelisk is the Greek name for pillar and the mountain range as the Obelisk Range. Soon after, during the mining period of the early 1860's, the range was referred to by the miners as Snowy Mountain, because of the large amount of snow covering the mountain in winter. As for the Rock, when close up, it assumes the features of a an old man and the rock was subsequently renamed by the miners as Old Man Rock.
Over the years the miners and finally the officials, came to refer to the mountain range south of the Old Man Rock to the Waikaia Bush Road as the Old Man Range, while that to the north still retained the name of the Obelisk Range. Today the big tor on the highest point of the Old Man Range still gets known locally as the Old Man Rock although on the survey map it is still called Obelisk. Another large tor between the Obelisk and the TV Tower is officially called Obelisk Two.
As a result of the latest 1997/98 settlement with the Ngai Tahu over the Treaty Of Waitangi claims the Rock is now called Kopuwai. Also the high altitude land, Fraser Basin territory, has now been returned to the Crown from the agreement over the freehold tenure review of Earnscleugh Station. The land is now administrated by the Department of Conservation - the Kopuwai Conservation Area, though half of the Fraser Basin still has summer grazing rights on an agreed renewal agreement.
Finally another local version "that the one range was at one side of the gorge, (Cromwell Gorge) the other range was at the opposite side, with the gorge likened to a fire place with the elderly lady sitting on one side and the elderly gentleman on the other - the old man and the old woman (Old Woman Rock - Leaning Rock, Dunstan Mountains) on either side of the fireplace".
This caving is now on display at Central Stories (Alexandra Museum), Centennial Avenue, Alexandra. This carved taoka (treasure) is a representative interpretation of an ancient tradition belonging to the people of Kai Tahu, Kati Mamoe and Waitaha. The carved taoka depicts a giant named Kopuwai and his pack of two-headed dogs who were said to have lived above the Mataau (Clutha river) on the Old Man range behind AlexandThis caving is now on display at Central Stories (Alexandra Museum), Centennial Avenue, Alexandrara. This range is known to Maori as "Kopuwai". A large rock tor (the Obelisk) also bears the name Kopuwai and is said to be the natural manifestation of the giant.
Waitaha: For centuries Te Wai Pounamu (South Island of New Zealand) is said to have been occupied by the Waitaha tribe, and others known as Rapuwai and Hawea had reputedly preceded them.
Kati Mamoe: (Ngati Mamoe) In the sixteenth century the island's riches attracted warlike tribes from the North Island. The tribe Ngati Mamoe settled in the east, south of Te Parinuiowhiti ( White Bluffs, Cook Strait.) Kai Tahu: (Ngai Tahu) Because Ngai was pronounced 'Gai' or 'Kai' in the southern Maori dialect, some writers spell ' Ngai Tahu' as 'Kai Tahu'. Feuding among quarrelsome northern chiefs, and the universal desire for pounama, (New Zealand jade or 'greenstone') caused more invaders to come south. The Ngati Kurihapu of Ngai Tahu overran the Kaikoura Ngati Mamoe and by 1700AD another Ngai Tahu became dominate from the Hurunui River to Waihora.
By the time of Captain Cook's visits -1770's, the successive southward movements of Waitaha, Ngai Mamoe and Ngai Tahu had blurred the distinctions of hapu (clan, subtribe) and iwi (tribe) south of Kaiapoi. Around the year 1780, the leaders of Ngai Tahu and Ngati Mamoe formed a marriage alliance to end their constant feuds with the result that the Ngai Tahu became the dominate tribal identity in southern New Zealand.
Extracts from the book "The Long Dispute" - Maori Land Rights and European Colonisation in Southern New Zealand by Harry C. Evison. | 2019-04-21T12:21:03 | http://wildflowerwalks.co.nz/kopuwai.html |
0.999997 | A viral infection is a disease that can be caused by different kinds of viruses, of which the influenza-virus is best known. A viral infection can be in different places in the body, some viruses are mainly in the intestine, while others prefer the lungs and airways. With a viral infection you usually have a fever, but other complaints can range from abdominal pain and diarrhea to coughing and shortness of breath.
Is viral infection serious and should I see a doctor?
Everyone has a flu or a bad cold once in a while, so a viral infection usually isn't serious. Of course it can be very bothersome and unfortunately there isn't any properly effective medication to cure viral infection, antibiotics aren't effective either, because those focus on bacteria, not viruses. Though a viral infection usually isn't serious, know when to see a doctor.
What can I do about viral infection?
Antibiotics don't help when you have a viral infection and a doctor usually shouldn't prescribe an antibiotic, because only a small percentage of people with general complaints like fever and fatigue have a bacterial infection. Doctors also shouldn't prescribe antibiotics 'just to be sure', because bacteria can get used to the antibiotics and become resistant, so when they're really needed, threre's a chance they won't be effective anymore. | 2019-04-21T09:00:41 | https://www.earlydoc.com/en/diseases/viral_infection |
0.999725 | Ladies want to get better their look. They do not listen to people who say that they look gorgeous and do not have to get better anything. However, ladies prefer to wear make-up anywhere they go- to school, to workplace or to a shop.
In this text will be described a person who has had big impact on producing make-upp cosmetics. The man is Eugene Rimmel and the bussines is called Rimmel London. Rimmel Company was introduced in 1834 by Eugene Rimmel. It is a famous British powder company at the moment possessed by Coty Corporation. The headquarter of Rimmel is located in the capital of the United Kingdom – London.
Rimmel Cosmetics Corporation provides every make-up foundation like: lipstick, foundations, powders, blushes and more. The majorities of Rimmel’s products are produced in EU and are very high excellence. Furthermore, the excellences of the cosmetics are confirmed by celebrities who are willing to advertise the cosmetics. The current faces which are easily met at Rimmel’s posters and advertisements are: Kate Moss, a model and 2 singers: Sophie Eliis- Bextor and Lily Cole. Moreover, the Rimmel foundation are sold international and are well-known worldwide.
Who was the creator of the famous powder mark?
Eugene Rimmel was born in 1820 in France. He was an amazing perfumer and businessman.
He went to London with his family in his early adolescence. In 1834, at age of 14 he and his parent established their first own perfumery called the House of Rimmel. Eugene Rimmel’s parent was his educator and he showed him how to create most of the cosmetics. Later on, they manufacture some innovative cosmetics together.
A lot of people consider Eugene Rimmel to be a father of powder industry. It is nothing strange. His largest achievement is a creation of 1st non-poisonous mascara. What is more, the product has been so famous that normal people who applied it started to use the word “rimmel” as an alternative of “mascara”. At the moment, after almost 200 years of establishing Rimmel London corporation, the word “rimmel” is still applied in some languages as alternative the word ” makeup”. The languages are: French, Italian, Portuguese, Persian, Romanian, Spanish and Turkish. | 2019-04-26T16:47:48 | http://www.travelmastersexec.co.uk/how-to-be-beautiful/ |
0.99949 | What disputes existed between Iraq and Kuwait prior to the 1990 invasion?
"Meanwhile, new sources of oil in Alaska, the North Sea, and the former Soviet Union were driving down the price of oil, shich fell from $22 per barrel in January to $16 per barrel in June. Part of the drop in oil prices was a result of the overproduction by OPEC [Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries] countries, such as Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which not only profited from their overproduction but were pursuing a long-term economic policy of trying to increase global dependence on oil by depressing prices. Saddam would claim that each $1 drop in the price of oil cost Iraq $1 billion in revenue, and he was basically right. As a result of all theses factors, by the spring of 1990, Baghdad was facing a serious financial crunch.
The first inkling of what Saddam had in mind came at the end of May at a meeting of the Arab League in Baghdad, where he excoriated the United States and Israel and accused Kuwait of waging economic warfare against Iraq. Saddam also demanded an Arab summit to compel the GCC [Gulf Cooperation Council] states to forgive Iraq's war debts and provide it with $30 billion in economic aid."
"The flouting of the OPEC quota by Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates in the spring of 1990 depressed oil prices well below OPEC's reference level of $18 a barrel. During a closed session of the extraordinary Arab summit in Baghdad on May 30, Saddam revealed that every US dollar drop in the price of an oil barrel deprived Iraq of $1 billion annually. 'War is fought with soldiers, and harm is done by explosions, killing and coup attempts, but it is also done by economic means sometimes... I say to those who do not mean to wage war on Iraq that this is in fact a kind of war against Iraq.
Saddam's plea fell on deaf ears. Overproduction continued, with Kuwait exceeding its OPEC quota by 40 percent, and the UAE by 30 percent. Petroleum prices fell to $11 a barrel, a level at which Iraqs' oil income was just enough to meet current expenses, leaving nothing to service foreign debts or fund urgently needed reconstruction." | 2019-04-20T16:52:44 | https://usiraq.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=000903 |
0.99995 | how would I achieve the following: to validate a field with the data from a customList on SharePoint 2013??
There is a field called CostCenter and but ideally, would love the form to show an error when a wrong NR is entered that is not present within the customList - this is some type of a validation before the workflow runs.
Assuming all the data entered is correct - the WF generates a RefID and sends the ApprovalRequest to the Manager depending on the costerCenter number. Yes, there is a QueryList at the beginning of the WF that looksUp for the data.
What if the Cost Centre is entered wrong?! Well, then the WF will check if the entered number is not found on the list - then it will reject the request. In this case, the user will have to make a new request!!
To avoid this; I was wondering if there is a way of validating the C.C field before the WF runs ?!
I am thinking of something like a vlookup but not really able to get it to work.
Just add, the CosterCentre field on the form is a normal text-field.
It is NOT a calculated field ... maybe it must be a calc.-field????
first, wouldn't be an option for you to make CostCentre field in your list of lookup type directly?
that way users will only be allowed to select one of provided options and you need not bother with validation.
reg. usage of lookup function - isthe list of cost centres on the same site or on different one?
if it is on the same site, provide in place of 'List title' just list name without any domain and path references.
If I turn the CostCentre field into a choice field where I pre-define the numbers: yes this would work but imagine having multiple of these forms and I would require to maintain all forms manually to update the data ... therefore, I thought to have a single-point of a customList where all these date resides - and to fetch from.
Another idea would be somehow make the vlookup script to show ALL CostCentres from that customList and give the user to simply click on the CostCentre field and choose his/her relevant number. Question is, how to do that ?
To your second question: yes, the customList is on a different site. To avoid having to manage multiple list with the same data; I thought creating one and use it for many forms + workflows. By this, I maintain only one customList.
MAYBE I AM CONFUSING / MISUNDERSTANDING THE VLOOKUP?!
By the looks of it, the lookup(“listA”, “ID”, 1, “Title”) simply returns the value of a field.
However, what I want to do is: to validate the entered CostCentre -> with the customList and confirm if that number exist in there?! If Yes, great .. if not, it should say "invalid number"!
Is that even possible with the vlookup??
The result shows the Decription of the entered cost centre, using the Title as a reference-point to the customList.
... but is there a similar way to validate the entered number and display error if not present in the custom list.
the URL is pointing to the customlist (called: Cost Centre) on a different page.
Read carefully, I've written lookup field, not choice. They are two different things.
Lookup fields are exactly for use cases like you describe - you have one single evidence of some data (code list) and you reference it from as many list fields and/or form controls as you need. once you change anything on source code list, it's immediately seen in all the references with no further effort.
looksup() function looks up for some data in other list you ask it for,. if it finds the data it returns some senseful output, if not it returns nothing. so, this is your driver you can base validation on - if it return (eg) description for a given CC number, you are sure CC exists on the list, if it returns nothing CC was wrong.
can it also make it say "C.C NOT VALID" if it's empty or Null ?
do you mean if user do not fill in any CC number?
if you mean validation, the you can configure validation message however you like. | 2019-04-23T20:08:33 | https://community.nintex.com/t5/Nintex-for-SharePoint/Validate-a-field-in-Nintex-with-a-custom-list-on-SP2013/td-p/24833 |
0.999936 | What is another word for fragment?
an incomplete piece; " fragments of a play"
excerpt, passage, portion, segment, strand, shrapnel, part, debris, stub, extract.
join, combine, unite, complete, fix, mend.
She saw in an instant, however, that it was nothing more dangerous than a fragment of love - vine from the garden, which had clung to her skirt.
It is easy now to see the absurdity of my idea, but at that time I knew less than I do now of the labouring people's condition, and in furthering the movement I entertained a shadowy hope of finding amongst the illiterate villagers some fragment or other of primitive art.
chip, scrap, restriction fragment, ember, cinder, fleck, spawl, shaving, scraping, spark, flake, coal, clast, paring, clinker, spall, bit, brickbat, sliver, filing.
crunch, comminute, mash, sliver, grind, grate, splinter, sunder, crush, crumb, brecciate, bray, atomize, pound, rag, atomise.
fall apart, split up, break, separate, come apart. | 2019-04-20T06:28:36 | https://www.thesaurus.net/fragment |
0.999872 | Constitutional amendment removes the right to a trial by civilian courts for those suspected of terrorist acts.
Islamabad, Pakistan - Pakistan's decision to authorise military courts to try terrorism suspects has raised a slew of questions from rights activists and lawyers about their ability to deliver fair trials, and the implications of such a move in a country that has spent more than three decades under military rule.
In the wake of last month's attack on a Peshawar school that killed 149 people, mostly students, Pakistan's president on Wednesday signed into effect a constitutional amendment allowing military courts to try those suspected of terrorism, as part of a raft of legal changes to the way the state deals with terrorism.
- Raise arms or wage war against Pakistan, or attack the Armed Forces of Pakistan or law enforcement agencies, or attack any civil or military installations in Pakistan.
- Abduct any person for ransom, or cause death of any person or injury.
- Possess, store, fabricate or transport explosives, ... firearms, suicide jackets.
- Use or design vehicles for terrorist acts.
- Provide or receive funding from any foreign or local source for the illegal activities under this clause.
- Act to overawe the state or any section of the public or sect or religious minority.
- Create terror or insecurity in Pakistan or attempt to commit any of the said acts within or outside Pakistan.
The amendment removes the right to a trial by civilian courts for those suspected of terrorist acts, and exempts referrals to military courts from having to fulfil citizen's fundamental rights as described in the constitution.
An accompanying amendment to the Army Act extends the military's remit to try civilian suspects who are members of religious "terrorist groups" for crimes including, but not limited to: raising arms against the state; murder; creating terror or insecurity; possessing and using explosives, including suicide jackets; kidnapping for ransom; and receiving funding for such purposes.
The amendment cites "extraordinary … circumstances" as currently existing in Pakistan, which "demand special measures for speedy trial of certain offences relating to terrorism".
While there was some debate regarding the move, especially from political parties who have been ousted by military coups in the past, the measure passed by a resounding 247-0 in the National Assembly, and 78-0 in the Senate, with the JUI-F and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) parties abstaining from voting.
The move had been pushed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who heads the government and has led political consultations on amending Pakistan's approach to fighting terrorism since the attack on the Peshawar school. His government also recently authorised the lifting of a moratorium on executions of those convicted of terrorism.
The formation of military courts "would lead to quick dispensation of justice and help the country eliminate the scourge of terrorism", Sharif said on Thursday, adding it was time for "decisive steps ... to end [terrorism] once and for all".
It remains unclear, however, how such courts will be structured, and the process by which the civilian government would transfer cases to military jurisdiction.
"[Military courts] do not follow the same laws of procedures and laws of evidence as civilian courts," said Salman Raja, a senior lawyer at Pakistan's Supreme Court, explaining the threshold for what constitutes evidence of guilt in military courts is lower than in civilian courts, and occurs at the discretion of the officers presiding over the court martial.
"They want military courts because they want to be able to convict even if there is little evidence. That really, at the end of the day, seems to be the motivation, because they feel that the kind of evidence required [by civilian courts] will not be available," he said.
Moreover, the decisions of such courts cannot be challenged in civilian courts, according to the Army Act.
Ahmed Bilal Mehboob, president of the Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT), agreed with the assessment that the object of the amendment appears to be to lower the threshold for convictions.
"So much will be at the discretion of the judges. I think judges will be more inclined to convict than to let people go free. I think the whole standard will go through a drastic change. That's why these courts were established," he told Al Jazeera.
Mehboob, whose organisation works closely with parliamentarians to foster legislative debate and openness, said the passage of the bill was marked by political debate, but no actual information establishing the need for the military to replace civilian courts.
"We were hoping that the evidence would be presented in parliament... We were hoping that there would be a debate in the parliament, and that many of our questions would be answered, but unfortunately the process of passing this law was even more disappointing than the law itself, because there was no debate on it," he said.
At the same time, Pakistan's civilian court system can hardly be termed efficient. Overburdened with cases and prone to corruption, cases often drag on for years, with conviction rates hovering between 5 and 10 percent. Rights groups have also raised questions regarding whether these courts meet international fair trial standards.
"Even in ordinary times our civilian courts have proven to be a failure," Mehboob said.
"Courts and judges are not sufficient in number, and the prosecution has been incompetent and politically affected, with the result that getting justice has become almost impossible. It's inefficient, expensive and corrupt."
Pakistan's judicial system already provides for terrorism cases to be tried in separate courts, termed Anti-Terrorism Courts (ATCs), where judges are under orders to provide decisions quicker than in regular trials. But such courts have quickly become clogged with cases not related to terrorism, such as murder, drug trafficking, and even kidnapping for ransom. At present, there are about 17,000 cases under trial in Pakistan's ATCs. According to the Supreme Court, as many as 85 percent of those cases are not terrorism-related.
Criminal cases in Pakistan, legal analysts say, are generally marred by a lack of sufficient evidence and incompetence on the part of the investigators. It is unclear whether those structural problems will be addressed by having military courts, Mehboob said.
"Is it only the judges who are the problem? OK, you'll have a military man as a judge, but how about the prosecutors, or the police ... will they all be replaced by military personnel?" he asked.
For a country that has been ruled by the military for more than half of its existence, the move to accept the apparent superiority of military courts over civilian systems of justice does not just violate the separation of powers in Pakistan's constitution, it goes much further, Mehboob said.
"We are accepting the principle that the military is able to perform better than the civilians. This has far reaching implications not just for the judiciary but also for the investigative branches, prosecution, and the question of basic core functions of the police. And the next question will be are our democratically elected political leaders, are they performing, or maybe a military person can do that better too?"
Zohra Yusuf, the chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), said the only way forward is through amending civilian courts, not transferring cases to the military.
"HRCP believes that the need instead is to reform and strengthen the system of investigation and prosecution. Reforms should include more scientific methods of investigation, rather than torture and coercion, as well as witness protection programmes and better security for lawyers, judges and witnesses," she said in a statement, while expressing "serious alarm" at the decision to try civilians in military courts.
"It is feared that political dissidents, particularly in Balochistan and Sindh, could become the targets of military courts," she said, referring to how Pakistan's existing anti-terrorism laws have been used against such dissidents in the past.
For its part, the government has repeatedly assured the public that the process for referring terrorism cases to military courts will be transparent.
"The interior ministry will confer with the civilian and military leadership to make the process clear for military courts," said Adeel Sattar, an interior ministry spokesperson, on Thursday. "Only terrorism-related cases, as decided per established guidelines, will be referred to these courts."
The amendments to the constitution and Army Act carry a built-in "sunset clause" of two years, meaning they will cease to be in effect on January 7, 2017, but it is unclear whether, with no accompanying structural changes to Pakistan's civilian justice system, circumstances will have changed much by then, analysts told Al Jazeera.
"The whole core of the question is whether we are able to very quickly deal with this extraordinary situation and return to normal, and in the meantime improve the normal civilian institutions to the point where they can do justice?" Mehboob asked.
"At the end of two years, I am afraid we will be going back to parliament and seeking an extension to the life of these courts." | 2019-04-25T20:39:08 | https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/01/army-courts-try-pakistan-terror-suspects-2015110173646526791.html |
0.996941 | Comedy Central's The Colbert Report was supposed to receive the legendary electro-pop duo as its guests, but according to the show's host, getting them on the program proved to be an incredibly difficult task.
Speaking on Paul Mercurio's podcast, Stephen Colbert expressed candidly the ins and outs about the time period that led up to Daft Punk's scheduled performance, revealing that he and his writers were forced to write around the artists' refusal to talk or perform during their appearance on the show. "They said, 'Do you want to cancel?' I said, 'No, this is an interesting challenge,'" Colbert said of the process, explaining that The Colbert Report was planning a six-minute monologue while the group nodded in silence alongside him. Colbert, notoriously known for bringing in anyone willing to "play ball," hoped to enlist the duo's manager for a speaking appearance, while riffing on the fact that they refused to perform.
"I wish we could have done this joke. It was: 'Paul [Hahn, their manager], can I ask you -- how do I even know it's them in the robot outfits, how do I even know it's them?' And he goes, 'Stephen, if it wasn't really them, they'd be doing the song,'" Colbert relayed.
Daft Punk was reported to have been "uncomfortable" with the gag and requested that Colbert and his writers try again. "It's playing too much on the idea that they're not performing as opposed to the joy of them being there," Colbert recalled. After settling on a new plan of action, the countdown inched towards their impending arrival to the show. But just one day before their New York appearance, Colbert notes that MTV began tinkering around with an idea of their own and became unsure if the network would agree to have them on both programs. "Ultimately, I would say, I understand that the VMAs have got their own rules, and Daft Punk, that's a big important thing to have done," Colbert said.
Without a deal in place and hours left to go before showtime, Daft Punk did not appear and Stephen was left without a guest for his show.
Wedding bells have just made their way into the history books. Last night (April 25), FOX's Empire became the first network television show to air a black gay wedding. Jamal and his fiancé Kai (Jussie Smollett and Toby Onwumere, respectively) jump the broom and swap vows in the episode titled "Never Doubt I Love."
Cast members Taraji P. Henson and Gabourey Sidibe agree that Jamal and Kai's wedding might have just become the best Empire wedding.
While this doesn't necessarily take away from the controversy still surrounding Smollett's case in Chicago, it was a cause for celebration regarding diversity and representation on television nonetheless. As Ms. Khan said, right here and right now, the most important thing to note is that love is love. | 2019-04-26T11:58:40 | https://www.vibe.com/2013/08/stephen-colbert-explains-daft-punks-absence |
0.999992 | In a large bowl, combine the cake mix and the Sprite Zero. Ignore the instructions on the box; you only need two ingredients to bake this cake! Use a whisk or mixer to combine the cake mix and sprite.
Place paper liners in a cupcake tray, then fill the cupcake liners until they are 2/3 full. While the box said that I would get 24 cupcakes from a box of mix, I found that using this recipe the yield was 20 cupcakes.
Bake the cupcakes for 15 minutes. Sprite Zero cupcakes will bake a little faster than the directions on the box suggest. The cupcakes are done when a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean.
Place the cupcakes on a cooling rack, and then get to work on the frosting.
Cream the butter using a mixer on medium speed. Once the butter is nice and fluffy, mix in the vanilla.
Start to add in the sugar. You want to add the sugar about half a cup at a time and let it mix completely before adding more. If you put too much powdered sugar in a mixer all at once you end up with powdered sugar everywhere. Alternate adding the sugar and a tablespoon of milk while mixing.
The frosting is done once you have added 3 cups of the sugar, and the frosting is the consistency you desire. I wanted a nice fluffy frosting because those are easier to work with when you frost the cupcakes. An optional last step is to add food coloring until the frosting reaches your favorite shade of green.
Top each cupcake with about 3 tablespoons of frosting. You can use a piping bag to pipe the frosting onto the cupcakes, or simply use a knife to spread the frosting over the cupcakes. Once frosted, top with green sprinkles. | 2019-04-20T08:15:12 | https://www.shopdwfreshmarket.com/recipes/easy-sprite-zero-cupcakes |
0.999994 | Proof: If so, liquids of Kodesh that touched a Tevul Yom become a Sheini, and cause impurity to Kodshim in a way that the Kodshim can make other Kodshim into a Revi'i.
Proof (cont.): This law regarding the liquids of a Tevul Yom must be according to the retraction of the Mishnah in Nidah (71b). This is as the second part of the Mishnah states, "If some of her spittle or pure blood (i.e. woman who gave birth eight days after having a boy) fell on a loaf of pure Terumah, it is pure."
Proof (cont.): The Gemara states regarding this statement that this is as it says in the Mishnah that the liquids of a Tevul Yom...and each does not cause impurity.
Answer: This is because they are considered like Chulin according to the retraction of the Mishnah in Nidah (ibid.), and even if they were to touch water they would not make it invalid. Our Mishnah says that it cannot make Kodshim impure, but it does make it invalid. Rather, it must be that our Gemara is discussing liquids of Terumah.
Answer (cont.): When the Gemara says, "they both do not cause impurity" it means that they do not cause impurity to Kodesh. However, it does not even cause Terumah to be invalid, as the Mishnah states that if her spittle or pure blood fell on a loaf of Terumah, the loaf is pure.
Question: Our Gemara implies that a Tevul Yom causes liquids of Kodshim to become impure in order that they can make other Kodesh into a Revi'i.
Question (cont.): If so, how can the Gemara in Pesachim (14a) say the following thought? Rebbi Akiva added that the Kohanim never refrained from lighting the oil that became invalid due to a Tevul Yom with a candle (i.e. a candle holder) that had become impure through contact with a dead person.
Question (cont.): The Gemara explains that this candle refers to a metal candle holder that is like a sword stuck into a dead person, and is therefore an Avi Avos ha'Tumah. This was what Rebbi Akiva's added.
Question (cont.): The Gemara asks, why don't we say Rebbi Akiva was referring to an earthenware candle holder? His added statement to the statement of Rebbi Chanina (in Pesachim ibid.) would be that while Rebbi Chanina said the Kohanim did not refrain from burning the meat (of Kodshim that was a Vlad ha'Tumah together with meat of Kodshim that is an Av ha'Tumah), this was in a case where both were impure. In our case oil made invalid by a Tevul Yom is only invalid, and it is being lit by a candle that is impure!
Question (cont.): Why is this oil made invalid by a Tevul Yom called invalid? Don't we say here that the oil itself would make Kodesh invalid (meaning that it itself is impure)?
Answer #1: The Gemara in Pesachim (ibid.) is discussing the Torah law of the oil (which is that it would only be invalid), while in our Gemara we are discussing the Rabbinic law.
Answer #3: Alternatively, it seems that our Gemara and the Mishnah in Nidah (ibid.) is according to Aba Shaul who says that a Tevul Yom is a Rishon for Kodesh. The opinion of Rebbi Akiva in Pesachim (ibid.) is according to the opinion of the Rabanan in Meilah (8b) who say that a Tevul does not even make Kodesh impure, but rather causes it to become invalid.
Answer #3 (cont.): This is as the Mishnah states that one transgresses using a Chatas ha'Of once it is dedicated. Once Melikah is done to it, it is able to become invalid if touched by a Tevul Yom. The Gemara deduces that this implies it specifically becomes invalid, and does not become impure. This is the opinion of the Rabanan etc.
Answer #3 (cont.): The Beraisa explicitly states (Pesachim 19a) that Rebbi Akiva holds like the Rabanan. Rebbi Akiva added that if a Tevul Yom touches part of the flour, incense, frankincense, or coals he has made all of it (that is in the vessel, even if it is not physically connected to what he touched) invalid. This implies that a Tevul Yom can only cause it to be invalid, not impure.
Implied Question: This is despite the fact that we say in Sanhedrin (25a) that when Rebbi Yehudah says, "When do we say etc." he is explaining the previous opinion in the Mishnah. However, this is not the case when he makes this comment in a Beraisa (where he is arguing on the previously quoted opinion).
Answer #1: Rabeinu Tam answers that here the law follows Rebbi Yehudah, as the Mishnah is like him. Even though he is arguing in the Beraisa on the Rabanan, he is indeed explaining in the Mishnah.
Answer #1 (cont.): According to Rami bar Chama, the Gemara in Sanhedrin (25a) implies that Rebbi Yehudah even argues when he says, "When etc." in a Mishnah, if the context indicates he is arguing. In our Gemara it indeed appears he is arguing in the Mishnah, being that he clearly is arguing on the Rabanan in the Beraisa.
Answer #1 (cont.): According to Rebbi Yirmiyah in Gitin (7b, see Tosfos there DH "Omer"), Rebbi Yehudah is coming to argue in the Mishnah when he says "When etc." even if this is not clearly indicated. This is apparent from the discussion there regarding a boat where Rebbi Yirmiyah answers, "This is the opinion of Rebbi Yehudah, and this is the opinion of the Rabanan." Their argument is based on a Mishnah in Chalah (2:2, where Rebbi Yehudah says, "When etc.").
Text: Some Sefarim have the text in the first Beraisa, "And he will cover it - this teaches that one must cover blood that is sprayed and on the wings. Rebbi Yehudah says etc. Another Beraisa states, "And he will cover it - this teaches that one must cover all of the blood. From here they said etc. Raban Shimon ben Gamliel says etc."
Question: This is difficult. In Bechoros (3a), their logic is the opposite! The Rabanan hold that when the Pasuk says, "Bechor" it indicates that even a partial Bechor is a Bechor. This is why the Pasuk says, "All (of the Bechor)," to teach that it must be a total Bechor. Rebbi Yehudah says that "Bechor" indicates a complete Bechor. "All" indicates even if it is a partial Bechor.
Answer #1: Rabeinu Tam says that our Gemara's logic is the same the Gemara in Bechoros (3a). Being that the Pasuk, "Blood" implies all of the blood, Rebbi Yehudah derives from "its blood" that even a small amount of its blood must be covered. The "Vav" of "Damo - its blood" excludes the implication of "Blood" which implies all of the blood. This is similar to the logic in Bechoros where "All" indicates even a partial Bechor.
Question #1: Rabeinu Tam's explanation seems difficult, as the Gemara earlier said that Rebbi Yehudah understands "its blood" as dividing (between a Chayah and Of, showing that even if one of them is slaughtered its blood requires Kisuy), not teaching that even a little bit must be covered.
Question #2: Additionally, Rabeinu Tam's ruling that the law in our Gemara follows Rebbi Yehudah seems to be contradicted from the Gemara in Bechoros (3b). The Gemara there says that nobody agrees with Rebbi Yehudah's opinion that if one is a partner with a Nochri in an animal, the firstborn from the animal is obligated in Bechor.
Answer #2: It therefore seems that we cannot compare two similar derivations made in the Gemara unless the Gemara itself compares those derivations.
Answer #2 (cont.): This is like the derivation "the Besulah - part of the Besulim" which is compared by the Gemara in Kesuvos (97b) to the argument regarding partial money being like all of the money. They are compared because they are similar in nature. When her Besulim are lessened but partially remain intact, it is as if they are left in their entirety. Similarly, when some of the money of a woman's Kesuvah remains uncollected, she is able to collect food from the estate as if she did not collect any of the money.
Answer #2 (cont.): However, "Sheep - implies a partial sheep" which is the subject of an argument between Rebbi Eliezer and the Rabanan cannot be compared to the argument between Rebbi Yehudah ben Beseirah and the Rabanan regarding "All souls" (see Sanhedrin 78a). It similarly cannot be compared to the argument regarding "five - implies not half of five," (see Bechoros 48b) "And five cattle - not five half cattle" (see Bava Kama 71b).
Answer #3: Another answer is that one cannot ask a contradiction from Rebbi Yehudah's opinion in Bechoros (3a) as specifically in that Pasuk the word "Bechor" connotes a full Bechor. This is because a regular animal discussed by the Pasuk is owned entirely by a Jew.
Answer #3 (cont.): Alternatively, the Pasuk "All Bechor in Yisrael" (Bamidbar 3:13) indicates all animals owned exclusively by Jews. This is as the Gemara in Yevamos (102a) derives, "In Yisrael - unless both his father and mother are Jewish."
Explanation: Rashi explains in Bava Kama (69a) that this is ground brick.
Question: This cannot be the explanation, as in our Mishnah "Leveinah" is also mentioned (separately).
Explanation #2: Rashi here explains this refers to broken pieces of pottery.
Question: This is also difficult, as the Beraisa in the Gemara also mentions this (separately).
Explanation: Raban Shimon is not arguing, but rather making a rule regarding the parameters of this Halachah.
Question: Charsis does not grow anything, as implied in Bava Kama (69a), "A sign is that this is like Charsis, from which one does not benefit."
Answer: Rabeinu Tam answers that it does grow things. When the Gemara (ibid.) said that one does not benefit from it, it means that it does not grow enough produce to be able to plant the same area next year (see Rashi in Bava Metzia 105a, DH "Ela Im").
Answer: This is the Medrash itself says that if it is Tzunma, which is similar to Charsis, its fruit are full. Tzunma is not something one grows fruit in, as stated in Pesachim (47b, where Tzunma means very hard land). Rather, the Medrash must be discussing land that is similar to Charsis and Tzunma.
Question: Can't one grow things in metal? The Mishnah in Avodah Zarah (43b) states that Rebbi Yosi says that one should grind the idol and throw it into the wind. They replied to him, it would just become fertilizer. This is referring to an idol made out of metal, as the Gemara there quotes a Pasuk regarding the golden calf in reference to this idol.
Answer #1: It does not grow things by itself, but rather it helps other things to grow by fertilizing them.
Answer #2: Rabeinu Tam answers that through burning it will grow things, as the Gemara there is referring to burning the idol. Every idol is burned first (according to Rabeinu Tam), just like the golden calf.
Explanation #1: Rashi explains that one can explain the Klal (rule, in this case, "v'Chisahu" -- "And he will cover it") in one of two ways, either with a vessel or with something that mixes into it, and the Perat (exception "be'Afar" - "with earth") comes and explains the meaning of the Klal.
Proof: Similarly, in Bechoros (19a) the Beraisa states, "From a Klal that requires a Perat, and from a Perat that requires a Klal. What is an example of this type of derivation? Sanctify for Me every firstborn. One might think this means even firstborn females. This is why the Pasuk continues, "male." If the Pasuk would only say, "male" I would think that even if a female was born before him he should be considered a firstborn, as he is the first male born. This is why the Pasuk says, "the one who exits the womb." If the Pasuk would only say, "that exits the womb," I would think that this is even if he is born after the birth of offspring from a Caesarean section. This is why the Pasuk says, "firstborn."
Proof (cont.): "Male" is not an explanation of the rule, as this is a complete Klal and Perat. "Firstborn" is the Klal, and "male" is the Perat, and the Klal is only defined by the Perat.
Proof (cont.): Rather, the Perat of "that exits the womb" explains the Klal. This is because it is possible to explain the Klal "firstborn" in many ways. One could say it means the firstborn of all of the offspring, or the firstborn of the womb even if it is not the firstborn of all of the offspring, for example if it was born through "another womb" from a Caesarean section. It could also mean the first male, even though a female was born naturally before him. The Perat teaches that when a female is born before him he is not called a firstborn. Rather, he must be the first born out of the womb.
Answer #1: If not for the Perat, I would think that even offspring born through Caesarean section are considered firstborn as they are the firstborn, even though they are not the firstborn through the womb (i.e. naturally).
Answer #2: Alternatively, according to Abaye both the word "firstborn" and "that exits the womb" are a Klal and a Perat. They are each necessary to define the other, and each has an aspect of being a Klal requiring a Perat, and a Perat requiring a Klal. Each does not explain one aspect and explains a different aspect.
Answer #2 (cont.): "Firstborn" implies even a Caesarean, while "that exits the womb" excludes a Caesarean. "That exits the womb" implies even if it was born after offspring was born through a Caesarean birth, and "firstborn" excludes this case.
Explanation #2: Rabeinu Tam explains that in both our Gemara the Gemara in Bechoros (ibid.), the Klal u'Perat is a regular Klal u'Perat. "Firstborn" implies anyway he is a firstborn. The Perat comes to exclude. "And he will cover it" implies whether with a vessel or with earth. The Perat implies specifically with earth.
Explanation #2 (cont.): The reason that this is considered a Klal that needs a Perat is not because of the possibility mentioned in the Beraisa that it is enough to cover it with a vessel. Rather, it is regarding the teaching stated earlier (83b) from "with earth" that one must place earth on top and on bottom. "And he will cover it" implies on top, not on bottom. This is why this Klal is considered needing a Perat.
Explanation #2 (cont.): The Gemara in Bechoros (ibid.) is not coming to explain the concept of a Klal that requires a Perat, but rather the concept of a Perat that requires a Klal.
Explanation #2 (cont.): This is as the second part of the Beraisa states, "If it is dependent on exiting the womb, perhaps even offspring that is born after a Caesarean birth should be a firstborn. This is why the Pasuk says, "firstborn."
Answer: The main point of the Beraisa is to teach regarding a Perat that requires a Klal.
Answer #1: The earth of the desert does have things growing in it of their own accord (and therefore would not necessarily be excluded from the Mishnah). Rav Nachman is teaching that earth that does not grow plants when seeds are planted in it cannot be used.
Answer #2: Alternatively, we would think that the Mishnah would say that one could use it for Kisuy, as it belongs to a type of earth that does grow things (even though it itself does not).
Question: What is Rebbi Yosi's question on the Rabanan in Avodah Zarah (43b) from the Pasuk, "And your sin that you committed etc.?" They were in the desert, and therefore what they planted in did not grow!
Answer: Perhaps when Bnei Yisrael went there it did grow.
Answer: This refers to all metal besides gold that is called earth. This is as the Pasuk states, "And earth of gold is to him." Even though it does not grow plants, it can be used as it is called earth. If it would grow plants, we would not require the reason that it is called earth. The same applies to the ashes of one's clothing and of a red heifer.
Question: Since the earth mentioned in the Pasuk is even referring to earth that does not grow plants, why don't we include from the Pasuk, "And he will cover it" things that do not grow plants? It would seem that we should not exclude them from the Perat of "earth."
Answer: The earth discussed in the Pasuk is only referring to earth that grows plants. The inclusion from the word "And he will cover it" includes anything that grows plants, or something that is called earth even though it does not grow plants. "Earth of gold (i.e. gold dust)" and ashes of clothing would not have been included if not for the inclusion implied by "And he will cover it."
Observation: It is now understandable why the Gemara asks in Sotah (16a), "If there is no earth, can one use ashes (for the Sotah water) according to Beis Hillel who holds that ashes are considered earth regarding Kisuy ha'Dam?"
Observation (cont.): The Gemara there continues to bring a proof from Rebbi Yochanan's statement in the name of Rebbi Yishmael. He says that in three places we find that the Halachah uproots the Pasuk. Regarding Kisuy ha'Dam, the Torah states, "with earth" yet the Halachah is that anything can be used.
Observation (cont.): Rebbi Yishmael argues on our Beraisa that derives this Halachah of that "anything" can be used from "And he will cover it," and he holds that it is derived from a Halachah l'Moshe mi'Sinai.
Observation (cont.): The Gemara's proof is that if ashes could be used for Sotah water, why wouldn't Rebbi Yishmael list this as well? However, if we derive that ashes are included in the word "earth," why would the Gemara ask that it should be considered among this list where the Halachah is that anything can be used? (It is considered earth!) Rather, it must be that our Beraisa derives this from "And he will cover it," and Rebbi Yishmael derives it from a Halachah l'Moshe mi'Sinai.
Answer #1: Rabeinu Tam explains that ashes of the stove that come from wood can grow things that are planted in them. They are unlike ashes of food or clothing that does not grow things planted in them.
Answer #2: Rabeinu Shmuel explains that the Gemara asks in Beitzah (2a), "Who mentioned ashes of a stove?" The Gemara answers that it is as if there were words missing in the Mishnah, and it meant to say, "And ashes of a stove are considered set aside for usage." It is a separate statement, and is not according to Beis Shamai.
Explanation: Rashi explains that this refers to earth that is chipped off of the grindstones.
Explanation (cont.): This is not ground stone, as the Beraisa earlier mentioned ground stone.
Explanation (cont.): When the Beraisa says, "They added" it is referring to the Beraisa quoted earlier and not the Mishnah. This is apparent from the fact that it does not mention any of the things mentioned in the previous Beraisa. | 2019-04-19T00:35:17 | http://www.dafyomi.co.il/chulin/tosfos/ch-ts-088.htm |
0.999355 | Determines whether a given module exists.
as of Drupal 8.0. Use Drupal::moduleHandler()->moduleExists($hook).
Get a list of available breakpoints from a specified module. | 2019-04-22T08:51:46 | http://api.hostdog.gr/api/drupal-8/drupal%21core%21includes%21bootstrap.inc/function/module_exists/8.x |
0.998119 | The return of club football coincided with the realLionel Messi standing up, inspiring Barcelona to a 2-0 win over Espanyol with a brace, maintaining a 10-point gap at the top of the table. Zinedine Zidane's Real Madrid were almost embarrassed by bottom-placed Huesca, Karim Benzema's 89th-minute goal saw them pinch it 3-2.
Liverpool opened up a two-point lead at the top of the Premier League with a last-gasp 2-1 win over Tottenham Hotspur. Manchester City, though, do have a game in hand (Cardiff City, late on Wednesday).
Manchester United celebrated Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's permanent appointment with a scrappy 2-1 win over Watford, while In Italy, Moise Kean ensured that Juve didn't miss Cristiano Ronaldo in a 1-0 win over Empoli to maintain their 15-point lead atop Serie A.
Lionel Messi has now equalled the record for most number of wins in La Liga history (level with Real Madrid great Iker Casillas).
We all live in Lionel Messi's world.
In the Premier League, Solskjaer's touch continues to roll back the years at Manchester United. This is the first time since the 1995-96 season that United have had four players score 10+ goals in a single Premier League campaign (Paul Scholes, Andy Cole, Ryan Giggs and Eric Cantona then; Anthony Martial, Marcus Rashford, Romelu Lukaku and Paul Pogba now).
They are also the only side in the PL to have four players score 10+ goals this campaign.
Is Christian Eriksen Tottenham Hotspur's most consistent player? The Dane's pass to set up Lucas Moura's goal against Liverpool made him just the second player to assist 10+ PL goals in four successive seasons after David Beckham (1997-98 to 2000-01).
Liverpool have scored 33 winning goals in the 90th minute or later in PL history. That's at least eight more than any other side.
Only Chelsea have had a longer unbeaten home run in the PL than Liverpool's current streak of 37. How long was Chelsea's you ask? Eighty-six -- back when the Special One was still pretty special (2004-08).
Only two players have more assists than Andy Robertson in the Premier League this season.
Andy Robertson has nine assists in the PL this season. Only two other defenders -- Andy Hinthcliffe (1994-95) and Leighton Baines (2010-11) have had more in a single campaign (both 11).
This season, only Eden Hazard (11) and Ryan Fraser (10) have more assists than the Scot in the PL.
Only Derby County have been relegated sooner than Huddersfield Town in a Premier League season. Huddersfield were relegated on 30 March 2019 and Derby on 29 March 2008.
Over in Germany, Jadon Sancho is still tearing it up. The young Englishman's 13 Bundesliga assists are the most for any player in the Europe's top five leagues this season (Messi is on 12) and also the most by any player before turning 20 in the leagues since 2010-11.
*The current season is, of course, ongoing. | 2019-04-25T07:45:00 | http://theorionnaij.com/index.php/sports/126-weekend-numbers-jadon-sancho-overtakes-lionel-messi-christian-eriksen-equals-david-beckham |
0.998796 | Actress Taylor Miller is preparing a comfort stew with chicken.
1) Dry chicken with paper towels and season with salt and pepper.
2) Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large skillet over med-high heat until just smoking.
3) Brown half the chicken lightly on both sides, 5-8 minutes; transfer to a bowl.
4) Repeat with 1 tablespoon more oil and remaining chicken; transfer to bowl.
Heat 1 tablespoon more oil over med-high heat until shimmering.
5) Add onions, garlic, tomato paste, and thyme; cook until onions are softened and lightly browned, 8-10 minutes.
6) Stir in flour and cook 1 minute.
7)Slowly whisk in wine, scraping up any browned bits.
8) Whisk in 1cup broth, smoothing out any lumps; transfer to slow cooker.
1) Microwave potatoes and carrots with remaining tablespoon oil in covered bowl, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are nearly tender, about 5 minutes; transfer to slow cooker.
2) Stir remaining 3 cups broth and bay leaves into slow cooker.
3) Nestle browned chicken with any accumulated juice into slow cooker.
4) Cover and cook until chicken is tender, 4-6 hours on LOW.
5) Transfer chicken to cutting board; let cool slightly; shred into bite-sized pieces.
6) Let stew settle for 5 minutes, then remove fat from surface using a large spoon.
8) Stir shredded chicken and peas into stew and let sit until heated through, about 5 minutes.
9) Adjust stew consistency with additional hot broth as needed.
10) Stir in parsley, season with salt and pepper to taste; serve. | 2019-04-21T20:13:09 | https://www.hallmarkchannel.com/home-and-family/recipes/homey-chicken-stew |
0.989393 | How does one become a copyeditor? Is that the kind of job one falls into? Or do you need to be schooled or something? I am genuinely curious, as it's something I've thought of doing but no nothing about.
I took a class in it, at NYU's School of Continuing Education. This was in 1996 or so, I think. Maybe 1997. It was a 1-semester fundamentals in copyediting and proofreading taught by Tory Klose, the managing editor of Viking and a bit of a publishing legend. She learned us up good, y'all.
Most (or many, I should say) community colleges offer a copyediting fundamentals course. The problem then, as it is with so many things, is finding work. Once you have a a few good clients on the resume, it gets easier. But those first few are difficult.
There is a newsletter publication called Copy Editor that has an online presence and a job forum (or they used to, anyway; it's been a few years since I've checked).
I agree with you--I've had a similar experience. Other than a few adolescent novel- and short-story writing attempts, and one novelwriting attempt at 20 years old, I really didn't "start" writing seriously until after I'd worked in publishing for several years.
I think more people seem to evolve the opposite way: they start out as writers and wind up becoming editors. I say, it's probably better to start out as an editor and wind up becoming a writer. Though there are other options, like starting out as an editor and remaining one, starting out as a writer and remaining one, starting out as neither and remaining as neither or ultimately becoming an editor or writer or both, and so on. | 2019-04-22T00:04:11 | https://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2005/09/guest_copyediti.html |
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Lyddie – final test – essay questions. Enslavement:-when Lyddie’s mother makes a contract for Lyddie to work at Cutler’s Tavern, and her wages are sent to her mother, Lyddie feels like a slave. She sleeps on the floor of the attic, works several hours per day, gets no break time.
Lyddie is the story of an impoverished farm girl named Lyddie Worthen. She is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker. When working conditions threaten the health of co-workers, she has to make a choice-speak up and risk her job o. | 2019-04-21T06:16:13 | https://app-wiringdiagram.herokuapp.com/post/lyddie-test |
0.999383 | How important is it to use exact OEM bolts?
The torque spec of that part is very low, perhaps just under 9 ft lbs apprx if memory serves correct, so that bolt should be okay as that amount of torque isn't much more than a hand tight snug. If it was me I'd just use a normal metric hex bolt and be done with it, but if that bolt was the right length it will fine. All you are doing with that part is keeping it compressed against the manifold so the o-ring seals, no crazy amount of torque needed.
9LB-FT doesn't sound like much between us friends. But its ~the maximum allowable torque for a M6 C10.9 fastener. For reference, 9LB-FT causes ~2800LB in clamping load, depending on thread friction.
Its PAST the max allowable for a lesser fastener grade.
Those silly O-Rings seal properly given a clamp load that some nerd figured out. That's why the screw size, type, and location is where it is.
If "use whatever" worked...then Honda could have saved some cash by using lesser grade fasteners. Almost every hex screw on the car is C10.9.
Why would those be bad? Sorry I am not a mechanic and don't know much about this stuff. I will only have it in there for about a week longer until the new OEM bolts arrive think any serious damage could occur in a week? I have only driven it one time.
Mechanics don't realize this a lot of times either.
Stainless steel should never be used against aluminum. The corrosion reaction sacrifices the aluminium. Basically turns it into a powder.
Stainless fasteners also have a different torque/tension relationship. So the torque you put in doesn't equate to the right amount of clamping load for the joint.
A "standard grade" stainless fastener is also substantially weaker than a C10.9 steel fastener. So you CANNOT torque to C10.9 spec without stretching it out.
Use a plated C10.9 flange JIS hex screw and torque to spec. Again...McMaster carries them.
A week with the stainless bolt won't hurt, as long as you're not spraying it with a catalyst (salt water, for example).
Just wanted to take this opportunity to share this stretched bolt from my modding past. This was from a tensioner bolt after a (non-s2k) supercharger install - the extra force from the supercharger was more than the bolt was designed for and thankfully it didn't snap before it was found.
Ha, I know but this bolt is too neat to not share.
Like someone said for serious load bearing parts I wouldn't run a random hardware store bolt even as it could easily break and cause more damage. This is things like suspension components, brake calipers etc. That isn't to say you have to but a bolt from Honda but that is often easier than figure out what grade the OEM bolt is and then finding the same grade bolt in the size and thread pitch you need. For something like your case I think it is probably find but it is smart to replace it with the right thing sooner rather than later.
For OEM honda stuff I always look it up on hondapartsonline or a similar site and then toss the part number in Amazon, ebay and even just google to find the best overall deal after shipping.
Back to OEM HG...Should I Use Studs or bolts?
Can I use different bolts for driveshaft?
Quick Reply: How important is it to use exact OEM bolts? | 2019-04-26T06:18:29 | https://www.s2ki.com/forums/s2000-under-hood-22/how-important-use-exact-oem-bolts-1191658/page2/ |
0.998923 | I'm planning a hedgerow with plants that will attract birds. My question is whether all fruiting shrubs require male and female plants in order to set fruit. I know that certain plants do, such as northern bayberry ("Myrica pensylvanica") and holly ("Ilex verticillata"). But what about chokeberry ("Aronia arbutifolia"), spice bush ("Lindera benzoin"), American cranberry bush ("Viburnum trilobum"), fragrant sumac ("Rhus aromatica"), and Oregon grape holly ("Mahonia aquifolium")?
Flowers have structures we've dubbed female and male -- a female pistil can produce fruit if it's fertilized with pollen from a male stamen. Many plants grow both pistils and stamens, so that even solitary individuals of that type can produce ripe berries. Many shrubs, including chokeberry, cranberry bush viburnum and grape holly are in this group.
Spice bush is different. Like true holly, it's dioecious -- a single plant produces either pistils or stamens but not both. In such species we call a plant that has pistils a female and understand it can't set fruit unless a stamen-producing male plant of that species is nearby.
Bayberry and fragrant sumac walk the line between the two groups. Usually they are dioecious, but sometimes one plant can berry on its own.
It's not common to find male and female tags on less popular dioecious species. Although many garden centers sell bayberry and a fair number offer spicebush, only a few specialty nurseries might have spicebush in the male variety 'Green Gold' and female 'Rubra,' or female 'Myda' and male 'Myriman' bayberry.
To be sure to get fruit on spicebush, bayberry, and sumac, buy only when they are blooming so you can look closely at the flowers. You've found a male when the fresh flowers -- those that have recently opened and show no signs of fading -- are producing powdery pollen. If you do not find any pollen, chances are very good you've found a female. One male is all you need to pollinate a yard-full of females.
In November I put a bittersweet branch in water and am keeping it in the house by a south window. Will it take root and can I plant it outside next spring? I change the water every so often and add a bit of liquid fertilizer. I've also found the little seeds in the bittersweet and have tried to plant these but it doesn't look like anything is coming up.
To grow bittersweet from a cutting, take a six- to twelve inch hardwood cutting while the vine is dormant between November and late March or a semi-hardwood cutting in midsummer.
Wrap and store hardwood cuttings like you would carrots, in a moist 40 degree crisper drawer or buried outdoors in sand. In March, re-cut the base of a hardwood cutting and "stick" it -- insert half its length into moist sandy potting mix. Then wait for it to leaf out, grow it in good light, water it carefully, keep the foliage from drying out and apply just a bit of dilute fertilizer. Roots will begin to form after a month or two.
Stick more cuttings than you need because some will fail to root.
Bittersweet is dioecious, having separate male and female plants. So if you want the bright orange berries, grow two. Take hardwood cuttings from a female -- one that had berries last fall. Then at blooming time in June, identify a male so you can take semi-hardwood cuttings from that one at midsummer. Stick semi-hardwood cuttings right away.
Although you looked for berries and flowers as identifiers, take cuttings from new branches that did not yet flower or fruit. These usually root best.
The seeds will sprout in spring if you clean away the fruit, plant them in moist potting mix, then set the planted pot or tray in a refrigerator or outdoors. The seeds require two to three months' chilling before germination time.
Paul Ecke, one of the leading names in U.S. poinsettia production, writes in "The Poinsettia Manual" that a poinsettia's show lasts longer if a small light is left burning near the plant at night.
up to retailers who keep gardening tools out for the holiday shopping season. We gardeners love to give practical gifts and prefer the real thing to gift certificates. We're faithful to you all year when you cater to us during the mis-labeled "off" season!
to snowbirds' covetous ways. Stop dreaming about growing southern plants in northern landscapes. Those attractive trees and shrubs you see during your winters down South are almost certainly not hardy here or you would already be familiar with them. | 2019-04-26T08:32:59 | http://gardenatoz.com/what's-up!/ensemble-weekly-editions/late-fall/grow-494-male-female-differences-in-bushes/ |
0.99878 | Comments On My Pronunciation Needed?
I have been working on improving my English pronunciation and would be very grateful if some of you would listen to a two-minute clip of my speech and lend me your comments. The clip is 5MB in size and I've uploaded it to this URL: http://www.mediafire.com/?m2vmzzmj2ma . The text is from Richard III.
However - one tip I would make is this: you need to speak with someone who can give you tips AS you talk!
critical and constructive feedback, as you speak - you'll find it much more helpful!
There is NO shortcut to overcoming pronunciation issues. Just consistent hard work ad practice! BUT - you need to practice properly!
Remember - practice doesn't make perfect - practice makes PERMANENT - so you need to practice THE RIGHT WAY!
Please feel free to skype me anytime!
I'll help you if I can!
Caedmon, don't change anything. You speak English beautifully!
If English is in fact not your first language, my guess is that you're from India... ?
- The distinction between voiced and voiceless sibilants (eyes-ice, ridge-rich) does not exist in my native language. I noticed that I had been hyperarticulating these in English, and sounding somewhat pedantic as a result.
- The secondary stress in compounds is still unclear to me.
- I sometimes tend to flap my r's between vowels instinctively, and sometimes not.
- I understand that the two diphthongs in "fair" and "poor" are on the verge of disappearing and being replaced with long monophthongs. When I pronounce these sounds myself, I feel as if I'm gliding over to a subtle schwa at the very end of them but I don't know if it comes across at all and, in case it does, if it sounds archaic or foreign or silly.
Thank you for the compliment. I'm not from India, but I'm glad that you think so. People from my country have a reputation for having a strong and distinctive foreign accent when they're speaking English, and this is what I really want to avoid.
I think your pronouciation is fantastic. I think I would assume you were English. Nothing really leapt out at me as 'wrong' but bear in mind there isn't just one English accent, so any tiny variations are usually assumed to regional as long as overall the accent sounds authentic.
At times you sound a little bit stilted/odd intonation but I get the feeling that is because you were reciting Shakespear, which isn't natural modern language anyway. You might find it a better idea to pratice modern prose instead.
I too think your pronunciation was very good, and it certainly sounds like a more British than American accent. Like nona said, speaking poetry really is different from conversational speaking. Try to find maybe a transcript of a news broadcast by native English speakers.
Thank you both for listening. Regarding the regional variation that Nona mentions, this is in fact what I'm ultimately hoping for, i.e. that native English-speakers will react to my speech as if it was just a dialect with which they happen to be unfamiliar. That's one of the advantages of studying a language that is as widely spoken as English. I doubt the same situation would be possible in, say, Estonian or Navajo.
But i am very shy when i talk in english with someone.. Becoz i am afraid of making mistakes.. n talking wronge..
So i can't improve my eng enogh..
And the saying of '' a, b, c, d, e...... '' are diffirent in these languges i know..
So they always confuse my head.. | 2019-04-20T22:10:03 | https://www.englishforums.com/English/CommentsPronunciationNeeded/gpjbg/post.htm |
0.999999 | Mahatma Gandhi University has implemented the Centralized Allotment Process (CAP) for admission to its affiliated colleges since 2011. Therefore admissions are conducted as per the rules of the university.
There is only a single application form for applying for admission to all the PG Degree Programmes in various affiliated colleges for considering them in the Open/Reservation Quota except sports quota/cultural quota/Lakshdweep quota and Persons with Disabilities (PD) quota. If a candidate submits more than one application his/her candidature is liable to be cancelled. The candidates seeking admission through community merit/management quota/ sports quota/cultural quota/Lakshadweep quota/NRI/Staff quota and PD quota should submit separate applications to the respective colleges also. The above candidates should also apply under the Centralised Allotment Process, if they are to be considered for general allotment.
Submission of application i.e. registration of personal and academic data as well as options for programmes and colleges shall be done on-line. Before submitting the application form, candidates are advised to verify the details of programmes in a college including hostel facilities through the website of individual colleges, in addition to the information given in the prospectus published by the University. Before selecting a programme the applicant shall satisfy himself/herself that he/she possesses the prescribed qualification for applying for the programme.
The student can check his/her application status online using their User id (application number) and password.
Create a ‘Password’. (The password will be used for all future online operations). The password created by the candidate should not be disclosed to others who may misuse them. This may result in tampering with the options and the University will not be responsible for any such eventuality.
Generate a Chalan print out. The Chalan bears an ‘Application number’. The application number will have to be used by the candidate for all future online and offline operations.
Remembering of the Application Number and the password is the applicant’s responsibility.
Fill in the Application form with personal details, academic eligibility and the options correctly.
Submit the signed application along with self attested copies of the necessary documents to Deputy Registrar (Acad – I), MG University, PD Hills, Kottayam, PIN: 686560 by post or in person.
All options for which the candidate is eligible will be displayed on the Home Page. The candidate may follow the directions given therein to register the options. The data entered should be saved regularly by clicking the ‘save’ button, so that the data already entered is not lost due to unexpected reasons. The candidate should enter only those options in which he/she is interested. Candidate should also note that he /she will be considered for allotment only to those programmes and colleges opted by him or her. So a candidate who has not opted for a programme-college combination will not be considered for allotment for that combination. Existing options, registered by the candidate and available in the home page can be cancelled by clicking the delete button. All options registered by the candidate will be processed. If a candidate gets allotted to a particular seat, based on his or her option, he /she is bound to accept it, failing which, he /she will lose that allotment as well as his /her claims for any seats in any stream. Such candidates will not be eligible for any further allotment in any stream. The options for college(s) and programme(s) can be done while filing online registration of personal and academic data or subsequently within the last date of submission of application. No extension of time will be granted for registering options under any circumstances. The maximum no. of colleges that can be opted by an applicant is 20 (Twenty).
Options have to be registered only through the website www.mgu.ac.in. Based on their eligibility, candidates should register their options in their ‘Home Page’ for the programmes and colleges, within the stipulated time, for being considered for allotment. Candidates can visit the website and follow the instructions given therein to register their options.
The options in the ‘home page’ of the candidate at the time specified for closing of registration of options alone will be considered for processing. Once the candidate completes the option entry, he/she can view his/ her options by clicking on the ‘View Option List’ provided. An option list will be generated and the candidate can take a print out of the same and keep it for future reference. If the candidate wants to change his/her option already registered, he/she may revise the options as desired and should see that the options are listed as per his/her priority.
Before the Trial Allotment, the application details as entered by the candidate will be published for verification by the candidates. Candidates will have the provision to modify option details even at this stage. Rank list shall be prepared on the basis of the ranking marks arrived at as per the rules in this regard.
Trial Allotment: A Trial Allotment will be conducted to give an idea about the chances of getting allotment to a programme and college based on the options, merit and the reservation norms. The trial allotment does not guarantee that the candidate will get allotment in a college or programme of his/her choice, for ranks may vary in the actual allotment subject to data modification by the applicants after the trial allotment.
First Allotment: After the Trial Allotment and the period earmarked for rearranging options, the first Allotment list will be published in the website www.mgu.ac.inorwww.cap.mgu.ac.in on the date to be notified. A provisional Allotment Memo will be displayed in the website and the candidate shall take a print out of the same to be produced in the bank for remitting the required fee. The allotment memo will show the personal details, the college and the programme to which the candidate is allotted and the fee to be remitted.
Remitting of Fee: The prescribed fee due to the University will have to be remitted by the candidate to the account specified by the University in any designated branch of State Bank of Travancore as enlisted in Annexure -III as per the time schedule prescribed. Once the candidate remits the prescribed fee, the bank will acknowledge the receipt of the fee by affixing the seal in the student’s copy of the allotment memo.
Kerala SC/ST candidates, who get allotment, shall remit a token amount of Rs.50/-. The payment of fees through any other mode of remittance will not be accepted.
Candidates who remit the fee as per the first allotment within the prescribed time limit will have the facility to cancel/alter the priority of their higher order options in the list of options registered by them before the next allotment. This facility will be activated in the ‘Home Page’ of the candidates on the dates notified.
Those candidates who do not remit the fee on or before the date specified, will lose their current allotment as well as the eligibility for further allotments.
After the first allotment, the options below the ‘allotted one’ of the candidates will automatically be removed from the option list of the candidate. For example, if a candidate had registered 40 options in all, and if he/she is allotted his/her 20th option, all options from 21 to 40 will be automatically removed from the option list. Options from 1 to 19 will remain valid and will be considered for future allotments. He/she may delete/rearrange any options among the remaining options as per his/her desire. But the candidate will not be permitted to register any fresh option to the existing ones.
Existing options registered by candidate, available in the Home Page, can be deleted by clicking the delete button. Deleting/Changing of preference of options must be done one at a time, each time clicking the ‘Delete’ button.
If a candidate is satisfied with an allotment and does not want to be considered again for further allotment(s), he/she must cancel all the remaining higher options. A candidate retaining all or any of his/her higher options after an allotment, is bound to accept the next allotment, if any, failing which he/she will lose the previous allotment as well as the new allotment. He/She will not be considered for any further allotments.
The Second/Further Allotment list will be published on the dates to be notified.
Any lapse on the part of the Head of the Institution with regard to the irregular admission shall be viewed seriously (Circular No. Ac AI/3/2114/2008 dated 06/11/2008).
Cancellation/Re-arrangement of options after the first allotment: Candidates who remit the fee as per the first allotment within the prescribed time limit will have the facility to cancel/re-arrange their higher options before the second allotment during a specified period.
All options registered by the candidate will be processed. If a candidate gets allotted to particular programme and college, based on his/her option, he/she shall join the programme, failing which, he/she will lose that allotment and will not be considered for any further allotments.
Candidates will not be allotted to a College/Programme, not opted by them.
Reporting at the College for admission: All students who get allotment should report for admission at the college concerned after remitting the requisite fee in the bank. Those who fail to do this will be treated as Not Joined and further claim for admission from these students will not be entertained.
The candidates should produce the following documents in original before the Principal/Head of the college/institution at the time of admission.
Grade card/ Marklists of all parts of the Degree examination and Provisional/Degree Certificate.
Eligibility Certificate from Mahatma Gandhi University, in the case of candidates who have passed their qualifying examination from other Universities.
Community Certificate along with Income certificate from the revenue authorities concerned to the effect that annual family income of all members of family from all sources taken together is less than Rs. 4.5 lakhs in the case of SEBC candidates who claim reservation under SEBC category. The income certificate should not have been issued earlier than 12 months prior to the submission of application.
The college authorities, after verifying the above documents, shall admit the candidate and make necessary updations in the admission portal. The students who get admission in their first option should remit the fee applicable to the course in the institution at the time of admission. Those students who decide to seek permanent admission by cancelling the higher options also shall remit the fee in the institution. Those who retain higher options need not pay any fee in the institution at the time of admission. However in the second allotment, they should remit the fee applicable to the programme secured in the higher option and join the college, and if not secured, they should remit the fee applicable to the programme secured in the previous option. The original certificates of all the admitted students shall be kept in the respective institutions. On getting allotment in a higher option, the student should get the certificates back from the institution and submit the same to the newly allotted institution.
Confirmation of Allotment: As the allotment is based on the information furnished by the candidate online, the eligibility should be confirmed at the time of admission. The principal/Head of the college/institution should verify the details furnished in the allotment memo in respect of the candidate by comparing the same with the original documents produced by the candidate. Any discrepancy which results in the invalidation of the allotment should be reported to the University and admission should be denied in such cases. The principal/Head of the college/institution shall be personally responsible for ensuring the correctness of the relevant details in online application by verifying it with original records produced by the candidate. The University will also verify the records produced by the candidates who got admission in due course and any discrepancy detected will lead to the cancellation of the allotment. A Special Allotment will be conducted for SC/ST candidates. SC/ST candidates who secure allotment through CAP and wish to retain their higher options will be permitted to take provisional admission in all allotments up to the special allotment.
Fees other than the one already paid as applicable to the programme/institution, will have to be remitted by the candidate at the time of taking permanent admission in the college.
Verification of Documents: The Principal/Head of the Institution shall be personally responsible for verification of original documents and satisfaction of the correctness of the records produced by the candidate at the time of seeking admission in the College/institution. The admission should be done on-line through the panel provided by the University by ensuring the correctness of the candidate details. If any discrepancies are noted in the online data and the original records, the allotment will be cancelled. The University will also verify the records produced by the candidates who got admission in due course.
Cancellation of Higher Options after joining a College: Candidates who join the college on the date specified can cancel their remaining options fully or partially or change the priority of their remaining options before the date specified. A candidate, not interested in any further allotments, must cancel all his/her options before the specified date, failing which, the options will remain live and will be considered for further allotments, if any.
There is an admission committee functioning in the college to help the Principal in the matter of students’ admission to various courses. | 2019-04-19T03:22:28 | http://devamatha.ac.in/page/view/admission-to-P-G |
0.999668 | What were some of your fears about training so vigorously while pregnant, if you had any?
In the beginning I was worried about training in the heat and humidity. I knew that regulating my body temperature was critical for the baby's health. (If I got too hot, the baby could as well.) Other than that I didn't really have any fears; I knew that exercise was beneficial during pregnancy and with the running base I had, as long as I listened to my body, marathon training wouldn't cause any harm.
You mentioned exercise being beneficial to pregnancy. Many women argue otherwise. Would you say this is a misconception, and what are a few other misunderstandings about pregnancy in relation to fitness that you'd like to address?
I think there are a lot of misconceptions about pregnancy and fitness. Many people think that once you become pregnant you need to limit your exercise. However, even my doctor agrees that it's the opposite. Exercise is wholly beneficial to you and your baby! You don't really need to limit yourself until your body is sending you negative signals, or unless your doctor has directed you to do so. I plan to run all the way up until I deliver my child, as long as my pregnancy continues to be healthy and running agrees with my ever-changing body. I have already had to limit myself to body-weight exercises and definitely can't do as deep of squats as I did pre-pregnancy. But I'm still exercising which is the most important part.
What has been the hardest part about running while pregnant? Any tips?
I have been blessed with an incredibly easy and healthy pregnancy thus far. The hardest part for me, so far, has been experiencing back aches. I fairly recently started running with a belly band for added support in my lower back, which has been really helpful. Other than that, thankfully I've had no real issues. If morning sickness is an issue for someone, I would say still try and get out to do what you can exercise-wise because (hopefully) the nausea/vomiting will pass, and it's going to be harder to exercise when you've been inactive for so long. Any type of exercise base you can keep from the start will make it easier to continue exercising further into pregnancy, and afterwards! | 2019-04-19T05:03:44 | https://www.fleetfeet.com/s/chattanooga/news/q-a-running-while-pregnant |
0.999966 | What is a lab tech / RA / lab manager?
All right! Lab techs ("lab technicians"), RAs ("research assistants"), and lab managers are terms that are sometimes used interchangeably and sometimes refer to distinct positions. But most of the time, they refer to someone who has just graduated college and is working full time in a research lab before applying to graduate school.
Lab tech / RA / lab manager jobs are great. They give potential graduate students the opportunity to experience what research is like on a day-to-day basis; basically, you're in grad school but with administrative responsibilities. The amount of time you spent on administrative responsibilities compared to research depends on the lab. To the lab, your primary job is to manage the lab (administration) and research opportunities come second. To you, you want to do as much research as possible, and get an awesome letter of recommendation, before applying to graduate school. Luckily, everyone is completely aware of this situation, and a good professor will make sure that their lab techs also have the opportunity to do research.
Lab tech / RA / lab manager jobs are becoming the norm as an interim period between undergrad and grad school. They are almost always two-year positions, and you apply for them in Jan / Feb / March if you want to start in June when you graduate. Happily, they don't actually start appearing until February-ish, so you really don't have to get started early on them. In fact, they're pretty optimally timed because if you don't get into grad school (you'll know by the failure to receive interviews) then most people do a few years as a lab tech / RA / lab manager before reapplying and they get in the second time.
The second reason you might want to work as a lab tech / RA / lab manager is because you need to have more research experience before applying to graduate school. I was told that I needed to do an extra year or so before applying, and more and more people nowadays are doing extra work before graduate school as application processes become more competitive. Current professors did not need to be as qualified to enter graduate school as today's students (I've heard this from many professors), and as more people apply with two years of research experience and paper publications, it becomes less likely that people will be accepted straight out of undergrad. For most of the schools I interviewed at, undergrads were outnumbered or close to outnumbered by students who'd taken some time off to do research. When you train longer you ARE more qualified-- you know that you want to do research, you've lived the research life and done well, and you have excellent qualifications. Some people who went straight in have told me they regretted this choice mainly because they didn't have time to live "real life" before going straight back to being a student. That said, half of my graduate school cohort went straight from undergrad this year, and if you're qualified and know that's what you want to do, and you get in, I say go for it and skip the lab tech / RA / lab manager step.
I'd spend some time talking to professors about whether you should do a lab tech / RA / lab manager job or not. They're going to have a good perspective on whether you have enough research experience to be accepted to graduate school the first time, and whether it might be good for you personally to take some time off. It's different for everyone, though the trend is increasingly moving towards more people doing research.
So how do you find these positions? There are things called "listservs" where jobs like these are posted. Your university department should also send out notices periodically to seniors. But I found most of my potential jobs just by checking professors' websites and seeing if they had openings. There will usually be a page on a lab's website that will say "Contact" or "Interested in the Lab?" and research positions are usually advertised there. Even if the lab doesn't explicitly state an opening (this will usually be the case), email the professor. In the email, you should include what you want (a position) and why you're qualified for it. This usually takes the form of a cover letter and CV. And if the lab has advertised a position, follow their additional instructions. I only applied for one of these positions, but after getting to the short-list I had to do a short coding test to make sure I was qualified. Different labs will have different ways of interviewing applicants. ASK FOR HELP FROM PROFESSORS WHEN DOING THIS. It's a job application, and you only get one shot at it because you're cold-emailing people, so it is very important you do it right the first time!
All right, I think that's about everything! Some things about terminology before finishing up. Sometimes, "lab tech" refers to people who are full-time employees who only do administrative things, and are usually older and not planning to go to graduate school. Sometimes "lab tech" refers to people who do all of the coding in a lab but don't do any science. Sometimes "research assistant" refers to undergraduate researchers and not people who are in the interim period after college. Lab manager usually refers just to the job I've been describing, but is sometimes less commonly used. Usage seems to depend on school and where you are regionally as far as I can tell.
page. I'm not really qualified to tell you about it, since I didn't do one, but a lot of my friends have, including those in clinical positions (shoot me a message if you want their contact info). Best of luck with figuring out whether you want to apply and the application process! | 2019-04-20T04:58:28 | http://womenincocosci.com/posts/what_is_a_labtech.html |
0.999996 | After photographing a color painting, the client looked over my shoulder as I "tweaked" colors and arrived at a finished product on my color-calibrated MacBook Pro. During the editing phase, the artwork was illuminated by an identical light source as used to photograph the painting and was positioned next to my computer. Upon completion, the client approved and was delighted with the finished product. To insure there would be no transmission problems, I presented her with a flash drive containing the photos of her painting.
Then she got home, downloaded the flash drive on her laptop to show to her husband or to send to the panel of judges in hopes of gaining entry in an art show and she wrote me to say that when our work was downloaded the color was off, the overall composition looked faded and in essence, suddenly, everything was unacceptable.
I honestly don't know how to control something like this when photos are edited on a MacPro, the client accepts the finished product and later reviews their artwork on what might be an aging or second-tier brand computer. If anyone has a suggestion, I would delight in hearing it, but as I see it, this is a no-win situation. Other artists are wanting me to do work with them photographing their artwork, as well, but I don't think I can satisfy any of them as far as getting the exacting colors they expect, especially in light of all of them probably reviewing my work on their home computers. Most of these people have never heard the words "color calibrated", leave alone having performed this procedure on their personal computers.
I would love hearing from anyone having experienced this same problem who might have a solution. In fact, I'd love hearing from anyone who has an idea, a system or procedure that might work. Thanks.
What looks good on one will probably look different on another.
I have dual monitors, they are different.
To paraphrase Ben Franklin: You can please most of your clients some of the time, some of your clients all of the time, but you can't please all of your clients all of the time. You might want to put a disclaimer in your contract that specifies viewing on color-calibrated computers, or whatever else requirements a client's computer might need to get a correct view. Failing that, you could always give them a small print to compare, but unless they understand that different computer monitors can show different views, clients like this one will never find a photographer to suit.
Is this a local competition or an established one? A lot of the artists in our local little art association don't know the first thing about computers and wouldn't know color calibration from a color crayon. Frustrating when you want them to work in a digital world instead of the physical art they are used to.
Even in-camera processing has problems deciphering exact colors. My Sony 20 megapixels pocket camera, which shoots JPEG only, turns color purple to blue. And I saw on a previous post, where a uhh member said his 20 megapixels, Sony DSLT, couldn't decipher orange/red. I gave away two prints free, to the lady who complained about it. A purple dress turned blue. All in-camera processors and monitors, are not created equal. So, colors will not always come out as true. Unfortunately.
I think it's a difficult situation but something you should not give up and write it off as simply can't please the customer. Your success depends on delivering what the customers need and want.
How about you have her send the file back to you by email to you to prove your point? If it shows up fine on your computer again, then it's her computer. Or have her upload it to another friend's computer to see how it shows on a completely different computer (even if she has to upload it to a Walmart computer).
I like the second so they might better understand the differences between monitors.
Ask her to directly compare other images files with the ones she received from you. If only the images from you look faded and the colors not right on her monitor, but other photographers' images look okay, then perhaps it is the calibration of your monitor that is the problem, not hers. Or she simply prefers more vividness and punchy contrast than what you are giving her.
First of all, even the same brand and set-up of computers, monitors, printers can show different colors depending or their setting and ambient light. So we can expect the same between different brands. Let them be clear on this knowledge.
Save a copy in PDF with print marks and "Color bars".
When viewing or printing, adjust the monitor or the printer to render the colorbars in their proper color.
It should take away the guess work of showing the image as it should to the limit of the the monitor or printers gamut.
I always worried about my image quality and would spend hours tweeking color, sharpness, etc. on my photos. Then one day a colleague saw me editing photos for tomorrows web edition for the paper and asked what I was doing. When I told him the color didnt look right he quickly informed me that not all monitors are created equal. One person may look at your photos with a MAC while another person may view them on a window PC or tablet or iphone or Android phone. At some point you have to trust that your images are good and go with it.
I put some images on my phone to have to show people.
MAN THOSE PUPPIES POP on the phone compared to my monitor!
You could try to explain to your client the variation rests with her monitor, that you are running a calibrated system and as suggested have her check her images on other systems if available. What did you use for your calibration, let the client know if he/she wants to research it further for more detailed information about how it works.
For future projects such as this or any other reproduction work, or any work for that matter where you need to know for sure your colors are accurate, I would suggest you get your self an x-rite color checker passport with acompanying software so you can create profiles for the images to show that the colors are correct for both viewing on screen as well as print output and that they are repeatable. It's a fairly small investment that will pay for its self when trying to asure clients that things are accurate.
I computerized a painting done by a friend. I photographed it outside in natural light (not sunlight) on an easel. We then tweaked the color tone, exposure, and color balance on a Mac laptop. It took some time to get it "exactly" right. Then I printed it from my computer and it looked really good. I gave her prints and then a thumb drive and uploaded her image to Fine Art America and it still looked really good. Now either I had beginners luck, or all the pieces fell together or ... When you look at artwork on Fine Art America there are a ton of paintings there digitalized. That leads me to believe that they aren't all perfect, they don't all look the same on every computer but somehow it works in the end.
Maybe the key is it has to look good on one reference computer- not possible to look good on all computers for the reasons stated by previous posts- and it has to look good in print from same computer. And it should be downloaded from the reference computer to media source. IF it looks good on the final media source then it's a go.
And which is an illusion.
Here is a thought, Why not show her how to use one of the free PP programs, such as Faststone. Then she willk be able to tweak the pics so as to adjust the colors herself. And as I am sure know color perception is diferrent for every person. Making a print for her so she can see the "correct" colors is a good idea. | 2019-04-24T22:25:46 | https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-587327-1.html |
0.997463 | Hi, this is still a work in progress but I wanted to share the approach I'm aiming to for a battery-powered irrigation controller in case can be useful to somebody else.
Since I have no way to power a device in my garden, I cannot use neither an electrovalve nor a traditional relay controlling a valve (would drain the battery while staying on).
The principle behind is to switch with positive/negative pulses which I've discovered means simply connecting the two wires to vcc and gnd to open and reverse the wires to close.
All good but when I tried to control this with two arduino pins, there was no way to have it working and the reason simply is the solenoid requires a LOT of current (I've measured between 0.6 and 1A) which is of course way more than what the board the provide.
After some googling I've discovered I needed a H-bridge (http://www.instructables.com/id/H-Bridge-on-a-Breadboard/?ALLSTEPS) to control programmatically the valve. I've tried building mine on a breadboard with different transistors/resistor but the valve didn't switch due to a massive voltage drop. Once gain due to the current draw.
I still need to build the rest but this looks like the easy part since I just need to connect the arduino board to IN1 and IN2 and use simple HIGH pulse to open or close.
can't you use a regular relay and a small solar panel to keep battery charged?
Using a solar panel can be for sure a good alternative but I wanted something without this requirement since where I have to put this I don't have a good exposure and I'm always afraid the battery cannot recharge in a good way.
Is the node going to sleep?
I have built a device like this, batt operated custom board, but not finished sw and enclosure for the moment (too much projects). I'll use it in my garden soon as seedling has started too here.
I also have solar charging option on my board.
@user2684 can't you use like 4 relays to supply voltage with different polarity? 2 give pulse for opening and 2 give pulse to close. Maybe not as neat and tidy as the H Bridge but it may do the job without voltage drop.
@gohan you're right, a set of relays could definitely do the job, good alternative thanks for the advice!
@gohan - I'm struggling to determine why you would prefer to use 4 relays rather than a H-Bridge. If the device is a simple pulse activated device then i don't see any reason to use a relay over a H-Bridge. Is there a specific reason why you would and i'm not aware of that characteristic?
Or am I not following your project plans properly?
Well I brushed over that because i don't see how a H-Bridge wouldn't work due to high voltage drops. They use these ICs for motors and are fine with that and hence why I kind of brushed over that first point.
The board sleeps for one minute, then reports back (with smart sleep of course) and the controller sends a SET message with payload 1 to the relevant child id to control the valves when instructed. On this side with myHouse (https://www.mysensors.org/controller/myhouse) I can activate it manually or schedule the duration of the irrigation for each zone.
So the node every minute checks if any commands have been sent to switch on or off the valves, right? How much battery life are you getting? I guess it will depends on how much time the valves are on. In theory you could swap the AA batteries with a 18650 to save some space, right?
@gohan that's correct, I'm using exactly the same principle in my boiler controller with the sensor checking in periodically for new commands since battery powered. I do expect a decent battery life since the valves I'm using are pulse-based so it doesn't matter for how long they stay on (as in my boiler controller I'm using a latching relay and since January moved from 3v to 2.75 now.). And yes, 18650 would be ideal for this project. Only concern with that battery is that when the solenoid triggers, it draws a lot of current and I'm not 100% sure a rechargeable battery is as good as a standard one to handle it.
@gohan thanks good to know, I will give it a try, a 3 AA pack is actually using too much space!
And what about time to control the valvs. Are you requesting from gateway?
For power you can use a 4v or 5 v solar panel to charge 1 li-io cell with this charge regulators((https://cdn.instructables.com/FSH/L5F0/IO0G95Y5/FSHL5F0IO0G95Y5.MEDIUM.jpg?width=614)) if regular batteries have poor life, and of course you can hide battery box under a flat rock or a tile because sun heat.
on arduino pwm pins you can define how much voltage you send to solenoid with "analogwrite" .
@Tmaster actually I came real here just a few days ago so difficult to say right now. I did notice though a couple of situations in which the command was not executed (which is really annoying since having irrigation going for hours would create a lake :P) but I'm not sure if it is because of the valve or some missing messages from the radio (since quite away from the gw). I was also evaluating a bunch of "close" commands sent periodically by the controller to be sure the valve does not stay open forever but it is not very clean.
Yes, the open/close logic is in the controller which is sending out a turn on/off message during the scheduled timeframes (https://sourceforge.net/p/my-house/forum/general/thread/2d98b751/).
Thanks for the advise regarding the batteries. I'm noticing when the valve toggle a huuuge impact on the battery. After a few tests changed from 4.5v to 3.8v. If confirmed, I will be obliged to move to a rechargeable solution.
Regarding the solenoid, I'm using the following to control it from the arduino: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2-DC-motor-drive-module-reversing-PWM-speed-dual-H-bridge-stepper-motor-Mini-victory-L298N/32648692160.html and seems to work just fine.
i think that AA batteries hardly approach the 1A discharge if its your selenoid rate.
Another thing you can change is NEVER trust on a incoming signal to shutdown you valve. if power fails or signal is missing ,you selenoid will be open all life because gw never send the signal in time .
what i did is: call time from GW , store it on irrigation node ,and then after time out(2 hours) it shuts off alone .in fact i don't have any code to control valves from gw . Gw only receive status for domotics. all time for valves On and Off its on the node.
@Tmaster that's a very good advice, especially if keeping it open for too long could create any damage. But I'd rather keep the logic on the controller otherwise I'd need to flash a new sketch on a weekly basis. The timeout approach would probably be more close to my requirements, even if millis() doesn't work for sleeping nodes, I can still work with the time as you suggested.
Timeout is a nice safe feature, but also could be that if you loose connection to controller for more than X minutes it should shut everything down.
@Tmaster that's my issue, I don't have power there so I was trying to find out a way to have this working with batteries. But regardless of the issues I'm experiencing, the idea to add an additional safe guard is definitely great, thanks again for the advice!
Just to share this pointer from a similar project: http://rayshobby.blogspot.it/2010/06/minty-water-valve-controller.html. It is actually way beyond my knowledge to understand all the steps but I guess could be useful for somebody here.
Changing valve and stepping up to 24v seems too complex for my requirements but adding a big capacitor could be something worth trying also here.
Regarding the abnormal battery consumption, I placed two 330uF capacitor between gnd and Vcc of the H-bridge powering the valve and they seem to help. After a few on and off the battery went from 4.70V to 4.68V so it was not affected at all. Not sure if it is a good idea or not but I thought could help the valve to be more gentle against the battery. I've also added a sleep of two seconds just after the digitalOutput pulse so to allow the board not to suffer of the voltage drop before sending the ack back to the controller (it was sometimes lost before).
Regarding the pressure lost at the valve, I was able to gain this pressure somewhere else. First of all I bought new, high quality irrigation sprinklers and they cover with exactly the same pressure almost 50% more ground than the old one. Then I removed a few junctions which were losing additional pressure. Now at least it is usable since I have full coverage of the garden (about 100 square meters) with a single sprinkler.
Regarding the safeguard, I've added a very simple timer to my sketch. When a valve is turned on, the time starts (it just counts the number of cycles to make it simple). If too many cycles have passed by and the valve is still on, turns it off automatically.
AA bateries can't handle much current. You are feeding an solenoid (coil) that probably requires 1A for switch state and it drains too much from aa battery. Buy a 12v /7a battery from chinese brand for 10€ and use a voltage regulator from ebay and you have you problems gone.
Hi all, I just wan't to share with You my idea about controlling bi-stable solenoids (let it be valves or latching relay, doesn't matter). And I wonder why nowbody considering this solution. I'm talking about this kind of circuit http://www.avrfreaks.net/sites/default/files/Latching relay driver.jpg. And those two transistors that have to be controlled with two pins may be replaced with a push-pull driver like L293 (or L203DD which has built-in clamping diodes) which can be cotrolled with just one pin (HIGH - open; LOW - closed). This L293 will make the hardware interface the same as with monostable relays.
@user2684 How is your project going now? I am trying to use the same valves and diver board but I can not seem to get it to work. Could you answer some questions for me in order to help me get it to work.
Am i right in saying that if I connect the power leads of the valve to a + source (Li 18650 4.1v 2500ma) it should open the valve and the if I reverse the the leads it should close the valve?
@ionu very sorry for missing your reply for more than 6 months but I didn't get any notification Your understanding is correct, if you just connect the + and - of the battery to the valve you should hear a "click" and if you reverse the wire, another "click". I wonder if that battery would be powerful enough, I've noticed that valve drains really a lot of current (>1A) when triggering. Try with AA batteries at first, just to check if the valve is functioning.
Rain and soil moisture are connected to A4 and A5, reports every 10 minutes and are powered on just before taking the measure through pin A1. The button through the hooking function toggles the valve, when pressed. The valve (or better the H-bridge) is connected through pin 5 and 6 (off and on). The node wakes up every minute to pick up from the controller new orders (using smart sleep). There is also a safeguard of 60 minutes (if something goes wrong with the communication, irrigation is turned off regardless after 60 minutes). | 2019-04-25T06:28:55 | https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/6598/battery-powered-irrigation-controller |
0.999188 | Q: When entering dates in Excel, it would be much simpler if I could enter the date as just the numbers without the forward slash character (for example, 06102010 instead of 06/10/2010). Entering the slash makes the exercise a two-handed exercise instead of a one-handed exercise via the numeric keyboard. Is there a way to enter data into just one cell so I can avoid using multiple cells and then concatenating (linking) them together?
A: You can enter dates into Excel 2003, 2007 and 2010 without using slash marks by applying a custom format. Start by highlighting a range of cells, then right-click on that range to display the pop-up menu. Select Format Cells to display the Format Cells dialog box. On the Number tab select Custom, and enter the following custom format in the Type box: 00/00/0000, then click OK. (Because the forward slash has special meaning in a custom format, you must precede it with a backslash for Excel to recognize the slash mark as a literal character, not its special meaning.) Thereafter, dates entered in that formatted range without slash marks will display slash marks, an example of which is shown below.
Once the custom format is created, Excel remembers it so you won’t have to re-create it.
Caution: Using this approach, the dates you enter will look like dates, and they will even sort like dates, but because the slash marks are inserted as formats instead of actual slash marks, date and time functions (such as =Month, =Day, =Weekday, and others) applied to these dates will not return correct results. | 2019-04-18T12:32:25 | https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2011/may/datingtips.html |
0.999798 | Separated into two columns, in the first column positive values in second column negative values.
Finally, add a formula to return running balance along the cells in a third column.
=IF($A2>=0,$A2,””) and then copy the formula down to all cells in the range of data of column A.
Steps 2- Into cell C2 enter the formula: =IF($B2=””,$A2,””) and again copy the formula down.
Steps 3- Into cell D2 enter the formula: =SUM(A2:B2).
Step 4- Into cell D3 enter the formula:=D2+SUM(A3:A3) and copy the formula down the remainder of the range. | 2019-04-25T03:03:18 | https://www.exceltip.com/other-qa-formulas/separating-positive-and-negative-numbers-and-add-running-balance-column.html |
0.997667 | Motion and potential energy graphs: potential energy versus position graph at that point. In contrast to gravity, where the force is the same at every position, for a spring the force sometimes points-15-10-5 0 5 10 15-1.5 -1 -0.5 0 0.5 1 1.5 Vertical position (m) 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2-0.15 -0.1 -0.05 0 0.05 0.1 0.15 Position (m) to the right (for negative values of x�compressions) and... To find the average velocity of an object, divide the change in its position by the time the movement took, and state its direction. For example, if a car is driving north and in one hour's time it travels 30 miles, its velocity is 30 miles per hour, north.
EXERCISE: Working with Position, Velocity, and Acceleration Graphs In this exercise, you are given a graph of velocity of a cart versus time (shown below) and you will need to calculate graphs of displacement and acceleration versus time.
Calculating velocity. Velocity is the distance an object has moved in a particular direction within a specified time interval. If the object returns to its starting position then the velocity is zero.
5/05/2017�� First find the Force acting on the body as a function of x. then try to reach till velocity. you will get velocity as a function of displacement.(Try to do it) Second method from work energy theorem Net Work done on a body=change in kinetic energy of the body. | 2019-04-19T04:45:49 | http://sfaquarium.org/yukon/how-to-find-velocity-from-force-vs-position-graph.php |
0.965436 | Short width magazine / roll film back, 6x6, or 6x7?
I desire to make my own thin MF camera. I want to mount 2 of them side by side to shoot stereo. I want them to be able to get as close as possible to each other.
To accomplish this, I need to find a 6x6 or 6x7 magazine / roll film back with a width which is very short. I would like it to be only about 10 - 20 mm wider than the horizontal film format. To accomplish this, the spools would need to be behind the image area, not on the sides of it...(this makes the magazine way to wide). Any ideas on who would make such a product? Or even custom make one? Thank you all in advance.
Maybe two 2.25x3.25 rollfilm backs in vertical orientation would work? You could cut down the sides on a bandsaw, but mount the handles out! | 2019-04-23T10:28:36 | http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=003ixT |
0.999999 | Clarify the situation: We explore the issue at hand, find all relevant data that will help us make sense of it and figure out the most effective path to take to resolve it.
Generate ideas: We come up with and select the best new ideas for making a change that best addresses the situation.
Develop solutions: We tinker with those ideas till they are perfect, then break and rebuild them, and then polish them till they shine.
Implement the solution: We put ideas into action by: gaining acceptance of the solution, helping people manage change and adapting solutions as needed.
This process can happen very quickly or deliberately, and in or out of sequence. It can be done in groups or independently. These simple strategies for using the creative process can help keep you on track toward breakthrough success.
1. Stop and think before you start. Self-awareness is a fundamental trait of successful leaders and teams. Once you know your limits, you know where you’ll need to bend, where you’ll need to ask for help, and where you’ll be fine on your own. Thinking about how you get things done, reflecting on the ways your team may work together, will help you be clear about direction and limit the amount of fires you have to put out along the way. This is not “touchy feely” talk. It’s serious work that will save you tons of time on the road ahead.
2. Embrace diversity. Knowing how to leverage diversity is a powerful skill. Here we are talking about diversity of thought -- leveraging different ways of thinking. Recognizing where you (and your team) are strong, and where you aren’t, is critical. If you know you are not adept at one part of the creative process, seek others who are. Bounce thoughts off them and listen to the new directions their different thinking can provide. Challenge yourself to be open to other’s perspectives.
3. Beware of love at first sight. If you find yourself enamored with a particular direction or idea – great, but watch out. You may be onto something, or you may be not exploring things carefully enough. Take the time you need to be sure the direction you are heading fits the need, the idea you have is well thought-out and you’re prepared to manage the change effectively.
4. Take one step at a time. Skipping stages can lead to serious problems - like focusing on the wrong issue, or implementing a half-baked solution. We all have preferences for different parts of the process that may lead us to unconsciously gloss-over or completely skip essential steps that would make an innovative idea a reality. Notice where you are in the process and where you need to go next – be deliberate.
5. Know when to move on. When we enjoy a part of the process, we tend to linger in that stage. Witness the guy who spouts a new idea every five minutes, or the gal who keeps asking, “How will this work?” People who apply the process effectively know when their preferences are getting the best of them and are able to shift direction. So don’t obsess over endless possibilities or clarifying details. Be sure that you’ve done a thorough job, you are still on target, and then move on.
Innovation is more than just coming up with a new idea. Instead, it’s a process with many components and many players. Any idea, no matter how world-changing, can die in committee or, worse still, after implementation, without attention to all four steps of the creative process. Paying attention to targeting the right issues, developing solutions thoughtfully, and then implementing them with both sensitivity and determination will help you turn that creative spark into a true breakthrough innovation. Knowing the process is like having a good map, now it’s up to you to drive innovation home. | 2019-04-21T02:39:59 | https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/223432 |
0.999999 | Do other authorities agree with Ramban that "There are no mitzvot in" Sefer Bamidbar "that are customary for generations" for Israelites (except perhaps for Levites and Priests)?
In Regards to Sefer Bamidbar, Ramban wrote ( in https://www.sefaria.org/Numbers.1.1?lang=bi&with=Ramban&lang2=bi ) " ואין בספר הזה מצוות נוהגות לדורות, זולתי קצת מצוות בעניני הקרבנות שהתחיל בהן בספר הכהנים, " (Translation: "There are no mitzvot in this book that are customary for generations, except for a few mitzvot concerning the sacrifices that were instituted in the book of the Kohanim").
Any Agreements, why? Any Disagreements, why?
I ask this, in part, because of the 57 Commandments (from the 613 Commandments [here quoted from Maimonides]) listed in Sefer Bamidbar, one can see quite a few that appears to be applicable for generations for any average Jew.
It's not entirely clear what the Ramban means with this statement. There are few problems with it.
One is the Ramban agrees with the Rambam's list of the 613 mitzvos, with only 25 exceptions (see here, although the only answer so far only lists the ones Ramban added, not the ones he took away). Most if not all the mitzvos you listed the Ramban agrees with.
Second, as Rav Chaim Palagi points out in his sefer UBacharta BaChaim, many of the mitzvos you listed have nothing to do with korbonos. He lists vidui (although it originates with korbonos, it applies to non temple settings as well), birkas kohanim (also used to be in the temple but applies outside the temple), challah, tzitzis, lo sasuru, pidyon bechor, inheritance laws, shofar, nedarim as examples. He proposes amending the words of Ramban to read: ואין בספר הזה מצוות נוהגות לדורות, זולתי קצת מצוות ובעניני הקרבנות, adding a vav to mean: "There are no mitzvos in this book that apply for all times, except a few mitzvos, and some ideas about korbonos". However he feels this to be an unlikely solution, and leaves the question unresolved.
Essentially it's questionable if the Ramban literally means that there aren't non temple mitzvos in Sefer Bamidbar that apply for all times. Due to the numerous examples listed above, I find it unlikely if anyone would agree to that statement. | 2019-04-18T20:59:30 | https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/84719/which-other-authorities-agree-with-ramban-in-regards-to-the-mitzvot-in-sefer-bam |
0.999476 | When is Interest Rate Not as Important in Selecting a Loan?
A loan can have a fixed interest rate or a floating interest rate. If the loan has a fixed interest rate, the interest rate remains constant for the duration of the loan. If the loan has a floating interest rate, also called a variable interest rate, then the interest rate fluctuates over the duration of the loan. Floating rates typically fluctuate with the overall market, with an underlying index, or with the prime rate.
Fixed interest rates and floating interest rates can apply to any type of debt or loan agreement. This includes monetary loans, credit card bills, mortgages, auto loans, and corporate bonds. Fixed rates and floating rates can also apply to financial derivative instruments.
The primary advantage of a fixed interest rate loan is the elimination of uncertainty. Once the loan agreement is finalized, the value of the future interest payments is known.
A fixed interest rate can also be advantageous to the borrower (disadvantageous to the lender) if the market rates rise above the fixed rate, giving the borrower implicit gains (and the lender implicit losses). A fixed rate can be advantageous to the lender (disadvantageous to the borrower) if the market rates fall below the fixed rate, giving the lender implicit gains (and the borrower implicit losses).
The primary advantage of a floating interest rate is that it moves with the market rates. Of course, this can also be a disadvantage, depending on which way the market rates move and which side of the transaction the party is on.
A rise in market rates can increase the cost of the loan for the borrower and increase the interest income for the lender. Conversely, a fall in market rates can decrease the cost of the loan for the borrower and decrease the interest income for the lender. | 2019-04-23T02:46:49 | https://strategiccfo.com/fixed-interest-rate-vs-floating-interest-rate/ |
0.999936 | Given a choice to travel by plane or train, what would you prefer?
Given a choice to courier or post a letter, what would you prefer?
Plane and courier most definitely! Why? Because these are fast, convenient and hassle free. Bingo! The same with wallcoverings.
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A complete solution, Marshalls has 100+ installers. A room can be Wallcoverings within 8 hours. An office can be done over a weekend, a restaurant, between the lunch and dinner break, a hotel room within the check out and check in time of guests and so on.
Thus, there is no loss of revenue. Besides, Wallcoverings application involves no-mess and no-smell. It is fast, convenient and hassle free. | 2019-04-21T16:51:02 | https://www.marshallsindia.com/wallcovering/wallcoveringsusp.php |
0.99853 | Super delicious, nutritious, and easy. Putting it in the regular rotation.
I didn't have time to make stock so I just used store bought broth and shredded some chicken breasts, subbed swiss chard for the escarole, used 4 garlic cloves (instead of 6), and added green onions. Next time I'd add more lentils than it calls for and let them cook for 1-2 minutes before adding the sweet potatoes b/c the potatoes quick faster than the lentils. Anyway, the recipe at its base is a good combo of flavors I hadn't thought of before with the dill/lemon! SO GOOD.
I seldom give something a bad review but this soup was not worth the trouble or cost. It was tasteless and not very appealing.
We did not care for this recipe. It wasn't that bad, it just wasn't that good - if somebody handed me a bowl and I was hungry I would eat it, but I wouldn't make it again. I also agree with the reviewer that noted that the recommended lentils cook much slower than the pieces of sweet potatoes that size. This one is going in the 'do not repeat' pile.
Have made this twice now (although admittedly modified things a bit so never followed it to the T). The first time I made it, I had the chicken carcass with the lentils and sweet potatoes, but when trying to discard the carcass, all the lentils get stuck inside and it seems like a bit of a waste. Second time around I just cooked the carcass and water first, then removed it and added the vegetables/lentils. This recipe is also excellent with carrots if you don't have sweet potatoes on hand, and spinach or swiss chard work well if you don't have escarole.
I loved this recipe! I used leftover turkey, and swiss chard instead of escarole. Added some red pepper flakes and topped with a horseradish sour cream. Usually my man complains about veggie heavy meals, especially with things like greens and sweet potatoes, but he really enjoyed this soup too. A win win for all!
a good wintery classic! it was super easy to assemble and prepare everything. I substituted spinach for escarole since i couldn't find it and it turned out to be yummy! Just don't cook it very long as it wilts super fast. I'd almost add that right before you eat it each time if you're meal prepping or saving leftovers. Other than that, great!
Love it! A great meal to make when you're short on time. Definitely a keeper. A nice change from the usual chicken soup. Extremely quick and easy.
I made the recipe to the t - using rotisserie chicken. It was absolutely delicious. I'll definitely be making this again. One little caveat - it takes longer for the lentils cook than the sweet potatoes, so I think the sweet potatoes should go in after the lentils have had a chance to cook for a while. I put them in together like the recipe said, and my sweet potatoes broke up they were so overcooked. Next time I'll wait to put them in.
Well I hate to be the first to review and didn't follow the recipe, but what I made was delicious! I don't eat rotisserie chicken due to the high sodium content they seem to have. Instead I had 1 1/2 pounds of boneless skinless chicken breasts on hand which I diced. So I cooked this in a carton of vegetable broth from Trader Joe's and a quart of my own veggie broth, with a small onion, the lentils and the sweet potatoes, pellings on, with about a teaspoon of Herbes du Provence and pepper, for the first step, for12 minutes. Instead of sauteeing the celery and garlic, I just threw it in the pot ( I misread the instructions) and cooked it for another 12 minutes. Instead of escarole, which I doubt is available in my small town, I used chinese cabbage from my garden and dried dill, and cooked these until wilted, then added the juice of one small lemon right before serving. This was truly delicious. I had meant to use a carton of chicken bone broth, but grabbed the wrong one, and it tasted wonderful anway. I usually don't like recipes with a lot of celery, but this combination was a hit, hearty and refreshing at the same time. | 2019-04-23T06:58:23 | https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/lentil-and-chicken-soup-with-sweet-potatoes-and-escarole |
0.999902 | Are sentences A, B, and C all correct? If not, which are incorrect and why? If they are all correct, does it mean that に and と can always be used interchangeably with adverbs? And that に and と aren't actually needed?
When かんかん means "furious(ly)", 明鏡国語辞典 defines it as "an adverb that takes に", デジタル大辞泉 defines it as a na-adjective, and 大辞林 defines it as an adverb. Indeed it's confusing, but at least to me, かんかん in this sense is a no-adjective, which means I feel only Sentence A is correct. You can use it as a predicate.
In uncommon situations where かんかん works as a simple onomatopoeia, it's an "adverb that optionally takes と".
Only A is correct. かんかん is adjective verb in this sentence. に is used for adjective verb, and と is used for adverb. In case of adverb, と is omissible, but に for adjective verb is always needed.
As for those three sentences, only A 'かんかんに怒る” is correct.
Grammatically, “に“ and “と“ is not interchangeable, and they have slightly different nuance.
In the sentence “かんかんに怒る“, “に“ is not a particle, but a part of the adjective verb “かんかんだ”. Any adjective verb has an unchangeable part and changeable part(だ).
When an adjective is followed by a verb, “だ“ changes into “に”.
1. 彼女はきれいに踊(おど)った。 きれい(=unchangeable)だ(=changeable). The adjective verb “きれいだ“ is followed by the verb “おどる(=dance)”. So, ”きれいだ“ changes into ”きれいに“.
私は日本語を上手(じょうず)に話す。 The adjective verb “じょうずだ” changes into “じょうずに” when followed by the verb “はなす“.
“に” can be a particle as well as a part of an adjective verb, whereas “と“ works only as a particle. That’s why you can’t say “かんかんとなる”.
An unchangeable part is called 語幹(gokan), and a changeable part is called 活用語尾(katsuyou-gobi). Every 用言(verb/adverb/adjective) has 語幹 and 活用語尾. This picture shows how an adjective verb changes depending on the following word. さわやかだ changes to さわやかに when it forms 連用形(followed by a verb). In this case, as the chart shows, there’s no option for さわやかと as an adjective verb. Also, に in さわやかに is not a postpositional particle but a part of the adjective verb. In the same way, かんかんに in the sentence A is 連用形 of the adjective verb “かんかんだ“, which is one word, and there’s no possibility that it turns to “かんかんと“ in this case.
However, かんかんと is an adverb, and it’s not かんかん(noun) + と(particle). かんかんと as an adverb is not used when referring to someone getting mad. It’s only used when referring to strong sun sunshine or making sounds as another answerer already explained.
Both かんかんに( an adjective verb / 形動) and かんかんと( an adverb/ 副 ) don’t include に or と as a postpositional particle. In this case, they are a part of completely different words (に is 活用語尾 of an adjective verb whereas と is just a part of an adverb). That’s why they are not interchangeable in this case.
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How do adverbs change when changing くれる to もらう? | 2019-04-20T08:24:40 | https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/62359/are-%E3%81%AB-and-%E3%81%A8-interchangeable-when-used-with-adverbs |
0.998806 | Yes, you need a travel adapter (plug adapter) for a trip from Canada to Botswana. In Botswana, people are using different plugs and electrical outlets that are not compatible with plugs from Canada!
Which types of power outlets are used in Botswana?
Botswana uses power outlets of type D and G. Electrical outlets of type A and B, which are common in Canada, are not in use in Botswana. | 2019-04-26T16:01:46 | https://www.adaptario.com/ca/bw |
0.998839 | How to detect which one of the defined font was used in a web page?
How can I detect which one of the defined fonts was used in the user's browser?
Edit for people wondering why I want to do this: The font I'm detecting contains glyph's that are not available in other fonts and when the user does not have the font I want to display a link asking the user to download that font so they can use my web application with the correct font.
Currently I am displaying the download font link for all users, I want to only display this for people who do not have the correct font installed.
I've seen it done in a kind of iffy, but pretty reliable way. Basically, an element is set to use a specific font and a string is set to that element. If the font set for the element does not exist, it takes the font of the parent element. So, what they do is measure the width of the rendered string. If it matches what they expected for the desired font as opposed to the derived font, it's present. This won't work for monospaced fonts.
It uses simple technique and should be correct most of the time.
@pat Actually, Safari does not give the font used, Safari instead always returns the first font in the stack regardless of whether it is installed, at least in my experience.
"my fake font" in Safari (and I believe other webkit browsers).
"my fake font, helvetica, san-serif" in Gecko browsers and IE.
"helvetica" in Opera 9, though I read that they are changing this in Opera 10 to match Gecko.
I took a pass at this problem and created Font Unstack, which tests each font in a stack and returns the first installed one only. It uses the trick that @MojoFilter mentions, but only returns the first one if multiple are installed. Though it does suffer from the weakness that @tlrobinson mentions (Windows will substitute Arial for Helvetica silently and report that Helvetica is installed), it otherwise works well.
If you need something more complete, check this out.
Then it should return helvetica if that is installed, if not, arial, and lastly, the name of the system default sans-serif font. Note that the ordering of fonts in your CSS declaration is significant.
An interesting hack you could also try is to create lots of hidden elements with lots of different fonts to try to detect which fonts are installed on a machine. I'm sure someone could make a nifty font statistics gathering page with this technique.
This function will exactly do what you want. On execution It will return the font type of the user/browser. Hope this will help.
Another solution would be to install the font automatically via @font-face which might negate the need for detection.
Of course it wouldn't solve any copyright issues, however you could always use a freeware font or even make your own font. You will need both .eot & .ttf files to work best.
Calibri is a font owned by Microsoft, and shouldn't be distributed for free. Also, requiring a user to download a specific font isn't very user-friendly.
I would suggest purchasing a license for the font and embedding it into your application.
I am using Fount. You just have to drag the Fount button to your bookmarks bar, click on it and then click on a specific text on the website. It will then show the font of that text.
You can put Adobe Blank in the font-family after the font you want to see, and then any glyphs not in that font won't be rendered.
As far as I'm aware there is no JS method to tell which glyphs in an element are being rendered by which font in the font stack for that element.
This is complicated by the fact that browsers have user settings for serif/sans-serif/monospace fonts and they also have their own hard-coded fall-back fonts that they will use if a glyph is not found in any of the fonts in a font stack. So browser may render some glyphs in a font that is not in the font stack or the user's browser font setting. Chrome Dev Tools will show you each rendered font for the glyphs in the selected element. So on your machine you can see what it's doing, but there's no way to tell what's happening on a user's machine.
It's also possible the user's system may play a part in this as e.g. Window does Font Substitution at the glyph level.
For the glyphs you are interested in, you have no way of knowing whether they will be rendered by the user's browser/system fallback, even if they don't have the font you specify.
How can I determine what font a browser is actually using to render some text?
How can you determine what font from the CSS stack is being used?
@font-face - How to check what font type the browser is using?
How to obtain the CSS font-family of installed fonts? | 2019-04-22T21:29:48 | https://stackoverflow.com/questions/845/how-to-detect-which-one-of-the-defined-font-was-used-in-a-web-page/887291 |
0.998674 | The company does offer much worse free delivery for people who do not pay the service's $99 annual fee.
Paying $99 a year for an Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Prime membership gets people into the special club the giant online retailer caters to.
Joining lets users of the online store buy whenever they want without having to consider whether their order hits the $35 threshold, where free shipping kicks in for everyone. It means that whether you're out of tea, which weighs a few ounces, or need a 20-pound bag of kitty litter, you can order it on Amazon.com and have it within two days (including Sunday, in many cases).
It's easy to see how Prime helps the company, and the benefits its members get, but new research shows that if you don't pay for the service, getting your order may take longer than it used to.
StellaService, a company that measures the customer service performance of online retailers, found that customers who do not pay for Prime may be getting slower delivery, Fortune reported.
"For a long time, Amazon has been the leader when it comes to fulfillment," Stella Service VP Kevon Hills told the financial publication. "There are 40 companies on our list, and Amazon has always been in the top 10. This year, we've seen them fall outside of the top 10, which is the first time we've seen that happen."
Hills believes that's happening for two reasons. First, he said Amazon has put the majority of its efforts into ensuring it hits the two-day window for Prime members. Second, he believes the company's overall standing has been hurt because rivals have raised the bar.
"Three years ago, if you delivered a package in four days, that was worthy of a top ten consideration," Hills said. "Now, if you deliver a package in four days, that puts you at 20. The industry is getting faster, and we've seen Amazon fall off a little bit."
How does shipping work for non-Prime members?
Amazon offers free shipping for qualifying orders of over $35 to anyone, but the no-cost offer is not for two-day delivery, but what the retailer calls "free shipping" with a 5-8-day delivery window. On a test order I placed using an account created without Amazon Prime, buying $38.94 in yoga supplies would cost me $15.61 in shipping if I want it in two days. I could have also elected to split the difference and chosen "standard shipping," which takes 4-5 days for an extra $9.23.
It does make sense for Amazon to make sure it hits the two-day window for Prime members, but its 5-8-day free delivery window for non-members does put it at risk to lose customers to low-cost rivals like Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT). That physical retail giant has been investing heavily in its website and digital products. Walmart.com currently offers what it calls "free vaue shipping" on orders over $50. That's higher than Amazon's $35 threshold, but the brick and mortar company's free shipping only takes 4-6 days.
That's still slow, but it's obviously sometimes better than the 5-8 day window Amazon quotes non-Prime members if they want free delivery. That, plus the fact that Wal-Mart takes online returns in its stores, might tip non-Prime members into shopping at Wal-Mart's website or app.
Clearly, Prime members should be a priority for the online retail giant, but the company has to be very careful in how it treats non-members. Using improved delivery speeds as a carrot to get people to join makes sense, but it could also force potential regular customers to go to whatever rival offers the best combination of price and shipping speed.
The last thing Amazon wants is to create a class of customers that checks prices at Walmart.com. Pushing and supporting Prime has helped the online retailer build a very loyal audience. Continuing that make sense, but the company should also throw some love toward loyal non-members by making sure it at least matches offers like Wal-Mart's. | 2019-04-19T22:50:48 | https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/02/20/is-amazon-shipping-slower-for-non-prime-members.aspx |
0.998177 | 'Anne', spelled the bold white letters on her name tag, as the man studied.
He started to reach up to his forehead, and his rough fingers touched the texture of gauze cloth. It hurt, very much. Anne eased a pillow behind him and he sat-half comfortably.
"The police sent you yesterday evening, do you remember?"
"Not a single thing." He answered unsteadily.
"That's fine. " Anne handed a glass of water to the man. "Take some rest now and I'm sure you'll recall something soon."
"There was a boy. Where is he?"
Anne stared at the folder she had trying to remember if she missed a detail on the patient. Did he come with a boy? The man was still looking up to her for an answer.
Despite the doubtful expressions he's given, he was sure that there was a boy in the passenger seat. Where they were going, he couldn't figure.
Minutes turned to hours and he was still looking out to the window. Soon it was already dark but he hadn't progressed much rather than projecting more questions, one after another. None of these he knew the answer to except one; if he should find a way to escape.
If he had a family it'd be only right for them to show up by his bed now. This boy was the last person he saw, and his only hope to know what happened. | 2019-04-22T06:51:42 | http://whateverlunafictions.blogspot.com/2009/09/little-companion.html |
0.998405 | CJ, aka Citizen Journalism ... What is it?
CJ , aka citizen journalism, describes the way in which citizens play an active role in collecting, reporting and distributing news and information. It's a term that can be interchanged with 'user-generated content.' Like other cutting-edge terms, 'citizen journalism' is not universally accepted and has been superceded by Open Journalism. | 2019-04-25T10:09:50 | http://old.planeta.com/ecotravel/period/cj.html |
0.999997 | How much computer knowledge do I need in order to take online training?
To use online training, users should have a basic knowledge of computers. This should include, but is not limited to, the ability to use a mouse, which involves knowing the difference between left-click and right-click; the ability to open and close documents and web pages; and the ability to navigate a website. Those with no computer experience at all may have trouble using our online training and, for their own benefit, may want to enroll in a basic computer training class before using any of our online courses.
Can I take the online courses from more than one computer?
Yes, you can take our online courses by signing in with your user name and password from any location and computer with high-speed internet access. However, each computer does need to meet our basic system requirements for viewing our online courses.
Do I need an email address to take online courses with Safety Unlimited, Inc.?
Yes, an email address is necessary for the purpose of enrolling in our online courses. However, since a user name, not an email, is required to log in to a student account, it is possible to have multiple users with the same email address.
Do I have to finish a course in one sitting?
Typically for 8 hour courses you have 90 days to complete the training, while longer courses (24, 32, or 40 hours) allow for 180 days to complete the training. However, if you need longer, we can work that out on a case by case basis, and we have never denied an extension request.
You can take any exam as many times as needed to pass. Our exams are randomly selected from a pool of questions; therefore, each time you take the exam it will be slightly different.
Will I receive a certificate after I take a course?
Yes, almost all of our courses offer a certificate upon course completion. Once you have completed a course, you are able to download, save or print a certificate of completion from your student account. Certificates are created in PDF format. Users must have the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader before attempting to download the completion certificate. | 2019-04-19T20:57:18 | https://emsstudent.com/faq.asp |
0.645463 | ORLANDO -- A family attorney has identified the four children killed during a day-long Orlando standoff that started with the shooting of an officer. The standoff began late Sunday when a woman left an apartment and told police she had been battered by her boyfriend, 35-year-old Gary Lindsey.
Lindsey, a convicted felon, fired at responding officers, seriously wounding one of them. He then holed up for much of the day with the four children inside the apartment.
Lindsey killed the four children he had been holding hostage before killing himself, police said late Monday. Two of the children killed Monday are believed to be his, and the other two are believed to be his girlfriend's.
Family attorney Walter Benenati identified the children to CBS affiliate WKMG Tuesday as Iraya Lopez, 12; Lillia Lopez, 10; Aidan Lindsey, 6, and Dove Lindsey, 1.
Benenati set up a GoFundMe page to help pay for the children's funeral expenses. He said Iraya loved to play video games and was an overachiever at school. Lillia, who attended Sadler Elementary School, enjoyed going to Disney World and Volcano Bay, he said.
Aidan, who also attended Sadler Elementary, loved dinosaurs and playing outside. Dove, who was 22 months old, enjoyed running and playing outside, he told the station.
On the online fundraising page, Benenati called their deaths "a tragic ending to a night of horror." He said Lindsey "selfishly took the lives of these precious innocent angels and then took his own life. These beautiful babies never hurt anyone."
Gary Lindsey came off as polite and friendly, neighbor Nicole Gonzalez said Tuesday morning as she returned to her Orlando home after being evacuated more than a day earlier during the standoff.
"His kids were beautiful, sweet children - well-mannered, as well," Gonzalez said.
But Miguel Lopez, another neighbor in the apartment complex near Universal Orlando Resort, said his interactions with Lindsey were "weird."
"We used to see the guy here, walking and smoking," said Lopez, who lived a floor above Lindsey, his girlfriend and their four children. "Whenever we'd say, 'Hi. How are you?' He was like ... " Lopez shook his head.
Lopez described a harrowing scene during the standoff.
"We heard gunshots, and I saw through the window that the policeman was down," Lopez said. "The top stair was full of blood. They took the police officer down. ... It was horrible."
The wounded officer, Kevin Valencia, was in critical condition but is expected to survive, Orlando police Chief John Mina said Monday. One officer was able to return fire. Valencia is in his late 20s and has been with the police department since 2016.
Lindsey was found dead in a closet when officers entered the apartment about 9 p.m., more than 21 hours after the standoff started, Mina said at a news conference just before midnight Monday.
Mina said officers tried to offer one of their phones to Lindsey, whose phone had spotty service, and saw that one of the children had been killed. Authorities went in hoping to rescue the others but found them all dead from gunshots.
On Tuesday, blue tarps covered the apartment building's back windows where SWAT officers apparently had made entry. A medical examiner's van left the apartment complex midmorning.
A police spokeswoman said Tuesday that the medical examiner, as part of an investigation, would determine when exactly the children were killed.
Court records show Lindsey had an extensive criminal history involving arson, battery and theft. He was on probation for several charges, including arson.
George Almeida, who lives in a neighboring building, said the lease must have been in Lindsey's girlfriend's name since the apartment managers run a background check on potential tenants.
Almeida said he didn't know Lindsey personally but would see him wearing a gas mask and spray-painting items beside a tree outside his apartment building.
"He looked like a nice guy," Almeida said. "He didn't look like anyone who would cause trouble. But you never know. You can't judge a book by its cover." | 2019-04-22T09:23:24 | https://www.cbsnews.com/news/orlando-hostage-standoff-gary-lindsey-family-attorney-ids-4-children-killed/ |
0.999999 | where all these kids are?
1. Log into Easy IEP using your own username and password.
2. From the Home page, click "Students" in the green menu bar.
3. At the bottom of the page, click "Advanced Student Search."
5. At the bottom of the page, click "View Students" to see a list of ALL students at your school who are in the Easy IEP system. Or, use the various checkbox options to narrow your search.
For instance, to find all of the students who have speech therapy scroll down to the "Related Services" section and check the box that says "Speech/Language." Then go to the bottom of the page and click "View Students."
To see the students at your school who do not have a case manager listed, go to the "Case Manager" section and click "Only include students with no Case Manager." Then go to the bottom of the page and click "View Students."
6. You can organize this list by clicking the headings at the top of each column. For instance, if you click The word "Disablilty," the list will be sorted according to the students' disability. This is helpful if you need to find, say, all of the speech-only (SP) students at the school. If you click "Eligibility Date," the students will be listed in order of oldest eligibility to newest. This is helpful in determining which students will be eligible for reevaluation soon.
You can also click "Export Search Results" to open the information in an Excel spreadsheet. However, depending on your version of Excel, all of the results may not display properly.
1. Click "Wizards" in the green menu bar at the top of the page.
2. At the bottom of the list, click "Caseload Setup Wizard."
3. If you already have a caseload, a list of students will display. To remove students from your caseload, uncheck the box next to the student's name and click "Update the Database" at the bottom of the page. This will not remove the student from Easy IEP or designate him as no longer in need of special education services, it will only remove him from your list.
4. To add students to your caseload, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Add More Students to Caseload."
5. Search for individual students by name, or by ID number (found on the list you printed out.) At the bottom of the page, click "View Students."
6. Check the box under Case Manager OR Team Member. If you are the speech therapist and the student is a special needs student, you are always a Team Member. If you are the speech therapist and the student is a speech-only (SP) student, you are always the Case Manager. Click either "Add Students to Caseload," or "Add Students to Caseload, Then Find More."
7. To add multiple students from the same school to your caseload quickly, on the Caseload Setup Wizard page, click "Add More Students to Caseload."
8. Choose your school from the dropdown menu and click "View Students."
9. Using the list that you printed earlier, check the boxes under Case Manager or Team Member next to the students you want to add to your caseload, and click "Add Students to Caseload" at the bottom of the page.
10. To see your caseload later, click "Students" in the green menu bar at the top of any Easy IEP page. Scroll down and click "View My Caseload." Use the column headings to sort the list by disability, eligibility date, etc. | 2019-04-22T09:03:56 | http://www.krismaas.com/findcaseload.html |
0.999978 | Here, we got an issue in deployment runing. Deployment method is Fair Share A.
Issue description: after location heuristic, we got that DC1 needs to deploy material A to DC2 and DC3. Distribution Quantity is 10 for DC2, and 84 for DC3, meanwhile, ATD Quantity is only 40.
After Deployment run, 10 of ATD Quantity has been deployed to DC2, but remaining 30 did not deploy to DC3.
I don't know why the remaining 30 of ATD Quantity didn't assign to DC3. As we know, As per Fair Share method, 40 of ATD Quantity will be deployed to DC2 and DC3 proportionally. in this case, DC2 will get 4 and DC3 will get 36 of ATD Quantity.
Could you please give some instructions?
It looks that fair share rule probbaly is not being considered and entire quantity is going to DC2.
Please check product master settings of product A at DC3.
Easier thing will be to compare product master setting at DC2 and DC3 location product master.
Also, if TL exists from DC1 to DC3 and it is valid.
I have compared the product location combination in MAT1 for DC2 and DC3, all of settings are same except Rounding value and Minimum Lot Size in subview Lot Size. Do you think it's because of the Rounding Value?
I also checked the TL for DC1->DC2 and DC1->DC3， TLB Profile is difference between each other, but the total volume and total weight calculated with the value distributed proportionally from ATD Quantity is below than the constraint in TLB profile. therefore I think TLB is no issue. | 2019-04-22T11:15:46 | https://answers.sap.com/questions/8526745/index.html |
0.999549 | So this is why I will try to do now.
Scientific research is about understanding phenomena (whether natural [e.g. physics], human [e.g. economics] or abstract [e.g. mathematics]). A scientific breakthrough can either be a discovery of a new phenomenon, a new insight about an existing phenomenon, or an explanation/justification/proof of an insight.
The point here is that it is all about having a better understanding of things.
Of course, this is not necessarily the main motivation nor is it the main justification for scientific research, but it can be seen as a nice side-effect of understanding.
It is often difficult and time-consuming to design and execute experiments, so many scientists are satisfied by publishing.
But if one is given the necessary resources, experimenting can be a good substitute to publishing.
In private companies, not only do you often have resources for experimenting ideas, but also you are encouraged to do so (this is your part of your 80%) and even further, to go beyond experiments towards real-world applications (which give the ultimate validation of your ideas).
The conclusion I want to draw from all this is the following: one can be very happy doing research in a company because publishing is advantageously replaced by real-world testing of ideas.
This post is a first of a series of somewhat personal posts. This will not be about Machine Learning in particular, nor will it be about science, but rather about scientists, their life and their quest for happiness.
I often find that rationalizing situations or events that one is going through helps a lot. It introduces (at least for me) a distance between oneself and the event, making it an object of scientific investigation rather than some inescapable fate.
This is why I intend to write this post and the few others that will follow. Indeed, having started my career as a scientist in academia, I am now working for a private company which does not quite coincide with my initial goals (or dreams if you will), but the more I think about it (and rationalize it), the more I find myself comfortable and happy about this situation.
In the early days of AI, scientists thought they would be able to build an intelligent computer by the end of the 20th century. This raised various fears about computers eventually taking over the world, and human beings replaced by robots.
Not only this did not happen yet but we are very far from this!
But what is even worse is that we are now following a somewhat opposite trend. There are many tasks at which humans are far better than computers, but instead of trying to build better algorithms for these tasks, people are now trying to find ways to better make use of human intelligence, or rather to automate this usage!
Two examples of this: Luis von Ahn's "Artificial artificial intelligence" and Amazon's "Mechanical Turk".
Luis von Ahn has designed a couple of internet games whose purpose is to make players perform useful tasks such as labeling images. Amazon is taking this to the industrial scale (although not as a game anymore) by allowing people to design programs which include calls to web services which are actually executed by paid humans (e.g. your program calls "translate(text)" and the text is sent to someone who translates the text and return the result)!
Update (21/12/2006): I found a related article in the Boston Globe, citing other examples of the same kind, such as Mozes Mob, a cell phone Q&A service powered by humans.
A very nice talk by Sebastian Thrun about how he and his team designed an autonomous driving vehicle for the DARPA Grand Challenge. What is interesting is the use of Machine Learning to train the program.
The title of this post may seem awkward as most people working on ML would consider themselves as scientists.
Agreed-upon vocabulary: there are many different fields that concurred to the infancy of the domain, they all have different ways of calling the same object, for example: function, model, hypothesis, concept... It would be nice to speak the same language.
Statement and definition of the goals: what is the object under study?
Statement of main problems: providing a list of problems in a clear and formalized way (this has already started with the open problems sessions at the COLT conference, but there is yet to be a consensus about which ones are more important for advancing the field).
Common language for specifying algorithms and experiments so that they can be reproduced. Indeed, too often, the papers describe results that no one can reproduce because some specific ad-hoc tuning of the parameters was used. I recently found this article which describes an attempt to provide a language for automating experiments.
Datasets: go beyond the UCI database, share the data, define a common standard for this data or provide tools to convert from one format into another.
An idea could be to run evaluations more or less like a challenge (as the ones that have recently been proposed, for example by the Pascal network), but with a way to share even the code of the algorithm: you could send your code to a server and the server runs it on many databases, and measures many different criteria, generates a report and adds the entry to a database, thus creating a big source of data for meta-learning.
The goal is to say which algorithm is better for which problems, but not in general, and especially to avoid the dataset selection issue.
Write more introductory papers, or textbooks.
Collect and maintain relevant bibliographic references.
Learning Theory disconnected from Practice?
Is learning theory really answering the right questions?
More precisely, does working on (statistical) learning theory bounds really help designing better algorithms?
Let me first say that this note is not against anyone in particular.
I know most of the people working on SLT bounds and I do have a lot of respect for them, and I also wrote papers that were trying to justify an algorithm from a theoretical analysis. So I am just questioning the approach but not judging anyone following it!
I have spent a lot of time thinking about what theory did really bring that could not have been obtained without it. Because this is really the question. If you consider the algorithms that people use in practice, the two important questions are whether any of those algorithms could not have been inspired by considerations of a non-SLT nature, and whether the SLT analysis brings an understanding of why they work.
Regarding the first one (inspiration), it is risky to tell what could have inspired an algorithm a posteriori. But I believe that the amount of effort spent on trying to prove bounds and then obtain a criterion to minimize for an algorithm would be better used if people were just trying to find new criteria directly. Indeed, there are surely many ideas that we (theoreticians) refrain from trying or even expressing, because we do not see how they are connected to the standard patterns of SLT analysis!
Regarding the second one (whether bounds justify an algorithm), I would be even less confident: the only thing we can infer from most learning theory bounds is that the algorithm we are studying is not meaningless, that is, it will eventually make good predictions (with enough samples), but these bounds cannot really help comparing two algorithms. Also, they rarely (if ever) can justify the use of a specific criterion.
So, I think that the theoretical analysis is mainly a way to popularize an algorithm and to raise its visibility. The effect is then that more people try it out, and streamline it. So in the end, the algorithm may be adopted, but a theoretical analysis rarely justifies the algorithm and never provides guarantees. Hence theory is a way to attract attention to an algorithm.
It should also be a way to get new insights for the development of new algorithms, but this happens much less frequently than is claimed!
While commenting on the comments to my previous note (see here), I thought about the comparison of human and computers in terms of learning performance. Does this comparison even make sense? If it does, on which basis, or with which criteria can it be made?
If you adopt a purely theoretical point of view, the no free lunch theorem tells you that you just cannot compare two learning machines in general. So all comparisons should be based on a specific, restricted set of reference problems.
If you adopt a Bayesian point of view, learning is very easy: once you have chosen your prior (an likelihood function), it is just matter of computation to get the posterior. So that, again, you cannot compare two learning machines, you can only compare their priors. Their performance will be more or less directly related to how well the prior matches the problem at hand (i.e. how high is the prior probability of the problem to be learned).
So we may already have very efficient learning algorithms (probably even better than the brain because they can compute more precisely and much faster -- although one can discuss what computing means in this context), and we still believe computers are not able to match humans learning performance because we compare them on tasks for which humans have much better priors.
Of course I am not saying anything new here: Bayesians would tell you that this has always been clear for them, you only have to build a good prior and you are done.
But building a good prior is not an easy task: it requires to define the right features, to find the right notion of smoothness... and there is basically no guidance for this! Moreover, it is completely problem-specific. So, apart from helping to implement Bayes rule efficiently, general (i.e. application-independent) Machine Learning research cannot help much.
One could then draw the conclusion that the essence of the learning problem is not statistical but computational. | 2019-04-20T22:11:11 | https://ml.typepad.com/ |
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Thought I would share a find..
I keep hoping I'll have that kind of luck, but nothing yet.
I did get a copy of The Stranger for .25 at a library book sale... But that's not Bukowski.
A friend of mine bought about a dozen Bukowski books at a yard sale here in Los Angeles back in the '90's for $25. They included the City Lights Shakespeare, second edition poems written before jumping, half a dozen Black Sparrow softcovers and - here's where you can prepare your jealousy glands - five signed hardcover editions.
Giddy with generosity shortly after her score, she loaned a few of those signed editions out on a film shoot and never got them back (surprise).
I recently found the Black Sparrow Press bookclub edition of Fante's ASK THE DUST, intro by Bukowski, at a rummage sale. Nice, as I'd sold my non-bookclub copy years ago and am glad to replace it with this one.
The one time I broke my rule about not loaning out books, the guy I loaned them to (worked with my wife) was fired and disappeared with my books, a bunch of rare small press stuff. There are a few trusted souls I would still loan books to (like Bill Roberts), but I can count those on one hand.
It's only the second copy I've seen. While I don't have the original edition edition here to compare it to, it looks like a standard BSP trade paperback, good paper, well printed, nice thick textured cover stock with solid color printing (not like those cheap, fake looking Ecco reprints of the Black Sparrow covers). On the botton of the copyright page it reads "BOMC offers recordings and compact disks, cassettes and records. For information and catalog write to BOMC, [etc.]" and on the bottom of the back cover it says "PRINTED IN U.S.A.", which I don't think I've ever seen on a book published by BSP. I wonder if any other Fante or Bukowski titles were book club editions?
What's the publication date on that? I would think if there had been a Bukowski book-of-the-month he would have written letters about it. He doesn't really fit in with BOMC anyway. But it's interesting that Ask the Dust was produced to Black Sparrow's specifications for BOMC.
i too have seen the BOMC ask the dust. twice actually at Powells here in Portland.
mjp: the date on the copyright page is 1980, however, it was produced later than that. A list of other titles by Fante on the front flyleaf includes the Fante-Mencken correspondence (1989), so it's 1989 or later.
The thriftstores around here never get Bukowski, or anything much good. When they get boring bookclub editions of popular fiction from the 1940s, they think it's gold and mark it $30 -- stuff I would pass on for 25 cents. I do find rare books at the annual library and YMCA book sales though. | 2019-04-26T11:52:17 | https://bukowskiforum.com/threads/bukowski-in-the-thrift-store.2012/ |
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In the fridge for about a week.
Let rise at least 12 hours.
Scrape dough from bowl on to floured surface.
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Let rise at least 4 hours.
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A zombie, who doesn't know his name but goes by "R" (Nicholas Hoult) wanders around an airport, narrating his life, after some unnamed zombie apocalypse. He occasionally meets for grunting "conversations" with his best friend "M" (Rob Corddry), and sometimes they go out hunting for food (human brains).
Three young people -- Julie (Teresa Palmer), Nora (Analeigh Tipton), and Perry (Dave Franco) -- living in a human outpost go out for medical supplies, and "R" and his zombie pals surprise them. "R" kills Perry and eats his brain, which gives him a blast of memories and sensations, among them a love for Julie. "R" likewise falls in love with Julie and makes the conscious decision to take her back to his lair, a defunct plane, fully decorated with found objects including a record player and several LPs.
"R" convinces Julie to stay for a little while, until it's "safe" to return. "R" slowly begins to undergo certain changes, becoming more human. Ultimately, it's up to "R" and Julie to convince her militant father (John Malkovich) that there's hope for more zombies to be rehabilitated.
What's remarkable is that, despite the movie's humor, it has a notable lack of cynicism. Perhaps the Shakespeare influence lends a kind of purity to the material. A more ambitious movie might have made something more about the ultimate integration of zombies into regular society, and the inequality that might have created, but this one merely opens its heart and suggests that goodness would prevail.
Perhaps eve better, it makes the idea of a zombie-human romance seem plausible. The terrific casting helps: Nicholas Hoult uses his expressive eyes to suggest things his limited zombie speech cannot, and Teresa Palmer has always been punchier and stronger than her material. Likewise, Corddry is very funny, Tipton finds space for her wonderful blend of pretty and awkward, and Franco does his best to bring personality to a small role.
Director Levine also gives us appealing zombies, not too disgusting, and with vestiges of humanity left. The real bad guys are the mutated zombies, the "boneys." These terrifying creatures have given up all attempts at humanity and given in to their monster side. Establishing a third, more evil party allows the first two parties to team up, making for an interesting drama.
Levine's last film was the unique 50/50, a cancer drama based on a true story that managed to be funny and entertaining rather than grim. It seems he's good at these hybrid types of movies, opening up old genres in new directions. It's nice to see some enthusiasm -- and some hope -- out there. | 2019-04-23T03:54:54 | http://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/2013/warm_bodies.shtml |
0.999204 | The legend within a single line circle: ONE RUPEE INDIA and - 1940 - Surrounded by a saracenic scroll composed of conventional representations of a rose, thistle and shamrock. At the top and bottom are different representations of the Indian lotus flower. All this is within another plain circle. All within a raised, decorative-toothed border. (Yek rupiya = One rupee in Persian).
Crowned head of the King facing left and surrounded by the legend: GEORGE VI KING EMPEROR. All within a raised with decorative-toothed rim. Second Large Head with small rim decoration. Mintage Years: Mumbai (Bombay): 1939-1941 and 1943.
King George VI ruled from 12 Dec 1936 to Indian Independence on 15 Aug 1947.
After the death of King George V his son, King Edward VIII became the King, but abdicated before the coronation. No coins were minted using his portrait. His younger brother the Duke of York was crowned as King George VI in May 1937 and the first coin of India with his effigy was minted in 1938. After the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the price of silver started going up, in practice the silver coins became valuable then the value written on them. This led to reducing the use of silver in coins. The 1940 1/4-Rupee, 1/2-Rupee and One Rupee coins were reduced from 0.917 silver to 0.500 silver (there were a limited number of 1939 Rupees minted in 0.500 silver).
Mainly there is no mint mark for Calcutta, the Bombay issues have a small raised dot or diamond (commonly known as reverse B) under the lotus flower, near the bottom of the coin and the Lahore mint used a small "L" in the same position.
1. In First Head the two fleurs de lis on the royal crown are larger and extend upward to touch the beaded crest at the top of the crown, while the two fleurs de lis on the crown of the Second Head are smaller and extended upward to touch only the line on the crown below the beaded crest.
2. In First Head with high relief the lines coming upwards from the center of the crown are curved and touches the beads. Second Head with low relief has straight lines, coming upwards from the center of the crown and does not touch the beads.
3. First Head with high relief has large triangles on left and right in the center of the crown while there are smaller triangles for Second Head with low relief.
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Ingredients: Indian Assam Black Tea, Ginger, Milk Thistle, Dandelion, Burdock, Liquorice.
After reading the ingredient list I was expecting something a little more aromatic, but the aroma surrounding Morning After is actually fairly plain, if not slightly herby.
The characteristics of Morning After have a very chai feel, the tea is incredibly strong and bitter and the herbs provide a light spiced flavour. The actual tea remains the predominate note through out the cup, with the other flavours taking a bit of a back seat. However, the ginger and licorice are easily detectable.
Although AlphaHE states that Morning After should be drunk without milk, the tea is very strong, therefore I was naughty and ignored these instructions, adding milk anyway. I also added a little honey (but you could add sugar), just to sweeten the flavour and mask any residual bitterness, as you would with a classic chai tea.
The ingredients within Morning After contain antioxidants and have anti-inflammatory properties, as well as milk thistle and dandelion have liver protecting qualities and ginger being able to alleviate sickness and nausea. All great for a morning after recovery and preventative damage from alcohol. Plus points for putting together a tea that may actual help with the dreaded hang over!
Tom – Couldn't detect any of the flavour notes.
Tris - "It’s just a mild black tea flavour”.
Tris - “Well…” Laughs “I’m already hungover."
Looks like the boys weren't that keen and although they initially said they didn't think they would drink this with milk, Tris did later try it and enjoyed the blend much more!
I would actually suggest that this cup works better with both milk and sugar, than it does as a black tea. As a result, like most chai‘s, I found the flavour to be quite comforting. However this isn’t something I would personally be inclined to drink when hungover, opting for a tea that’s a bit more refreshing, a fruity green is more my style. Despite this, when drank as a normal day to day tea Morning After did serve to keep me quite perky, giving an extra energy boost through the day and various meetings at work. I could easily see this getting someone through a long Friday after cocktails or beers on a thirsty Thursday.
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Formally, her room can be represented as a field of nxm cells, each cell of the which is empty or littered with cans.
Olya drank a lot of energy drink, so now she can run K meters per second. Each second she chooses one of the four directions (up, down, left or right) and runs from 1 to K meters in this direction . Of course, she can only run through empty cells.
Now Olya is needs to the get from cell (x1, y1) to cell (x2, y2). How many seconds'll it take her if she moves optimally?
It ' s guaranteed that cells (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) are empty. These cells can coincide.
The contains three integers n, m and K (1≤n, M, k≤1000)-the sizes of the room and Olya.
Then n lines follow containing M characters each, the i-th of them ' contains on j-th position ' # ', if the cell (i, j) is Li Ttered with cans, and "." otherwise.
The last line contains four integers x1, y1, x2, y2 (1≤x1, X2≤n, 1≤y1, y2≤m)-the coordinates of the the ' the ' and th e last cells.
Print a single integer-the minimum time it'll take Olya to get from (x1, y1) to (x2, y2).
If it ' s impossible to get from (x1, y1) to (x2, y2), print-1.
From (x1,y1) (x_1,y_1) to (X2,y2) (x_2,y_2), the maximum in one Direction to go K-step, and not through the wall, asked at least several times to achieve the goal.
Each time you can go to the point to join the queue BFS, pay attention to optimize pruning, as a point only calculate once. | 2019-04-23T10:47:10 | http://topic.alibabacloud.com/a/codeforces-877-d-olya-and-energy-drinks-bfs-__-search_2_72_20286033.html |
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Question: Does the Torah obligate checking?!
Answer: The verse is needed for if he burned it in a place of Tum'ah. The Torah forbids this. It mandates Shechitah and burning in a Tahor place, like the burning of Parim (inner Chata'os). They are equated to each other, like it connotes above (105b).
Question: Why isn't he liable for [Shechutei] Chutz when he slaughtered it outside its place, since it is Tam, and proper for other Korbanos?
We say like this in Yoma (62b) regarding goats of Yom Kipur that were slaughtered outside [before the lottery]. He is liable for both of them (even though one was destined to go to Azazel), since they are proper [right now] for the goat done outside (the outer Chatas of Yom Kipur)!
Answer #1: There is different. He can change them, for there was no designation until the lottery.
Answer #2: There is no Korban [Tzibur] for which Parah [Adumah] is proper. It cannot be a Shelamim, for the Tzibur does not bring females!
Answer #3: Parah is Kodshei Bedek ha'Bayis. One cannot change it to Kodshei Mizbe'ach.
Alternative text: Some texts say "v'Saraf v'Hizah."
Support: [The Gemara] brings about this the argument of R. Yochanan and R. Oshaya (about where it must be burned).
Retraction (of support): However, even if the text here is v'Shachat v'Hizah, this is fine, for [the Gemara] understands that if we equate burning to Haza'ah, the same applies to Shechitah.
Explanation: It is Pasul because we require outside three Machanos.
A Kusi said to them "go pray on Mount Grizim (Kusim worship it). The flood did not descend on it!" The Behemi asked permission from R. Yishmael to answer him; R. Yishmael permitted him.
The Kusi wanted to say that there was not heat or anything else [due to the flood] there (on Har Grizim).
Answer #2: [R. Yishmael] intended to dispel the Kusi with straw (an improper answer). The verse is not difficult. It says that in places where the flood descended, there the mountains were covered.
Implied question: The children were Tamei due to [nursing, and birth itself, during which they touched] a Nidah or Yoledes!
Answer: [Chachamim] were concerned only to guard them from Tum'as Mes, which requires Haza'ah, and from Tum'ah that leaves their own body, e.g. a Ba'al Keri.
Implied question: [The doors do not help according to] the one who says in Gitin (8b), Nazir (55a), Eruvin (30b) and Chagigah (25a) that Ohel Zaruk is not considered an Ohel!
There, the reason (the bulls block Tum'ah) is due to "uva'Atzamos v'Gidim Tesochecheni" (the verse teaches that they are called Sechach, i.e. a covering), even though [normally] an Ohel not made by man is not considered an Ohel.
However, R. Yehudah surely holds that [Ohel Zaruk] is considered an Ohel, for he says that the reason [they did not use doors] is because a child is bold (he does not fear falling, and he would lean over past the door).
Question: How did it help to use boys [who never became Tamei through a Mes, or a Tum'ah that leaves their bodies]? Still, we need a man at the time of Kidush, that they put the ashes on the water, or at the time of Haza'ah, according to R. Yehudah or Rabanan, like is proven in Yoma (43a)!
Explanation: Also Reish Lakish knew they made a stringency for Parah, but if the flood did not descend to Eretz Yisrael, it is not proper to make this stringency.
Question: It is slightly difficult, for R. Yochanan agrees that (those in Eretz Yisrael) died due to the heat, like it says below (113b)!
Question: We should challenge R. Yochanan himself from here, for they died in the heat!
Answer: Because it was big and strong, the heat did not harm it.
Version #1: This is R. Tam's text. "Orzila d'Reima" is a young Re'em. The Targum of "Ofer he'Ayalim" (Shir ha'Shirim 2:9) is Orzila d'Ayala, and Reima is Re'em (a giant animal).
Version #2: This is unlike the Rashbam, whose text in Bava Basra (73b) is "Orzila d'Yama." He explains that it is a fish of the sea.
Rejection: He was not meticulous. It says here that there was no decree against fish of the sea!
Pesak: Bufalos (buffaloes?) that we call Re'em, this is not correct, and their Chelev is forbidden. Surely the Re'em is a Chayah and its Chelev is permitted, like it is written (among the Kosher Chayos) "Ako v'Dishon", and the Targum is v'Ya'ala v'Rima. Our Bufalos are small.
Suggestion: Perhaps it is the species of Re'em, and others of the species are big!
Rejection #1: If so, what was difficult to [Reish Lakish] "where did [the Re'em] endure?" It was not difficult to him the lion of Bei Ilai, [which is mentioned] in Chulin (59b), where it endured, because there were other small lions that could enter [the ark].
The Re'em does not work, for it is written "ha'Sikshar Reim b'Selem Avoso Im Yesaded Amakim Acherecha."
Explanation (Rashi's second Perush): Even Tam animals are excluded, for Paras Chatas is Tam, and we exclude it, because it is not proper for Pesach Ohel Mo'ed.
This is like we say in Temurah (33b) that anything proper for the Mizbe'ach never evades [being offered on] the Mizbe'ach. It is sold to one who needs an Olah or Shelamim.
Question: Why are Tam Kodshei Bedek ha'Bayis different than goats of Yom Kipur? It says in Yoma (62b) that one is liable for both of them outside, since they are proper for the goat offered outside. All the more so one should be liable for these are (Tam Kodshei Bedek ha'Bayis), which will never evade the Mizbe'ach!
Answer: Since they are not yet Kodshei Mizbe'ach, they are not considered proper for Pesach Ohel Mo'ed.
Implied question: In Yoma (62b) we say that he is liable for both of them!
Explanation: Since the verse exempts before Viduy, all the more so after Viduy! We need "Pesach Ohel Mo'ed" for Parah, and for [other] Kodshei Bedek ha'Bayis.
Question: This itself is astounding! Why don't we exclude them from "la'Shem"?
In all Seforim in Temurah (13a), the text says "and I would not exclude Parah Adumah and Se'ir ha'Mishtale'ach, which are proper for Pesach Ohel Mo'ed!" (Before the lottery, the goat is proper for Pesach Ohel Mo'ed.) It says "la'Shem" - what is special to Hash-m. This excludes these (Parah and the goat), which are not special to Hash-m.
Also, we need "El Pesach Ohel Mo'ed" to exclude its roof (exempt one who slaughters on the roof of the Heichal), like we said above (107b). | 2019-04-26T10:15:11 | http://dafyomi.co.il/zevachim/tosfos/zv-ts-113.htm |
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AstroidIndexError([message]) Raised when an Indexable / Mapping does not have an index / key.
AstroidSyntaxError([message]) Exception class used when a module can’t be parsed.
AstroidTypeError([message]) Raised when a TypeError would be expected in Python code.
AttributeInferenceError([message]) Raised when an attribute lookup fails, corresponds to AttributeError.
DuplicateBasesError([message]) Error raised when there are duplicate bases in the same class bases.
InconsistentMroError([message]) Error raised when a class’s MRO is inconsistent.
MroError([message]) Error raised when there is a problem with method resolution of a class.
NameInferenceError([message]) Raised when a name lookup fails, corresponds to NameError.
ResolveError([message]) Base class of astroid resolution/inference error.
SuperError([message]) Error raised when there is a problem with a super call.
TooManyLevelsError([message]) Exception class which is raised when a relative import was beyond the top-level.
modname: Name of the module that AST construction failed for. error: Exception raised during construction.
AstroidError and its subclasses are structured, intended to hold objects representing state when the exception is thrown. Field values are passed to the constructor as keyword-only arguments. Each subclass has its own set of standard fields, but use your best judgment to decide whether a specific exception instance needs more or fewer fields for debugging. Field values may be used to lazily generate the error message: self.message.format() will be called with the field names and values supplied as keyword arguments.
Exception class used when a module can’t be imported by astroid.
Raised when an Indexable / Mapping does not have an index / key.
Exception class used when a module can’t be parsed.
Raised when a TypeError would be expected in Python code.
Raised when an attribute lookup fails, corresponds to AttributeError.
target: The node for which lookup failed. attribute: The attribute for which lookup failed, as a string. context: InferenceContext object.
Error raised when there are duplicate bases in the same class bases.
Error raised when a class’s MRO is inconsistent.
node: The node inference was called on. context: InferenceContext object.
Currently only used for debugging.
Error raised when there is a problem with method resolution of a class.
mros: A sequence of sequences containing ClassDef nodes. cls: ClassDef node whose MRO resolution failed. context: InferenceContext object.
Raised when a name lookup fails, corresponds to NameError.
name: The name for which lookup failed, as a string. scope: The node representing the scope in which the lookup occurred. context: InferenceContext object.
func: Function node. name: Name of argument without a default.
Base class of astroid resolution/inference error.
ResolveError is not intended to be raised.
Error raised when there is a problem with a super call.
super_: The Super instance that raised the exception. context: InferenceContext object.
Exception class which is raised when a relative import was beyond the top-level.
level: The level which was attempted. name: the name of the module on which the relative import was attempted. | 2019-04-24T20:02:02 | https://astroid.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/astroid.exceptions.html |
0.999999 | A prisoner killed a female custody officer with a powerful kick to the head while being escorted from court in handcuffs, a court heard today.
Humphrey Burke, 23, was being restrained by three other Serco guards and had his hands secured behind his back when he lashed out twice at Lorraine Barwell.
The first blow knocked the 54-year-old grandmother to her knees and the second fractured her jaw and caused a brain haemorrhage.
Mrs Barwell, from Romford, Essex, died two days later on July 1 last year after her life support machine was switched off.
Burke - who dropped out of a law and philosophy course at Oxford Brookes in 2014 - was later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and has been found unfit to stand trial.
An Old Bailey jury will now decide whether he carried out the 'acts' of kicking Mrs Barwell to the head causing her death.
The court heard Burke had behaved 'in an unpredictable manner' during previous incidents in court and in custody and his file was marked as a 'three man unlock'.
Following his appearance at Blackfriars Crown Court on June 29 last year he again collapsed to the floor and had to be manhandled back to the cell block by four officers.
At around 1pm Mrs Barwell and two other female colleagues went to collect him and move him to the prison van to take him back to HMP Thameside.
Mrs Barwell handcuffed herself to Burke, following standard procedure, to take him out of the cell.
As they were leaving, Burke again went limp and collapsed to the floor, jurors heard.
With the help of other officers he was taken into the corridor and the handcuffs were removed to allow Mrs Barwell to move away.
Prosecutor Duncan Penny QC said: 'A total of three male officers then attempted to get the defendant to his feet and to stand him upright.
'The defendant began to struggle and was taken back to the floor and restrained in a prone position. He was handcuffed behind his back and invited to stand up. He refused to do so.
'The male officers then attempted again to get the defendant to his feet.
'As he was standing up the defendant was bent forward while Lorraine Barwell was standing in front of him attempting to control his head.
'Once on his feet the defendant was kicking behind him without making contact.
'He then appears to have lunged forwards and managed to kick out twice at Lorraine Barwell who was initially in front of him.
'It is not clear whether the first kick connected with her head or torso or her legs but it was delivered with sufficient force to knock her to the ground.
'She was either on her knees or crouched down when the second kick was delivered.
'Many of the witnesses described the noise of it striking her head.
Medical assistance was summoned but her condition deteriorated and she suffered 'catastrophic brain injuries'.
The postmortem revealed a sub arachnoid haemorrhage, injuries to the right side of her face and fractures to her lower jaw.
Burke, formerly of Friars Wharf, Oxford, was charged with murder. | 2019-04-20T00:22:38 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3534517/Prisoner-killed-female-custody-officer-54-single-kick-head-taken-Blackfriars-Crown-Court-London-wearing-handcuffs-court-hears.html |
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