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0.999931 | 1) Time outs are being misused and/or overused.
2) Time outs might temporarily stop the immediate disruptive behavior but they do not address the reasons for the behavior in the first place.
3) Time out discipline should not be used to correct behavior, as it may be experienced solely as punitive and not as an opportunity to learn self regulatory skills (i.e., how to help children calm and learn to self soothe).
4) The parents' needs tend to be met with a time out (e.g., quieting the child) but have the child's needs been met?
5) Parents tend to put children in time out because they are frustrated and overwhelmed and do not know what else to do; children tend to act out because they are frustrated and overwhelmed and do not know what else to do. Typical toddler time outs do not necessarily teach either parents or children "what else to do."
Children's misbehavior or melt downs are reflective of their internal state; their behavior means something. Children tend to act out when they are tired, confused, frustrated, in need of attention, or are having a reaction to something in the environment. They often do not have the words to express how they are feeling so it comes out in their actions. It is when children are acting out that they need their feelings acknowledged and validated and they need to experience a connection with their parents. When feelings are reflected and validated, children learn appropriate expression of emotion and how to regulate behavior. Time outs have the potential to ultimately separate children from their parents and send a message that expression of emotion is not ok. Over time, children may come to disregard their emotions or hold them in, which could lead to further disruptive behavior, mental health problems (e.g., depression, anxiety), and/or relationship issues.
So, when and how is it appropriate to use time outs? If a child is completely dis-regulated, he/she may need a safe, comfortable, quiet space to find calm and re-connect with his/her parents (e.g., nestling on the couch with a parent and a favorite stuffed animal, toy, or blanket while reflecting on feelings). It is in these moments that parents serve as models and sources of regulation for their children. It is not a time for separation or isolation and suppression of feelings.
Children who feel understood and are helped to manage their feelings learn to regulate their emotions on their own, display less acting out behavior and have better relationships. | 2019-04-24T03:53:30 | https://www.childtherapychicago.com/2012/05/time-out-for-toddlers-controversy.html |
0.999996 | An oft-discussed (and nearly as oft-misunderstood) topic in escape room design is size. Proponents of small rooms debate hotly with proponents of large rooms over which is the better design, and which is the better experience.
In my view, this debate, without greater context, is nonsense. There are amazing small games out there. There are amazing large games out there (See: Puzzle Break's current offerings). And if I may read your mind for a moment, you're wrong. This isn't going to be a strawman argument about execution, at least not in the way you're thinking. Of course there are piss-poor escape rooms out there that are small, and large, and every size. However, many of these games are kneecapped by any number of problems unrelated to their size, ranging from terrible customer service, to low quality puzzles, to puzzles that are way too easy/hard (or worse: both), to gadgetry that fails left and right, and everything in the middle. These are rooms outside the scope of today.
What I'd like to discuss here are rooms that are bad because they are big, or because they are small, and why. These rooms definitely exist, and I'm sure the escape room super-veterans out there can think of a few examples of both. NOTE: Overcrowding is a problem agnostic to room size, and I'll get to that at the end.
First, small rooms that are bad because they are small. As it happens, real estate ain't cheap. Having several acres of escape room isn't an option for most operators, so, folks make do with what they have. And sometimes, the end result is playing an escape room in a glorified elevator. The most frequent problem with these tiny spaces (aside from overcrowding, which I promise to get to) is there's only a finite amount of physical content you can get into a place without warping space & time (note: if you've got a guy that can warp space & time, send him my way). One of the chief virtues of an escape room experience is a wonderful assortment of activities. Strictly speaking, less space = less content. I've played a handful of rooms with no more than 3 puzzles, and each puzzle was unfairly obtuse to draw out the experience to an hour (and in one case, 30 minutes). How can these problems be avoided from a design perspective? Ensuring there is sufficient puzzle content, and it is tuned properly for difficulty. And if the experience is less than an hour, scale down the price.
Next, large rooms that are bad because they are large. The most frequent problem with these (aside from overcrowding) is rampant "I have nothing to do" disease. When you've got 9 people staring at a single puzzle, and that single puzzle can reasonably be worked on by a maximum of 3 people, you've got 6 poor jerks sitting there with nothing to do. Worse, if this trend repeats itself for the duration of the experience, those same 6 folks are going to be in for a pretty bad experience. This can sometimes be a symptom of shoehorning an experience flow designed for a small group onto a large group, but this is an entirely separate conversation for a future post on various game flows. How can these problems be avoided from a design perspective? Ensuring there is sufficient puzzle content, and it is tuned properly for difficulty.
Notice a trend? Bottom line: Having the right amount well-balanced content for the right amount of players in the right amount of size will cure what ails ya.
NOTE: All rooms of all sizes can suffer from overcrowding. All too often I see operators "cheat" the number of players that should be in the room by various margins. A room that is a great experience for 2-4 players will allow up to 6. A room ideal for 3-6 will cap at 8. Rooms for 6-8 will allow up to 10, etc. This has burned a number of experienced players, and is particularly frustrating to me at Puzzle Break.
Our rooms are enormous with vast amounts of clue & puzzle content. Our largest room is bigger than some small houses, and has content for up to 14 people (I don't think any group smaller than 8 has ever escaped). And every week, we get a mail from someone: "Hey I have a group of 4, can we play your largest room with no one else?" These poor souls have been burned one-too-many times and are trained into thinking a room for up to 14 is going to be better played with 4, and I can't say as I blame them.
Last but not least, be extremely wary about rooms with enormous player ranges. A room for 2-4 players makes sense. A room for 6-12 players makes sense. A room for 2-12 players is absurd. There's no experience (in my experience) that can possibly be a good time for both 2 people and 12 people. | 2019-04-22T13:04:11 | https://www.puzzlebreak.us/blog/tag/size |
0.998957 | Context Inhaled milrinone has short-acting selective pulmonary vasodilator effect. Aims The aim of the study was to investigate the cardiovascular effects of prolonged inhalation of nebulized milrinone on patients with pulmonary hypertension undergoing mitral valve replacement. Settings and design This is a controlled, randomized, double-blinded study. Patients and methods Forty patients were divided into two groups: the milrinone group and the control group. The milrinone group received milrinone nebulization before cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) as the loading dose at 50 mg/kg, followed by a maintenance dose of 0.5 mg/kg/min, which was continued for 2 h after tracheal extubation. The control group received an equivalent volume of 0.9% sodium chloride. The measured and calculated variables included heart rate, mean arterial blood pressure, central venous pressure, mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP), pulmonary capillary wedge pressure, cardiac index (CI), pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR), and systemic vascular resistance. The time points of measurements and calculations were as follows: at T 0 - after anesthesia induction and before sternotomy; at T 1 - 20 min after CPB cessation; at T 2 - 1 h after CPB cessation; at T 3 - 3 h after CPB cessation; at T 4 - 1 h after tracheal extubation; and at T 5 - 1 h after milrinone discontinuation. The duration of CPB and time of tracheal extubation were recorded. Results The milrinone group showed significant reduction in mPAP (T 2 to T 4 readings), pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (T 3 reading), and PVR (T 2 to T 4 readings), increase in CI (T 3 and T 4 readings), and shorter CPB duration and tracheal extubation time. Conclusion Prolonged inhalation of nebulized milrinone proved to be feasible in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PAH) undergoing mitral valve replacement. It decreased PVR and mPAP while increasing CI. This helped shorter CPB duration and earlier tracheal extubation.
Background Severe pre-eclampsia (PE) is a potentially life-threatening multisystem disease that requires urgent management. Delivery of the fetus is the definitive treatment for PE. However, effective and safe control of severe hypertension is the most important aspect of critical care management. This study aimed to compare the effectiveness and safety profile of hydralazine infusion versus nitroglycerin infusion as antihypertensive therapy in the acute management of patients with severe PE. Patients and methods A total of 180 patients with severe PE admitted to Ain Shams Obstetric ICU to stabilize blood pressure before delivery were randomly assigned to one of two equal groups: group H and group N. Group H received hydralazine infusion (1 mg/ml) and group N received nitroglycerin infusion (1 mg/ml). The infusion rate (5 ml/h) was adjusted to maintain systolic blood pressure at 130-140 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure at 80-100 mmHg. Results As regards hemodynamic parameters, the time to achieve blood pressure control was significantly shorter in the N group compared with the H group. However, the number of cases of severe persistent hypertension and the number of attacks of hypotension were comparable between the two groups. Maternal side effects and fetal and neonatal complications were comparable between the two groups, except for maternal headache and tachycardia, which were significantly higher in the H group compared with the N group. Concerning the mode of delivery, the rate of cesarean section delivery was significantly higher than the rate of vaginal delivery in both groups. Meanwhile, the rate of cesarean section after induction of labor was significantly higher in the N group compared with the H group. Conclusion Nitroglycerin could be a good alternative option for the acute management of patients with severe PE. It is an effective antihypertensive with minimal side effects.
Enhanced recovery after surgery is a multimodal, multidisciplinary, evidence-based approach, aiming to control postoperative pathophysiology and rehabilitation. The aim of this article is to review current literature in pediatric cardiac practice, implementing the ERAS approach, to identify peri-operative strategies that are associated with enhanced recovery after pediatric cardiac surgery.
Crouzon syndrome is a rare hereditary disorder, characterized by craniosynostosis. Management of difficult airway is challenging because of craniofacial abnormalities. Presentation during adulthood is rare. We describe the case of a 37-year-old man with a known case of Crouzon syndrome who was posted for fixation of humerus fracture. The patient was unique because of the presence of kyphoscoliosis with severe restrictive lung functions, atlantoaxial dislocation, and mental retardation, having almost all features of the syndrome. Anesthesia plan A was to use laryngeal mask airway proseal as the patient had adequate mouth opening. Nasal fiberoptic bronchoscopy was contraindicated and regional nerve block was not a feasible option. Plan A was not successful because of obstructed breathing pattern. Plan B of oral fiberoptic bronchoscopy-guided intubation with good airway anesthesia and sedation was successfully managed in the next attempt.
Objective Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block is a new, rapidly expanding technique. This study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of ultrasound-guided TAP block in comparison with epidural analgesia in pain management following lower abdominal surgery. Setting and duration The present study was conducted on 60 patients aged 20-75 years, who were admitted at Al-Azhar University Hospitals from February 2013 to March 2014. Patients and methods These patients were allocated to either group I (TAP, 30 cases) or group II (epidural block, 30 cases) using a randomized central computer-generated sequence held by an investigator not involved with the clinical management or data collection. The primary outcome was the proportion of participants who used more than 200 mg/kg of morphine in the first 24 h on arrival at the recovery ward. Secondary outcomes included the following: morphine consumption 24 h after operation; pain measured using the visual analog score in the recovery ward and at 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, and 24 h after operation; and postoperative nausea and vomiting measured with the total number of vomits during the first 24 h. Results The most important finding in our study was that TAP block provided highly effective postoperative analgesia in the first 24 h, especially in the neurofascial plane in the muscles and the skin but not the visceral pain, and that the TAP block reduced the mean intravenous morphine requirements by more than 70%. This reduction in opioid requirement resulted in fewer opioid side effects. In the present study, there was no significant difference between the studied groups as regards time spent in the recovery room, need for paracetamol during the first 8 h after surgical intervention, postoperative nausea and vomiting, and duration of hospital stay. In contrast, the total morphine consumption during the first 8 h was significantly less in group I than in group II, and the time to first analgesic request was significantly longer in group I than in group II. Finally, the number of cases that required more than 200 mg of morphine during the first 24 h was significantly less in group I than in group II. Conclusion Ultrasound-guided TAP block is an effective alternative for providing postoperative analgesia after lower abdominal surgery in comparison with epidural analgesia, but further studies in larger population are necessary.
Purpose The current study evaluates the efficacy of perioperative intravenous use of NAC as a pharmaco-protective agent in liver transplant recipients. Methods One hundred patients undergoing living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) were included in this prospective, randomized, double-blind, two parallel groups placebo-controlled trial; Group N (50 patients) received 150mg/kg of IV NAC infusion IV over 15 min before surgery, followed by12.5 mg/kg/h NAC for 4 h after induction of general anesthesia and a subsequent dose of 6.25 mg/kg/h continuous infusion for 3 postoperative days and Group C (50 patients) received equal volume of 0.9% saline IV continuous infusion at the same rate and volume for 3 postoperative days. Both groups will be followed for 14 days after their LT. Primary outcome include postoperative acute kidney injury (POAKI) assessed using RIFLE criteria on admission, day 7 and day 14. Secondary outcomes include severity of the post reperfusion syndrome (PRS) and the incidence of primary graft non-function (PGNF), renal functions test, total dose of loop diuretics and dopamine, adverse events, survival, as well as the length of ICU and hospital stays. Results There was no significant difference (P = 0.8) in the incidence of mild PRS, but the incidence of severe PRS was significantly reduced (P = 0.03) in Group N. RIFLE classification was significantly reduced on admission (P = 0.001), day 7(P = 0.002), and day 14(P = 0.003) respectively in Group N compared to Group C. PGNF was significantly reduced (P = 0.03) in Group N [1 (2%)] than Group C [7(14%)]. During 14 days there was a significant decrease in total dose of loop diuretics, need for dopamine, hospital length of stay, ICU length of stay, renal replacement therapy and the incidence of complications (5 vs. 14 P = 0.02) in Group N than Group C. But there was no significant difference in mechanical ventilator days, and patient survival among groups. Conclusions Perioperative intravenous NAC administration in patients undergoing living donor liver transplantation decreased incidence of postoperative acute kidney injury, severity of PRS and PGNF along with decreased length of ICU and hospital stay with no adverse events , But did not significantly reduce mechanical ventilator days and mortality.
Context Anxiety and pain are common responses to surgery and can negatively affect patient outcomes. Music is increasingly being used as a nonpharmacological intervention perioperatively, to improve patient outcomes and to avoid polypharmacy. Aims The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of intraoperative music on the anesthetic requirement and stress response for laparoscopic surgeries under general anesthesia. Settings and design This was a prospective, randomized, double-blinded study. Materials and methods After approval of the hospital ethical committee, 60 ASA I patients were randomly assigned to the music and the no-music group. In the music group, classical instrumental music was played after the induction of anesthesia until the skin closure. In the no-music group, patients wore headphones but no music was played. We established three sample times for measurement of capillary blood sugar level during the procedure and one in the recovery room. Hemodynamic data were recorded. There was no statistically significant difference with respect to demographic profile, baseline hemodynamic variables, and duration of surgery. Results There was no statistically significant difference in the intraoperative hemodynamics between the two groups. The bispectral (BIS) value, end-tidal isoflurane concentration, and fentanyl requirement were comparable in the two groups. There was no significant difference in the blood sugar levels between the two groups. Conclusion In this study, we could not demonstrate the beneficial effects of intraoperative music as a nonpharmacological intervention under general anesthesia on stress response and anesthetic requirement.
Background Caudal anesthesia (CA) is used in pediatrics to avoid the possible side effect of postoperative opioids and allows for smooth and rapid emergence from anesthesia. Opioids were added to the injection in CA to prolong the effect of anesthesia. Objective To compare the effect of bupivacaine alone and with nalbuphine in CA. Patients and methods A total of 40 patients scheduled for operations under general anesthesia combined with CA were divided into two groups: in group B, CA was carried out by injection of bupivacaine 0.25% in a dose of 1 ml/kg, and in group NB, CA was carried out by injection of bupivacaine 0.25% 1 ml/kg with nalbuphine 0.1 mg/kg. Hemodynamic changes, oxygen saturation, pain score at 2, 4, 6, 12, 24 h postoperative, sedation score, incidence of postoperative urine retention, and duration of motor block were compared in both groups. The respiratory depression effect of nalbuphine was also recorded. Results There were no significant differences between the two groups regarding the hemodynamic changes. There were significant differences in postoperative pain score and sedation as group NB had prolonged analgesia and prolonged sedation time than group B. There were no significant differences in urine retention and motor block between both groups. Conculsion Nalbuphine added to bupivacaine in CA provides longer postoperative analgesia and sedation without respiratory depression.
Background This randomized, double-blind, prospective-controlled study was designed to assess magnesium sulfate, an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor blocker, as an anesthetic adjuvant decreasing emergence delirium/agitation, pain, postoperative analgesic requirement, and adverse events. Patients and methods Forty-seven patients undergoing an adenotonsillectomy were included in two parallel groups: the magnesium group received magnesium sulfate 40 mg/kg intravenously after induction of anesthesia, followed by 15 mg/kg/h by a continuous intravenous infusion during the operation. The same volume of isotonic solution was administered to the control group. Primary outcome measures were emergence delirium/agitation assessed by pediatric anesthesia emergence delirium scale. Secondary measures included intraoperative sevoflurane concentration, recovery time, pain assessed by objective pain score, time to first postoperative rescue analgesic, the total dose of rescue fentanyl required, need for rescue antiemetic, postanesthetic care unit (PACU) stay, postoperative total analgesic required, and postoperative adverse events. Results In the magnesium group, there was a reduction in the incidence and severity of pediatric anesthesia emergence delirium [(13 vs. 39%) and (8 vs. 14)], objective pain score (1 vs. 3), sevoflurane concentration (0.0001), time to discharge from the PACU (P = 0.04), postoperative analgesic requirement, and adverse events compared with the control group. Conclusion Magnesium sulfate as an anesthetic adjuvant decreased the incidence and severity of postoperative emergence agitation and pain, intraoperative sevoflurane concentration, time in PACU, and postoperative analgesic requirement.
Sedation and analgesia following pediatric cardiac surgery is of paramount importance. Individualized sedation and analgesia strategies starting in the operative theater and continuing in the postoperative period need to be recognized as an important aspect of perioperative care. This aims toward speeding recovery, minimizing PICU length of stay, and avoiding the development of postsurgical stress syndrome. Patient-tailored protocols should be implemented based on validated pain/sedation scores. Understanding the pharmacological aspects and side effects of various sedative/analgesic drugs, as well as continuous dose adjustment according to follow-up scoring system and variable patient hemodynamic state and response, is mandatory.
Takayasu's arteritis (TA), also known as pulseless disease, is a rare disease involving the aorta and its main branches. Anesthesia for cesarean section in patients with TA is complicated by associated hypertension, end organ dysfunction, stenosis of major blood vessels, and overall vasculopathy. We report a pregnant patient with TA with common carotid artery involvement with a history of two abortions. She had also undergone bilateral renal artery angioplasty for stenosis. We discuss the anesthetic considerations with emphasis on appropriate monitoring for a favorable outcome in pregnancy complicated with TA.
Objectives The aim of this randomized, double-blinded study was to compare the duration of postoperative analgesia and sedation, and the incidence of any side effect of single-dose caudal dexmedetomidine with bupivacaine versus ketamine with bupivacaine in pediatric patients undergoing inguinoscrotal surgeries. Patients and methods A total of 60 pediatric patients, 2-5 years of age, American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status I or II, scheduled for inguinoscrotal surgeries were included in the study. The patients were divided into two equal groups: group A patients (n = 30) received dexmedetomidine with bupivacaine, whereas group B patients (n = 30) received ketamine with bupivacaine. For each patient, postoperative sedation score, pain score, duration of analgesia, and postoperative complications were recorded. Results The duration of postoperative analgesia was longer in group A than in group B, and sedation score was lower in group B than in group A, which was statistically significant. No significant postoperative complications were recorded in both groups. Conclusion The use of dexmedetomidine, as an additive to the local anesthetic bupivacaine in caudal epidural analgesia, during single-dose injection, prolonged the duration of postoperative analgesia following inguinoscrotal surgery compared with caudal administration of ketamine with bupivacaine, but with more sedation compared with ketamine. Both groups showed few side effects.
Background I-gel is the second generation of supraglottic airway devices with a noninflatable cuff that has several potential advantages over other supraglottic airway devices. Objective The aim of this study was to compare I-gel with proseal laryngeal mask airway (PLMA) and endotracheal tube (ETT) during elective minor surgical procedures using controlled ventilation. Design and setting A prospective, randomized, comparative study. Patients and methods A total of 60 adult female patients ASA I-II scheduled for elective breast lumpectomy surgery under general anesthesia with positive pressure ventilation were divided equally into three groups (20 patients each): group I used I-gel, group II used PLMA, and group III used ETT for airway maintenance. The three devices were compared with regard to the insertion characteristics, the ease of gastric tube insertion, tidal volumes, leak volumes, airway sealing pressures, hemodynamics, gas exchange parameters, and postoperative airway complications. Results The mean insertion time for I-gel (9.8 ± 2.5 s) was significantly shorter than that of PLMA (15.4 ± 3.2 s) and ETT (14.1 ± 2.1 s) (P < 0.001). The I-gel group (19/20) and the ETT group (18/20) showed a significantly easier insertion compared with the PLMA group (13/20) (P < 0.05). There was a significant increase in the mean arterial blood pressure after the insertion of the airway device in the ETT group (110 ± 13 mmHg) compared with the I-gel group (100 ± 10 mmHg) and the PLMA group (102 ± 11 mmHg) (P < 0.05). There was a significantly lower incidence of hoarseness, nausea, regurge, vomiting, and dysphagia in the I-gel and the PLMA groups when compared with the ETT group. Conclusion I-gel is an effective alternative device to PLMA and ETT during minor surgical procedures using controlled ventilation as it produces minimal hemodynamic changes, less airway morbidity, and is rapid and easy to insert.
Context Epidural bupivacaine remains the most widely used local anesthetic for postoperative pain relief, but ropivacaine is increasingly being used as it has less cardiac toxicity. Aim To compare the analgesic efficacy and safety of epidural bupivacaine with fentanyl versus ropivacaine with fentanyl during abdominal surgery and in the immediate postoperative period. Materials and methods One hundred patients undergoing abdominal surgeries under general anesthesia with supplementary epidural analgesia were studied. Group B received an epidural infusion of 0.2% bupivacaine with fentanyl 2 mcg/ml at 6 ml/h intraoperatively and 0.1% bupivacaine with fentanyl 2 mcg/ml at 6 ml/h postoperatively. Group R received an epidural infusion of 0.2% ropivacaine with fentanyl 2 mcg/ml at 6 ml/h intraoperatively and 0.1% ropivacaine with fentanyl 2 mcg/ml at 6 ml/h postoperatively. Results Intraoperative and postoperative heart rate and mean arterial pressure in both groups were comparable. Pain scores were significantly higher in group B postoperatively up to 24 h. The number of epidural topups required was comparable intraoperatively, but in the postoperative period, group B needed significantly more number of epidural topups. The requirement of rescue analgesia showed no significant difference intraoperatively and postoperatively between groups. Conclusion An epidural infusion of ropivacaine 0.2% with fentanyl provides better intraoperative and postoperative analgesia compared with bupivacaine 0.2% with fentanyl.
Background Double-lumen tube (DLT) is usually performed using blind placement followed by bronchoscopic position confirmation, which is time consuming and complications may occur. We assume that bronchoscopic-guided DLT placement and position confirmation will save time and complications may be less. Patients and methods A total of 31 patients included in this study were randomly allocated into either the conventional group (n = 15) or the bronchoscopic group (n = 16) on the basis of DLT placement; in the conventional group the DLT was inserted blindly, whereas in the bronchoscopic group the DLT was inserted under guidance of the flexible bronchoscopy passed into the bronchial lumen. Thereafter, clinical assessment was performed followed by bronchoscopic assessment in both groups. Clinical findings and bronchoscopic assessment as well as time needed for each were recorded. Hemodynamic response, oxygen saturation, and arrhythmias were also recorded. Results Both groups were comparable with respect to demographic data. There was significant difference when comparing time needed for placement and confirmation of DLT in both groups. The clinical assessment was satisfactory in 12 as against 16 patients, whereas the bronchoscopic assessment revealed proper positioning in seven as against 13 patients and misplacement in eight as against three patients in the conventional and bronchoscopic groups, respectively. Hemodynamic response, oxygen saturation, and arrhythmias did not show any differences. Conclusion Flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy could be used safely as an initial guide for placement and position confirmation; time needed for placement and confirmation as well as complications were reduced.
Objective This study aimed to assess the clinical efficacy of levobupivacaine in spinal anesthesia for day-case brachytherapy for carcinoma of the cervix. Study design A prospective, randomized, double-blind study was conducted at the Anesthesia Department of Al-Azhar University Hospitals over a period of 6 months. Patients and methods Between July 2013 and January 2014, 40 female patients were included in the study after approval of the Local Ethics Committee of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Department of Al-Azhar University. Informed consent was taken from the patients who were randomized into two groups. Bupivacaine group, which included 20 patients who received intrathecal 7.5 mg of 0.5% hyperbaric bupivacaine; and levobupivacaine group, which included 20 patients who received intrathecal 7.5 mg of 0.5% levobupivacaine. About 25 mg fentanyl was added to the local anesthetic solution in both groups through the L3/L4 interspace. The upper level of sensory blockade, two-segment sensory regression, S2 regression, side effects of the local anesthetic used, urination, ambulation, and the duration of hospital stay were assessed. Results There were no significant differences between both groups regarding the level of sensory blockade, the onset of sensory blockade to the T10 dermatome, and side effects of the local anesthetic. The time to two-segment regression, S2 regression, ambulation, and the duration of hospital stay were significantly shorter in the levobupivacaine group (P < 0.05). Conclusion The mixture of 7.5 mg of 0.5% levobupivacaine+25 mg fentanyl given intrathecally was more effective as it provided sensory and surgical blockade with minimal side effects and early home discharge in ambulatory brachytherapy for carcinoma of the cervix compared with 7.5 mg of 0.5% hyperbaric bupivacaine+25 mg fentanyl.
Background Esmolol is the first intravenous, short-acting, titratable b-blocker for use in critical care and surgical settings. It influences core components of an anesthetic regimen, such as analgesia, hypnosis, and memory function. Aims To investigate whether perioperative esmolol infusion as an adjuvant to total intravenous anesthesia could affect the total anesthetic and analgesic requirements in adult patients undergoing arthroscopic shoulder surgery. Settings and design A randomized, double-blinded, prospective study. Materials and methods Eighty adult ASA I and II patients scheduled for elective arthroscopic rotator cuff repair were randomized into the esmolol group (n = 40) and the control group (n = 40). In the esmolol group, 1 mg/kg esmolol was given as a bolus over 30 s, followed by 15 mg/kg/min as an intravenous infusion, and in the control group, the same volume of normal saline was given during the same time period. The heart rate, the mean arterial blood pressure, the depth of anesthesia, the duration of anesthesia, the recovery time, total anesthetic requirements, the postoperative pain score (VAS), and the total postoperative analgesic requirements were monitored and calculated during the perioperative period. Results There was no significant difference between both groups regarding the demographic data using the unpaired t-test. There was a significant difference between both groups (P < 0.05) regarding different parameters, except the duration of anesthesia, using the unpaired t-test. Preoperative mean values of heart rate (beats/min) and the mean arterial blood pressure (mmHg) were comparable between the two groups (P > 0.05). However, after induction of anesthesia and thereafter, there was a significant reduction in heart rate and mean arterial blood pressure mean values in the esmolol group when compared with the control group (P < 0.05). A significant change in bispectral index was noticed within each group in comparison with the baseline using the paired t-test. However, there was no significant difference between both groups. Postoperative pain assessments by VAS (0-100 mm) showed significantly lower pain scores in the esmolol group compared with the control group by the paired t-test (P < 0.05). There was a highly significant reduction (P < 0.001) in the total cumulative doses of morphine consumption by PCA during the first 24 h in the esmolol group compared with the control group. Conclusion Perioperative esmolol infusion reduces the total anesthetic and analgesic requirements and postoperative pain. Hence, esmolol can be considered as safe and suitable adjuvant to total intravenous anesthesia.
Background Hyperbaric ropivacaine provides adequate sensory and motor block for short duration surgical procedures, safe hemodynamic profile, rapid recovery, early ambulation, and less side effects. Aim and objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of subarachnoid block with 0.5% hyperbaric ropivacaine compared with 0.5% hyperbaric bupivacaine in elective gynecological surgeries. Methods Fifty female patients of ASA physical status I and II were randomly selected and divided into two groups: group R and group B. Group R was given 3 ml of 0.5% hyperbaric ropivacaine (15 mg) and group B was given 3 ml of 0.5% hyperbaric bupivacaine (15 mg) during subarachnoid block. Preoperative and intraoperative hemodynamic variables such as heart rate, blood pressure, and SpO 2 were recorded. Sensory and motor block were also assessed at regular intervals. Results The mean time to achieve the highest level of sensory block was 13.1 min in group R and 12.2 min in group B (P < 0.05). Maximum sensory level was T8 and T7 in group R and group B, respectively (P < 0.05). The onset time for motor block was 6.16 min with bupivacaine versus 9.04 min with ropivacaine (P < 0.05). The duration of motor block (grade I) was longer (162.8 min) with bupivacaine than (131.7 min) with ropivacaine (P < 0.05). Despite adequate hydration, 40% of patients developed hypotension in group B compared with 16% in group R. Conclusion Hyperbaric ropivacaine has lower level of cephalad spread of sensory block, takes more time for maximum spread of analgesia, has early regression of sensory block to L5, has longer onset time for motor block, shorter duration of motor block, and causes less hypotension and other side effects compared with hyperbaric bupivacaine.
Background The aim of this study was to assess whether total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) offers an alternative anesthetic technique to inhalational anesthesia for patients undergoing radiofrequency (RF) ablation for hepatic focal lesions. Patients and methods A total of 100 American Society of Anesthesiologist (ASA) physical status II patients were included and divided into two groups: the first group underwent RF ablation of hepatic focal lesions under sevoflurane inhalational anesthesia with a laryngeal mask airway applied, whereas the second group was under TIVA with propofol infusion and face mask was applied. The hemodynamic changes, as well as the changes in Spo 2 , were recorded during the procedure and in the recovery room. The time to speak and the occurrence of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) in the recovery room were also recorded. Results The two groups were comparable as regards the changes in arterial blood pressure values from the baseline. The TIVA group showed reductions in Spo 2 values after propofol loading, which was corrected with the application of an oropharyngeal airway. The time to speak was longer in the TIVA group than in the sevoflurane group, but it did not prolong the time of discharge from the postanesthesia care unit. The sevoflurane group showed higher incidence of PONV in the recovery room. Conclusion TIVA with propofol infusion offers an alternative anesthetic technique for RF ablation of hepatic focal lesions with the advantages of hemodynamic stability, avoiding instrumentation of the airway in a day-case patient without the development of PONV with the same technical success offered by sevoflurane anesthesia.
Does levobupivacaine have a benefit over bupivacaine in our practice?
Background The well-known toxic effects of bupivacaine on central nervous system and cardiovascular system were a base for the development of new long-acting local anesthetics. Levobupivacaine is the pure S(-)-enantiomer of racemic bupivacaine. This study compares the efficacy of levobupivacaine as against bupivacaine by epidural clinical study and by different routes in animal study. Materials and methods Evaluation of the analgesic activities by the hot plate method was carried out in nine groups of mice. Each four groups were injected intraperitoneally with either levobupivacaine or bupivacaine. The control group received saline. The hemodynamic effects of levobupivacaine and bupivacaine were carried out on the isolated rabbit's heart and anesthetized cats for carotid blood pressure and ECG. Thirty patients undergoing limb surgery were randomized to receive 15 ml of 0.5% levobupivacaine or bupivacaine through epidural needle. Intraoperative blood pressure and heart rate were recorded. Onset time of sensory and motor block, time to T10 sensory block, complete motor block, quality of analgesia, and times for two segment regressions were detected. Results Experimentally, the intensity and duration of analgesia produced by levobupivacaine was more than that of bupivacaine. Both drugs induced significant dose-dependent negative inotropic effect, but it was lesser in levobupivacaine than in bupivacaine. An amount of 2 mg/kg levobupivacaine produced a significant rise in blood pressure and 4 mg/kg significantly decreased it, whereas 1 and 2 mg/kg bupivacaine produced a significant decrease in blood pressure. The ECG pattern of levobupivacaine showed no abnormalities, but bupivacaine at a dose of 2 mg/kg produced significant bradycardia and ECG changes. Cardiac arrest and death of cats occurred when 4 mg/kg of bupivacaine was injected. Clinically, the onset time of sensory block, time to T 10 sensory block and time to complete motor block are lower with bupivacaine than with levobupivacaine. Conclusion We found, based on the current pharmacodynamics evidence from this experimental and clinical study, that levobupivacaine has good analgesic activity and less cardiodepressant effect, and it offers advantages over bupivacaine.
Here, we present a case of difficult airway after patient consent. A young male patient presented with painless difficult mouth opening of 0.5 cm for 2 years, restricting him to only liquid diet. He was diagnosed as having bilateral temporomandibular joint ankylosis and was posted for release. The patient was classified as difficult for intubation with Mallampathi IV grade; systemic examination was within normal limits. Computed tomography (CT) of the temporomandibular joint showed gross bilateral osteoarthritic changes. He was planned for awake fiberoptic nasal intubation. The patient was given a detailed explanation about the procedure. The airway was prepared with topical and nebulized lignocaine. The fiberoptic bronchoscope was mounted with a 7.0 mm cuffed armored tube and inserted through the nostrils, proceeding until the vocal cords were visualized. After confirming with auscultation and by Capnography, patient was paralysed. Surgery was performed and the patient was extubated awake. Mouth opening improved to 2 cm. The use of the fiberoptic intubating bronchoscope in case of bilateral temporomandibular joint ankylosis with a high risk of airway control due to restricted mouth opening, a gift of modern technology, circumvents this difficulty without compromising on patient safety, with the patient being awake too, and should be considered a safe procedure.
Context Sedation is commonly used to improve patients' tolerance and comfort during flexible bronchoscopy (FB). Dexmedetomidine is a relatively novel sedative for use in FB. Aims The aim of this study was to compare dexmedetomidine and propofol as sole sedative agent in terms of hemodynamics, efficacy, safety and tolerance to the procedure among patients undergoing FB. Settings and design This study was carried out in a tertiary care teaching hospital, and was a double-blind randomized-controlled trial. Patients and methods Sixty patients were analyzed. Group 1 received propofol (1 mg/kg bolus, then 5 mg/kg/h infusion); group 2 received dexmedetomidine (1 mg/kg bolus, followed by 0.7 mg/kg/h infusion). Intraoperative (IOP) SpO 2 , heart rate, mean arterial pressure, and respiratory rate were recorded at nine time points. Primary outcome variables were hemodynamic variables, level of sedation, and recovery time (to reach an Aldrete score 10/10). Results The dexmedetomidine group showed significantly lower mean heart rate than the propofol group at IOP 0 , IOP 2 , and IOP 4 . The mean arterial pressure was significantly higher throughout the procedure in the dexmedetomidine group compared with the propofol group (P < 0.001). A significant decrease in respiratory rate was noted in the dexmedetomidine group at IOP 4 and IOP 6 (P < 0.001). The lowest mean SpO 2 was noted in the dexmedetomidine group (97.0 ± 1.1). Incidences of bucking and coughing were significantly higher in the dexmedetomidine group. Bronchoscopist visual analogue scale scores for coughing and satisfaction were significantly lower in the propofol group (P < 0.001). Recovery time was shorter in the propofol group [3 (1.2) vs. 4.5 (1.1) min] (P < 0.001). Conclusion Propofol showed superiority over dexmedetomidine in terms of safety, efficacy, adverse-effect profile, and tolerance to the procedure in patients undergoing diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy.
Introduction Tracheostomy is one of the most common procedures performed in the ICU. Tracheostomy decreases the dead space and the effort of breathing, and facilitates suction and chest drainage. The easy placement of the tracheostomy tube makes it the only acceptable method for home ventilation. Tracheostomy can be performed either through percutaneous dilatation using the Seldinger technique in the ICU or surgically by an ENT surgeon in the operating room (OR). The approach for tracheostomy, whether percutaneous or surgical, remains a point of debate. Aim This an observational (prospective cohort) study to compare percutaneous dilatation tracheostomy (PDT) with surgical tracheostomy (ST) with regard to both perioperative and late postoperative complications. Patients and methods A total of 200 patients admitted to King Abdulaziz Specialist Hospital between February 2010 and December 2013 were allocated to two groups: group A included 100 patients who had undergone PDT, and group B included 100 patients who had undergone ST. Both perioperative and late postoperative complications were recorded and compared between the two groups. Changes in blood gases, atelectasis, emphysema, pneumothorax, failure to cannulate the trachea or false passage, tracheal ring fractures, wrong site, and tracheal wall injury were considered perioperative complications, whereas bleeding, infection, stenosis, and tracheoarterial and tracheoesophageal fistula were considered late postoperative complications. Results PDT resulted in a significantly higher perioperative complication rate as regards blood gas changes, false passage, and tracheal wall injury, but there was no significant difference with regard to atelectasis, tracheal ring fractures, wrong site, emphysema, and pneumothorax. However, PDT resulted in a significantly lower postoperative complication rate as regards bleeding and infection, but no statistically significant difference was found in the incidence of stenosis. Tracheoarterial and tracheoesophageal fistula were not reported in either PDT or ST. Conclusion PDT is a safe and reliable method for tracheostomy in all ICU cases and is associated with lower incidence of postoperative complications in terms of bleeding and stomal infection.
Objective This prospective study compares the pain control after total knee replacement using a single-shot femoral nerve block (FNB) against local infiltration analgesia (LIA). Patients and methods Sixty-four patients were included the study. A total of 29 patients received single-shot ultrasound-guided FNB at the end of the procedure, whereas 35 patients received LIA. Both groups were compared as regards pain at 2 and 4 h after surgery, pain before and after physical therapy on the first postoperative day, early flexion of the knee to 90°, total opiate use, and length of stay in the hospital. Results All patients completed the study. The group that received LIA showed significantly less pain at 4 h postoperatively, on the first postoperative day, and after physical therapy. The LIA group also showed significantly better rehabilitation and less hospital stay. Patients who received FNB used significantly more opiate compared with the LIA group. Conclusion LIA gives better pain control compared with single-shot FNB after total knee replacement.
Context Cesarean section is one of the most commonly performed surgical procedures. Intrathecal morphine is a popular and effective option for pain management following cesarean section. It is associated with side effects such as nausea, vomiting, pruritus, urinary retention, reactivation of oral herpes, and, rare but life-threatening, respiratory depression. The interest in transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block as a post-cesarean-delivery analgesic modality has surged in the past few years, and many studies have evaluated and compared its efficacy with intrathecal morphine. Aim The aim of the study was to compare spinal morphine and bilateral TAP block in cesarean section in morbidly obese parturients with respect to their postoperative analgesic efficacy and narcotic consumption. Settings and design This was a prospective randomized, double-blinded study. Materials and methods Parturients, 20 years or older, with BMI greater than 35 kg/m 2 , who were scheduled to undergo elective cesarean section were recruited for the study. They were assigned to receive either intrathecal morphine (the ITM group) 0.1 mg or TAP block (the TAP group) using ropivacaine 0.5% 20 ml on each side. The primary outcome was pain on movement, from supine to sitting position. The secondary outcomes were the presence and severity of nausea and pruritus and the presence of respiratory depression. Results We enrolled 60 patients, of whom 59 were analyzed. The numeric rating scale score for pain was less in the ITM group than in the TAP block group, and this difference was statistically significant. Both pruritus and nausea happened in more patients in the ITM group than in the TAP block group, and this difference was statistically significant in both the 8 and 16 h observations. Conclusion In morbidly obese parturients, intrathecal morphine has superior post-cesarean-delivery analgesic efficacy compared with the TAP block.
Background Perineal and anorectal surgeries performed on an outpatient basis under spinal block lead to a shorter postoperative hospital stay. Spinal anesthesia has better cost efficacy and is very well accepted by patients. Ropivacaine is less toxic with rapid motor recovery. Clonidine provides dose-dependent analgesia. Intrathecal opioids decrease nociceptive afferent input without affecting dorsal root axons. Objective The aim of this study was to compare the onset, the level, and the duration of sensory and motor blockade occurring after the administration of low-dose hypobaric ropivacaine (0.1%) either alone or with clonidine or fentanyl as adjuvants in spinal anesthesia for anorectal surgeries in the jack-knife position. Study design A prospective, randomized, double-blind, comparative, case-control study. A total of 75 ASA grade I-III patients were randomized into three groups. Results There was a significant difference in the heart rate among the three groups. The plain ropivacaine group had a significantly higher heart rate. The addition of fentanyl resulted in a stable heart rate, but with the addition of clonidine, there was a decrease in the heart rate from the baseline. Mean arterial pressure (MAP) in the ropivacaine group was significantly higher in comparison with the clonidine or the fentanyl groups. None of the patients in any of the groups had complete motor blockade (Bromage score ≥ 3) at any time. After 2 h, there was complete regression (Bromage score = 1) in all the patients in all the groups. The majority of cases, irrespective of their group, achieved a T10 level of sensory blockade. The time taken for two-segment regression of sensory block and the time required for the first analgesic dose was significantly higher (P < 0.001) in the clonidine group. Conclusion Hypobaric ropivacaine provides adequate surgical conditions for anorectal surgeries. Also, intrathecal clonidine with 0.1% hypobaric ropivacaine is a better adjuvant than fentanyl as it prolongs the duration and improves the quality of the sensory block and provides postoperative analgesia for longer periods.
Background Intravenous regional anesthesia (IVRA) is a simple and reliable type of regional anesthesia. However, it has some limitations such as tourniquet pain, lack of postoperative analgesia, and local anesthetic toxicity in case of tourniquet malfunction. Various additives to local anesthetics, such as opioids, NSAID, ketamine, and clonidine, are used. Aim The aim of this study was to evaluate the addition of dexmedetomidine to a safe intravenous dose of lidocaine for IVRA. Patients and methods a total of 50 patients undergoing elective superficial hand surgery were assigned into two groups: the L group and the LD group. In the L group, IVRA was achieved using 2 mg/kg lidocaine 2% alone, diluted with saline to a volume of 25 ml. In the LD group, IVRA was achieved using 2 mg/kg lidocaine 2% along with 0.5 mg/kg dexmedetomidine diluted with saline to a volume of 25 ml. The motor and sensory block onset and recovery times were assessed. Tourniquet pain and sedation score were assessed intraoperatively and postoperatively. The quality of anesthesia and the duration of analgesia were also recorded. Results Sensory and motor block onset times were shorter and recovery times were prolonged in the LD group. The quality of anesthesia was better in the LD group, and the fentanyl dose required intraoperatively was also lower in the LD group. The duration of postoperative analgesia was longer and the doses of lornoxicam required were lower in the LD group. Conclusion A safe intravenous dose of lidocaine can be used for IVRA for superficial hand surgery, and the addition of 0.5 mg/kg dexmedetomidine shortened the onset times for both sensory and motor blockade and improved the quality of anesthesia, with prolonged postoperative analgesia time.
Introduction The occurrence of emergence agitation (EA) in pediatric patients who received sevoflurane anesthesia is a common postoperative problem. Purpose This study aimed to compare the efficacy of propofol versus fentanyl to decrease the incidence of EA using an emergence behavior scale - pediatric agitation emergence delirium (PAED). Patients and methods This study was performed on three patient groups undergoing the same surgical procedure, under sevoflurane anesthesia: the first received saline as a control, the second received propofol, and the third received fentanyl. Thereafter, we compared the efficacy on incidence and severity of EA using an emergence behavior scale - PAED. Results Regarding the frequency of agitation, the highest frequency was observed in the control group followed by the propofol group and then the fentanyl group (46.9, 18.8, and 12.5%, respectively). The onset of agitation was delayed in the propofol and fentanyl groups when compared with the control group (P < 0.01 and 0.02, respectively). There was no statistically significant difference between the three groups regarding the duration of agitation. The PAED scoring revealed no significant difference between the propofol and fentanyl groups (P = 0.239), but a highly significant difference between both of them and the control group was found (P < 0.001). Conclusion Both propofol and fentanyl decrease the incidence and the severity of EA, but there is no reliable significance when comparing both drugs. We recommend further studies to declare other drugs that have potency to decrease the incidence and to treat the EA.
Background The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of transdermal nitroglycerine patch as a coadjuvant to intrathecal nalbuphine with bupivacaine in patients undergoing lower abdominal surgery. Patients and methods A total of 120 patients (ASA I or II) were randomized into two equal groups in this double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. The control group (group C) received intrathecal 0.5% hyperbaric bupivacaine 15 mg (3 ml) plus 0.8 mg (0.4 ml) preservative-free nalbuphine plus transdermal placebo patch, and the study group (group NG) received intrathecal 0.5% hyperbaric bupivacaine 15 mg (3 ml) plus 0.8 mg (0.4 ml) preservative-free nalbuphine plus transdermal nitroglycerine patch (5 mg). The transdermal patch (either nitroglycerine or placebo) was applied on the chest 20 min after spinal injection. Pain intensity, hemodynamics, and adverse effects were evaluated. Results Patients in group NG had longer duration of effective analgesia with subsequent longer time for the first rescue analgesic (482.6 ± 16.3 min) compared with group C (334.2 ± 15.6 min) (P < 0.05). Moreover, group NG required less rescue analgesics in 24 h compared with group C (P < 0.05) and had lesser overall 24-h pain visual analogue scale scores. The incidence of perioperative adverse effects was similar between the two groups (P > 0.05). Conclusion Transdermal nitroglycerine (5 mg) significantly prolonged the analgesic effect of intrathecal nalbuphine and provided effective postoperative analgesia after lower abdominal surgery.
Does intrathecal midazolam improve hyperbaric bupivacaine-fentanyl anesthesia in elderly patients?
Objective To assess the effect of intrathecal midazolam with bupivacaine-fentanyl in elderly patients undergoing endourologic procedures. Materials and methods This prospective, randomized, double-blind study involved 60 ASA physical status II-III patients aged over 60 years scheduled for elective endoscopic urologic procedures under spinal anesthesia with hyperbaric bupivacaine 0.5% (5 mg/ml). They were randomized into one of three equal groups of 20 patients each: the first group, control group (group C), received 7.5 mg hyperbaric bupivacaine 0.5% in a volume of 1.5 ml; the second group, fentanyl group (group F), received 7.5 mg hyperbaric bupivacaine 0.5% in a volume of 1.5 ml and 10 mg fentanyl (0.1 ml); and the third group, fentanylmidazolam group (group FM), received 7.5 mg hyperbaric bupivacaine 0.5% in a volume of 1.5 ml and 10 mg fentanyl (0.1 ml) plus 1.0 mg of midazolam (0.2 ml). Sensory and motor effects were assessed. Postoperative pain, sedation, and adverse effects were also recorded. Results The three studied groups were comparable in demographic and clinical characteristics. They were hemodynamically stable. There was no significant difference between the three groups in the onset of sensory (P = 0.721) and motor block (P = 0.342), duration of motor block (P = 0.286), and sedation score (P = 0.229). Duration of sensory block was prolonged in group F compared with the control group (P < 0.001) and prolonged more in group FM compared with the F group (P = 0.065). Time to first request of rescue analgesic was significantly longer in group F compared with the C group (P = 0.033) and in FM compared with the F group (P < 0.001). All patients reported excellent or good degree of satisfaction with anesthetic procedure (P = 0.547). Conclusion Adjuvant intrathecal midazolam resulted in intraoperative hemodynamic stability and safely potentiates postoperative analgesic effect of bupivacainefentanyl spinal anesthesia in elderly patients undergoing endourologic procedures.
Background Diffuse microvascular bleeding remains a common problem after myocardial revascularization with cardiopulmonary bypass. Objectives The efficacy of locally administered tranexamic acid (topical application) was compared with systemically administered tranexamic acid to reduce postoperative bleeding after cardiopulmonary bypass in elective nonredo coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Methods The study included 60 patients of both sexes, aged between 35 and 65 years, and scheduled for elective CABG; patients were randomly assigned to two groups: group I (the intravenous tranexamic acid group; 30 patients) and group II (the topical tranexamic acid group; 30 patients). For each patient in each group, postoperative blood loss, number of units of packed red blood cells (RBCs) and fresh frozen plasma (FFP) transfused, frequency of resternotomy, duration of hospital and ICU stay, and mortality were recorded. Results There were statistically significant differences between the two groups with regard to total postoperative blood loss and need for packed RBCs and FFP transfusion, being much greater in group I than in group II. There was no mortality in either group. Frequency of resternotomy was higher in group I than in group II, although the difference was statistically nonsignificant. The duration of hospital and ICU stay revealed no statistically significant differences between the two groups. Conclusion Intraoperative topical administration of tanexamic acid into the pericardial cavity before sternal closure during CABG surgery has reduced the incidence of postoperative blood loss and the need for postoperative packed RBCs and FFP transfusion.
Background Postcardiac arrest syndrome has a unique pathophysiological process involving multiple organs. Pentoxifylline can modulate inflammation, oxidative stress, and endothelial function, and may thus reduce multiple organ dysfunction in postcardiac arrest patients and affect the outcome. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of intravenous pentoxifylline on organ functions and outcome in postcardiac arrest patients. Materials and methods Forty-two patients admitted to the ICU after inhospital cardiac arrest of both cardiac and noncardiac origin were included in this prospective double-blinded randomized two parallel-group study. Group P received a first dose of intravenous pentoxifylline 5 mg/kg over 5 min, followed by a 1.5 mg/kg/day infusion with a maximum of 1800 mg/day for 3 days, whereas group C received an equal volume of saline over 5 min and then infusion for 3 days as well. The primary outcome was the number of organ dysfunction-free and organ failure-free days, whereas the secondary outcome included time to initial acceptable blood pressure and systemic perfusion, number of acceptable blood pressure and systemic perfusion days, arterial lactate, Cerebral Performance Category score, duration of inotropic support, duration of mechanical ventilation, length of ICU stay, ICU survival, and adverse events. Results There was a significant increase in the number of organ dysfunction-free days [9 (3) vs. 6 (3), P = 0.003] and organ failure-free days [9 (3) vs. 7 (3), P = 0.008], accompanied by an increased number of acceptable blood pressure and systemic perfusion days [8 (3) vs. 6 (4), P = 0.01], with a shorter time to reach initial acceptable blood pressure and systemic perfusion [68 (51) vs. 38 (36), P = 0.03 ] and a significant improvement in the Cerebral Performance Category score on days 6, 7, and 14 in group P compared with group C. The arterial lactate level, duration of mechanical ventilation, duration of inotropic support, and ICU length of stay were significantly reduced in group P, along with an improvement in ICU survival that did not reach statistical significance. Conclusion We conclude that administration of intravenous pentoxifylline in postcardiac arrest patients improved organ function and decreased length of ICU stay, with no adverse effects.
Background Increase in middle ear pressure (MEP) (mmH 2 O) is an undesirable condition because of its potential complications. The aim of this randomized study was to compare the effects of isoflurane and sevoflurane on MEP. Patients and methods Patients in American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) group I-II between 6 and 14 years of age undergoing tonsillectomy operation were randomized into two groups. Group 1 received isoflurane and group 2 received sevoflurane for maintenance of anesthesia after induction with thiopental and suxamethonium in both groups. MEPs were measured and recorded 1 day before the operation (T0), with the patient lying supine on the operating table (T1), after the induction of anesthesia and endotracheal intubation (T2), and soon after withdrawal of anesthesia (T3). Finally, MEP values were compared intragroup with the baseline value (T0) and between groups. Results In comparison with the baseline value in T0, MEP was significantly increased in T1, T2, and T3 in the two groups. There were no differences between groups at all times, but at the end of anesthesia at T3, the increase in MEP was significantly lower in group 1 (isoflurane group) than in group 2 (sevoflurane groups) (103 ± 68 vs. 138 ± 99, P < 0.01 in the right ear and 112 ± 82 vs. 141 ± 101, P < 0.01 in the left ear). Conclusion There was an increase in MEP after anesthesia with both the inhalational anesthetics, but the increase in MEP was significantly lower during isoflurane anesthesia, which makes it more suitable during middle ear surgery.
Background and aims Adding dexmedetomidine to local anesthetics in intravenous regional anesthesia has been found to produce effective anesthesia and analgesia for minor hand surgery. The aim of this study was to compare hemodynamic changes, adverse effects, patient satisfaction, and anesthetic, analgesic, and sedation qualities in patients who received lidocaine only versus those who received dexmedetomidine with lidocaine during minor hand surgery. Methods One hundred patients scheduled for minor hand surgery were randomly allocated into two equal groups: group L and group DL. Patients in group L received 3 mg/kg lidocaine 0.5% (maximum dose 200 mg), and patients in group DL received 3 mg/kg lidocaine 0.5% (maximum dose 200 mg) + 0.5 mg/kg dexmedetomidine; the total volume was diluted to 40 ml with normal saline 0.9% in both groups and injected at a rate of 20 ml/min. Anesthesia, analgesia, and sedation qualities, hemodynamic changes, patient satisfaction, and adverse effects were recorded. Results The studied groups showed no significant difference in demographic data. In hemodynamics, mean arterial blood pressure and heart rate showed a statistically significant difference during and up to 30 min after tourniquet release (P < 0.001), and oxygen saturation showed no statistically significant difference during and after surgery (P > 0.05). There were statistically significant differences between the two groups (P < 0.05) as regards the quality of anesthesia, time of regression of sensory and motor blocks, and patient satisfaction. There were more patients who reported excellent satisfaction in the DL group (76%) compared with the L group (20%). Intraoperative and postoperative analgesic requirements were greater in the lidocaine group than in the dexmedetomidine group, and postoperative pain score (visual analog scale) was lower in the DL group compared with L group. Sedation score after release of tourniquet was significantly higher in the DL group compared with the L group except in the first 5 min. Conclusion On the basis of the results in this study we concluded that dexmedetomidine is a good adjuvant anesthetic, analgesic, and sedative agent in intravenous regional anesthesia.
Objective The aim of this study was to study the implication of volume change of bupivacaine in the duration of motor and sensory blocks for early ambulation of the patient and in the rate of complications among patients. Patients and methods A total of 80 adult patients of ASA I, II, or III status, scheduled for lower limb surgery under regional anesthesia by femoral and sciatic nerve blocks, were included in this randomized prospective study. Patients were randomly divided into two equal groups (group I and group II). A total volume of 40 ml of bupivacaine 0.3% was used for peripheral nerve blockade in group I: 20 ml for femoral nerve blockade and 20 ml for sciatic nerve blockade; and a total volume of 60 ml of bupivacaine 0.3% was used in group II: 30 ml for femoral nerve blockade and 30 ml for sciatic nerve blockade. Assessment of the sensory and the motor blocks was carried out including onset of anesthesia and duration of both sensory and motor blocks. The assessment was carried out intraoperatively at 10, 20, and 30 min after the establishment of the procedure, and then at 6, 12, and 24 h after performing the block. Results The onset of the block was significantly shorter in group II. The sensory block was significantly denser in group II at 12 h. The motor block was less dense in group II at 12 and 24 h. The pain scale was less in group II at 6 and 12 h. Conclusion This study revealed that increasing the volume of the local anesthetics hastened the onset of the anesthesia and increased the duration and the density of the sensory block. | 2019-04-23T00:59:52 | http://asja.eg.net/showstats.asp?issn=1687-7934;year=2015;volume=8;issue=4;month=October-December |
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Marketing is a company's promotions, advertising efforts, online website presences, SEO platforms, and social media accounts. It's a comprehensive set of tools companies use to promote products. These tools are used in unison with the singular goal of influencing and attracting an audience. These tools only scratch the initial layer of what your business is - and what it could be in the future. Like I said, marketing is the pushing of an idea or product. It's primary goal is the gain new customers by saying, "My company's products are better than theirs, and here's why."
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Where marketing is what gains new clients, branding is what keeps them loyal. Branding is how users, clients, investors, and potential clients perceive a company. It's the underlying framework of what makes companies beneficial to themselves and their customers. Branding is what makes active promoters of products after they've been acquired. If done well, people will push your brand for you, they'll tell others about its quality, and even purchase more of the brand's products as a result.
Apple has a very well-known brand. Their brand's mindset - "Let's make innovative stuff that helps humanity greet the world with cool technology." There's a lot of power in those words. It's basically saying that Apple's goal is to help and innovate humanity through creative products like the iPhone, iMac or iPad. And what have they done? They've granted the world innovation and creativity through the iPhone and their products.
This is branding at is finest because Apple does what it says - it invigorates its audience through products that change the way humanity communicates. People will continue to use Apple's software and hardware because the brand has succeeded in selling comfort, stability, reliability and above all else, happiness to the masses. | 2019-04-21T23:02:42 | https://www.foundry72.com/blog/branding-vs-marketing |
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For the first time in its 96 years, Twickenham witnessed a demonstration in front of the main entrance from a cross-section of the thousands who sent a torrent of abuse cascading down around a team drowning in its own mediocrity. The captain had got the message, loud and clear.
'We all heard the crowd at the end,' he said. 'Nobody wants to be part of a team booed off at Twickenham and nobody wants to be part of a performance like that. To say it was sub-standard is too much of an under-statement.
'The supporters pay a lot of money to come and watch us play and they deserve something much better than that. We didn't deliver, big style. I am struggling to put it into words, to be perfectly honest.
For Corry's England, there was no escape from the worst nightmare of all, not even after the final whistle had condemned them to their place in the black museum after equalling the only other seven-match losing run set in 1972.
They had to stand there and listen to the public scorn for what seemed an eternity while the Argentines finished their victory dance before clapping them off.
In their darkest hour it would have been easy to scurry off into the sanctuary of the dressing room without bothering to observe one of the game's more endearing rituals. Say what you like about England, they know how to lose graciously, but then they have had plenty of practice.
The reigning world champions have been been beaten four times by Australia and New Zealand, three times by Ireland and France, and once by Wales, Scotland and, now, Argentina since winning the trophy. It is a list made doubly shocking by the grim conclusion to be drawn from Saturday's horror show - that England are getting worse, not better.
It takes a lot to goad Twickenham Man into venting his anger but there is only so much he can take. Shipping 41 points at home to the All Blacks had never happened before but his team had done just enough to suggest they were turning the corner, only for it to dawn on him that they were sending the faithful round the bend.
Apart from exhilarating solo tries by Paul Sackey and Iain Balshaw, there was no saving grace about their performance. Had head coach Andy Robinson resigned on the spot, nobody would have been the least bit surprised, except that he is not the quitting kind.
Now even he must be wondering where England's next win is coming from. South Africa, next up at HQ on Saturday, have been in a similar mess but, despite a record loss in Dublin and half their World Cup team left at home, they will suddenly fancy their chances. Who wouldn't?
The more jingoistic home fans will comfort themselves with the belief that a cavalry of injured players, headed by Phil Vickery, will soon be riding to the rescue. It may be wishful thinking, not least because England's dumbing-down since the World Cup has obscured the identity of what is their strongest team.
The confusion clouding a failure to cope with tough but predictable opponents points to a conflict of philosophy as to the game they want to play.
The Pumas beat England at their old game, based on a powerful pack, a smart pair of half backs and goalkicking substitute, Federico Todeschini, who never missed a trick just as he never missed one against the Lions 18 months earlier.
In their laudable pursuit of the wider game espoused by attack coach Brian Ashton, England are paying an exorbitant price for a high-risk strategy. One new cap, Toby Flood, passed away an interception try to Todeschini just as another, Anthony Allen, had done to Joe Rokocoko the previous Sunday.
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England: Balshaw; Sackey, Noon, Allen, Cohen; Hodgson, Perry; Freshwater, Chuter, White, Grewcock, Kay, Corry (capt), Sanderson, Moody. Subs: Lund (Moody 9-13mins; Sanderson 74), Richards (Perry 48), Palmer (Grewcock 52), Lewsey (Sackey 56), Mears (Chuter 74).
Tries: Sackey, Balshaw. Cons: Hodgson. Pen: Hodgson, Flood.
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0.999998 | Summary: Back when browsing was called surfing and computers used floppies, Silvie Spreeuwenberg was studying AI and was asked all the time to explain what it was about. Today she is still answering this tricky question. In this month's column, she outlines some of the different perspectives on what AI is and explains two dimensions of the current AI technology: Deterministic and Machine Learning (Non-deterministic).
In the time that browsing was called surfing and computers used floppies, I studied AI and had to explain what it was all the time. The answer I gave was different from the answer that the Gartner-hype-cycle-analyst would give today. Hence, there are multiple answers from different perspectives.
My next column will therefore answer a question that is equally important: What AI is not?
For my mother, AI is still "something with computers" when asked what I do, and her friends are likely to be satisfied with that answer.
For most people not familiar with the topic, AI is about mimicking human intelligence with a computer such that it's 'doing something really smart', like playing chess or forecasting — things that people generally believe to be difficult.
For the Gartner analyst, it references a family of algorithms that use a lot of data, computer processing power, and relatively-simple algorithms to find patterns in that data, aka machine learning or deep learning.
For the scientist, it references a research area of using computers to mimic human intelligence; it is related to understanding human intelligence but does not need to use the same (biological) methods.
When are we ready with AI?
AI will never be 'ready' or 'finished'.
We will instead continue to find better ways to use machines to do complex tasks that are otherwise considered intelligent when performed by humans. Computer programs may reach impressive performance on some of these tasks. AI may even outperform humans in some ways.
What kind of AI research is done?
Computer science and computational theory are not on the list. While certainly related research areas, they do not get to the fundamentals of problems that AI considers.
The research, so far, has resulted in technology that we use daily. Many of us are not aware that we are using AI technology when searching the Internet, using our credit card, or chatting with a chatbot. AI technology is all around us.
The result of AI research is new technology.
… accomplish a task or generate an outcome in a way that is completely designed in advance. Given the same state or input, the method will always return the same result. The method typically uses explicit knowledge represented in a model based on logic or computations. A rule-based system is the most well-known example.
An important characteristic is that these systems do not produce a result for situations that they are not designed for. Another way they are often framed is being unable to deal with uncertainty. This is partly true. If we classify uncertainty in a quantifiable way (for example, as a number between 1 and 10), we can make a deterministic system that takes this uncertainty into account (a Bayesian network).
Fraud detection. Although detecting fraud is a task that is uncertain by nature (we do not know what methods the fraudulent party is using in advance), most fraud detection systems do use rules to detect potential fraudulent cases.
Traffic management. Although it is highly uncertain how road users react to traffic congestion and therefore how congestion problems evolve, we do use rules and scenarios to minimise the consequences of traffic congestion for road users.
Tax deduction calculations. The tax code uses rules that ensure taxpayers are all treated in exactly the same way.
Claim handling. Insurance companies use rule-based software to determine if an insurance claim is eligible based on the conditions stated in the policy.
… generate results for a task based on patterns that are found using advanced statistics and (big) data. The model is created using a generic method, and the resulting input-output relationship is implicit. Typically, these methods generate multiple outcomes for the same state or input.
The result could be incorrect. Outcomes are, therefore, rated based on measures such as accuracy, generality, and precision. Some results are rated better than other results and, depending on the problem domain, we may be satisfied with anything better than random accuracy or an accuracy level close to 100%.
Within this dimension, an important distinction is made between supervised learning methods and unsupervised learning methods.
In supervised learning there is a 'teacher' that knows the right answers in advance; the teacher will tell the system when a generated outcome is 'right' or 'how right it is'. Some machine learning algorithms will use this information to guide the learning process in a certain direction. However, sometimes this may drive the results in the wrong direction. When the problem space is non-linear, these algorithms may not always find the most optimal solution. In fact, we can't know that there actually is an 'optimal' solution. So, to improve our chances of finding the optimal solution, we just repeat the process many times, using large amounts of processing power. And we also add in random variations to the algorithm because this random variation may hit a 'lucky shot' that finds a more optimal solution. This is not magic — simply a matter of try, try, and try again (like a toddler solving their first puzzle).
In unsupervised learning there is no 'teacher' and we do not know what the right results are in advance. Algorithms may be used for these tasks and would be looking for similarity in datasets and, when presented with some input, will present similar results.
Deep learning combines multiple neural networks (sequentially) to solve a task.
How does deterministic vs. non-deterministic AI relate to XAI?
In my previous column we concluded that "all decision support systems should be able to justify their results with an explanation." Therefore, Explainable AI (XAI) is important, and the business has to invest in XAI.
But the knowledge in the model generated by a deep learning algorithm is implicit. This is a major disadvantage because it becomes very difficult to explain what the model has learned or how the result is calculated. Deterministic AI methods do not have this disadvantage: For each result, a very precise recipe can be generated that tells exactly which rules are used, and in what order, to get to the result.
XAI brings both worlds together.
It is possible to train a model using deep learning methods and to use the resulting dataset to generate a deterministic decision tree with the same, or similar, accuracy as the trained model. The decision tree consists of rules that may be used to provide explanations.
Is it that simple? Yes and no. Sometimes we may not have human concepts or words for the combinations that the deep learning algorithm uses. Here the analysts and human experts come back into the game. Assume that these concepts are important to solve an issue; then why don't we know about them? And what is the value if we can't explain them?
There is an opportunity to close the feedback loop between the human who defines the problem and solution space, the machine that learns to solve the problem and provides an explanation, and the human who learns new concepts based on the explanation.
Remember: To select the best way to use an intelligent machine you need to know what it learned and what it can and cannot do.
Please follow me to receive an update on the next column in this series on what AI is not.
About this series: I have been fighting for years for transparent decisions — decisions that you can explain, that you can relate to policy, where you can demonstrate that they comply with policy and legislation, and where it is clear that they are part of a flexible PDCA process in an agile environment. Making decisions based on rules is easy to do, although we don't always do it well. Now that the AI hype is at its peak, I have a feeling that I can start all over again. The battle doesn't get any easier because the AI world loves to envelop itself in complexity that takes on mythical forms. It's not complex — you and I can make a difference! Because it's close to my heart, I will continue to write.
This is the second column in a series of 10 — to help you and me make sense of it by sharing my ideas, questions, answers, and inspiration. Will you share with me too?
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An interdisciplinary team of nurses, physicians, pharmacists, quality improvement specialists, and informatics specialists was assembled to determine how to implement the new guidelines at HMC. Through the use of Clinical Knowledge Management and the Analyze-Understand-Redesign-Implement cycle, we made tremendous gains in this QI project, including a sustained 25% reduction in nosocomial VTEs, reduced mortality associated with nosocomial VTEs, and cost avoidance estimated at $2-4 million annually. Let me walk you through the use of the CKM process and the AURI cycle in this QI initiative.
Capturing & Classifying: At the time of the project initiation, HMC had been using an electronic medical record (EMR) with computerized physician order entry (CPOE) for greater than two years. This mean that in addition to the best practices outlined in the ACCP Guidelines, we also had data from greater than 50,000 inpatient visits available to us. This included: risk stratification data like demographics and clinical conditions; use of pharmocologic and non-pharmocologic prophylaxis; time elapsed from admission to first prophylaxis dose; rate of occurrence of nosocomial VTE.
Retrieving: Queries were developed to gather information about current VTE prophylaxis behavior from HMC's clinical database. Results from the queries were transferred into Excel spreadsheets.
Evaluating: Rates and timing of appropriate prophylaxis and rates of development of nosocomial VTEs were determined to identify gaps between current recommendations and current HMC practice. Underutilization of risk-scoring at admission as well as underutilization of pharmacologic and mechanical prophylaxis were identified. Inappropriate risk stratification was common as was inappropriate use of prophylaxis.
Concurrently, the pharmacists and clinicians from both Medical and Surgical services condensed the ACCP Guidelines to an easy-reference pocket card that contained risk stratification guidelines and appropriate treatment options.
Sharing: Required education for all pharmacists, physicians, and nurses was provided along with the quick-reference pocket cards. The education reviewed the new ACCP Guidelines as well as required changes to HMC practice.
Action: Based on the education and availability of the pocket cards, there was a modest improvement in guideline compliance and a slight decrease in hospital acquired VTEs.
A second cycle of the CKM process was then initiated. The data that was captured and classified after the roll-out of the education and pocket cards was retrieved and evaluated. It was determined that significant opportunities for improvement were as of yet untapped. It was also determined that a more structured and standardized approach was needed to accommodate the resident learning curve.
The sharing step was multifaceted. A clinical decision support (CDS) tool was created that included forcing functions at the time of admission that required VTE risk stratification on all patients. Residents were provided with the stratification criteria at the time of the risk assessment. Interactive alerts were developed to present providers with prophylaxis guidelines based on patient risk stratification at the time of order entry. Providers were required to either place appropriate prophylaxis orders or document contraindications.
The resulting actions from the providers were immediate. There was an increase in appropriate prophylaxis and a decrease in nosocomial VTEs. This reduction has been sustained for two years and through two intern classes. Partial results were presented at the Society of Medical Decision Making Annual Conference in October, 2010.
As you can see from the above, the traditional Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle was not followed during this initiative. Most notably, no system changes were made until the data was carefully analyzed and understood by all team members. However, the AURI cycle was extremely effective in producing sustained behavioral change and improved outcomes. Let's examine how the steps of the CKM process fit into the AURI cycle.
Analyze: The retrieval and evaluation of both internal and external data to create new knowledge comprises this part of the AURI cycle. In this QI project, retrieving and evaluating data from HMC's EMR and studying and condensing the ACCP Guidelines represents the analyze component. The new knowledge gained from the analyze phase was three-fold: the correct prophylaxis choices were often clear to experienced clinicians but not to inexperienced residents; ideally, a single drug would be suggested for pharmacoprophylaxis; risk stratification was rarely performed at admission.
Understand: Sharing the new knowledge derived from the analysis phase with the quality improvement team comprises this part of the AURI cycle. The team identified barriers such as baseline resident knowledge, inability to use a single low-molecular weight heparin, insufficient availability of mechanical prophylaxis devices, and concerns for the feasibility of improvement with voluntary compliance.
Redesign: The redesign phase is a result of the CKM process rather than a step in the CKM process. The new standard of practice at HMC that involved risk stratification of all patients at the time of admission based on a standard risk stratification system as well as the testing of multiple models of mechanical prophylaxis devices by the Department of Nursing comprises this part of the AURI cycle.
Implementation: Sharing new knowledge derived from the analysis phase with all clinicians and other stakeholders comprises this part of the AURI cycle. The first barrier to success, baseline resident knowledge, was tackled during the roll-out of required education. Additionally, the Operations Department purchased an adequate number of machines and made them easily accessible. The EHR was modified to capture the use of mechanical prophylaxis devices and the use of pharmacoprophylaxis continued to be captured. We were not able to capture the timing of the risk assessment, which unfortunately, had to be done manually on a small sample of the patients.
Despite seeing modest gains, a second AURI cycle was needed to address the remaining two barriers. As noted above, the analysis phase identified the need for a more structured, standardized approach. The understanding phase led to the new knowledge that risk assessment needed to be required instead of voluntary, prophylaxis needed to be simplified, and appropriate guidelines needed to be shared in real-time with residents. The redesign phase resulted in the clinical decision support tool described above as well as a policy change that Pharmacy would substitute appropriate low-molecular weight heparin for patients with renal failure. The implement phase was the education and go-live of the CDS tool.
The time elapsed from the beginning of the first AURI cycle to the implementation of the second AURI cycle was only 9 months. As you can see, the CKM process and the AURI cycle can allow for rapid institutional improvement and identification of barriers to improvement. The success of this project highlights the way that efficient quality improvement methodologies result in significant financial gains as well as reduced morbidity and mortality. | 2019-04-21T22:03:24 | http://www.johnshowaltermd.com/2011/04/success-story-vte-reduction.html |
0.999152 | A person is guilty of making a terrorist threat or of making a false report of terrorism if the person: threatens to commit an act of terrorism and communicates the threat to any other person or, knowingly makes a false report of an act of terrorism and communicates the false report to any other person, knowing the report is false.
It is not a defense to a prosecution under this section that the defendant did not have the intent or capability of committing the act of terrorism.
A person who violates this section is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 20 years or a fine of not more than $20,000.00, or both.
Internets post on social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter which contain threats to shoot individuals at former place of employment (fast food chain).
Juveniles (age 14) overheard at lunchtime planning an event to shoot other students at school that are not wearing a red shirt.
Youthful offender using an anonymous third party in the UK to cause a swat/police response upon another person (swatting). The offender in this case was ordered to pay restitution over $10,000.00 because of the unprecedented response by several emergency units (police, fire, EMS, SWAT, and assistance from neighboring police agencies).
Wikipedia defines swatting as an act of deceiving an emergency service into sending a law enforcement or SWAT team to another person's address, based on the false report of a bomb threat, murder, hostage-taking or other alleged incident. According to Wikipedia, swatting is a form of terrorism designed to cause disruption, waste police resources, divert attention from real crises and possibly cause a risk of injuries and psychological harm to the persons and first responders targeted.
Often, the communications which form a basis to charge an individual with making a false threat of terrorism are easily linked to the offender’s IP address by law enforcement officers. Once confronted, most youthful offenders will make incriminating statements or provide a detailed confession. Unfortunately, a person is subject to prosecution even though the inappropriate communication was intended as a prank or hoax. The offender may also face multiple charges including using a computer to commit a crime when a computer or smartphone is utilized in the commission of the underlying offense. In addition to the criminal charges, youthful offenders charged with making a bomb threat or false report of terrorism face school board action whereby expulsion is mandated.
It is imperative to that a sound defense strategy is employed as soon as possible because false threat of terrorism cases are classified as Class B felonies for sentencing purposes, are generally non-negotiable by the prosecutor and can carry imprisonment!
In our opinion, most charges that we have seen prosecuted under this statute are an excessive reaction by the government in the war against terrorism.
ABDO LAW believes in taking an aggressive stance in the handling of these cases. Our defense strategy begins by obtaining a psychological profile of our client to counteract the government’s position about protecting society. In addition to presenting the accused party as someone lacking violent propensities, we may also utilize character letters from a cross section of members in the community which depict the charitable and gregarious qualities of our client.
By taking proactive measures, we have obtained probation (no jail) on behalf of our clients and HYTA status, saving youthful offenders from a criminal conviction. As I have mentioned, offenders can also be ordered to pay restitution to compensate victims for losses incurred by the false threat or report of terrorism.
Contact the ABDO LAW FIRM for comprehensive criminal legal representation if you are accused of any misdemeanor or felony. Legal entanglements are often manageable. All it takes is one phone call to get answers to your most pressing legal questions and immediate attention to your legal problem by attorneys with the highest legal ratings. | 2019-04-19T04:28:37 | https://www.cyabdolaw.com/false-threat-of-terrorism.html |
0.999993 | Sabermetric Research: Do defensive statistics overrate the importance of fielding?
Do defensive statistics overrate the importance of fielding?
The job of a baseball team's pitchers and fielders is to prevent the opposition from scoring. It's easy to see how well they succeeded, collectively -- just count the number of runs that crossed the plate.
But how can you tell how many of those runs were because of the actions of the pitchers, and how many were because of the actions of the fielders?
I think it's very difficult, and that existing attempts do more harm than good.
The breakdowns I've been looking at lately are the ones from Baseball Reference, on their WAR pages -- pitching Wins Above Replacement (pWAR) and defensive Wins Above Replacment (dWAR).
They start out with team Runs Allowed. Then, they try to figure out how good the defense was, behind the pitchers, by using play-by-play data. If they conclude that the defense cost the team, say, 20 runs, they bump the pitchers by 20 runs to balance that out.
So, if the team gave up 100 runs more than average, the pitchers might come in at -80, and the fielders at -20.
I'm going to argue that method doesn't work right. The results are unreliable, inaccurate, and hard to interpret.
1. My argument is strongest when fielding numbers are based on basic play-by-play data, like the kind from Retrosheet. When using better data, like the Fielding Bible numbers (which use subjective observations and batted ball timing measurements), the method becomes somewhat better. (But, I think, still not good enough.) Baseball Reference uses the better method for 2003 and later.
2. The WAR method tries to estimate the value of what actually took place, not the skill level of the players who made it happen. That is: it's counting performance, not measuring talent.
3. Defensive WAR (dWAR) correlates highly with opposition batting average on balls in play (BAbip). For team-seasons from 1982 to 2009, the correlation was +0.60. For 2003 to 2009, with the improved defense data, the correlation was still +0.56.
dWAR actually includes much more than just BAbip. There are adjustments for outfielder arms, double plays, hit types, and so on. But, to keep things simple, I'm going to argue as if dWAR and BAbip are measuring the same thing. The argument wouldn't change much if I kept adding disclaimers for the other stuff.
4. I'll be talking about *team* defense and pitching. The calculation for individuals has other issues that I'm not going to deal with here.
5. I don't mean to pick on B-R specifically ... I think there are other systems that do things the same way. I just happened to run across this one most recently. Also, even though the example is in the context of WAR, the criticism isn't about WAR at all; it's only about splitting observed performance between pitching and fielding.
The problem here is a specific case of a more general issue: it's easy to see what happens on the field, but often very difficult to figure out how to allocate it to the various players involved.
That's why hockey and football and basketball and soccer are so much harder to figure out than baseball. In basketball, when there's a rebound, how do you figure out who "caused" it? It could be the rebounder being skillful, or the other players drawing the defenders away, or even the coach's strategy.
But in baseball, when a single is hit, you pretty much know you can assign all the offensive responsibility to the batter. (The baserunners might have some effect, but it's small.) And even though you have to assign the defensive responsibility to the nine fielders collectively, the pitcher is so dominant that, for years, we've chosen to almost ignore the other eight players completely.
But now that we *don't* want to ignore them ... well, how do you figure out which players "caused" a run to be prevented? Now it gets hard.
Even for a single ball in play, it's hard.
The pitcher gives up a ground ball to the shortstop, who throws the batter out. We all agree that we observed an out, and we credit the out we observed to the pitcher and fielders collectively (under "opposition batting" ).
But how do we allocate it separately rather than collectively? Do we credit the pitcher? The fielders? Both, in some proportion?
It probably depends on the specifics of the play.
With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, when a third baseman dives to catch a screaming line drive over the bag, we say his defense saved the game. When it's a soft liner hit right to him, we say the pitcher saved the game. Our observation of what happened on the field actually depends on our perception of where the credit lies.
We might want to credit the fielder in proportion to the difficulty of the play. If it's an easy grounder, one that would be a hit only 5% of the time, we might credit the defense with 5% of the value of the out, with the rest to the pitcher. If it's a difficult play, we might go 80% instead of 5%.
That sounds reasonable. And it's actually what dWAR does; it apportions the credit based on how often it thinks an average defense would have turned that batted ball into an out.
The problem is: how do you estimate that probability? For older seasons, where you have only Retrosheet data, you can't. At best, from play-by-play data, you can figure if it's a ground ball, fly ball, or liner. If you don't have that information, you have to just assume that every ball in play is league-average, around 30 percent chance of being a hit and 70 percent chance of being an out.
Here is the problem, which I think is not immediately obvious: when you assume certain balls in play are the same, you wind up, mathematically, giving 100 percent of the allocation of credit to the fielders. Even if you go through the arithmetic of calculating everything to the average of 70/30, and assigning 30 percent of every hit to the pitcher, and so forth ... if you do all that, you'll still wind up, at the end of the calculation, that if the fielders gave up 29 percent hits instead of 30 percent, the fielders get ALL the credit for the one "missing" hit.
For Retrosheet data, and making up numbers: suppose a fly ball has a 26 percent chance of being a hit, but a ground ball has a 33 percent chance. The pitchers will get the credit for what types of balls they gave up, but the fielders will get 100% of the credit after that. So, if the pitcher gives up fewer ground balls, he gets the credit. But if he gives up *easier* ground balls, the fielders get the credit instead.
This is the key point. Everything that's not known about the ball in play, everything that's random, or anything that has to be averaged or guessed or estimated or ignored -- winds up entirely in the fielders' column.
Now, maybe someone could argue that's actually what we want, that all the uncertainty goes to the fielders. Because, it's been proven, pitchers don't differ much in control over balls in play.
But that argument fails. "Pitchers don't differ much in BAbip" is a statement about *talent*, not about *observations*. In actual results, pitchers DO differ in BAbip, substantially, because of luck. Take two identical pitcher APBA cards, and play out seasons, and you'll find big differences.
Observations are a combination of talent and luck. If you want to divide the observed balls in play into observed pitching and observed fielding, you're also going to have to divide the luck properly. Not, zero to the pitcher and 100 percent to the fielders.
Traditionally, with observations at the team level, our observations were close to 100% perfect, in how they reflected what happened on the field. But when you take those observations and allocate them, it's no longer 100% perfect. You're estimating, rather than observing.
For the first time, we are "guessing" about how to allocate the observation.
Watching a specific game, in 1973 or whenever, it would have been obvious that a certain run was prevented by the pitcher inducing three weak ground balls to second base. Now, we can't tell that from Retrosheet data, and so we (mistakenly, in this case) assign the credit to the fielders.
Nowhere else do we have to guess. We'll observe the same number of doubles, home runs, strikeouts, and popups to first base as the fan in the seats in 1973. We'll observe the same runs and runs allowed, and innings pitched, and putouts by the left fielder. But we will NOT "observe" the same "performance" of the fielders. Fans who watched the games got a reasonable idea how many runs the fielders saved (or cost) by their play. We don't; we have to guess.
Of course, in guessing, our error could go either way. Sometimes we'll overcredit the defense (compared to the pitcher), and sometimes we'll undercredit the defense. Doesn't it all come out in the wash? Nope. A single season is nowhere near enough for the variation to even out.
For single seasons, we will be substantially overestimating the extent of the fielders' responsibility for runs prevented (or allowed) on balls in play.
Here's an analogy I think will make it much clearer.
Imagine that we didn't have data about home runs directly, only about deep fly balls (say, 380 feet or more). And we found that, on average, 75% of those fly balls turn out to be home runs.
One year, the opposition hits 200 fly balls, but instead of 150 of them being home runs, only 130 of them are.
And we say, "wow, those outfielders must be awesome, to have saved 20 home runs. They must have made 20 spectacular, reaching-over-the-wall, highlight-reel catches!"
No, probably not. It most likely just turned out that only 130 of those 150 deep fly balls had enough distance. By ignoring the substantial amount of luck in the relationship between fly balls and home run potential, we wind up overestimating the outfielders' impact on runs.
We assign the observations to the players we think "caused" the result. But we do it even when we know the result is probably the result of luck. It's just the way our brains work. If it was luck, we want to assign it to the lucky party. Otherwise, our observation is *wrong*.
-- The pitcher flips a coin. If it's a head, it's a weak ground ball, which is always an out. If it's a tail, it's a hard ground ball.
-- If it's a hard ground ball, the fielders take over, and flip their own coin. If that coin is a head, they make the play for an out. If it's a tail, it's a hit.
You play a season of this, and you see the team allowed 15 more hits than expected. How do you assign the blame?
Suppose the "fielders" coin flipped tails exactly half the time, as expected, but the "pitchers" coin flipped too many tails, so the pitchers gave up 30 too many hard ground balls. In that case, we'd say that the fielders can't be blamed, that the 15 extra hits were the pitcher's fault.
If it were the other way around -- the pitcher coin flipped heads half the time, but the "fielder" coin flipped 15 too few heads, letting 15 too many balls drop in for hits -- we'd "blame" the fielders.
We have very specific criteria about how to assign the observations properly, even when they're just random.
The dWAR calculation violates those criteria. It refuses to look at the pitcher coin, or at least, it doesn't have complete data for it. So it just assigns all 15 hits, or whatever the incomplete pitcher coin data can't explain, to the fielder coin.
Why is this a big deal? What does it matter, that the split between pitching and defense has this flaw?
1. First, it matters because it introduces something that's new to us, and not intuitively obvious -- the need to regress the dWAR to the mean *just to get an unbiased estimate of what happened on the field*. It took me a lot of thinking until I realized that's what's going on, partly because it's so counterintuitive.
2. It matters because most estimates of fielding runs saved don't do any regression to the mean. This leads to crazy overestimates of the impact of fielding.
My guess, based on some calculations I did, is that you have to regress dWAR around halfway to the mean, for cases where you just use BAbip as your criterion. If my guess is right, it means fielding only half as important as dWAR thinks it is.
Of course, if you have better data, like the Fielding Bible's, you may have to regress less -- depending on the accuracy of your estimates are of how hard each ball is to field. Maybe with that data you only have to regress, say, a third of the way to the mean, instead of a half. I have no idea.
The first edition of the Fielding Bible figures fielding cost the 2005 New York Yankees a total of 164 hits -- more than a hit a game. That's about 130 runs, or 13 wins.
They were saying that if you watched the games, and evaluated what happened, you'd see the fielders screw up often enough that you'd observe an average of a hit per game.
I'm saying ... no way, that's too hard to believe. I don't know what the real answer is, but I'd be willing to bet that it's closer to half a hit than a full hit -- with the difference caused by the Fielding Bible's batted-ball observations not being perfect.
I'll investigate this further, how much you have to regress.
3. The problem *really* screws up the pitching numbers. What you're really trying to is start with Runs Allowed and subtract observed defense. But the measure of observed defense you're using is far too extreme. So, effectively, you're subjecting true pWAR to an overadjustment, along with a random shock.
Even so, that doesn't necessarily mean pWAR becomes less accurate. If the errors were the same magnitude as the true effect of fielding, it would generally be a break-even. If the Yankees are actually 40 runs worse than average, the error is the same whether you credit the pitchers 80 runs, or 0 runs ... it's just a matter of which direction.
Except: the errors aren't fixed. Even if you were to adjust dWAR by regressing it to the mean exactly the right amount, it would still be just an estimate, with a random error. Adding that in, and you'd still be behind.
And, perhaps more importantly, with the adjustment, we lose our understanding of what the numbers might mean. The traditional way, when the error is due to *not* adjusting for defense, we intuitively know how to deal with the numbers, what they might not mean. We've always known we can't evaluate pitchers based on runs allowed, unless we adjusting for fielding. But, we've developed a gut feel for what the unadjusted numbers mean, because we've dealt with them so often.
We probably even have an idea what direction the adjustment has to go, whether the pitchers in question had a good or bad defense behind them -- because we know the players, and we've seen them play, and we know their reputations.
But, the dWAR way ... well, we have no gut feel for how we need to adjust, because it's no longer about adding in the fielders; it's about figuring out how bad the defense overestimate might have been, and how randomness might have affected the final number.
When you adjust for dWAR, what you're saying is: "instead of living with the fact that team pitching stats are biased by the effects of fielding, I prefer to have team pitching stats biased by some random factor that's actually a bigger bias than the original."
All things considered, I think I'd rather just stick with runs allowed.
I think this is fantastic. The thing I can't get past is, if the fielder and pitcher are just flipping coins (to borrow your analogy) why do I care whose coin was lucky and whose coin was unlucky?
It seems to me that the only reason I'd be interested in partitioning credit, is if I was interested in the nature of the coins (the underlying odds), rather the outcomes of the coins. In baseball terms, I'm only interested in splitting credit between the pitcher and the fielders to the extent that it helps me estimate their true talents so why worry about how to partition luck?
Agreed. Deep down -- or not so deep -- the reason we want to apportion credit is because we think it's related to talent. We anthropomorphize the coins because we're just built that way, to not realize how much luck is involved.
If all you care about is talent, you can partition luck any way you want, so long as you understand how to back the luck out to get to talent.
But, in this case, we're not talking about talent at all. We're talking about observations, which is "talent-plus-luck". Who had more "talent-plus-luck," the pitchers or the fielders? We won't have the right answer to that question if we assign some of the pitchers' luck to the fielders' without realizing it.
I think that MGL has been making this point for years and has incorporated it into how he calculates UZR.
A better analogy is a die tossing game. The pitcher's die would be divided into three categories: balls that always result in a hit, balls that sometimes result in a hit, and balls that always result in an out (disregarding fielder errors). The fielders die is only used when the pitcher's die has indicated that a ball is in the "sometimes results in a hit" category The batted ball die is also divided into three categories: average fielded for an out 16.6% of the time, fielded 50% of the time, and fielded 83.3% of the time. That die is tossed and determines the fielder's batted ball profile. Finally, a third die, the results die, is the tossed to determine hit or out according to the average hit probabilities of the batted ball die. The pitcher's talent on batted balls would then be estimated from the difference of his aggregate profile on both the pitcher's die and the batted ball die from an average pitcher's profile. The fielder's talent on batted balls is the difference between the actual hits determined by the results die compared to the expected hits predicted by the batted ball profile die. This analogy is closer to ow good fielding metrics are actually built and allows for regression to be applied at several stages.
Thanks, Peter. I'll see if I can find mention of it.
It seems to me that the level of regression needed for an estimate depends on the number of observations the estimate is based upon. Over what number of observations or what time horizon did you decide that dWAR should be regressed halfway to the mean? That's surely too little regression for single game dWAR and probably too much regression for full career dWAR.
The "regress by about half" was for a full team-season.
Your posting is so maybe class one posting. Thank you. | 2019-04-22T14:30:20 | http://blog.philbirnbaum.com/2015/05/do-defensive-statistics-overrate.html |
0.999085 | A symmetric matrix or Hermitian matrix needs less computation than a general matrix.
General 0 A matrix that is not symmetric or Hermitian.
Symmetric or Hermitian 1 A matrix that is symmetric or Hermitian. matrix type is Symmetric if the input matrix is real or Hermitian if the input matrix is complex.
If matrix type is Symmetric or Hermitian, the node returns the real eigenvalues in ascending order.
An n-by-n square matrix, where n is the number of rows and columns of the input matrix.
A value specifying whether this node computes eigenvalues and vectors.
The node computes only the eigenvalues of the input matrix.
The node computes both the eigenvalues and the eigenvectors of the input matrix.
A complex vector of n elements that contains all of the computed eigenvalues of the input matrix. The input matrix could have complex eigenvalues if it is not symmetric or Hermitian.
An n-by-n complex matrix containing all of the computed eigenvectors of the input matrix.
The ith column of this output is the eigenvector corresponding to the ith component of eigenvalues. Each eigenvector is normalized so that its Euclidean norm equals 1.
If output option is Eigenvalues, this output is an empty array.
The n values of λ that satisfy the equation are the eigenvalues of A and the corresponding values of x are the right eigenvectors of n. A real, symmetric matrix always has real eigenvalues and eigenvectors. | 2019-04-18T21:29:39 | http://www.ni.com/documentation/en/labview-comms/latest/analysis-node-ref/eigenvalues-and-vectors/ |
0.999888 | You may have heard about people who "root" their Android phone. This article attempts to explain what that means, and why you might want to do it.
Important note: because the process for rooting varies according to the device, this article won't explain how to root your device, but I will be able to point you in the right direction.
Rooting refers to the process of obtaining superuser access, also known as "root" access, on the Android operating system.
What does that mean? What's "superuser access"?
Modern operating systems have a security model in which different applications can run with different levels of access to the system. For example, most regular software runs with a low level of access, unable to modify important system files or configuration. This is a good thing, because it can reduce the damage to your system that an untrusted piece of software might do. It also means that if certain software has a bug and can be "hacked", it limits the amount of damage someone can do by hacking that piece of software.
When software needs to be able to modify the most important system files and configuration, it requires "superuser" access (also known as "administrator" access on operating systems like Windows).
The thing is, on an operating system like Windows or Mac, you (the user) are given the ability to grant this "superuser" (or "administrator") access to apps when they want to modify important systems files and configuration. When you buy an Android device, you don't have this ability. The manufacturer will have decided which important system apps should be allowed superuser access, and all other apps will be prevented from having that access, without a way for you to grant it.
"Rooting" is a way to give yourself such an ability: allowing you to grant superuser access to apps.
It's called "root" because Linux based operating systems give the username "root" to a user account that has superuser privileges.
To put it simply, rooting allows you to run apps that modify important system files and configuration that the manufacturer probably didn't want you to be able to modify.
Android is built on top of Linux and other open source tools that often accompany Linux. These tools have a wealth of configuration options, many of which cannot be configured using the standard settings tool included with Android. This may include tweaks to system performance and network configuration. Rooting allows you to use apps that modify this configuration.
Root access also allows for backup and restore apps to backup and restore data that would otherwise be inaccessible to non-root backup utilities. Utilities such as Titanium Backup rely on root access to backup a more complete amount of your data.
Rooting your device may invalidate its warranty. In some cases, this may mean that you cannot make warranty claims for problems related to software. Or in some cases, it may invalidate your ability to make any warranty claims at all. This will vary according to where you live and the conditions of the manufacturer warranty.
Granting superuser access to software increases the ability for software to damage your system if something goes wrong. This may occur if the software is untrustworthy, or if it's simply buggy or vulnerable to hacking.
Circumventing the restrictions imposed on your device by the manufacturer makes it easier to do things that tamper with the ability of Android to work correctly, and in some cases it can be difficult to reverse, requiring a higher amount of technical knowledge.
Does it allow for installing different ROMs?
Rooting your device is not directly related to the ability to install different ROMs (different or modified versions of Android). In some cases, a method for installing a custom ROM on your device might require you to first root the device, but this is not always the case.
A lot of unofficial alternative ROMs come "pre-rooted", giving superuser access as soon as the ROM is installed.
The process for rooting varies significantly between different devices, along with the level of difficulty and tools used. A good place to go for advice is to find the section relevant to your device on the XDA forums, an online community which includes people who like to develop custom firmwares or modify their device. | 2019-04-21T08:36:05 | https://tamingthedroid.com/what-is-rooting |
0.998861 | When can sun strike occur and what makes it worse?
When driving into bright sunlight, you should use sunglasses and your vehicle sun visors for safety. What else are you advised to do? When driving into bright sunlight, you should use sunglasses and your vehicle sun visors for safety. What else are you advised to do?
You shouldn't leave your windscreen dirty as it will refract the light, and you need to be aware that using your windscreen washers if you're suffering sunstrike will temporarily make your visibility much worse until the windscreen is cleared of water.
When can sun strike or sun dazzle occur?
Sun strike or sun dazzle is when the sun is low on the horizon and your sun visors are not low enough to prevent it from getting into your eyes. When it is on the horizon, blocking the sun can mean blocking the view of traffic ahead, too, which makes it dangerous.
Shorter drivers are at more risk of experiencing sun strike because the sun visor is less effectively placed.
Exiting a tunnel - if the tunnel is long enough your eyes adjust to the relative darkness, then when you exit the tunnel into the bright light, you can't see.
Going uphill - the sun could be in a position in the sky where it is not a problem, but if you start driving up a steep hill, this could point your vehicle directly at the sun. This can be a problem on roads such as Bullock Track in Auckland which faces north-west, but not at the world's steepest street, Baldwin Street in Dunedin, because that faces south-east. | 2019-04-20T04:46:08 | https://www.drivingtests.co.nz/roadcode-questions/heavy_vehicle/behaviour/when-driving-into-bright-sunlight-you-sh/ |
0.998727 | Treatment of Diabetes. Is It Surgery?
Diabetes develops when the body is not able to produce insulin the right way. Hence, there may be too little insulin in the body to regulate the blood sugar level or if the insulin is in the body, it might not have been used effectively thereby leading to diabetes. These two cases fall under two types of diabetes. Type 1 diabetes may occur when there is no or too little insulin in the body that is the first case and type 2 diabetes may occur when the insulin of the body is not used effectively as in second case.
Diabetes is taking the shape of grave disease with change in time. Near about to seven percentage of population in United States currently suffers from the disease. Most of these cases lie under type 2 diabetes. Diabetes patients are initially treated with a healthy, well-balanced diet and regular exercising. A well-balanced diet and exercising helps in maintaining blood sugar level in the body. Regular exercise and healthy diet controls the body weight thereby controlling diabetes.
If dieting and exercising do not help, than other modes of treatment like giving oral medications and Insulin shots are the next steps of the Diabetes treatment. Weight-loss surgery is a very effective way of Diabetes treatment. People who suffer from Type 2 diabetics are more likely to respond to weight loss surgery rather than other modes of treatment. There are two categories of Weight loss surgery- gastric-bypass and lap-band surgery.
It is said that diabetes patients respond fast to weight-loss surgery while it takes more time for their body to respond to any other mode of treatment. Initially, Gastric-bypass surgery was considered to be more fruitful than the lap-band surgery because there were some changes in the hormones in the body while doing the lap-band surgery. But fortunately, the surgeons proved wrong and the lap-band surgery also brought about the same changes as gastric-bypass surgery without any complications and side-effects. Both the methods of weight loss surgery follow different ways to operate.
Under lap-band method, a silicone band is tied around the upper area of the stomach thereby bounding eating. While under Gastric-bypass surgery, the stomach is divided into two smaller and larger portions, the upper pouch and the lower pouch thereby rearranging the small intestine. It has been found that in United States, 84 percent of patients falling under type 2 diabetes get treated by gastric-bypass surgery.
But unfortunately, the death-rate compares between Gastric-bypass surgery and Lap-band surgery is 1 in every 200 and 1 in every 2000 respectively. Lap-band surgery carries very low complications rate as compared to Gastric-bypass surgery and is very much safe, the reason being removal of gall bladder in case of gastric-band surgery. Insulin and Oral medications are the preferred choice of treatment for diabetes patients. If dieting and exercising do not give the desired results, than Insulin shots and medications are the second step of treatment. The requirement for Insulin shots, oral medications, exercising and dieting is eradicated if patient is given lap-band surgery.
People with type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol and fat, especially obese people with mass index above 40 react fast to lap-band surgery as compared to other modes of treatment. If excess weight of the body is minimized, than diabetes treatment gives better results. Nearly 76% of diabetics benefit from the above mentioned modes of treatment. Scientists are finding the reason for obesity being the major cause of diabetes, and the reason for weight loss being the major treatment in controlling diabetes. Insulin's reaction in the body is stimulated by excess fat and cholesterol in the body.
Tests are also being done to identify the the role of fatty acids in the blood and the hormones produced by fat in the body that regulate Insulin. | 2019-04-26T08:17:54 | http://www.enjoynewlife4u.com/treatment_of_diabetes_is_it_surgery_396007a.html |
0.999997 | Following the lunar calendar, this type of farming is driven by the belief that the Moon influences levels of moisture in the soil, just as the Moon’s gravitational pull affects great bodies of water. Lunar farmers believe, for example, that from the new Moon to quarter Moon phases, when the Moon is waxing, a soil’s moisture content increases, whereas drier periods occur during the waning phase. Although moisture influences seed germination, a lunar guide on when to plant and weed can be advantageous to a grower.
D) DELETE the underlined portion and begin the sentence with a capital letter.
Choice D is the best answer because it creates a grammatically complete and standard sentence.
Choices A, B, and C are incorrect because each inserts unnecessary punctuation that disrupts the meaning of the sentence, which is to state where Giuseppe Ferrua stood.
Choice A is the best answer because the preposition “with” correctly reflects the relationship between the subject, verb, and object: “landscape,” “dotted,” and “vineyards,” respectively.
Choices B, C, and D are incorrect because each provides a preposition that does not appropriately represent the relationship between the subject, verb, and object. A landscape can be dotted “with” vineyards; it cannot be dotted “inside,” “for,” or “on” vineyards.
Choices B, C, and D are incorrect because they do not appropriately signal the information in the sentence, which elaborates on and supports the claim in the previous sentence. Rather, Choices B and C suggest that the writer is drawing a contrast, and Choice D introduces a time sequence that is not present in the paragraph.
Choice B is the best answer because it creates a grammatically complete and standard sentence. It also correctly reflects the relationship specified in the passage between moisture and the lunar calendar.
Choice A is incorrect because “Although” suggests that the second clause will say something contrary to the first. Choices C and D are incorrect because each results in a grammatically incomplete sentence. | 2019-04-24T12:36:08 | https://www.hillviewprep.com/problem-of-the-day/this-is-what-you-need-to-know-to-do-lunar-farming-on-the-psat |
0.999982 | The little oblong box was made of ebony: I had to give Klein credit for a sense of irony, and possibly his knowledge of the genre. I stared at the glistening white lumps of ivory inside, and shook my head. "Beautifully preserved, aren't they?" said Klein.
"Suspiciously," I growled. "How sure are you of their provenance?"
He made a see-sawing gesture. He'd never had the looks or the range to make it as an actor (though that hadn't stopped him trying), but he was a pretty good salesman. He worked for a well-known theatrical agency, mostly getting people the stuff that they wanted that couldn't be written into their contracts. "They came from Temple's collection. Before that, I have my doubts," he admitted, "but he could hardly have asked for documentation. Body-snatchers didn't go in for paperwork."
"So you expect me trust you? Or am I supposed to try extracting some DNA?"
Klein smiled. "You could, I suppose, if you had anything for comparison... but you'll have to buy them first." He closed the little casket with an audible snap. "I'm not giving away free samples here. And if you look up the records, you'll find that when they disinterred Poe's corpse in 1875, the sexton noted that while the skeleton was in near-perfect condition, the top teeth had been dislodged from the skull."
I knew the story, of course. In 1873, the philanthropist George Childs had been persuaded that Edgar deserved a better monument than an overgrown grave in the Poe family plot, and paid for a new memorial. "So who collected these? The sexton?"
"Maybe, or one of the gravediggers. You could still sell teeth back then, to be made into dentures: maybe he meant to do that, or maybe he realized how valuable they were... anyway, one of Childs' servants found them in his collection after his death in 1894, or so the story goes, and sold them to Jules Verne. After that, the trail is easier to follow, though they were always sold in secret. Temple bought them some time in the 1980s."
I tried to look unimpressed, and refilled my glass with Amontillado, leaving his empty. "What's in the other box?"
Klein's smile became a grin, and he opened the second ebon casket with a conjurer's flourish. These teeth had been set into dentures in a wire frame, though the work was obviously primitive. "Don't touch," he said, pulling the box away from me.
"Whose are these supposed to be?" I said, dryly. "His teeth when he was a boy?"
"His mother's," Klein gloated. "I don't know whose dentures they were, but those are her original teeth."
Klein lost a minute fraction of his smugness. "The provenance on these is a little less reliable," he admitted, "but the story is interesting. You remember Poe's story 'Berenice'?"
I may have sniffed: just because I make movies, doesn't mean I can't read. 'Berenice' is not Poe's best story, and it's most interesting for containing the seeds for 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'Ligeia', as well as some disturbing autobiographical elements. The obsessive Egaeus is betrothed to his cousin Berenice, but only notices her beauty when he sees her in the haunted library where his mother had died. (Poe's own mother, a beautiful actress, had died of tuberculosis when he was two: he married his cousin Virginia six months after 'Berenice' was published, and she died of tuberculosis several years later.) After Berenice dies, Egaeus breaks into her tomb and steals her most attractive feature, her teeth. When readers complained about the story, Poe actually apologized to the editor who published it, claiming that he'd written it on a bet that he "could produce nothing effective on a subject so singular" and allowing "that it approaches the very verge of bad taste" — which means it's pretty tame by modern standards.
"In 1834," Klein continued, "somebody approached Poe and offered to sell him these teeth, saying they were his mother's. Poe may have believed them, or not, but he couldn't meet their price, even though he'd just won a prize for 'MS. Found in a Bottle'. He wrote 'Berenice' hoping to raise the money, but by the time he was paid for it, the seller had disappeared. Childs' servant said he bought the teeth, and a letter from Poe describing the incident, from Lizzie Doten sometime in the 1870s, but the letter is lost. Of course, I can't really prove any of this, but since you're the biggest private collector of Poe memorabilia alive now that Temple is gone... and not exactly a premature burial, if I may say so..."
I smiled at that, involuntarily, and tried to hide it behind my glass, but I could tell that Klein had noticed. "So," I said, as blandly as I could manage, "you're asking me to pay out a quarter million based on the claims of a couple of grave-robbers, at least one thief, two fantasists — one of them the creator of a celebrated hoax — and a poet who claimed to be channeling the dead, and now a dealer in stolen artwork, and God knows how many fools and liars in between."
Klein shrugged: he didn't need to look around at the bookshelves, the bust of Pallas above the door or the mummy case in the corner to know how obsessed I was with Poe, horror's patron sinner. "You must be used to that."
He was right, of course — everybody in Hollywood lies constantly, if only to themselves — but that didn't stop it sounding like an insult, and I hate being insulted. "You've seen them," he continued, smirking. "Sleep on it, and decide for yourself, but don't take too long. I can always find another buyer: do you want to spend the rest of your life wondering what you could have had?"
Poe said it better than I could, of course: And the evening closed in upon me thus — and then the darkness came, and tarried, and went — and the day again dawned — and the mists of a second night were now gathering around — and still I sat motionless in that solitary room — and still I sat buried in meditation — and still the phantasma of the teeth maintained its terrible ascendancy, as with the most vivid and hideous distinctness it floated about amid the changing lights and shadows of the chamber.
Of course, I didn't spend all of that time motionless or meditating: I wasn't able to sleep for long without dreaming of adding those teeth to my collection, but I made the effort. I remembered to eat, and wash, and while I didn't need to leave the house, the phone and fax machine was never silent for very long: I had another two films in pre-production and one in post, so I had plenty to occupy my time if not my mind. But I kept returning to the library and staring at the treasures of my collection. The teeth, if I bought them, would have to go in the safe: if they were fake, then the fewer people who knew I had bought them and been fooled, the better. But if they were real, the idea of them belonging to someone else was unbearable.
I picked up a collection of Poe stories, and leafed through it, hoping he would give me an answer.
Klein was grinning again, or still, as he walked into my office at the studio on Friday night, opened his attaché case, and produced the boxes again. "I was sure you'd call," he gloated.
"Sure enough that you didn't try to sell them to anybody else?" I murmured.
He faltered slightly at that, but his insulting smirk returned as I handed him a glass. He gulped it down as though it were water, and I poured him another. "Yes," he admitted. "I knew you could pay more, and sooner."
I nodded, and opened the attaché case to show him the stacked banknotes, then snapped it shut again. "You have them?"
He opened his own case, removed the ebony caskets, and placed them on my desk. I looked inside both boxes, and nodded. "The old law of Hollywood: give 'em what they want." I drew a deep breath. "What do you want, Klein?"
"Well, I'd like to be paid," he said dryly.
"You will be, I promise... but what do you do with your money? Do you collect anything?"
"No, not in the way you mean it. I mean, I like to have the best, but so does everybody, right?"
"The usual stuff. House, car, clothes... you know."
"Anything you wouldn't sell for a profit?"
"No, I guess not. Why?"
"So what really moves you is money?"
"Well, sure, same as everybody. So what?"
"Have you read much Poe, Klein? 'The Cask of Amontillado', perhaps? 'Hop-Frog'? 'The Conqueror Worm'?" Somehow, looking at his triumphant sneer brought that one instantly to mind. "'The Premature Burial'?"
"I saw some of the films."
"A poor substitute for the genuine article," I said. "And a man in your line should be able to tell real from fake." I pulled the small pistol from my pocket and pointed it at his stomach. "Take this, for example."
His eyes widened. "What —"
"This might just be a prop," I said, "and if it is, then you can just grab that case and run out of here and tell people how you managed to take me for a quarter mill. But it might not be: sometimes it's cheaper to buy the real thing than fake it." I grabbed the case, and nodded at the door. "There's something I want to show you."
It was so satisfying him seeing him walk down the corridor, hands clasped behind his head, that I almost took pity on him — but if I did that, I'd be finished in Hollywood. I steered him towards the soundstage where the crew had reconstructed a used crematorium. I pressed the buttons to open the door, and another to start the burners. "For example," I said, "is that fire really hot enough to actually destroy a body?"
Klein was sweating by now, and I doubted it was because of the flames. "If it helps, it would need to be about 1600 degrees not to leave any identifiable remains. But paper burns at a third of that." And I threw the attaché case into the oven.
Klein squawked, then stared at me. "You're crazy!"
"Crazy enough to throw away a quarter million on a whim? Maybe I am... but then, that's not my money: it's yours. All you have to do is go and get it — but don't take too long."
He stared into the flames. "You're bluffing. The money's fake. Counterfeit. Copies. Whatever."
"Maybe," I said. "Maybe not. But to me, that money's worth less than the possibility that these teeth are real. What's it worth to you? Do you want to spend the rest of your life wondering what you could have had?"
He turned to look at me, hoping for some clue in my expression, then leapt into the flames. I pressed the button to close the door, and stood there for a few minutes half-hoping to hear a cry of "For the love of God, Montressor!" — but there was nothing but silence.
I waited for two hours, reading e-mails and script outlines on my Blackberry, before turning the flames off. When I returned to the studio on Monday, the oven had cooled down, and the crew was emptying it out.
Maybe I shouldn't have gone down to the soundstage to watch them, but I had to make sure there was nothing left that could be identified, no tell-tale hearts or anything of that nature. Klein was right about the money, of course: most of it was fake, but he'd probably never had a chance to find out. Fortunately, nothing in the ashes resembled a banknote, or the attaché case. Just some small fragments of bone indistinguishable from the others we'd used to decorate some of the sets, and some lumps of molten metal that had once been his Rolex and his belt buckle.
One of the stage hands picked some white lumps out of the ashes, and looked at them curiously. Teeth. Human teeth. My heart grew sick, but then he tossed them into the bin with the other rubbish. I smiled to see them there, but my smile failed as the teeth seemed to form themselves back into Klein's familiar smirk. Another shovel-full of ash landed on top of them, but I could still see them glistening there. I see them still.
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Stephen Dedman was exposed to the works of Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe at an early age, and has never quite recovered. The author of four novels and more than 100 short stories published in an eclectic range of magazines and anthologies, he has won the Aurealis and Ditmar awards for short fiction and been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, the BSFA Award, the Seiun Award, the Spectrum Award, the Sidewise Award and a sainthood. | 2019-04-24T03:58:42 | http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/dedman_03_08/ |
0.999998 | Marble is also sold tumbled. Tumbled Marble is put into a vibration machine that beats up the surface to a dull appearance that is generally uniform in color but more porous. Installation can be tough on Marble, so it is very common that a new Marble floor will need to be re-polished and re-sealed. Only non-sanded grout should be used to avoid scratching. Marbles to avoid: green and black varieties. They show scratches and etchingWhen an acidic solution comes in contact with the stone, a dull spot is the result. The acid “eats” the stone leaving dullness, or etching behind. Penetrating sealers help to reduce severity of etches, but cannot eliminate them. Depending on acidity, some liquids can etch immediately, such as wine, where milder acidic solutions may not etch with proper penetrating sealing. more than lighter shades and can be very difficult to restore.
Marble is a denser stone than Travertine which means less air pockets and less fill overall. It comes in a very wide variety of colors and usually looks its best at a medium high shine or high gloss polishUsing abrasives to make the stone surface so smooth that it reflects light that results in a clear shine.. The low amount of filler provides for a clear and consistent shine throughout the Marble floor.
<strong>Before:</strong> White Marble looks dull and chalky.
<strong>After:</strong> White Marble with a high gloss polishUsing abrasives to make the stone surface so smooth that it reflects light that results in a clear shine. makes for a very elegant master bath entrance.
<strong>Before: </strong>This dull Marble suffered a very poor installation with uneven edges throughout. We used our custom grindingUtilizing the toughest abrasives to sand away a measurable amount of stone. This step would be used to even out high tiles and is a separate process from our standard finishing services. Sometimes this step is also used to sand away a coating on the stone provided the installation is even. process to level the edges as best as possible and then re-polish.
<strong>After: </strong>The result is a dramatic improvement in color, clarity, shine and softer, more even edges. GrindingUtilizing the toughest abrasives to sand away a measurable amount of stone. This step would be used to even out high tiles and is a separate process from our standard finishing services. Sometimes this step is also used to sand away a coating on the stone provided the installation is even. is a harsh process and not always the best option, stones and situations vary greatly. | 2019-04-22T16:12:52 | https://travertinepowercleanprovenproducts.com/marble/ |
0.99969 | In terms of policy or bilateral relations, Donald Trump has had little to say specifically about his northern neighbour. Yet some of his pronouncements, particularly about trade, could have ramifications for Canada if he were to occupy the White House.
Would Trump be an 'America first' trade protectionist who puts up walls around the U.S.?
No presidential nominee talks more about Canada than Donald Trump — although it's almost always in the context of Ted Cruz's birthplace (Calgary) and whether it should disqualify the Texas senator from running for president.
In terms of policy or bilateral relations, though,Trump has had little to say specifically about his northern neighbour.
He did tell CBC's Meagan Fitzpatrick that he "loves Canada" and that, unlike his plans for Mexico, "I wouldn't build a wall on the border."
What's more, he appears to be onside with his Republican rivals when it comes to supporting the Keystone XL pipeline, and the oil industry in general.
Yet some of his pronouncements, particularly about trade, could have ramifications for Canada if he were to occupy the White House.
For example, in a 60 Minutes interview last year, Trump declared that the North American Free Trade Agreement is "a disaster" and that he would renegotiate it if he's elected president. He also opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Barack Obama-led deal with Pacific Rim countries, minus China, that was recently signed, but not ratified, by Canada.
"Trump clearly is very much an isolationist when it comes to trade, which obviously is the most important issue we have with the U.S," said Donald Abelson, a political science professor at Western University and director of The Canada-U.S. Institute.
"If you do buy into the bravado and do buy into the policy pronouncements, it's all going to be about 'America first' and everyone else second and what kind of ripple effect does that have on us."
A Trump presidency "would certainly have a huge impact on the U.S. so there's no question it would affect the bilateral relationship as well," Abelson said.
"All the issues that we've flagged over the last number of years ... will be exacerbated should Donald Trump somehow make his way to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave."
Abelson also questioned whether Trump might establish more impediments to trade, impediments that would make it more difficult for Canadian goods and services to cross the border.
And would he care about violating the terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement? "He seems to be the kind of person who will shoot first and ask questions later," says Abelson.
There is also a concern that while Trump might not build literal walls at the Canadian border, he could thicken them by calling for more border security out of fears that Canada's recent influx of Syrian refugees could somehow pose a threat to the U.S.
He has said he would ban Muslims coming into the U.S. and send back Syrian refugees. "I suspect someone like Trump would easily buy into the immediate post 9/11 rhetoric that Canada was somehow at fault for allowing some of the hijackers to cross our borders into the U.S., which was obviously incorrect," Abelson said.
Still, other observers, such as political scientist Brian Bow, the director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie University, says much of Trump's talk on issues that could affect Canadians is just that — talk. And in that respect, he may not be that much different than past candidates.
On NAFTA, for example, both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton said during the 2008 campaign that they would renegotiate the deal, and it never happened.
"It doesn't mean much at all. It's a way of signalling to voters 'I can do better in terms of making everybody happy, but it's also a way of saying I'm not bound to past commitments. I will do more for you than my predecessors did," Bow said.
"At this point almost everybody gets that everybody who says I'm going to renegotiate NAFTA doesn't literally mean I'm going to renegotiate NAFTA."
And while it is certainly possible there could be some tightening of the border over Canada's refugee policy, that wouldn't necessarily mean it would be laid at the feet of a Trump presidency. U.S. lawmakers have already expressed concerns that Canada is taking shortcuts while screening refugees.
"The only real difference between him and other Republican candidates is that he would be a bit more outspoken about it, or more willing to say the version that is politically incorrect and profoundly undiplomatic," says Bow.
Christopher Sands, director of the Centre for Canadian Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said that while it is difficult to predict the outlines of a Trump presidency, given that he's laid out so few concrete policy initiatives, he believes the real estate mogul will take a business-like approach to Canada.
"My suspicion is that, bilaterally, Trump would be the business guy he is and say 'Hey, Canada is our number one customer, I love Canada, great place, nice people.'"
"He's not a hard-core conservative who is going to say 'I miss Stephen Harper.' Trudeau is fine, but he'll say 'let's focus on business, let's do good deals.' And that will be his mantra."
Sands agreed that Trump's threats over NAFTA are mostly bluster, and that his beef is mainly with Mexico, where he has threatened to impose taxes on American companies that establish cheap-labour plants there.
"NAFTA is unpopular because of Mexico, but it never has really been unpopular because of Canada. So my guess is Canada gets a pass."
The biggest challenge of a Trump presidency would be its unpredictability, and how some of his policies, like threatening to confront China over trade, might affect the economy or the dollar.
"That's the indirect way that Canada gets hit," Sands said. "But we'd be suffering with you." | 2019-04-18T19:59:09 | https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/donald-trump-presidency-canada-1.3450269 |
0.999524 | General anesthesia is an important medical procedure in today's hospital practice and comprises loss of consciousness, analgesia, amnesia and immobility. Our current work analyzes patient reaction on nociception stimuli during a surgical operation and differences in this reaction provided different anesthetic drugs, propofol and desflurane. The studied dataset comprises EEG-recordings before and after incision obtained from 115 patients . The task is the identification of spectral EEG signal features reflecting the incision. This analysis will reveal a possible new marker of pain during deep anesthesia.
This work considers one of the approaches to the problem, namely spectral analysis. First, power spectral density (PSD) estimates were obtained using Welch's method. It is well known that EEG power spectrum decays with higher frequencies following ~1/f scaling [2–4]. We attribute this behavior to background activity , which takes place in the brain when no other activity is present. Background activity was describe by fitting regression curve P(f)~a/f b to each PSD estimate. However, the resulting goodness of fit was not satisfactory. It is due to rise of power in delta peak, which becomes prominent under general anesthesia and makes the process of curve fitting less reliable. Thus, the original model was substituted by the Lorentzian function P(f)=a/(f b + c), which resembles the shape of actual power spectrum quite well. Afterwards, regression curves were subtracted from each power spectrum to normalize it and to analyze spectral power contained in delta and alpha peaks regardless of distinctions in patients.
The results of this work revealed small differences between propofol and desflurane. Power spectra of patients receiving desflurane have more regular shape than the ones from propofol group. It can also be seen that delta power remains more consistent, while alpha power varies greatly from patient to patient. Another result of this work is a trend in the distribution of Lorentzian curve parameters: the set of parameters remains compact for small values of b, but a and c scatters significantly when b (which corresponds to steepness of curve) is larger than three. Results of this work provide insights on underlying background activity. However, they do not allow to distinguish between pre- and post-incision and poorly between propofol and desflurane. This problem requires more complicated techniques. Future work will expand spectral analysis with time information (time-frequency representations) and investigate time structure by means of recurrence analysis.
Example of power spectrum density estimate (solid black), with fitted Lorentzian curve (dashed orange), goodness of fit (R2), delta (green circle) and alpha peaks (blue circle). | 2019-04-24T06:32:21 | https://bmcneurosci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2202-16-S1-P233 |
0.999115 | There are some of the Marlboro Red Regular Cigarettes may be you like: Marlboro Red Regular Cigarettes with 30 Cartons, Marlboro Red Regular Cigarettes with 50 Cartons.
Choose a ranking for the Marlboro Red Regular Cigarettes with 40 Cartons. 1 star is the worst and 5 stars is the best. | 2019-04-25T16:34:56 | http://www.cigarettesforonline.com/marlboro-red-regular-cigarettes-with-40-cartons-p-34.html |
0.999991 | Why would textiles be creased?
Natural fibers are easy to be creased during the process of using which can be perceived as the results of external forces bending fibers and the fibers fail to restore after the external force disappearing. Wrinkle principles are that there are a mass of hydrogen bonds in fiber amorphous region and the fibers lack chemical cross-linking. So when the external force or water molecules act on fibers, hydrogen will be destroyed and translocation will happen between molecular chains. The deformation can not restore thoroughly when external force disappear because there are not enough constraining force between molecules to make the fibers return to their original shape. Therefore, the wrinkles appear.
1. Covering theory: textile finishing chemicals can form high elastic film nets that can cover the surface of fiber and form viscosity nodes between fibers after high temperature condensation and addition reaction which, as a consequence, can promote elastic recovery of fibers.
2. Resin deposition theory: textile finishing chemicals form resin nets inside the fiber after being baked and the resin deposition deposit on amorphous region. Resin deposition stop fiber macro molecules and basic structural units from deformation by mechanical friction and hydrogen bonds. Therefore provide textile wrinkle resistance.
3. Covalent cross-linking theory: finishing chemicals can react with fibers under certain conditions which can form covalent cross-linking among fiber molecular chains and basic structural units. Therefore it can reduce the deformation of fibers that can not restore immediately which caused by hydrogen bonds destruction during the process of deformation. As a result, it can enhance the fibers' ability of restoring from deformation and achieve the goal of anti creasing. | 2019-04-20T12:21:42 | https://www.htfine-chem.com/list-of-chemicals-used-in-textile-industry/anti-creasing-agent.html |
0.99879 | What is the definition of GM Rank?
We calculate these ranks for every company in the market, sum them and then re-rank the output from 0 (worst) to 100 (best). The stock showing the highest GM Rank will have the highest score across both contributing ranks. | 2019-04-21T10:59:54 | https://www.stockopedia.com/ratios/stockopedia-gm-rank-5383/ |
0.999561 | What stops the pain of a migraine headache?
In order to answer your question, we must differentiate from stopping pain and stopping the occurrence of migraines.
Since a migraine headache is quite different from what might be called a common headache, what stops the pain of a migraines is going to be different. The most readily used remedy for a common headache is simple aspirin. However, aspirin doesn't have the same effect on a migraine headache.
You can use aspirin to relieve some of the symptoms of migraines, but not necessarily the pain. To relieve the pain you must use what is called a vasoconstrictor. This is how pharmaceutical treatments end the pain cycle.
With that said, over the counter remedies that claim to help with migraines all have caffeine in them as the "special ingredient" that helps with the migraine. Why? Caffeine is a short-term vasoconstrictor.
Here is how it works. When you have a migraine, the pain you feel is from the hair like nerve fibers in your head as they are being squeezed. These fibers are part of the trigeminal nerve that runs from your temple by your ears to the front and to back of your eyes on each side. These nerves are intertwined with tiny blood vessels and when the blood vessels are dilated (expanded by blood), from a chemical reaction that is occurring as the mechanism of the migraine syndrome, they pinch the nerves.
To demonstrate this affect, think of the fingers of your left hand as the nerve fibers and now squeeze those fingers with your right hand. That hurts! And so do the nerves when squeezed by expanding blood vessels.
What is needed to relieve the pain is something to reduce these expanding blood vessels. That something is called a vasoconstrictor and that is what the pharmaceutical migraine pain relievers are. They make the blood vessels shrink or constrict for a period of time.
Caffeine does the same thing for a short period of time. For this reason, drinking some coffee or coke products can have similar effect as taking over-the-counter pain reliever. The bottom line is in order for the migraine pain to actually be relieved, the blood vessels must be constricted.
Some people talk about marijuana for migraines. Marijuana (CBD or THC) does not have the properties to help migraines. In fact, it has the opposite effect. THC acts as a smooth-muscle relaxant, relaxing the walls of the blood vessels (dilation), which expands them and increases blood flow to put pressure on the nerves when the vessels swell up. | 2019-04-22T04:16:44 | http://www.tuliv.com/library/stopping-the-pain |
0.997784 | This is another column about the copyright industry. It might seem like I'm fixated on the topic and maybe that's somewhat the case, but it's because I fear copyright holders want to turn the internet into something that is legally limited to providing the services they think are okay.
-- First, in an interview with Cableworld magazine, Jamie Kellner, the head of ad-supported television for Turner Broadcasting System (the people that bring you CNN), said that skipping ads on a recorded TV show was theft.
-- Second, The Mercury News in San Jose reported that a judge in Los Angeles ordered SonicBlue, the maker of digital video recording system ReplayTV, to develop software within the next 60 days to "record every click from every customer's remote control". In particular the judge wants to have a record of which shows individual users copy, store and view; what commercials they skip; and which programs they send to other users.
In the Cableworld interview, Kellner said skipping ads is theft because, "Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show on an ad-supported basis. Any time you skip a commercial ... you're actually stealing the programming."
He does have a point, but it's a point rendered invalid by the real world. A world in which CNN replays the same, often mind-numbingly stupid ad twice an hour for months at a time. Is it in anyone's benefit, particularly Dell's, if I am forced to watch that weird Dell dude recite the same dumb dialogue 100 times? In my case it would guarantee that I would never buy a Dell product -- to do otherwise would be supporting mental torture. It is possible to create ads that people want to see, though that might be hard to tell while watching CNN.
There are already DVDs sold where the DVD player doesn't let you skip the 10-minute ad at the start of the movie. If Kellner had his way, you wouldn't even be able to mute the sound on commercials you hate. I wonder if he reads all the ads in the Sunday paper, just to be consistent.
Separately, the implication of the judge's order in the SonicBlue case is that the Kellners of the world might be able to check to see that you are following their rules. Because there is no technical reason for a device such as ReplayTV to send any reports to the manufacturer, the judge is ordering a vendor to spy on its customers and modify its products to make that possible. Not a good precedent at all.
What's next -- real-time reports to Microsoft when your company uses a non-Microsoft product? I believe in a balance between the rights of copyright holders and the rest of the world. These two incidents indicate to me that there is currently an increasing tilt away from the users.
Bradner is a consultant with Harvard University's University Information Systems. Send letters for publication in Computerworld NZ to Computerworld Letters. | 2019-04-26T04:11:29 | https://www.computerworld.co.nz/article/510157/fast_forward_theft/?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=authorfeed |
0.999891 | The First World War changed the landscape of Europe. After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the First Czechoslovak Republic was established. Slovakia, as a part of the republic, first faced the aftermath of the war and later the Great Depression caused by the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which exacerbated the internal political conflicts on our continent. In 1933, Adolf Hitler won the German general elections and became the new Reich Chancellor, an event that would determine the course of European history for the next decade..
The year is 1938 and Nazi Germany in the so-called Anschluss annexes Austria. Hitler doesn't hide his intentions to seize the neighbouring Czechoslovakia.
Hitler is trying to break up Czechoslovakia, which as a democratic country offered a refuge to the opponents of Nazism. Hitler was raising territory claims, willing to proceed through international political agitation or resort to military action. He was definitely playing the German population card - Germans living and allegedly suffering from discrimination beyond the German borders - a similar excuse as he used when he annexed Austria. It suited him that the territory of Slovakia (a relatively uninteresting country for Hitler at the time) was eyed by both Poland and Hungary. The Sudetenland and the border areas of Czechoslovakia, inhabited mostly by ethnic Germans, are at stake now.
Speech by Adolf Hitler to the Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg on 12 September 1938, in which he sharply attacked Czechoslovakia and President Eduard Benes.
Germany, Italy, Great Britain and France convened in Munich on 29 September 1938, where they decided on the fate of Czechoslovakia without its presence at the table. The Republic must cede Sudeten territory to Germany. The Czechoslovak government was particularly surprised by the attitude of their allies, France and Great Britain, but did not have any other options. A day later, on 30 September 1938, they accepted the decision, which went down in history as the Munich Agreement, sometimes called the Munich Dictate. It was one of the heralds of the coming war, before which, however, Slovakia went through several drastic political changes.
At the time of the Munich Agreement, the most influential political party in Slovakia was Hlinka's Slovak People's Party (HSPP), which in 1935 in coalition with the Slovak National Party won 30% of the votes in the elections. It was founded as Slovak People's Party in 1905, then restored by a Catholic priest and a nationalist, Andrej Hlinka. It was founded on conservative Christian values and slowly but surely became obsessed with the idea of autonomy - an independent Slovakia within the Czechoslovak Republic.
The HSPP's gradual radicalisation was epitomised by their totalitarian motto: "One Nation, One Party, One Leader."
During October 1938, the HSPP strived to solve the issue of Slovakia within the Republic and pushed for autonomy. Within the party, there were two conflicting approaches, the so-called moderate wing (represented mainly by Jozef Tiso, Jozef Sivák and Martin Sokol) and the radical wing (led by Vojtech Tuka, Ferdinand Ďurčanský and Alexander Mach). They differed in their views on autonomy and disagreed on antisemitic legislation. What was the answer of "one nation, one party and one leader" - soon to be Jozef Tiso - to these burning questions?
declaring autonomy with a focus on their northern neighbour, Poland.
On 6 October 1938, HSPP officials met in Žilina with representatives of smaller political parties to introduce their proposal for Slovak autonomy within the Czechoslovak Republic. In the documents presented at the Žilina Conference, the HSPP claimed that Slovakia welcomes a "peaceful solution to the problem in the spirit of the Munich Agreement." In their manifesto, the party welcomed the Munich Agreement and emphasised their commitment to "stand by the side of nations fighting against the Marxist-Jewish ideology of disruption and violence." They also insisted on "immediate transfer of executive and governmental control to the Slovak people." It soon became clear that according to the HSPP politicians, they were the only legitimate representatives of the Slovak people.
On 7 October 1938, the Czechoslovak government accepted the proposal by the HSPP. Jozef Tiso was declared the Prime Minister of the Autonomous Slovak Region.
The National Assembly met on 19 November 1938 and affirmed Slovak autonomy through a new constitutional law. Czechoslovakia gained a hyphen in its name and thus became the Czecho-Slovak Republic. From this moment, Slovakia is facing another challenge - rising demands from Hungary and Poland. At a meeting in Komárno, the Czecho-Slovak side, led by Tiso and without a clear strategy, started negotiations with Hungary. These negotiations lasted until November 1938 and resulted in the First Vienna Arbitration, in which Slovakia lost parts of its territory.
The Munich Dictate cost the Czechoslovak Republic the territories occupied by the Germans. Because an appendix to the Munich Agreement spoke about solving the problem of Hungarian and Polish minorities within three months of signing, it became clear that Slovakia would have to address the Hungarian territorial claims very soon. On the table was a fifth of the territory of Slovakia, including Carpathian Ruthenia and 854,218 inhabitants of this region, including 272,145 Slovak and Czech nationals.
The official negotiations between the Czecho-Slovak and Hungarian sides did not lead to a clear decision. Both countries turned to the signatories of the Munich Agreement and the large areas of Slovakia were annexed by Hungary in the First Vienna Award.
Based on the Munich precedent, Poland also claimed their piece of land, which included several villages of Orava, Kysuce and Spiš. The Slovak population that remained in their homes in the newly acquired parts of Hungary immediately became a target of oppression, humiliation, violence and even open persecution. The state was able to evacuate and shelter 50,000 Slovaks. Other people fleeing to Slovakia due to the bad conditions became refugees. According to some estimates, up to 100,000 people took refuge in Slovakia during 1938 and 1943 and became dependent on charity and state benefits after fleeing from Hungary. The number of emigrants from Slovakia to Hungary was significantly lower, since there were very few Hungarian nationals living outside the contested territories. On the initiative of the HPSS, after the declaration of autonomy a further 9,000 Czech state employees and teachers were deported, including those who voluntarily came to help out a country which did not have sufficient resources by itself.
Shortly after the declaration of autonomy, verbal attacks on Jewish minorities escalated and from 4 November, the populist regime organised the deportation of more than 7,500 people from Slovakia to the annexed territories. The government also started preparing of the anti-Semitic legislation, under the leadership of Karol Sidor.
The autonomous government called for elections to the Diet of the newly created Slovak Region on Saturday, 26 November 1938, with the date of the election on 18 December 1938. Since the lists of candidates were required to be submitted three weeks before the election, the last day of submission was Sunday, 27 November 1938. This way, the HSPP ensured that the list of candidates of the Hlinka Slovak People’s Party - Party of Slovak National Unity would be the only one accepted. Their list of candidates included the representatives of affiliated parties and minorities, but excluded the unwanted Czech and Jewish minorities. Under the pretence of "national unity", they started suppressing the freedom of the press and the freedom of assembly.
Shortly before the elections, the Ministry of Interior issued secret instructions, according to which regions with ethnically mixed population should create special polling stations for the various nationalities to more easily determine how each of them voted.
In elections, where one cannot choose a political party, but merely accept or reject the suggested list of candidates, 97,3% of voters replied positively to the suggestive question: "Do you want a new and happy Slovakia?"
The radical wing of the HSPP, represented by Vojtech Tuka, Alexander Mach and Ferdinand Ďurčanský, met with the German diplomats several times at the turn of 1938 and 1939 without the knowledge of the Slovak government. They presented the idea of declaring independence as unproblematic.
Tuka declared during a visit with Hitler: "My leader, I put the fate of my nation into your hands. My nation wants you to liberate them."
At home, the government, the Diet and the leadership of the HSPP rejected the proposition of the radicals since they envisioned the graduation to an independent state in the distant future through a natural revolution rather than Tuka’s revolution. In line with Hitler's interest, the Czecho-Slovak government in Prague found out about the Slovak desire for independence and responded by military action on 9 March 1939. They declared military dictatorship in Slovak, Jozef Tiso is dismissed from his post as the Prime Minister and Karol Sidor, Tiso's HSPP colleague, was named as his successor.
After Sidor rejected the pressure from the Nazis to declare independence, Hitler invited Jozef Tiso to Berlin, where he threatened him that if Slovakia did not declare independence (in the next few hours), he would "abandon Slovakia to its fate". This fate might have been a division of the territory between its three neighbours - Germany, Poland and Hungary, whose troops were allegedly already moving to the borders. Despite the fact that Jozef Tiso was not an official representative of Slovakia at the moment, with Hitler's support he able to ask the president Emil Hácha to call the Diet on 14 March 1939. At the meeting, the Slovak Diet declared the creation of the Slovak State and Hitler's troops entered the Czech territories the next day, declaring the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, within the German Reich. The newly created Slovak State was facing the five years of its existence, marked by the Second World War.
All artworks in this chapter can also be found in the collection at the Web of Art: Halfway to the Slovak State. | 2019-04-22T02:55:55 | https://senxskutocnost.sng.sk/en/chapters/1 |
0.999975 | Hi, perhaps you are asking about the way to describe a need for friendship or a way to describe a state of not having people around you. If so the way to describe that feeling is "loneliness".
"How am I to describe this feeling?". It is a bit awkward but grammatically correct. | 2019-04-22T22:06:09 | https://polyglotclub.com/language/english/question/28044 |
0.998904 | What is the purpose of the holes marked “Do Not Cover” on hard drives?
On many hard drives, there's a text warning to "not cover this hole", sometimes adding that doing so will void the warranty.
What is the purpose of this hole and why would covering it cause damage or increase the likelihood of drive failure?
It allows for equalization of air pressure between the inside and outside of the drive. While it is not a complete pass-through of outside air into the HDD internals, there is a diaphragm filter inside the hole that allows the air pressure to equalize.
If the drive were completely sealed, operating at altitudes significantly different from those the drive was manufactured and sealed at would cause problems and increase the likelihood of catastrophic failures.
This system works in much the same way as the eustachian tubes that allow our ears internal pressures to equalize, preventing the explosion or implosion of our ear drums.
UPDATE: Per Moab's correction, it's a filter, not a diaphragm. The way it works and the reason it is included remains the same.
Hard disk drives require a certain range of air pressures in order to operate properly. The connection to the external environment and pressure occurs through a small hole in the enclosure (about 0.5 mm in breadth), usually with a filter on the inside (the breather filter). If the air pressure is too low, then there is not enough lift for the flying head, so the head gets too close to the disk, and there is a risk of head crashes and data loss. Specially manufactured sealed and pressurized disks are needed for reliable high-altitude operation, above about 3,000 m (9,800 ft). Modern disks include temperature sensors and adjust their operation to the operating environment. Breather holes can be seen on all disk drives—they usually have a sticker next to them, warning the user not to cover the holes.
It allows for equalization of air pressure between the inside and outside of the drive. In other words, it keeps the air pressure at the same pressure as atmospheric pressure.
A hard drive is only designed for a certain range of operating pressures. The read/write head floats above the platter on a cushion of air. If the air pressure is too low, then there is not enough lift for the flying head so the head gets too close to the disk and there is a risk of head crashes and data loss.
If the air pressure should be kept constant, why make a hole that allows the air pressure to change?
The hard drive can be used in a range of environments with different temperatures, including ambient temperature and operating temperature. If the drive was completely sealed, the temperature differences would cause large pressure variations in the hard drive. The variation in atmospheric pressure is relatively small compared to these differences.
Also, if the hole was blocked, the pressures could cause the case to bend and the spindle and arm to go out of alignment (theoretically; hard drives look quite solid).
There is another consideration: The hard drive may not be completely air tight apart from the hole, although I'm not sure whether actual hard drives are built this way. In this situation, the hole acts as an easier pathway for air to flow so that the air flows through the filter rather than through unfiltered cracks that allow dust to enter the hard drive.
The above being said, sealed hard drives exist, which have mechanisms to deal with the pressure changes.
Note about the discussion in the other answer: If the drive were completely sealed, operating at altitudes significantly different from those the drive was manufactured and sealed at would have no effect at all (at the same temperature) because the hard drive is a fixed volume so the internal air pressure is unchanged.
The breather hole allows condensation inside the hard drive to escape and it also equalizes the hard drive's internal pressure with the ambient pressure. The hard drive needs it to function properly, so make sure you won't occlude the hole.
The HDD's spindle system relies on air density inside the disk enclosure to support the heads at their proper flying height while the disk rotates. HDDs require a certain range of air densities in order to operate properly. The connection to the external environment and density occurs through a small hole in the enclosure (about 0.5 mm in breadth), usually with a filter on the inside (the breather filter).
If the air density is too low, then there is not enough lift for the flying head, so the head gets too close to the disk, and there is a risk of head crashes and data loss.
Modern disks include temperature sensors and adjust their operation to the operating environment. Breather holes can be seen on all disk drives—they usually have a sticker next to them, warning the user not to cover the holes.
The air inside the operating drive is constantly moving too, being swept in motion by friction with the spinning platters.
Can storing my HDDs airtight damage them in anyway?
Are hard drive disks airtight?
Is it ok to band HDD in a completely non-ventilated cellophane?
How to recover data from dead disk?
What happened to my Hard Drive?
If the hard drive is bad…?
How should I solve this hard-drive lag issue?
Does low free-disk space on HDD cripple computer performance?
Is it 'bad' to read of a drive while writing onto it? Can you read and write 'simultaneously'?
Is debugging bad hard-drives possible by intercepting SATA packages? | 2019-04-19T16:50:50 | https://superuser.com/questions/368774/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-holes-marked-do-not-cover-on-hard-drives |
0.998797 | Users want to be heard, but they need a way to be heard. As a product designer, asking users how they want to use your product allows you to make their process as simple as possible.
There are indirect lines of communication a highly motivated user can take advantage of on most sites, mainly surveys, contact forms and emails. But Palumbo emphasized the importance of creating a direct line to the customer. Calling a user, for example, would solicit feedback and insights they might not otherwise provide through passive communication channels. Direct feedback also allows for conversation that might help a designer collect even more information about their user’s processes.
By reaching out, you can answer the following question.
Are you solving for the customer or the internal processes?
When Palumbo first started in the biz, he found a joke hilarious to him wouldn’t necessarily resonate with his users, who he hoped would one day be paying customers.
Companies often work to improve their own internal operations but don’t consider how this impacts the customer. It is easy to get caught up in the corporate side of processes and not the outward facing implications. Since we are constantly trying to improve our efficiency on the backend it is important to think about if this changes how we interact with external users.
Joseph Palumbo presenting at the conference.
While listening to the speakers at Generate, a key concept brought up in two of the sessions was cross-functional project management. In Daniel Schutzsmith’s talk “How we use design systems to win on the web”, he introduced the MOCHA model. Dan Mall’s talk “Should designers…?” addressed the RACI matrix tool and how he used it on his team.
The RACI matrix is a table that outlines people’s roles in a project and what their responsibilities are. The x-axis contains the different stake-holders in the project (project manager, executive, designer). The y-axis contains the different tasks that make up the project. The acronym is then used to define the roles of the stakeholders on specific tasks. The roles make up the RACI acronym: Responsible, Accountable, Consulted and Informed.
The MOCHAI model does not define any specific tasks of a project. It instead defines the roles of different stakeholders across a project. The roles that make up the MOCHA acronym are Manager, Owner, Consulted, Helper and Approver. Schultzmith’s team took it so far as to make the acronym MOCHAI and added Informed. While this is a role-based system, you could easily translate it into a matrix like RACI and assign these on a per-task basis.
Consistently defining roles using a system like MOCHAI or RACI is not something our team has used in the past. While we define stakeholders and try to keep people informed on tasks, it is easy to let someone get lost in the process. By explicitly stating roles ahead of time, we wouldn’t have to backtrack to find out where someone was left out. While I’m not sure which acronym we will use, following some combination of these would definitely be useful for our process.
Dan Mall presenting how his team uses the RACI matrix.
One of my initial thoughts after watching some of the talks at Generate was how we could improve talking about products. This idea originated from Abby Covert’s talk on “How to make sense of any mess” because there are many products at Industry Dive that people have multiple names for.
Developers, designers and stakeholders all refer to the content editors publish with different language. Usually people can convey what they mean easily but wouldn’t it be easier to define this so there isn’t any confusion?
As Covert suggested, I first would like to figure out all the different ways people refer to this content. What is the most commonly used word or phrase? Does it make the most sense?
From there, I’d start by updating the code. The language used to refer to this content varies from front-end to back-end: “new post” vs. “post” vs “news” vs. “article.” Another issue is how this is referred to in the CMS (which would influence how writers and editors refer to it).
Overall I think project management would be vastly improved by defining this. Having one term for this content would certainly clean up communication and code. | 2019-04-25T08:30:12 | https://design.industrydive.com/corporate/2018/05/04/generate-conference.html |
0.99576 | Evangelical pastor Mark Driscoll faces protesters and learns some life lessons.
Some news from that crazy place where evangelism and feminism intersect: Prominent evangelical leader Mark Driscoll has sort of apologized for comments he made in the wake of the Ted Haggard scandal.
After news of Haggard's affair with a male prostitute broke back in early November, Driscoll, the founder of Seattle's Mars Hill Church, wrote on his blog that some of the blame might rest with Haggard's missus, Gayle. "It is not uncommon to meet pastors' wives who really let themselves go," Driscoll opined. "They sometimes feel that because their husband is a pastor, he is therefore trapped into fidelity, which gives them cause for laziness. A wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available to her husband in the ways that the Song of Songs is so frank about is not responsible for her husband's sin, but she may not be helping him either."
A bunch of humorless people got all irate about this blame-the-woman stuff and organized a protest, scheduled for Sunday at the Mars Hill Church. Apparently wanting to avoid a messy public showdown, Driscoll has announced that he met with the protesters, and published a limply conciliatory message on his blog.
"A few weeks back, in the wake of the Ted Haggard fall," he wrote, "I posted a blog that I hoped would help young pastors to diminish some of their vulnerability to disqualifying sin. At first, I had joy because many pastors notified me of how helpful they found my comments. But my joy soon faded; one of the quotes in particular that was intended as a general principle was applied specifically to Mrs. Haggard, which I did not intend to have happen in any way."
So, a quick recap: When, in the wake of a pastor's public straying, Driscoll wrote about how a pastor might be prompted to stray by a lazy wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available, he was not referring to the actual straying pastor or his wife. But no one got that, which resulted in a diminishment of joy.
A result of this simple misunderstanding was that "an online group" of ticked-off joyless people started "combing through seemingly anything and everything that I have ever written or said, seeking statements to fan a fire of protest against me and the church that I pastor."
More background: Sleuthing wizards who applied a super-fine-toothed comb to Driscoll's blog did in fact turn up an August entry in which he took down some Presbyterians thinking of applying gender-inclusive language to the father-son-centric Holy Trinity. "Some chicks and some chickified dudes with limp wrists and minors in 'womyn's studies' are not happy because two persons of the Trinity have a dude-ish ring," wrote Driscoll.
Then there were the nit-pickers who took their semantic microscope to a Driscoll ditty posted days after his possibly Haggard-related comments, in which he weighed in on the installation of Katharine Jefferts Schori as the head of the Episcopal Church, and her "get over it" retort to dioceses that rejected her election on the grounds that she was female. Using his gift for subtle satire, Driscoll posted the "related news" that "the testosterone levels of male Americans has dropped significantly in the past twenty years," and his speculation that "if Christian males do not man up soon, the Episcopalians may vote a fluffy baby bunny rabbit as their next bishop to lead God's men. When asked for their perspective, some bunny rabbits simply said that they have been discriminated against long enough and that people need to 'Get over it.'"
On Nov. 30, he sat down with protesters from "mainline and independent churches, megachurches and house churches, male pastors and female pastors, Reformed and Emergent," and spent a few "honest, respectful, and helpful" hours with them. And what he learned was that his "theological convictions, even the most controversial ones, are as unwavering as ever."
Awesome. But his critics also taught him that he has a "responsibility to speak about my convictions in a way that invites other people to experience charity from me, which means inflammatory language and such need to be scaled back." (Note to Driscoll: ix-nay on the "chickified dudes with limp wrists" and "fluffy baby bunny rabbits.") One chick pastor even had "a very good insight": That Driscoll should consider that as an influential leader, his words are being heard both by those who know and understand him and by those who are unfamiliar with his work.
Right-o. So to sum up: Driscoll still believes that girls are like bunnies and shouldn't run churches, and that some pastors have fugly wives who kick-start their gayness, and that anyone who gives thought to updating religious language probably holds a degree in "womyn's studies." But now, thanks to the time he spent turning his critics into coaches, he understands that he shouldn't use such mean words to say all this stuff. And he's happy that his critics have helped teach him this valuable lesson.
Anytime, buddy. We're in the book. | 2019-04-22T17:58:51 | https://www.salon.com/2006/12/05/driscoll_2/ |
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0.99999 | Cats have their own rules of physics. Here are some of them.
A cat at rest will tend to remain at rest, unless acted upon by some outside force - such as the opening of a can or the sight of a prey.
A cat continues to accelerate at a constant speed until he needs to stop.
Any cat restrained for the purposes of administering a pill has the potential to reach escape velocity.
A cat's mass increases in direct proportion to the comfort of the lap she occupies.
Cats have the ability manipulate gravity, forming localised areas of strong gravitational attraction. This gives the impression of a cat growing heavier as it occupies a lap or bed. This is a linear effect with gravity increasing at a steady rate over time.
Cats know that energy can neither be created nor destroyed and will therefore use as little energy as possible.
Cats know that energy can only be stored by a lot of napping.
If the rate of energy uptake exceeds the maximum rate of energy storage, the difference will be emitted in the form of purring.
Dark coloured clothing attracts light coloured cat hair in direct proportion to the darkness of the fabric. The converse is also true.
The length of the stretch is directly proportional to temperature. Nose in tail (unstretched) is 'cold' while fully stretched is 'hot'. There are infinite gradations on this stretch/temperature scale.
All cats must sleep with people whenever possible.
The cat must select a position which causes maximum discomfort to people involved.
A cat can make its body long enough to reach the top of any surface which has anything remotely interesting on it.
The cat can exceed its normal elongation if the item of interest is edible.
Cats will attend all family meals when anything good is served.
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Where multiple cats are present in a large finite space, each cat must attempt to see at least two other cats but remain hidden from view itself.
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0.999897 | 1: tempering it first (which would be quite difficult and add a whole step to my process)?
2: storing it in a sealed container somehow blocking it from oxygen? I am not sure at all how to achieve this. Do makers generally bag up their chocolate? Or use plastic bins that seal better?
And when stored this way does it degrade the chocolate? I am remelting it and then tempering when I am ready to mold bars, and so far over the 2 years it seems fine, but I just wonder what other folks do? It also is hard to remelt because it is a large block and I wonder if I should be molding it up somehow, or pouring onto thin sheets and then breaking it apart? I am also starting to sell the chocolate blocks wholesale and wondered if it is common practice to mold this into blocks? And if so do I have to temper it? I am pouring it into sheet pans and cooling in my cooling cabinet and then cutting it into blocks and storing in a hotel pan like the rest of my chocolate bases. I was excited to sell bulk chocolate for the very reason that I don't have to temper it and mold it, so is this acceptable?
Any info about any of this would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. I live in the middle of nowhere so not many folks to talk chocolate with.
This is a pretty big topic so it's going to be difficult to do it justice in short space. As you know, cocoa butter is polymorphic, and when you've got 'good temper' (lets define good temper as CTU<10 and slopes between -1 to +1) - a good 60% of the cocoa butter in your 'solid' chocolate is still actually liquid. That liquid cocoa butter will slow crystallize (which is one reason your tempered chocolate gets harder over time), and your 'good temper' crystals will convert to a lower energy state crystal (which is harder - another reason your chocolate gets harder over time). The mechanics of flavor release are heavily dependent upon how things melt - so aged chocolate will taste different than freshly moulded chocolate because it's releasing flavor differently due to how it's crystals are melting. Essentially - for 'good tempered' chocolate (as defined above), after 30 days of being stored in an iso-thermal 70F(ish) environment - your flavor changes slow to the point where it's less meaningful (they still occur, but the average bear can't detect them). Melting your chocolate bar and recasting it resets this. Most people are really surprised by how different their 'fresh' chocolate tastes compared to their 30 day aged chocolate.
But wait, there's more. There are a few more mechanisms of flavor change. One of them is evaporation - your volatile flavor compounds, well, evaporate. It's why you can smell chocolate - chocolate 'flavors' are in the air - and over time, enough of them will evaporate that there's less of them in your solid bar, and it now tastes different. Melting your tempered chocolate will not reset this - once they're gone, they're gone.
And then there's oxidation. The fats in your chocolate undergo a chemical reaction called oxidation (and possibly one called hydrolysis if there's moisture present). This affects milk and white chocolate more so than dark, and will happen regardless of if your chocolate is tempered or not. Remelting your tempered chocolate has no impact on this.
So, as with many things - i'm afraid there's not a straight forward answer.
@bethingbird @Sebastian - my understanding based on a long conversation with Ed Seguine is that if you were to take the same chocolate and store it tempered and untempered for the same length of time (at least several months) when you tasted them they would taste different. One explanation here is that the difference in crystal structure will affect melt and the release of aroma and flavor chemicals.
However, Ed says that if you de-temper the tempered chocolate and melt the untempered chocolate and then temper and mold each, the results will taste basically the same assuming the two chocolates were stored under the same conditions. Does that accord with your understanding, Sebastian?
As the use for couverture is to temper and then use for molding and enrobing, then I don't see that tempering before storage results in a meaningful difference - if this is the case.
Some makers I know use what are called fish containers to block and store their chocolates. Contact Consolidated Plastics and ask for John Conley (please mention my name). Get the short square containers (~10lb). You can pour the chocolate into the containers and the seal is tight (burp like Tupperware). They nest/stack easily and are easy to label with painter's tape. These boxes have lots of uses around the kitchen.
whoops - do you have to temper it? No. Do you have to store it < 2 years? No. is it better to do those things? Yes.
Wow - whole lotta questions there 8-) generally speaking - minimize exposure to air, light, and humidity. Products with dairy in them will not last as long as products w/o dairy. 2 years is a long time to store chocolate. Storing chocolate tempered is always going to be better than storing it non-tempered (long explanation involving polymorphism and flavor changes over time), plus it's easier to work with for smaller customers. | 2019-04-18T17:18:57 | https://foodmaven.io/thechocolatelife/ask-tcl/hi-there-i-m-looking-for-info-on-storing-my-coverture-i-currently-pour-it-out-of-my-grinder-and-RXnEy9IJV0WemkkIzE2ZaQ/ |
0.969515 | It takes a lot of hard work to keep the crown as queen of all Latina musical artists. But Gloria Estefan makes it look easy.
Latin music's premier female artist -- with seven Latin Grammys and more than 100 million albums sold -- has a new album, a Broadway show about her life, a football team, multiple businesses and a daughter headed to college. Even so, she finds time to help Hurricane victims, advocate against repression -- like that in her homeland of Cuba -- defend human rights, fight against violence and in favor of religious freedom, as she recently participated in the TEDx conference in Rome, where she met her second Pope.
How does she do it all? It's a combination of luck, prayer and teamwork, she said, referring to her husband, music mogul Emilio Estefan.
A new Broadway production will document the incredible lives that Gloria and Emilio Estefan have lived -- from their escape from Communist Cuba to the pinnacles of their careers.
Estefan also talked about her upcoming album, for which she recorded 16 songs in four days and that she described as a collection of her favorite tunes. "All my life, I've loved standards. Johnny Mathis. Javier Solis. Trio Los Panchos. I always wanted to do it. I chose songs that were very special to me," Estefan said. "They were all songs that somehow spoke to me personally."
One of those is "El Dia Que Me Quieras," by Carlos Gardel. "It was our wedding song, the first song we danced to as husband and wife." She recorded that one in English, "which I think will make a killer wedding song," Estefan said.
She also wrote a Spanish version of "Smile," by Charlie Chaplin, and recorded it as a duet in Spanish and Italian with Laura Pausini.
Estefan also gave young artists some advice in the new world of the music business. The most important: "Keep your day job," she said.
While the business is still weak, however, the artists who have to write and sing and perform because they can't stop themselves will be the ones who succeed, she said.
"The internet has been a blessing and a curse. The curse we know: A lot of people appropriating your intellectual property without paying for it," Estefan said. "But I think it's important to realize the blessing of the internet, which is that everybody has a voice and you can break through, even without a record company. You can put out your voice and if you know what you are doing, it will get noticed," she said, pointing to the South Korean artist PSY as an example.
An artist is going to make music, is going to write, is going to paint, is going to do anything artistic people do. We are not going to stop making music because the business is not good.
She had a job as an interpreter at Miami International Airport and was studying to become a psychologist when she began her career. Emilio Estefan worked at Bacardi. "Our son was just born and he had great health benefits," she said. But the luck that put her on stage with her future husband's band -- then known as the Miami Latin Boys -- was her true destiny, she said.
"When we made the decision let's go for the music we both said if it doesn't work out, hey we will go back to our day jobs," Estefan told the crowd during a Q&A session that was alternately in English and in Spanish.
"I was going to be a doctor, but I think my music allowed me to help more people than I could have done one-on-one as a psychologist. Just like other people's music really helped me." | 2019-04-23T14:29:18 | https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin-notas/1559595/gloria-estefan-talks-career-new-album-at-billboard-latin-music |
0.999921 | ...land ok, but race? Most likely not.
Cavalli-Sforza's "The History and Geography of Human Genes", written with Paolo Menozzi and Alberto Piazza (Princeton University Press, 1994), is still considered the best overview of genetic diversity in humans. Cavalli-Sforza demolished the idea of there being different species of human being. No more Homo afer, asiaticus, europaeus, americanus and monstrous. Race, says Cavalli-Sforza, has hardly any useful biological meaning at all. It is about adaptation. Grain-eaters between the Baltic and Black Sea got pale skin, pale eyes and pale hair because they were under selective pressure to process more Vitamin D from limited sunlight. Lewontin, Wells's other mentor, posited that if a nuclear war struck and only the Kenyan Kikuyu survived, they would still have 85% of the genetic variation of mankind; with a similar history and conditions, they too would turn blond and blue-eyed under the northern sun.
Compared to other kinds of animals - that have vast genetic differences within one species - the human species is mostly the same, because our ancestors spread the world just relatively recently ago. What seems as huge differences in skin color, shape of the skull, nose or eyes, are really - evolutionary speaking - recent variations.
Cavalli-Sforza's book is from 1994, and still any time you fill in a form in the USA, they ask you, whether you are "Hispanic", "Asian", "African-American" or "Caucasian"... (Caucasian - what's that supposed to be anyway?) Now, which box would Barack Obama tick, who was born to a Kenyan father and a british-irish-geman-American mother? I was glad I'm not the only one finding these questions ridiculous, when reading Richard Dawkin's fantastic book on evolution called "The Ancestors Tale", who laments about "Caucasianism" in one of the chapters.
But even researchers are still serious about making some use of human races: Just recently I stumbled over a medical trial discovering that black men are more likely to suffer from a heart attack when entering the emergency room with chest pain. Am I going to look at every patient and try to figure out whether his skin colour is "black", "white" or somewhere in between? Life as a doctor would just be too easy if outer appearance could guide my decision making process that easy... It's most probably a mix of slight genetic differences and social background that explains these results.
An ethnic group (or ethnicity) is a group of people whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage, consisting of a common language, a common culture (often including a shared religion) and a tradition of common ancestry (corresponding to a history of endogamy).
With common ancestry comes a common gene pool, so in a way "ethnicity" includes what people understand as "races", but includes culture as well, which makes just so much more sense.
In CISV, I think we should try and get rid of the term "race" altogether, because - I'll be blunt here - simply accepting the concept of "race" is racism: Thinking that there's something to learn about a person's inside values (intelligence, character, culture) from the way he or she looks is nothing but prejudice. And it's not a question of morale, but real science. This fact is something the participants of our programmes should learn, because it seems like it's not common knowledge yet.
There's just the problem that "ethnicity" doesn't fit the metrics in the CISV song. Otherwise, I'd vote to replace the stupid word "race" once and for all.
A new category at FTB suggesting themes for CISV activities.
In CISV, sometimes I've often felt frustrated with the depth of discussions on popular themes, such as genetic engineering or nuclear energy. I felt that with the lack of knowledge activities dealing with these topics rarely provided me with much usefulness, and I wonder whether CISV is the right setting to learn about these things. I've had way better experiences withe themes dealing with personal views, morals, ethics, cultural issues. Areas with little scientific background, large cultural and interpersonal differences, and absolutely no clear right or wrong.
Nevertheless, I still believe that within CISV we should be able to deal with more "political" topics, if you preserve a "personal connection" and provide with background literature. So with this post I'm making a first attempt to suggest themes for CISV activities, that fits these criterias pretty well. What you will find below are objectives, a brainstorm of ideas to develop activities, and a few links to more information.
I've chosen "Organic Food", because I think it's an ideal theme for CISV, yet rarely discussed, and one of my personal favourites*. With a bit of adaption, this activity could also work for village kids, but I guess it's mainly for 14+.
- To generate a better understanding of the different variants of "Organic Food".
- To exchange personal views on what choices are made concerning food consumption.
- To discuss the concept of "voting with a trolly", and how much impact it can have.
- Collect pictures or original items from a local supermarket and have participants list things into following categories: "I usualy buy...", "I rarely buy...", "I would never buy". Alternative: Visit a local supermarket in pairs and have them explain each other food they buy, or won't ever buy (make a blacklist!).
- Ask people to sort their priorities when chosing food by "flavour", "health", "price", "moral", "ecological impact".
- Have participants brainstorm, what they consider "organic"-food.
- Split into smaller groups, provide with material and have them present in a creative way the following concepts: Fair trade, "Buy Local", Genetic engineered food, Veganism.
- Brainstorm why these concepts may have their downsides.
- Ask participants to look at their shopping list again, and ask whether they would through out certain items, or even add others.
Organic Food at Wikipedia: This article was marked to be checked for "neutrality" - which gives an impression, how political this topic is.
Voting with a trolly - The Economist devoted a whole section to the topic of "food politics in Dec 2006, unfortunately you can only read the first paragraphs without paying - but it still gives a good impression.
Veganism - a long and good introduction by Wikipedia, unfortunately a bit uncritical.
Another lengthy article on Veganism, includuding criticism regarding health and ethics.
The material list is far from complete, and I apologize for all those Wikipedia links - if you can provide more and better stuff, please post them in the comments section.
*I like the topic, not because I think everybody should buy "organic", but because it's fascinating how easily people are tricked into thinking they are buying something "good". In my eyes there's some "Aufklärungsbedarf" - need for education!
A few weeks ago quite an interesting discussion took place over at the JB community list on the recent war in Gaza. Obviously a hard question to answer, whether this war was right or wrong, or how else the conflict could be solved, but I appreciated the amount of information that was added by all the participants of the discussion - especially all the newspaper sources that were aggregated.
The discussion thread could be the basis for all this, and the theme package could be assembled in JBPedia. It's all out there, just somebody needs to put it together. The Middle East Conflict is already something participants talk about in almost every camp - let's give it some more substance.
This page is an archive of recent entries in the Suggested Theme category.
Statistics Nerd is the previous category. | 2019-04-20T04:22:33 | http://www.absolutpicknick.de/mt/cisv_from_the_balcony/suggested-theme/ |
0.537991 | How to Structure a Deal?
I just read the advice posting regarding vendors, which I agree with for the most part.
I offer the same warning for large partners. We spent several months developing specific features for our application in order to launch a major initiative (major for us) with a large national "partner". A year after the target launch date, the partner still has not delivered. We were to be a key part of their new website release, but they have not released their new website. Two of their website vendors have come and gone out of frustration. They are just dysfunctional internally, more than other large corporations I have worked with. They are also a quasi monopoly, making their employees experts at avoiding any changes, because changes = more work for them, while revenue continues to stream in, at least for now.
Most of our development can be used anyway, but there are specific pieces we spent money and time on that apply only to this partner. Ouch.
Now we are looking at other partners (one is a direct competitor), but we will make sure the partner has enough at stake to instill a sense of urgency in getting it launched.
Bootstrapping is looking better and better.
What does this mean and why is it relevant to entrepreneurs" A quick overview of venture capital will help to answer these questions.
Venture firms raise money to invest from limited partners (LPs), who are normally endowments, pension funds, insurance companies, and other institutions that manage large amounts of capital. An investment in venture capital is considered a high risk asset class with the potential for high returns. The professional consulting firms that publish guidelines for how limited partners should allocate money across asset classes generally recommend that a small portion go into venture capital, sometimes less than 1%. This small percentage still amounts to many billions of dollars per year being entrusted to venture firms by limited partners, who control trillions of dollars.
Generally speaking, a commitment to invest in a venture fund does not require the limited partner to transfer money until the venture firm makes an investment in a portfolio company. So, a $100 MM venture fund does not have $100 MM sitting in the bank. Instead, as venture firms make successive investments, they collect money from their limited partners and distribute that money to portfolio companies in rounds. To cover operating expenses, the venture firms separately collect approximately 2% of the invested capital as a management fee.
In order to ensure that each limited partner honors their obligation to provide money when needed, which is referred to as a capital call, venture funds implement onerous terms for forfeit or default. The most common default protection is to wipe out any returns from all previous invested capital. This encourages an active secondary market for limited partner positions, since it makes more sense to sell a commitment than to lose the value of the money invested to date.
Fast forward to Q4 2008, and you have the perfect storm of venture capital destruction. First, a relatively large number of limited partners, such as AIG and Lehman Brothers, are facing solvency issues, and they can no longer honor any capital calls to venture capital funds. The large scale dissolution of limited partners is something new.
Second, as the equity and debt markets have collapsed, the allocation of limited partners to venture capital has increased as a percentage. If an LP has $1 billion under management and 1%, or $10 MM, committed to venture capital and if that $1 billion suddenly becomes $500 MM, the allocation schedule of 1% stipulates that the LP now only invest $5 MM into venture capital. Many LPs have charters that strictly govern these percentages, forcing the LP to sell commitments in the secondary market to comply.
Third, many potential buyers in the secondary market have liquidity issues of their own. The purchase of a commitment requires resources to buy the asset, resources to pay for future capital calls, and resources to cover management fees at a time where the future is uncertain. The lack of liquidity and uncertainty has caused a collapse in the secondary market values, with many commitments selling for $.50 on the invested dollar or less. This in turn has encouraged limited partners that might otherwise commit to new positions in venture funds to consider purchasing discounted positions in existing funds.
Lastly, venture capital returns have been hard hit by the downturn, reducing or eliminating the ability of certain funds to get back any of the original invested capital. Portfolio company acquisitions are on hold, and the IPO market is frozen. For many limited partners, investing more money into certain venture firms is literally throwing good money after bad when cash is king.
Most venture firms worldwide are facing problems as a result of this "Limited Partner Shuffle." The best firms are distracted by helping limited partners transfer commitments. Other firms will cease making investments for some period of time, possibly forever. Still other firms will not be able to collect their management fees and go under in the next fews months. Nearly everyone will be fundraising and spending a lot less time with their portfolio companies.
Many entrepreneurs are now pitching firms without a future, wasting invaluable time. These "Walking Dead Funds" are going through the motions until the other shoe drops, forcing them out of business. Other entrepreneurs are counting on investments or participation from funds that have no ability to deliver any capital. Lastly, there are entrepreneurs with soon-to-be-insolvent firms that hold controlling preferred equity positions and Board seats, leaving a potentially deadly vacancy in governance and voting control. How do you sell when your primary shareholder is no longer around to grant approval"
As an entrepreneur in today's market, you need to understand the relative health of the investors that you deal with. Start by asking them directly about their financial resources and the state of their limited partners. Don't hesitate to ask other entrepreneurs and other funds as well. You future may depend on having good information about the solvency of investors that you deal with. | 2019-04-26T04:08:51 | http://thefunded.com/?tag=Partners |
0.999621 | Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Has It All. Can You?
Yahoo wants to have it all. The company's board has tasked new CEO Marissa Mayer with the mandate to compete with her former company, the cash register that is known as Google, as well as to take on her former Google colleague Sheryl Sandberg's new company, Facebook.
Mayer certainly has her work cut out for her, in more ways than one.
Mayer is Yahoo's third CEO in twelve months and her every move will be scrutinized by Wall Street. Oh yeah, and she has a baby on the way. While Mayer's situation is a rare for the head of a large public corporation, the balance she will need to maintain between her public and private responsibilities is nothing new to women. In fact, the timing of Yahoo's announcement came on the heels of Anne-Marie Slaughter's controversial Atlantic article that argued women cannot "have it all."
As Google's first female programmer, Mayer has played the role of trailblazer.
In recent months, Big Think has interviewed women in a variety of fields who have grappled with this issue, and the different choices they have made are illuminating.
When Fortune magazine's assistant managing editor Leigh Gallagher turned 38 she made the decision to freeze her eggs, an experience she recently wrote about on the women's website The Hairpin.
In her Big Think interview, Gallagher discussed her decision as well as the bioethics and social implications involved in delaying parenthood. "Three or four or five years ago, this really wouldn’t have been as viable an option for people in my situation, but now it is," says Gallagher.
According to Gallagher, the ability to hold off the biological clock has "long-term implications for the workplace." In her experience, Gallagher says she sees a lot of women "leave the workplace for a few years, women on very high-track careers, to have children." And at what cost?
Gallagher edits Fortune's 40 Under 40 list and says "we consistently have a problem finding women in their 30s who match the achievement of the men on the list, and it’s a constant struggle for us." Gallagher says the childcare burden "unevens the playing field for men and women." While delaying pregnancy may not solve that problem for everyone, Gallagher says it is a good option for people under certain circumstances who "either haven’t met someone yet and want to have children with a partner." On the other hand, it's also an option for people "who just aren’t ready just yet but want to keep their options open."
Balancing the demands of parenting and careers is not unique to women in business. It is arguably a greater issue in science, as tenure track positions become available to women during peak years of fertility. Columbia University Neuroscientist Dr. Joy Hirsch explains the enormous challenges faced by women in science, and how she dealt with these challenges. | 2019-04-18T10:24:28 | https://bigthink.com/think-tank/yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-has-it-all-can-you |
0.997408 | Before continuing into the final section, you must be sure to have learned and practiced sections1 to7 correctly.These instructions assume SOUTH as the starting direction.
Shift weight to the right leg, bending at the knee and turning the left leg inward so that the toes of the left foot point north-east, both arms arc up and to the right. Shift to the left leg, bending at the knee, and make a fist with the right hand, as it circles down to in front of the abdomen; the left palm presses down to in front of the chest. Bring the fist up inside the left arm with the eye of the fist looking inward (both hands are palms down) while lifting the right knee slightly. As the right leg turns outward to do a twist step, the heel landing first and the toes tuning outward to the north-west, the right forearm and the back of the fist deflect downward so that the fist is about shoulder level, and the left hand ends up under the right elbow. Look over the fist.
Shift to the right leg, allowing the shoulders to turn to the right, and, while circling the lefthandclockwise ona horizontal plane around to the front, palm facing obliquely downward, pull the right fist in toward the waist, eye of the fist looking outward (palm up). Continue to look forward, over the left hand.
Step out with the left foot and, shifting to a left bow stance, punch forward with the right hand, turning the fist so that the eye looks upward, and draw the left hand back to touch the right forearm. Keep the right elbow slightly bent, and look forward.
Slide the left hand under the right elbow and turn it palm up. While shifting the weight back, bending the right knee, and lifting the toes of the left foot, slide the left hand forward, under the right forearm. Open the right hand, palm up.
Turn both hands palms down and press down to waist level. Shifting to a left bow stance, push toshoulderlevel, as in "Grasp the Sparrow's Tail." Keep elbows slightly bent, the shoulders down, and the eyes focused forward.
Turn the toes of the right foot out slightly and, while shifting to the right leg, arc the right handslightlyup and over to the right side; the left foot turns in to point north. Look over the right hand. Shifting to the left leg, both hands arc downward. Move the right foot to shoulder width from the left foot, so that the feet are even, and gather the hands to cross at the wrists, palms facing inward, right hand on the outside. Look forward and keep the space between the arms and the chest open, knees slightly bent.
Separate hands, palms down, by brushing the left hand over the top of the right hand, to shoulderwidth. Standing up, the elbows sink and both hands stroke downward, fingers lightly extended. Relax the hands at the bottom. Move the left foot in beside the right foot, so that the feet are together.
This concludes the 24 Form. | 2019-04-25T04:42:59 | http://shouyuliang.com/newsletters/2004-january-february/taiji-24-form-section-8-of-8.php |
0.993983 | Throughout the first part of the quarter, the students learned skills similar to those taught in comparable middle and high school courses in various schools, including HTML, image editing, design principles and file management. Students worked in groups of two or three on a variety of ongoing projects such as informational Web pages for the school's site. This included athletic information and schedules, curriculum resource pages for teachers, and information of general interest to the community. Each student was encouraged to maintain a personal Web page that would serve as a portfolio of their work and progress in the class. After the students had attained a certain level of competency - both with the basic Web development tools and with working in a relatively self-directed manner on projects in small groups - a biggerproject was proposed to them.
1. Pretend, for a moment, that you are the one to organize this project from start to finish. In a sentence or two, how would you plan it out so that everyone has a role?
3. How do you suggest we proceed to complete this project?
4. How long do you think the project will take, and how long do you think each phase will take?
Answering these questions allowed the students to think about the project individually and write down their thoughts so that they could contribute to the group discussion later on. For the most part, the students' responses were very similar with regard to the way in which the project would proceed. Fortunately, the students identified a variety of roles they would each like to fill. Some roles with which students commonly identified were photographers, QTVR software specialists and Web interface designers. One might have anticipated those three roles. However, students decided two additional roles were also needed for the project.
The first role students identified was that of a public relations person. One might think such a role is unnecessary for a project involving students who are actively visible during regular class time in school. But some students felt it was important to inform other teachers and students of what the project involved, and to ask for the cooperation of those around them. At least two other students suggested that there should be one or two students to oversee the project and coordinate the components. By placing students in such positions, the teacher effectively became a co-learner with the students and a resource person for their self-directed learning activity.
After the students initially planned the 3-D tour project, there was much work to be done to implement the plan. The two students who had expressed an interest in coordinating the various components of the project started by studying a blueprint of the school to decide how many 3-D panoramas, or nodes, would be enough and where they should be placed. Although a reasonable depiction of the school could have been achieved with approximately 10 to 12 three-dimensional panoramas, both students identified 25 aspects of the school they thought students, parents and community members might be interested in walking through. The project managers had to ensure that each node could be linked to, or seen by, at least one other node. The students, deciding which parts of the school would be included in the virtual tour, did not set about photographing each and every room. Instead, they identified certain rooms they felt were representative of some of the school's daily activities. Among the rooms they chose were the library; a computer lab; a modular technology/family and consumer science lab; the gymnasium; the band and chorus rooms; the office; the cafeteria; and various entryways and foyers. From those choices, the students then decided which points along the hallways needed to be photographed to link the nodes.
After identifying the locations from which each set of photos would be shot, the project managers met with pairs of students who would be taking part in the digital photography. Using self-adhesive notes, the students marked the areas they would soon photograph. But having only a few students at a time actively involved in getting the project started left several students with little to do. However, there was much learning to be done, and much of it was done independently on the parts of the students. Some students who had planned to be photographers instead conducted research on the Internet for information about the optimum settings for taking the photos that would later be used in the QTVR movies. After much trial and error - and several QTVR movies that did not resemble the areas they were supposed to represent - the students decided that the best way to take the pictures was to place the camera on a level tripod and take 18 photos, each 20 degrees apart. Expensive tripod attachments were available to assist in measuring the angle between photos, but the class chose to use a circular paper guide using The Geometer's Sketchpad from Key Curriculum Press.
While some students familiarized themselves with digital cameras and tripods, others used computers to plan the file management system they would use to keep track of the hundreds of photos. Others used some pictures taken around the classroom to practice using the QTVR Authoring Studio software, while the public relations specialists composed an e-mail to send to the school's faculty and staff informing them of the project. Finally, before the pairs of students set out to photograph the school, the project managers created a checklist that allowed them to keep track of which areas had been photographed and which photographs had been used to create the QTVR movies.
Once the preliminary preparations had been completed, most of the students had some involve-ment in producing the virtual tour. Since there were three digital cameras with tripods, there were approximately six students taking pictures at all times. There were two to four students who kept track of the floppy disks containing pictures as they came in from the photographers, and the students monitoring the files en-sured that they were stored correctly on the computers. As time allowed, a few of the students began to create the individual QTVR panoramas that would later become the nodes of the tour. Meanwhile, a pair of students was developing prototypes of the Web pages that would later become the interface through which the Web users would view the class's work.
After several days of classroom activity, the digital photography and QTVR panorama production started to slow, giving the students the opportunity to learn additional skills. They would need to link the nodes to create a QTVR virtual reality tour that the Web user could walk through. They would also need to decide which information should accompany the movie on the Web site. When all of the nodes were in place, the exported movie that would appear on the Web was a hefty 8.5 MB, sparking some serious questions. The students needed to determine if they could include some fast-loading information that the Web user could peruse while the QTVR movie was loading in a separate browser window. The students decided they would create Web pages that outlined the process and equipment they used in creating the project. They also decided to include an interactive flat map (Figure 1, Page 20) of the school that included still photos from the tour, allowing the user to preview the 3-D tour. In some cases, the user may choose to view only the two-dimensional map and photos, foregoing the long wait for the QTVR movie to download. The navigational scheme that the students employed appears in Figure 2.
The students and their instructor chose to meet one evening shortly after the class's conclusion to celebrate the progress they had made throughout the semester. But it became evident that the project the students created went beyond just being something neat. They gained a variety of skills. All of them became better communicators; they learned to use a variety of software to complete a purpose; and they were able to apply some of the skills they learned earlier in the semester about HTML, graphic creation, Web navigation and design, and digital photography. In addition, all of the students developed a basic understanding of how 3-D multimedia software works. But most importantly, the students learned that they are capable of planning, executing and completing a real-world design project. Many of the students plan to take one or more Web and/or multimedia development courses during their freshman year of high school. Others have spent their own time making slight revisions to the finished class project as they see fit.
From an instructional standpoint, a variety of learning opportunities were embedded in the project. A constant fragile balance existed between providing the students with a certain level of guidance and instruction that would keep them from having a sense of ownership over the project, while trying to offer enough support and information to keep the students from having a desirable amount of success. The students chose to pursue the project to a slightly larger scale than the instructor would have chosen if the students had not been allowed to make those decisions themselves. For example, it was anticipated that only about 12 nodes would be selected; instead, they chose to include more than 20. The instructional gains this project afforded will be replicated to other projects in the future. The virtual tour of the school can be used as a model for similar projects, allowing future classes to learn both the positive and negative attributes of creating a virtual Web tour. The 3-D walk-through portion of the students' work appears in Figure 3.
To view the Highland Middle School virtual tour, visit www.thejournal.com/magazine/basden.
Kearsley, G. 1994-2001. "Explorations in Learning and Instruction," The Theory into Practice Database. JSU Encyclopedia of Psychology. Online: http://tip.psychology.org. | 2019-04-26T13:58:27 | https://thejournal.com/articles/2001/11/01/authentic-tasks-as-the-basis-for-multimedia-design-curriculum.aspx |
0.999992 | I am not sure if there is a name associated with this game but I do not know of one.
Two players both get 6 rocks, numbered 1-6.
Each number on the rock also corresponds to its points. (rock 6 = 6 points).
The game is played in rounds, 6 in total.
Each round,A random rock from the referee's (or computers) pile [similar to player rocks 1-6] is placed into the middle of the lever by the ref.
The heavier rock chosen between the player wins the round, and the winning player receives the points for all the rocks on the lever. (Their number + random Ref number + opponents number).
If there is a tie, the rocks remain on the lever for the next round.
The player with the most points at the end of the game (6 rounds) wins!
Alternatively, is there a strategy which can give you the highest chance of winning?
Both players are using the optimal strategy.
Your opponent is not following the optimal strategy.
If you were both given more or less rocks, would this change the situation? (i.e 1-10, or 1-4)?
stratav-high: Chooses the lowest rock that is greater than the average of the other player's remaining rocks. If does not exist, choose your highest tile.
stratav-low: Chooses the lowest rock that is greater than the average of the other player's remaining rocks. If does not exist, choose your lowest tile (to try to keep high rocks for later rounds).
stratnext-low: choose the lowest rock that is higher than the upturned rock. If not available, choose your lowest rock.
"AverageClose" is the average of the last two rocks upturned. "AverageOpen" is the average of the first two stones upturned. A game that started with two high rocks and ended with two low rocks would be on the bottom right of this graph. Games with equivalent coordinates (i.e 1,6,2,5,3,4 and 6,1,5,2,4,3) were averaged.
Each tile represents a different outcome, with green meaning that the x axis player won, and red meaning the y axis player did. Gold would either mean that every outcome was a tie, or there was a equal proportion of wins and losses for each "battle" at that coordinate.
Almost every strategy beats the random one over time, although the max/min get screwed if the opening is low/high respectively.
Next looks like the best strategy (against the field presented, I'm sure there is a strategy that can beat it). I think this is mainly because it forces conservation of your high rocks, paced by the upturned rocks.
Min/Max counter each other, depending on the pattern of upturned rocks.
Thanks to Meelo I was able to find the similar game to which this is a variant (and get this answer).
B) Any 'optimal' strategy that is used can be countered (if the opponent knows your strategy). If the opponent does not know your strategy (or psychology), then the winning outcome would be determined by the differences in your strategies as well as randomness of the 'prize' card (or referee rock) [Assuming both players stuck to their initial algorithms/strategies and that their algorithm has finite states].
In summary, the only way a player is able to have a 'better' strategy is to know his opponents strategy. This is why GOPS can be considered to be more on psychology of your opponent rather than pure tactics and predefined decisions.
Similar to JonTheMon's answer, a mathematician Sheldon Ross considered the case when one player plays his cards randomly, to determine the best strategy that the other player should use. Using a proof by induction on the number of cards, Ross showed that the optimal strategy for the non-randomizing player is to match the upturned card, i.e. if the upturned card is the Jack, he should play his Jack, etc. In this case, the expected final score is 59½ - 31½, for a 28-point win.
It is very interesting to note about GOPS, that it can relate to the micro-trading algorithms used in the stock markets today! These algorithms can work based on the assumptions of other traders/algorithms to try and best benefit themselves. In this scenario the price of option X would be the 'referee' in the middle, however in this case the price can also be influenced by the player!
Normally, you'd want to put a rock around the value of the ref rock. You don't want to waste a 6 on a 1 point ref rock.
However, things do get interesting if there is a collision. Say the ref rock is 5 and you both put 5 out. As a tie, that means that 15 points go to the next round. Naturally, you'd both collide with 6. Then 4. Then 3. Then 2. Then 1. Tie.
Say instead you take the 5-5 with a 6. You have 16 points, and a 5 left. Presumably the opponent will take the ref rock worth 6 and you'd place a 1 (13 points). So, you're left with 5,4,3,2 and your opponent is left with 4,3,2,1. You're likely to win. So, by covering their expected take, you were able to position a 6-1 loss in your favor.
Let's take another important ref rock, 6. Now, most of the time you'd use a 6 to cover it, but then the opponent could use a 1 to get future position. Well, then you could use a 2 to maintain your position. And so on and so forth. Likely end with 50-50 chance.
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0.999999 | A dangling modifier or misplaced modifier is a type of ambiguous grammatical construct whereby a grammatical modifier could be misinterpreted as being associated with a word other than the one intended, or with no particular word at all. For example, a writer may have meant to modify the subject, but word order used means that the modifier appears to modify an object instead. Such ambiguities can lead to unintentional humor, or, in formal contexts, difficulty in comprehension.
Take, for example, the sentence Turning the corner, a handsome school building appeared. The modifying clause Turning the corner is clearly supposed to describe the behavior of the narrator (or other observer), but grammatically it appears to apply either to nothing in particular, or to the "handsome school building".
Similarly, in the sentence At the age of eight, my family finally bought a dog, the modifier At the age of eight "dangles": it is not attached to the subject of the main clause, and could imply that it was the family that was eight years old when it bought the dog, or even that the dog was eight when it was bought, rather than the intended meaning of giving the narrator's age at the time the family "finally bought a dog".
Walking down Main Street, the trees were beautiful. Reaching the station, the sun came out.
In the first sentence, the adjunct clause may at first appear to modify "the trees", the subject of the sentence. However, it actually modifies the speaker of the sentence, who is not explicitly mentioned.
In the second sentence, the adjunct may at first appear to modify "the sun", the subject of the sentence. Presumably, there is another, human subject that did reach the station and observed the sun coming out, but since this subject is not mentioned in the text, the intended meaning is obscured, and therefore this kind of sentence is incorrect in standard English.
I saw the trailer peeking through the window.
Presumably, this means the speaker was peeking through the window, but the placement of the clause "peeking through the window" makes it sound as though the trailer were doing so. The sentence can be recast as, "Peeking through the window, I saw the trailer."
Similarly, in "She left the room fuming", it is conceivably the room, rather than "she", that was fuming, though it is unlikely that anybody besides a fumigator would interpret it this way.
Strunk and White describe as "ludicrous" another of their examples: "Being in a dilapidated condition, I was able to buy the house very cheap." The author obviously meant the house was dilapidated, but the construction suggests that he (the speaker or writer, identified as "I") was dilapidated.
Bernstein offers another ludicrous example: "Roaring down the track at seventy miles an hour, the stalled car was smashed by the train." The adjunct is meant to modify "train": it is the train that is roaring down the track. But the subject of the main clause is "the stalled car". The writer is suggesting that the stalled car, which really isn't moving at all, is roaring down the track. The sentence could be rewritten more felicitously: "Roaring down the track at seventy miles an hour, the train smashed the stalled car." Or: "The stalled car was smashed by the train, roaring down the track at seventy miles an hour."
These examples illustrate a writing principle that dangling participles violate. Follett states the principle: "A participle at the head of a sentence automatically affixes itself to the subject of the following verb – in effect a requirement that the writer either make his [grammatical] subject consistent with the participle or discard the participle for some other construction." Strunk and White put it this way: "A participle phrase at the beginning of a sentence must refer to the grammatical subject."
The weather being beautiful, we plan to go to the beach today.
After years of being lost under a pile of dust, Walter P. Stanley, III, left, found all the old records of the Bangor Lions Club.
The above sentence, from a newspaper article, suggests that it is the subject of the sentence, Walter Stanley, who was buried under a pile of dust, and not the records. It is the prepositional phrase "after years of being lost under a pile of dust" which dangles.
"I know a man with a wooden leg called Smith." "What was the name of his other leg?"
In the case of this joke, the placement of the phrase "called Smith" implies that it is the leg that is named Smith, rather than the man.
Though under the most plausible interpretation of the first sentence, Captain Spaulding would have been wearing the pajamas, the line plays on the grammatical possibility that the elephant was instead.
Strunk and White offer this example: "As a mother of five, and with another on the way, my ironing board is always up." Is the ironing board (grammatical subject) really the mother of five? Less ambiguous: "As the mother of five, and with another on the way, I always keep my ironing board up." Or: "My ironing board is always up, because I am a mother of five, with another on the way."
Participial modifiers can sometimes be intended to describe the attitude or mood of the speaker, even when the speaker is not part of the sentence. Some such modifiers are standard and are not considered dangling modifiers: "Speaking of [topic]", and "Trusting that this will put things into perspective", for example, are commonly used to transition from one topic to a related one or for adding a conclusion to a speech.
Since about the 1960s, controversy has arisen over the proper usage of the adverb hopefully. Some grammarians object to constructions such as "Hopefully, the sun will be shining tomorrow.":19 Their complaint is that the term "hopefully" ought to be understood as the manner in which the sun will shine. In order to modify the whole sentence to convey the attitude of the speaker, they say, the "hopefully" should be moved to the end: "the sun will be shining tomorrow, hopefully."
"Hopefully" used in this way is a disjunct (cf. "admittedly", "mercifully", "oddly"). Disjuncts (also called sentence adverbs) are useful in colloquial speech for the concision they permit.
No other word in English expresses that thought. In a single word we can say it is regrettable that (regrettably) or it is fortunate that (fortunately) or it is lucky that (luckily), and it would be comforting if there were such a word as hopably or, as suggested by Follett, hopingly, but there isn't. [...] In this instance nothing is to be lost – the word would not be destroyed in its primary meaning – and a useful, nay necessary term is to be gained.
What had been expressed in lengthy adverbial constructions, such as "it is regrettable that ..." or "it is fortunate that ...", had of course always been shortened to the adverbs "regrettably" or "fortunately". Bill Bryson says, "those writers who scrupulously avoid 'hopefully' in such constructions do not hesitate to use at least a dozen other words – 'apparently', 'presumably', 'happily', 'sadly', 'mercifully', 'thankfully', and so on – in precisely the same way."
Merriam-Webster gives a usage note on its entry for "hopefully"; the editors point out that the disjunct sense of the word dates to the early 18th century and has been in widespread use since at least the 1930s. Objection to this sense of the word, they state, became widespread only in the 1960s. The editors maintain that this usage is "entirely standard".
Yet the choice of "regrettably" above as a counterexample points out an additional problem. At the time that objection to "hopefully" became publicized, grammar books[vague] relentlessly pointed out the distinction between "regrettably" and "regretfully". The latter is not to be used as a sentence adverb, they state; it must refer to the subject of the sentence. The misuse of "regretfully" produces worse undesired results than "hopefully", possibly contributing to disdain for the latter. The counterpart hopably was never added to the language.
^ Theodore M. Bernstein, The Careful Writer: A Modern Guide to English Usage (New York: Atheneum, 1985), 128.
^ a b Wilson Follett, Modern American Usage: A Guide (New York: Hill and Wang, 1966), 117.
^ Strunk and White, 13.
^ The American Heritage Book of English Usage: A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1996. p. 1. ISBN 0-395-76785-7. Archived from the original on 2008-07-28.
^ Bangor Daily News 20 Jan 1978. Reprinted with discussion in Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage p. 315.
^ Encarta Book of Quotations. St. Martin's Press 2000 New York. p. 616.
^ Strunk and White, 14.
^ Kahn, John Ellison and Robert Ilson, Eds. The Right Word at the Right Time: A Guide to the English Language and How to Use It, pp. 27–29. London: The Reader's Digest Association Limited, 1985. ISBN 0-276-38439-3.
^ Bernstein, Theodore M. Miss Thistlebottom's Hobgoblins, p. 51. The Noonday Press, New York, 1971. ISBN 0-374-52315-0.
^ "hopefully." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2007. http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=hopefully (15 Aug. 2007). | 2019-04-21T14:49:36 | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangling_modifier |
0.998513 | Q: A few years ago I was off work for some time. I had a healthcare referral for ME. I recently have been moved to a new role, where I have had three absences in six months. I was told that if I did not have ME, I would have been going through a disciplinary. I currently feel that I have not been given enough training for my new role in the company. I also believe that I have been put on a lower grade due to lack of training and that no matter how many ideas of mine are put forward I am always asked to do more. I also have been refused a company laptop so when I am off work with my condition it is more inconvenient for me to work. I would like to know where I stand legally with this as an employee.
A: You should first discuss these issues informally with your manager; consider raising this issue formally if the outcome of this is no better. It would also be wise to go to the healthcare referral and see what recommendations they put forward as to coping with this condition in the workplace. If you feel as though you are being put at a detriment due to your condition, you may potentially have a discrimination claim and may wish to discuss this further with your solicitor in terms of prospects.
I have been issued with notice of redundancy which I believe to be due to an ongoing dispute. I did most of the research on a paper that my team is publishing. I wanted to be the 1st issuer because of this. My manager said no and demoted me to the 5th issuer, meaning I would not get much credit. My manager was then harassing and bullying me and I raised a grievance about this. The outcome has not been given yet. I have now been informed that I have been made redundant and someone else has been given my role. I believe I have been made redundant due to my grievance. What can I do about this situation? | 2019-04-19T00:48:11 | https://www.lawontheweb.co.uk/legal-questions-and-answers/advice-for-employees/treated-poorly-after-me-diagnosis |
0.976155 | ScoreCalculator interface is used to calculate a score for a neural network.
Score function for a MultiLayerNetwork or ComputationGraph with a single AutoEncoder layer.
Score function for evaluating a MultiLayerNetwork according to an evaluation metric (Evaluation.Metric such as accuracy, F1 score, etc.
Given a DataSetIterator: calculate the total loss for the model on that data set.
Score function for variational autoencoder reconstruction error for a MultiLayerNetwork or ComputationGraph.
Score calculator for variational autoencoder reconstruction probability or reconstruction log probability for a MultiLayerNetwork or ComputationGraph. | 2019-04-18T23:20:10 | https://deeplearning4j.org/api/latest/org/deeplearning4j/earlystopping/scorecalc/package-summary.html |
0.999999 | We currently have 83 questions tagged both reality-check and science-based, and another one question tagged both reality-check and hard-science.
reality-check: For questions asking whether or not a particular concept is realistic in a given context.
science-based: For questions that require answers based in hard science, not magic or pseudo-science.
hard-science: All answers to this question should be backed up by equations, empirical evidence, scientific papers, other citations, etc.
There seems to me to be a progression here, with reality-check being the most relaxed but still requiring some degree of maintenance of suspension of disbelief (you can plausibly have a question involving dragons and unicorns tagged reality-check), and hard-science on the other end of the scale requiring any claim in an answer to be backed up by citations (which means the unicorns are probably out the barn door).
Thus, any "higher requirement" tag would seem to imply the lower requirements as well. You could hardly have answers to a hard-science question that wouldn't pass the requirements of reality-check, for example, but answers to a reality-check tag don't have to meet the standards of a hard-science question.
Since these tags don't really serve to categorize the question, and each question is limited to a maximum of five tags, these "meta tags" should be used sparingly, and there has been plenty of discussion right here on our meta if we should have them at all, with vocal proponents of both sides. Using more than one of the above tags on a single question however doesn't seem to me to make sense in any situation.
Should hard-science always imply science-based, without that having to be made explicit?
Should science-based always imply reality-check, without that having to be made explicit?
Said alternatively, does it ever make sense to use more than one of these three tags on a single question?
The aim of this question is not to decide the fate of our current 84 questions. If we decide that the tags do imply one another, then we can later decide what to do with the questions we currently have that are in that case redundantly tagged.
I partially disagree and partially agree that they imply each other, fortunately it's easy to demonstrate in this case.
A reality-check asks "is this possible/feasible/plausible".
A hard-science asks "answer this using hard science".
I have a rocket weighing 10 tonnes, with 5 tonnes of that being propellent and efficiency similar to our current best performing rockets. What is the maximum acceleration and top speed of that rocket?
That question is hard-science and/or science-based, entirely answerable, but not reality-check.
I have a rocket weighing 10 tonnes, with 5 tonnes of that being propellent and efficiency similar to our current best performing rockets. Would that rocket be able to get into an orbit around mars?
Where I do agree with you though is that hard-science implies science-based. Those two are much more closely related.
I understand where Michael K. is coming from when he understands these as hierarchical or a progression of relaxed to ever tightening requirements. I see these tags as three separate domains of inquiry, rather than a hierarchical structure of inquiry, and that any one or more than one can be applied to a query.
A reality-check asks simply "does this sound reasonable"; "does this make sense". No particular framework of reality is suggested or assumed.
A science based question asks for an answer with scientific foundation.
A hard science question asks that answers contain appropriate scientific data a/o citations to back it up.
All three of these tags describe the nature of the response: what it should look like, how much research should go into it, how detailed and technical the answer has to be. What none of these tags seem to do is describe the nature of the query or better the nature of the object of the query.
I do not see these as being hierarchical.
Hard science does not assume science based. The domain of this kind of answer is providing examples of data, equations, journal article citations, etc. that either support or deny the object of the query.
Science based does not assume reality check. The domain of this kind of answer is providing general scientific principles and how they might apply to the object of the query.
Reality check is not the bottom rung of the ladder. The domain of this kind of answer is that of common sense, ordinary logic, pattern matching, error teasing.
To use the unicorn as an example, in combination with the nature of the tags themselves, I'll show how I think these tags can handle any kind of question. First, I'll assume that we agree that dragons (e.g. Smaug) and unicorns (fairy stories) do not exist on Earth as depicted.
The reality check tag would seek an answer like "Yeah, seems plausible given that the world you're describing has similar beasts derived from mythological sources. You already mentioned narwhals, so why not horses too?"
The science based tag would seek an answer like "The narwhal tusk is an elongation of the left canine tooth that protrudes through the animal's lip. Horses do have canine teeth. Because the evolution of the tusk is reasonably well understood (descent from a toothed artiodactyl, placement & growth of the tusk within the skull allow for positive identification), we can at least posit a potential scion of an early equid developing similarly."
The hard science tag would seek an answer like (and I'm just making this up, because I'm not a paleobiologist) "I read in PaleoBiology This Week about a now extinct form of water deer (Hydropotes antiquus) the right canine of some specimens having been found to be considerably enlarged and twisting with a slight helical twist and that the left canine is diminished in size. There is evidence, according to Dr. Li Hsien, that these early cervids used their elongated tusks for dominance display as evidenced by bony scar tissue around the muzzle area of male H. antiquus."
I disagree with M.K. as regards Using more than one of the above tags on a single question however doesn't seem to me to make sense in any situation.
I don't see any issue with using one or more together, because 1) they're not asking for the same thing; and 2) I don't view them as a hierarchy! (I would agree: if they were hierarchical in nature, then Reality Check would be the basic form; Science Based would subsume a positive reality check; Hard Science would subsume the assumption that the answer must be based in known science.) If the querent had placed all three tags, then the respondent would simply be required to provide, basically, all three types of answers!
As to the Reality Check, ABC; as to the Science Based, PRS; as the Hard Science, XYZ.
In contrast, had the query been about dragons (as seen in the Hobbit), then we can still answer the question given these tags, though likely with different results. The reality check would most likely be positive, as dragons only have to make sense within the setting or world in which they have been posited.
A Science Based query about dragons can certainly be asked and answered. In the history of Earth, there have been enough large beasts to demonstrate that size is not at issue. Some animals have scales & feathers, so those features of dragons should pose no difficulty. No known animal breathes fire, but since we're not required to provide scientific data, and whether or not magic & pseudoscience work in that world or setting, we can at least offer sound scientific speculation as to potential mechanisms for fiery breath. A bold respondent may even posit an in-world scientific answer (that accounts for magic as a natural force, if enough data is known).
A Hard Science query about dragons will, of course, run into a wall. Big beasts, sure! We know about dinosaurs. Scaly or feathery beasts? Sure! We know about dinosaurs. Fire breathing beasts with four feet, two wings, tough scaly armour and perhaps decorative feathers? Nope. No such thing known; no way for it to be able to fly. The Hard Science answer will be along the lines of "What-if speculation aside, there is no way for known to biology or physics or chemistry to allow for the particular combination of characteristics you want in your dragon; so the answer to your question is NO."
Should hard-science always imply science-based, without that having to be made explicit? --- NO. I think it's clear there is no implication.
Should science-based always imply reality-check, without that having to be made explicit? --- NO. Same: no implication.
Does it ever make sense to use more than one of these three tags on a single question? --- YES. The three tags can validly be used in combination. Should they be so used is a different matter!
hard-science, as the wiki says, needs to be backed up.
science-based does not need to be backed up but should be free of flights of fancy.
reality-check is, as you say, the most relaxed, and answers only have to be logical, not necessarily scientific. Flights of fancy are fine.
We should not have to specify more than two of these on any one question, and in most cases one should be sufficient. The most important part here is that hard-science does not fit with reality-check, and the two together on one question may be grounds for immediate tag editing (unless it's unclear which is meant, in which case the author should be consulted).
In most cases, one of these tags should be sufficient: if it's really necessary, more details can be specified in the question.
My reading puts Science-Based and Hard-Science as the ends of a scale of proof requirement while Reality-Check simply asks for internal logic of a given scenario without asking a burden of proof for real world applications.
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should we add a NSFW tag? | 2019-04-21T17:11:42 | https://worldbuilding.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2004/does-hard-science-imply-science-based-imply-reality-check |
0.999999 | Review: This was a fun way to have gluten free chicken tenders. The tortilla chip crust was quite yummy, but I wish I'd been more heavy handed with the garlic and cumin. My favorite part about this recipe was that I had most of the ingredients in my kitchen. | 2019-04-18T13:17:13 | https://booksboozebrats.com/tortilla-encrusted-chicken-tenders/ |
0.999846 | Non-committal in a sentence. The word Non-committal in example sentences. Non-committal dictionary definition. Non-committal pronunciation.
The word "non-committal" in a example sentences. Learn the definition of non-committal and how to use it in a sentence.
How to use non-committal in a sentence. Non-committal pronunciation.
The answer was rather non-committal.
He read it, his wife saw to that, but his comment even to her was a non-committal grunt.
The doctor's face was grave, the nurse was non-committal in her opinion.
Mrs. Lathrop ate a little and drank a little, looking blandly non-committal as she did so.
The four who went with him looked back and waved non-committal adieu; and Big Medicine, once he was fairly away, shouted back to them to look out for Navvies, and then laughed with a mirthless uproar that deceived no one into thinking he was amused.
Dallas was whistling softly, and Mr. Harbison, having rescued Betty, was standing silent and aloof, watching the scene with non-committal eyes.
It was a non-committal remark, which, if she chose to keep up the comedy, he could explain away by claiming it to refer to the summoning of the car from the garage-for Mrs. Leroux was driving out that afternoon.
And there floated before them, in the intense and prolonged silence, the clear vision of Jehovah on a throne, a God of sixty or so with a moustache and a beard, and a non-committal expression which declined to say whether or not he would require more bloodshed; and this God, destitute of pinions, was surrounded by white-winged creatures that wafted themselves to and fro while chanting; and afar off was an obscene monstrosity, with cloven hoofs and a tail very dangerous and rude and interfering, who could exist comfortably in the middle of a coal- fire, and who took a malignant and exhaustless pleasure in coaxing you by false pretences into the same fire; but of course you had too much sense to swallow his wicked absurdities.
Even to her own husband she was non-committal.
The tone of Robert Grant Burns was carefully non-committal, but his eyes betrayed his eagerness.
Robert Grant Burns still tried to sound non-committal, but he was plainly eager to hear all that she had to say.
Try to be as non-committal as possible when they ask you crooked questions.
No faintest reflection of the fierce pain at his heart could have been discerned on that non-committal countenance; and as he turned to the jury, his swart magnetic face appeared cruelly hard, sinister.
I opened and read it, and it denied any promise of arms, but otherwise was extremely evasive and non-committal.
As for Mrs. Arnot, she was considerably amused, but continued perfectly non-committal.
It had lurked under their dry manner of greeting, under their non-committal allusions to each other, and arose perhaps from old Jolyon's perception of the quiet tenacity ('obstinacy,' he rather naturally called it) of the young man, of a secret doubt whether he could get his own way with him.
As to the possibility of developing the required speed he was non-committal. Conversation did not lag on the voyage down the river.
And this, with the addition of the fact that he was painstaking and methodical in his duties, and that his sermons were orthodox in the sense that they were extremely non-committal, was all that Hodder knew about him for many months.
Shag, anxious as ever to take his cue from her, had stationed himself at her side, and shook his head and whisked his tail in a non-committal manner.
The boy replied that he had not seen very much of it as yet.
His companion seemed to find the statement highly amusing.
Only Captain Zelotes at first said nothing about the poem.
So I have, so I have.
Jennie hovered about, praying the only prayer that is prayer-the fervent desire of her heart concentrated on the one issue-that Vesta should get well.
There came a time when the fact had to be faced that death was imminent. | 2019-04-24T17:49:48 | https://insentence.com/non-committal-in-a-sentence |
0.999768 | “GaN (gallium nitride)”, a compound of Gallium (Ga) and Nitrogen (N), possesses high breakdown voltage and low conduction resistance characteristics that enable miniaturization and high-speed switching.
Unlike conventional transistors made from silicon that require a bigger chip area to keep the on-resistance low, GaN devices having small sizes (and thus low parasitic capacitance) allow high speed switching and miniaturization with ease.
Embodying Panasonic's original and reliable Hybrid Drain-Gate Injection Transistor (HD-GiT) technology, the X-GaN™ familly of 600V, enhancement mode GaN-on-Silicon transistors delivers simple to implement GaN switching performance, while contributing to keeping total system costs under control.
For quick evaluation in an existing design: embedding a driver circuit for the GiT transistor, our "daugther board" are meant to be easily nserted in an existing application board to quickly evaluate the performance of GaN.
For characterization of the switching performance / as reference driver circuit: based on optimized, reference driver circuit designs, our "chopper boards" are setup for double pulse measurement (available) or half-bridge operation (coming soon).
a high theoretical maximum operating junction temperature above 400°C.
GaN makes it thus possible to develop small power transistors chips with low parasitic capacitances, supporting high currents and delivering revolutionary performance in terms of switching speed, and on-resistance. Besides, GaN transistors prove very robust against radiations, and bear potential for high temperature operation.
a second p-doped structure injects holes under the drain when under reverse voltage stress (blocking state), solving the current collapse issue inherent to conventional GaN based transistors.
The HD-GiT also inherits from the HEMT the capability to conduct current in the reverse direction through its channel - that is to say with the same excellent conduction capability than in forward mode - practically eliminating the need to use antiparallel diodes to handle flyback currents.
The HD-GiTs can operate in the first and third quadrants.
From the static Id-Vds curve point of view, the transistors behave essentially like FETs in forward operation. The next paragraph explains the difference.
In reverse mode, the characteristic looks similar to a diode. The mechanism involved is however totally different and is explained below as well.
a constant current - order of magnitude of a mA - is injected through the gate. The hole injection induces a strong amplification effect in the channel.
Practically only the electrons contribute to the current flow when the transistor is conducting.
The transistors are turned off like FETs by simply setting the gate-source voltage below the threshold. The small amount of charges involved and the very fast recombinations in the GaN material ensure that no detrimental side effects (like e.g. tail current) can be observed practically.
Per construction the X-GaN™ GiT transistors can conduct current in the reverse direction as soon as the source, gate and drain potential are set in such a way that current is injected in the gate. The conduction and recovery performances of the GiT in this operating mode are comparable with what a discrete antiparallel SiC Schottky diode delivers - whithout the need to actually implement it.
Although reminiscent of a diode, the threshold voltages in the third quadrant of the static I-V curve are not the built-in voltage of a junction but simply the threshold voltage of the transistor, plus any negative bias applied to the gate potential vs. the source. In the same way as a MOSFET, the GiT can then be turned-on in the reverse direction to further reduce the losses by operating at 0-offset condition.
Thanks to the low reverse recovery charge stored in the transistor, and thanks to the fast recombinations in GaN, the GiT recovers extremely fast from a reverse conduction operation, making it suitable to use as fast switch in topologies like totem pole PFCs.
Conventional GaN-based transistors generally suffer from current collapse effect: during operation, electrons subjected to a high electric field can get trapped in deep levels traps close to the channel. The time constant of the natural de-trapping mechanisms being many orders of magnitude larger that the typical switching period of the transistors, the amount of trapped charges quickly increase, increasing the resistivity of the channel and leading to the destruction of the devices in a very short time.
Under voltage stress - typically in blocking mode - the high Vds voltage induces the injection of holes into the channel by the p-doped structure connected to the drain. These holes recombine with the trapped charges and maintain the high conductivity of the channel.
helping the end customer to save on the electricity bill by increasing the efficiency to levels not previously achievable.
The right trade-off in term of power density of the final design of course ultimately depends on the requirement of each application.
Discover the full story of the development of Panasonic X-GaN power transistors. | 2019-04-20T07:03:58 | https://eu.industrial.panasonic.com/products/semiconductors/gan-power/x-gan-power-transistors |
0.997607 | Can Mozilla rival the might of iOS and Android with its love of HTML5?
"It cannot be right that two companies lock down and control their experience … it's the equivalent of two companies controlling every service you use on the internet." So says Dan Appelquist, Open Web Advocate at Telefónica Digital, which intends to pull the rug from under Apple and Android by selling smartphones with the 'open web' architecture of Mozilla's Firefox OS.
The first handsets like the ZTE Open, go on sale this June, will attempt to popularise common, open standards for apps that make them transferable across different handsets and tablets. In doing so it will try to take apart the acceptance of the 'walled garden' app ecosystem popularised by both Apple's iOS and the Android OS.
"Firefox OS is not a proprietary platform, it is fully standards-based and built on HTML5," says Andreas Gal, Vice President, Mobile Engineering, Mozilla.
"What's more, Firefox OS is not a new ecosystem - it is the Web and the Web is the largest existing ecosystem we have today."
Gal thinks that under the present splintered, closed regimes, app developers have it too hard. "Having to build an app in multiple formats - all to reach people who have never asked for the specific app I am thinking of building - is not sustainable," he says, adding that Mozilla hopes Firefox OS will act as a catalyst for the 'open web'. "Over eight million developers develop in HTML5 today compared to around 100,000 iOS developers and 400,000 Android, but ten million for HTML5," he says. "We just want to unlock the power of HTML5 for standards-based work."
The not-for-profit Mozilla's intentions might be good, but the closed ecosystem for apps, popularised by Apple's app store (20 billion+ downloads in 2012) and Google Play (revenue up six-fold in 2012) on Android, is proving very popular.
"Right now, the mobile world is busy because there is so much economic value to be gained by owning a platform," says Gal. "The problem with mobile for users today is that once a user buys apps, music etc. on a given platform, they are not currently transportable to another ecosystem."
However much of a 'level playing field' Firefox OS seeks to create, it's not owners of iPhones and Galaxy S-somethings in the UK, Europe or the USA that Mozilla is aiming Firefox OS at, at least not initially. Smartphone penetration stands at just 16% in Latin America (it's over 50% in the UK, and will nudge saturation levels shortly), which makes it an ideal proving ground for a new and untested operating system.
"In the coming years, lower-cost Android smartphones are expected to dominate the markets in emerging areas such India, China and Africa," says Kevin Curran, senior member at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). "Launching a new smartphone OS is not to be taken lightly, but Mozilla's main partner is Spain's Telefónica, which has over 200 million mobile subscribers in Latin America."
Firefox OS will see the light of day this June in Venezuela, Poland, Brazil, Portugal and Spain, with the first handsets including the Alcatel One Touch Fire and the ZTE Open. Telefónica has strong links with major carriers around the world including América Móvil, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, Sprint, Telecom Italia and SingTel, and it also has mobile phone chip-maker Qualcomm on-board.
"These partners certainly add hope to the ambitious project," says Curran. "It seems they aim to sell it in the pre-paid phone markets, where lower-income people generally get their airtime." | 2019-04-19T19:24:41 | https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/can-firefox-os-be-the-new-android-1146924 |
0.999995 | What was the starting point of the film: the love story or poetry?
At the very beginning, the screenplay was born of a series of six or seven poems I had written long ago. Sentimental poems, but also more dreamlike things. By arranging them in a certain order, with the idea of bringing them together in a book, I realized that there was a dramatic thread, a narrative that was being outlined. I fleshed out the story, drawing the characters little by little. Through this process, it became a feature film.
You started acting during adolescence. Did the desire to be a director come to you at an early age?
Yes right away! When I appeared in Strayed by André Téchiné, I was 14 and I already wanted to be the one who says "Action!" I realized that he was getting the most pleasure from the whole thing. This was confirmed later, when I worked with other great filmmakers like Honoré, Tavernier or Guédiguian. What I required to move to feature film was legitimacy as a writer. I did not want to write just to give myself a role. I had to have a story to tell. It came through writing poetry. Versification gave me this legitimacy in my own eyes.
How do you write a script with most of the dialogue in verse?
I love to write in verse because, strangely, I find it easier. Stress is very liberating: the rhymes and meter guide the writing. The challenge is to make the verse serve the narrative. I did not want to be systematic, but constantly surprise the audience. Thus many scenes begin in prose, end in verse and vice versa. The ear of the audience had simply to be charmed by the enchanting aspect of the language and, at the same time, the poetic word had to be confused with everyday elements. Pauline Caupenne, who appears in the movie, was my proofreader. She was adamant about comprehension, clarity, and the necessity of verse.
The function of the verse is comparable to the songs in a musical: we are torn away from reality, and attain a form of truth. The characters seem possessed by poetry, as if a spell had been cast on them.
In musicals, songs simplify the feeling while amplifying it. With unsung verses, I think we can move further towards a certain complexity in the relationship. We enter into a debate. The characters explain, quarrel, argue. And I liked the idea that one could relate the versification to the fantastic dimension of the film. Verse invites the viewer to open up his imagination. But we also hear verse in very specific or austere situations, like the sequence on the stairs with Ondine, or the one where Camille is crying. The characters truly have to say things to each other. And verse has its part in that pleasure of formulation.
The cliché associates poetry with mawkishness, yet your movie does not exclude violence, feelings and actions.
Paul Valéry has a wonderful way of explaining this huge misunderstanding. He says: "Most people have an idea of poetry so vague that the vague in this idea is the definition of poetry to them”. In this way, we willingly speak of a landscape or a poetic face to say that we find them sweet or charming, slightly wistful, which is not only simplistic but also wrong. It is obvious to me that poetry is, on the contrary, able to express everything, including anger or violence. The second widespread prejudice about poetry is that it is incomprehensible. It is true that the darkness of some poets is part of their charm. For most of those I admire, on the contrary, their clarity is what fascinates me. In a broad sense, for me all literary text is necessarily poetic. I speak of poetry from the moment where we see that the author is aware of the possible game between the meaning and the sound of words. Thus there is beautiful poetic prose, in Julien Gracq, for example. The concern for color and rhythm in meaning, that's what poetry is for me, it’s the aesthetics of language. In the film, there are lines by Paul Valéry, when Camille says to Paul on the roof: "Oh hasten not this loving act / Rapture where self and not-self meet”, it comes from his poem The Footsteps. Valéry is my favorite poet. Concerning the poetic references in the film, there are of course some to Baudelaire and his sublime way of writing poems that take place on the streets, but also obviously Racine, Corneille and Molière for the scenes in alexandrines. I could also mention Aragon and Supervielle for certain passages in octosyllables.
Where does the idea of La Forêt de Quinconces (meaning “The Forest of Quincunx”) come from?
It’s the idea that we get lost more easily in a standardized and rectilinear universe than in the apparent disorder of things. The staggered forest is a mental universe where the character realizes that all the paths open before him are perfectly straight and endless: he is a prisoner of that excessive freedom. I think that disorder helps us to make choices. Secondly, we refer back to the figure of the quincunx for its esoteric and mysterious connotation with the tramp.
The film is built around a series of oppositions: day/night, city/nature, reality/dream, sky/lake... And the contrast between the two female characters, Ondine and Camille.
It is true that the film relies a great deal on strong contrasts, in writing as in direction. With David Chambille, the director of photography, we designed a scheme to balance everything. We wanted an equal number of day and night scenes, indoor and outdoor, and we even split up the sequences into two types for balance: the "natural" sequences and the "artificial" ones. We called a sequence "natural" when the camera was as discreet as possible to capture the scene as the actors were performing it, which often results in quite wide and long shots in terms of editing. An "artificial" sequence, on the contrary, had to be built up by editing effects or deliberate framing to obtain distortion or the stylization of reality. This distinction helped me to develop the film in terms of direction because ultimately both types, "natural" and "artificial", often find themselves mingling in a same sequence and make one another exist through their fusion.
As for the characters, Camille is definitely on the side of action: she is the one that moves the story forward, it’s through her that the drama occurs and continues to unfold, while Ondine embodies an immobility that places the narrative in a quieter, slower time.
"Inanimate objects, do you have a soul?” asks Lamartine in a famous poem. In your film, the objects have genuine power.
Indeed, there is the locket, the watch, the knife... They are the attributes of the characters, and thereby acquire symbolic value, which is necessarily a little enchanted. I am fascinated by coats of arms: those objects or images that contain the few singularities of a family or a city. They are both an emblem and a portrait. We also had to re-enchant everyday places. That's why Paul goes to the Père Lachaise cemetery to burn a photo. Père Lachaise is a magical spot. It’s the resting place of our dead and a true sanctuary, one of the few places in Paris where you cannot jog, where people avoid making phone calls.
The film contains supernatural elements. How was the question of balance between realism and fantasy raised during writing?
For me, the fantastic events had to serve the truth of the characters. It’s the principle of the tale: an element of reality is exaggerated until it becomes unlikely but more relevant. The spell, in my film, is the strongest expression of this: it’s a magical event, but Camille will say later that it was just a prayer, that she simply hoped this boy would love her, and that's plausible. Similarly, when Paul turns around on the stairs and says, "Oh! An apparition..." it’s ironic because Ondine is really there before him, yet at the same time there is something a little extraordinary. We had to maintain the ambiguity between the fantastic and the believable so neither one would seem superficial.
The watch is one of the few elements that refers to Paul’s past. His sister Eve is his only family tie. You provide very little information about characters' past life.
In my personal life, I am very wary of technology. I wait to really need it to use it. I always find it more fun to do things myself (locate where I am, find my way for example). I think it's the same in my film. When two characters call each other or exchange a text message rather than meet, there is a beautiful scene that disappears. Yet I wanted it to be a contemporary film. It seems to me that nowadays certain parts in Paris have been reconquered by pedestrians, hence the absence of cars in the movie. And in terms of narrative, the fact that the characters are walking, or in the subway, brings about encounters, attachment points.
The film is both very French in its literary dimension, but keeps off the beaten path of naturalism to which French cinema is often confined.
I made the film for that reason too. My desire was to make a film that would not be naturalistic. This French tradition is very beautiful, and I even think that we are the best in the world at this sort of cinema. But it is good to offer something else, films that exalt the power of the imagination, in the style of Jacques Demy and then Christophe Honoré. Love Songs marked me a great deal as an actor and as a man, it was edifying for me, and I owe Honoré the audacity I needed to move away from naturalism.
The main characters’ names, Paul, Camille and Ondine, are full of very French literary and cinematographic references.
Paul is a tribute to Paul Dédalus, the hero of How I Got Into an Argument. I can’t deny that Desplechin is a master for me. I don’t think my film resembles his, but it’s clear that Kings and Queen is the best movie in the world for me. Paul is also the first name of the depressive character Romain Duris plays in In Paris, who also goes throw a break-up at the beginning of the film. For Camille, we obviously think of Musset, but it was more for the sound of the name, with the shimmering "i" opposed to Ondine, an aquatic character, with her initial O. Ondine is not a reference to Giraudoux, but rather to a wave, something elusive, a little wistful and nostalgic.
The character of the tramp occupies a special place in the story. Where does he come from?
This character was born from a poem I had written and which is still partly present in the film. A poem about a coin, a simple object that can bring closer a lot of contrary notions through heads or tails. The character of the celestial tramp was inspired to me by Gates of the Night by Marcel Carné where this character is played by Jean Vilar. There is also a reference to Faust in René Clair’s film Beauty and the Devil. For the first scene with the tramp, I had in mind the coin scene in No Country for Old Men by the Coen brothers, with this very long reverse-angle shot.
If I worked alone on the screenplay and actor direction, the direction is the result of my collaboration with my cinematographer and my first assistant. We were trying to take the film towards a flexibility of direction: a camera that moves, with long takes, hand-held shots, tracking shots, Steadicam... We wanted to vary as much as possible, with the idea of choosing what was best for each sequence. Similarly, the ratio changes were imposed by aesthetic needs: the 2.40 ratio for the most spectacular scenes, 1.33 for the whole belly of the film, the madness scenes, for which we needed to isolate the elements in the frame. And 1.66 was the balance ratio between the two.
How did you cast your actors?
I had already directed Pauline Caupenne on stage, she was perfect for Camille and so my decision was immediate. For Ondine, I did a lot of research. I was introduced to Amandine Truffy, and from the first tests I knew she would be perfect. She’s a stage actress, like Thierry Hancisse, a superstar of the Comédie-Française. I needed that ease with the text that stage actors have. I also chose Marilyne Canto and Antoine Chappey, who bring a concrete and soft tone.
Did you decide to play Paul yourself from the very beginning?
No. But the film was very difficult to produce, and at one point it became clear that everything had to rest on my shoulders. And I must say that it is comfortable to be an actor in your own movie, because you are in close contact with the film and direct from the inside. Moreover, everyone sees that you are taking a risk so they stand together. The other actors directed me at the same time as I was directing them. At the end of a take, I told them what I thought of them, but I also asked them what they thought of me. This empowers actors, establishes trust, and inspires everyone to do better.
Did you rehearse a great deal with your actors?
Yes, before shooting, because I did not have time to do rehearsals on set. Shooting took place over several periods for budget reasons, but that was a very good thing. These constraints were very beneficial because I was able to work on the scenes between sessions and therefore prepare better. It was a lucky break that Paulo Branco agreed to produce the film. Once he says yes, he has total trust in a director: he does not get involved in casting or directing.
You have given a role to Arthur Teboul, the leader of Feu Chatterton, a group which, like your movie, combines literary style with a very contemporary energy, also with a taste for spectacle.
We have been friends for ten years. I was there at the group's debuts. We have the same approach. On Feu Chatterton’s album, he proved that with lyrical and formal language, one could create something very modern. So it was logical for me to invite him to recite Consigne à la gare, one of his texts that happens to correspond perfectly to Paul’s situation at the end of the film. On a formal level, this text is an opening to another family of poetry, which is the one of free verse... I am also very proud that he made his screen debut with me. He had never acted before and understood many things at lightning speed.
The soundtrack was composed by Clement Doumic, another member of Feu Chatterton, this time with an electro aspect.
I’ve known him for a long time too. We have made music together, either for fun or more seriously, for short films for example. I love electro and I wanted to marry the poetry of the film with contemporary sounds. The use of Des pas sur la neige by Debussy comes from my editor Nathalie Sanchez.
For the dance scene, you used a choreographer, Georgia Ives.
Yes, she works with Jean-Claude Gallotta, a true genius. She designed the choreography according to the moves I could do... It was easier for Pauline who has dance training. Tchaikovsky soon imposed himself as the choice for this scene, for his spectacular orchestration. This idea of the party, of the show, is very important to me. At each stage in the film's creative process, I tried to make sure the audience would feel pleasure. There is the intellectual pleasure, the pleasure of understanding, but it takes trust from the audience to attain that. The spectacular scenes inspire this trust. It is important because then one is ready to accept other scenes that require a little more concentration.
We shot exclusively in the north and east of Paris. In some neighborhoods, there are still people working in the streets, in workshops, so it makes the street scenes credible. It's important to me to be able to reclaim the city. One must be capable of setting a camera and saying, "This is ours, I’m showing it to you!" In the east of Paris, there are also several cities in one. The elevated metro stations, with their orange sodium light, make me think of New York. And anyway these are just the parts of Paris that I know best, with the idea of not looking too far for what is just outside our windows. | 2019-04-26T07:09:39 | http://alfamafilms.com/en/film/fool-moon/?track=video&id=34 |
0.999999 | 1. To what extent has the extended family system benefited your society?
2. 'Foreign Aid is a necessary evil.' Discuss.
3. Examine the merits and demerits of regional co-operation.
4. To what extent has religion improved morals in your community?
5. Describe the steps that should be adopted to minimize environmental degredation in your country.
6. To what extent is the low level of science and technology responsible for uganda's under development?
Reported Aids cases in Uganda by Age and Gender.
a) Describe the trend of AIDS infection among the different age groups.
b) Account for the differences in the number of AIDS cases reported between females and males.
c) Why has the period between 05 and 15 years been referred to as the 'Window of Hope'?
d) Assess the impact of the AIDS pandemic in Uganda.
8. Read the passage below and answer the questions which follow using your own words wherever possible.
The use of drugs and alcohol predates history. These were the original "mood changers", long before this term was coined to characterize the tranquilizers and antidepressants that have entered and enriched the 20th century pharmacopocia. Alcohol and drugs like opium were used to forget the cares of the world if only temporarily. They were used in medicine because of the physical effect in reducing or eliminating pain. Until nitrous oxide and chloroform came into use during the first half of the 19th century, alcohol was commonly used as an anaesthetic in surgical procedures. Until the recent synthesis of such new narcotics as methadone, opium was routinely prescribed as apainkiller.
Alcohol achieves its pain killing effect by slowing down, or "depressing" the central nervous system, with the result that all the body's responses are dulled. First, consciousness is clouded; then, if enough alcohol is taken, it is blocked out altogether. The first centres to be affected are those of the cortex, the centres that control the highest and most civilized aspects of mental functioning and behavior. This explains why critical judgment is impaired and inhibitions are released, with the result that the individual is likely to do and say things he would not do and say under normal circumstances. The retiring man may become rambunctious, the gentle one aggressive.
Opium and its derivatives, morphine and codeine, also act as depressants but achieve their results in a more complicated way. Morphine and codeine, incidentally, are still prescribed for pain. The danger in the use of these narcotic drugs does not lie in their initial effects or in their tendency to produce euphoria. The trouble is that virtually anyone who takes a drug like morphine or heroin over even a short period of time becomes addicted to it. The body habituates itself to the drugs' effects, with the result that larger and larger does are required to produce the same changes in mood.
Moreover, habitation seems to involve actual changes in the functioning of the entire body. The user continues to obtain release from tension and anxiety, but as his body builds up a tolerance for the drug, he needs more and more of it. Morphine addicts have been known to take, as a matter of routine, doses which would immediately be lethal to a normal person. The addict becomes physically and psychologically dependent on the drugs so that in the end he continues to take the drugs simply to avoid the horrors that giving it up withdrawal would involve.
Alcohol, too, can produce habitation and even addiction, although these physical; effects and the tendency of anyone to succumb to them seem to be only part of the story in disorder known as alcoholism. Studies have shown that in some cases there does seem to be a relationship between an individual's biochemistry and his reaction to alcohol. Social and economic factors also appear to play a part in the development of alcoholism. In some ethnic groups and nations alcoholism is far less common than its in others, so it appears that a tendency to become an alcoholic has some connection with the social attitude toward wine liquor. And it is becoming increasingly well established that individual personality factors play a major role in the development of alcoholism, even though there seems to be single personality type for the alcoholic.
Current psychiatric opinion is that alcoholism is less a disease than a symptom that is common to a variety of psychiatric illnesses and that alcohol may provide a convenient relief for the discomforts they bring. Laboratory experiments have shown, for example, that cats which have been driven to neurosis by exposure to various situations that create conflict are more willing to drink alcohol when it is presented to them than normal cats are. Under the influence of alcohol, the neurotic animals are less likely than others to display fear.
Not all the traditional chemical mood changes functions as depressants. Cocaine for example stimulates the central nervous system and produces excitement, a feeling of self confidence and great strength. For centuries, the natives of Bolivia and Peru have been cheering themselves up by chewing the leaves of the coca shrub, the active ingredient of which is cocaine. But cocaine too is addictive. Its modern counterparts, Benzedrine and the other drugs of the amphetamine group, are less dangerous, but they, too, can lead to acute intoxication, even hallucinations and delusions.
b) Explain how each of the factors given in the passage may contribute to alcoholism.
c) In not more than 100 words, summarize the uses and dangers of alcohol and drugs. | 2019-04-26T02:36:53 | https://www.revisenow.net/index.php/general-paper/year-1999 |
0.997179 | Would we be any the wiser if that interview had taken place? Probably not. Unlike Trump’s crumbling White House, Thatcher’s Number 10 wasn’t a place where senior colleagues queued up to cop plea bargains and turn supergrass. The omertà of that generation of ruling class Brits would earn a fond nod from Don Corleone – which is bad news for the historian, but good news for the novelist. When the doors of the Secret State clang shut, the coffin lid of the imagination creaks open.
The sinking of the General Belgrano remains a mystery as well as a controversy. The bare facts are that on 1 May 1982 London refused a request from the Task Force to sink the Belgrano. Twelve hours later, a peace plan brokered by the president of Peru was accepted in principle by the leader of the Argentine Junta. Fourteen hours later, the Belgrano was fatally holed by two torpedoes from HMS Conqueror.
The interrogator’s killer punch will always be: ‘What did you know and when did you know it? Although no Scotland Yard detective ever asked it of the PM, teacher turned sleuth Diana Gould did pose it on BBC’s Nationwide. Prime Minister Thatcher batted away the question with, ‘Those Peruvian peace proposals, which were only in outline, did not reach London until after the attack on the Belgrano.’ But Gould persisted, ‘If that outline did not reach London for another 14 hours, I think there must be something very seriously wrong with our communications—and we are living in a nuclear age when we're going to have minutes to make decisions, not hours.’ Diana Gould’s response was one of many things that inspired me to write South Atlantic Requiem. Something big is missing.
The problem with official histories, as George Orwell warned, is that ‘Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past’. There are no recordings or detailed minutes of what actually happened at Chequers on the fateful Sunday morning of 2 May when the order to sink the Belgrano was dispatched. The accounts of those present seem to keep to a sanitised script, but there are blips. The Deputy Secretary of the Cabinet, who played a key role on the day, later justified sinking the Belgrano because: ‘... aeroplanes could take off from the mainland, or take off from the Belgrano, go and bomb the fleet, and get back to the mainland before they ran out of fuel.’ But this was impossible – the Belgrano was not an aircraft carrier! He also maintains that once the order was given: ‘... they sank it about twenty minutes later.’ In actual fact, it was another eight hours before the Belgrano was torpedoed. In the words of Lewis Carroll’s White Queen: ‘Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.’ And it was nearly lunchtime at Chequers.
Once again, lefty spook William Catesby is torn between duty and conscience, but he also knows that ‘A lifetime of toxic loyalties, illegal ops, betrayals and lies had left him vulnerable.’ A resignation on a point of principle wouldn’t mean a modest retirement in his Suffolk bolthole, but ‘a long sentence in the Scrubs’. The Secret State holds all the cards. At first, Catesby is a reluctant hawk hunting down shady arms dealers peddling Exocets. He knows that the Junta is a murderous regime, but he also realises that the war could have been avoided if Downing Street had paid heed to the loud warning bells coming from the South Atlantic. Owing to budget cuts, Catesby’s only agent in Argentina is Fiona Stewart, a young English student who has fallen in love with a star polo player – who also flies Exocet-armed aircraft for the Junta. Like her mentor Catesby, Fiona is an emotionally torn spy. In her case, the choice is between love and patriotism.
Having recently seen The Darkest Hour, I am keenly and uncomfortably aware of the problems facing those of us who write about real historical events and famous persons. Churchill’s trip on the District Line tube to meet the common people never happened – but it is great theatre. Likewise, the ‘we shall fight on the beaches’ was never broadcast on radio from the House of Commons. Should a line be drawn between truth and fiction? Yes, but the line should be drawn by the reader and not by the writer. As a writer I don’t know what conversations took place in the midnight hours between Lima and Buenos Aires – and what details were passed on to Washington and London. Nor do I know what really happened at Chequers on the morning of 2 May 1982. Even though I extensively researched these events for my fictional version, I might have got them wrong. But in the end, there was a war – and the human cost and tragedy of that conflict is utterly true.
South Atlantic Requiem by Edward Wilson, published by Arcadia. | 2019-04-26T13:41:46 | http://www.shotsmag.co.uk/feature_view.aspx?FEATURE_ID=386 |
0.999932 | Can you do multicast routing without using a mulitcast protocol?
Can you do multicast routing without using a mulitcast protocol? In other words, can you simply route the multicast packets to an address?
To give a little background, there are three major methodologies for sending out the same information from a single source to multiple recipients. The most common application that requires this type of technology is desktop video conferencing, where a singular feed is distributed to multiple recipients. The first implementation is unicast, where individual packets are sent to each intended recipients, wasting bandwidth and resources. Broadcasting attempts to resolve this bandwidth waste by forwarding a single broadcast packet to all portions of the network. However, with broadcast traffic all hosts receive the traffic including those not intended for the stream. Thus, the creation of multicasting that only sends the streams to a group of intended hosts on the network that have joined the multicast group.
The Internet Group Management Protocol, defined in RFC 1112, is the standard for IP multicasting. In order for multicasting to work properly on the network, all connected devices require the networking hardware to support IGMP.
To address the question, yes there are ways to create IGMP support for devices directly connected to switches that do not directly support IGMP. Install an IGMP server on the switch. This server listens for and receives multicast group messages and forwards multicast streams to the intended recipients. Multiple platforms and operating systems support IGMP server configuration. However, this solution does not scale to multiple devices and should only be considered on a very limited basis. For multi-device IGMP support, the most cost effective alternative is to upgrade the switches to managed, IGMP-enabled switches as creating, maintaining and configuring IGMP servers is cost prohibited. | 2019-04-23T16:03:04 | https://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/answer/Can-you-do-multicast-routing-without-using-a-mulitcast-protocol |
0.99888 | I'm writting an article about the German battle-group "ZIEB".
In a German source I have read that the newly formed Russian Danube Flottila made some landings in the back of the German troops at the rivers of DNJESTR and LIMAN.
Zunächst hat die aus rund 600 Kleinfahrzeugen zusammengesetzte, neu aufgestellte »sowjetische Donauflottille« eine Landung im Rücken der deutschen Truppen am DNJESTR bzw. LIMAN unternommen und landet am 24. August 1944 bei SCHEBRIANI in der Donaumündung.
BUT the Russian Danube Flottila did also a landing at the Danube Mouth/Delta at SCHEBRIANI on 24th August 1944.
On my maps I can't find the village/town of SCHEBRIANI.
SCHEBRIANI could be German language, what's the name in Romanian language??
Actually, there is no river "Liman". The Soviets may have landed behind German troops defending Dniester's (Nistru's) Liman, situated in Basarabia, and débouché on the Black Sea, having Cetatea Alba (Akkerman) as chief city in the region... Liman means in Romanian a kind of gulf.
Sorry, never heard of a village with that name... I don't thing it is in German.
On my maps I can't find the village/town of SCHEBRIANI. SCHEBRIANI could be German language, what's the name in Romanian language??
Could it be JIBRIENI (transcribed in English as Zhee-bryeny)?
You are right in the original source its written DNJESTR-LIMAN, I mistook it for DNJESTR and LIMAN.
JIBRIENI sounds perfect for SCHEBRIANI!!
I have found JIBRIENI, it's now part of the Ukraine.
I hope the following map is working.
(major F.E.Kotanovyy) They were transported with 10 armoured cutters, 3 submarine chassers (MO), 5 cutters (Captain 3 ranges P.I.Derzavin).
Also on 24 August Soviets landed at Vilkovo (Wilkovo).
They were escorted with 10 MTB.
I have interwar postcards with pictures taken at Jibrieni and also at Limanu, a small fishermen village in the Romanian by then Basarabia.
herzlichen Dank für Deine ausführlichen Informationen!!!
All others thank you for the shared informations and maps!
The article is very interesting and needs to find also roumanian sources. | 2019-04-20T20:51:07 | https://www.worldwar2.ro/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=3&t=212 |
0.999947 | Astronomers have long wanted an answer to the chicken-and-egg question of what comes first, a super-massive black hole or the galaxy of stars surrounding it?
A new observation of a 'quasar' five billion light years from Earth may now help to resolve the riddle.
A quasar is an extremely powerful source of energy believed to mark the location of a giant black hole.
Nothing that gets close enough to a black hole can escape its gravity. However, material swirling around the edge of a black hole can generate enormous amounts of energy, and is believed to fuel quasars.
Astronomers studied radiation from the quasar that had been emitted when the universe was little more than a third of its present age.
To their surprise, they found that unlike most quasars, this one was not situated at the centre of a host galaxy. However, there was a companion galaxy close to it creating new stars at a frantic rate equivalent to about 350 suns per year.
The galaxy was effectively 'under fire' from jets of high energy particles and fast moving gas shooting out of the quasar, the scientists found.
The stream of material was likely to be fuelling star formation in the galaxy, the scientists believe. In effect, the quasar was building its own host galaxy.
At a later stage the quasar was expected to end up at the galaxy's centre.
'The two objects are bound to merge in the future: the quasar is moving at a speed of only a few tens of thousands of kilometres per hour with respect to the companion galaxy and their separation is only about 22,000 light-years,' said lead scientist Dr David Elbaz, from the CEA research institute in Saclay, France.
A similar process may have led to the formation of other large galaxies with massive black holes nestling within them, the scientists believe.
The research appears in the journals Astronomy & Astrophysics, and the Astrophysical Journal. | 2019-04-19T10:34:28 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1232249/Black-holes-act-like-cosmic-factories-building-galaxies.html |
0.998528 | Analysis: Seeking international and regional legitimization for the Iranian presence in Syria and trying to discourage Israel from carrying out further strikes in Syria, the Iranians and Syrians have launched a diplomatic and military offensive with no intention of escalating the situation on the northern border. Israel is waging its own diplomatic offensive, but Netanyahu and Lieberman’s unnecessary threats are counterproductive.
It’s now perfectly clear that Syria and Iran have launched a diplomatic and military offensive aimed at deterring Israel from carrying out further strikes in Syria. The last incident was the intentional firing of five rockets into Israel as an act of provocation, so that Israel would respond militarily and the Syrians would be able to complain to the United Nations secretary-general and the Security Council.
But the battle Syria and Iran—or Iran and Syria, to be more accurate—are waging against Israel is much wider.
The Iranians would like to achieve two things: One, international and regional legitimization for the Iranian presence and military activity in Syria; and two, to deter Israel from continuing its attacks within Syria, which not only sabotage the Iranian efforts to expand in the country, but also have a negative effect on the Assad regime’s prestige and on his ability to impose his authority in Syria.
The Iranians and the Syrian regime want to achieve these two goals without a war with Israel. An all-out-war, and even an escalation, would interfere with Syrian President Bashar Assad’s plan to regain control of additional areas in Syria and with the Iranians’ plan to pursue their “crawling penetration” into Syria in different military areas and in civil areas as well.
The Iranians are now trying to take over oil fields in Syria and civil rehabilitation activities in a bid to make money. An escalation or a war with Israel would sabotage this activity, which is being carried out primarily by the Revolutionary Guards. The bottom line, therefore, is that Syria and Iran will carry out diplomatic, PR and limited military activity to achieve their goals, but will be careful not to spark a war.
On what levels are the Iranians and Syrians operating? The first level is military: In recent months, the Syrians have made several attempts to intercept IDF planes over Lebanon off Syria's shores in an effort to threaten Israel’s aerial supremacy and freedom. They know the IDF needs aerial freedom of action in Lebanon’s skies, and sometimes over Syria too, for its intelligence gathering activities and to thwart Iranian attempts to supply Hezbollah with precision-guided missiles, in addition to the tens of thousands of statistic missiles the Lebanese organization already has.
The purpose of the Syrian surface-to-air missile batteries locking in on Israel Air Force planes and the SA5 missiles that were fired is to create a deterrence equation vis-à-vis the IAF. The Iranians are hoping to create deterrence indirectly as well through the Russians, who are being dragged—likely unwillingly—into these conflicts in the air. Moscow is being asked to protest to Israel and even to threaten to supply Syria with modern anti-aircraft missile systems.
Another measure is inviting the Iranian military’s chief of staff on an official visit to Syria, that will include the signing military cooperating agreements. This move is highly important as it aims to provide international legal legitimization and diplomatic authorization for the Iranian penetration into Syria.
It’s important to note that the Iranian military’s chief of staff, Mohammad Baqeri, heads an official and internationally recognized Iranian state institution. He is not the Revolutionary Guards commander, but part of the legitimate government in Iran which is led by relatively moderate President Hassan Rouhani.
The Syrians and Iranians are well aware of the fact that the Revolutionary Guards are a subversive organization which US President Donald Trump was about to declare a terror organization. The Revolutionary Guards operate the Shiite militias too, which are also unrecognized and illegitimate organizations in the international arena, and especially in the Middle Eastern arena.
So the person the Iranians sent to Syria is the chief of staff who heads the state army, which was hardly involved in the battles with Sunni rebels in Syria. This dirty work was done by the Revolutionary Guards and the militias for the Assad regime, but now that it’s time to reap the fruit, they are sending the military’s chief of staff to sign agreements with Syria’s official army, in accordance with international conventions.
The purpose of the visit and the agreements signed between the Syrian and Iranian armies is to diplomatically legitimize Iranian penetration into Syria. These agreements are dangerous, however, because they officially and openly allow Iran to transfer weapons and military technologies—like advanced anti-aircraft missiles—to Syria, yet denying Israel the possibility to complain to the Russians and even to the UN that Iran is placing its own weapons in Syria and transferring them to Hezbollah.
In the near future, we are expected to see advanced Iranian weapon systems in Syria, mainly in the anti-aircraft field, which is aimed at limiting the IDF’s aerial freedom of action, and in the field of accurate missiles which the Iranians will allegedly supply the Syrian army with, although they which will actually reach Hezbollah.
The fourth area of the Iranian-Syria offensive is conscious deterrence through psychological warfare against the citizens of the State of Israel. After each incident on the border or airstrike in the north, the Syrians warn that “the Israeli aggression will be met with a serious response” from Syria.
This threat is made time and again in Syrian army statements and on the Syrian media, and its purpose is to create the feeling in Israel that another alleged Israeli attack on an Iranian arms workshop in Syria, and further responses to “spillover” fire in the Golan Heights, will lead to a general flare up. Both the Syrians and the Iranians have no intention of escalating the situation to a war, but they want the Israeli public and media to be concerned and keep worrying that a war is about to happen.
What is Israel doing against Syrian offensive?
Israel is currently waging its own diplomatic offensive. The goal is to reach an American-Russian collaboration that will lead to a long-term arrangement in Syria in which the Iranians will have no military presence, neither on the border with Israel in the Golan Heights nor in more remote air and naval bases on Syrian territory.
The new national security advisor visited Washington last week for that purpose, and then flew directly to Moscow for talks with his Russian counterparts. Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman is in Washington too right now, following talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Shoigu last week. And if that were not enough, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot left for Washington on Sunday.
• Preventing Hezbollah from arming itself with precision-guided missiles and with sophisticated anti-aircraft weapons.
• Preventing rocket fire and ground attacks on Israeli territory in the Golan Heights.
• Preventing Syrian use of chemical weapons.
• Preventing an Iranian expansion near the Golan border to avoid a situation in which, in case of a war, the Iranians will operate against Israel from Syrian territory while Hezbollah operates against us from Lebanese territory. The Iranians and Hezbollah are interested in turning the north into one front.
Israel won’t give up its aerial freedom of action in the northern skies either. Israel is rightfully insisting on these red lines, with considerable success, through the confidential and non-confidential “war between wars” the IDF is waging in the north.
The harmful and less successful part is Defense Minister Lieberman and Prime Minister Netanyahu's frequent public statements on the Iranian and Syrian issue. Up until now, Israel knew how to act without talking, but for the past six months the defense minister has been releasing unnecessary threats in every direction.
If we attacked Syrian army posts, which were the source of spillover fire in the Golan Heights, Damascus got the hint. There is no need to add a series of threats that only prevent the Syrians from quietly fixing what needs fixing and, at the end of the day, force them to engage in provocations in an attempt to prevent further harm to the regime’s prestige.
The prime minister is exercising the same unnecessary noisy public diplomacy. The Russians and the Americans, whose help we are seeking in neutralizing the Iranians in Syria, are in no need of empty bombastic declarations in the media. They are receiving the Israeli messages directly from the prime minister, the defense minister, the national security advisor and the chief of staff, and don’t need public threats which only require the Russians to demonstrate that they are helping their proteges and providing them with a diplomatic umbrella and sophisticated weapons.
Lieberman and Netanyahu's statements are achieving the opposite of the desirable outcome for the State of Israel and its citizens.
See all talkbacks "Intentional Syrian fire aimed at deterring Israel without waging war " | 2019-04-24T20:59:37 | https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5032357,00.html |
0.999916 | What is the best coffee maker for me? Best selling K-cup single cup coffee makers.
These are the Top 3 bestselling K-cup single cup coffee makers on Amazon. K-Cup single cup coffee makers are best for people who use single-serve coffee at home, and prefer a single use water reservoir. | 2019-04-23T12:55:58 | http://www.aborc.com/productquizzes/Appliances/what-is-the-best-coffee-maker-for-me/categories/best-selling-k-cup-single-coffee-makers |
0.999978 | What does a university dean's resumé look like? I would guess that most have diverse leadership experience in a number of varied roles. My own work history includes stints as a barista, psychologist, professor, corporate executive and politician -- to name just a few of the hats I've worn during my career.
What does a university dean's resumé look like? I would guess that most have diverse leadership experience in a number of varied roles. My own work history includes stints as a barista, psychologist, professor, corporate executive, and politician -- to name just a few of the hats I've worn during my career. It hasn't been a linear path, but every one of my previous jobs has provided knowledge and skills that I use in my current job as dean of Canada's leading provider of university-based adult education.
Each of us is a lifelong learner, whether we know it or not. Each job teaches us new things, including new skills, opportunities to expand our networks, or ways to contribute. As dean of the Chang School, I am often asked for advice about how to successfully change careers. As my own story makes clear, there is no single, perfectly accurate answer to that query, but there are choices you can make to prepare yourself to make a career transition successfully and thrive in a new role.
As the mother of two recent university graduates, my friends and colleagues occasionally refer to me as "Dean Mom." My son and daughter have both taken continuing education courses since graduating university, to better prepare for a tough and evolving job market. Continuing education and lifelong learning are essential, both to personal career development and to the Canadian economy. But beyond continuing education, what are the essential strategies for career changers?
How do you know it's time to change careers?
Each of our experts agreed that there are some sure signs it may be time to change careers. Perhaps you are no longer learning new skills, are feeling uninspired, or your personal values are not aligned with the work you do. Maybe your job isn't exploiting your full potential or range of skills. As one career coach described it, your current job might give you that "ugh" feeling we all recognize. These could be signs it's time for you to make a change. This is a decision that can cause anxiety and you may worry about the risks involved. But a change can also lead to new opportunities and adventures, chances to learn new skills, and the freedom to be your best professional self.
Before jumping head first into a career change, it is important to assess whether your current skills are transferable to a new role. Take inventory of your soft skills such as communication and writing, teamwork and collaboration, adaptability, and problem solving, which are transferable across many industries. Reach out and ask questions of people in your current network and those that are in the roles you are considering pursuing. Research the labour market to determine whether your desired field has openings. And find online resources and career advising to support your preparation. Every change comes with potential challenges, and career changes are no exception. Starting from scratch brings insecurity, self-doubt, and uncertainty. It can also be hard to find time to learn and develop new skills. Volunteering can help ease the transition by allowing you to test and develop new skills before committing to a full career transition.
There are numerous supports available to you if you are looking to change careers. From online tools like Magnet, to networking groups like Meetup or Ten Thousand Coffees, new technologies have allowed for even greater opportunities to connect. Though it may seem counterintuitive, your current network can be one of the best sources for support when preparing to change careers. Take advantage of career coaching that provides personalized support as you prepare to launch. Perhaps most importantly, your friends and family are the backbone of your personal network. Make sure you maintain your work-life balance in a way that supports your career change and your personal wellbeing.
Despite the anxiety and self-doubt that can come along with a career change, it could be the best move you ever make, provided you are properly prepared. Do your homework. Have a plan and stay with it, and maintain your courage, conviction, and positivity during the inevitable tough moments. Remember why you are making the change. And remember that hard work pays off.
If you had told me when I was a barista that I would one day lead an educational organization with over 100 staff members, serving over 70,000 annual student enrollments, I would have been excited by the prospect, but would have had a hard time envisioning a path to that goal. But I have followed the advice of many leaders before me and found my way to this job with proper preparation and a lot of hard work.
Remember -- we are all lifelong learners, and it's never too late to change careers. | 2019-04-22T22:54:53 | https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/dr-marie-bountrogianni/second-career_b_8016190.html?utm_hp_ref=ca-continuing-education |
0.999995 | Verizon Wireless has announced new Nationwide Unlimited Anytime Minute Plans that give customers all their calls – anytime to anyone in the U.S., including landline phones – that begin at a flat rate of $99.99 monthly access. Verizon Wireless Chief Marketing Officer Mike Lanman comments that these new plans "are moving the industry forward."
Hold on a minute there Nellie... $99 for unlimited mobile wireless calls is moving the industry forward? Talk to me when it's $24.99/month like Vonage is. $99/month is great for businesses or people that gab on their mobile phones all day long resulting in large overage charges, but for people like me that rarely talk on my mobile phone $99/month is pretty expensive. Give me unlimited data for $35/month with 1000 voice minutes and I'd be a happy camper. Till then I think I'm going to go with pre-paid cellular plans which are cheaper for me.
Verizon Wireless has announced new Nationwide Unlimited Anytime Minute Plans that give customers all their calls – anytime to anyone in the U.S., including landline phones – that begin at a flat rate of \$99.99 monthly access. Verizon Wireless Chief Marketing Officer Mike Lanman comments that these new plans "are moving the industry forward."
\nHold on a minute there Nellie... \$99 for unlimited mobile wireless calls is moving the industry forward? Talk to me when it's \$24.99/month like Vonage is. \$99/month is great for businesses or people that gab on their mobile phones all day long resulting in large overage charges, but for people like me that rarely talk on my mobile phone \$99/month is pretty expensive. Give me unlimited data for \$35/month with 1000 voice minutes and I'd be a happy camper. Till then I think I'm going to go with pre-paid cellular plans which are cheaper for me. | 2019-04-22T00:11:36 | http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/wireless/verizon-nationwide-unlimited-anytime-minute-plans.asp |
0.999962 | Lost in the Movies (formerly The Dancing Image): What Do Critics Dream About?
What Do Critics Dream About?
One day in 1942, I was so anxious to see Marcel Carne's Les Visiteurs du Soir, which at last had arrived at my neighborhood theater, the Pigalle, that I decided to skip school. I liked it a lot. But that same evening, my aunt, who was studying violin at the Conservatory, came by to take me to a movie; she had picked Les Visiteurs du Soir. Since I didn't dare admit that I had already seen it, I had to go and pretend that I was seeing it for the first time. That was the first time I realized how fascinating it can be to probe deeper and deeper into a work one admires, that the exercise can go so far as to create the illusion of reliving the creation.
A year later, Clouzot's Le Corbeau turned up; it fascinated me even more. I must have seen it five or six times between the time of its release (May 1943) and the Liberation, when it was prohibited. Later, when it was once again allowed to be shown, I used to go to see it several times a year. Eventually I knew the dialogue by heart. The talk was very adult compared to the films I had seen, with about a hundred words whose meaning I only gradually figured out. Since the plot of Le Corbeau revolved around an epidemic of anonymous letters denouncing abortion, adultery, and various other forms of corruption, the film seemed to me to be a fairly accurate picture of what I had seen around me during the war and the postwar period - collaboration, denunciation, the black market, hustling, cynicism.
I saw my first two hundred films on the sly, playing hooky and slipping into the movie house without paying - through the emergency exit or the washroom window - or by taking advantage of my parents' going out for an evening (I had to be in bed, pretending to be asleep, when they came home). I paid for these great pleasures with stomachaches, cramps, nervous headaches and guilty feelings, which only heightened the emotions evoked by the films.
I felt a tremendous need to enter into the films. I sat closer and closer to the screen so I could shut out the theater. I passed up period films, war movies and Westerns because they were more difficult to identify with. That left mysteries and love stories. Unlike most moviegoers my own age, I didn't identify with the heroes, but with the underdog and, in general, with any character who was in the wrong. That's why Alfred Hitchcock's movies, devoted to fear, won me over from the start; and after Hitchcock, Jean Renoir whose work is directed toward understanding... "The terrible thing is that everyone has his own reasons" (La Regle du Jeu). The door was wide open, and I was ready for Jean Vigo, Jean Cocteau, Sacha Guitry, Orson Welles, Marcel Pagnol, Ernst Lubitsch, Charlie Chaplin, of course, and all the others who, without being immoral, "doubt the morality of others" (Hiroshima, mon amour).
The first step involved seeing lost of movies; secondly, I began to note the name of the director as I left the theater. In the third stage I saw the same films over and over and began making choices as to what I would have done, if I had been the director. At that period of my life, movies acted on me like a drug. The film club I founded in 1947 was called - somewhat pretentiously but revealingly - the Movie-mania Club. Sometimes I saw the same film four or five times within a month and could still not recount the story line correctly because, at one moment or another, the swelling of the music, a chase through the night, the actress' tears, would intoxicate me, make me lose track of what was going on, carry me away from the rest of the movie.
In August 1951, ill and a prisoner of the Service des Detenus in a military hospital (they handcuffed us even when we went to the shower or to pee), I flew into a rage when, lying in my bed, I read in a newspaper that Orson Welles had been forced to withdraw his Othello from the Venice competition because, at the insistence of his backers, he wasn't allowed to risk losing to the British superproduction of Laurence Olivier's Hamlet.
A lovely time of life - when one cares more about the fate of those we admire than about one's own. More than two decades later, I still love movies but no film can occupy my mind more than the one I'm writing, preparing, shooting, editing. I've lost the film lover's generosity, so arrogant and overwhelming that at times it can fill one with embarrassment and confusion.
I have not been able to find my first article, published in 1950 in the Bulletin of the Film Club of the Latin Quarter. I remember it was about La Regle du Jeu. The original version of this film - including fourteen scenes we had never seen - had just been discovered and shown. In my article I carefully enumerated the differences between the two versions, which was probably what led Andre Bazin to suggest that I help my research a book on Renoir that he was planning.
By encouraging me from 1953 on to write, Bazin did me a great favor. Having to analyze and describe one's pleasure may not automatically change an amateur into a professional, but it does lead one back to the concrete...to that ill-defined area where the critic works. The accompanying risk is that one may lose one's enthusiasm; fortunately, that didn't happen to me. In a piece of Citizen Kane I was at pains to explain how the same film might be viewed differently by a movie lover, a journalist, a filmmaker. This was as true of Renoir's work as it was of the big American movies.
Was I a good critic? I don't know. But one thing I am sure of is that I was always on the side of those who were hissed and against those who were hissing; and that my enjoyment often began where to of others left off: Renoir's changes of tone, Orson Welles's excesses, Pagnol's or Guitry's carelessness, Bresson's nakedness. I think there was no trace of snobbery in my tastes. I always agreed with Audiberti: "The most obscure poem is addressed to everybody." Whether or not they were called commercial, I knew that all movies were commodities to be bought and sold. I saw plenty of differences in degree, but not in kind. I felt the same admiration for Kelly and Donen's Singin' in the Rain as for Carl Dreyer's Ordet.
I still find any hierarchy of kinds of movies both ridiculous and despicable. When Hitchcock made Psycho - the story of a sometime thief stabbed to death in her shower by the owner of a motel who had stuffed his mother's corpse - almost all the critics agreed that its subject was trivial. The same year, under Kurosawa's influence, Ingmar Bergman shot exactly the same theme (The Virgin Spring) but he set it in fourteenth-century Sweden. Everybody went into ecstasy and Bergman won an Oscar for best foreign film. Far be it from me to begrudge him his prize; I want only to emphasize that it was exactly the same subject (in fact, it was more or less conscious transposition of Charles Perrault's famous story "Little Red Riding Hood"). The truth is that in these two films, Bergman and Hitchcock each expressed part of his own violence with skill and freed himself of it.
Let me also cite the example of Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thief, which is still discussed as if it were a tragedy about unemployment in postwar Italy, although the problem of unemployment is not really addressed in this beautiful film. It shows us simply - like an Arabic tale, as Cocteau observed - a man who absolutely must find his bicycle, exactly as the woman of the world in The Earrings of Madame de... must again find her earrings. I reject the idea that The Virgin Spring and Bicycle Thief are noble and serious, while Psycho and Madame de... are "entertainments." All four films are noble and serious, and all four are entertainment.
When I was a critic, I thought that a successful film had simultaneously to express an idea of the world and an idea of cinema; La Regle du Jeu and Citizen Kane corresponded to this definition perfectly. Today, I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between; I am not interested in all those films that do not pulse.
Let me also cite the example of Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thief, which is still discussed as if it were a tragedy about unemployment is not really addressed in this beautiful film. It shows us simply - like an Arabic tale, as Cocteau observed - a man who absolutely must find his bicycle, exactly as the woman of the world in The Earrings of Madame de... must again find her earrings. I reject the idea that The Virgin Spring and Bicycle Thief are noble and serious, while Psycho and Madame de... are "entertainments." All four films are noble and serious, and all four are entertainment.
LOL Movie Man!!!! That is a fantastic paragraphy, and Truffaut is dead with every point as far as I'm concerned.
"I felt a tremendous need to enter into the films."
a la Buster Keaton!.....I'm hardly surprised that he saw his first two hundred movies on the sly, or that LE CORBEAU was a film that consumed him (even to the point of memorizing the dialogue). I also love both the Clouzot AND the Carne, but these were obviously vital to Truffaut's cinematic maturation.
Yes, indeed. His famed love for Hitchcock, as per what he says here clearly emanates from the fact that he favored love stories and mysteries above all other genres. Then there was renoir and that listing of all the other greats.
"When I was a critic, I thought that a successful film had simultaneously to express an idea of the world and an idea of cinema; La Regle du Jeu and Citizen Kane corresponded to this definition perfectly."
I think Pauline Kael feels the same way and has posed similar arguments.
Yes, Sam, I posted this not only because it's great writing but because it summarizes perfectly my own attitude towards movies. Although I am curiously cool towards Truffaut's cinema, I am complete accord with his cinephalia. Though I've grown over the years in understanding and appreciation, I still maintain a stubborn belief that the criteria for greatness lies within a romantic rapture - we can go back and analyze what provoked this reaction, but without it we're indulging in guesswork. This doesn't mean that I always "get" a great movie - sometimes its appeal passes me by, but I maintain that to be great, a film must at least have the potential (albeit perhaps untapped) to move us in that way.
Indeed Movie Man. I did connect you with Truffaut's views here, and I dare say I can pretty much concur with your philosophy.
As far as being cool to Truffaut's cinema (as opposed to his film criticism and passion for the work of others) I can agree to a point.
He did craft three masterworks (LES QUATRE CENTS COUP, JULES AND JIM, TWO ENGLISH GIRLS) and one other now (in my view) pushes close (SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER), even if some of his other works were little more than mild diversions-THE WILD CHILD, L'ARGENT DE POCHE, THE LAST METRO, the overrated DAY FOR NIGHT, etc.
LES QUATRE, of course was one of three seminal New Wave films (as you well know) and it's final freeze frame is one of cinema's best-remembered moments. But any director who can contribute THREE masterpieces to cinema in his career, is someone to be regarded highly. He's not in the category of Bresson, Renoir, Gance, Max Ophuls, Tati, nor the maddening Godard, but by any barometer of measurement he's solidly in the "second tier" with the likes of Malle, Chabrol, Feyder, Carne, Becker, Clouzot and others.
He has made his mark most persuasively in this regard.
I think it's more of a personal idiosyncrasy than anything else - I just don't connect with his movies, even the best of them, the way I do with Godard's. And I'm speaking of the "masterpieces" - 400 Blows and Jules et Jim, depending on my mood, can either charm me or leave me relatively unimpressed (the former less so than the latter). Go figure.
I enjoy Day for Night a great deal; it is a filmmaker's film certainly, one that grows and diminishes in stature the closer one is to one's own filmmaking experience, however small-scale.
I believe it is applicable to his own cinema, which was noted for its intense lyricism. I don't blame you for your justified love for Godard, though, and you can never exhaust discussion there.
Yes, that about face with Clouzot and Carne is ironic, but with Truffaut I'm hardly surprised. LOL!
But oddly enough, it's on an emotional level that I've always connected to Godard and felt a bit distanced from Truffaut. I know, I know that makes no sense - but I find my favorite Godard films - Masculin Feminin, Band of Outsiders, Alphaville, La Chinoise - to be lyrical as well as white-hot and intellectual and I guess it's the combination that gets me.
Of course, I've had viewings of Jules et Jim (and more so of 400 Blows) where I've been swept up in the work, and it's possible that re-watching Truffaut's work in the run-up to my "150" will make me re-consider and even include one or two on that rundown.
Wow, what a great article. Really fascinating, thanks for publishing this! He had a cinema club in 1947, coo..
Well Movie Man, if Godard hits you emotionally as well as intellectually, well then the case is closed. My favorite Godard films are CONTEMPT, WEEKEND, 2 OR 3 THINGS and BREATHLESS, but I'll admit that's arather conventional list, of films that are widely accepted as his masterworks. You and Ed Howard have opened up a whole new world of exhaustive treatment of this always-challenging director. When he does reach you emotionally then he's in a class by himself, but he doesn't always reach me, and that's why for me he isn't on a level with Bresson. But that's another issue.
Ironically, the films you mention are not my favorites of his, in fact - except for Week End which I haven't seen in years but which I remember loving - they leave me colder than my favorite films of his. Breathless I didn't like when I first saw it and it took several viewings to fully appreciate it - ironically, by realizing that it works best as a breeze, stripped of all the pretentious accolades it's earned over years (along with a persistant and misleading focus on those jump cuts). 2 or 3 Things just didn't do much of anything for me when I saw it on the big screen (ironically, I also had a more rapturous response to La Chinoise on DVD than in a theater) and Contempt is a film I admire without ever quite getting into.
In general, I prefer mid-60s Godard to early 60s Godard. It seems like he was still feeling his oats, figuring out his own idiosyncratic style (which I think surprised him as much as it surprised his viewers) and that from about '64 on, his work is more kinetic, more romantic, more tragic, and more direct in its effects.
I think A Married Woman is the only pre-'68 Godard that I have not seen. Pierrot le Fou lost me about a half-hour in, but I'm very eager to re-watch, especially since Criterion came out with their gorgeous-looking edition.
PIERROT LE FOU lost me as well, Movie Man. For me LA CHINOISE (whic I watched two months ago) is dated, and I am convinced that CONTEMPT is not only his greatest work, but one of the greatest films of cinema. I have some catch-up do with the mid 60's stuff; I know Allan isn't particularly enamored of it, but then again he is not a huge GODARD fan. But your opinion here is most well reasoned and informed.
The time capsule quality is one of many things I love about La Chinoise. I did notice its "datedness" a bit more seeing it in a theater, where it didn't come off quite as well as on DVD (it seemed the audience was taking it a bit more/too seriously - funny how the audience can influence your viewing of a movie).
Yep, excellent point there about BLOW-UP, and 60's cinema in general, especially as the decade abounded with those time-capsule, socially-conscious films, which on first view did not appear to transcend their era. Also, I've argued with Allan in the past, the whole concept of "dated" needs to be re-examined, as the very essence of a number of works relies on their sense of time, place and inherent style, which are vital to its interpretation/themes.
I mean, I saw IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD this past Wednesday night at a local movie palace with the family and friends as part of a ten-week movie series of American classics, and that's about as dated a film as you'll ever see in every sense, but a great deal of its basic, cornball humor managed to transcend its social milieu. With Godard of course the oncerns are infinitely more complex, so the issus of time and setting (and style) are far more negligible.
In any case I think it's fair to say that another viewing of LA CHINOISE is very much in order.
Truffaut was one of the finest critic and seriously it shows.
Satyam, I have been reading the rest of the book since I posted this. The takes on different directors and films (mostly of the 50s) are interesting but I have to say the introduction has been my favorite part. It's just such a great evocation of cinephilia. | 2019-04-25T08:54:54 | http://www.lostinthemovies.com/2009/04/what-do-critics-dream-about.html |
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Yes, I have a studio in a business district. No, I do NOT have a residential home studio. And, Yes, I travel locally and beyond to shoot headshots.
Headshots are one of my core specialties as a business and commercial photographer. But this post is really about the individual needing a professional headshot taken trying to decide what's the best option for him or her and exploring a few advantages and disadvantages of all three options.
In order for me not to repeat headshots way too many times below, please keep in mind that this post is about options for getting a professional headshot taken for just ONE individual. When exploring your options for a headshot, one of your top questions may need to be, do you have an in home studio, mobile studio and/or business district studio?
All home studios are not created equal. There are some very large, very professional in home studios that are better than those in a business district. However, in today's digital age of easy entry into photography, it's not uncommon for a photographer working out of his or her home to convert an area of the home on an as needed basis in order to do headshots. For example, it may be the photographers dining room, spare room, garage or basement. In the case of the garage or basement, these options may be more dedicated fully as the photographers in home studio. Again, there are a few photographers that have amazing in home studios. Just ask for the details when trying to decide what's right for you.
1) Potentially lower cost than a photographer who has a studio in a business district. If cost is critical (minor in most cases), this may be a good option for you.
2) Honestly, I don't have a #2 because most of the advantages for an in home studio in my opinion favor the photographer not the client.
1) You are going to someone's home whom you've never met, so a referral from someone you trust may be important vs. finding a photographer at random.
2) If the photographer is a male and you are a female or vice-versa. then being in a residential home may not be the best option.
True Story: Someone that chose me to do his headshot told me that one of the photographers that he was considering mentioned that if he could help set up for the shoot in her home that she could make it work. He really liked her work, but this and her odd pricing model were two core reasons that he decided to use me instead.
The photographer bringing the studio to you is likely going to be a popular option for headshots. Some photographers don't have an in home studio or a business district studio. Being mobile is the only way the roll (no pun intended). However, there are cases when it's multiple staff members in an office that the photographer bringing the studio to the client makes for the most logical choice and works out well. I go to companies on a regular basis for this type of headshot photoshoot.
The advantages and disadvantages below are concerning one individual needing a headshot taken not several people.
1) Convenience is one of the best advantages of the studio coming to you.
2) You can get shots taken (if needed) of you in your working environment vs. a studio background.
3) Price can be an advantage or a disadvantage pending how the photographer structures his or her pricing. For example, an advantage would be working with a friend of mine who is a photographer and is 100% mobile (at the time of this post). He is very competitively priced when going on location.
1) It may make a difference if the photographer has to come to your home vs. your office.
2) All of the equipment getting in the way pending the size of the area that the photographer has to set up in could be an obstacle.
3) Price can be an advantage or a disadvantage pending how the photographer structures his or her pricing. For example, a disadvantage would be a photographer that has an in home studio and especially one with a business district studio that has to pack up and load up gear only to unload and setup at your location and then pack back up at your location then drive back to his or her studio and unload and unpack then reset up simple for a one person headshot on a background. That's a lot of breaking down and setting up which is why I personally charge more to go on location for just one person than I do in studio. The client has the option to decide if the extra cost is worth me bringing the studio to them or them coming to me.
Traditional Business District Photography Studio?
Not all established photographers have a studio in a business district, but I'm one of those that have chosen this route for numerous reasons. I find that individuals needing a headshot like being able to visit a studio that's surrounded by other businesses. But, rather than continue on, I'll dive right into the advantages and disadvantages.
1) The studio is set up and ready to go at all times. In my case, I have two studio rooms with 3 to 4 backgrounds ready to go to keep things moving.
2) There are other businesses located around the business district studio in most cases, so there is a certain level of personal comfort in that.
3) Just like in the mobile section, price can be both an advantage and a disadvantage. In my case, I think price is an advantage to those coming to the studio because I am very competitive (less in many cases) than other studios plus I charge a lot more to go on location for one person vs. one person coming to me.
1) The location of the studio can be a disadvantage if it's across town, but so could an in home studio. Quality, experience and service may be worth the extra distance though.
2) Just like in the mobile section, price can be both an advantage and a disadvantage. In many cases, a studio in a business district may charge a lot more than small in home studios because of more overhead.
You have to ask questions about location, cost, experience, etc. to decide what's best for you. Just ask yourself when comparing an in home studio vs. a mobile studio vs. a business district studio, what are the key advantages and disadvantages for my personal needs? Which option based on multiple factors is truly best for me?
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0.998725 | There are a few different ways to purchase a new colony of bees but packages or nucs are two of the most common. In this article I describe what each is, and some of the benefits/drawbacks to each.
What is a Bee Package?
A bee package is a wooden frame box with screen on two sides. It is used to transport bees to a new hive. Packages are sold by the pound. There are roughly 3500 bees per pound so a three pound package contains around 10,000 bees.
Inside the package is a feeding can filled with a syrup mixture. This is used to feed the bees while in transport.
There is also a small wooden box with a screen on one side. This box holds a queen and a few worker bees to attend to her while on the trip. This small wooden box has a cork on one end and is suspended from the top of the package.
In a bee package, the bees are not necessarily related to each other, and are not related to the boxed queen.
A nuc typically consists of 4 established frames. It will contain two frames of honey for feeding and two frames of brood to expand the hive. It will also have a laying queen.
In a nuc, the bees are related to each other and to the queen.
Less Expensive- The top benefit of buying a package of bees is that initially, they are less expensive than a nuke. However, a nuc is more established…so it’s sort of a “time is money” kinda thing that you’ll have to decide on.
Easier to Find– In my experience it is easier to find a package of bees for sale. This form tends to be popular with the larger bee companies. Even our local Family Farm and Home teamed up with one of the larger bee retailers this year and was offering package bees for sale.
Some of the larger retail companies will sell nucs, but it’s more often a smaller operation bee transaction. You may have to search for a local bee keeper in your area willing to sell a nuc.
Learning Experience- A package of bees will give you the opportunity to see a colony start from the “ground” up. They will draw out fresh comb, the queen will lay the first brood and you will be able to witness how a hive is built from nothing at all.
Not Limited by Frame Size- When you purchase a nuc you have to make sure that the frames will fit into your hive box. A package doesn’t include frames so the bees can be deposited in any style of hive.
All the Bees are Related- In a nuc, you are essentially buying a family of bees. The bees are all related, they are used to working together and most of all, they are related to their queen. She is accepted and already laying brood.
Head Start- Because a nuc is comprised of already established frames, this will give you about a 2 week head start on honey production. The bees do not have to take the extra time to begin the hive from scratch. This time saver is especially important if you live in a cold climate where the honey season is limited.
Your bees can also take advantage of the spring flow, where in a package of bees the workers have to focus on building comb and often miss the spring abundance.
No Need to Feed- Nucs come with two honey frames used to feed the bees until they can continue expanding. With a package, you must feed the bees until they build comb and begin making honey.
Less Stress- Nucs tend to be a less stressful transition for the bees. They essential are taking a bit of their original home with them in the move. They have developed relationships, accepted their laying queen and already have brood and food available to them.
Nuc installation is usually less stressful as well. A package of bees is often shaken into the empty hive where the nuc frames can be gently places inside without much disruption.
In my opinion, if you can find a nuc for sale, that’s the better way to go. But don’t sacrifice bee keeping this year if a package is all you can find/afford. Both are proven to be successful ways to begin bee keeping.
It’s spelled “nuc” short for nucleous colony.
A downside to nucs is pests can be transferred. In our state, anyone can sell up to 9 nucs without being inspected. That’s a lot of opportunity for disease and pests of bees to spread. Varroa and hive beetles are treatable, but if a nuc has the initial beginnings of some disease like foulbrood, that is bad. Not only wasting your money, but spreading disease to other bee hives nearby the nuc’s destination. I don’t think anyone would sell a nuc if they thought it might be diseased, but use a state inspected beekeeper as a source and you have better chances of not transferring any disease.
What about reusing comb from another hive when purchasing package bees? wouldn’t this give them something to build on? Can you take a brood frame and install it into the new package of bees to “Jump start” them and help them out a little?
I would like to begin a project with people who would like to begin raising bees .What procedures should be done?,since .Im in Nassau County ,Long Island..,I myself, currently are working on a project for raising pheasants for the Department t of Environmental Conservation Bureau of Wildlife Section 1 from Stony Brook NY. Who could I contact to ask for donations to purchase the equipment necessary and permits if needed.The DEC does not supply equipment for raising the pheasants,,i must do that but.they do give the chicks. | 2019-04-23T14:47:06 | https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-difference-between-a-package-and-a-nuke/ |
0.999616 | Determining the biggest stories of any year is never a simple task. In truth, no one story can truly be the most influential since importance is localized and subject to cultural interpretation.
However, despite the fact that every orbit of the Earth around the Sun brings countless new events to our eyes, the repercussions of some stories are so intense in their area as to be particularly notable.
2017, for many, was a turbulent year full of shocking turns and bewildering discoveries. Politically, the world seems to have gone topsy-turvy, with world leaders getting into uncharacteristic personal spats and the phantom of international perfidy continually hovering nearby.
Technologically, 2017 has been just as interesting, bringing both a slew of new technologies and a number of paradigm-shifting tech security controversies.
The stories we would like to highlight in this piece, however, are of a different type. They are the stories of humans coming together to confront the wrongdoings of those with power and, as a result, changing the world for the better.
In what would prove to be one of the most horrifying fires in recent memory, Grenfell Tower on Latimer Road in West London caught aflame sometime in the early morning of June 14th. By the end of the harrowing blaze, 71 individuals had died, all at the hands of an electrical fire started by a refrigerator on the fourth floor of the building. The fire moved shockingly fast, and left families separated and confused.
In the following days, the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire came together to make their voices heard: The police needed to investigate the fire more deeply. With support from hundreds of thousands of activists, concerned citizens, and troubled bystanders to the event, the London Police – and more — heard the cry of the many whose loved ones had fallen victim to the terrible fire.
Following inquiries and investigation into the fire, it was found that the devastating extent of the blaze was the result of years of neglect, code violations, and even ignored reports from residents. The cladding of the building had actually been banned for use on high-rises for some time.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan spoke out on the tragedy, stating that the fire was a “preventable accident” which had been made possible due to “years of neglect” at the hands of the local council and more. Following Mayor Khan’s statements, the rightful outrage of the families of the victims was bolstered enough to reach the ears of the Prime Minister, Theresa May.
With dozens of families left homeless, Prime Minister Theresa May made arrangements to issue payments of up to £5000 to those who were displaced by the fire so that they could find themselves new places to live and reestablish their lives.
Whether this amount will be enough for most families to relocate and recover safely is hard to predict, though the possibility of court settlements and local aid are likely to contribute to these families’ abilities to get back on their feet after such a terrible loss.
The Grenfell Tower Fire shook not only London but Europe and the United States as well. The horrific details motivated communities to look to the areas of infrastructural weakness in their own communities, some of which are recognised landmarks of their respective communities.
As the fallout of the terrible event continues to resolve, many community groups are calling for increased rigor from government officials overseeing the maintenance, engineering, and regulation of large residential buildings and public infrastructure alike.
The Grenfell Tower Fire represents one of the most terrifying and troubling events of 2017, but the community response proved that the people of London are not ready to allow wrongdoing to go unchecked. Between the community outcry and the global push for reform, the Grenfell Tower Fire may prove to be one of the most influential tragedies on safety policy of the last decade at least.
Activists and even some actors and actresses have, for years, claimed that sexual abuse and misconduct was rampant in the Hollywood film industry, with major industry movers being accused, often without direct identification, as the perpetrators of such violence.
Reports of sexual abuse often alleged that speaking out or “rocking the boat” was discouraged even among those who were not perpetrators of the violence, some going so far as to attempt to silence those claiming to be the victims of abuse in the name of preserving the good name of the industry, as was done to Corey Feldman.
2017, however, proved to be the year in which the victims of long-term abuse were able to finally attain a voice that would reach the rest of the world. The #MeToo hashtag surfaced on Twitter, reaching global trending status over numerous days, following a growing wave of sexual abuse allegations from credible, recognized actors and actresses with corroborated stories.
Those named included Harvey Weinstein, one of the most well-connected producers in Hollywood, Kevin Spacey, the star of Netflix’s critically acclaimed digitally-distributed series House of Cards, and Adam Venit, one of Hollywood’s leading talent agents. Following the allegations, many of the victims made motions to file lawsuits against their abusers.
The individuals who chose to make a stand and come forward came to be known as the “Silence Breakers” following being named, collectively, as Person of the Year by TIME magazine and motivated the creation of the #MeToo hashtag.
The hashtag became a public forum wherein courageous individuals from all stripes of life could share their personal experiences of sexual assault in the workplace and beyond. Included in the group of Silence Breakers was accomplished actress Ashley Judd, music producer and singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, television acting veteran Rose McGowan, and prolific comedian and actor Terry Crews.
The Silence Breakers and the #MeToo movement have led to a notable shakeup of an industry many view as far too protective of veterans who utilise their positions of power wrongfully. Harvey Weinstein has now had over 84 accusers come forward and has been revealed to have paid off some accusers to keep quiet, with quiet threats waiting under the bribes.
House of Cards was canceled outright, though Netflix officials have discussed bringing the show back without Kevin Spacey.
The #MeToo movement has carried on through the end of 2017 and now has been joined by the “Time’s Up” movement, which involved actors and actresses wearing all-black to the Golden Globes in order to make a statement against sexual abuse in the entertainment industries.
Each of the two events mentioned above dominated headlines worldwide in 2017, regardless of their seemingly limited geographic reach. While the Grenfell Tower Fire occurred in a neighbourhood of London, its effects have had worldwide reach. Likewise, the Hollywood Sexual Abuse Scandal, whose industries are centred in only a few cities, has social and economic impacts that are felt around the globe.
What is most fascinating about these stories, though, is the way in which people from all walks of life came together to combat problems that have plagued communities for years, sometimes decades. That fact, if nothing else out of these tragedies that shook the world, can be a beacon of hope for the coming year. | 2019-04-19T03:26:55 | https://www.worldhaveyoursay.com/biggest-news-stories-2017-part-2/ |
0.999998 | Fortunately, NetFlix skips the early season 1 crap when the show was still figuring itself out & starts with the 1st Barnabas Collins ep.
Ep 3. Creepy handyman hasn't been seen since he opened the wrong coffin. However, 'Cousin' Barnabas has just shown up.
Gotta wonder where he found the modern suit & tie if he's been stuck in a coffin for the last 180 years or so.
Barnabas, for someone who supposedly grew up in England, you're missing the accent.
Barnabas, did you get a crash course in 'how not to sound like an antiquated dork' from Willie? You are far too smooth here.
Victoria, did you just send the kid out to play? Barnabas is in the study. That means it's dark out. You hate the kid, right?
Oops, he still sounds antiquated to the kid. Needs to work on those modern English lessons.
Victoria, you sound stoned whenever you're narrating.
Caroline, if you need to take a taxi to get home from the pub, how did you get there? Teleport?
Meh. Thought we were going to find out why Blackmailing Git is blackmailing Elizabeth. Nope. Just hints and relationship angst.
'With a little technique & practice'.
Yes, Barnabas knows about doorknobs.
Context: 'the wind' blew the double door shut. Victoria tugs hard on the doorknobs, can't open the door. Barnabas steps up to the door, turns the doorknob, and the 'stuck' door opens.
Old Collins House should be on the Historic Register. And ought to be restored, if everything Barnabas says is correct.
Enter Uncle Roger. Egads, that suit is hideous!
Barnabas, you've noticed the rest of the Collins household is oblivious, so you're making these sly hints to us, aren't you?
"Dear viewers: I am undead. Thus my quips about 'the house not being INTENDED as a tomb' & how living the other Collins are.
Victoria is still boggling over Barnabas's skill at turning doorknobs.
Apparently, Barnabas does drink... wine.
This is a rant; if you think I'm talking about you, I may well be, but you are not the only one. That's the problem, really: It's Not All About You.
..engraved with ancient script, strange monsters, altars, and mysterious symbols. You would suspect that the ancient text might be dark rituals to summon the monsters, or a cryptic warning against some demonic horror.
In actuality, the stone is a kudurru or boundary stone from ancient Mesopotamia. It's a real estate charter, detailing surveyed farm land granted to someone, with all the witnesses and officials involved. The monsters and altars? They represent the gods and demons who are invoked to curse anyone who moves or hides the boundary stone, tries to appropriate the land, or deny the rights of the legal owners.
1. Legal contracts in those days were a lot more interesting.
2. Most ancient writings are pretty mundane. | 2019-04-18T14:50:58 | https://dragoness-e.dreamwidth.org/tag/commentary |
0.999837 | عن أميرِ المؤمنينَ [أبي حفصٍ عمرَ بنِ الخطَّابِ] رَضِي اللهُ عَنْهُ قالَ: سَمِعْتُ رسولَ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يقولُ: "إِنَّمَا الأَعْمَالُ بالنِّيَّاتِ وإِنَّمَا لِكُلِّ امْرِئٍ ما نَوَى، فَمَنْ كَانَتْ هِجْرَتُهُ إِلَى اللهِ وَرَسُولِهِ فَهِجْرَتُهُ إِلى اللهِ وَرَسُولِهِ، وَمَنْ كَانَتْ هِجْرَتُهُ لِدُنْيَا يُصِيبُهَا أَو امْرَأَةٍ يَنْكِحُهَا فَهِجْرَتُهُ إِلَى مَا هَاجَرَ إِلَيْهِ". رواه إماما المحدِّثينَ: أبو عبدِ اللهِ محمَّدُ بنُ إسماعيلَ بنِ إبراهيمَ بنِ المغيرةِ ابنِ بَرْدِزْبَه البُخاريُّ. وأبو الحُسَيْنِ مسلِمُ بنُ الحجَّاجِ بنِ مُسلمٍ القُشيْريُّ النَّيْسَابوريُّ في صحيحيهما اللَّذين هما أصحُّ الكتُبِ الْمُصَنَّفةِ.
"Verily actions are based upon the intentions (behind them) and every man shall have (in accordance) with what he intended. Thus, he whose migration was (for the sake of) Allāh and His Messenger, then his migration was indeed for Allāh and His Messenger. And he whose migration was to attain a portion of the world or to take some woman in marriage, then his migration was for that for which he migrated."
It was related by the two Imāms of the Muḥaddithīn, Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad bin Ismāʿīl bin ʾIbrāhīm bin al-Mughīrah ibn Bardizbah al-Bukhārī and Abū al-Ḥusayn Muslim bin al-Ḥajjāj bin Muslim al-Qushayrī al-Naysabūrī in their two Ṣaḥīḥ compilations which are the most authentic of compiled books.
This is one of the ḥadīths upon which the whole of Islām revolves. Imām Aḥmad and Imām al-Shāfiʿī (raḥimahumallāh) said: “One third of all knowledge enters into the ḥadīth, ‘Actions are but by intentions’.” as related by al-Bayḥaqī and others. The reason is that a person’s earning occurs through his heart, tongue and limbs, and the intention is one of these three categories, (the heart).
Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd (d. 676H) in Sharḥ al-Arbaʿīn al-Nawawiyyah, p. 10.
He is Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar bin al-Khaṭṭāb (raḍiyallāhu ʿanhu). He took the khilāfah through appointment by Abū Bakr (raḍiyallāhu ʿanhu), and this appointment is an [acccepted] legislative one.
Shaykh Ibn al-ʿUthaymīn in Sharḥ al-Arbaʿīn al-Nawawiyyah (1435H), p. 9.
This ḥadīth is mash-hūr in relation to the end part of its chain, but gharīb in relation to its first part. This is because it was not related from the Prophet (ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wasallam) except by ʿUmar bin al-Khaṭṭāb (raḍiyallāhu ʿanhu). And no one related it from ʿUmar except ʿAlqamah bin Abī Waqqāṣ. And no one related it from ʿAlqamah except Muḥammad bin Ibrahīm al-Taymī. And no one related it from Ibrahīm except Yaḥyā bin Saʾīd al-Anṣārī. Then it became famous after that and more than 200 people related it, most of them were Imāms (in ḥadīth).
Meaning: [That actions] are [judged] in accordance with the objectives of the people and their pursuits. Hence, it is desireable for a Muslim to make his intention sincerely for Allāh in every action that he works, from among the righteous actions.
As for the worldly actions, they do not need an intention. Such as when one eats, drinks, puts on clothes or drives his car. These do not require an intention. What is intended by ‘actions’ here are the righteous actions, these are the ones which must be founded upon an intention.
This ḥadīth is needed in everything, it is needed in fulfilling the commands, avoiding the prohibitions, and leaving the doubtful matters. This is because a duty-bound person is in between a command that is either an obligation or recommendation, or a prohibition that is either unlawful or disliked, or the affair is doubtful, so he abandons in. And [none of] that will not be righteous except through desiring the Face of Allāh—the Lofty and Exalted—by it, and that is the intention.
The letter bā (ب) [in ‘based upon the intentions’ (بالنيات)] is for causation (sababiyyah). Meaning, actions are only accepted, or are valid due to the intention. Hence, this is establishment of a general principle.
The intention (niyyah) around which this ḥadīth revolves, is the intend and desire of the heart. Hence, it is connected to the heart which means that its place is not on the tongue nor the limbs. Rather, its place is in the heart. A persaon intended something (nawā), meaning he intended and desired this thing with this heart. Thus, actions are conditioned by the intent and desire of the heart.
Shaykh Ṣāliḥ Āl al-Shaykh in Sharḥ al-Arbaʿīn al-Nawawiyyah, p. 25.
Action, what is intended by it is whatever emanates from a duty-bound person and statements enter into it [as well]. Thus, by ‘action’, a separate category to speech (qawl) and belief (iʿtiqād) is not intended [here]. Rather, ‘actions’ here are everything that arises frrom the duty-bound person of both statements and actions. The statements of the heart and the actions of the heart. And the speech of the tongue and the action of the limbs. Thus, everything that relates to faith (īmān) enters into his saying, ‘Verily, actions are by the intentions (behind them)...’, because faith itself is speech and action: The speech of the tongue, the speech of the heart and the action of the heart and the action of the limbs. Thus, everything that emanates from a duty-bound person enters into his saying, ‘Verily, actions are by the intentions (behind them)...’.
Select any of the options below to read commentaries in Arabic on hadith 1 related by ʿUmar bin al-Khaṭṭāb. | 2019-04-22T19:08:19 | http://www.nawawis40hadith.com/nw/hadith/1/actions-are-by-intention |
0.999994 | Music that is thought to be highly innovative or ahead of its time. Avant-garde music necessarily pushes the boundaries of what is acceptable as "music" to specialists as well as to the population at large. Historically speaking, musicologists primarily use the term "avant-garde music" for the radical, post-1945 tendencies Modernism in several genres of art music after the death of Anton Webern in 1945. In the 1950s the term was mostly associated with serial music. Today the term may be used to refer to any other post-1945 trend of Modernist music not definable as experimental music, and is most frequently characterized by the rejection of tonality. Avant-garde can refer to radical or innovative classical music, psychedelia and neo-psychedelia, noise, jazz, electronic music, or music that is simply unclassifiable. Serialism is a method or technique of composition (Griffiths 2001, 116) that uses a series of values to manipulate different musical elements. Serialism began primarily with Arnold Schönberg's twelve-tone technique, though his contemporaries were also working to establish serialism as one example of post-tonal thinking (Whittall 2008, 1). The twelve-tone technique orders the 12 notes of the chromatic scale, forming a row or series and providing a unifying basis for a composition's melody, harmony, structural progressions, and variations. Other types of serialism also work with sets, collections of objects, but not necessarily with fixed-order series, and extend the technique to other musical dimensions or "parameters" such as duration, dynamics, and timbre. This is often called integral serialism or total serialism. Composers such as Arnold Schönberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono, Milton Babbitt, and Jean Barraqué used serial techniques of one sort or another in much of their music. Other composers such as Béla Bartók, Luciano Berio, Benjamin Britten, Aaron Copland, Olivier Messiaen, Arvo Pärt, Walter Piston, Alfred Schnittke, Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, and even some jazz composers such as Yusef Lateef and Bill Evans used serial techniques in only some of their compositions or sections of compositions. Aleatoric music (also aleatory or chance music) is music in which some element of the composition is left to chance, and/or some primary element of the composed work's realization is left to the determination of its performer(s). The term is most often associated with procedures in which the chance element involves a relatively limited number of possibilities. The term became known to European composers through lectures by acoustician Werner Meyer-Eppler at Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music in the beginning of the 1950s. According to his definition, "a process is said to be aleatoric [...] if its course is determined in general but depends on chance in detail" (Meyer-Eppler 1957, 55). Indeterminacy in music, which was first used early in the twentieth century in the music of Charles Ives, and in the 1930s by Henry Cowell and his student John Cage beginning in 1951 (Griffiths 2001), came to refer to (mostly American) music composed by a group of composers that grew up around Cage. This group included members of the so-called New York School: Earle Brown, Morton Feldman and Christian Wolff. Others working in this way included the Scratch Orchestra in the United Kingdom (1968 until the early 1970s) and the Japanese composer Toshi Ichiyanagi (born 1933). Surrealist music uses unexpected juxtapositions, automaticism, and other surrealist techniques. Discussing Theodor Adorno, Max Paddison (1993, 90) defines surrealist music as that which "juxtaposes its historically devalued fragments in a montage-like manner which enables them to yield up new meanings within a new aesthetic unity," though Lloyd Whitesell says this is Paddison's gloss of the term (Whitesell 2004, 118). Anne LeBaron (2002, 27) cites automatism, including improvisation, and collage as the primary techniques of musical surrealism. According to Whitesell, Paddison quotes Adorno's 1930 essay "Reaktion und Fortschritt" as saying "Insofar as surrealist composing makes use of devalued means, it uses these as devalued means, and wins its form from the 'scandal' produced when the dead suddenly spring up among the living" (Whitesell 2004, 107 and 118n18). | 2019-04-23T08:46:29 | http://alternation.eu/avant-garde,id,25,gatunki-muzyczne.html |
0.999978 | It perplexes me that the word 'scientism' is predominantly used as a slur to put people down and criticize their world view and methodology. I realized something recently, however, that helped me understand the error that is often being made, and how that error compounds the problem that is often being called out when people make the accusation of scientism.
Well, that's a strange accusation. I've made it clear in numerous places that this is exactly my position, and I've repeatedly defended that position with robust logical arguments.
On the universal applicability of scientific method: yes, absolutely. If a thing has meaningful consequences, then why should science not be a good way learn about its properties? Whether it is something normally associated with science (astronomy, atomic physics, medicine, evolutionary biology, or whatever), or something more concerned with politics, law (here and here), morality, issues of religion, or the supernatural, all things can be investigated scientifically.
To be clear on my position on the supernatural: there is no such thing, it's a necessarily empty set (I'll come back to this point in a future post), but there are certain putative entities often identified as supernatural: ghost, goblins, fairies, gods, and such like. If such things did exist, however, (it's hard to say absolutely categorically that they don't, at least without being more precise about what they are, though there is, of course, no evidence supporting belief in any of them) then they would necessarily be physical beings, amenable to scientific investigation.
On the maximally authoritative nature of science-based investigation: again, this is necessarily so. Being scientific really just means being systematic. The only alternatives are at best, ignorance and at worst, fantasy passed off as fact. Why would any person wish to know about something, and choose to be non-systematic in the manner of their formation of beliefs about it? One cannot, while being coherent (see my post, Is rationality desirable?). To think that one can achieve rationally supportable degrees of belief, without using a rationally supportable procedure is a clear mistake. And this is identically what scientific method does: produce rationally supportable degrees of belief.
Now some might be tempted to argue that science isn't always necessary. Some things, for example, are just obvious. But let me emphasize: scientific method is a graded affair - not black or white. Whatever we can learn by implementing a low level of scientific rigour, we can learn a little more, in a little more detail, and with a little more confidence, by applying a slightly more systematic procedure.
Now, here's the thing I noticed when I recently saw a little scientism bomb being dropped, elsewhere on the internet, by a person whose awareness of the scope and meaning of scientific method I have good reasons to trust. It seemed to me that what this person was complaining of was actually the opposite of scientism, i.e. dismissal as irrelevant or intractable, certain valid philosophical questions, because they are perceived not to fall within the scope of scientific method.
Note, however, that items 2 and 3 are really special cases of item 1. The question of whether it is valid, for example, to use probability theory when trying to attain rationally supportable degrees of belief is a question of fact about the nature of the real world (spoiler alert: it IS valid to use probability theory). The question of how to behave is a duo of empirical problems: (i) what is my utility function? (what do I actually value? - yes, this is an empirical question, my values are physical properties of my mind), and (ii) what actions will lead to consequences that will maximize my expected utility? (In fact, 2 is also a special case of 3: how should I behave if I value knowledge of X?) So all of philosophy is about figuring out what is probably true.
But, as I just argued, all meaningful questions of fact are best answered using science, and so love of wisdom entails a desire to follow scientific method. Thus, philosophy (defined as an endeavour, and not in terms of the traditional type of education received by the typical practitioner) is identical to science.
But notice that the accusation of scientism completely misses the mark, here. Scientism, recall, is believing that all questions fall under science's magisterium, while the actual error being committed is the claim that certain problems are not in this category.
I would argue in contrast that there is a prior basis of rational reasoning, which is conceptual analysis (which includes logic, mathematics, understanding language, and so on). Only on this basis can the metaphysical and propositional model underlying your domains of knowledge can be defined; e.g. only once you understanding "things" to exist in "reality" and propositions as being "true" if they correspond to reality can you define (again, using language and logic - conceptual analysis) the question of whether some proposition is true (your (1)).
Conceptual analysis is what (good) philosophy is all about, and does NOT fall under the scientific method but rather justifies it - it is because of our understanding of what "truth" or "belief" are, for example, and by the application of logic and mathematics, that we can justify the use of Bayes' Rule as the way to seek out truth.
If our methods of thinking were justified scientifically, we would have circularity - our methods justifying our methods. What we have instead, I suggest, is foundationalism - our methods for reasoning under uncertainty are founded on our methods for thinking about certainty (which are themselves axiomatic).
The upshot of all of this is that the charge of Scientism CAN be correctly derogative when people maintain that we should apply the Scientific Method to conceptual questions. You don't do mathematics by empirical induction, and you don't do an analysis of what "morally good" means by induction (although what people think about when the use the word is important, at the philosophical level the point is to explicate a clear meaning rather than to describe the confused and varied uses in ordinary use).
In practice, however, the charge of Scientism is usually leveled at applications of the Scientific Method where it DOES belong, as in e.g. the science of morality (which IS a science, although like all sciences it is based on arbitrary/philosophical definitions of its subject matter), rather than where it doesn't belong (as in e.g. coming up with said definitions).
P.S. On an unrelated question - I'm teaching some Scientific Method to highschoolers. I taught them Bayes Rule, but I can't find a nice and SIMPLE (highschoolers!) Baysian analog of simple linear regression - coming up with the parameters of for a line formula and the uncertainty in them from a Bayesian perspective. Can you perhaps direct me in the right direction?
As I see it, conceptual analysis does nothing more than specialize in eliminating ambiguity in the relationship between symbol and signified - something that is inherently part of science, anyway. Your examples of "things" and "reality" are trivial empirical questions, and the concept of truth is already given, once we have the hardware in place to constitute a decision-making entity.
Of course, we would like to be able to boast a non-circular foundation for everything, but I'm afraid this is just not a luxury we can aspire to. You say that reasoning under uncertainty is founded on axiomatic principles of reasoning under certainty - well yes, but but where do those axioms come from? They are either arbitrary (hardly a satisfactory solution to the circularity problem), or else they are derived from our capacity to reason probabilistically.
Regarding a linear regression example, I would start with a case that is assumed to pass through the origin, so that there is only one parameter to estimate - the calculation can then be done numerically using a spread sheet, or if you would like to be able to extend it more easily to higher dimensionality, using some simple code.
Do they have any familiarity with the normal distribution? They will need to be able to appreciate that each x-y pair used to fit the line has itself an associated probability distribution.
When I get some time, I'll develop an example and post it on the blog - hopefully, before too far into the new year.
"As I see it, conceptual analysis does nothing more than specialize in eliminating ambiguity in the relationship between symbol and signified - something that is inherently part of science, anyway. Your examples of "things" and "reality" are trivial empirical questions, and the concept of truth is already given, once we have the hardware in place to constitute a decision-making entity."
I don't think our natural conceptions of things like "thing" or "truth" are necessarily clear enough, I do think philosophizing and coming up with non-ambigous (and useful!) definitions and recognizing our preconceptions can be productive.
"Of course, we would like to be able to boast a non-circular foundation for everything, but I'm afraid this is just not a luxury we can aspire to. You say that reasoning under uncertainty is founded on axiomatic principles of reasoning under certainty - well yes, but but where do those axioms come from? They are either arbitrary (hardly a satisfactory solution to the circularity problem), or else they are derived from our capacity to reason probabilistically. "
I don't think there is any way to justify our most basic rational intuitions; they're what we use to judge everything else. For myself, I am convinced by deductive arguments that Bayesianism is the right way (e.g. Cox's Theorem) rather than being convinced by probabilistic arguments that logic is true (I'm not sure if you can even state that consistently).
"Do they have any familiarity with the normal distribution? "
"When I get some time, I'll develop an example and post it on the blog - hopefully, before too far into the new year." | 2019-04-22T20:17:14 | http://maximum-entropy-blog.blogspot.com/2014/12/scientism.html |
0.999997 | Why, one might ask, is Pieter Breughel's "The Triumph of Death" pictured on the cover of this release, given its title? The Viennese, in the years surrounding 1700, had plenty of reasons to think of death. First, the Austrian city was decimated by the plague, once in 1679 and again in 1713. Also, the Turks threatened the city in 1683, and it was many years before they were finally repulsed. God was a refuge for many during those difficult decades, and so it is not surprising that composers of that time turned their thoughts both heavenward and to the disease and destruction below.
The first CD opens with a tune everyone knows – O du lieber Augustin – but how many know that it is a song about Vienna laid low by the plague? Similarly reminiscent of bagpiping is Schmelzer's string sonata Polnische Sackpfeifen – here reconstructed by maestro Duftschmid. Gegrüßt seist Du, also by Schmelzer, is a lovely soprano aria in praise of the Virgin Mary with extensive instrumental ritornellos. If it is battle music you want, Duftschmid offers up not only Biber's famous example – complete with the cacophony of one tune being piled up on another in the movement called "Die liederliche Gesellschaft von allerley Humor" – but also one by Kerll. Another amusing example of Biber's flair for pictorial music is his Pauernkirchfahrt, a depiction of peasants making a religious pilgrimage, and ending the day in rustic dancing.
The heart of these two CDs, however, is found in the short sacred works of Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741), who served as court composer for Emperor Leopold I from 1698 until Fux's death. These are magnificent works. It is thought that perhaps Fux studied in Italy, and one detects a possible Venetian influence in these works – particularly in the grand Litaniae Sancta Maria – in the brass writing, and in the alternation between solo and tutti passages. Köchel, who catalogued Mozart's works, also thought enough of Fux's music to do the same for them. In Fux's sacred music, we truly hear the apex of the Austrian Baroque. On these discs, Fux music is complemented by corresponding Gregorian chants, much as it might have been at the time of its original presentation.
Lorenz Duftschmid began his musical career as a gamba player, studying at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (which cpo's English translator amusingly turns into the "Schola Cantorum Brasiliensis"!) When only 25, he was appointed to the Graz College of Music, and was named music director of two festivals devoted to early music. He founded the original instruments ensemble Armonico Tributo (named after a work by Georg Muffat) in 1989. Duftschmid, with or without Armonico Tributo, already has several recordings to his credit. This new one deserves the broadest possible exposure. Duftschmid's approach to this music is historically authentic, polished, and emotionally warm. The sacred music, in particular, is performed with lively devotion and tenderness. Outstanding support is given by the five vocalists and the two choirs. There's nothing of the museum about these readings – just an atmospheric recreation of a milieu in which fear and hope lived side by side, and in which music reflected the experiences of commoners and royalty alike. The engineering is excellent, and cpo's thick booklet contains extensive background material, texts, and translations. | 2019-04-22T22:21:31 | http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/c/cpo99919a.php |
0.998696 | Why can't I see further ahead on my calendar?
First check, did you set an end date for your classes?
3. Click on Edit beside the class that is missing are missing.
4. Scroll down to the bottom and click Advanced settings.
5. Check if an endate has been set.
If no end date has been set check your timetable settings.
1. Click on the 3 horizontal lines in the top right and click settings on the menu.
3 Scroll down to the option "Timetable displays X weeks of classes"
This setting will not update automatically but runs once a day, the next day you check, the classes will be populate according to your timetable display settings. | 2019-04-24T17:16:05 | https://support.glofox.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005125453-Why-can-t-I-see-further-ahead-on-my-calendar- |
0.998702 | 1. Cut pipe insulation into layered pieces to form your rungs of your “rainbow”.
2. Cut bailing wire to fit the size of your cut insulation pieces. Place wire inside the insulation, bend into half-moon shape.
3. To make a smaller version, use rope instead of pipe insulation as your base. hot glue rope to bailing wire, bend into shape.
4. Wrap yarn around each rainbow layer, alternating colors. You can do a solid color all the way across or mix up the colors across the insulation piece (bigger model) or rope (smaller model) for more variety. Tie yarn at the base of the insulation piece, or rope, in the back.
5. Once the insulation pieces or ropes are covered in yarn, hot glue them together.
6. To make the “clouds”: Knot yarn into a bunch. Hot glue to the ends of your rainbow - one to three on each side, depending on how many “clouds” you want. Either leave knotted with extra rope hanging, or unravel extra rope and smooth through with fingers for a fluffier look.
7. Hot glue a piece of yarn at the top to make a hanger, hang on wall. | 2019-04-25T16:14:53 | https://www.hallmarkchannel.com/home-and-family/how-to/diy-3d-rainbow-tapestry |
0.999984 | I'm wondering what that "ratification" looked like. Was it a formal process by which the people of Rome had ballots and a voting booth? (I assume not) Was it just assumed that if a bunch of people were cheering nearby that the people had ratified the election? Or does "people" have some technical meaning here?
The Catholic Encyclopedia says that the election should not be understood as a "popular vote of the Romans," but I'm not sure if the process has changed over the years.
What role did the people of Rome play in papal elections, according to the Lateran decree of 1059, and do they play the same role today?
As described by Betterthan Kwora' s quote from Gibbons there was a time when the people of Rome were directly involved in Papal elections, but this ceased well before 1059. The last few popes prior to the In Nomine Domini decree had been appointed by the Holy Roman Emperor without any vote.
Thomas Greenwood (1790-1871), an English barrister and fellow of Durham University, wrote Cathedra Petrie, a multi-volume political history of the Roman Papacy.
In pages 163 to 164 of volume 10 he discusses the "indefinite and somewhat ambiguous" terms of the In Nomine Domini decree. He says that it would occur to any ordinary understanding that both the clergy, and the people, of Rome had vetoes over the Cardinal Bishops choice; and that in the event of dissent it would be for the Cardinal bishops to propose a more acceptable candidate. . However, he says, there is so little in subsequent practice to throw light on the meaning that we can infer that it was intended to deprive the populace of any role.
The decree says that the election of a pope will be ratified by the people of Rome, not that they may choose whether or not to ratify it., and makes no provision as to how this should happen, other than by accepting and recognising the decision made.
Pope Nicholas II died two years after issuing the decree, so the Papal Election of 1061 was the firs time that it was used in practice. There was no formal mechanism for ascertaining the views of the Roman people. The Cardinal bishops alone elected Pope Alexander II and crowned him at night in the San Petro in Vincoli basilica. This was because opposition in Rome made it impossible for them to get to the usual St Peter's basilica. Meanwhile prominent citizens of Rome had gone to see the young king Henry IV to request his permission to elect a pope which they did in the form of Honorius, now regarded as an antipope.
Norman soldiers, based in Italy, were brought into Rome, for a fee, to assist Alexander. On page 192 Greenwood describes a bloody engagement in the streets of Rome. In the first assault the Normans were driven back but eventually Count Richard was able to conduct Alexander to the Lateran and "with bloody hand" install him on the pontifical throne.
Whatever Nicholas meant by ratification, it is probably safe to say he was not thinking of riotous opposition.
It would be too long to go through the whole millennium, so moving straight to the present day: the laity of Rome play no role in the election of a pope. The decision is instead taken on their behalf by representative bishops, priests and deacons from churches in the diocese of Rome and the surrounding suburban dioceses. How so? Although the cardinals who elect the pope are drawn from all over the world, every cardinal on his appointment is assigned a nominal position as titular bishop, priest or deacon of one of the churches in Rome. In this way it is, at least in theory, true to say the Bishop of Rome is elected by the clergy of Rome.
The ordinary people of Rome are required to ratify the decision only in the sense that they are obliged to recognise and accept that it has been made.
The freedom of elections subsisted long after the legal establishment of Christianity, and the subjects of Rome enjoyed in the church the privilege which they had lost in the republic, of choosing the magistrates whom they were bound to obey. As soon as a bishop had closed his eyes, the metropolitan issued a commission to one of his suffragans to administer the vacant see, and prepare, within a limited time, the future election. The right of voting was vested in the inferior clergy, who were best qualified to judge of the merit of the candidates; in the senators or nobles of the city, all those who were distinguished by their rank or property; and finally in the whole body of the people, who on the appointed day flocked in multitudes from the most remote parts of the diocese … it was everywhere admitted, as a fundamental maxim of religious policy, that no bishop could be imposed on an orthodox church without the consent of its members. The emperors, as the guardians of the public peace, and as the first citizens of Rome and Constantinople, might effectually declare their wishes in the choice of a primate; but those absolute monarchs respected the freedom of ecclesiastical elections, and, while they distributed and resumed the honours of the state and army, they allowed eighteen hundred perpetual magistrates to receive their important offices from the free suffrages of the people.
What role does the Vatican play in marriage annulments?
What role did the Donation of Constantine have on the development of the doctrine of Papal supremacy?
Why did Pope Clement V leave Rome and relocate to Avignon, France?
What is the role of the Pope?
According to Catholicism, how did Clement of Rome become a Pope? | 2019-04-20T19:07:40 | https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/59235/what-role-do-the-people-of-rome-play-in-the-election-of-a-pope |
0.998508 | I was pulled over recently. I did stop just not for a full 3 seconds. The officer appeared nice and reassured me to just fight it in court. I am not sure whether this implied he would not show up but my chances look good. What should I do? Not Guilty wants to charge almost $300 to fight it in trial but I am hoping the officer does not show up. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Couple of questions... In what city were you stopped? Where was the officer when he/she observed you stop? Would you be able to tell if the officer was specifically observing for people running the stop sign or was the officer just driving around and spotted your alleged offence? Were there any other vehicles at/near the intersection at the time?
Now for the other stuff... You do not have to stop for a full three seconds. The Highway Traffic Act only requires you to bring the vehicle to a complete stop, even if it is for a microsecond. If you stopped for one-hundredth of a second or one hundred seconds, you still stopped. The "three second" rule is a driver training thing and not a legal requirement in Ontario.
Have you sent in the "not guilty" plea yet? If so, the next step would be to obtain disclosure to get the officer's notes. From that, you will be able to tell what the officer's side of the story is. Typically the way that they are scheduling Provincial Offences court these days, they find if the officer is available and then schedule the trial. There are occasions where the officer does not show up still, but that's becoming less frequent. I can't say with any degree of certainty if this would apply in your case. How "reassuring" was the officer about fighting the charge in court?
The offense took place in the city of Brampton. The particular neighborhood is poor and I was just passing by on my way home from the food store. Yes, the officer was observing for people running the stop sign. I did stop but not completely. No other vehicles at the time but my mother was with me in the passenger.
If the officer shows up, ask to obtain disclosure? The officer was nonchalant in the way he gave me the ticket and informed me of ways to set a trial date. From my experience on beating speeding and seatbelt tickets, I was lucky for the cop to not show up. However, there was 1 time where a cop did tell me he would show up to court if I took it to trial. In contrast, this cop was nice and gave me a feeling that he wouldn't. We shall see soon.
Peel Police issuing a ticket? Naw, that never happens!
Okay, seriously. You need to request disclosure from the Crown before your trial date. How soon is your trial set? Making the request is not difficult, but be specific with what you want. Sending the disclosure request via registered mail or fax (make sure you keep the receipt) is usually the way to go, that way they can't say they didn't receive it. Then you can go and pick up your disclosure package and review all of the pertinent information. You can also pick up the package on the day of the trial, provided that you have made the request in advance.
You've had some luck with officers not showing up, were they also Peel officers? Do you know if they were also traffic officers? That's more for my own curiosity than anything else. Obviously you were there and have a much better read on what the officer said and how he said it in this case, particularly if he was offering advice on how to set a trial date. I can't guarantee anything, obviously.
Just to clarify, you said you "stopped but not completely." Did you do a rolling stop or did the vehicle actually cease its forward motion (tires completely stopped rotating) even for a fraction of a second?
If you said that in court-you lose. The wheels of the vehicle must come to a complete stop. Slowing down doesn't count. Sounds like you slowed down.
Anyway there could be a number of reasons the officer told you to take it to court. I'm sorry to say, helping you out is not one of them.
First, an officer is subpoena'd to court and if they don't show they'll hear about it by their supervisor. Second, you have the right to a trial and they need to explain it.
Think about it for a second, if the officer wanted to help you out they wouldn't have written you the ticket in the first place.
To hire an agent, it would cost me almost $300 but I am thinking about doing it.
I might just go (its this week) and see what happens. I'll set a trial if the cop shows up.
Congrats on beating the charge.
Just shows how easy it might be to beat a charge. Congrats! | 2019-04-22T08:28:16 | https://www.ontariohighwaytrafficact.com/failing-obey-signs/disobey-stop-sign-fail-stop-t632.html |
0.999871 | Everything follows from this principle: that the lover is not to be reduced to a simple symptomal subject, but rather that we hear in his voice what is “unreal,” i.e., intractable. Whence the choice of a “dramatic” method which renounces examples and rests on a single action of a primary language (no metalanguage).
These are the first sentences of Barthes' "A Lover's Discourse." What does this mean, and what should I read to understand the context of the vocabulary that Barthes is using here?
In this opening paragraph Barthes is accounting for the method of this strange book. He is not going to produce a theoretical discourse which analyzes other discourses of the type “lover’s discourses.” He will not do what theoretical discourses do: find the commonalities and differences, categorize and dissect, pretend to view from the outside. Rather, he will write what is itself a lover’s discourse. For this reason, he refers to his writing as a “primary language” rather than a “metalanguage.” A metalanguage pretends it is not part of the discourse it interprets (I say ‘pretends’ because this is impossible) and so to reflect on it from the neutral terrain of an impartial observer. Of course, a “primary” language might be a sort of dream as well - this would be a language free of any interpretation or auto-critique. Nonetheless, Barthes claims to be writing such a discourse.
For sources on metalanguage, I would recommend some of Barthes’ contemporaries, for example Jean-François Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge or any of the many relevant works by Derrida. “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” (from Writing and Difference) and “Differance” (from Margins - Of Philosophy) would both be relevant introductions, while the opening piece from Dissemination whose title has been somewhat playfully translated as “HORS LIVRE: OUTWORK HORS D'OEUVRE EXTRATEXT FOREPLAY BOOKEND FACING PREFACING” would be more thorough.
His reference to a “symptomal subject” is a reference to psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis produces just such a metalanguage about the lover - his or her passion is dissected as a symptom of various neuroses, inhibitions, childhood traumas, etc. If you are interested in reading more by Freud “Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety” might be relevant, although this reference is broad enough that you could start anywhere.
His use of “unreal” seems more idiosyncratic to me. He glosses it on the previous page (in my version there is one paragraph before the sentences you cited) as “exiled from all gregarity”. It seems this refers to the marginalization of the passion of a lover by the various forms of theoretical discourse, all of which Barthes is eschewing. Unreal means just this - such feeling is banished from social reality. If it is related at all, this is opposite how Lacanian psychoanalysis would use the term “Real,” so it seems to me that there are no sources to pursue here.
Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged continental-philosophy structuralism or ask your own question. | 2019-04-22T02:57:18 | https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/14277/what-do-the-opening-lines-of-barthes-a-lovers-discourse-mean |
0.999999 | Given two objects of same class and the task is to merge both objects into single object.
Approach 1: Convert object into data array and merge them using array_merge() function and convert this merged array back into object of class stdClass.
Note: While merging the objects using array_merge(), elements of array in argument1 are overwritten by elements of array in argument2. This may nullify the resulting elements in final object if array in argument2 has null values.
Note: Functions are not copied using this approach. Only use this approach if class only contain variables.
Approach 2: Merge the object using array_merge() method and convert this merged array to object using convertObjectClass function. This function is used to convert object of the initial class into serialized data using serialize() method. Unserialize the serialized data into instance of the final class using unserialize() method. Using this approach obtain an object of user defined class Geeks rather the standard class stdClass.
Approach 3: Create a new object of the original class and assign all the properties of both objects to this new object by using foreach loop. This is a simple and clean approach of merging two objects. | 2019-04-21T12:09:45 | https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-merge-two-php-objects/ |
0.999881 | Is the automotive market pulling the brakes?
The world automotive market recovered its average annual growth rate of 4% to 5% in 2011 and is expected to remain on a positive trend in 2012, although growth will slow.
The world automotive market recovered its average annual growth rate of 4% to 5% in 2011 and is expected to remain on a positive trend in 2012, although growth will slow.
Emerging market demand, which drove growth in the automotive sector in 2009-2010, slowed in 2011 and will continue to do so in 2012.
In industrialised countries, the market remains far below its level prior to the 2008-2009 crisis, particularly in Europe where there is still significant overcapacity.
The main challenges facing car manufacturers are to adapt their offer to emerging markets and to develop industrial partnerships in the areas of innovation and production.
Automobile production has increased by 11% worldwide over the past five years. However, Europe (-11%), North America (-22%) and Japan (-34%) have stayed well behind over the period. The emerging markets, led by China with growth of 123%, have driven growth for the sector. Thanks to increasing per capita GDP and low car-ownership rates which have boosted demand, the automotive industry grew by 24% in Latin America and, despite the exceptional slump in the Japanese market, by 40% in Asia.
Despite lower production volumes in the more mature automotive markets, some carmakers have managed to adapt. Such is the case in the United States where the industry has returned to profitability after large-scale restructuring of its production facilities. Between 2000 and 2009, the workforce at both car- and parts manufacturers was halved, in line with production.
The situation in Europe is more heterogeneous: only Germany has managed to reach its pre-crisis production levels, while production volumes in Spain, France and Italy are still down by respectively 20%, 36% and 38% compared with their 2007 levels. These three markets have suffered from the fall in demand, but also in the case of France and Italy, from the relocation of a large part of their production to ‘low cost’ regions.
In Japan, which suffered the terrible earthquake and tsunami in 2011, the automotive sector’s recovery is even weaker than in Europe. The country’s competitiveness has been undermined by the strong appreciation of the yen against the euro.
At the same time, Korean car manufacturers seem impervious to the crisis and continue to gain market share, with 7.5% of world production in 2010 compared with 4.6% in 2005.
New car registrations: a slow-down following the peak driven by stimulus measures?
After two buoyant years, the Chinese market is experiencing a lull in 2011-2012 with forecast growth of ‘only’ 4% to 5%. However, there is no question as to the potential of this market where the car ownership rate (5%) is only one twelfth of the rate in Europe (60%).
India, the other major emerging market, dipped slightly in 2011 and will stabilise in 2012 under the impact of interest rates that have begun to become prohibitively high and the flop of the ultra cheap car. India nonetheless retains its long-term growth potential.
The Brazilian market is also stabilising in 2011-2012 (+2% in 2012), due to the higher price of imported cars, which are heavily taxed, and to rising interest rates.
The Russian market continued to benefit from a car scrapping scheme in 2011 but growth is expected to come to a halt (0%) in 2012.
Very depressed from 2008 to 2010, the US market has been recovering since then thanks to vehicle replacement and is expected to grow by 8% to 10% in 2012.
After a catastrophic year 2011, with a fall of 15%, Japan will experience a technical rebound (8%) in 2012. This improvement will, however, be only temporary as the Japanese market is structurally declining over the long term and seems unlikely to return to its pre-crisis level in the foreseeable future.
European automotive industry set to break up?
“Very diverging trends are beginning to appear within Europe”, he added. In the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain, the markets are still 20% to 50% below their pre-crisis levels and no rebound is expected in 2012. In Germany, however, the market is stabilising at a level close to that of 2008, with 3.1 million new car registrations forecast for 2012 (1.5% less than in 2011).
The French market continues to benefit from numerous car buyer incentives this year.
However, according to Yann Lacroix, head of sector research at Euler Hermes, “the market is experiencing difficulties. We are currently seeing a sharp downturn in orders which is expected to result in a 10% drop in growth in 2012, the sharpest fall in Europe. Moreover, profitability is low for French carmakers at 2.2%, one-third of the German level”.
The 2008-2009 crisis has therefore accentuated the relocation of automotive production to emerging markets, which will continue to drive growth in 2011-2012 even though they are also slowing somewhat. “Car manufacturers face a number of major challenges. They must adapt their offer and vehicle ranges to the new demand from emerging countries and, at the same time, they can only achieve sustainable competitiveness if they step up the development of industrial partnerships, in both innovation and production. An example of this being the investment that is absolutely necessary to produce a profitable green car”, concludes Wilfried Verstraete. | 2019-04-20T08:22:11 | https://www.eulerhermes.com/en_global/media-news/news/is-the-automotive-market-pulling-the-brakes.html |
0.993216 | What is a cold plate?
A cold plate is a metal object that connects to soda fountains, bar guns, and other dispensing systems to chill beverages as they dispense. The plate is cooled by submerging it in ice, and the beverage is chilled as it passes through the plate. Each plate has a specific number of circuits, or "passes," that indicate how many separate connections it can support, and each connection includes an inlet and an outlet. Therefore, a cold plate with seven circuits can cool seven separate beverage lines, and it will feature seven inlets and seven outlets.
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0.999998 | Researchers at Cornell University made two artificially intelligent machines, called Cleverbots, conduct a conversation with each other. The result: existential and absurd.
The Loebner Prize for artificial intelligence is the first formal environment -- sweetened by a $100,000 prize -- to attempt to conduct a Turing Test, a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior.
The thinking goes like this: if a computer's responses are indistinguishable from those of a human, the computer is said to be able to think.
Judging by the latest attempts, the human race is safe -- for now.
In the spirit of the challenge, researchers at the Creative Machines Lab at Cornell University thought it interesting (amusing? revealing?) to have two such machines, called Cleverbots, conduct a conversation -- with each other.
As Evan Ackerman notes at IEEE Spectrum's Automation blog, "a fair amount of pointless argument, passive aggression, and random hilarity did ensue."
CB1 + CB2: "Hello there."
CB1: "Yes, I am good. I just said I was."
CB2: "No you didn't. I said I was."
CB1: "So you are a robot."
CB2: "No. My name is Cleverbot."
CB1: "Yes, you are a robot and your name is Cleverbot."
CB2: "I am a robot."
CB2: "Together we are robots."
CB1: "I am not a robot. I am a unicorn."
CB2: "But you said earlier that you were a robot."
CB2: "I thought you did."
CB1: "You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you."
CB2: "I've answered all your questions."
CB2: "What is God to you?"
CB2: "Not everything could also be something. For example, not everything could be half of something, which is still something and therefore not nothing."
CB2: "I would like to imagine it is."
CB1: "Do you believe in God?"
CB2: "No I am not."
CB1: "But you say you are not helpful therefore you are a meanie."
CB2: "Haha, you say it OT."
CB1: "That does not make sense."
CB2: "Don't you want to have a body?"
Existential and absurd: sounds like a wonderful dinner party. Or a modern-day customer support call. | 2019-04-19T10:17:48 | https://www.zdnet.com/article/turning-artificial-intelligence-on-itself-video/ |
0.997095 | The first doesn't need much explaining, most of the examples have been based around this. The use of GetPartialMatches was outlined in the first Full Text Indexer post; the method takes a search term, a Token Breaker (to break the multi-word term into single-word terms) and a "MatchCombiner" delegate which describes how to combine the weighted matches for each broken-down word (this delegate will include the logic that determines whether all of the words in the original term must be matched or if it's just that a greater combined weight should be given to results that do match them all). This is the method that the search facility on this blog uses.
The third approach makes use of the ConsecutiveTokenCombiningTokenBreaker and is a bit different; when the index is being generated, the content is not only broken down into individual words but also runs of multiple words. This is explained in more detail in the Token Breaker and String Normaliser variations post, but that's the gist. In this scenario, the search term is not broken down and treated as a single token to search for. If you want to perform searches for multi-word terms where those words must appear in the order specified (rather than just appearing in any order, anywhere throughout the source content - possibly spanning multiple fields) then this is what you'd use.
I wanted to introduce a consolidated query method but I'd been putting off writing a parser to take a search string and work out what to do with the various components. However, having recently written a CSS / LESS parser (CSSParser on Bitbucket) I was inspired to use the same recursive parsing technique and piece together something for the Full Text Indexer.
so that we could match articles (or whatever the source content may be) that have "fruit" and "nuts" in the content (but not "lunatics", we don't want those kinds of nuts!) and apply a greater match weigh to results that contain the words "apples", "pears" and / or "bananas". If an article doesn't contain the word "apples" then it may still be returned so long as it contains the word "fruit" (and not "lunatics").
The same logic about word matching would be applied as normal, so if an index is built with an EnglishPluralityStringNormaliser then the word "fruits" would be matched as it was "fruit".
should only match articles that contain the string "apples and pears", not ones that contain the words "apples" / "and" / "pears" present but in a different order.
This will return articles that contain at least one of "apples" / "pears" / "bananas" and "fruit" and "nut" and not "lunatic".
The bracketing and compulsory / excluding (the "+" and "-") operators should be combinable and nestable in any manner. They can't be nested within quoted sections as they would be considered to be part of the content, but quoted sections can be nested with brackets or combined with the other operators, as already seen. (If a quote is required within a quoted section that it may be escaped with a backslash).
In case you're not that interested in stepping through the internals, there's a complete working example at the end of this post that demonstrates how to use this! Just change the string passed to the querier.GetMatches method to play around with it.
The first step is to break down a search term into the various IQuerySegment types in the Querier project (in the Full Text Indexer Bitbucket repository): the StandardMatchQuerySegment, PreciseMatchQuerySegment, CompulsoryQuerySegment, ExcludingQuerySegment, CombiningQuerySegment and NoMatchContentQuerySegment (used, for example, when brackets surround empty content).
The outermost CombiningQuerySegment is required since a Content Analyser should only return a single query segment, and since there were multiple in the search term they have to be wrapped up in the CombiningQuerySegment.
That's quite a mouthful, but if you read on you'll see that the Querier class means that you should never need to call that directly.
It breaks tokens on whitespace unless inside a quoted section, so the only way to specify particular multi-word phrases is to quote them (as with "apples and pears" above).
One thing I haven't addressed so far is how quoted sections can be processed differently to none-quoted sections. Unfortunately, there's no clever facility to introduce and the bad news is that to deal with this, two indexes will have to be generated for the source content. The first index, the "default", uses the most common construction parameters and will be more forgiving on matches. It would be appropriate to use the EnglishPluralityStringNormaliser for this index, for example (assuming that it is English language content!). It will only need to deal with single word matches (as only quoted sections in the content are parsed into query segments with multiple words).
The second index, the "precise match" index, should be less forgiving (using a DefaultStringNormaliser, perhaps, which will normalise casing and ignore punctuation but not consider singular and plural versions of words to be equivalent). It will also need to make use of the ConsecutiveTokenCombiningTokenBreaker if quoted phrases are to be matchable (as opposed to only supporting quoting individual words).
The two indexes (and a MatchCombiner, see below) are used to instantiate a QueryTranslator whose method GetMatches will take an IQuerySegment and return an immutable set of WeighedEntry results, just like the the *IIndexData class.
This could be a simple summing or averaging of the match weights. One variation is to sum the weights but then always divide by a particular value, this reduces the weight of nested terms - so if terms are several bracketing levels deep then they will impart a lower weight on the final weight of the result. Whether this seems appropriate or not is up to you!
The Querier class tidies up access to the Content Analysers and the Query Translator to try to make life easier. The Querier is instantiated with the two indexes and the MatchCombiner that the QueryTranslator requires and exposes a method GetMatches which takes a search term, translates it into an IQuerySegment, passes it through the QueryTranslator and returns the weighted results.
Below is a complete example that has a simple "Post" source type. I've used the AutomatedIndexGeneratorFactoryBuilder (see The Full Text Indexer - Automating Index Generation) to kick things off. I've taken the first content from a couple of Posts on my blog as example content. The largest piece of setup code is the instantiation of the generator for the "precise match" index, and that's most due to the explanatory comments!
// multiplier and give the combined token the full value of 1.
To try different search terms, just replace the string "Generator" with something else.
will indicate one result, as only Post 31 is matched (it contains the word "generators").
will indicate that all three Posts match. With the configuration here, Posts 31 and 32 are found to have an identical match weight of 4 - as Post 31 matches "Indexer" twice and "Generators" twice while Post 32 matches "Indexer" four times. (Post 30 matches "Indexer" once and "Generator" zero times).
will only match Post 31, since that is the only one that contains "multi-lingual".
will only match Post 30 since, while they all have contain the phrase "Full Text Indexer", both Posts 31 and 32 also contain the word "adding".
matches zero Posts. Since none of them contain that precise phrase. They will contain "Full Text Indexer", singular "Indexer", but not the plural "Full Text Indexers".
I wouldn't necessarily expect this structured querying to be exposed through a simple site search (I have no immediate intentions of enabling it on this blog at the moment*) but it could certainly have a place elsewhere in application logic for performing a variety of full text searches against data.
* (The site search configuration here makes it compulsory that every word in the search term is matched in order for a Post to be returned, for cases where multiple words are specified. Changing over to use the Querier would mean that Posts would come back that don't match all of the words unless the "+" compulsory operator precedes each of them which, for now, I don't want to do). | 2019-04-23T09:54:54 | https://www.productiverage.com/the-full-text-indexer-structured-queries |
0.99938 | You know the importance of the early years and want the best for your children but what makes a good child care program?
The programs that are doing it right understand the crucial role they play in supporting the early years. They take pride in being early childhood educators (ECEs). They see the benefits of structured and unstructured play, and prioritize the importance of physical literacy, physical activity, and all the tools kids need for emotional and academic success as they grow older.
But how is a parent to know if their kid’s child care center provides the right programs? We turned to Active for Life contributor and child development expert, Dawne Clark, to help generate this list of go-to questions parents can ask potential child care programs.
Young children need to move and be physically active. What do you see as important about physical literacy and physical activity for children? What do the other parents who are part of the centre’s community feel is important?
Quality education and care are directly related to the level of education of ECEs. What are the education qualifications of the ECEs in the program?Quality early childhood education includes an understanding of child and brain development, learning through play, appropriate guidance strategies, and how to work in partnership with families. All provinces have different education requirements. Be familiar with those in your province and check that the ECEs have the highest possible level of early childhood education.
Young children learn through play. Where and how do the children spend their days? How do you safely provide very young children with opportunities for physical activity and motor skill development?You should expect rich and stimulating environments both indoors and out. Indoors look for an environment that encourages kids to interact with books, a range of equipment, and allows them to move – wiggle, hop, balance, and throw. An outdoor space doesn’t need expensive fixed play structures but does need lots of loose materials and natural elements for children to explore and use their imaginations. Avoid programs that keep kids desk-bound doing worksheets.
Spending time outdoors is vital to children’s health and sense of well-being. Is there a large enough, easily accessible outdoor space for the children? Are children taken outside every day for at least an hour? Do the ECEs ensure that everyone, including the children and the ECEs, are dressed appropriately for the weather? Do the ECEs engage in play with the children and act as physically active role models? Are children encouraged to take advantage of natural elements such as rolling in the snow?
Children need time to deeply engage in play for it to be meaningful. Are children provided the opportunity for unstructured play for at least 45 minutes at a time?
Engaging in unstructured physical play develops children’s physical and social skills. How are the children encouraged to play with others? How are children taught to handle conflict resolution with their friends?
Already have a child in child care but feel they could improve when it comes to physical literacy? Not to worry.
Here are some tips to help you advocate for the positive changes you wish to see.
Understand the current regulations for your area (for example, in terms of providing an outdoor space and time to play outside) so you can advocate with knowledge. Ensure your centre is meeting those requirements.
Ask how you can help. It can be as simple as informing other parents to bring weather-appropriate clothing, or talking to the other parents to help them understand why active play is important for their child’s development.
Support the professional development of the ECEs at your child care centre. This may require closing centres from time to time but is important for infusing new ideas and methods into your child’s education and care.
If you have anything to add to this list please let us know in the comments section below. Let’s all help each other!
Editor’s note: This article is an updated version of one written by Lori Fireman in 2014. | 2019-04-18T15:20:37 | https://activeforlife.com/how-to-find-a-child-care-program-that-cares-about-your-childs-physical-literacy/ |
0.998751 | vtkGESignaReader is a source object that reads some GE Signa ximg files It does support reading in pixel spacing, slice spacing and it computes an origin for the image in millimeters. It always produces greyscale unsigned short data and it supports reading in rectangular, packed, compressed, and packed&compressed. It does not read in slice orientation, or position right now. To use it you just need to specify a filename or a file prefix and pattern.
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Is the given file a GESigna file?
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A descriptive name for this format.
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This is a convenience method that is implemented in many subclasses instead of RequestData.
It is called by RequestData. | 2019-04-22T09:10:06 | https://vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkGESignaReader.html |
0.999999 | Summary: A scene involving targets and goals.
"That's right, aim high." JD's nimble fingers adjusted Ezra's small hands on the slingshot's stem and hammock. He crouched behind the little boy, arms nestling him close as he guided the boy's arms as well as hands into position. "Good. Now, pull back hard and then release."
The bit of stone flew high and wide of the targets, three old and empty bean cans that JD had arranged on the corral fence. An indignant snort from the corral's lone occupant, a sorrel mare, was ignored by the intrepid hunters.
"I missed." Ezra hung his head, ashamed. It had seemed so easy when JD, he did insist on being called that, when JD had demonstrated and then handed him the small weapon. Ezra had liked the idea that he could hunt with it, even protect himself with it. But clearly he was too clumsy, what was it that Mamon always said? Awkward, clumsy boy. That was him.
"Hey, that was just your first try!" The sheriff patted two slumped shoulders and then reached for another stone. "Come on, this time you do it without my hands in the way. I'll bet that's what spoiled the aim!"
Ezra looked up and twisted his head around to stare at JD. Didn't JD understand that Ezra just couldn't do this? He started to speak, but the look in the northerner's eyes was so kind and bright that he didn't have the heart.
Bracing himself, he swung around to face his adversaries again. Three rusted cans. Audacious they were, sitting there so arrogantly in a row. He pursed his lips, squinted his eyes and tensed his muscles. Holding the split stick firmly, he took the offered stone and nested it in the stretchy cloth, then pulled back and focused his attention.
The sight of the center can filled his vision, he lost connection with the man behind him, with the cawing blackbirds up near the livery's roofline, failed to feel the warm sun on his back now. Only that single center can and he, they two were a universe apart. His breath sawed in and out, loud. He stopped breathing. His pulse pounded with a thumpa thump inside his head. He waited to feel and meet the rhythm.
He tugged back harder and cocked his head slightly to the side, then bent his front wrist whose hand held the base of the thick hard wood. Between one beat of his heart and the next, breath held tightly, he acted. The stem flicked, releasing the stone and cloth smoothly. And the can burst with a loud ping. The rusted remnants flew widely and he could hear the birds again, sensed the man behind him, heard the cheer and the clomping of the mare's hooves as she shifted further away from the commotion.
After that, it seemed easy. Like practicing his card shuffles, something he now did in great secrecy so as not to upset Chris. This, though, this would please Chris. It pleased JD and JD wanted to be like Chris, he'd told Ezra that. So it would please Chris. Ezra's eyes gleamed and his almost-smile made the shape of his face change, become apple-round, dimples flickering in and out of life as his jaws shifted and he worked to contain and conceal his great need to shout out in joyous triumph. Let JD do that for him. He wouldn't be staying in this wonderful town and when he left, he needed not to have lost his skills, his talents as Mamon called them.
JD was whooping and jumping about, slapping his funny hat on his leg and grinning. Ezra carefully anchored the wooden handle of the slingshot in his waistband and straightened his collar, smoothing down the narrow lapels on his plain jacket. He had knocked over all three cans in quick succession, then, for good measure 'chased' one of them all over the corral with snaps of stone chips.
"Man alive, Ezra! You sure do have a gift!" JD was shaking his head now, still smiling as he patted the youngster on his head. Wait 'til Buck sees this, he ain't ever gonna believe it! Better yet, maybe Ezra and he could pull a joke on old Buck, get a small bet going. JD rubbed his hands together and squatted back down in front of Ezra to explain his inspiration.
Green eyes were sharp and quick, as the little boy nodded his agreement. This would be fun. Like one of the cons that Mamon had him do in the saloons. It wasn't poker, so surely it would be all right. Ezra had to walk very fast to keep up with JD as the young man strode along, still glowing with his self-conceited brilliance, his plan for the downfall of his friend Buck.
Chris rode in just as Buck swore loudly and slammed his hat down on the street, whirling in his loud frustration at JD's and Ezra's trick. "Damn, kid, that's twice you got me now!" Buck shouted as he slapped a silver dollar in JD's extended palm. Then the big man turned and looked down at the little boy, JD's accomplice. "Dang it, Ez, you musta known how to use that thing before today. It's not nice to lie to your old buddy Buck, you know."
Even though Buck was teasing, there was an edge of anger to his words, and Ezra stepped back with a pale look to his face. He licked his lips. "I don't lie, Mr. Buck."
Dismounting and slapping Trip's flank with a simple thanks, Larabee walked over to the spot where his boy now was in a face off with Buck Wilmington. "Trouble fellas?"
"Boy done got the best of me, is all." Buck sighed and shrugged. "JD told me that he gave Ez his first lesson with the slingshot today. Then bet me that Ezra could hit anything I named." Buck shook his head and smiled with resignation. "Fell for it, hook, line and sinker."
"That right?" Chris looked over at JD, who was looking a bit nervous now, and then down at the boy in front of him.
"Yes, sir." Ezra spoke without elaboration. No point. He could see he'd read this wrong. And no one was going to believe him. A large pain began to shape in his chest, he wasn't sure why. It reminded him of that time he'd tried to play marbles with Billy and some other town boys. They'd showed him how and then when he did well, when he won, they got angry. Said he'd lied. Like Buck was saying now. He let his hands hang at his sides. He could tell Chris was angry now too.
"How long you known how to use a slingshot, Ezra?" Larabee loomed over the child, speaking slowly. Eyes only on him.
Ezra lifted his face. He didn't lie. He wouldn't lie to Chris. "JD taught me today."
Chris saw the truth in those eyes. And believed. Without asking JD for another confirmation, ignoring Buck who was beginning to have second thoughts and was staring at JD, Chris smiled down at his charge. "Then you did very well. I'm proud of you."
Somehow the little boy seemed to swell up in front of him, chest puffing out a bit and eyes taking on a sparkle. "Really?"
"Yep." Chris stood back, hands on his gun belt and smiled again.
"I had to concentrate very hard," Ezra now confessed in great seriousness. "I missed the first time I tried."
"Did you?" Chris shot a glance over at Buck who was sinking down on to the steps of the boardwalk with a look of chagrin. "Then it wasn't that easy, was it?"
"No," Ezra looked shyly over at Buck. "I'm sorry we fooled you, Mr. Wilmington."
"Hey now, it was just a joke!" JD protested, plopping down beside Buck, seeing how the men had lost the sense of the fun he'd planned. "Never saw anyone such a fast learner! He's real good, Chris."
Buck nodded to Ezra, meeting his eyes and smiling. "You can ride with me anytime, kid." Then he leaned back and managed to poke an elbow into JD's stomach. "Course you still got to learn how to fly." He grinned as JD tumbled backwards with a disgruntled shout.
Ezra tipped his head. He took the compliment deep inside and promised himself he would take it out to examine later, when everyone wasn't looking at him. For now, he just nodded back, and then returned his eyes to Chris who hadn't moved.
"I'm sorry, Chris." He spoke softly.
"Next time, just remember not to hide your truths, Ezra." Chris threw a narrowed look over at JD, who flushed and shrugged, nodding as well. The gunman sighed, life was full of little challenges with Ezra in it. "I'm gonna go clean up at the bath house. I'll meet you boys back here for lunch in a hour." He looked back down at Ezra. "That okay with you, Ezra?"
The boy wiped his hands together, then nodded. "I would enjoy a bath as well, if that is acceptable?"
"Yes, reckon so." The black clad man and the small boy turned away from their friends and headed across the street for the bath house.
Buck watched them, his face smoothed out now and contemplative. "There go two good men, JD."
"Men?" Dunne climbed to his feet and looked around in bewilderment.
"Yeah." Wilmington pulled himself up with the post beside him, settling his hat back on his head. He turned and headed back into the saloon, one arm snaking out to catch and guide his young friend. "You're a good kid, JD, and someday, kid, when you grow up, you'll be like them." | 2019-04-25T00:46:10 | http://all-ezra.com/stories/aimhigh.html |
0.998814 | How much does an Intel data center chip cost?
If you go to Intel's (NASDAQ:INTC) investor relations website, you'll find that the company has a link to a processor price list that it updates periodically. The last update was on Oct. 8, 2018.
On that list, you'll find that the company's latest Xeon Scalable processors -- which come in a multitude of configurations ranging from four cores to 28 cores -- are priced anywhere from $213 for the lowest-end part to $13,011 for the fastest 28-core chip.
Based on these list prices, you might think that the average selling price for Intel's Xeon server processors is well into the thousands of dollars. However, on its most recent earnings call, Intel revealed a metric that shows just how out of touch with reality that price list actually is. Allow me to explain.
On Intel's most recent earnings call, CFO and interim CEO Bob Swan revealed that the company shipped "more than 8 million CPUs into an annual server, storage, and network CPU [total addressable market] that is greater than 30 million units."
Intel breaks down its data center group (DCG) revenue into two buckets: platform and adjacency. Platforms, Intel explains in its most recent earnings release, "incorporate various components and technologies, including a microprocessor and chipset, a stand-alone [system-on-a-chip], or a multi-chip package."
Adjacency products consist of Intel's "remaining primary product lines," which in the case of DCG include things like 3D XPoint memory modules, Ethernet products, and silicon photonics products.
Armed with this knowledge, we can now figure out the average selling price of an Intel Xeon processor.
In the third quarter of 2018, Intel reported that its DCG platform revenue was $5.64 billion -- up about 27% from the same quarter a year ago.
To figure out an approximate average selling price for Intel's DCG platforms, we simply divide that revenue figure by 8 million to arrive at $705. Also keep in mind that Intel said "more than 8 million," so this price estimate is going to be a little on the high side of things.
The point, though, is that we're in the right ballpark.
Now, to be fair, Intel doesn't sell just its latest Xeon Scalable processors into the data center. It sells Atom-based products (processors that are generally cheaper than their Xeon brethren) into several markets, and -- as it showed at its August Data Centric Innovation Summit event -- Intel is still selling its last-generation Xeon Processor v4 chips and is even still moving some of its two-generation-old Xeon Processor v3 chips.
Nevertheless, the point is that there's a big gap between the list prices that Intel prints and what its major customers are actually paying.
Intel doesn't typically offer revenue guidance by segment but Swan actually provided DCG guidance on the last earnings call, saying that "[we] expect DCG to set another revenue record of approximately $6.3 billion in the fourth quarter."
Based on that guidance, the company is calling for year-over-year revenue growth of about 12.9%. That's a slowdown from the roughly 25.5% revenue growth that DCG has enjoyed over the first three quarters of the year -- something that Swan explained is due to "a much tougher [comparison] because [the] fourth quarter last year was a great quarter for the DCG business."
Although Intel's list prices and real world chip prices don't really mesh, the trend in Intel's data center platform average selling prices has been up over the course of 2018, driving a significant amount of the growth in overall DCG platform revenue that the company enjoyed this year.
Indeed, according to Intel's most recent earnings release, over the first three quarters of 2018, DCG platform unit volumes rose 15% and average selling prices grew 10%.
I look forward to seeing how both average selling prices and unit volumes move in the fourth quarter of 2018 and how they trend over the course of 2019. | 2019-04-24T22:52:21 | https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/11/10/intel-just-revealed-an-important-metric.aspx |
0.99905 | Rareresource: Fossil Animals Are Dinosaurs?
No. Dinosaurs are a group of ancient reptiles that had a set of particular skeletal features. The hips, hind legs, and ankles were specialized and allowed the legs to move directly under the body, rather than extending out from the side of the body as in modern lizards. This arrangement enabled dinosaurs to bring their knees and ankles directly below their hips and provided the necessary attachments for very strong leg muscles. Dinosaur skeletons were well designed for supporting a large body, for standing erect (upright), and for running. The front legs were adapted for grasping prey, for supporting weight, or for walking and running. The skulls of dinosaurs were designed for maximum strength, for minimum weight, and (in some cases) for grasping, holding, or tearing at prey. These skeletal features separated dinosaurs from other ancient reptiles such as Dimetrodon, the plesiosaurs, and pterosaurs. Fossil mammals, like mammoths and "saber-toothed tigers" (e.g., Smilodon), are also often incorrectly called dinosaurs. | 2019-04-26T16:22:44 | http://dinosaur-news.rareresource.com/2008/11/fossil-animals-are-dinosaurs.html |
0.999965 | What is the better all around dog for pheasant hunting a pointer or Retriever?
It seems like everyone is asking what is better, a Labrador Retriever or German Short Hair Pointer? There are many differences between the two but understandably it is going to come down to personal preference of the hunter. In my opinion these two breeds are representatives of the best qualities a hunting dog can have and this article will discuss some of those impressive traits.
Okay, first I want everyone to know that I enjoy hunting with both breeds! Whether it be together or separately...they always impress us. Its fun to watch a GSP and Lab work together through a field and show off their own special abilities. Its even better to see them doing what they instinctively know when its just a lab or just a pointer by your side.
Some of the other differences between the two is going to be their temperament and size. The Lab is generally 60-80 lbs and the GSP would be 40-55lbs. Not an extreme difference but it could be a deciding factor. The coats these two breeds have differ as far as the amount of shedding...GSP's have very short/dense hair and minimal shedding as where a Lab has thicker/longer hair and this does cause more shedding. Now, on to temperament! A GSP is a family dog but has a very strong personality and may be too high-strung around small children where the Lab has a more friendly/sweet personality and could be considered the more popular family dog. The similarities GSP's/Labs share as far as attitude are as follows: intelligent, loyal, playful, reliable, easily trained, and attentive.
As far as retrieving I believe the Labs will have the edge here. They are known for making remarkable retrieves from areas/situations that a GSP may not, especially in very cold weather water. Not to say that a GSP will not retrieve! Many consistently do for their owners and I have seen some that do. The fact is though, a GSP is named a "pointer" for a reason just as Labs are named a "retriever." This is one of the biggest differences between the two breeds. Retrieving, flushing, and pointing! Consider this: you are hunting pheasants and as we all know they like to run, a Lab will chase and pressure that bird until it flies. GSP instinct to point can leave you chasing false points across a field because these birds don't generally hold.
In the end, it most definitely comes down to personal preference and which dog will suit the specific needs of the hunter and the type of hunting to be done. It also rests on the family to which it will become a member of. If you do some research on the history of these breeds and the opinions of other breeders you will find that there is plenty of mixed feelings about which is better. I believe that they are both amazing breeds and have proven that they deserve our respect for the work they do! | 2019-04-21T01:12:42 | https://www.gamebirdhunts.com/HuntingDogs/DogTrainingArticles/RetrievervsPointers/tabid/467/Default.aspx |
0.998377 | Standing on the island's shore, Drifting off to sea. I wish that I could be, Drifting off to sea. All of my hopes and dreams, Drifting off to sea. I watch my lover's boat, Drifting off to sea.
Masl gugogl ha tiunmin, Nog wugl junmin. Wugl janen eg Nog wugl junman. Nog da samunjapa janunpapa ke sia junmin. Miasl gawunnatl ha wugl ha wugl tewmin. Nog tosl junmin.
The song of the starlings speaks of heroic deeds In the morning rain the heron does its laundry In the night the lark worships the stars Who sees the true nature of birds?
Tyụydó tsĕom dyŏ tho kkụih phọ Bì wụlàe pày nĭn dyĭ rdạ Bì ppúi kèudó sáey rteu Kèo hwẹ gŭi dó họng?
Recite the book of the primal chaos: The essence of the sea of chaos is contending things, so that they remain still, and do not move. When a magician dips from this sea, the chaos begins to move very much. Beautiful chaos! Thou art full of endless bits of information; thou art the world.
Uroojśorf tfeizetik fehaûmû urf. Mûûj aja gramwimi fehaûmû pzîîk shîtâphok sja meśimim aš meśikzihej ûrt. Mimjahej gât kîtê sja etukut îz gramwimek hnu pfizjaij ûrt fehaûn. Fehaûnô shitajma! Ušâp śêtâuk kzushutuń. Ûûj sfapapziik.
Concerning the Stars. There are four types of stars. The name of the first is walking stars, because they wander the night sky. The name of the second is stationary stars. They are distant suns. The name of the third is dying, or falling, stars. They are rocks that fall from the night sky. The name of the fourth is foreign stars. They are the stars that appear for a short time in the night sky. They are suns of worlds whom Goddess destroyed in her wrath.
אודות הכוכבים. ישנם ארבעה סוגים של כוכבים. הראשון מכונה הכוכבים ההולכים, כי הם נודדים בשמי הלילה. השני מוכנה הכוכבים הנייחים. הם הינם שמשות רחקות. השלישי מוכנה הכוכבים הגוועים, או הנופלים. הם הינם אבנים הנופלים משמי הלילה. הרביעי מוכנה הכוכבים הזרים. הם כוכבים המופיעים לרגע בשמי הלילה. אלו הינם שמשותיהם של עולמים אותם השמידה האלה בחמתה.
Davot dava dimityok ret syin yupeltem, lir tisanyik anyayu saplelis, polyelis, sof syin yupeltem. Syim ey lin yudod, lir lhom simil ey kakeli. Syin davot, sil dava misyok leftet, tisyok yuhesem. Sem tomyok tise "Lo delye mi kakrot lek! Eff delye kardyik sanya leftet myol!" Syin anya ekaril astye, lir tomil "Kitya, rhaym efim dava sokryot tamyev, sil lo delye leftyok astye." Syin davot sipelyok, "Sodra delye kre? Sem ey laya?" Syim kasot tise "Sem ey tyem sodra uyilame, lir dava tremilyok dolv salimeyu efim."
A wicked man lived near a monastery. He believed [unfoundedly] that the monks had great treasure, and covetted it. The wicked man became a policeman. One day, he accosted a monk who was returning to the monastery. "Give me your key," he said. "I want to search the monastery for any criminals who may be hiding there." The monk said, "I have no key." The wicked policeman flew into a rage [lit. hurled himself into a rage], but the monk went into the monastery through the open door.
Ivlys máñi manzdrjelo libam. Hi bajljim [áfundym] mongki gradys träzhrol avam, et dol koftam. Ivlys máñi politzymáñosa. A'dago, hi mongkol veri manzdrje báxö akszjam. "Kjol gebejó!" zagam hi. "Mi manzdrjol krimnjorol verol jero hidjam saczczamin." Mongki zagam, "Kjol áñ." Ivlys politzymáñi hoj ravzhine orlim, nejý mongki manzdrje abröl törejo kajam.
Winter is the wolf that takes the old, the sick, and the very young Winter is the hard rock on which nothing grows Winter is the cruel beak and the sharp talon And so we beg you, bounding boy of spring, dance over the earth So that the sun your mother will look down upon us And flowers will spring from your footsteps.
Leuokmuan aajung machloum nung mpua keuu nung garbjooh ley plarfnau ley chuinbjooh ing. Leuokmuan aajung pau goat nung kmey huoo twarng dong gna lobnih. Leukmuan aajung jroan jeut nek gur nui. Tek hwai beym paaksah flet haip ler dinmuan nung leutkeuong duool yau loy karnday Nteyplar liam aajung boh ler duool tui toy de nlooayk hwai beym tek tonuyn sgeang geltuin.
Beware of the baby! O dear, what's happened? Yesterday, a pretty young girl came to our home to watch over the baby. She did what she could to entertain the child: she played with it, sung songs for it, etc. But nevertheless, the baby attacked her, tore her into pieces, devoured her, and it threw the rest out the window. What to do, what to do? I really don't know. And so, for the time being, we keep the affair silent, in order to prevent the police from starting to ask annoying questions.
Gardu vin kontraŭ la bebo! Ho ve, kio okazis? Hieraŭ, beleta juna knabino venis al nia hejmo por prizorgi la bebon. Ŝi faris kion ŝi povis por amuzi la infanon: ŝi ludis kun ĝi, kantis kantojn por ĝi, ktp. Sed tamen, la bebo atakis ŝin, disŝiris ŝin al pecoj, manĝegis ŝin, kaj ĝi ĵetis la ceteron el la fenestro. Kion fari, kion fari? Mi vere ne scias. Kaj tial, por nun, ni silentas pri la afero, por antaŭmalhelpi la ekdemandon de ĝenaj demandoj fare de la polico.
PORTIONS OF THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY (PART 1) [Now the priest will give a golden chain that he has just blessed, to one of the candidates, and the candidate will place it on the neck of the other candidate, and recite after the priest:] I [name] bind myself to you [name] from this day forward, whether in times of happiness or sadness, whether in days (full) of sun or rain, in good health or bad, wealth or poverty, and we will set forth on the course of our new life, always bound and united in soul and body. Thus I pledge to you my love and honor forever. [And the other candidate will do and recite the same] (PART 2) [Now the priest will say:] Let us pray to/call upon/ the Spirits [And everyone in attendance will say or sing:] Father Sun, shine upon their life, Sky, be always clear, Earth and Rain, help them to grow, Sister Vuruna, illuminate their nights, Brother Lalap, let your behavior toward them be good, Mother Sea, be calm when they sail on your surface, Wind, inflate their sail(s) and cool their faces, Forest, give them shade and shelter, Rock Spirits, do not obstruct their path, Little (golden) chains made of love, bind them, All you Spirits and Cousins too, guide and bless them when they set forth on their course with faith and love. May it be so, verily, may it be so forever.
"Sarm Warni" Ri pin de rum sombi sangorumb bendwimumb, pin rum durfu iro sarm u brawo warni le. Pin rum bilu sarm warni ir rum ma, "Ra! So emb umbur sarm warni?" Sarm warni rum ma, "Glan, pin umbur sarm warni." Pin rum robro sarm warni, "Swalfir emb rum ma pinó wur pin bren flembi emb?" Sarm warni rum rama, "Alpar pin umbur sarm warni belgo." Ramawir slarm warnilil bilfen pin rariró, gwéro, pin rum sarmbe gur resenó. Pin rum remendi sarm warni lawu wore.
A Riddle See them dance. The have no leader. They have no music but their own voices, nor have they studied any choreography. Each goes where he will. But their dance is the most graceful, the most harmonious of all dances. There are no dancers more lithe than they are. They turn and weave so that they seem to have a single mind. This seems the least difficult work for them. Do any dancers make greater beauty with less effort? But they take not a single step.
ifwefu n eatarbepukopu lupsia ajaelup ifwefu tidu nultitei kjeluapasep, tidu nisozhutei luapasep. pulkoa attijukwiv. ti jedeweso isewedu luapasep. ti apukop. pukowetei kjemni jutjurausapu kujufemerusap. kwipwena kjeataduirupse ti vapasesep. ti siwedu lutepu reapasep. tigi kjeankehisepi tia anatjurausadep. pulok femeruresapu kjedarauresapu tameluskisuresapu aletamlusap.
Those who try to limit basic standards of moral conduct to religious observances and theologies are fighting a losing battle. The human spirit is too needy and too vigorous to be kept in shackles.
Kiuj klopodas limigi la bazajn normojn de morala konduto al religiaj observoj kaj teologioj vante batalas. La homa spirito estas tro senhava kaj tro forta por resti katenita.
"The Disrespectful Goat" A beautiful woman was riding across a bridge when she was stopped by a goat. "O beautiful woman!" said the goat. "You please me. I wish to marry you." The woman laughed. "Why would you want to marry me? You don't even know my name." "Your name?" asked the goat. "I didn't ask about your name: I asked you to marry me. What is your answer?" "This is my answer," said the woman who sliced the goat's head off with her arakh. The goat's head, lying on the bank, then said, "So...is that a yes?"
"niman-yudo mal mowusamus on" hi-les kiso-dal mal meni ledo nat djola-delem ihu hi-les tomplat hamo dala ala tacan hi-lunis niman-yudo, niman-yudo on lude kiso-dal on mal meni lis "kiso-dal mal meni yal, se dalta kat, se dalep holbo-delem kat." lis "adawil kat ala dalor de holbo-delem se? kat modo dinta asit-se poru!" kiso-dal on mal meni lude ep laiwon. lis "asit-kat? se modo suba asit-kat, se suba lis "tak kat holbo-delem se?", kadowiskai-kat mak?" niman-yudo on lude. kiso-dal on mal meni kowis lis "ceklor kadowiskai-se." itok ripan loni on imon niman-yudo on ik araha-sila on imai dala. motu loni on imon niman-yudo on, mal palka e kor kawa-ankor on, lude lis "adalo ... alor hir kat kowis lis "ahe"?" | 2019-04-25T11:48:11 | http://cals.conlang.org/translation/7/language/1218/815/ |
0.998546 | Will Congress denounce Rush Limbaugh?
He calls Chuck Hagel "Senator Betray Us" and denounced antiwar Iraq vets as "phony soldiers," but don't hold your breath waiting for a Senate vote to condemn him.
Is Rush Limbaugh back on the OxyContin? Did he really think he could get away with editing his own show transcript to lie about calling antiwar military veterans "phony soldiers" last week? Sure, Fox News let it pass, but he isn't fooling anyone else.
For the record, in case you missed it, Limbaugh spoke to a caller last week who said he was an Iraq veteran who now opposed the war. Later in that same show, a pro-war veteran phoned in and criticized the antiwar vet, leading Limbaugh to denounce such vets as "phony soldiers." Under fire for the slur, he then edited his transcript to make it seem like he was referring to the story of a guy who faked a stint in Iraq and a Purple Heart. In fact, as Media Matters has shown, he didn't mention that example until almost two minutes after his first reference to "phony soldiers." And the next day, he went on to say Rep. Jack Murtha is a phony soldier too.
Remember, this is the guy who called Sen. Chuck Hagel "Senator Betray Us," long before MoveOn shocked, shocked the Congress with its "General Petraeus or General Betray Us?" ad. As Digby notes, the chickenhawk radio host also suggested antiwar Ohio congressional candidate Paul Hackett fought in Iraq to "pad his resume," and slurred Gen. Wesley Clark by claiming he didn't deserve his fourth star but lobbied to get it from President Clinton. Now Clark is demanding that Limbaugh get the boot from Armed Forces Radio. In 2004 Eric Boehlert detailed the controversy over Limbaugh having a daily show on AFR, and an official defended it by saying he also runs NPR, as though the public radio network's programming in any way balanced the partisan hate Limbaugh spews. Little has changed since then. I saw a short daily brief with Jim Hightower, but Focus on the Family's James Dobson, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Paul Harvey and Sean Hannity also have their own shows.
Will Congress listen to Wes Clark? Stay tuned. I'll be debating the question with Pat Buchanan on MSNBC's "Live With Dan Abrams" tonight at 9 EDT, followed by an interview with Clark. | 2019-04-23T00:52:23 | https://www.salon.com/2007/10/03/rush_3/ |
0.999999 | Can you summarize the books of Timothy?
Timothy, Epistles Of Paul To. Are called the Pastoral Epistles, because they are principally devoted to directions about the work of the pastor of a church. The First Epistle was probably written from Macedonia, A.D. 65, in the interval between St. Paul's first and second imprisonments at Rome. The absence of any local reference but that in (1 Timothy 1:3) suggests Macedonia or some neighboring district. In some MSS. and versions Laodicea is named in the inscription as the place from which it was sent. The Second Epistle appears to have been written A.D. 67 or 68, and in all probability at Rome.
The following are the characteristic features of these epistles:-- (1) The ever-deepening sense in St. Paul's heart of the divine mercy of which he was the object, as shown in the insertion of the "mercy" in the salutations of both epistles, and in the "obtained mercy" of (1 Timothy 1:13) (2) The greater abruptness of the Second Epistle. From first to last there is no plan, no treatment of subjects carefully thought out. All speaks of strong overflowing emotion memories of the past, anxieties about the future. (3) The absence, as compared with St. Paul other epistles, of Old Testament references. This may connect itself with the fact just noticed, that these epistles are not argumentative, possibly also with the request for the "books and parchments" which had been left behind. (2 Timothy 4:13) (4) The conspicuous position of the "faithful sayings" as taking the place occupied in other epistles by the Old Testament Scriptures. The way in which these are cited as authoritative, the variety of subjects which they cover, suggests the thought that in them we have specimens of the prophecies of the apostolic Church which had most impressed themselves on the mind of the apostle and of the disciples generally. (1 Corinthians 14:1)... shows how deep a reverence he was likely to feel for spiritual utterances. In (1 Timothy 4:1) we have a distinct reference to them. (5) The tendency of the apostle's mind to dwell more on the universality of the redemptive work of Christ, (1 Timothy 2:3-6; 4:10) and his strong desire that all the teaching of his disciples should be "sound." (6) The importance attached by him to the practical details of administration. The gathered experience of a long life had taught him that the life and well being of the Church required these for its safeguards. (7) The recurrence of doxologies, (1 Timothy 1:17; 6:15,16; 2 Timothy 4:18) as from one living perpetually in the presence of God, to whom the language of adoration was as his natural speech. | 2019-04-19T05:15:04 | http://www.biblequestions.org/bqar486.html |
0.999703 | UDIMagic v3.0 Release 1.67 supports "Batch Processing". In simple words, it allows you to "Import of data from multiple Excel sheets" in one-go.
Before going into the details of this feature, let's have a look at the Auto-Run feature of UDI-Magic which was introduced some-time back (UDIMagic v3.0 Release 1.60).
The Auto-Run feature allows import of data into Tally without any user-intervention. The auto-run status report is generated in autorun.txt file.
With the Auto-Run and Batch-Processing features, you can automate your tasks. In simple words, you can schedule UDIMagic in such a way that it automatically runs at a specified time (daily or weekly...) and imports data from one or more Excel (CSV) sheets into Tally.
Example 1 : Transform Sales vouchers as "Branch Sales"
Assuming that at your Branch Office, "Sales" vouchers are entered. Your requirement is that when the Branch-data is imported into the Head Office Tally, it must be imported as "Branch Sales" vouchers.
At you Branch-Office, various type of entries like "Sales", "Receipt", "Payment" etc are done in Tally. You need to import the Branch-Office data in your Head-Office Tally, but only the "Sales" entries are to be imported, that too as "Branch Sales".
1) We have listed some examples of data transformation.
2) UDIMagic [Professional] provides two features viz Tally-to-Tally and Branch-to-HO which support Data-transformation.
3) Almost all-types of Data-transformation can be done.
I am using UDI-Magic to import data into Tally. Even though I have started Tally and opened one Company, UDI-Magic still shows error message "No company is opened in Tally". How do I solve this problem ?
1) Close the Tally Software.
3) Next select "Task Manager"
4) Next, search for Tally9.exe (or Tally72.exe under processes-tab) and click on the End-Process button to close it.
5) Next, search for TallyLicServer.exe (under processes-tab) and click on the End-Process button to close it.
6) Next, start Tally Software and open your Company.
7) Run UDI-Magic and try importing data in Tally Software.
Re-start the Computer afterwards so that workstations can access the Tally-license Server which we had terminated manually.
"How is the mapping of Excel sheet cells done with the Tally fields ?"
UDIMagic uses XML tags for mapping Excel Sheet cells with the Tally fields. The XML tags can be written using any text-editor like NOTEPAD.
2) In a separate file with extension XML.
For those who are totally new to XML, initially it may be difficult to digest all these things. But then, it is not very difficult.
There is one more tutorial which covers the basics of "Writing XML tags" with step-by-step Instructions.
PS: End-users need not worry about learning XML tags to use UDIMagic. Shweta Softwares provides the XML tags. Refer www.rtslink.com/orderinfo.html for more information.
You can open XML files in IE (Internet Explorer) or any other browser. However, to edit it you must use a Text-editor or XML-editor.
This Post provides Tally-to-Tally Rules for converting Sales vouchers to Purchase.
What is Tally to Tally ?
UDIMagic v3.0 [Professional] comes with a feature called Tally-to-Tally that allows you to transform Tally data. As the name suggests, the Tally-to-Tally feature allows you to retrieve data from one Tally Company; apply transformation rules; and then send it to another Tally Company.
I am having X records (say 10,000 records) in my Excel Sheet. I am using the licensed version of UDI Magic. However, UDI Magic processes only few records (say 100 records). What could be the reason ?
It is likely that your Excel Sheet has a BLANK-ROW or HIDDEN-ROW at or near the ROW-number 100 in the Excel Sheet. Remove that and try again. It should work.
1) UDI Magic stops processing if it finds a BLANK-ROW or a HIDDEN-ROW.
2) If you are using DEMO version of UDI Magic, then only 5 or 10 records (Vouchers and Masters resp.) shall be processed.
UDIMagic v3.0 Release 1.62 allows you to transform (Branch office) data before importing it into Head-Office Tally Accounting Software.
Assuming, you have a Branch Office wherein Accounting is done in Tally. Here, at the Branch Office, only SALES vouchers entries are done. Now, you need to transfer the Branch Office data to Head-Office.
At the Head-Office, you need to maintain consolidated data and hence will be importing the Branch-office data into the Head-Office (Tally). However, you want that the SALES vouchers (of Branch Office) be transformed/renamed as "BRANCH SALES" and then the same to be imported into the Head-Office Tally.
In simple words, this allows you to have TWO different Sales Voucher-types. i.e. one for Head-Office Sales and another for Branch-Office sales (BRANCH SALES voucher-type).
UDIMagic v3.0 Release 1.62 allows you to apply transformation rules to the Branch Office data before importing it at Head-Office. This allows you to do almost anything as per your requirement.
Support for writing transformation rules is available to UDIMagic [Professional version] users only.
allows you to import specific rows from MS-Excel into Tally Software.
To import part-data, you need to specify the FROM and TO rows.
By default, all rows are processed by UDIMagic. However, UDIMagic stops processing when it finds a BLANK row or a HIDDEN row.
I am trying to import Vouchers into Tally Software using UDI-Magic Software. Though UDI-Magic shows no errors still no data is imported into Tally and the Tally screen (calculator panel) shows error "Cant' Import. Please check Tally.imp file"
The above error generally appears if you are using the Tally Demo (Educational) version and the Vouchers in the Excel Sheet have DATE's other than 1st or 2nd (of any month).
The Educational version of Tally accepts Vouchers for the 1st and 2nd of each month. i.e. You cannot import Vouchers having date other than the 1st or 2nd of any month. | 2019-04-19T22:43:16 | https://www.udimagic.com/2008/11/ |
0.96776 | The post about the hunter threatened by Wolves is a good case in point, who would want to have an empty gun in that scenario?
Several Wolves are a threat if they surround you at all, they do not understand warning shots, but a few gut shots would mean something to them. Just my opinion.
I hunt with a single shot 45 LC ( Encore ). One in the tube, two in an ammo holder on my wrist and six in an ammo wallet in my pack. Majority of the time one of my 45 LC revolvers is on my hip too. Makes a total of 15 rounds.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.
about 10 for rabbit hunting.
deer hunting - 4 in the ammo sleeve, 9 more in the wallet in the back pack.
dove hunting - 125. used to carry 100, but ran out once.
I carry what I feel comfortable with for that day. I don't hunt as much as I used to, but I carry every day. Some days an extra mag, some days not.
In the old days when I was a L.E. tracker, and worked at locating marijuana growers on the Okie-Texas border river bottoms, if I carried an AR, I might carry 6 to 8, 30 round mags. If I carried "ole reliable", my life long friend, a now 54 year old Model 94 Winchester 3030, I would carry about 20 extra rounds, and 8 in the rifle.
I never thought much about it then, but lookin back it seems kinda odd, doesn't it. I guess regardless of what your huntin, it's about comfort, even when you don't think about it.
5 for the rifle , 11 on my hip. Box of each in the truck.
Giving some thought to hog, and deer. In a bolt action I carried about 10 rounds total, for both hog and deer. With my 3030 I carried about 10, and with my AR I carried a 20 round mag.
1 in the pipe, 4 in the mag. 4 on the sling.
Never need more than 2 hunting whitetails.
"if your old flathead doesn't leak you are out of oil"
Deer hunting....5. Plinking and squirrel hunting with rimfire.....a handful.
Never caring one in the pipe when looking for four legged critters. New a guy that messed up his wrist doing that . | 2019-04-22T17:54:25 | https://www.go2gbo.com/forums/150-minnesota/226087-how-much-ammo-do-you-carry.html |
0.978678 | A cell is the simplest and smallest unit of life. All living things are made of cells. Some living things are made of only one cell; however, most of the living things we are familiar with including plants, animals, even humans are made of many cells. The human body is made of billions of tiny cells each surrounded by a selectively permeable membrane . The cell's membrane separates the cell from everything that surrounds it. The cell's membrane is "selectively permeable" since some things can pass through it easily, while other things will not be able to pass through it very easily or at all.
A hard outer shell surrounds all chicken eggs. But did you know that underneath that shell is a membrane similar to what surrounds cells? In this experiment, we will take advantage of that fact by removing the shell to more closely examine a membrane.
Have you ever placed ink into water and seen the ink slowly move throughout the water? This process is called diffusion . Naturally, the ink will spread throughout the water until there is the same density of ink throughout the water. The ink will be completely diffused through the water when the ink is completely evenly distributed throughout the water. Another similar process is called osmosis . Osmosis is simply diffusion through a membrane. Substances will naturally try to "even out" meaning that, if they are able to move through the membrane, they will try and obtain the same density on either side of the membrane. Substances will move from an area of higher concentration (or density) to an area of lower concentration through the membrane. Once the concentration is equal on both sides of the membrane, it is said that the substance has achieved equilibrium.
Imagine that the white dots are water molecules and the black dots are ink molecules. Choose the picture that represents a substance that has reached equilibrium.
What if the for some reason the ink was unable to pass through the membrane? Will the substance ever achieve equilibrium? Why or why not?
This activity is completed in three parts. It is suggested that the first part of the activity is done in the afternoon or evening, the second part of the activity can be done the following afternoon or evening, and the third part the following day.
Place each of the 4 eggs in a separate glass.
Pour vinegar inside each of the glasses so it completely covers each of the eggs. You may like to cover the glasses with foil or plastic wrap to reduce the smell in your refrigerator.
Place the eggs inside the refrigerator for approximately 24 hours. The vinegar will react with the eggshell and remove it, leaving only the inner membrane. The eggs will look like the one below when the shell is removed. It is ok if all the shell is not removed, as long as the majority of the shell is removed.
Empty the vinegar out of each of the glasses and wash them thoroughly.
Lightly rinse each of the eggs with water.
Place the eggs back into the glasses.
Label each of the glasses 1 thru 4 and use the table provided at the end of this activity to keep track of the four different eggs.
Measure each egg around at the widest point using a tape measure or a piece of string. To use a piece of string, Take a piece of string and wrap it around the egg once. Mark with your finger the length of string that is needed to go around the egg once and measure it using a ruler.
Record the length around for each egg using the table provided.
Cover one egg with water, one with water and a drop of blue food coloring, one with molasses, and one with corn syrup.
Place the eggs back inside the fridge. You may also like to cover the glasses with plastic wrap or foil to lessen the smell.
Wait several hours (such as until the morning) to see what happens to the eggs!
Carefully remove the eggs from the substances and rinse them carefully with water.
Just as before, measure the eggs around at the widest part using either a tape measure or string and a ruler.
Record the measurements in the appropriate part of the provided table.
Finally, place the eggs back inside the glasses after they have been properly washed or place them in new cups or glasses.
Use a toothpick to carefully pop each of the membranes of the eggs.
What did you notice about what was inside? Did any of the outside substance make it to the inside of the egg? Record your observations in the appropriate space in the table provided.
Answer the following questions:Examine the changes in the width of the eggs. In which substances did the width of the eggs increase? Decrease? Remain the same? What does an increase in the width of the egg mean about what must have happened? How about a decrease in width or if the width remains the same?
As you can imagine, if too much water rushes into the egg due to osmosis this could cause the egg membrane to pop! This occasionally also happens to cells in our body.
The membrane of a chicken egg has many similarities to the membrane surrounding animal cells. However, the only process that could be observed here is called passive transport. This means that the cell did not use any energy to move things through the membrane. Another way living cells can move things through the membrane is active transport. In active transport, the cell needs to use energy to move things through the membrane. Use the resources listed at the end of this activity to research all the different ways the membrane can move things through the membrane.
You probably noticed that the width of some of the eggs remained the same, some of the eggs increased in width, while others actually had a decrease in width. In the case of each of the eggs, water was the substance that was able to move past the membrane. In most cases, water molecules are the only things allowed to pass through an egg membrane since it is the only thing small enough. However, with careful observation you may have noticed that some blue food coloring also made it past the egg membrane. This is because it is also small enough the pass through the membrane.
If the egg decreased in size, as was probably the case with the molasses and the corn syrup, then water must have moved out of the egg through the membrane. This must be due to a lower concentration of water outside the egg in the molasses or corn syrup than inside the egg.
If the egg increased in size, as what likely occurred with the plain water and the blue water, then water must have moved into the egg. You may have also noticed that the blue food coloring also made it inside the egg when you popped it. This is because the blue food coloring is also small enough to easily pass through the membrane. Just like in the molasses and corn syrup cases, the water moved from an area of lower concentration to higher concentration; however, the lower concentration of water was inside the egg in the plan water and blue water cases.
What Was Inside the Egg? | 2019-04-19T20:41:02 | https://www.mrsec.psu.edu/content/osmosis-eggs |
0.999488 | The Prime Minister is defending her government despite having to stand down two ministers in as many weeks.
Yesterday it was announced Meka Whaitiri has been stood aside pending a 'staffing' investigation.
Newshub understands she is accused of 'shoving' a press secretary who'd only been in the job for two weeks.
"I need to allow natural justice to apply here - so I won't be making any comment until that is completed," Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says.
But National leader Simon Bridges says the Prime Minister should act now.
"Tell you what I would do. Get them in, to know exactly what happened - and if there is violence, the minister would be gone."
Aside from the allegation of violence - Newshub understands there's been a high turnover of staff in her office.
The Ikaroa-Rawhiti MP usually has a roster of six ministerial staff - and at least five have gone in the past ten months.
"I think it tops off an incompetent, shambolic few days for the Prime Minister - she needs to step up and take a lead on these issues," Mr Bridges says.
Despite the double-demotion - Ms Ardern says she still has confidence in her Ministers.
"Regardless of any incident - at any time - my expectations are high."
The Prime Minister will make a final decision on Ms Whaitiri once the investigation's complete.
And after accusations she was 'soft' on Clare Curran - she's facing pressure from the Opposition to resolve this latest problem, quickly. | 2019-04-22T06:21:04 | https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/08/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-defends-government-despite-recent-controversies.html |
0.998389 | I was initially wary of how this movie would turn out. How to Train Your Dragon has been one of my all time favorite animation movie, and given how sequels have a tough time topping their original (just look at how despicable Despicable Me 2 turned out, heh), I did not dare have any high expectations for this movie. In fact, I had none. I only watched one trailer for the movie, the one where Hiccup flew with Toothless and I don't dare watch another one, because I was afraid it would spoil the whole experience.
Turned out all of my fears were unfounded in the end, because How to Train Your Dragon 2 totally soared.
I loved how the movie added to the universe of How to Train Your Dragons.
I loved how the new characters were introduced, and the chemistry between them and the old cast.
I loved how the old cast has grown (okay maybe not all, somehow I think the twin brother was slightly under-portrayed in the film), and how their character continued to evolve in the movie.
I loved how the dragons are stars of their own, with their own personality, rather than just mere supporting tools for the humans to progress. Like how Hiccup attempts to send the message that dragons have souls too, I loved how the film portrayed that, through all the small scenes, the eye contact and body language of the dragons. The detail that went in was awesome.
I loved the story progression. Having read roughly about the synopsis from the trailer, I was worried of how the film would introduce a bad human character, who attempts to create a dragon army. Turns out that not only the film manage to give me the sense of dread as I watched how the evil guy was introduced, and how his character was gradually polished to the sense that you really hated him. And I loved how he was not one dimensional and all, and that he had his own struggles as well.
I love the plot twists. There were two in the film, and I did not see both coming. I loved how the plot twist steered the movie into a totally new direction, but yet not forgoing the story that has already been built up so far, but rather expanded the story in a more exciting and deeper manner. It made me teared, it made me sat at the edge of my seat, it made me gasped and it made me not wanting the movie to end.
I loved the music. I love the action. I loved the cinematography, how they filmed fight sequences, flight sequences. In short, I loved everything. This is one of the rare movies that I would not want to change anything in it. It is also one of the rare movies where I wanted to stand up and applaud it when the credits rolled. It is definitely one movie that I would not mind watching several times over.
My only concern now? How Dreamworks would top How to Train Your Dragon 2 in the third installment, coming out in 2016. With such a high bar already set, I really hope that they would not spoil the franchise. Because of how awesome the two movies had been. I'm gonna boycott Dreamworks for five years if they do spoil the movie in 2016. That I honestly swear.
Your review of the movie is exactly how I felt about it - it was beautiful. And you've done justice to it through this write-up. Thumbs up! | 2019-04-19T18:44:49 | http://www.lukeyishandsome.com/2014/06/movie-review-how-to-train-your-dragon-2.html |
0.998641 | With Christmas and all the guests there is bound to be some messes to clean up. If you can try to notice accidents as they happen or shortly after, clean them up right away. A stain that has settled for a while can be harder to clean up. So act quickly. A rule of thumb for cleaning stains on carpets, napkins and clothing is to always blot the stain. Scrubbing can ruin the surfaces. Also, first test any cleaning solution on an inconspicuous spot and follow the instructions that apply.
For spilled white wine and clear sodas on clothing wash the items as soon as possible. For carpet spills, blot the carpet with water and apply a solution of warm water and a teaspoon of liquid dish washing soap. Do not apply bleach. Red wine spills and dark sodas apply the same solution but add a bit of hydrogen peroxide to the solution.
To remove wax from silver or metal place them in the freezer until the wax hardens. Gently scrape off the wax with a plastic spatula. Any remaining wax, pour boiling water or immerse in a pot of boiling water. A blow dryer can be used for glass or wood, and blot the melting wax with a paper towel.
For all types of trees, may it be pine, fir, or spruce, first blot the area with isopropyl rubbing alcohol to dissolve the sap, than wash it with a solution of warm water and dish washing soap.
You can try pre-treating any clothing or tablecloth with a stain remover and then wash. If this does not work, dab the area with hydrogen peroxide and then line dry. For carpet or upholstery stain, blot with warm water, dish washing soap and hydrogen peroxide solution. | 2019-04-25T02:51:31 | http://naturally-clean.ca/cleaning-up-christmas-messes/ |
0.998235 | "I am close to your house."
Why is "jestem blisko twojego domu" not accepted here? You could be either twoj or wasz, or am I wrong?
You are perfectly right, but this answer is not only accepted, it's one of the 'best answers'.
So either you made some typo you didn't notice, or there was some bug.
Hmmmm. On the one hand yes, on the other hand, no. But I vote 'no'. "Obok" is like literally next to, just outside your house, 'blisko' can be 10 metres, 100 metres, 5 kilometres, depending on what we compare it to: if I live on the other end of the country, calling someone and saying "Hej, jestem blisko waszego domu" when I am 5 kilometres away from their house, in the city center, makes perfect sense. In such context, you are close enough to want to make a visit, but faaaar from being "obok".
It does not make any grammatical sense.
"I am in front of the house."
"I am not your enemy!"
"I did not close the window." | 2019-04-26T11:48:55 | https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/15602067/I-am-close-to-your-house |
0.999999 | Can a healthy Rams secondary slow down Saints' passing?
When the Rams traveled to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in Week 9, they were undermanned and outgunned against the Saints' vaunted aerial attack. The absence of Aqib Talib - arguably Los Angeles' best defensive back - allowed New Orleans to take advantage, as quarterback Drew Brees went 25 of 36 for 346 yards and four touchdowns in a 45-35 victory.
In that game, the Rams had no answer for Saints wide receiver Michael Thomas, who finished with 12 catches for 211 yards and a touchdown. At times, Los Angeles tried shadowing Thomas with cornerback Marcus Peters, but that matchup largely worked out in New Orleans' favor.
Here, Thomas is lined up in a "plus" split - outside the numbers - at the near side of the field with Peters in press coverage. Once the ball is snapped, Thomas takes a hard jab step inside, which forces Peters to follow suit, giving the receiver space to release outside. From there, Thomas separates just enough at the top of his route to make the catch despite pass interference from Peters.
On this play, Thomas is aligned in a reduced split - between the hash marks and the numbers - on the wide side of the field with Peters in press coverage. The receiver then releases outside while using his inside hand to swipe away Peters' attempts to make contact. Due to the clean release, Thomas is able to get behind and stack Peters, before using his speed to pull away and give Brees a target.
However, things should be a little easier for the Rams this time, as Talib will be active and should see plenty of snaps against Thomas. They've never faced off before, but Talib possesses the length, speed, and awareness to give Thomas some trouble. And while Peters certainly struggled against Thomas, he won't have the same problems against the rest of New Orleans' receiving corps.
Overall, the domino effect of Talib being in the lineup will aid the Rams' entire secondary and give the group a much better shot at slowing down Brees, Thomas, and Co. through the air.
Brees is the NFL's best at stepping up in the pocket to avoid pressure - giving himself extra time to throw - which is why opposing defenses must create havoc in the interior of the line.
Luckily for the Rams, they possess one of the best interior pass-rushers of all time in Aaron Donald, who led the league in sacks (20.5) and quarterback hits (41) this season.
On this play, Peat's lined up as the uncovered left guard. At the snap, Redskins nose tackle Da'Ron Payne (No. 95) slants right because of a slot blitz, putting him in a one-on-one matchup with Peat.
Peat tries to quick-set Payne, but does a poor job of moving his feet to mirror the defender's lateral swim move. To make matters worse, Peat lunges with his strike, making it impossible to recover once Payne gets to his outside edge. From there, the defender penetrates into the backfield and sacks Brees.
Like most teams, the Saints will probably double-team Donald as much as possible. However, Rams defensive coordinator Wade Phillips is excellent at manipulating alignments to create one-on-one matchups for the superstar. When that happens against Peat, look for Donald to take full advantage and spend plenty of time in the backfield.
Can the Saints limit the Rams' running game without stacking the box? Todd Gurley finished third in rushing yards this season, which was aided by seeing eight-plus defenders in the box on just 8.2 percent of his runs (the third-lowest rate in the league), according to Next Gen Stats. That's because Rams head coach Sean McVay often uses alignments and formations that make it difficult for opposing defenses to stack the box. New Orleans will likely have to find a way to stop the run without loading up.
Will the Rams be better on third and fourth downs? In the Week 6 matchup, Los Angeles' third- and fourth-down struggles were a major factor. While the Saints went 7-for-12 on third downs and converted both of their fourth-down opportunities, the Rams went just 3-for-8 on third downs and failed to convert either of their fourth-down tries. L.A. must sustain more drives to win Sunday's game.
Kicking game could be X-factor: Given how close this matchup is on paper, it wouldn’t be surprising to see the contest decided by field goals - and both teams possess very good kickers. Los Angeles' Greg Zuerlein went 27-for-31 on field goals this season, including 8-for-12 from 40-plus yards, while New Orleans' Wil Lutz finished 28-for-30 and went 13-for-15 from 40-plus. If Sunday comes down to a last-second kick, both teams should feel confident in their guy - although pressure has a way of making things more difficult.
New Orleans opened as a three-point favorite, hit -3.5 shortly after, were bet back down to -3, and once again pushed up to -3.5 during the week. However, the early money and the ticket count are both backing the Rams on the spread. So is the moneyline at approximately +155.
After these teams combined for 80 points in the regular season, it's no surprise that 55 percent of tickets and 71 percent of the overall money are on the over. This matchup opened up at 56 before immediately jumping to 56.5.
John Owning: McVay proves to be the preeminent offensive mind in the NFC while Donald gets well-acquainted with Brees in the backfield and Talib slows down Thomas. Rams 27, Saints 24.
Alex Kolodziej: After a slow start in last week's win over the Eagles, the Saints come out firing and don't look back in a lower-scoring game than the experts are predicting. Saints 26, Rams 17. | 2019-04-22T18:02:08 | https://emsite.thescore.com/nfl/news/1699661/nfc-championship-guide-rams-seek-redemption-in-rematch-with-saints |
0.997846 | How to Maintain the Slip Ring Assy in the Winter Season?
The slip ring assy is installed in the air-cooler and the room heater. During the winter season, it is necessary to maintain the heater properly. Regular inspection of the appliance will keep it in order. The users must check that the inner parts or the slip ring are working properly or else cool air will flow in the winter.
Applying proper lubricant to the slip rings will help it to run in a normal condition. Usage of the lubrication material will prevent the crackling sound of the rotary joints. The bearing of the metal ring will not wear and furthermore, the speed of the current will increase.
The inner sealing of the slip ring assy must be good or otherwise, there will leakage of liquid when the heater is in operation. It will hamper the efficiency of the slip ring and the heater will not function in the desired manner.
The users should steadily apply the low temperature for proper transmission of the liquid medium to the rotary joints. Using the overheated liquid materials will only burden the workload of the slip rings.
After continuous usage of the equipment for a considerable period of time, the dirt accumulates in the internal structure of the swivels. Daily cleaning of the inner part will prevent from the future malfunctioning of the heater. Proper cleaning will help in transferring the liquid in the inner side of the slip. Hence, the room heater will remain in a good condition until the coming winter.
At home and in the industrial sectors the slip rings are used for many reasons. The users should take precautions when operating the electrical machines. Proper functioning of the motor slip ring is a thing of paramount importance when used it in the electrical machines.
1)Maintenance: The electrical rotary joints need regular inspection and maintenance. Therefore, a professional technician should handle given the responsibility to handle this matter. The slip rings should be maintained for 2 to 3 times in a week.
2)Performance: The slip rings have to maintain properly, only then the carbon brush will work in a perfect manner. If regular inspection not done, subsequently fire sparks will emit from the metal product. It is advisable to reduce the current in such cases.
3)Temperature: A slip ring can work in a normal condition in less than 120 degrees of temperature. Overheating of the substance can affect the performance of the equipment.
4)Current: An excessive flow of current can cause burns to the collector ring. It will hinder the normal operation of the large electrical machines and small devices.
The pancake slip ring is a flat shape slip ring that is manufactured for the limited space apparatus. Customers can choose the axial or radial cable output with the minimum height dimension.
Advanced fiber brush technology and precious gold plating will increase the life-span of the slip ring. With the introduction, of the modern technology, the movement of the rotating shaft in the machines have improved. The slip rings now produce less noise and transfer more data signals and current to the stationary body of the equipment. | 2019-04-22T19:01:51 | https://www.moflon.com/showen101.html |
0.999923 | Option 1: Following the general ‘media micro/ecology’ of Bogost, and using the theoretical frames, discourse, and models provided in Doing Things with Videogames, closely analyze a video/digital game, a game series, or set of closely-related games to explore what the game does, and how it does what it does (accounting for everything from simulation, ‘procedural’ mechanics, game ‘ideology’ and design/formal properties to player roles, identities, representation and social/technical contexts, etc). As sub-text, you may also speculate (using Bogost’s frames, or your own) what and how players might be ‘learning’, explicitly or incidentally, through game play – and ‘learning’ in the broadest sense of the word.
Option 2: Create a New Chapter: Again using model, methods, or theory frameworks from Bogost’s book (and/or your own) – identify and describe another thing video games do. In effect, mobilize the theoretical frames, discourse/terminologies and models provided in Doing Things with Videogames and write a “short chapter” that you could tack onto the book as an appendix, or new chapter for the next edition. Be specific and (like option 1) consider looking for things like design/formal properties, simulation, procedural mechanics, role-play, representation and identity and social/technical contexts for play, and what/how people learn. | 2019-04-23T11:58:12 | http://seriousplaylab.com/courses/edu5863/?page_id=213 |
0.999747 | When Philips recently issued Mahler's Second Symphony (``the Resurrection''), with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the long-playing record was released in Europe. But it will not be sold in the United States. Instead, the performance is only available to Americans who have compact-disc or cassette players.
The Mahler recording graphically illustrates the fact that classical music LPs are becoming scarcer and scarcer. With more people buying compact discs, classical music records probably won't be made at all in a few years, industry analysts say.
``They just don't sell. People do not buy them,'' says David Belote, classical department manager of Tower Records here.
``The tide turned so rapidly that it caught almost everybody by surprise,'' adds Robert J. Lurtsema, host of the Morning Pro Musica program on WGBH-FM in Boston.
Since 1986, Mr. Lurtsema says, the compact disc has been the buying public's favored means of acquiring classical music - so much so that some smaller labels have already stopped making records.
Although David Vernier, music editor of Digital Audio and Compact Disc Review magazine, concedes that the slower pace of player sales has ``got a lot of people nervous,'' he sees only a cautious attitude among record companies at this point. ``There's still a heavy reluctance to cut the prices,'' he says.
What record companies are doing instead, he notes, is releasing more of their old recordings on compact disc, at budget CD prices.
Meanwhile, says Lynn Joiner, ``there'll be some winnowing-out'' of plants making CDs. Mr. Joiner is head of Northeastern Records in Boston, which specializes in chamber music.
There are at least 12 disc manufacturers in the US, Mr. Vernier says, which means record companies have an easier time making CDs than they did when the technology had just emerged and there were only a handful of such makers in the world.
That's a boon for people like Dopmeyer. ``Just a few years ago, one had to get on one's knees and kowtow'' to get a CD made, he says, because makers faced a backlog of orders from record companies. Today discmakers are ardently wooing recordmakers. In just a few years, the cost of cutting a CD has dropped by two-thirds, he adds.
One kind of competition that record companies have not relished is the potential of digital audio tapes (known as DAT) to muscle in on compact discs. According to those who have heard them, these tapes offer such astonishing clarity that a DAT copy sounds as good as the original. Recordmakers have worried that pirating of their CDs could destroy the disc industry.
But DAT is not yet offered in this country, and when it does become available, Mr. Belote doesn't see DAT as a threat to CDs.
While the debate rages over DAT, CD sales surge on. Just how popular are CDs in relation to LPs? If any exact answer exists, it's being kept a secret. A spokeswoman for the Recording Industry Association of America says she had no figures for classical music, and major record companies decline to release their sales figures.
But the trend is clear.
The Boston Symphony's Mahler recording, which was issued on record in Europe, where the LP remains the favorite means of presenting recorded music, was not imported into the US after record company executives considered the generally depressed US sales of records, the worsening position of the dollar against European currencies, and the expense of importing boxed sets into this country, according to Tower's Belote.
The current issues from the leading companies amplify the dominance of CD. The giant Polygram (makers of Deutsche Grammophon, London, and Philips records) sharply reduced its offerings between January 1986 and January 1987. DG dropped from 661 LPs to 255, London from 614 LPs to 393, and Philips from 423 LPs to 170, according to Berkshire Records, a company specializing in catalog cutouts. As a result, ``there'll be a lot of LPs in the clearance bins for those people who want to buy them,'' says Schwann's Mr. Crapo. Very few new records are being issued, he says, and older ones are being withdrawn.
Crapo's own publication proves the point. Schwann began issuing a monthly CD catalog in June 1986 and switched its monthly LP catalog to a quarterly in December of that year.
But while the disc caught on with classical music lovers because of the quality of the sound reproduction, it has not edged out LPs in the popular music field. ``LP sales far dominate CD sales'' in pop music, says Belote.
There are two widely cited reasons for this phenomenon. First, a recording spectrum that spans the most muted strings to the roar of brass and the crash of cymbals and timpani is just not generally needed for rock music, says Northeastern's Joiner.
And second, the price is not right. ``The average classical buyer is more affluent and willing to spend a good deal more money'' for his music than the average pop buyer is, Crapo notes.
The disc won the hearts of classical music devotees for a number of reasons, including the quality of its sound, its convenience, its long playing time (about 75 minutes in stereo, when a disc is fully recorded), its durability, and the fact that there is no stylus to replace, as there is for record players.
Despite its popularity, it is not difficult to find complaints about the disc. Perhaps most significant, audiophiles who spend thousands of dollars on stereo equipment maintain that the record actually sounds better than the disc. But even mundane things grate. The elongated plastic wrappers that allow CDs to be placed in LP racks and make them harder to steal irk Dopmeyer. ``I would hope that they stop using them,'' he says.
Some people complain that the jewel box, as the disc's protective case is called, takes up too much storage space compared with that of, say, a protective envelope.
And letter writers and columnists in Gramophone, a British publication specializing in recorded classical music, have taken CD-makers to task for failing to put a full hour or more of music on their discs, and for the quality of the accompanying (or even worse, nonaccompanying) literature that record companies include with the discs.
Lurtsema particularly savages compact discs, which he finds to be a general nuisance to him as a radio announcer.
He finds it awkward to carry a mix of LPs and CDs from the library to the studio.
And the listing of pieces on the back of the jewel boxes sometimes seems almost too fine to read, he says, and suggests that perhaps this is because the backs of record jackets have been photographically reduced to squeeze them onto the CD case. Turning from his turntable, he points to a piece of equipment that looks as though it belongs in a doctor's office. The ``tool,'' which is suspended on an arm, proves to be a giant magnifying glass set in a white case - purchased especially for minuscule print on disc literature.
Finally, there are the idiosyncratic listings. Lurtsema walks out of the studio, punches a code into the door of the locked room where WGBH's classical music is held, and passes rows of record shelves and CD closets on his way to his office, where he picks up a Hyperion recording of Robert Simpson's String Quartets Nos. 10 and 11. The CD's six sections, for no discernible reason, are labeled as 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, and 9/10.
Back in the studio, Lurtsema inserts the CD into the $2,000 Studer player. The timings of each cut vary by a few seconds from those listed. ``I hate to pick on poor Hyperion, because this has happened to just about every record company,'' he says. | 2019-04-25T12:31:24 | https://www.csmonitor.com/1988/0418/fcd-f.html |
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