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Plastics such as vinyl, phenolic, polyester, and polystrene have been around since the early 1900s, and the concept of composite building materials dates back to the Egyptians and Mesopotamian people. Plastic does not biodegrade and is cheap and easy to manufacture and purchase, but this can be a double-edge sword. Plastic can easily fill up large amounts of space in landfills and trash in nature, since it is so common and does not break down, and this can be a real problem for the natural environment. For this reason, a large part of the “go green” initiative involves recycling materials like plastic whenever possible, and this means saving nature from pollution as well as providing cost-friendly, reused materials for builders of all kinds, and this certainly includes recycled plastic landscape timbers which can be a very flexible material for construction. And as mentioned above, recycled plastic landscape timbers are not nearly as sensitive to their environment as actual wood is, which can reduce costs for installation. Plastic may also be resistant to vandalism and will not produce splinters like wood will, and it is lighter than metal.
What can be built with this material? A lot of different things, which is part of the appeal. Landscaping, for example, can be made quick and easy with landscaping boards. Such materials can be cheaply acquired and used to create flower beds and gardens, and they can also be used to create low, attractive wood-like frames around trees as another method of landscaping. These timbers can also be used to create park benches, which are not as easy to vandalize via carving as wood is, and these timbers may also be used for fencing. Often, fences are not just practical for keeping out people and animals, but they can also be attractive as landscaping and can act as a trellis for plants to grow on, and this makes them even more effective as landscaping.
Playground equipment, meanwhile, can be made out of wood, metal, and plastic timbers, and a playground in a rain-prone area such as Seattle may want to be made from recycled plastic landscape timbers and similar recycled plastics rather than actual wood to resist rotting and warping. These timbers can be tough, light, price-efficient, and attractive for building playground sets such as obstacle courses for kids, or even smaller swing sets (larger swing sets will probably require the sheer strength of steel). These timbers can also form the low walls around sandboxes for playgrounds, effectively keeping the sand contained. These timbers may also help keep different types of terrain separate, such as grassy soil, bark dust, and pebbles so that these materials do not become too mixed and messy on the playground.
Private homeowners and city managers alike can make use of recycled plastic landscape timbers. A homeowner might use these timbers for a raised flowerbed in their back yard, or to raise a fence to keep out stray dogs or people or to keep pets in the yard. Commercially, these timbers can be used for the same purposes, but on the scale of a park and other public area, such as larger flowerbeds, fences, and park benches. This price-friendly material can make the construction and maintenance of playground equipment and landscaping easy for any town or city to manage for their parks.
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Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP), originally isolated from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria, is a 238 amino acid protein that is of great interest to life scientists. Although there are numerous reports that show the use of traditional purification approaches to purify GFP, these are either multi-step or require expensive chromatographic resins. Recently, several groups have used the relatively new and simple "three-phase partitioning" (TPP) approach to purify various proteins, including GFP. TPP approach relies on the use of ammonium sulfate and t-butanol to separate the components of the lysate into three phases. Under appropriate conditions, the protein of interest can be precipitated into the interfacial phase (between the top t-butanol and the bottom-aqueous phases). In the present study, we have used 10 organic solvents in addition to t-butanol in the TPP approach in an attempt to develop a relatively simple and high-yield purification method. The solvents tested in this study were methanol, ethanol, 2-propanol, acetone, dimethyl sulfoxide, dimethyl formamide, 2-butanol, t-butanol, 3-methyl-1-butanol, 1-butanol, and hexanol. We found that surprisingly, GFP was quite stable and fluorescent in all the solvents tested (up to 50% v/v). Additionally, we found that 6 of the solvents tested were effective in TPP purification of GFP, with 2-propanol, t-butanol, and 3-methyl-1-butanol being the best solvents to use. In summary, we show that the use of alternate organic solvents in TPP may lead to development of simple and high yield purification methods for GFP as well as other proteins.
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The pineal gland (also called the pineal body, epiphysis cerebri, epiphysis or the "third eye") is a small endocrine gland in the vertebrate brain. It produces melatonin, a hormone that affects the modulation of wake/sleep patterns and photoperiodic (seasonal) functions. It is shaped like a tiny pine cone (hence its name), and is located near to the center of the brain, between the two hemispheres, tucked in a groove where the two rounded thalamic bodies join. Unlike much of the rest of the brain, the pineal gland is not isolated from the body by the blood-brain barrier system.
The pineal gland is reddish-gray and about the size of a pea (8 mm in humans), located just rostro-dorsal to the superior colliculus and behind and beneath the stria medullaris, between the laterally positioned thalamic bodies. It is part of the epithalamus.
The pineal gland is a midline structure, and is often seen in plain skull X-rays, as it is often calcified. Calcification is typically due to intake of the fluoride found in water and toothpaste.
The pineal body consists in humans of a lobular parenchyma of pinealocytes surrounded by connective tissue spaces. The gland's surface is covered by a pial capsule.
The pineal gland consists mainly of pinealocytes, but four other cell types have been identified.
pinealocytes The pinealocytes consist of a cell body with 4-6 processes emerging. They produce and secrete melatonin. The pinealocytes can be stained by special silver impregnation methods.
interstitial cells Interstitial cells are located between the pinealocytes.
pineal neurons In higher vertebrates neurons are located in the pineal gland. However, these are not present in rodents.
The pineal gland receives a sympathetic innervation from the superior cervical ganglion. However, a parasympathetic innervation from the sphenopalatine and otic ganglia is also present. Further, some nerve fibers penetrate into the pineal gland via the pineal stalk (central innervation). Finally, neurons in the trigeminal ganglion innervates the gland with nerve fibers containing the neuropeptide, PACAP. Human follicles contain a variable quantity of gritty material, called corpora arenacea (or "acervuli", or "brain sand"). Chemical analysis shows that they are composed of calcium phosphate, calcium carbonate, magnesium phosphate, and ammonium phosphate. Recently, calcite deposits have been described as well. Calcium and phosphorus deposits in the pineal gland have been linked with aging.
Pinealocytes in many non-mammalian vertebrates have a strong resemblance to the photoreceptor cells of the eye. Some evolutionary biologists believe that the vertebrate pineal cells share a common evolutionary ancestor with retinal cells.
In some vertebrates, exposure of the pineal to light can directly set off a chain reaction of enzymatic events which regulate circadian rhythms. Some early vertebrate fossil skulls have a pineal foramen (opening). This corroborates with the physiology of the modern "living fossils", the lamprey and the tuatara, and some other vertebrates which have a parietal organ or "third eye" which, in some of them, is photosensitive. The third eye represents evolution’s earlier approach to photoreception. The structures of the third eye in the tuatara are homologous to the cornea, lens and retina, though the latter resembles that of an octopus rather than a vertebrate retina. The asymmetrical whole consists of the "eye" to the left and the pineal sac to the right. "In animals that have lost the parietal eye, including mammals, the pineal sac is retained and condensed into the form of the pineal gland."
Fossils seldom preserve soft anatomy. The brain of the Russian Melovatka bird, about 90 million years old, is an exception, and it shows a larger-than-expected parietal eye and pineal gland.
In humans and other mammals, the light signals necessary to set circadian rhythms are sent from the eye through the retinohypothalamic system to the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) and the pineal.
The pineal gland was originally believed to be a "vestigial remnant" of a larger organ (much as the appendix was thought to be a vestigial digestive organ). Aaron Lerner and colleagues at Yale University discovered that melatonin, the most potent compound then known to lighten frog skin, was present in the highest concentrations in the pineal. Melatonin is a derivative of the amino acid tryptophan, which also has other functions in the central nervous system. The production of melatonin by the pineal gland is stimulated by darkness and inhibited by light. Photosensitive cells in the retina detect light and directly signal the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), entraining it to the 24 hour clock. Fibers project from the SCN to the paraventricular nuclei (PVN), which relay the circadian signals to the spinal cord and out via the sympathetic system to superior cervical ganglia (SCG), and from there into the pineal gland. The function(s) of melatonin in humans is not clear; it is commonly prescribed for the treatment of circadian rhythm sleep disorders.
There is complementary evidence that the pineal gland is involved in the regulation of sleep in humans and of the full circadian rhythm in other species. It is interesting to note that in some species such as lizards the gland contains light sensitive neurons.
The human pineal gland grows in size until about 1-2 years of age, remaining stable thereafter , although its weight increases gradually from puberty onwards . It appears to play a major role in sexual development, hibernation in animals, metabolism, and seasonal breeding. The abundant melatonin levels in children is believed to inhibit sexual development, and pineal tumors have been linked with precocious puberty. When puberty arrives, melatonin production is reduced. Calcification of the pineal gland is typical in adults.
Pineal cytostructure seems to have evolutionary similarities to the retinal cells of chordates. Modern birds and reptiles have been found to express the phototransducing pigment melanopsin in the pineal gland. Avian pineal glands are believed to act like the suprachiasmatic nucleus in mammals.
Studies suggest that in rodents the pineal gland may influence the actions of recreational drugs, such as cocaine, and antidepressants, such as fluoxetine (Prozac), and its hormone melatonin can protect against neurodegeneration.
The compound pinoline is also produced in the pineal gland; it is one of the beta-carbolines. The biological activity of this molecule is of interest as a potential free radical scavenger (antioxidant), similar to that function of melatonin. It also acts as an endogenous MAOI.
The secretory activity of the pineal gland has only relatively recently become understood. Historically, its location close to the geographical centre in the brain suggested to philosophers that it possessed particular importance. This combination led to its being a "mystery" gland with myth, superstition and metaphysical theories surrounding its perceived function.
René Descartes, who dedicated much time to the study of the pineal gland, called it the "seat of the soul". He believed that it was the point of connection between the rational soul or intellect and the body.
The notion of a 'pineal-eye' is central to the philosophy of the seminal French writer Georges Bataille, which is analyzed at length by literary scholar Denis Hollier in his study Against Architecture. In this work Hollier discusses how Bataille uses the concept of a 'pineal-eye' as a reference to a blind-spot in Western rationality.
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Top10 Reasons Why Photovoltaic Solar Energy Is Worth It Is it worth to use photovoltaic solar energy? YES! For this, there are good reasons. A solar PV system does not consume, but it gives back. This is fantastic. You invest and in return solar power is given back, every day, as long as the sun is shining. The photovoltaic solar energy is green energy for the house. The electricity does not come from any nuclear or coal-fired power stations at a distance of 100 km; it comes from your roof. Here are the Top 10 reasons, why you should say “Yes” to photovoltaic solar energy: 1) Onsite power generation and supply The electricity produced comes from the roof of your house, so it does not need to cover long distances. Cable losses are extremely low. The solar panel system = your local energy supplier. 2) Unlimited renewable energy source The sun shines every day whether it is behind clouds or not. The solar energy is available in unlimited quantities every day. Regenerative and always reusable, in this way the solar PV system produces your electricity every day. 3) Free renewable energy source Free unlimited daily photovoltaic solar energy. The sun rays strike the photovoltaic solar cells, and electricity is produced, and you do not have to pay anything! There is no bill sent from above. The sun rays are there, and they bring you electricity. 4) To be an example to others With your own small solar panel system, you are an example to the next generation, because green power ensures a more environmentally-friendly future for our children. 5) A secure, clean future The investment in photovoltaic solar energy has a future. Moreover, today, without using renewable energy sources it will not work. Whoever produces green electricity, contributes to a secure, clean future. 6) Save money on your electricity bill The power consumption remains the same every year, but the price rises. With photovoltaic solar energy, the electricity bill will be lower at the end of the year. 7) Photovoltaic solar energy increases the value of your property With photovoltaic solar energy, the price of your house increases and thus the solar panel system offers true added value! 8) Independence of energy supplier Who would say no, to finally being free of their energy supplier? If you produce your own power, you have moved some way towards independence. 9) Environmentally friendly A solar PV system consumes very little energy. The only one component, which works in the system, is the solar power inverter. In the morning, it needs a small amount of energy to start up, but as soon as the sun has risen, the electricity is produced but not consumed. 10) Solar panel system needs low-maintenance A solar panel system requires minimal maintenance and very little attention. When the sun rises, the electricity comes until it goes down again. Every day!
What is it? Net-Metering allows households to generate ‘free electricity’ and set off the power produced, against the power used from the national grid. The consumer will pay only for the “net” number of units (kWh) used (from the grid) each month. In the event the consumer produces power in excess of his usage in a particular month, that number of units (kWh) will be carried forward to the following month. Solar India # Net Metering & Solar Netmetering India Let Solar Energy hire the sun to work for you! Installing solarpanels helps both earth & you. Sareen Electricians Pvt.Ltd. purpose is to help our customers with the most reliable & cost effective solar solutions! Did you know when you go Solar you can buy a lifetime of electricity for less than what it cost you to pay your utility bill for five years? The sun's not going anywhere for the next few million years, so we have plenty of time to make the most of its light. Switch to Solar today. Solar Punjab (region) Take advantage of the Indian Government Subsidy.
Advantages of Netmetering or Bidirectional Solar Power System Individual Benefits :- Net metering allows you to get full retail value for the electricity you produce by permitting you to put any excess electricity you generate back in to the electric grid and retrieve it later, free of charge. Net Metering accurately captures energy generated and consumed, Reduced pressure on the local electricity grid. Increased local energy Independence. Increased property Values. Reduced peak power demands. Increased in-state electricity generation. More Visible indicators of community support for clean energy, Regional Economic Growth. No Battery storage system needed. Solar Power produced in winter saves on summer costs. No - Maintenance- Solar Power without hassles. Environmental Benefits :- Generation of Environment friendly, clean energy. Reduces carbon (CO2) emissions. No pollution healthy Environment. Helps in controlling Global Warming Saving of fossils fuels like coal, wood and other petroleum products.
Most of us have been consuming electricity from the grid the same way for more than a century now. But that’s starting to change. A new buzzword is out on the streets signaling a growing shift in how we power our homes and communities – “prosumers.” Simply put, a prosumer is someone who both produces and consumes energy – a shift made possible, in part, due to the rise of new connected technologies and the steady increase of more renewable power like solar and wind onto our electric grid. Think of it like a Facebook feed or YouTube page. Most users don’t just read or watch content – they also create their own and actively add to the conversation on social media. Who is a Prosumer? Prosumers are growing in the energy space as more Punjabi generate their own power from distributed energy resources. This is most often accomplished through rooftop solar panels and electric vehicles. Gone are the days when electricity consumption was a one-way street. Today’s electric grid is blurring the lines between power generation and consumption. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh40ZX8AWTk Understand the grid in less than 90 seconds. The rise of prosumers highlights one of the most exciting trends in renewable energy. These emerging technologies can help preserve the natural environment, drive economic development, and provide Punjabis more energy choices – spurring even greater competition and innovation in the energy sector. The MNRE Department of Energy’s Grid Modernization Initiative (GMI) is working with private and public partners to enable this rise of prosumers through the creation of a smart electric grid. GMI supports critical research and development in advanced storage systems, clean energy integration, and a number of other key grid modernization areas to ensure all prosumers have additional options and flexibility with their electricity.
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With so many different options out there on fitness, what is the right approach when finding a fitness expert focusing on golf? There are many fitness professionals out there trying to get a piece of the golf market, since many PGA Tour Professionals are attributing their professional success to their fitness goals.
Before you jump right into a fitness routine or work with a trained professional, ensure they know about the game of golf .
A few questions to keep in mind when screening your potential Fitness Professional.
- Does he/she know golf? Play golf? What is their Golf IQ?
- Do they know the biomechanics of the golf swing?
- Do they know the key factors and sequence in agolf swing?
During the initial interview or if you’re researching online be sure to ensure they speak and know the language of golf and take a look at the information on the website. You’ll find out real quick if this person or program can help your golf swing, game and health.
Over doing one aspect of training is a recipe for disaster. For example, if they focus to much on strength in the wrong areas.
In addition to strength, stretching should be a big focus. Not just daily stretching but golf specific as well. For example trunk flexibility; lower back; hamstring; and even shoulders specific to the mechanics of the swing.
The golf swing is simply a motion moved in space, so knowing where your body is at all times is a key component of consistent golf. Does any of the exercises resemble golf positions or phases of the swing?
Stabilizing your body through strength and flexibility will only help you throughout your round.
Moving either laterally (sliding) too much or vertically (up and done) or both need to be contained..
These are just some tips to find the right golf fitness coach. In addition to the fundamental information stated above, ask your friends who golf if they work with a fitness professional and if they do; who? Also do your own research online and ask your golf instructor. Start with your own research and discovery, ask around, and find the right person to work with your golf and fitness goals.
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Imagine the following scenario. Two drug manufacturers are late to market with competing drug launches. Differentiation is the main challenge. The first company employs a differentiation communication strategy that focuses on creating brand awareness by presenting catchy taglines and aesthetically pleasing visuals of happy people. Their campaign is short on educational content, which is relegated to a text-heavy side page on its website. The second company employs a different communication strategy, investing time and money into creating educational content intended to help potential customers better understand their disease and treatment options.
Jonathan has recently been diagnosed with the disease in question. Overwhelmed at the time of diagnosis, he delays making a treatment decision. He goes online to learn more about his condition and comes across the websites for both drugs. Jonathan spends little time on the first company’s website, as it does not provide him with much useful information. He next finds himself on the second company’s website, where he comes across detailed educational information. Pleasantly surprised to see a drug manufacturer put so much effort into creating helpful content, Jonathan spends a great deal of time on the website, referring family and friends to it to help them understand his newly diagnosed condition.
Later, Jonathan discusses treatment options with his doctor, who pulls out the brochure for the second company’s medication. She uses it to explain more about Jonathan’s condition and how treatment works. (She threw away the first company’s brochure after quickly skimming through it and finding little useful information.) Because the available medications cannot be differentiated through data, the doctor ends up recommending what is top of mind. In this case, what is top of mind is the second company’s medication, as she frequently uses its brochure as an educational tool. Jonathan, having already become familiar with the drug manufacturer and having been impressed by their patient centricity, confidently agrees.
In pharma’s post-blockbuster era, the above scenario is becoming commonplace. Patient centricity is critical to market differentiation, yet too many companies still consider well-crafted, in-depth, accessible educational content to be an afterthought. The result of this is that what should be strategically valuable educational content on pharma websites and in brochures ends up serving little purpose but to take up valuable real estate. This is because most pharmaceutical educational content suffers from one of two major problems: It is either overly complex or oversimplified. Either extreme has the potential to significantly undermine a drug communication strategy, leading to customer alienation, failure to achieve desired customer behavior, wasted company resources and time, failure to differentiate, and a drug that underperforms in a competitive market. Avoiding these extremes and aligning on a strategy to differentiate through education requires an up-front investment of time and resources into building a patient-centric communication capability.
The backbone of such a capability is the development of a critical eye. This will enable you to identify the different communication traps that you can fall into and carefully navigate away from them.
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Being aware of these traps is the first step in avoiding falling into them—and the first step toward finding what can be referred to as the “simplification sweet spot.” The simplification sweet spot is achieved when content created for a specific audience hits just the right balance between too much and too little content and too much and too little simplification.
A famous quotation sometimes attributed to Albert Einstein says, “everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Most would consider the first part of the statement to be obvious—that content should be as simple as possible. If complex information is not simplified, a lay audience will struggle to understand it. A lack of effort to simplify also shows a lack of respect for the audience. It either forces them to invest considerable mental effort in understanding the explanation or loses them altogether (this includes traps C and D).
The second part of Einstein’s statement is less intuitive—that while content should be made as simple as possible, it should not be made simpler. In the context of creating simplified content, this means that oversimplification is detrimental to comprehension. Oversimplification tends to take one of two forms. The first involves the creation of short, vapid explanations that clarify very little (trap A). These explanations underestimate an audience’s ability and willingness to understand complex information and, more importantly, effectively deny them access to what they need to know.
The second involves creating analogies in apparently “simple” language that are so long and elaborate that audiences find it difficult to relate them to the content they are meant to simplify (trap B). This trap—the epitome of “dumbing down”—is an approach that is both inconsiderate and strategically unsound. It is a cheat used to attempt to explain overly complex information to an audience. It shows little consideration for what information is actually accessible and relevant to this audience—and for what might encourage them to pay attention to the communications materials.
Recognizing when content is heading toward one of the simplification traps is only the first step in creating content that fits within the simplification sweet spot. It’s important to push beyond the point at which simplification efforts typically end (e.g., creating analogies, visualizing concepts, writing information at a low reading level, avoiding jargon) and apply a new mindset to content creation that is defined by two major elements: editing and stakeholder collaboration.
What’s perhaps most important in the creation of simplified content is the ability to make tough decisions about what to include and what to leave on the cutting room floor. There’s no room to take detours to explain the side concept that you personally find interesting. Everything created should serve to maximize understanding of what’s most important. A key component of this is homing in on your audience’s knowledge and health literacy levels, and, from there, carefully building the knowledge foundation required to guide them through whatever complex information you wish them to understand. Taking a shortcut by foregoing explaining basic concepts and instead using a “clever” explanation to skip directly to explaining the most complex topic (see trap B) typically backfires. The audience might be able to follow the clever explanation, but they won’t really understand how it applies to the complex information. A complex concept cannot be truly understood without first understanding its component parts. What does immunotherapy really mean to someone if they don’t first understand the nature of cancer?
But how do you know what your audience already knows? While accrued experience working to simplify complex information helps, there’s no substitute to simply asking your audience. Methodologies that include the audience as part of the design process tend to be highly successful, demonstrating a number of benefits. In the short run, working with your audience significantly de-risks the creative process. Creating content alongside patients, HCPs, the client, and the client’s agency partners is a great way to quickly and efficiently test your assumptions and help determine if the content is doing what it’s supposed to be doing. Working alongside your audience also allows you to capture insights and establish design principles that, in the long run, will help you and your agency partners create communication content for years to come, efficiently and consistently.
At Bridgeable, our experienced biomedical communicators have honed their ability to consistently hit the simplification sweet spot. Years of experience working on complex pharmaceutical communications projects have allowed us to refine our methodology for co-designing well-edited content. What makes Bridgeable stand out in the world of healthcare communications is the high level of respect we have for our audiences. We respect their time and intelligence, and we live and breathe by the philosophy that things should be made “as simple as possible, but not simpler.” This level of respect is important to our clients who care deeply about their customers. For this reason, they see us as more than an agency that simply gets the job done. We are thought partners who help them think critically about how to talk about complex subjects and how to empower their customers through education. We share an ambition to improve the patient experience, and we enjoy the time we spend together in the simplification sweet spot.
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The Jeopardy of Contentment: Writing a Review: Obligation to the Artist?
Writing a Review: Obligation to the Artist?
Recently, a group of us at work listened to the album Sigh No More by Mumford and Sons. The opinions ranged from decent to current favorite of the year. As we have read other reviews coming out from publications, we saw that many of the reviews echoed our sentiments. The album is not groundbreaking, nor does it ever try to be. What it is is well-produced, with solid music and (again) at the very least decent vocals/harmonies. However, one publication blasted the album with an extremely low score that actually caught a coworker's surprise, and he emailed the link for us to read. Ultimately, the low score seemed to be based on the fact that the group sounded like other bands, was not original, and was pointless.
I am not going to name the publication, nor am I going to review the album anymore than saying that I have enjoyed the album so far. What this review did was raise an interesting point: If you really hate an album (regardless of whether your opinion is "correct" in the view of others), should you really review it at all? Reviews both positive and negative can have a tremendous impact in the success of an album, and a band. Positive reviews, whether justified or not (like an album by Pearl Jam, Springsteen, Dylan, Kings of Leon in Rolling Stone) means only good things, but a negative review can mean the beginning of the end. Since there are so many blogs and music publications out there, how many are affected by the other? How many reviewers may be basing some of their opinions on what they have already read, and in turn how many readers form opinions before even giving the music a chance?
We'd like to think all of our opinions are freely formed, but we know this is not the case. With a positive review, we may buy the music, realize later we don't like it, and that's the end, but at least the band achieved the sale. A negative review means no sale, no concert, maybe no new and dedicated fans. It's exponential loss.
What I have enjoyed about this blog is the fact that we generally focus on music we like; music or albums we don't care for may be mentioned in passing, but we don't drag them through the mud. This frees people to make their own decision, and not perhaps cause a chain reaction that severely limits a group's chances. I often think of movies not screened for critics: Usually this is because they are awful but often they end up having a decent opening weekend, then putter out once the collective masses discover the general suckiness. If an album is bad, people will ultimately find that out, and a truly bad artist will disappear.
So, a few things: Should a critic review an album they hated, or just ignore and focus on the ones that they WANT to talk about? What albums have you bought based primarily on reviews, or have avoided based on bad ones?
A final side note: My Old Kentucky Blog provides an interesting counterview to Mumford that we thought was very perceptive and fair, without the anger and spite of the "other" review.
Good article Chris. Since you won't name the "other" website that reviewed the album poorly I will. Pitchfork. I've read a lot of bad album reviews from that site. I CANNOT take them seriously. They seem to get off on butchering artists. That site is a complete joke in my eyes and there are so many other music review sites including this one that give an in depth and honest opinion. And for that, I thank you J.O.C.
I never minded Pitchfork's trashing of an artist until I went to a great Dent May show at the Jackpot that was nearly empty and realized that tons of supposedly enlightened indie fans don't weight PF's opinion, but depend on it solely. Still, the problem isn't with PF and critics who we should want out there actively debating, but with short sighted people who don't investigate both sides any issue.
I can't knock someone for not liking an album (and thus, giving it a bad review) I just wonder how they feel knowing they are holding a small bands career in their hands. That may be an exaggeration, but in some cases it's true. I can think of one example when they gave the Black Kids EP a 8.4, but the full length a 3.1. It's just interesting to see them build up hype for a band and then crush it.
BP is right on though, the problem isn't with P4K, but with indie kids that view P4K as their bible. There are a ton of kids out there that will buy and album or skip an album purely based on their reviews, and that is sad. That's not P4K's fault, but they probably need to think about that when they are dishing out really low scores. Maybe offer a contrasting opinion from another writer in these cases.
Not to continue to trash P4K (I still check out Pitchfork TV quite often) but another huge inconsistent I noticed with their reviews.
When it first came out, the album Rooty by Basement Jaxx got a 3.8 (http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/571-rooty/), yet, when it comes to putting together their top albums of the entire decade, Rooty lands in the top 50 (http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7709-the-top-200-albums-of-the-2000s-50-21/2/) at number 33!
That don't make no kind of sense.
Wow. I think this article contains the most comments I've ever had. Definitely an interesting issue, and one that I think is tied to the age we live in. On one hand, multiple sources can provide us with thousands of POVs regarding one artist, and can provide a well-rounded idea of said artist (thank you, Metacritic). On the other hand, if these reviews can effect each other, then you can have a large, overriding bias that can scare people off without experiencing it first hand. I do like how most online reviews provide at least one song, so someone can listen to it themselves.
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With so many different things to do in Orlando, your vacation in Orlando is guaranteed to be a time to remember. From theme parks and amusement parks to shopping malls, golf courses, and spas, there are an array of attractions in Orlando to delight a diverse range of travelers. Whether your trip to Orlando is with your significant other, friends, or the entire family, there are enough attractions in Orlando to satisfy everyone in your group.
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With so many diverse attractions and things to do in Orlando, Orlando trips are sure to be fun and memorable for all different kinds of travelers.
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Seth Bouvier, Anne Treisman; Feature binding signals in visual cortex. Journal of Vision 2010;10(7):96. doi: 10.1167/10.7.96.
The contributions of visual cortex neurons to feature binding are not well understood. A central issue is distinguishing models of feature binding in which separate feature-coding neurons are linked together from models in which binding is done by neurons that explicitly encode feature conjunctions. Here, we measured brain responses with fMRI as subjects viewed an annulus containing colored, moving dots and detected the presence of target dots defined either by a single feature (color, or direction of motion), or by a conjunction of those features. Each trial consisted of a 500 millisecond stimulus presentation, followed by a one second response period. Data were acquired in a blocked design; the blocks contained 16 trials and were separated by 25 seconds of rest. Patterns of activity during the three conditions could be distinguished with machine learning algorithms, as early as V1. Analysis of the voxel-based weights output by the classification algorithm revealed that voxels informative for classification of the conjunction task were less informative for the feature tasks, and vice versa. In other words, when subjects searched for a feature conjunction (e.g. red and down), informative cortical locations were different than when subjects searched for the same color (red) or motion direction (down) separately. This result suggests that separate populations of neurons were activated during binding relative to feature detection. A whole-brain analysis revealed involvement of parietal cortex in binding, even though no task explicitly required shifts of spatial attention. Overall, these data are consistent with a feature binding mechanism sensitive to conjunction-coding neurons in early visual cortex.
his research was supported by grant 1000274 from the Israeli Binational Science Foundation, and by NIH grants 2RO1MH058383-04A1 and 1RO1MH062331.
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Time Warner’s Q3 earnings call is underway, with CEO Jeff Bewkes pushing the mega-media company’s resiliency as the theme of the day. You could probably write the script: times are tough, we’re well positioned, we’re focusing on our great brands, “ability to make compelling content on a consistent basis.” No announcement of an AOL (NYSE: TWX) sale for anyone who still thinks that’s imminent.
In his prepared comments, Bewkes compared the Time Inc restructuring announced last week to the first quarter “hard look” at New Line, calling it “the most comprehensive overhaul in Time Inc history” enabling “similar titles for the first time to share some editorial and sales infrastructure.” It will “streamline management” and speed up decision making” by integrating digital and print. And aligning like titles will allow Time Inc to ensure that resources are being concentrated on the “biggest and most promising brands” at scale. His example: People, the division’s most profitable title, which delivered a modest gain in print and online advertising “despite its size in a difficult third quarter.” TW expects to generate “at least $150 million in annual run rate savings starting in 2009.
— AOL: Bekes mentioned weak advertising sectors like mortgage financing and autos but offered a batch of traffic stats to show “more evidence that our redesigns over the last two years and the new niche sites AOL has launched are succeeding.” CFO John Martin got down to the nitty-gritty of the unit’s mixed results– strong usage growth mixed with disappointment on the ad side and dash of hope. Display advertising dropped 15 percent to $181 million and the total ad drop of 6 percent almost took AOL below $500 million in ad revenue for the quarter; total advertising consists of roughly one-third each of paid search, display and third-party networks. Third-party numbers continue to be slammed by the loss of major customer Apollo, which swallowed any advantage from acquisitions, dropping 12 percent to $144 million. Apollo’s loss cost Platform-A $55 million for the quarter while acquisitions brought in $29 million over Q307. Take out Apollo, which they’ll be able to do after it haunts again in Q4, and third-party revenues would have been up 7 percent. In keeping with the mixed messages, that 7 percent is still lower than the growth AOL had been seeing “due to both the decline in branded advertising as well as lower consumer response to our performance advertising.” Paid search was up 12 percent on increases in revenue per query.
— M&A: With the expected $11 billion dividend from the TWC spin confirmed again today and some other moves, TW’s piggybank is going to gain considerable weight. What will they do with the money? Possibilities include some shopping. Martin: “We’d be looking to do a few things, one, potentially doing acquisitions that we believe would add and create value once they’re put through a disciplined filter or process to make sure that they actually are additive. There’s nothing that we see as a must have and we don’t see any strategic holes in our portfolio right now. Jessica Reif Cohen tried again by asking about the asset mix over the next three years. Bewkes, in the understatement of the day: “In the media business we all know there’s been a lot of value destroyed through poor acquisitions and poor capital allocations. So any acquisition we do has to meet some pretty stringent return requirements.” Possible areas include cable networks, film and TV production, a stress on international — and small game publishers.
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How clean are those toys your toddler is playing with?
Although most, if not all, states with agencies regulating daycare cleanliness have seemingly stringent rules about de-germing playthings, who's to say these guidelines are being followed? Sure, inspections take place from time to time, but few daycares sterilize their germ factories (also known as toys) on a daily or even weekly schedule.
This means that by the time your teething toddler gives a spit polish to the plastic dishware that comprises the daycare's toy kitchen, it's already loaded with minutiae left behind from her cohorts. If you've asked about the daycare's toy sanitation policies to no avail, volunteer to spearhead the effort. Your willingness to help will probably prompt them to action. In addition, make sure your child is up to date with immunizations and instill healthy habits at home, such as handwashing.
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For other uses, see Fujian (disambiguation).
"Hokkian" redirects here. For Hokkien dialect speaking in the South Fujian, see Hokkien.
Fujian ( 福建; formerly romanized as Fukien) is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. The name Fujian came from the combination of Fuzhou and Jianzhou (present Nanping), two cities in Fujian, during the Tang dynasty. While its population is chiefly of Han origin, it is one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse provinces in China.
As a result of the Chinese Civil War, Historical Fujian is now divided between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) based in Taiwan, and both territories are named the Fujian province in their respective administration divisions. The majority of the territory of historical Fujian (the mainland territory and a few islands) currently make up the Fujian province of the PRC. The Fujian province of the ROC is made up of the Matsu Islands, the Wuqiu Islands and the Kinmen Islands, the two latter archipelagos constituting Kinmen County.
Recent[when?] archaeological discoveries demonstrate that Fujian had entered the Neolithic Age by the middle of the 6th millennium BC. From the Keqiutou site (7450–5590 BP), an early Neolithic site in Pingtan Island located about 70 kilometres (43 mi) southeast of Fuzhou, numerous tools made of stones, shells, bones, jades, and ceramics (including wheel-made ceramics) have been unearthed, together with spinning wheels, which is definitive evidence of weaving.
The Tanshishan (曇石山) site (5500–4000 BP) in suburban Fuzhou spans the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Age where semi-underground circular buildings were found in the lower level. The Huangtulun (黃土崙) site (ca.1325 BC), also in suburban Fuzhou, was of the Bronze Age in character.
Tianlong Jiao (2013) notes that the Neolithic appeared on the coast of Fujian around 6,000 B.P. During the Neolithic, the coast of Fujian had a low population density, with the population depending on mostly on fishing and hunting, alongside with limited agriculture.
There were four major Neolithic cultures in coastal Fujian, with the earliest Neolithic cultures originating from the north in coastal Zhejiang.
There were two major Neolithic cultures in inland Fujian, which were highly distinct from the coastal Fujian Neolithic cultures.
Fujian was also where the kingdom of Minyue was located. The word "Mǐnyuè" was derived by combining "Mǐn" (simplified Chinese: 闽; traditional Chinese: 閩; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bân), which is perhaps an ethnic name (simplified Chinese: 蛮; traditional Chinese: 蠻; pinyin: mán; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bân), and "Yuè", after the State of Yue, a Spring and Autumn period kingdom in Zhejiang to the north. This is because the royal family of Yuè fled to Fujian after its kingdom was annexed by the State of Chu in 306 BC. Mǐn is also the name of the main river in this area, but the ethnonym is probably older.
Minyue was a de facto kingdom until one of the emperors of the Qin dynasty, the first unified imperial Chinese state, abolished its status. In the aftermath of the Qin dynasty's fall, civil war broke out between two warlords, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang. The Minyue king Wuzhu sent his troops to fight with Liu and his gamble paid off. Liu was victorious and founded the Han dynasty. In 202 BC, he restored Minyue's status as a tributary independent kingdom. Thus Wuzhu was allowed to construct his fortified city in Fuzhou as well as a few locations in the Wuyi Mountains, which have been excavated in recent years. His kingdom extended beyond the borders of contemporary Fujian into eastern Guangdong, eastern Jiangxi, and southern Zhejiang.
After Wuzhu's death, Minyue maintained its militant tradition and launched several expeditions against its neighboring kingdoms in Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang, primarily in the 2nd century BC. This was stopped by the Han dynasty as it expanded southward. The Han emperor eventually decided to get rid of the potential threat by launching a military campaign against Minyue. Large forces approached Minyue simultaneously from four directions via land and sea in 111 BC. The rulers in Fuzhou surrendered to avoid a futile fight and destruction and the first kingdom in Fujian history came to an abrupt end.
The Han dynasty collapsed at the end of the 2nd century AD, paving the way for the Three Kingdoms era. Sun Quan, the founder of the Kingdom of Wu, spent nearly 20 years subduing the Shan Yue people, the branch of the Yue living in mountains.
Nevertheless, isolation from nearby areas owing to rugged terrain contributed to Fujian's relatively undeveloped economy and level of development, despite major population boosts from northern China during the "barbarian" invasions. Population density in Fujian remained low compared to the rest of China. Only two commanderies and sixteen counties were established by the Western Jin dynasty. Like other southern provinces such as Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, and Yunnan, Fujian often served as a destination for exiled prisoners and dissidents at that time.
During the Sui and Tang eras a large influx of migrants settled in Fujian.
The Tang dynasty (618–907) oversaw the next golden age of China, which contributed to a boom in Fujian’s culture and economy. Fuzhou's economic and cultural institutions grew and developed. The later years of the Tang dynasty saw a number of political upheavals in the Chinese heartland, prompting another wave of Chinese to immigrate to Fujian.
As the Tang dynasty ended, China was torn apart in the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. During this time, a second major wave of immigration arrived in the safe haven of Fujian, led by General Wang, who set up an independent Kingdom of Min with its capital in Fuzhou. After the death of the founding king, however, the kingdom suffered from internal strife, and was soon absorbed by Southern Tang, another southern kingdom.
Quanzhou city was blooming into a seaport under the reign of the Min Kingdom and was the largest seaport in the world.[when?] For a long period of time its population was also greater than Fuzhou. Due to the Ispah Rebellion, Quanzhou city lost foreign interest of trading and it's formerly welcoming international image as the foreigners were all massacred or deported.
The Lý dynasty monarchs of Vietnam were of Chinese ethnicity. Jinjiang district of Quanzhou prefecture was the origin of Lý Thái Tổ 李公蘊, the ancestor of the Lý dynasty ruling family.[a] China, Fujian was the home of Lý Công Uẩn. The ethnic Chinese background of Lý Công Uẩn has been accepted by Vietnamese historian Trần Quốc Vượng.
The founder of the Trần Dynasty in Vietnam, Emperor Trần Thái Tông, was the great-grandson of a Chinese person who came to Vietnam from Fujian from the Chinese Chen clan. Several members of the family, like the prince Trần Quốc Tuấn, continued to know how to speak Chinese. The name of the prince’s great grandfather was Trần Kinh.
People from the Song dynasty of China, like Zhao Zhong and Xu Zongdao, fled to the Trân dynasty after the Mongol invasion of China. The Daoist cleric Xu Zongdaowho, who recorded the Mongol invasion and called them "Northern bandits", also came from Fujian.
Fujian or Guangxi was the origin of the ethnic Chinese Tran who migrated to Vietnam along with a large number of other Chinese, during the Vietnamese Ly dynasty, where they served as officials. Distinctly Chinese last names are found in the Tran and Ly dynasty Imperial exam records. Ethnic Chinese are recorded in Tran and Ly dynasty records of officials. Clothing, food, and language were all Chinese dominated in Van Don where the Tran had moved after leaving their home province of Fujian. The Chinese language could still be spoken by the Tran in Vietnam. The side of Vietnam that borders the ocean was colonized by Chinese migrants from Fujian. This included the Tran among them who settled in the capital's southeastern area. The Red River Delta was subjected to migration of people from different provinces all over China through Fujian's major city port. The Tran and Van Don port arose as a result of this interaction. Fujian and Guangdong Chinese moved to the Van Don coastal port during Ly Anh Tong's rule to engage in commerce. The usurpation of the Ly occurred after they married with the fishing Fujianese Tran family.
In 1172 Fujian was attacked by Pi-she-ye pirates from Taiwan.
In the early Ming dynasty, Quanzhou was the staging area and supply depot of Zheng He's naval expeditions. Further development was severely hampered by the sea trade ban, and the area was superseded by nearby ports of Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Ningbo and Shanghai despite the lifting of the ban in 1550. Large-scale piracy by Wokou was eventually wiped out by Chinese military and Japanese authority of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
An account of Ming dynasty Fujian was written by No In 鲁认.
The Pisheya appear in Quanzhou Ming era records.
The late Ming and early Qing dynasty symbolized an era of large influx of refugees and another 20 years of sea trade ban under the Kangxi Emperor, a measure intended to counter the refuge Ming government of Koxinga in the island of Taiwan.
The seaban implented by the Qing forced many people to evacuate the coast in order to deprive Koxinga's Ming loyalists of resources. This has led to the myth that it was because Manchus were "afraid of water".
Incoming refugees did not translate into a major labor force, owing to their re-migration into prosperous regions of Guangdong. In 1683, the Qing dynasty conquered Taiwan and annexed it into the Fujian province, as Taiwan Prefecture. Settlement of Taiwan by Han Chinese followed. Today, most Taiwanese are descendants of Hokkien people from Southern Fujian. Fujian arrived at its present extent after Taiwan was developed into an independent province (Fujian-Taiwan-Province) starting in 1885. Just ten years later, the Qing ceded Taiwan to Japan via the Treaty of Shimonoseki after losing the First Sino-Japanese War.
The Xinhai revolution overthrew the Qing dynasty brought the province into the rule of the Republic of China.
Fujian briefly gained independence from China again under the Fujian People's Government until it was recontrolled by Republic of China.
It came under Japanese sea blockade during World War II.
Fujian's slow development in its early days has proved a blessing for the province's ecology; today, the province has the highest forest coverage rate and the most diverse biosphere in China whereas central China suffers from severe overpopulation and displays severe signs of soil erosion, with frequent droughts and floods due to lack of forest coverage.
Development has been accompanied by a large influx of population from the overpopulated areas in the north and west, and much of the farmland and forest as well as cultural heritage sites such as the temples of king Wuzhu have given way to ubiquitous high-rise buildings. The government faces challenges at all levels to sustain development while at the same time preserving Fujian's unique and vital natural and cultural heritage.
The province is mostly mountainous, and is traditionally said to be "Eight parts mountain, one part water, and one part farmland" (八山一水一分田). The northwest is higher in altitude, with the Wuyi Mountains forming the border between Fujian and Jiangxi. It is the most forested provincial level administrative region in China, with a 62.96% forest coverage rate in 2009. Fujian's highest point is Mount Huanggang in the Wuyi Mountains, with an altitude of 2,157 metres (1.340 mi).
Fujian faces East China Sea to the east, South China Sea to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the southeast. The coastline is rugged and has many bays and islands. Major islands include Quemoy (also known as Kinmen) (controlled by the Republic of China), Haitan Island, and Nanri Island. Meizhou Island occupies a central place in the cult of the goddess Matsu, the patron deity of Chinese sailors.
The Min River and its tributaries cut through much of northern and central Fujian. Other rivers include the Jin and the Jiulong. Due to its uneven topography, Fujian has many cliffs and rapids.
Fujian is separated from Taiwan by the 180 kilometres (110 mi)-wide Taiwan Strait. Some of the small islands in the Taiwan Strait are also part of the province. The islands of Quemoy and Matsu are under the administration of the Republic of China.
Fujian contains several faults, the result of collision between the Asiatic Plate and the Philippine Sea Plate. The Changle-Naoao and Longan-Jinjiang fault zones in this area have annual displacement rates of 3–5 mm. They could cause major earthquakes in the future.
Fujian has a subtropical climate, with mild winters. In January, the coastal regions average around 7–10 °C (45–50 °F) while the hills average 6–8 °C (43–46 °F). In the summer, temperatures are high, and the province is threatened by typhoons coming in from the Pacific. Average annual precipitation is 1,400–2,000 millimetres (55–79 in).
As of 2012[update], there are 54,876 kilometres (34,098 miles) of highways in Fujian, including 3,500 kilometres (2,200 miles) of expressways. The top infrastructure projects in recent years have been the Zhangzhou-Zhaoan Expressway (US$624 million) and the Sanmingshi-Fuzhou expressway (US$1.40 billion). The 12th Five-Year Plan, covering the period from 2011 to 2015, aims to double the length of the province's expressways to 5,500 kilometres (3,400 mi).
Within Fujian, coastal and interior cities are linked by the Nanping–Fuzhou (1959), Zhangping–Quanzhou–Xiaocuo (2007) and Longyan–Xiamen Railways, (2012). To attract Taiwanese investment, the province intends to increase its rail length by 50 percent to 2,500 km (1,553 mi).
The major airports are Fuzhou Changle International Airport, Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport, Quanzhou Jinjiang International Airport, Nanping Wuyishan Airport, Longyan Guanzhishan Airport and Sanming Shaxian Airport. Xiamen is capable of handling 15.75 million passengers as of 2011. Fuzhou is capable of handling 6.5 million passengers annually with a cargo capacity of more than 200,000 tons. The airport offers direct links to 45 destinations including international routes to Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
All of the prefecture-level cities except Nanping, Sanming, and Longyan are found along the coast.
The nine prefecture-level divisions are subdivided into 85 county-level divisions (28 districts, 13 county-level cities, and 44 counties). Those are in turn divided into 1,107 township-level divisions (605 towns, 328 townships, 18 ethnic townships, and 156 subdistricts).
The People's Republic of China claims the Republic of China-controlled Kinmen Islands as a Jinmen County of the prefecture-level city of Quanzhou. The ROC administers them as five of the six townships of its Kinmen County.
The PRC claims the ROC-controlled Wuqiu Islands as part of Xiuyu District of the prefecture-level city of Putian. The ROC administers them as Wuqiu Township of Kinmen County.
Finally, the PRC claims the ROC-controlled Matsu Islands as a Mazu Township of its Lianjiang County, which is part of the prefecture-level city of Fuzhou. The ROC administers the Matsu Islands as four townships making up its Lienchiang County (which is the same name but romanized differently).
Together, these three groups of islands make up the Republic of China's Fujian Province.
^ a b New district established after census: Changle (Changle CLC). The new district not included in the urban area & district area count of the pre-expanded city.
^ Does not include Beigan Township, Dongyin Township, Juguang Township, & Nangan Township (controlled by ROC) in the city proper count.
^ Does not include Jinmen County (controlled by ROC) in the city proper count.
^ a b New district established after census: Yongding (Yongding County). The new district not included in the urban area & district area count of the pre-expanded city.
^ a b New district established after census: Jianyang (Jianyang CLC). The new district not included in the urban area & district area count of the pre-expanded city.
In 2011, Fujian's nominal GDP was 1.74 trillion yuan (US$276.3 billion), a rise of 13 percent from the previous year. Its GDP per capita was 46,802 yuan (US$7,246 (9th)).
By 2015 Fujian expects to have at least 50 enterprises that have over 10 billion RMB in annual revenues. The government also expects 55 percent of GDP growth to come from the industrial sector.
Mud clams, oysters and shrimp are raised in Anhai Bay off Shuitou.
Han Chinese make up 98% of the population. Various Fujianese peoples (Min-speaking groups) make up the largest subgroups of Han Chinese in Fujian. This includes the Hoklo people, Fuzhounese people, Teochew people and Putian people.
Hakka, a Han Chinese people with its own distinct identity, live in the southwestern parts of the province bordering Guangdong. Hui'an, also a Han branch with their distinct culture and fashion, populate Fujian's southeast coastline near Chongwu in Hui'an County. The She, scattered over mountainous regions in the north, is the largest minority ethnic group of the province.
Many ethnic Chinese around the world, especially in Southeast Asia, trace their ancestries to the Fujianese branches of Hoklo people and Teochew people. Descendants of Southern Min speaking emigrants make up the predominant majority ethnic Chinese populations of Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines. While Eastern Min speaking people, especially Fuzhounese people, is one of the major sources of China immigrants in the United States, especially since the 1990s.
(The seventh subdivision of Min, Qiong Wen, is not spoken in Fujian.) Hakka, another subdivision of spoken Chinese, is spoken around Longyan by the Hakka people who live there.
As is true of other provinces, the official language in Fujian is Mandarin, which is used for communication between people of different localities, although native Fujian peoples still converse in their native languages and dialects respectively.
Fujian cuisine, with an emphasis on seafood, is one of the eight great traditions of Chinese cuisine. It is composed of traditions from various regions, including Fuzhou cuisine and Min Nan cuisine. The most prestigious dish is Fotiaoqiang (literally "Buddha jumps over the wall"), a complex dish making use of many ingredients, including shark fin, sea cucumber, abalone and Shaoxing wine (a type of Chinese alcoholic beverage).
Zhan Shi Chai (1840s–1893), entertainer as "Chang the Chinese giant"
Tsai Chi-Kun (1912–2004), "father of the Taiwan Symphony"
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Belos is an extensible and interoperable C++ framework for the numerical solution of large-scale linear systems of equations. It provides a collection of iterative linear solver algorithms, which work for any combination of matrix, preconditioner, and vector types which make sense together.
Belos is interoperable because it accesses matrices, preconditioners, and vectors as opaque objects with simple interfaces. These interfaces do not depend on the internal representation of these objects. Belos' solvers only use matrices and preconditioners as black-box "operators" that take one or more vectors as input, and return the same number of vectors as output. They only access vectors via a simple interface for adding vectors together or computing their inner products or norms.
Implementations of operator and vector interfaces for Epetra, Tpetra, and Thyra objects are provided. As a result, any existing code employing Epetra, Tpetra, or Thyra operators and vectors (such as other packages in Trilinos) may also be used in conjunction with Belos. Belos is extensible because users may define this interface for their own operators and vectors. This allows them to use any Belos solver with their objects without changing a line of Belos code. Defining this interface requires only a modest effort, and Belos provides plenty of examples. For more details, please refer to the Belos Operator/Vectorabstract interface".
The Belos linear solver framework describes solver managers that provide efficient, convenient, and powerful computational methods for solving large-scale linear systems of equations. Belos' power is a result of the distribution of functionality across different computational entities in the framework, including orthogonalization, iterations, stopping criteria, and restarting methodologies. Belos' extensibility comes via the abstract interfaces describing these entities. Belos currently provides a robust set of options, and users are able to expand this set to suit specific research and/or application needs. The ability to interact directly with these objects provides great flexibility in computation, while the existence of solver managers allow convenient programming for standard use cases.
A good place for new users to start is with Belos::SolverFactory. This factory class lets the user ask for the Belos solver they want by its string name. For example, you can ask for "GMRES" or "CG" by name and the SolverFactory will create that solver, without you needing to know the name of the corresponding class in Belos. You may also pass parameters (via Teuchos::ParameterList) to the solver at this time. All solvers that SolverFactory creates implement the Belos::SolverManager interface.
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What is the Moving Average Convergence Divergence or MACD?
The MACD is calculated by subtracting the 26-day exponential moving average (EMA) from the 12-day EMA.
In addition to this line resulting from the difference between these two exponential moving averages, the nine-day EMA of the MACD, called “signal line”, is plotted on top of the MACD, functioning as a trigger for buy and sell signals.
To complete the indicator chart, the MACD Histogram represents the difference between the MACD and its 9-day EMA, the Signal line: the histogram is positive when the MACD Line is above its Signal line and negative when the MACD Line is below its Signal line.
The values of 12, 26 and 9 are the typical settings used with the MACD, however the parameters may be personalized with different values depending on the specific trading style and goals of the trader.
Therefore MACD is at the same time a trend-following and momentum indicator.
The shorter moving average (12-day) is faster, whilst the longer moving average (26-day) is slower and less reactive to price changes in the underlying security.
A positive MACD indicates that the 12-day EMA is above the 26-day EMA; positive values increase as the shorter EMA diverges further from the longer EMA and this means upside momentum is increasing.
A negative MACD indicates that the 12-day EMA is below the 26-day EMA; negative values increase as the shorter EMA diverges further below the longer EMA and this means downside momentum is increasing.
In the example above, the yellow area shows the MACD Line in negative territory as the 12-day EMA trades below the 26-day EMA.
The initial cross occurred at the end of September (black arrow) and the MACD moved further into negative territory as the 12-day EMA diverged further from the 26-day EMA.
The orange area highlights a period of positive MACD values, which is when the 12-day EMA was above the 26-day EMA.
Notice that the MACD Line remained below 1 during this period (red dotted line).
This means the distance between the 12-day EMA and 26-day EMA was less than 1 point, which is not a big difference.
When the MACD falls below the signal line, the trader should read it as a bearish signal and conversely when the MACD rises above the signal line, the indicator gives a bullish signal.
Traders also watch for a move above or below the zero line because this signals the position of the short-term average relative to the long-term average.
When the MACD is above zero, the short-term average is above the long-term average, which signals upward momentum; the opposite is true when the MACD is below zero.
Also, the zero line often acts as an area of support and resistance for the indicator.
When the security price diverges from the MACD this means the end of the current trend.
Similarly to what happens with the RSI divergence, when the price new high is not confirmed by the MACD indicator new high, the trader should read this as a slow down of the upward momentum.
Viceversa, when the new low of the price is not confirmed by a new low of the MACD the downside momentum is losing steam and a correction or the begin of a new uptrend must be considered.
Signal line crossovers are the most common MACD signals.
Being the moving average of the indicator, the signal line trails the MACD and makes it easier to spot MACD turns.
A bullish crossover occurs when the MACD crosses above the signal line.
A bearish crossover occurs when the MACD crosses below the signal line.
Due diligence is required before relying on these common signals.
Signal line crossovers at positive or negative extremes should be viewed with caution; even though the MACD does not have upper and lower limits, chartists can estimate historical extremes with a simple visual assessment.
After the crossover momentum is likely to slow and this will usually produce a signal line crossover, especially at the extremities, even if there is the possibility that the price continues to move in the same direction.
The chart below shows IBM with its 12-day EMA (green), 26-day EMA (red) and the 12,26,9 MACD in the indicator window.
There were eight signal line crossovers in six months: four up and four down: some were good signals and some bad signals.
The yellow area highlights a period when the MACD Line surged above the zero line to reach a positive extreme.
Even after the two bearish signal line crossovers in April and May, IBM continued to move higher: upward momentum slowed down but it remained stronger than downside momentum.
The third bearish signal line crossover in May resulted instead in a winning trade.
Centerline crossovers are the next most common MACD signals.
A bullish centerline crossover occurs when the MACD Line moves above the zero line, which happens when the 12-day EMA of the underlying security price moves above the 26-day EMA.
A bearish centerline crossover occurs when the MACD moves below the zero line, which happens when the 12-day EMA moves below the 26-day EMA.
The below chart shows Pulte Homes (PHM) with at least four centerline crosses in nine months. The resulting signals worked well because strong trends emerged with these centerline crossovers.
Divergences occur when the MACD diverges (moves differently) from the price action of the underlying security.
A bullish divergence occurs when the price of a security records a lower low and the MACD forms a higher low.
The lower low in the security confirms the current downtrend, but the higher low in the MACD shows less downside momentum.
Despite less downside momentum, downside momentum still outpaces upside momentum as long as the MACD remains in negative territory.
Slowing downside momentum can sometimes foreshadows a price correction or even a trend reversal.
– Google confirmed a reversal with resistance breakout.
Divergences should be taken with caution as bearish divergences are commonplace in a strong uptrend and bullish divergences occur often in a strong downtrend.
Even though the uptrend continues, it continues at a slower pace that causes the MACD to decline from its highs.
Upside momentum may not be as strong, but upside momentum is still outpacing downside momentum as long as the MACD Line is above zero.
The opposite occurs at the beginning of a strong downtrend.
The next chart shows the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) with four bearish divergences from August to November 2009.
Despite less upside momentum, the ETF continued higher because the uptrend was strong.
Notice how SPY continued its series of higher highs and higher lows.
Remember, upside momentum is stronger (even if at a lower pace) than downside momentum as long as its MACD is positive, and downside momentum is stronger (even of at a lower pace) as long as MACD is negative.
A bearish divergence forms when the price of the underlying asset records a higher high and the MACD forms a lower high.
The higher high in the security is normal for an uptrend, but the lower high in the MACD shows less upside momentum.
As said, even though upside momentum may be less, upside momentum is still outpacing downside momentum as long as the MACD is positive.
Waning upward momentum can sometimes foreshadow a trend reversal or sizable decline.
Below we see Gamestop (GME) with a large bearish divergence from August to October.
The stock forged a higher high above 28, but the MACD Line fell short of its prior high and formed a lower high.
The subsequent signal line crossover and support break in the MACD were bearish.
On the price chart, notice how broken support turned into resistance on the throwback bounce in November (red dotted line).
This throwback provided a second chance to sell or sell short.
The MACD indicator brings together momentum and trend in one indicator and it can be applied to intraday, daily, weekly or monthly charts.
Chartists looking for more sensitivity may try a shorter short-term moving average and a longer long-term moving average; for example, MACD(5,35,5) is more sensitive than MACD(12,26,9).
Chartists looking for less sensitivity may consider lengthening the moving averages. A less sensitive MACD will still oscillate above/below zero, but the centerline crossovers and signal line crossovers will be less frequent.
MACD does not have any upper or lower limits, and thus it is not particularly good for identifying overbought and oversold levels.
Eeven though it is always possible to identify levels that are historically overbought or oversold, the MACD can continue to over-extend beyond its historical extremes.
Since MACD is calculated using two moving averages its values depend on the price of the underlying security: the MACD values for a $20 stocks may range from -1.5 to 1.5, while the MACD values for a $100 may range from -10 to +10.
It is not possible to compare MACD values between two or more securities with different prices; in such a case, in order to compare momentum readings the Percentage Price Oscillator (PPO) is more suitable.
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What Are Tax-Deferred Annuity Taxation Rules?
Annuities have unusual tax characteristics, but they come with some pitfalls as well.
Many investors use annuities as part of their overall financial planning, and these insurance-company products come with some interesting tax benefits. However, along with those benefits, you also have to keep in mind some rules you have to follow that can lead to some unexpected surprises if you're not aware of them. Let's look more closely at how annuities get taxed.
Annuity contracts offer no up-front tax break when you first buy the annuity. Some annuities are available for purchase within IRAs or qualified plans like 401(k) accounts, but in those cases, it's the plan contribution that gives you the tax break, not the purchase of the annuity in particular.
Once the money is in the annuity, though, it gets the same tax deferral that IRA and 401(k) money gets. You don't have to worry about paying tax on the income the annuity generates, and you can make exchanges between different annuities without realizing any capital gains tax on the appreciation in the contract.
When you take money out of an annuity, how it gets taxed depends on where it is. If you take money out of an annuity that you hold within an IRA and have your financial institution pay it to you, then the distribution will get taxed like an IRA distribution. Typically, that means you'll pay income tax on the entire thing.
If you hold an annuity outside an IRA or qualified plan, then you'll get tax credit for your contributions. However, the IRS imposes a last-in, first-out method, which means that you'll have to pay income tax on all your profits first before you can get tax-free treatment for your initial contributions.
In addition, the IRS treats annuities like retirement accounts for purposes of imposing early withdrawal penalties. If you take money out of an annuity before you reach age 59 1/2 and you don't qualify for one of the exemptions, then you'll have to pay an additional 10% penalty on the amount you take out.
If you die before taking money out of your annuity, the person you name as beneficiary will have the rights to the proceeds. Those payouts are still subject to tax on the deferred income of the annuity, and if the death benefit is higher than the account balance, that increase is also subject to income tax on the heir's tax return.
Annuities can be useful as retirement savings vehicles, but they don't have all the benefits that IRAs and 401(k)s do. Make sure you understand all the pros and cons before you buy an annuity.
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Regulators granted a unanimous OK for the controversial takeover by Germany's Deutsche Telekom of US mobile-phone company VoiceStream Wireless in a deal initially valued at $50.7 billion. The Federal Communications Commission concluded the merger was in the public interest because it would create more competition against AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and other carriers. Europe's No. 1 telecommunications company is majority-owned by the German government, which had aroused concerns in Congress over the national-security implications of the deal. VoiceStream, the US's eighth-largest mobile-phone carrier is based in Bellevue, Wash. The combined company will be able to reach 97 percent of the American market.
* Siemens, the giant German engineering conglomerate, became the latest to scale back operations in the telecommunications industry. By September, the company said, it will eliminate 6,100 jobs in its mobile phone division - one-third of them in the US.
* Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. said Tuesday it would cut more deeply into its work force than previously expected, bringing job reductions to at least 7,800 for the year.
* Moulinex-Brandt SA, a leading maker of food processors, blenders, and other electric kitchen appliances, will cut 4,000 jobs, a spokesman said. The joint French-Italian company is based in Paris.
* Scania AB of Sweden, one of the world's top makers of heavy trucks and public-transit and tour buses, said it will cut 1,200 jobs by year's end.
* Sensormatic Electronics Corp., a Boca Raton, Fla., manufacturer of theft-prevention and surveillance systems, said it hopes to save $35 million by eliminating 450 jobs.
Briefing Apple vs. Samsung: Who owns smart phones?
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Communicate effectively to reduce conflict.
Most people believe that workplace conflicts are simply differences of opinion, but they are actually about differences in work style. Effective communication is based on knowledge and understanding the core characteristics of the manger and employee, and how to make their styles fit together.
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How do I delete cookies in my Microsoft Edge web browser?
Step 1. Select the hub sign in the upper-right corner of the screen.
Step 2. Select Clear all history.
Step 3. Choose the types of data you want to remove from your PC (be sure to select Cookies and saved website data), then select Clear.
You can always try using your browser's incognito or private browsing option to see if the problem is caused by something other than cache or cookies.
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If you have found a property that you really like and are considering purchasing for your family, but it has a home owners association, then you may be a bit put off by this if you aren't all that familiar with what it means to live under HOA management. However, this can actually be a very good thing, and learning about some of the benefits HOAs offer may make you feel better about going through with the purchase of that property. Here are just some of the benefits you can expect when living in an HOA run community.
Protected property values: When you live in an HOA controlled community, you will be able to rest assured that you will have better protected property values when the day comes that you want to put your home on the market. This is due to the rules regarding proper upkeep and maintenance to the homes within that community.
Well-kept amenities throughout the community: As a resident of the community, you and your household members will have access to all of the community amenities such as tennis courts, basketball courts, barbecue areas, gyms, small parks and even walking trails. All these areas will also be kept clean and be taken care of properly.
A safer neighborhood: When you live in this type of community, it may be fenced to ensure only residents and their invited guests can enter. However, even the unfenced ones tend to have sidewalks for your enjoyable strolls and street lighting so you can see the area well at night.
Rules that keep everything looking good and running smoothly: When there is an HOA in place, there will also be rules and standards that everyone will need to follow. These can cover things such as not allowing debris to gather in one's yard, not painting the exterior of a home an odd color, not letting weeds get out of hand, not having broken down cars gathered on the property and more. This helps keep the entire community looking better.
All the property will be well-maintained: The HOA will make sure the pool is kept clean, the common areas are clean and have fresh looking paint, the streets are clean, burned out lights are promptly replaced in outdoor areas and more.
A better sense of community pride: Communities with an HOA in place generally tend to have a better sense of community pride. This can partly be due to everyone living so close to one another and due to everyone getting to know one another when enjoying the various amenities.
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feasts of a higher rank are the duplicia majora (introduced by Clement VIII), the duplicia secundae classis and the duplicia primae classis.
feasts has been determined by a decree of the Sacred Congregation of Rites (22 Aug., 1893), and is found in the introduction to the Roman Breviary.
The modern form of the feast arose during the ministry of Shoghi Effendi and parallels the rise of the modern local spiritual assembly.
The feast is to consist of three parts: first, devotional, consisting of readings from the Baha'i sacred writings; second, a general community meeting, at which the local spiritual assembly and the community can consult; and third, a social meeting, at which food is served.
Although the three-part format of the feast is observed everywhere in the Baha'i world, there is considerable variation in the details of the programme among countries, communities and even individual hosts, a diversity encouraged by the Universal House of Justice.
New Year's day differed in different periods, but the year began in the month Nisan or Abib (around April) and the first of the great feasts of Israel was the Passover which also included the Feast of Unleavened Bread which commemorated the exodus from Egypt.
In the fall came the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur was the most solemn day of all when the high priest entered the inner sanctuary of the Temple, the Holy of Holies and made atonement for all the sins which the people committed throughout the year.
This feast was founded by Judas Maccabaeus in honor of the cleansing of the Temple in BC 164, two hundred years before, 6 and 1/2 years after the profaning of Antiochus Epiphanes.
When one of the feast days fell on the seventh day Sabbath, it was referred to as a high Sabbath day (John 19:31).
This feast was also a shadow or type because fifty days after the resurrection there was the first outpouring of the Holy Spirit, that resulted in three thousand souls being added to the church in one day.
This final feast of the year is a celebration of ingathering at the end of the harvest (Exo 23:16) and is a time of rejoicing and fellowship.
The last ten days of this forty-day season are the Feast of Trumpets and Day of Atonement, or the ten High Holy Days (Days of Awe).
The long period between The Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Trumpets is symbolic of the long period between the formation of the church at the Feast of Weeks and the regathering of Israel to the trumpet blast calling all born again believers (see illustration).
The holiest day in the Jewish year (a fast day not a feast day), the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), is spent in fasting, prayer, and confession.
Bahá'í communities hold Feast, normally, on the first day of the Bahá'í month, each of which is 19 days long.
The importance and character of the institution of the Feast are clearly emphasized in the Holy Scriptures of Bahá'u'lláh and `Abdu'l-Bahá.
The social portion of the Feast gives everyone further opportunity to discuss the topics of the Spiritual Texts that were read during the devotional portion and the administrative tasks ahead of the community as indicated during the consultative portion.
With feast day coming, most people are planning what to serve to the many friends and family that will be arriving to celebrate San Geronimo Feast Day on September 30th.
Actually, feast days are a diabetics nightmare, unless you plan on serving foods that are tasty, yet good for you.
Most cooks will be serving the standard feast day fare, such as red chili, green chili, vegetable or other stews, posole, and or course, the pies bread and deserts.
The significance of the Nineteen Day Feast is thus threefold.
The chief opportunity which the friends have for discussion on administrative questions is during the Nineteen Day Feasts, at which time the members of the assembly can meet with the body of the believers and discuss in common the affairs of the Cause, and suggest new policies and methods.
The best occasion chosen for this purpose is the Nineteen Day Feast, which, besides its social and spiritual aspects, fulfils various administrative needs and requirements of the Community, chief among them being the need for open and constructive criticism and deliberation regarding the state of affairs within the local Baha'i Community.
The Feast of Tabernacles also commemorates the ceremonies of the completion and dedication of King Solomon’s Temple, which was begun in the year 2992 Anno Lucis, and finished in a little more than seven years.
The Feast of Tishri in Scottish Rite Masonry derives from the Jewish Festival of Sukkoth which is marked chiefly by the building of temporary structures (sukkah, singular; sukkoth, plural) made of boards, canvass, etc. and roofed with branches, especially pine branches.
Beginning on the 15th day of the month of Tishri, the feast is celebrated for eight days by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside of Israel, and for seven days by Reform Jews and by Jews in Israel.
This feast recalls the apparitions of Mary at the hill of Tepayac on December 9-12, 1531 to Blessed Juan Diego.
This feast was instituted by Saint Pius V on the anniversary of the naval victory won by the Christian fleet at Lepanto.
This feast originated in the fourth century as the Eastern Feast of all Martyrs and was attested to by St. Ephrem.
When I say your feast days, I am referring to the feast of YHWH which were given to his people and are listed in the 23rd chapter of Leviticus.
If you are not observing the feast days of Yahweh, I encourage you to go through this study with an open mind and an open heart.
The days can be divided into the early or spring feast days and the later or fall feast days.
-- Feast day of St. Odo of Cluny, St. Romanus of Antioch, and St. Mawes or Maudez.
According to historians, the first thanksgiving feast was eaten outside, as the colonists didn't have sufficient space to accommodate everyone.
The feast was held to rejoice their fruits of labour.
The feast is described in a firsthand account presumably written by a leader of the colony, Edward Winslow.
May 15-16 - Municipality of Alegria (San Isidro Labrador): A thanksgiving festival in honor of the feast day of San Isidro Labrador, the farmer Saint for a bountiful harvest.
July 15-16 -Municipality of Tagana-an (Our Lady of Mount Carmel): The feast day of our Lady of Mount Carmel is celebrated in a two day event of pomp, pageantry and prayers as a way of thanksgiving for all intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
August 27 - Municipality of Santa Monica (St. Monica): A day celebration in honor of the feast day of St. Monica, solemn procession marks the highlight of event.
A feast day (or festival) is the date a saint, a holy event, or a holy object is commemorated in the liturgical life of the Orthodox Church.
A feast day is primarily celebrated through the hymnography of the Church's divine services appointed to be celebrated on such day.
The feast day of a saint is generally the date of his or her death.
Along with the biblical reference in Acts 2:14 that confirms that the Virgin Mary was with the Holy Apostles on the day of Pentecost, the tradition of the Church holds that she remained in the home of the Apostle John in Jerusalem, continuing a ministry in word and deed.
A strict fast is followed on most of the days (no meat, dairy, oil, or wine), with the exceptions of fish on the Feast of the Transfiguration (August 6) and the day of the Dormition.
This mid-Winter feast commences as the ewes begin to lactate and is the start of the new agricultural cycle.
During this day secret rites were in the house of a prominent Roman magistrate.
On this day offerings were brought to her in a mundus, a opened groove.
In 1381, Chaucer composed a poem in honor of the engagement between England's Richard II and Anne of Bohemia.
As was the poetic tradition, Chaucer associated the occasion with a feast day.
The Feast of Unleavened Bread was established as a time to put away leaven (yeast) from all bread that was to be eaten.
The Feast of Trumpets is a feast that is set to occur in the seventh month of the year on the first day.
feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
It's a neopagan festival, a saint's feast day, and a day for organized labor.
May Day was also a time for morris dancing and other dances, often around the maypole.
Labor Day is still celebrated on May 1 in countries around the world, and it is still often a day for protests and rallies.
Groundhog Day on Feb. 2 has its origin in European religious history and the Christian feast day called The Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary, or Candlemas Day.
The day is set aside to commemorate the presentation of Jesus Christ in the Temple of Jerusalem and the Feast of Lighted candles is mentioned by Bede and St. Eligius, who was bishop of Noyon from 640 to 648.
Thesmophoria in ancient Greece are the rites associated with the disappearance and reappearance of Persephone the daughter of Demeter, goddess of the harvest.
Patrick's Day, like Christmas, is a religious feast day that has lost much of its meaning due to over-secularization.
Personally, one of the biggest problems I have with the secular celebrations of St. Patrick's Day is the ubiquitous presence of the leprechaun.
Columba), Brendan, Aidan, and Columbanus - deserve better on the feast day of their patron saint than to be represented by a short, ruddy (and might I add, pagan) fairy dressed in a green suit.
A feast is a meal with a plenteous supply of food and drink for a large company: to provide a feast for all company employees.
A banquet is an elaborate feast for a formal and ceremonious occasion: the main speaker at a banquet.
Feasting was a part of the observances connected with the offering up of sacrifices (Deut.
A feast day that falls on the same day of the week each year but which has a date which varies.
The Christian moveable (or movable) feasts are those holy days that are set by the date of Easter Sunday.
This day is also known as Pancake Day in the UK and, in several places around the world, notably Rio de Janeiro and New Orleans, Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday).
Open to both adults and children, the Nineteen Day Feast is the regular gathering that promotes and sustains the unity of the local Bahá'í community.
The use of the word "feast" might seem to imply that a large meal will be served.
While food and beverages are usually served, the term itself is meant to suggest that the community should enjoy a "spiritual feast" of worship, companionship and unity.
The feast at the Downers Grove parish is comprised of fish, pasta, salads, pizza and breads.
Whether it was the festivities at the Westmont parish or her childhood observance that years ago took place at her great aunt’s house in Bridgeport, Skocilich continues to relish in the tradition.
It is a special day to honor St. Joseph and thank him for the blessings received on his behalf, she said.
This Catholic feast day commemorates their belief that Mary, Jesus's mother, was taken up into heaven at the end of her life.
This Catholic feast day commemorates their belief that Mary was conceived without original sin.
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This report by John Pistole of the FBI counter terrorism division opens up "a can of worms".
If indeed the funding of 9/11 is out of Pakistan, as stated by FBI's John Pistole, what was the role of Pakistan's military intelligence (ISI) in the transfer of funds to the 9/11 terrorists.
1. John Pistole' s statment seems to corroborate the FBI's September 2001 Report on the financing of the 9/11 terrorist attacks out of Pakistan, which was made public by ABC News (September 30, 2001.
2. This September 2001 FBI report was later confirmed by a report of Indian Intelligence (Times of India Oct 9, 2001) which pointed to the role of the (former) head of Pakistan Intelligence (ISI) General Mahmoud Ahmad, who allegedly was instrumental in transferring $100,000 to the 9/11 terrorists.
3. Ahmad was on an official visit to Washington at the time of the 9/11 attacks and met senior Bush officials, including Colin Powell, Richard Armitage and George Tenet, not to mention the two chairmen of House and Senate select committees on Intelligence Sen Bob Graham and Rep. Porter Goss.
The US authorities sought his [Ahmad] removal after confirming the fact that $100,000 were wired to WTC hijacker Mohammed Atta from Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sheikh at the instance of Gen. Mahmoud. Senior government sources have confirmed that India contributed significantly to establishing the link between the money transfer and the role played by the dismissed ISI chief. While they did not provide details, they said that Indian inputs, including Sheikh's mobile phone number, helped the FBI in tracing and establishing the link.
4. At a time when fingers are pointing at Saudi Arabia, John Pistole's statement inevitably raises the issue of "State sponsorship" of Al Qaeda by America's puppet regime in Pakistan. This in turn raises the broader issue of the Bush administration's relationship to the terror network.
A senior official of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation has informed US lawmakers that funding for the Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States was traced to Pakistan.
John S. Pistole, deputy assistant director of the FBI's counter-terrorism division, told the Senate governmental affairs committee on Thursday afternoon [31 July] , that investigators had "traced the origin of the funding of the 9/11 attacks back to financial accounts in Pakistan."
He said high-ranking and well-known Al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan "played a major role in moving the money forward, eventually into the hands of the hijackers located in the United States."
Mr Pistole did not specify in his testimony how those accounts in Pakistan were funded.
The FBI has estimated that the 9/11 attacks cost between $175,000-250,000. That money, which paid for flight training, travel and other expenses, flowed to the hijackers through associates in Germany and the United Arab Emirates.
Al-Qaeda associates reported to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who managed much of the planning for the attacks from Pakistan, the FBI said. Mr Pistole did not discuss reports that some support for the Sept 11 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia as well.
"Terrorism Financing: Origination, Organization, and Prevention"
Good morning Madam Chair Collins, Senator Lieberman, and other distinguished members of the committee. It is an honor to testify before this committee regarding the FBI's efforts in identifying, tracking and dismantling the financial structure supporting terrorist groups.
Prior to the events of September 11, 2001 (9/11), the FBI had no mechanism to provide a comprehensive, centralized, focused and pro-active approach to terrorist financial matters. While the FBI examined financial records at the time of previous terrorist attacks, as part of the investigation into each of the attacks, the events of 9/11 identified a critical need for a more comprehensive, centralized approach to financial matters. The Terrorist Financing Operations Section (TFOS) of the FBI's Counterterrorism Division was formed, after 9/11, in response to this critical need. The mission of the TFOS has since evolved into a broader strategy to identify, investigate, prosecute, disrupt and dismantle incrementally, all terrorist related financial and fund-raising activities.
Identifying, tracking and dismantling the financial structure supporting terrorist groups is critical to successfully dismantling the organizations and preventing future terrorist attacks. As is the case in most investigations, locating and "following the money" plays a critical role in identifying those involved in the criminal activity, establishing links among them, and developing evidence of their involvement in the activity.
Terrorists, their networks and support structures, require funding in some form to exist and operate. Whether the funding and financial support is minimal or substantial, it usually leaves a financial trail that can be traced, tracked, and exploited for pro-active and reactive purposes. Being able to identify and track financial transactions and links after a terrorist act has occurred or terrorist activity has been identified, represents only a small portion of the mission; the key lies in exploiting financial information in efforts to identify previously unknown terrorist cells, recognize potential terrorist activity/planning, and predict and prevent potential terrorist acts.
In forming the TFOS, the FBI built upon its traditional expertise in conducting complex criminal financial investigations and long established relationships with the financial services communities in the United States and abroad. Integrating these skills and resources with the Counterterrorism Division, allows the FBI to bring its full assets to bear in the financial war on terrorism.
The TFOS is both an operational and coordinating entity with pro- active and reactive responsibilities. As a coordinating entity, the TFOS is responsible for ensuring that a unified approach is pursued in investigating terrorist financing networks. The TFOS achieves this directive by: 1) coordinating the financial aspects of FBI Field Office and Legat terrorism investigations; 2) establishing overall initiatives, policy and guidance on terrorist financing matters; 3) participating in the National Security Council's Policy Coordinating Committee (PCC) on Terrorist Financing; 4) coordinating national liaison with the financial services sector; 5) cooperating in and coordinating criminal terrorist financing investigations with the Department of Justice; and 5) providing support and training to Field Offices to include the designated Terrorism Financing Coordinator (TFC) .
It is critical that the financial aspects of terrorism investigations be adequately addressed and that a concerted, coordinated effort is made to investigate terrorist finance issues by experienced financial investigators. Rarely will a terrorist financing investigation be confined to the territory of one field office, rather they normally span not only multiple field office jurisdictions, but the globe; i.e., these types of investigations will frequently be linked to investigations and/or issues in other jurisdictions and other countries. It is imperative that these investigative efforts be effectively coordinated, placed into perspective with other counterterrorism efforts, prioritized in accordance with national and global strategies, and addressed in concert rather than in a disjointed, inefficient manner. Prior to the establishment of the TFOS, there did not exist within the FBI a mechanism to ensure appropriate focus on terrorist finance issues and provide the necessary expertise and overall coordination to comprehensively address these matters.
So how far have we come in the war on terrorist financing since 9/11? There currently exists a much better understanding of terrorist financing methods. More sophisticated and effective processes and mechanisms to address and target terrorist financing continue to develop and evolve. Pro-active approaches are increasingly being utilized. The awareness around the world on the part of law enforcement, government agencies, regulators and policy makers, and the private sector of terrorist financing methods, suspicious financial activity and vulnerabilities is much higher since 9/11. International cooperation has reached unparalleled levels. Outreach with, and cooperation from, the private sector has been outstanding and continues to develop, particularly the level of two-way interaction between law enforcement and the private sector. The ability to access and obtain this type of information immediately has significantly enhanced the FBI's ability to identify, investigate, and resolve immediate threat situations involving potential terrorist activity. For example, the ability to conduct real-time monitoring of specifically identified financial activity has been invaluable to not only investigations ongoing in the US, but to foreign law enforcement and intelligence agencies in related investigations. Another example of not only more pro-active measures but also of increased cooperation and coordination with the international community.
Extensive training and support of international investigations by TFOS has led to Agent visits/exchanges and training programs involving a variety of countries from Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, South America, etc. In support of specific high profile joint terrorist financial investigative matters, a number of countries and agencies, including the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Canada and Europol, have detailed investigators to TFOS on a TDY basis. TFOS has engaged in extensive coordination with authorities of numerous foreign governments in terrorist financing matters, leading to joint investigative efforts throughout the world. These joint investigations have successfully targeted the financing of several overseas al-Qa'ida cells, including those located in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Spain, and Italy. Furthermore, with the assistance of relationships established with the central banks of several strategic countries, successful disruptions of al-Qa'ida financing have been accomplished in counties such as the UAE, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Indonesia.
TFOS has developed a specific terrorist financing/money laundering crimes curriculum for international training which includes topics such as: acquiring and handling evidence in document intensive financial investigations, major case management techniques, forensic examination tools, and methods of terrorist financing. At the request of the US Department of State, TFOS has led an interagency team to provide this curriculum to a number of countries (and is scheduled to provide to approximately 38 countries) identified as needing law enforcement training on conducting terrorist financing investigations.
TFOS has cultivated and maintains a contact database of private industry and government sources/persons who can provide financial data, including real-time monitoring of financial transactions. Many of these contacts can be reached or accessed on 24 hour/7 days a week emergency allowing TFOS to respond rapidly to critical incidents.
Through these contacts the TFOS has access to data and information from a variety of entities including: Banking, Credit/Debit Card Sector, Money Services Businesses, Securities/Brokerages Sector, Insurance, Travel, Internet Service Providers, Telecommunications Industry, Law Enforcement, State/Federal Regulatory Agencies, Public and Open Source Data Providers, the Intelligence Community, and International Law Enforcement and Intelligence Contacts. The timeliness and accessibility of the data is contingent on a variety of factors including whether the acquisition of the information requires legal process, the search capabilities of the data provider, and the size and depth of the data request. The ability to access and obtain this type of information in a time sensitive and urgent manner has significantly enhanced the FBI's ability to identify, investigate and resolve immediate threat situations involving potential terrorist activity. For example, the ability to conduct real-time monitoring of specifically identified financial activity has been invaluable to not only investigations ongoing in the US, but to foreign law enforcement and intelligence agencies in related investigations.
Being able to identify and track financial transactions and links after a terrorist act has occurred or terrorist activity has been identified represents only a small portion of the mission; the key lies in exploiting financial information in efforts to identify previously unknown terrorist cells, recognize potential terrorist activity/planning, and predict and prevent potential terrorist acts. Prior to 9/11, there was not enough emphasis placed on addressing the mechanisms and systems associated with terrorist financing and disrupting them before they could be utilized to further terrorist activities. Since September 11, TFOS, together with the Counter-Terrorism Section (CTS), Criminal Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ), have begun a number of pro-active link analysis initiatives to identify potential terrorists and terrorist related financing activities.
The overriding goal of these projects is to pro-actively identify potential terrorists and terrorist related individuals/entities, mechanisms or schemes through the digital exploitation of data. To accomplish this, TFOS seeks to 1) identify potential electronic data sources within domestic and foreign government and private industry providers; 2) create pathways and protocols to acquire and analyze the data; and 3) provide both reactive and proactive operational, predictive and educational support to investigators and prosecutors. Information sharing is critical to all of our efforts. The intelligence community, including the FBI, produces and obtains tremendous amounts of classified intelligence information. While much of the information can be of significant value in terrorist finance investigations, the value will not be realized nor maximized absent the ability to filter the information, analyze it, and disseminate it in an appropriate manner to those who can make the best use of the information. Toward this end, the TFOS participates in joint endeavors involving the CIA, FBI, Treasury Department, Department of Justice, and the Department of Homeland Security involving potential terrorist related financial transactions, in addition to other joint participation between TFOS and the intelligence agencies. TFOS has personnel detailed to the CIA/CTC/FINO and personnel from there work directly with TFOS on financial intelligence matters.
- An FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force in Charlotte used racketeering statutes to obtain convictions which disrupted and dismantled a Hizballah procurement and fund-raising cell. Twenty- six individuals were arrested for crimes including immigration fraud, visa fraud, cigarette smuggling, interstate transportation of stolen property, fraud, bank fraud, bribery, money laundering, racketeering, and providing material support to a terrorist organization.
- The FBI coordinated with the Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) to justify the blocking of Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) assets and the closing of its US offices, shutting down HAMAS' largest fund-raising entity in the US. The HLF had been linked to the funding of HAMAS terrorist activities, and in 2000, HLF raised $13 million.
- Offices of the Benevolence International Foundation (BIF), a US based charity, were shut down and its assets and records blocked following an OFAC and FBI investigation which determined that the charity was being used to funnel money to Al Qa'ida. In February 2003, Enaam Arnaout, the head of BIF, pled guilty to racketeering conspiracy, admitting he fraudulently obtained charitable donations in order to provide financial assistance to persons engaged in violent activities overseas.
- As a result of information developed by the FBI, a foreign security service, in conjunction with US Intelligence Community agencies, apprehended one of the most significant money launderers associated with Usama Bin Laden, for funneling $67 million through international accounts to al-Qa'ida and the Taliban.
- A criminal case against Sami Al Arian, the alleged US leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and the World Islamic Studies Enterprise has forced the closure of several front companies suspected of funneling money to support PIJ operations against Israel. In August 2002, the investigation led to the deportation of Mazen Al-Najjar, the brother-in-law of Sami Al Arian and a known PIJ member. In February, following a 50-count indictment for RICO and Material Support of terrorism violations, the FBI arrested Al-Arian and three other U.S.-based members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, including Sameeh Hammoudeh, Hatim Naji Fariz, and Ghassan Ballout. The FBI also executed seven search warrants associated with this action.
- TFOS has provided operational support to FBI Field Divisions across the United States to enhance the intelligence/criminal investigations of individuals and groups, associated with or providing material support to, terrorist organizations and activities. This assistance is provided in the form of conducting intelligence/criminal financial investigations, financial analytical support, major case management, financial link analysis, and the deployment of teams of experts to develop investigative plans to analyze large volumes of documents and data. TFOS has provided this operational support in the Al Qa'ida sleeper cell cases in Buffalo and Portland, as well as in the Richard Reid, John Walker Lindh, Jose Padilla, Al Haramain, PIJ, and Mohamed Almoayad cases, among many others. This type of operational support has also been provided to Divisions investigating NGOs, such as the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, Benevolence International Foundation and the Global Relief Foundation.
- TFOS has engaged in extensive coordination with authorities of numerous foreign governments in terrorist financing matters, leading to joint investigative efforts throughout the world. These joint investigations have successfully targeted the financing of several overseas Al Qa'ida cells, including those located in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Spain, and Italy. Furthermore, with the assistance of relationships established with the central banks of several strategic countries, successful disruptions of Al Qa'ida financing have been accomplished in counties such as the UAE, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Indonesia.
- The FBI conducted a detailed financial investigation/analysis of the19 hijackers and their support network, following the September 11th attacks. This investigation initially identified the Al Qa'ida funding sources of the 19 hijackers in the UAE and Germany. The financial investigation also provided the first links between Ramzi Binalshibh and the 9/11 operation. A continuing investigation, in coordination with the PENTTBOMB Team, has traced the origin of the funding of 9/11 back to financial accounts in Pakistan, where high-ranking and well-known Al Qa'ida operatives played a major role in moving the money forward, eventually into the hands of the hijackers located in the U.S. As part of the 9/11 financial investigation, thousands of individuals and organizations were investigated in the U.S. and abroad to determine whether they played any part in supporting the hijackers or the operation. Although the vast majority of these individuals and organizations were cleared, this process of elimination resulted in numerous other quality terrorism investigations being initiated, as well as criminal charges against hundreds of individuals for fraud and other criminal activity.
- At the request of a foreign liaison service, TFOS traced financial transactions in a near real-time manner which led to the location of a terrorist cell and prevention of a terrorist act.
- Since 9/11, the United States has frozen $36.3 million in terrorist assets while other countries have frozen an estimated $97 million, for a total of over $133 million.
- U.S. authorities issued blocking orders on the assets of 281 terrorists, terrorist organizations, and terrorist supporters, effectively denying them access to the U.S. financial system.
- Federal law enforcement officials have arrested over 61 individuals, indicted 43 and convicted 12 in connection with terrorist financing investigations.
- U.S. Government agencies, to include the FBI's TFOS, deployed trainers and advisers on missions to countries around the world to assist with the drafting of legislation to combat terrorist financing, strengthen bank supervision in identifying suspicious transactions, and address other financial crimes and corruption.
- Since 9/11, over 120 countries have introduced new terrorist- related legislation and approximately 80 countries established Financial Investigation Units.
Following the 9/11 attacks, it became apparent that the role of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and charitable organizations, as a source of funding for terrorist groups, needed closer scrutiny. This included the role of Saudi Arabia and its citizens in the support of terrorism, both directly and indirectly, through the financial support of these charitable organizations.
- Saudi Arabia has put new laws and regulations in place for all charitable groups, ensuring that they are audited to prevent the flow of funds to entities other than charity.
- Saudi Arabia has further strengthened its laws and regulations regarding money laundering. These efforts include new rules concerning the verification of customers' identities as well as restrictions on non-residents' ability to open accounts in the country.
- Saudi Arabia and the United States maintain a Counter-Terrorism Committee comprised of intelligence and law enforcement personnel who meet regularly to share information and resources and develop action plans to root out terrorist networks.
- In March 2002, Saudi Arabia and the US jointly blocked the accounts of Bosnia and Somalia branches of Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, and in the summer of 2002, jointly froze the assets of the Rabita Trust, and those of its director Wa'el Hamza Julaidan, an associate of Bin Laden who provided financial and logistical support to al-Qa'ida.
- Saudi Arabia has contributed to the break up of a number of al- Qa'ida cells, the arrests of key al-Qa'ida leaders and capture of al-Qa'ida members in Saudi Arabia.
Since the May 12, 2003 bombings of the three western compounds in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, cooperation with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has improved. The FBI sent an investigative team to the Kingdom and worked with the law enforcement and intelligence services to conduct the appropriate post incident investigation and evidence collection. Cooperation with the Saudi Arabian government continues on this and other terrorism investigations.
Our efforts to combat terrorism have been greatly aided by the provisions of the PATRIOT Act. The success in preventing another catastrophic attack on the U.S. homeland would have been much more difficult, if not impossible, without the Act. It has already proved extraordinarily beneficial in the war on terrorism, and our opportunities to use it will only increase. Most importantly, the PATRIOT Act has produced greater collection and sharing of information within the law enforcement and intelligence communities.
Title III of the Act, also known as the International Money Laundering Anti-Terrorist Financing Act of 2001, has armed us with a number of new weapons in our efforts to identify and track the financial structure supporting terrorist groups. Past terrorist financing methods have included the use of informal systems for transferring value in a manner that is difficult to detect and trace. The effectiveness of such methods should be significantly eroded by the Act, which establishes stricter rules for correspondent bank accounts, requires securities brokers and dealers to file Suspicious Activity Reports or SARS, and certain money services to register with FinCEN and file SARS for a wider range of financial transactions.
There are other provisions of the Act that have considerably aided our efforts to address the terrorist threat including: strengthening the existing ban on providing material support to terrorists and terrorist organizations; the authority to seize terrorist assets; and the power to seize money subject to forfeiture in a foreign bank account by authorizing the seizure of a foreign bank's funds held in a U.S. correspondent account.
It is important for the Committee and the American people to know that the FBI is using the PATRIOT Act authorities in a responsible manner. We are making every effort to effectively balance our obligation to protect Americans from terrorism, with our obligation to protect their civil liberties.
Organizational changes that have taken place within the Executive Branch with respect to the investigation of terrorism financing include the execution of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) concerning terrorist financing investigations. The MOA addresses the importance of waging a seamless, coordinated campaign against terrorist sources of financing. It was signed by Attorney General Ashcroft and Homeland Security Secretary Ridge on May 13, 2003. Prior to this agreement, both the DOJ and DHS had separate terrorist financing task forces. Under DOJ, the FBI had the TFOS, which was discussed earlier. The DHS had the Bureau of Immigration and Customs (ICE) led Operation Green Quest (OGQ).
Pursuant to the MOA, OGQ ceased to exist as a program name as of June 30, 2003. Accordingly, the FBI was designated to lead terrorist financing investigations and operations. It was agreed that DHS would focus its activities on protecting the integrity of U.S. financial infrastructures. To that extent, the DHS implemented the ICE led Operation Cornerstone. Operation Cornerstone will identify vulnerabilities in financial systems through which criminals launder their illicit proceeds, bring the criminals to justice and work to eliminate the vulnerabilities.
The majority of the former OGQ case inventory was criminal cases, with no nexus to terrorism. These cases were converted from OGQ to Operation Cornerstone. Those cases that had a nexus to terrorism that were investigated by the former OGQ are currently being assessed for transition to the appropriate FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). Ongoing and future Operation Cornerstone investigations that develop links to terrorism will be referred to the FBI through the TFOS. The ICE and TFOS are coordinating investigative initiatives that will enable the ICE to identify financial systemic vulnerabilities and which will enable the TFOS to identify ties to terrorism and terrorist financing. In addition, there is a liaison from ICE assigned to TFOS, and investigators from ICE will be represented on the JTTFs.
Terrorism represents a global problem. The solution is grounded in what would have been considered prior to 9/11, unprecedented international cooperation and coordination. The threat it poses must always be considered imminent. In addition to considerable financial investigative expertise, addressing terrorism and the finances that support and propagate it requires the ability to both implement proactive and preventive approaches to disrupt and dismantle as well as the ability to conduct highly reactive immediate response financial investigations to address potential imminent threats. As stated herein and in conjunction with more and more of the international community and other aspects of the US Government, the FBI has made considerable progress toward achieving and implementing these abilities.
Again, I offer my gratitude and appreciation to you, Madam Chair Collins, Senator Specter, and the Governmental Affairs Committee, for dedicating your time and effort to this issue and I would be happy to respond to any questions.
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For each gap, fill in the text with one of the following words: anxieties, arguable, authored, battery, cited, commissioned, contactable, coverage, induced, majority, outright, par, reason, sampled, subsequent, suffer, tend or treating. Each word will be used one single time.
Nomophobia is the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. The term, an abbreviation for “no-mobile-phone phobia”, was coined during a study by the UK Post Office who YouGov, a UK-based research organisation to look at suffered by mobile phone users. The study found that nearly 53% of mobile phone users in Britain to be anxious when they “lose their mobile phone, run out of or credit, or have no network “. The study found that about 58% of men and 48% of women from the phobia, and an additional 9% feel stressed when their mobile phones are off. The study 2,163 people. Fifty-five percent of those surveyed keeping in touch with friends or family as the main that they got anxious when they could not use their mobile phones. The study compared stress levels by the average case of nomophobia to be on with those of “wedding day jitters” and trips to the dentist’s. Ten percent of those questioned said they needed to be at all times because of work. It is, however, that the word ‘phobia’ is misused and that in the of cases it is only a normal anxiety.
More than one in two nomophobes never switch off their mobile phones. The study and coverage of the phobia resulted in two editorial columns by those who minimize their mobile phone use or choose not to own one at all, the condition with light undertones or disbelief and amusement.
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After a mild January 2012 a cold snap arrived dominating the first two weeks of February. The first sign to indicate that the future crop this year would be small. March was somewhat warmer favouring an early bud burst of the vines. Then again April, rather cool and humid with hardly no sun, calmed down the general growth of the vine and confirmed the path of a hectic and unpredictable year in terms of climatic conditions. Some rain followed, including hail in particular spots. Overall temperatures were lower than average compared to previous years and this continued into the summer . Fortunately with the arrival of August and the first two weeks of September the weather warmed up with almost no rain. This encouraged a slow maturation of the grapes and a very healthy situation. Harvest started on September 17. In a nutshell, 2012 is somewhat a "late" vintage and much smaller than usual. Grapes were nicely ripe and the juice wellbalanced despite hectic weather conditions: a very demanding vintage for the growers.
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Vegetarianism is practiced by people around the world for a variety of reasons, including ethical, health, religious, and environmental concerns.
Although vegetarianism has been firmly established in Eastern Asia for many centuries, vegetarianism pretty much disappeared from Western culture after the Roman Empire adopted Christianity. It didn't begin to reappear until the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Vegetarians form just over 3% of the modern US population. Two thirds of American vegetarians are female.
1. Killing animals for food is cruel and immoral. Scientific evidence shows that animals like pigs, sheep, chickens and cows feel stress, fear and pain when faced with and experiencing their death.
2. Killing animals for food is unnecessary in the modern world, when there are vegetarian options easily available. There is no good reason why animals should die in order to meet an arbitrary dietary choice.
3. A vegetarian diet has been shown to have many health benefits, including lower rates of heart disease, gallstones, and colon cancer, plus it can also reduce blood pressure.
4. Vegetarians are generally thinner than meat eaters and less likely to be obese. Studies show that people who eat a meat-free diet to have a lower body mass index (BMI) on average.
5. Vegetarians are more likely to live longer than meat eaters, according to studies.
6. Raising animals in confinement is cruel and there are all sorts of practices involving livestock that are unethical and cause suffering.
7. A vegetarian diet can reduce world hunger, as the grain used to feed animals could be far more efficiently used to feed humans. For example, it has been estimated that the grain used to feed the livestock in the USA could feed 800 million people instead.
8. A meat-free diet is cheaper. Lentils and beans are much more affordable sources of high-quality protein than meat.
9. Vegetarian meals tend to be naturally higher in fiber than those that include meat.
1. Humans have been eating meat for over 2 million years. It is part of the way that we have evolved. If we weren't meant to eat meat, why do we have canine teeth?
2. The death of animals is part of the natural cycle. Every animal must die at some point and dying so that another creature might live is not a bad thing. It is not cruel or unethical, just part of the natural process.
3. Choosing what to eat is an individual liberty and taking away the option of eating meat, as some vegetarians would like, would be an infringement of a meat eater's rights.
4. Meat is the most efficient way of getting protein in your diet, and it is also a supply of zinc, iron, and the B vitamins. Meat is the best source for B12. Studies have also found that many vegetarians lack vitamin D.
5. A diet focused on meat can help you to lose weight, as lean meat can supply a set amount of protein with relatively less calories than the equivalent amount of meat-free food.
6. Vegetarianism does not make you live longer. Vegetarians do tend to be more health conscious and this is what gives them their longevity. A health conscious meat eater will live just as long as a vegetarian, however.
7. Meat is a better source of iron that vegetables, because the iron found in meat is more easily absorbed by the body than the iron in beans and leafy greens.
8. Everybody turning to vegetarianism would not solve world hunger. There is already enough food in the world to feed everyone. The problems are more to do with food distribution, economics and wars.
In favor. I think it is a great idea!
Against. There is nothing wrong with eating meat!
My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity. I made myself acquainted with Tryon's manner of preparing some of his dishes, such as boiling potatoes or rice, making hasty pudding, and a few others, and then proposed to my brother, that if he would give me, weekly, half the money he paid for my board, I would board myself.
Don't even get me started. I'm not against all vegetarians. But if you're a vegetarian for ethical reasons, you may be causing more harm.
I am not a vegetarian because I require a high protein diet, and getting complete protein on a vegetarian diet without getting a lot of carbs is very difficult. I must eat low carb. Vegetarianism leads to malnutrition. There are far more problems than what you have mentioned. And most OLDER vegetarians I have known have been either too underweight, or overweight to obese. Vegetarianism defeats some of the major factors that lead to fat balance in the body. Some parts of the world do not have land that can be used to grown human food, but they will grow grasses and other things animals can eat. To feed as many people as possible, we need to graze animals on that land. Animal manure enriches the soil used to grow vegetables, and without animal manure, eventually the soil will be depleted. There are other parts of the world where people who refuse to eat meat would simply starve. This is true in the Arctic during the winter, for example.
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You are a little confused now, and you are at a loss. On the one hand, you always do things casually. On the other hand, your emotions are very high. You can participate in recreational activities that are not physically confrontational.
A lot of energy is added to the calm life, which will make your plan as scheduled. It's time to deal with your inner problems, and daily trivia will greatly affect your love life.
Beware of conflict with an influential person, stay calm, and you won't lose anything.
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In the UN World Happiness Report 2019 released by the United Nations, India has slipped down by 7 places vis-a-vis last year among the happiest nations in the world. In what should be a matter of concern, India falls in the bottom half, ranking at the 140th spot. The country is way behind Pakistan, China, and also trails to Bangladesh.
The happiness report has put Finland on the top spot on the most happiest country for the second consecutive year. According to reports, Finland is the happiest country amongst 156 nations surveyed by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
In 2018, India was placed on 133 position, but this year its ranking went down to 140. In 2015, India was on 117 spot, in 2016 it was ranked on 118 spot. The position went up to 122 in 2017, according to reports.
Various factors that determine the happiness levels of a country include life expectancy, social support, income, freedom, trust, health and generosity, amongst others.
The immediate neighbours of India including Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are way ahead in the happiness rankings. In this report, Pakistan stands at 67th rank, China at 93, Bhutan at 95, Nepal at 100, Bangladesh at 125 and Sri Lanka at 130, leaving India way behind.
The World Happiness Report 2019 has disclosed the list of happiest and unhappiest countries worldwide. Finland, for the second consecutive year, has topped this list. It is followed by Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, New Zealand, Canada and Austria.
South Sudan has topped the list of the unhappiest countries of the world. It is followed by Central African Republic at 2nd spot, Afghanistan at 3rd and Tanzania, Rwanda, Yemen, Malawi, Syria, Botswana and Haiti, respectively at the next spots.
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Mountain Brook Fitness Center workout gym business plan executive summary. Mountain Brook Fitness Center will double the size of its childcare facility, positioning itself as a family-focused sports and exercise center.
The Mountain Brook Fitness Center is a thriving business-person's club but is also one of the only family-focused clubs in the Monroe area. Fifty percent of our members are under the age of 45 and have young children. Currently, the center has 900 members. A center membership is $800 a year. The Mountain Brook Fitness Center wants to add an additional 300 members with families over the next three years.
One of the keys to success of the Mountain Brook Fitness Center is the ability to offer reasonably priced childcare in a safe environment while a parent works out in the fitness center. The club has increased the size of its fitness center and added more equipment, but many members would be unable to use the center if they didn't have a service to watch their children while they exercised. In fact, the service has become so popular that the clubhouse has outgrown its existing childcare facilities. Offering childcare has kept many members coming to the club. The lack of current space for a larger childcare area has even kept some prospective members from joining.
Mountain Brook Fitness Center will expand and create a larger childcare facility. In addition, new equipment will be purchased for the childcare center. The childcare center can currently care for 30 children but only five infants. The new facility will be able to handle up to 60 children including 15 infants. The childcare facility expansion will be funded with a short-term loan.
Maintain and grow our position as one of the only clubs in the Monroe area that caters to families.
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What are the rights of a secured creditor?
A secured creditor essentially posses the right to obtain the collateral to sell it or liquidate it to satisfy the debt.
If the secured creditor is a mortgagee obviously the secured creditor has the right to foreclose the mortgage. If the secured creditor posses a security interest in personal property there are multiple options under the uniform commercial code.
possession of the personal property.
Finally, the secured creditor has the same option as the lender, or mortgagee rather, in that it can foreclose on the personal property.
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When is a Roth IRA better for you than a traditional IRA?
The debate over Roth vs. Traditional IRA accounts, and which one is better, comes down to two things, mostly: flexibility and taxes.
Roth IRA's requires paying taxes up front but offer more flexibility later and may be the best option for many people. In a Roth, the benefit stems from the fact the money already is taxed, so it's able to grow tax-free. The Roth, which has income limits for eligibility, also typically comes with fewer restrictions than a Traditional IRA, which is generally taken pre-tax. However, it will be taxed when it is drawn in retirement.
Below is a chart that outlines the differences of the two.
Tax-free growth and tax-free qualified withdrawals.
Tax-deferred growth and tax-deductible contributions.
You won't pay taxes when you withdraw your contributions, and you won't pay federal taxes on your earnings, as long as the five-year aging requirement has been met.
You will pay taxes when you withdraw your pre-tax contributions and when you withdraw any earnings.
If you make withdrawals before you're 59½, you might have to pay taxes on your earnings plus a 10% additional tax.
If you make withdrawals before you're 59½, you might have to pay a 10% penalty.
RMD's do not apply during your lifetime.
RMD's must be taken starting in the year you turn 70½.
It's tempting to save money on taxes in the short term but it may be more beneficial to pay the taxes early in your career, when you're in a lower tax bracket, rather than wait to pay the taxes at retirement, when people are more likely to be in a higher tax bracket.
People in the middle of their career also should think about tapping into a Roth IRA, which are still relatively new. It's more likely these people have been investing in a tax-deferred 401(k), 457 or 403(b) employer plan and it might be time to get into a Roth. Ideally, it's good to have a combination of both types.
For people nearing retirement, they also should consider a Roth for its "lifetime considerations." Roth withdrawals can be taken out at any time, which can be a benefit to high-income earners who may not need to start withdrawing until later in retirement. Traditional IRAs require people start withdrawing by age 70.5.
Roth IRAs also are good for people who want to leave money for heirs because the money won't be taxed upon disbursement.
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Ich habe mich schon beworben, an verschiedenen Stellen. Und wieder kam die Frage: Rammstein say it's their most commercial song to date. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. It features two bonus tracks: In den letzten Jahren hatte ich viele Krisen, durch den Studienabschluss, die Unklarheiten im Job und die Doktorarbeit. Enter Rammstein in the field Interpret. Ich habe geantwortet, dass ich wegen des Jobs hier bin. Finnish Albums Suomen virallinen lista .
Dez. Wenn es mehr werden soll als ein heißer Flirt wendest du dich am besten an einen spezialisierten Anbieter. Single-Reisen, der Boom-Trend.
While past albums have all featured the six band members in various photographic scenarios, "Reise Reise" features a minimal packaging, and there are no photographs featuring the band's members.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The album sold 26, copies in the United States in its first week of release in November to debut at position no. Dort treffe ich immer Leute, die mich so nehmen wie ich bin, die sagen 'Mensch, du bist nett! The ReiseSalon will take place on 2 days from Saturday, Select Gold in the Certification field.
Reise single On the European version the easter egg is in negative time, to access it, you must rewind the CD past the beginning of "Reise, Reise".
Ich kann auch jetzt nicht sagen, ob ich ein Kind will. It was released on 27 September through Universal Music in Germany and followed shortly by its release across Europe. Dort treffe ich immer Leute, die mich so nehmen wie ich bin, die sagen 'Mensch, du bist nett! Da habe ich auch gemerkt, dass mir das Reisen sehr wichtig ist.
Reise, Reise" in Finnish. The American iTunes version of "Reise, Reise" also contains the easter egg.
Reise, Reise is the fourth studio album by Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein.
Singles from Reise, Reise. "Mein Teil" Released: 26 July ; " Amerika". Single urlaub kapverden - If you are a middle-aged man looking to have a good Best kapverden oder kapverden perfekte einsteiger-reise sao vicente, visum.
Lyrics to 'Reise I Lag Med Deg (Radio Single)' by Hellbillies.
Upon the its release, the album received mixed response from contemporary music critics. Dort treffe ich immer Leute, die mich so nehmen wie ich bin, die sagen 'Mensch, du bist nett!
Meine letzte Partnerschaft ist kaputtgegangen, weil er ganz klar gesagt hat: Fairs of these Sectors: Travelers with high expectations willing to explore exotic regions, looking for an exceptional overnight stay or that certain something are brought together with tour operators defining the same high standards of quality and service that offer themselves unique holiday paradises and experiences.
Women seeking men london It features two bonus tracks: It was produced by the band themselves along with Swedish record producer Jacob Hellner.
The American iTunes version of "Reise, Reise" also contains the easter egg. The quote is taken from an online post by Armin Meiwes. Well more like this please because it's funny but rocks at the same time.
If you decline, your information won't be tracked when you visit this website.
A single cookie will be used in your browser to remember your preference not to be. März Andererseits hat sie als Single das Gefühl, dass im Privatleben alle an Posten an der Hochschule, und natürlich reise ich deshalb auch viel. Play full-length songs from Reise (Single) by Hobi on your phone, computer and home audio system with Napster.
Da kommt man doch nicht allein hierher, wo ist denn Ihr Mann? On April 21,Rammstein released a special Japanese version of Reise, Reisewith different cover artwhich was later used as the Rosenrot cover art, though the Rammstein logo on the ship altered into the text "Rosenrot".
Same as it ever was, "Reise, Reise" won't do much to increase the band's fan base, but being a tight, free-of-filler album, it'll satisfy the faithful. Finnish Albums Suomen virallinen lista .
Swedish Albums Sverigetopplistan . Retrieved August 24, Und jetzt mit 35 denke ich, vielleicht ist es das gar nicht.
Women seeking men london After Meiwes and the victim jointly attempted to eat the victim's severed penisMeiwes killed his victim and proceeded to eat a large amount of his flesh.
Webarchive template wayback links CS1 maint: Retrieved 3 June Swedish Albums Sverigetopplistan . German rock band's 'part' song tells of cannibals' repast. Mein Lebensfokus war immer auf Beruf und Karriere gerichtet.
International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. The quote is taken from an online post by Armin Meiwes.
Oder sehen Sie das anders? Reise, Reise" in Finnish.
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Sports betting is one of the few forms of gambling where you're able to control a good portion of your destiny. In the long-run, luck will only play a small part in determining your success. At the end of the day, your decisions will ultimately decide whether you'll make a profit or not. This means that there's absolutely no reason why you can't be successful. In this article, we'll take a look at some of the biggest challenges of sports betting and provide you with tips and advice on how you can overcome these challenges. 1. Developing A Proper Mindset Developing a proper mindset in the context of sports betting involves two very important things to always keep in mind. The first is knowing that betting on the most likely outcome is not always the right thing to do since the odds reflected in the sports betting market will have already taken these factors into account, and as a result, the potential payout will reflect the likelihood of the most likely outcome. The second is having enough discipline and patience to only bet when the odds are in your favor. This comes down to understanding the concept of value. You should never rush into bets or bet on games just for the sake of betting. 2. Accurate Assessment Of Probability In a sense, sports are unpredictable, which makes them all the more thrilling to watch. While the unpredictable nature of sports is great for fans, for sports bettors, not so much. As a result, it's important to not put too much thought into every single wager as to overthink things on a regular basis. Some useful tips and advice for being able to accurately assess the probability of outcomes as well as your own individual performance is to spend plenty of time on research and analysis, maintain a narrow focus on the sports that you have the most knowledge on and enjoy betting on the most, and keep a detailed record of all your wagers as to be honest with yourself and your performance. 3. Emotional Control Being successful at sports betting requires clear and rational thinking. Decisions must be made based on logic and reasoning as opposed to simply going with your emotions and intuitions. When you're emotional, your current state-of-mind may cloud your judgment, in turn preventing rational thinking. The bottom line is that emotions will invariably lead to bad decisions. Like all things in life, the ability to control one's emotions is vital to success. In the context of sports betting, you must be able to learn to recognize when your emotions are starting to take over and don't bet on any games when you're tired, sick, or under the influence. 4. Other Minor Challenges Some other minor challenges include gaining the required knowledge for different sports and leagues, picking the ideal betting site(s) to meet your needs, and being able to deal with the grind of having to perform research and analysis on a daily basis. Often times, many of these challenges requires one to have the right attitude and ability to induce a laser-like focus. Your effort is the only thing you're able to control - if you're not able to maintain a consistent and high level of effort, success in sports betting will not come very easy, if at all.
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Introduce and enforce speed limit of 20 mph on all urban roads, 40 mph on rural roads/lanes and 60 mph on all other trunk roads.
Older people hit at 30mph face a 47% fatality risk and are 10 times more likely to die than if the vehicle was travelling at 20mph . In addition at 20mph fewer collisions occur as there is more time to avoid a crash. 20mph zones are effective at reducing the toll from collisions , cost as little as £2 per head and are popular with residents and local businesses.
Almost half of all road deaths in 2010 were on single carriageway rural roads with a 60mph speed limit . The department for transport has encouraged councils to implement 40mph zones, however this proposal leaves many country tracks with a speed limit only 10mph slower than on a motorway. Finally 60mph limits are already being considered for the motorway network , with higher speeds causing stop-start jams at busy times and increased accident rates and severity.
Speed limit reductions are already being implemented in local areas all over the country and are a cost effective method to increase road safety. However these need to be rolled out across the board to improve safety on all roads.
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The United States faces, in the Middle East, many Sunni Arab countries with elites that are pro-American and populations that are deeply hostile, whereas in Iran it faces elites that are mostly hostile — or require hostility to maintain their power — and a population that is really ready for change.
In other words, America's Middle Eastern allies are mostly countries where authoritarian rulers impose deeply unpopular pro-American policies. Our greatest enemy is a country where authoritarian rulers impose unpopular anti-American policies. It doesn't sound like a situation that's particularly stable, either for us or for the Middle East itself, and indeed it's not.
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Water resources are sources of water that are useful or potentially useful to humans. It is important because it is needed for life to exist. Many uses of water include agricultural, industrial, household, recreational and environmental activities. Virtually all of these human uses require fresh water. Only 3% of water on the Earth is fresh water, and over two thirds of this is frozen in glaciers and polar region ice caps. Water demand already exceeds supply in many parts of the world, and many more areas are expected to experience this imbalance in the near future. The framework for allocating water resources to water users (where such a framework exists) is known as water rights.
Especially in arid regions conflicts exist over water use. Conflict is managed by regulation of water use by water law and regulations and water management by public and private entities. When specific disputes arise indidividual or entities may engage in negotiation or even litigation sometimes in specialized water courts.
Surface water is water in a river, lake or wetland. Surface water is naturally replenished by precipitation and naturally lost through runoff to the oceans, evaporation and seepage.
Although the only natural input to any surface water system is precipitation within its watershed, the total quantity of water in that system at any given time is also dependent on many other factors. These factors include storage capacity in lakes, wetlands and artificial reservoirs, the permeability of the soil beneath these storage bodies, the runoff characteristics of the land in the watershed, the timing of the precipitation and local evaporation rates. All of these factors also affect the proportions of water lost through discharge to the oceans, evaporation and seepage.
Human activities can have a large impact on these factors. Humans often increase storage capacity by constructing reservoirs and decrease it by draining wetlands. Humans often increase runoff quantities and velocities by paving areas and channelizing stream flow.
The total quantity of water available at any given time is an important consideration. Some human water users have an intermittent need for water. For example, many farms require large quantities of water in the spring, and no water at all in the winter. To supply such a farm with water, a surface water system may require a large storage capacity to collect water throughout the year and release it in a short period of time. Other users have a continuous need for water, such as a power plant that requires water for cooling. To supply such a power plant with water, a surface water system only needs enough storage capacity to fill in when average stream flow is below the power plant's need.
Nevertheless, over the long term the average rate of precipitation within an watershed is the upper bound for average consumption of natural surface water from that watershed.
Natural surface water can be augmented by importing surface water from another watershed through a canal or pipeline. It can also be artificially augmented from any of the other sources listed here, however in practice the quantities are negligible. Humans can also cause surface water to be "lost" (i.e. become unusable) through pollution.
Sub-Surface water, or groundwater, is fresh water located in the pore space of soil and rocks. It is also water that is flowing within aquifers below the water table. Sometimes it is useful to make a distinction between sub-surface water that is closely associated with surface water and deep sub-surface water in an aquifer (sometimes called "fossil water").
Sub-surface water can be thought of in the same terms as surface water: inputs, outputs and storage. The critical difference is that for sub-surface water, storage is generally much larger compared to recharge than it is for surface water. This difference makes it easy for humans to use sub-surface water unsustainably for a long time without severe consequences. Nevertheless, over the long term the average rate of seepage above a sub-surface water source is the upper bound for average consumption of water from that source.
The natural input to sub-surface water is seepage from surface water. The natural outputs from sub-surface water are springs and seepage to the oceans.
If the surface water source is also subject to substantial evaporation, a sub-surface water source may become saline. This situation can occur naturally under endorheic bodies of water, or artificially under irrigated farmland. In coastal areas, human use of a sub-surface water source may cause the direction of seepage to ocean to reverse which can also cause salinization. Humans can also cause sub-surface water to be "lost" (i.e. become unusable) through pollution. Humans can increase the input to a sub-surface water source by building reservoirs or detention ponds.
Water in the ground are in sections called aquifers. Rain rolls down and comes into these. Normally an aquifer is near to the equilibrium in its water content. The water content of an aquifier normally depends on the grain sizes. This means that the rate of extraction may be limited by poor permeability.
Desalination is an artificial process by which saline water (generally ocean water) is converted to fresh water. The most common desalinization processes are distillation and reverse osmosis. Desalinization is currently very expensive compared to most alternative sources of water, and only a very small fraction of total human use is satisfied by desalination. It is only economically practical for high-valued uses (such as household and industrial uses) in arid regions. The most extensive use is in the Persian Gulf.
Several schemes have been proposed to make use of icebergs as a water source, however to date this has only been done for novelty purposes. Glacier runoff is considered to be surface water.
There are many things that are a threat to the Earths fresh water supply. Here are a few of them.
Climate change will have significant impacts on water resources around the world because of the close connections between the climate and hydrologic cycle. Rising temperatures will increase evaporation and lead to increases in precipitation, though there will be regional variations in rainfall. Both drought and floods may become more frequent in different regions at different times, and dramatic changes in snowfall and snowmelt are expected in mountainous areas. Higher temperatures will also affect water quality in ways that are not well understood. Possible impacts include increased eutrophication. Climate change could also mean an increase in demand for farm irrigation, garden sprinklers, and perhaps even swimming pools.
Since competition for water is growing, underground aquifers are becoming depleted. This is mainly due to irrigation by groundwater. Millions of small pumps are currently taking water out of aquifers to irrigate crops. Irrigation in dry areas such as India is supplied by groundwater.
Water pollution is one of the many concerns of the world today. World governments have strived to find solutions to eliminate this problem. One of these suggestions is the Kyoto Protocol. Many programs strive to protect our water resources. They are usually funded by donations from generous people.
Uses of fresh water can be categorized as consumptive and non-consumptive (sometimes called "renewable"). A use of water is consumptive if that water is not immediately available for another use. Losses to seepage and evaporation are considered consumptive, as is water incorporated into a product (such as farm produce). Water that can be treated and returned as surface water, such as sewage, is generally considered non-consumptive if that water can be put to additional use.
It is estimated that 70% of world-wide water use is for irrigation. In some areas of the world irrigation is necessary to grow any crop at all, in other areas it permits more profitable crops to be grown or enhances crop yield. Various irrigation methods involve different trade-offs between crop yield, water consumption and capital cost of equipment and structures. Commonly used irrigation methods such as flood and sprinkler irrigation are also some of the most inefficient irrigation methods. This is because much of the water evaporates and runs off. A very efficient irrigation method is drip or trickle irrigation, which minimizes runoff and evaporation. Another trade-off that is often insufficiently considered is salinization of sub-surface water.
Aquaculture is a small but growing agricultural use of water. Freshwater commercial fisheries may also be considered as agricultural uses of water, but have generally been assigned a lower priority than irrigation (see Aral Sea and Pyramid Lake).
As global populations grow, and as demand for food increases in a world with a fixed water supply, there are efforts underway to learn how to produce more food with less water, through improvements in irrigation methods and technologies, agricultural water management, crop types, and water monitoring.
It is estimated that 15% of world-wide water use is industrial. Major industrial users include power plants, which use water for cooling or as a power source (i.e. hydroelectric plants), ore and oil refineries, which use water in chemical processes, and manufacturing plants, which use water as a solvent.
The portion of industrial water usage that is consumptive varies widely, but as a whole is lower than agricultural use.
It is estimated that 15% of world-wide water use is for household purposes. These include drinking water, bathing, cooking, sanitation, and gardening. Basic household water requirements have been estimated by Peter Gleick at around 50 liters per person per day, excluding water for gardens.
Most household water is treated and returned to surface water systems, with the exception of water used for landscapes. Household water use is therefore less consumptive than agricultural or industrial uses.
Water has a lot of recreational value.
Recreational water use is a very small but growing percentage of total water use. Recreational water use is mostly tied to reservoirs. If a reservoir is kept fuller than it would otherwise be for recreation, then the water retained could be categorized as recreational usage. Release of water from a few reservoirs is also timed to enhance whitewater boating, which also could be considered a recreational usage. Other examples are anglers, water skiers, nature enthusiasts and swimmers.
Recreational usage is non-consumptive. However it may reduce the availability of water for other users at specific times and places. For example, water retained in a reservoir to allow boating in the late summer is not available to farmers during the spring planting season. Water released for whitewater rafting may not be available for hydroelectric generation during the time of peak electrical demand.
Explicit environmental water use is also a very small but growing percentage of total water use. Environmental water usage includes artificial wetlands, artificial lakes intended to create wildlife habitat, fish ladders around dams, and water releases from reservoirs timed to help fish spawn.
Like recreational usage, environmental usage is non-consumptive but may reduce the availability of water for other users at specific times and places. For example, water release from a reservoir to help fish spawn may not be available to farms upstream.
Food and water are two basic human needs. As the picture shows, in 2025, water shortages will be more prevalent among poorer countries where resources are limited and population growth is rapid, such as the Middle East, Africa, and parts of Asia. By 2025, large urban and peri-urban areas will require new infrastructure to provide safe water and adequate sanitation. This suggests growing conflicts with agricultural water users, who currently consume the majority of the water used by humans.
Porous cities, new directions in urban water usage.
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San Francisco-based lawyer who dedicated much of his career to defending Japanese Americans affected by the events of World War II, particularly unpopular cases that others avoided. In addition to representing Fred Korematsu and arguing his and Mitsuye Endo's cases before the Supreme Court, Wayne Mortimer Collins (1899–1974) also defended Japanese Latin Americans, represented accused traitor "Tokyo Rose" Iva Toguri d'Aquino, and most significantly, aided some 5,000 Nisei who renounced their American citizenship during World War II.
Of Irish descent, Collins was born in Sacramento, California on November 23, 1899, and was a graduate of San Francisco Law School, where he was a classmate of future California Governor Edmund G. Brown. During the prewar years, he was affiliated with the Northern California office of the American Civil Liberties Union (NC-ACLU), which was run by his friend Ernest Besig, and maintained a small private practice in San Francisco. Collins was not notably successful during these years. Virtually all accounts of his career, even admiring ones, call him some variation of the adjective "fiery" and note his temper, which could be a major handicap in attracting clients and persuading judges and juries.
In 1942, Besig recruited Collins to represent Fred Korematsu on behalf of the NC-ACLU. Korematsu, a young Nisei man, had evaded the exclusion orders, and the NC-ACLU took up his defense as a test case of the orders. During preparations for the trial, the national ACLU office adopted a policy of not directly challenging the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which Collins' legal arguments in favor of Korematsu immediately violated. This dispute between the Northern California office and the national organization would continue through the war. Collins argued the case before Judge Adolphus F. St. Sure, who found Korematsu guilty and sentenced him to five years probation (St. Sure initially refused to issue a final order, which led to a round of appeals over whether the case could be appealed).
During 1943-44, Collins represented Korematsu in his appeals, first to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and ultimately before the Supreme Court. He was also invited by James Purcell to argue before the high court in Ex parte Mitsuye Endo (1944), an appeal arising from the habeas corpus petition of Mitsuye Endo. During the argument before the U.S. Supreme Court, Collins distinguished himself by his rhetorical thrusts. For example, he deplored the military's mass exclusion of Japanese Americans by asserting "The only act resembling this was committed by Adolf Hitler, who penalized German citizens on the basis of their nationality."
Assessments of his wide-ranging and angry arguments are decidedly critical. Peter Irons calls Collins' Korematsu brief "short on analysis and long on vituperation" and "a disaster," while Roger Daniels wrote of his oral argument for Korematsu, "those attuned to the nuances of appellate rhetoric would wring their hands and roll their eyes when discussing his performance." Still, in summing up Collins's overall contribution, Neil Gotanda remarked that, "Whatever may have been his eccentricities as a litigator, his energy and perseverance were extraordinary...." In fact, Collins took on the entire financial burden of the cases himself. In addition to the billable hours he devoted to the defense of Korematsu, he paid for his own extensive travel, including a pair of trips to Washington DC. Thus, according to his friend Ernest Besig, Collins's total contribution to the case exceeded $10,000.
In addition to arguing the Korematsu and Endo cases before the Supreme Court, Collins also filed amicus briefs for the NC-ACLU in the [[Hirabayashi v. United States|Hirabayashi and Endo Supreme Court cases (the latter despite also being one of Endo's attorneys). Collins also submitted an amicus brief for the NC-ACLU in Regan v. King (1943), the challenge brought by the Native Sons of the Golden West to Nisei voting and citizenship rights.
Collins's greatest effort on behalf of the Japanese American community no doubt came in his herculean twenty plus year battle on behalf of the renunciants, the Nisei who renounced their American citizenship, most of them while incarcerated at Tule Lake. As historian Donald Collins (no relation) wrote, the extraordinary demands of these cases against a recalcitrant Department of Justice made Wayne Collins's a virtual "one-case office." He remarked that he didn't even take vacations, because "I was frightened stiff that if I was not able to be in my office every day early and late that the government might attempt to remove all of them to Japan."
He first learned of the renunciation crisis while visiting Tule Lake in July 1945 on other business. Initially incredulous at the situation, he was soon approached by renunciants and their parents asking for help in canceling the renunciations. He initially wrote a letter of protest to Attorney General Tom Clark and prepared form letters for the renunciants asking for the restoration of their citizenship to be sent to the Justice Department. Although he encouraged them to find attorneys, the search for attorneys who would represent them proved largely fruitless, apart from A.L. Wirin, Collins's rival. By September 1945, about 1,000 renunciants had banded together to form the Tule Lake Defense Committee, and the group approached Collins to represent them.
What followed was a bewildering legal odyssey. Collins' first task was to prevent the imminent deportation of the renunciants, announced in October. Collins filed mass habeas corpus suits on behalf of 935 plaintiffs on November 13, 1945, just two days before the deportations were to begin. The lawsuits halted the deportations. As a result of the suits, the Department of Interior instigated a series of "mitigation" hearings that, while of questionable fairness, did result in the release of 90% of the over 3,000 individuals who received them. This still left some 350 detained. After much legal wrangling, Collins was able to get this last group released by Judge Louis Goodman in September of 1947. The case was later reversed on appeal, and eventually mooted by the U.S.-Japan peace treaty signed in 1952, which ended any threat of deportation. Collins terminated the suits in May 1952.
Though freed, the renunciants were still denied their U.S. citizenship. In parallel suits filed at the same time as the habeas corpus suits, Collins sought to invalidate the renunciations. His core argument was that the renunciations were not made freely due to conditions created by actions of the federal government. In March of 1949, Judge Louis Goodman ruled in the renunciants' favor, restoring citizenship to all and refusing the Justice Department's petition to hold individual hearings to make a case-by-case determination. (Though the suit had begun with fewer than 1,000 plaintiffs, it had grown to a total of 4,394 Nisei as more and more renunciants had joined over the years.) This ruling, however, was overturned on appeal in January 1951, due in part to a prior ruling on a suit filed individually on behalf of three renunciants by A.L. Wirin. While ruling the restoration of citizenship valid for about 1,000—mostly those who had been under twenty-one when they renounced—the appellate ruling returned some 3,000 others to the District Court for individual hearings. Though Collins was able to reach an agreement with DoJ lawyers for a process involving affidavits by the renunciants, the process still took nearly all his time, as the DoJ continued to fight many cases. Collins would end up filing some 10,000 affidavits. A "liberalized" process announced in August 1956 led to the resolution of most cases by 1959. However, some 300 remained, requiring another nine years of Collins's effort before the last case was cleared in 1968. In the end, Collins' work insured that not one renunciant was deported once he began representing them, and nearly all who sought the restoration of citizenship got it eventually.
Collins had first visited Tule Lake in August 1944, using the threat of habeas corpus suits to get the infamous stockade closed down. A year later, when the stockade had been reestablished, he went back to the camp and once again had it closed down, this time for good.
In the midst of the renunciation drama, Collins took on two other unpopular Japanese American cases. While working on renunciation cases with colleague Theodore Tamba at Crystal City, he was approached by a group of Japanese Latin Americans who had been notified of their imminent deportation. He agreed to represent them, taking as his fee only what they could pay; in many cases this meant pro bono work or being paid in kind (in one case, with chickens). He filed suit on behalf of some 350 Latin American Japanese men, women and children to stop their deportations in June 1946. In the end, Collins was able to secure their release from detention, many being released to work at Seabrook Farms in New Jersey. Collins and Tamba worked on the cases for nearly a decade, with most of those whom they represented ultimately being allowed to stay in the U.S.
Finally, Collins, along with Tamba and George Olshausen, represented Iva Toguri D'Aquino in the famous "Tokyo Rose" case. Toguri, a Nisei women trapped in Japan after Pearl Harbor, was tried for treason for making English-language radio broadcasts during the war. Collins represented Toguri without fee through her trial. Following a trial marked by irregularities and doubtful conduct by the prosecutors and by presiding judge Michael Roche, she was convicted and sentenced to a ten-year prison sentence and fine. Collins and others continued to represent her through a series of unsuccessful appeals in the 1950s. When she was released from prison in 1956, and threatened with deportation, Collins again defended her, and got the deportation order reversed. Toguri ultimately lived with the Collins family for nearly two years. He supported the movement for a pardon, though he died before the pardon was granted by President Gerald Ford in 1977.
Collins's dogged pursuit of justice for the most unpopular Japanese Americans has made him a heroic figure to many. No fewer than four books are dedicated to him, including Michi Weglyn's landmark Years of Infamy. Two men who were among the renunciants he defended also dedicated their memoirs to him, with playwright Hiroshi Kashiwagi writing that he "rescued me as an American and restored my faith in America," and Minoru Kiyota calling him "a figure that shines brilliantly in the history of the defense of human rights." Still, his rough edges irked even friends and supporters. In an otherwise admiring description of him written during his lifetime, Audrie Girdner and Anne Loftis conclude that "Some of his clients called him a 'brave man'; others, including Nisei, said that he was 'a fanatic' and 'a lunatic.'"
Collins died on an airplane en route to Honolulu on July 16, 1974, just as attitudes toward the Japanese American wartime experience—and particularly the unpopular Japanese Americans he represented—were beginning to change.
Christgau, John. "Collins Versus the World: The Fight to Restore Citizenship to Japanese American Renunciants of World War II." Pacific Historical Review 44.1 (Feb. 1985): 1-31. Reprinted in The Mass Internment of Japanese Americans and the Quest for Legal Redress. Asian Americans and the Law: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Vol. 3. Edited by Charles McClain. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994. 345–75.
Gotanda, Neil. "'Other Non-Whites' in American Legal History: A Review Essay on Justice at War." Journal of Gender, Race & Justice 13 (2009–10): 333–70.
"Guide to the Wayne M. Collins Papers, 1918–1974 (bulk 1945–1960)." The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Kashiwagi, Hiroshi. "Wayne M. Collins." In Swimming in the American: A Memoir and Selected Writings. San Mateo, Calif.: Asian American Curriculum Project, 2005. 176–84.
↑ Warren B. Francis, "Jap Exclusion Argued Before Supreme Court," Los Angeles Times, Oct. 12, 1944, 2.
↑ Peter Irons, Justice at War: The Story of the Japanese American Internment Cases (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 303; Roger Daniels, The Japanese American Cases: The Rule of Law in Time of War (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2013), 69; Neil Gotanda, "'Other Non-Whites' in American Legal History: A Review Essay on Justice at War," Journal of Gender, Race & Justice 13 (2009–10), 345n71.
↑ Donald E. Collins, Native American Aliens: Disloyalty and the Renunciation of Citizenship by Japanese Americans During World War II (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985), 133, 111.
↑ Hiroshi Kashiwagi, "Swimming in the American: A Memoir and Selected Writings" (San Mateo, Calif.: Asian American Curriculum Project, 2005), i; Minoru Kiyota, Beyond Loyalty: The Story of a Kibei (Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 1997), 132; Audrie Girdner and Anne Loftis, The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans during World War II (Toronto: Macmillan, 1969), 447.
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How do I uninstall Linux?
Please help me out I have installed linux at my place but I am unable to work with it properly so I want to uninstall it but facing a problem in uninstalling .Can you tell me how to uninstall linux.
You will have to format the drive where the OS is installed. You cannot really 'uninstall' an OS.
If switching to windows, boot from the Windows disk, and format the partition / drive with Linux installed.
If you wish to experiment with Linux, you're best getting one of the distro's that run straight from a CD, with no need to install, such as Knoppix.
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Vinxtbach: little stream, once the border between two Roman provinces, Germania Inferior and Germania Superior.
In the summer of 58 BCE, Julius Caesar was the first Roman general to reach the river Rhine, which he accepted as the eastern frontier of his theater of operations, Gaul. Some forty years later, the emperor Augustus reorganized the Rhine frontier, which was from now on guarded by two armies: the army of Germania Superior (= the Middle Rhine) and the army of Germania Inferior (= the Lower Rhine). Roman attempts to conquer the country east of the river were checked by the Germanic tribes in the famous battle in the Teutoburg Forest in 9 CE.
The small Vinxtbach, which empties itself in the Rhine just south of modern Bad Breisig, marks the boundary between the occupation zones of the two armies. When the Roman emperor Domitian converted these sectors into real provinces (in 83 or 84), the Vinxtbach was the border. Near the Rhine was a small settlement, called Ad fines ("near the border"). On the opposite bank was the small limes castle of Rheinbrohl.
It remains a boundary to the present day. For centuries, the Vinxtbach has been the frontier between the archbishopric of Cologne and Koblenz. Today, it is still considered to mark the southern boundary of "Kölsch", the dialect spoken in the area between Cologne and Venlo. This area was not affected by the High German consonant shift, a process of linguistic change in southern Germany that started in the Late Roman period. In the south, modern German was to come into being, whereas the Saxons of the north, who settled in Britain, and the Franks, who settled in the Netherlands, took an old Germanic dialect with them.
We can say that the Vinxtbach is the boundary between proto-English and proto-German.
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What happens when you shut down a nuclear power plant?
If ever there was a question about how serious the consequences are from shutting down a nuclear power plant, it was dispelled with results of a study showing that electricity generating costs rose by $350 million during the year following the 2012 closing of the San Onofre nuclear plant in Southern California. Natural gas made up for much of the shortfall and as a result carbon dioxide emissions rose by 9 million metric tons, which is equivalent to putting 2 million additional cars on the road.
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To avoid coming out the same day as Star Wars.
The World of Warcraft movie, simply titled "Warcraft", has received the new release date of 11th March, 2016, Variety reports.
Initially it was set for an 18th December, 2015 release, but the J.J. Abrams Star Wars flick is now coming out then, and who wants to go head to head with that?
Warcraft is being directed by Duncan "son of David Bowie" Jones, best known for directing Moon and Source Code. Screenwriter Charles Leavitt - whose credits include Blood Diamond, The Mighty, and K-PAX - is penning the film with Legendary producing.
Not many details are known about the film, but it will feature Anduin Lothar, the leader of the Alliance, and Durotan, the first Chieftain of the Frostwolf Clan. The plot will follow the war between orcs and humans and will focus on both sides of the conflict.
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A University of Georgia fraternity has been suspended after a viral video appeared to show fraternity members using racial slurs. The video posted online shows a student whipping another person with a belt, saying "Pick my cotton, b***h." The phrase was repeated and followed by a racial slur.
The local Tau Kappa Epsilon chapter was suspended by its national branch and four members were expelled. The organization said it was "disgusted, appalled and angered" by the remarks in the video. "TKE will not tolerate any actions such as that would be defined as racist, discriminatory and/or offensive."
The university also condemned the video in a statement: "Racism has no place on our campus. We will continue our efforts to promote a welcoming and supportive learning environment for our students, faculty and staff. The fraternity has been suspended by its national organization."
Tau Kappa Epsilon is a national collegiate men's social fraternity founded in 1899. It has 240 active chapters and colonies and over 285,000 initiated members. The fraternity's motto is "Better Men for a Better World."
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Based on interview, the review of grievance policy and Grievance Committee minutes, it was determined that the facility's Governing Body did not demonstrate effective oversight of the grievance process. Specifically, the governing Body did not: 1) delegate in writing the responsibility for the operation of the grievance process to the Grievance Committee and, 2) ensure prompt resolution of grievances.
1. At interview with Staff #2 on 8/5/15 at 9:45 PM, she stated the Governing Body delegation of the Grievance Committee is evident in the policy and procedure for complaints and grievances. Staff #2 added that the Grievance Committee reports monthly to the "Quality Care Executive Committee" and those reports are forwarded quarterly to the Governing Body through the Medical Executive Committee.
The review of the policy titled "Responding to Patient Complaints and Grievances" revised on 5/13/14 notes that the policy was prepared by the Director of Patient Relations and approved by the Chief Operating Officer, Chief Nursing Officer, and Chief Medical Officer. The policy lacked evidence of Governing Body approval of the grievance process, and the authorization it provided to the Grievance Committee to review and resolve grievances.
2. The review of the "Grievance Committee minutes for June and July 2015 noted that the Grievance Committee measures the timeliness of grievance resolution against a 30-day timeframe and not the seven-day timeframe specified in the initial acknowledgement letter to complainants.
Based on interviews, the review of facility's grievance policy and other documents, it was determined the facility did not ensure its grievance policy is developed to assure timely resolution of grievances. Specifically, the grievance policy did not specify timeframes for the resolution of grievances. This is evident in 5 of 5 grievance files reviewed (Files #1, #2, #3, #4, #5,).
File #1 revealed a grievance was filed on 5/12/15 regarding delay care of two pediatric patients who (MDS) dated [DATE] with exacerbation of asthma. The complainant also alleged unprofessional conduct by a pediatric physician.
A written acknowledgement letter was sent to the complainant on 5/12/15 that notes, "We will investigate and respond to you within 7 days. A second letter was sent out to the complainant on 5/19/15 indicating the investigation is in progress and "we will notify you in writing of the outcome when the investigation is completed no later than June 11, 2015." The response to the grievance was issued by the facility on 6/11/15, approximately one month from the date of intake on 5/12/15.
File #2 revealed the patient made a verbal complaint on 6/8/15 alleging physical abuse by a staff member he identified as Hospital Police,while he was in the Psychiatric Emergency Department. Although video footage reviewed on 6/8/15 by the Director of Hospital Police did not validate issues described by the complainant, the investigation remained open. On 6/24/15, two weeks after the verbal complaint was made, three Hospital Police Officers each gave detailed description of the incident, which revealed officers assisted in escorting a patient that attempted to elope back to the psychiatric ED.
At interview with Staff #1 on 8/5/15 at approximately 11:30 PM, she stated the patient did not want a written response but insisted in meeting with the Director of Hospital Police. She reported the meeting was held on July 27, 2015 and the patient was satisfied with the facility's response.
There were delays in the investigation of this grievance. Although the issues of the complaint were not verified on 6/8/15, it took another two weeks to obtain a written statement from Hospital Police Officers. The grievance remained opened until a meeting with the patient on 7/27/15; this was approximately seven weeks after the grievance was documented.
File #3 notes a grievance filed by a patient on 6/30/15 alleging delay evaluation and management of urinary retention. The complainant noted he waited three hours for urology evaluation and he was in discomfort and pain.
The Patient Relations Department report indicated the grievance investigation was completed on 7/6/15 by the Urology Department. However, the provision of a response to the complainant was completed nineteen days after on 7/25/15.
In file #4, patient's daughter complained on 6/9/15 that her mother reported she was physically mistreated the previous day by a nurse who pinched her buttock. The patient's daughter acknowledged that her mother is confused and suffers from dementia.
The acknowledgement letter sent to the patient's daughter on 6/9/15 promised a written response in seven calendar days; however, another letter written by the facility on 6/16/15 deferred the provision of a response to 7/9/15. The grievance file revealed a response letter was sent to the complainant on 7/7/15; approximately one month after the complaint was filed.
Similar findings were noted in file #5 that demonstrates a pattern of noncompliance with providing a written response to grievances in no more than 30 days. The grievance for File #5 was filed 5/18/15 and the provision of a response was one month later on 6/18/15.
The facility's Administrative policy and Procedure Manual titled "Responding to Patient Complaints and Grievances" last revised on 5/13/14 notes, "If the Patient Representative is unable to complete the investigation (of a grievance), the Patient Representative will send a memorandum to the department involved requesting that a written response with the findings and corrective action should be sent to the Patient Relations Department within seven (7) calendar days of the initial complaint "
While the policy indicates seven (7) calendar days for the completion of grievance investigation, it failed to specify timeframes for provision of timely response to complainants.
At interview with Staff #1, Director of Patient Relations on 8/4/15 at 2:45 PM she stated that upon receipt of a grievance, an acknowledgement letter is sent out that explains the grievance process and the timeframe for resolution of the grievance. She stated that seven calendar days is the timeframe indicated in the initial acknowledgement letter to the complainant; however, if the facility is unable to complete the investigation within the timeframe indicated, a second letter is sent to the complainant indicating a written response will be sent on a specified date. She stated that the date specified in the second letter to the patient is always within 30 days of the receipt of the grievance.
The review of the "Grievance Committee Meeting" minutes for June and July 2015 noted that none of the nine grievances received in May and June was resolved within the seven-day timeframe indicated in the formed acknowledgement letter to complainants.
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Context: Whether natural product drug discovery programs should rely on wild plants collected “randomly” from the natural environment, or whether they should also include plants collected on the basis of use in traditional medicine remains an open question. Objective: This study analyzes whether plants with ethnomedical uses from Vietnam and Laos have a higher hit rate in bioassay testing than plants collected from a national park in Vietnam with the goal of maximizing taxonomic diversity (“random” collection). Materials and Methods: All plants were extracted and subjected to bioassay in the same laboratories. Results of assays of plant collections and plant parts (samples) were scored as active or inactive based on whether any extracts had a positive result in a bioassay. Contingency tables were analyzed using chi-square statistics. Results: Random collections had a higher hit rate than ethnomedical collections, but for samples, ethnomedical plants were more likely to be active. Ethnomedical collections and samples had higher hit rates for tuberculosis, while samples, but not collections, had a higher hit rate for malaria. Little evidence was found to support an advantage for ethnomedical plants in HIV, chemoprevention and cancer bioassays. Plants whose ethnomedical uses directly correlated to a bioassay did not have a significantly higher hit rate than random plants. Discussion: Plants with ethnomedical uses generally had a higher rate of activity in some drug discovery bioassays, but the assays did not directly confirm specific uses. Conclusion: Ethnomedical uses may contribute to a higher rate of activity in drug discovery screening.
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Montenegro will be at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden represented by Podgorica band "Highway", which originally consisted of singer Petar Tošić and guitarists Marko Pešić and Luka Vojvodić. On December 16, 2015, it was announced that the band will also be joined by Bojan Jovović, ex-member of "No Name" and "Neon" as keyboardist and vocalist.
Petar is a first year student of Electro-Technical Faculty in Podgorica. He attended elementary music school Vasa Pavić and played the violin. Luka, son of RTCG Director General Rade Vojvodić, is a first year student of Faculty of Economic. Marko is a second year student of Faculty of Economics. He also graduated from an elementary music school Vasa Pavić playing guitar. Luka and Petar know each other for life, and they met Marko two years ago. The idea to form a band came to them three years ago during summer holidays in Herceg Novi. Boys prefer to listen to pop, rock, blues, jazz music. As their idol they name Ed Sheeran, and as a favorite song, "Do I want to know" of Arctic Monkeys'. Bojan is the most experienced member of the band, having behind 11 years of stage career, who also performed at Eurovision 2005 as part of "No Name".
"In the evening we played together in the mall, and people would come up to us and asked us whether we have the footage on YouTube and whether we have recorded our songs. It was one of the reasons that we begin together to play in the band", explain band members.
The Commission, consisting of members of the RTCG Council, lyricist Dragan Tripković, music editor at Radio Montenegro Nada Vučinić, music editor at RTCG Slaven Knezović and famous jazz musician Milorad Šule Jovović, suggested that "Highway" should represents Montenegro at the biggest international music competition. Executive board of the broadcaster has unanimously supported the Commission's proposal. The choice has been revealed to the public on 2 October 2015.
The band "Highway" became popular after the success in the regional competition "X Factor Adria", in which they took the fourth place."Marko was the most enthusiastic to apply for X-Factor, at first, this idea was not really liked by Luka and Petar, but in the end we all three realized that it was the right choice for us, so that more people hear our music". They were mentored by Tonči Huljić, who was in charge of bands category at the competition, getting in the line-up as Second Chance entry. At the shows they have performed own song "Lud" they wrote in 15 minutes, "Zauvijek moja" of "No Name", "Neko te ima", "I Need a Dollar", "Par godina za nas" / "Ti si sav moj bol". In the final they performed "Do I Wanna Know?" and "Sve je lako kad si mlad" / "Šta sada ljubav ima s tim".
In September "Highway" have formalised cooperation with the publishing house Menart, which is the regional representative of "Sony Music" label. "Highway" with the song "Bar na kratko" (their audition song at X Factor) won third place in the "New Stars" evening of this year's festival "Sunčane Skale". On 23 November they have presented their first music video on the song "Sam".
New joining Bojan Jovović revealed that he will share vocal duties in the Eurovision Song Contest entry, as well as plans to propose two tracks written by him for the inclusion to the debut album of "Highway", planned for the late 2016. "I like that Petar, Luka and Marko are ready to ask, accept advice and criticism. Regardless of the popularity they have gained in a short time, they do not act as the stars who know everything. It's nice to get on, I'm sure we will get some ideas to negotiate easily,", he said. "I think we all need to stand behind Highway because what the band does, is completely different from anything in the Balkans. Today it is not easy," adds Jovović.
Montenegrin entry "The Real Thing" has been presented during the TV special, aired on 4 March live from Hotel Splendid in Bečići. "I think we'll do a very good show and that our song will be liked by the European audience", said Marko Pešić. Bojan Jovovic added that the song is demanding, but that suit their own skills. Luka Vojvodić compared the style of composition to those created by the famous bands Depeche Mode, Muse and Arctic Monkeys. Producer of the song Srđan Sekulović Skansi called the song "unusual and different".
"The song is quite challenging, because it's energetic and loud. We wanted to sound different and to set the audience in fire with our music. We like to work with each other and we are glad that we came up with this song. The Eurovision is an amazing event. We take it quite seriously and we will our best"
The composers of the song are Skansi, the band guitarist Luka Vojvodic and Maro Market, the lyrics are written by Skansi, who is also responsible for the arrangement and production along with D'Knock, who was also credited with the mix and postproduction.
Skansi is a renowned Croatian producer who has previously worked with numerous national top performers. He has collaborated with artists like Dino Dvornik, Massimo, Toni Cetinski, Josipa Lisac, Psihomodo Pop and other popular musicians in the Balkans.
D'Knock is also an eminent producer who, independently and as a member of the production duo PlayOne, has achieved numerous worldwide successes, such as cooperation with the legendary British band Simply Red, remixing a single for their latest album, "Queen Of House Music" Barbara Tucker, legendary British producer and Grammy Award winner Andy Wright, popular Macedonian singer Kaliopi and many Croatian performers such as: Nina Badric, The Divas, Toni Cetinski and many others.
"The Eurovision Song Contest is important for us, because we got an opportunity to represent our country, and we'll give our best.We believe we have something new to offer. The song is quite different, so you can never get tired of listening to it. The show we are preparing will have a lot of surprises and we can promise that people won't forget it"
Montenegrin representatives at this year's Eurovision Song Contest, members of the band "Highway" came back from London, where they participated in a promotional concert of Europe's largest music festival.
"It was great. The first impression is that the audience is a little different from those in Amsterdam, where we played two weekends ago. It was much better reacting to the song, perhaps because the British people love this kind of music. We gave far more interviews for various portals and radio shows. We were satisfied,", says Marko Pesic.
As was announced before, their performance in London was attended by the representative of the publishing house of famous producer Simon Cowell, the creator of X Factor. "She was a manager who works for him. Her job is to monitor all the X Factor finalists from Europe. She said she was delighted with our performance and she was amazed that we have not yet signed a contract with a record company. Problem however is that publishing house "Sony", which was interested in us even when we were part of the aforementioned competition, has no office in Montenegro, so we have to work with their representatives somewhere in the region," explained Pesic.
The guys from the band "Highway", which will represent Montenegro at the Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden, this morning were guests of the live broadcast of morning show of Croatian Television HRT "Dobro jutro Hrvatska". "This visit is a part of our activities related to the promotion of the song. We thank our colleagues from HRT who have allowed us to be live on a connection from Dubrovnik, in order to reduce costs, and we got a great promotion of our entry in the most watched morning program of Croatia", says Sabrija Vulic. Promotional activities of "Highway" end with the participation in a concert in London this weekend.
Also this week "The Real Thing" has finally reached the top spot at the MTV Adria chart Domaćica. "We were delighted when we heard the news. They informed us while we were at sound check in Amsterdam and we were just glad that people like and still vote for our song. This is probably a sign that during the Eurovision the region will also support us, ", said Marko Pesic.
Earlier this week, in the premises of Radio Montenegro, was organized a radio conference, titled "Good luck in Stockholm", dedicated to this year's song contest and Montenegrin representatives of the group "Highway". Studio 98 hosted members of the band, media representatives, large number of fans. The event was also attended by Director General of RTCG Rade Vojvodic. With a group of "Highway", at the conference, was the head of the delegation RTCG, Ivan Maksimovic.
Representative of San Marino in this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, Serhat Hadžipašalioglu, has visited Montenegro, where he took part in the joint press-conference with the representatives of this country band Highway.
Serhat told press that he has double responsibility representing the two countries on a biggest stage of Europe. "It is for me a great appreciation, but also an obligation, because Turkey is not taking part in the Eurovision Song Contest. It means that as a Turkish singer have a double responsibility, because I will represent San Marino, but Turkey too will be with me on stage," said Hadžipašalioglu. He also revealed that he has received the full support of his fellow citizens, which is, as he points out, a great privilege. "After I was chosen as the representative for San Marino, we had press-conference in both San Marino and Turkey. I'm happy that people of my country reacted very well and supported my decision to represent San Marino. It is a privilege that I have support of my country people", said Hadžipašalioglu.
He praised the song "The Real Thing" of the Montenegrin representatives, the group "Highway", calling it 'special' and wished them good luck in the competition. "In my career I always paid attention and supported different things. I do not like the 'copy-paste' music. I like the 'Highway' genuine style and that they are offering a different track to Europe. As you know, often at the Eurovision Song Contest there are generally similar songs. This is a great opportunity that bring something new to the contest. Therefore, I have a lot of respect for your decision to select this song, and I'm very glad you stayed true to your style. I hope we can all have a good time in Stockholm", he concluded.
These days representatives of Montenegro Highway band are recording their Eurovision postcard together with the team of Swedish Television. Part of postcard was recorded in Podgorica on the Budućnost basketball court in the Njegošev park, in Music school "Vasa Pavic", while a portion will be recorded on a section of the old road between Kotor and Njeguši.
As promised earlier, Highway band has released Club Remix of their entry - listen to it here.
Last Sunday Highway members have visited Belgrade, where they were making the concept of their performance in the arena of "Globen". "We had to make a sketch of the show, so we send it to the Eurovision producers so they will know what and whom at what point should be filmed. Our performance is directed by Igor Bosorović, and produced by Mirko Vukomanović, with whom we practicing it in Belgrade", says Marko Pešić to Vjesti. In addition to the four Highway members, the band will be joined on the stage by two back up singers. "They are our friends from X Factor - Nikola Marjanović and Marija Lazić. Nikola is a great singer, was the lead singer of the band Sane, now works with Songkillers, while Marija is known as a member of Anđelina", revealed Pešić.
"When I heard the song "The Real Thing" I was surprised, but after a few listens I liked it a lot. Unusual, and not peculiar to this contest", says Nikola Marjanović. "But I will not be making any forecasts, as usually when I try to guess something it goes the other way around"
While visiting the Serbian capital, the band also used time to promote the song, having numerous guest appearances on radio and TV stations. "The response to our song was positive. The best comment we received at the Belgrade radio, where they told us that we are totally different from all the others. I am particularly pleased by the fact that the comments on the Youtube channel are much more positive, almost no negative ones. We visited also MTV, so I hope that we will have the support of them. We are aware that the public in Serbia will not be able to vote for us in the semi-finals, but it would be stupid not to take advantage to promote the song, while we're there, "said Pešić.
Highway will also be promoting their entry in Bosnia and Croatia and then will travel to Eurovision parties in Amsterdam and London. "The popularity that we have gained in the X factor is enough for us and so far has helped, but what makes us happy is that it is thanks to our participation in that program, its creator Simon Cowell promised that people from his production company will come to our show in London as support. They are trying to follow all the participants X factor, and in London we will have their support," said Pešić.
Montenegrin representatives will in the coming days record their Eurovision postcard. "The Swedish team arrives in Montenegro on 19th and 20 March will be entirely devoted to the shootings. They asked to submit to them some interesting spots, and we will try to fit it all into the concept they have," said Pešić.
Although the last few days have been quite busy, Marko and other members of the Highway have managed to listen to some of the songs with which they will be "measuring their swords" in Stockholm. "We first event focused on what comes from the ex-YU region and I am proud to say that all former Yugoslav republics have great songs. Nina Kraljić has a very unusual track and unusual vocal, also a representative of Serbia Sanja Vučić has a good track and is quite reminiscent of Amy Winehouse. There are also representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina that currently can be considered among the favorites, and Kaliopi was masterful. Only one whose song I have not managed to listen to yet is the representative of Slovenia, but I'll certainly listen to it these days," promises Marko.
Band will also be releasing club remix for their entry The Real Thing. The head of Montenegrin delegation Sabrija Vulić says that despite the different opinions of the audience, they are proud of the song. "In any case we can be proud of what made us to introduce young Podgorica group at the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm. The old rule is that the taste is not worth discussing, especially in the case of the song The real thing. It brings new sound and new energy, unusual for this area, which is used to light notes and songs about sad love. this is a serious sound and we are not surprised that the song is not liked by everyone. In any case, it leaves no one indifferent, what is most important" commented Vulić.
"There was a very long waiting period, the whole project has been going on for four months. We have invested a lot of energy, effort and work. This evening is a crown of our work. As you have the opportunity to hear, the song is different from what can be heard, not only at the Eurovision Song Contest, but anywhere in the world. The song is an energetic and that is why we will do our best to create a spectacular stage performance in Stockholm, " said Marko Pešić after presentation of "The Real Thing.
Asked by Vijesti.me what he expected from the Eurovision Song Contest, Pešić was modest. "We expect the first place," he said with a laugh. He says the band has achieved the goal of being different from the rest. "We wanted to introduce something new and thus to become a highlight. I think that with this song we can do it and this is the real deal". Pešić believes that the festival should be diversified. "If it was only for pop music, they would have probably called it "Contest for the best pop ballad". Eurovision is well-known for it's variety of genres. It is true though that pop music is prevailing there, so the viewers who tune in only with the interest to listen to the songs in this genre may be shocked when they hear our song. We are waiting for the May 10, the first semifinals, our first goal is to get into the finals, that was a mini-tradition of Montenegro in the past two years. Then in the final we will give our best, and see what happens, " he said.
"We have really provoked strong reactions and comments go from one extreme to another. There are those who feel that the song is phenomenal, even we had some British producers to comment that we have invented a new genre. Of course, there were some negative comments as well, and people who did not like our song, but many after listening several times understand what it is", explains Marko Pešić. Band will continue their preparations in Belgrade, where they will practice the choreography and singing, in March, besides Serbia, they plan to visit with promotion Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia as well, and in April band will attend events in Amsterdam and London.
Television of Montenegro is preparing the presentation show for the entry of Highway band "The Real Thing", that will be aired live from Hotel Splendid in Bečići on Friday at 20.00 local time. Special guests of the show will be last year representative Knez, entrants of Bosnia Dalal and Deen, and still to be confirmed appearance of representative of Albania Eneda Tarifa. Program will also feature presentation of music video for the entry as well as "making of" footage.
Presentation of the entry of Highway band and music video on it is scheduled for 4 March. Music video was directed by Julian Wood and filmed in the studio Depo of Belgrade, and, according to the band members, will share the same art concept with what will be seen on the Eurovision stage. "We want to demonstrate the whole energy of the band and the effects that are generated by the specific form of the song", says Marko Pešić. It was earlier announced that the music video will be filmed in Kotor, but due to bad weather in the region the band was forced to change the location and the concept of the video.
Music video for the Highway entry will be filmed in mid-February at the locations in Kotor and will be directed by Bane Milatović. Presentation of the entry will be held shortly afterwards in early March. Head of Montenegrin delegation Sabrija Vulic has also confirmed participation of Highway in the promotional concerts in Amsterdam and London. "These are very important events. If you have in mind that, for example, last year in the finals were all participants of Amsterdam, you understand how important it is to appear there", said Vulić to MNE Magazine.
Check the first TV appearance of Highway band with Bojan Jovović. They become guests of Kod Mila program on RTV Atlas Montenegro, where besides giving long interview also performed songs Bar na kratko and I Need A Dollar.
Meanwhile, music video for the song "Sam" has topped this week Domaćica – Top liste chart on MTV Adria. "We are glad that people from all over the former Yugoslavia recognized the quality. Therefore our aim is to keep audiences pleased with our songs", promises Marko Pešić.
Highway will complete the successful year with a performance at the Podgorica Republic Square on December 31. "We have prepared a different repertoire than what usually bands play. The audience will have the opportunity to hear both our own songs, and rock hits. We can promise the energetic and engaging performance", said Pešić.
He hopes that the new year will be as successful for the band. Work on the Eurovision entry will continue after the New Year holidays. "The song is in rock style and everyone who had the opportunity to listen to the demo, believs it can win the audience at the very first listen. At the Eurovision we will sing in English, and the song will be performed by the four vocalists". The work should be completed by the end of February and song presentation will be held in a special TV show in late February or early March.
Band Highway, which will represent Montenegro at the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest, is no longer a trio. Petar Tošić, Luka Vojvodić and Marko Pešić were joined by Bojan Jovović. A former member of the "No Name" and "Neon", decided that after these two band and solo career, his musical pat leads to "Highway" whose popularity is growing not only in Montenegro, but in the region, as evidenced by this week's fourth place in Domaćica – Top liste on MTV Adria.
"I heard that these guys want to do serious things. I like the music they do because it's different, and as they needed a keyboardist and vocalist because they planned to expand the band for concerts and participation in Eurovision expand the band, I decided to join them," said Jovović, who began his career as a singer and keyboardist in most popular Montenegrin boy band - "No Name", which represented Serbia and Montenegro in Eurovision Song Contest 2005. After "No Name" as solo artist he had released several hit singles, but always considering group work special, he joined "Neon", and then "Highway". "I have always been attracted to the Bands story, but it is certainly more difficult also because there should be five or six people to agree on every detail. In the world bands are much more popular than the solo performers," says Jovović.
During a solo career Bojan has also developed as songwriter, who has later also worked on tracks for other artists. He plans to show his creativity also as a member of the "Highway". "I already have two tracks in mind. After we finish the song for the Eurovision Song Contest, will continue recording the album which will be published by the end of 2016. I am very pleased with the plan, and that "Highway" want to work seriously," admits Jovović.
Bojan denies that his joining is a special for the Eurovision Song Contest. "I feel as an equal member of the Highway. Currently we're busy making joint plans, and there is a lot to do," Jovović reveals. "I like that Petar, Luka and Marko are ready to ask, accept advice and criticism. Regardless of the popularity they have gained in a short time, they do not act as the stars who know everything. But I am 10 years older than them, and I have experience of 11 years on the stage, so that can only help them. It's nice to get on, I'm sure we will get some ideas to negotiate easily," says Jovović, who will show his singing skills already at Eurovision. "It will be a surprise, but you will find out more about it at the beginning of the year. Would be unfair if I reveal anything before everyone else. We recently stayed in Zagreb, we did some recordings, and our voices are perfect match," says Jovović to Montenegrin newspaper Vijesti.
"I prefer to do one thing at a time, so that now there is only Highway and I'm not thinking about a solo career. It would be counterproductive to work with the band and be building a solo career at the same time. With Neon I performed recently because it was one of their comeback concerts, and I'm still friend with the other members of the band," he explained. Bojan adds that he has never been sorry for leaving "No Name" which had ceased to exist after his departure. "Marko Perić and I, together with songwriter Minja Perić, were the founders of the "No Name". Minjo was the one who believed in the band the most and was giving us a push. After the departure of Marko somehow we have lost the direction, so I decided that I leave "No Name", because it seemed that the rest of the band are also more thinking about solo careers, but not about the band. I do not regret that decision, and I stayed with everyone in the excellent relations. When it comes to that, it is much better to stop than to keep struggling and to start building a solo career, so not be sitting on two chairs," says Jovović.
Bojan has already gained a big support and achieved big success with his first band, and now he believes that "Highway" deserves the same treatment. "I think we all need to stand behind Highway because what the band does, is completely different from anything in the Balkans. Today it is not easy," says Jovović.
Черногорию на конкурсе Евровидение 2016 в Швеции представит группа "Highway" из Подгорицы, в которую входят солист Петар Тошич и гитаристы Марко Пешич и Лука Войводич. 16 декабря 2015 стало известно, что к коллективу в качестве клавишника и вокалиста присоединится и бывший участник групп "No Name" и "Neon" Боян Йовович.
Петар учится на первом курсе электро-технического факультета университета Подгорицы. Ранее, он занимался в начальной музыкальной школе им. Васы Павича, где играл на скрипке. Лука, сын генерального директора телекомпании РТЦГ Раде Войводича, учится на первом курсе факультета экономики. Марко занимается на втором курсе этого же факультета, и также закончил музыкальную школу им. Васы Павича, где играл на гитаре. Лука и Петар знакомы с детства, а с Марко они познакомились два года назад. Идея создать музыкальную группу пришла к ним три года назад во время летних каникул в Херцег Нови. Парни предпочитают слушать поп, рок, блюз и джазовую музыку. В качестве своего музыкального кумира они называют Эда Ширана, а в качестве любимой песни - "Do I want to know" из репертуара Arctic Monkeys. Боян - самый опытный участник коллектива, обладающий 11-летним опытом сценических выступлений, и выступавший на Евровидении 2005 в составе группы "No Name".
"Однажды вечером мы играли в суперамаркете, и к нам подходили люди, спрашивая, можно ли посмотреть наши видео на Youtube и есть ли у нас записанные песни. Это стало одной из причин, почему мы решили начать играть вместе в группе", объясняют музыканты.
Комиссия, в которую вошли представители исполнительного совета телеканала РТЦГ, автор песен Драган Трипкович, музыкальный редактор Радио Черногории Нада Вучинич, музыкальный редактор РТЦГ Славен Кнезович и прославленный джазовый музыкант Милорад Шуле Йовович, предложили отправить на крупнейший музыкальный конкурс Европы группу "Highway". Исполнительный совет вещателя единогласно поддержал предложение комиссии. Выбор был объявлен публике 2го октября 2015 года.
Группа "Highway" приобрела популярность после успеха на региональном конкурсе талантов "X Factor Adria", в котором она заняла четвертое место. "Марко больше всех из нас хотел принять участие в X-Factor, сначала Петар и Лука не поддерживали его идеи, но в конце концов мы все поняли, что это было правильным выбором, и возможностью донести нашу музыку до большого количества людей". Ментором коллектива в конкурсе стал Тончи Хульич, который отвечал за секцию музыкальных групп, а попали в телевизионные шоу они в составе артистов, которым был дан Второй шанс. На шоу группа исполнила собственную песню "Lud", которую они написали за 15 минут, "Zauvijek moja" группы "No Name", "Neko te ima", "I Need a Dollar", "Par godina za nas" / "Ti si sav moj bol". В финале Highway исполнили "Do I Wanna Know?" и "Sve je lako kad si mlad" / "Šta sada ljubav ima s tim".
В сентябре "Highway" заключили контракт с издательским домом Menart, региональным представителем лейбла "Sony Music". C песней "Bar na kratko" (которую они исполняли и на прослушивании в X Factor), группа завоевала третье место в вечере "Новых звезд" на фестивале Sunčane Skale этого года. 23го ноября группа представила свой первый видеоклип на песню "Sam".
Присоединившись к составу группы Боян Йовович рассказал о том, что его вокал также можно будет услышать на Евровидении, и он планирует предложить пару песен своего авторства для включения в дебютный альбом коллектива, выпуск которого запланирован на конец 2016 года. "Мне нравится то, что Петар, Лука и Марко готовы спрашивать, принимать советы и критику. Несмотря на популярность, которой они добились за короткое время, они не ведут себя как всезнающие звезды. Я хорошо нахожу с ними нахожу общий язык, и я думаю, что мы вместе легко сможем обговорить некоторые идеи," говорит Йовович. "Я думаю, что все должны поддержать группу "Highway", потому что то, что она делает, полностью отличается от всего, что существует в балканской музыке. Сегодня это не так легко," добавляет он.
Черногорская песня "The Real Thing" была представлена во время специального телешоу, вышедшего в прямой эфир 4го марта из отеля Splendid в Бечичах. "Я думаю, что мы покажем хорошее шоу, и что наша песня понравится Европейским зрителям", говорит Марко Пешич. Боян Йовович добавляет, что она требует хороших умений, но это соответствует тому, на что способны члены группы. Лука Войводич сравнил стиль композиции с творениями известных групп Depeche Mode, Muse и Arctic Monkeys. Продюсер песни Срджан Секулович Сканси назвал ее "необычной и отличающейся от других".
"Песня довольно сложная для исполнения, потому что она энергичная и громкая. Мы хотели прежде всего выделиться по звучанию и зажечь зрительскую аудиторию своей музыкой. Нам нравится работать друг с другом и мы очень рады тому, что смогли создать данную песню. Евровидение - это потрясающее мероприятие. Мы воспринимаем его весьма серьезно и постараемся показать себя с наилучшей стороны"
Композиторы песни - Сканси, гитарист группы Лука Войводич и Маро Маркет, текст песни написан Сканси, который также подготовил аранжировку и продакшен композиции вместе с D'Knock, отвечавшим еще и за микширование и постпродакшн.
Сканси - известный хорватский продюсер, который имеет опыт работы с лучшими исполнителями своей страны. Он сотрудничал с такими артистами, как Дино Дворник, Массимо, Тони Четински, Йосипа Лисац, Psihomodo Pop и другими известными музыкантами Балкан.
D'Knock - также известный продюсер, который самостоятельно и в составе продюсерского дуэта PlayOne, достиг ряда международных успехов, в том числе сотрудничества с легендарной британской группой Simply Red, ремикшируя сингл для их последнего альбома, "Queen Of House Music" Барбары Такер, легендарным британским продюсером и обладателем премии Grammy Энди Райтом, популярной македонской певицей Калиопи и многими хорватскими исполнителями, такими как Нина Бадрич, The Divas, Тони Четински и многими другими.
"Конкурс Евровидение очень важен для нас, поскольку мы получили возможность представить свою страну, и мы покажем все, на что мы способны. Мы полагаем, что у нас есть нечто новое, чтобы предложить зрителям. Песня отличается от других, она такова, что никогда не устаешь ее слушать. Шоу, которое мы готовим, будет нести в себе множество сюрпризов, и мы обещаем, что вы его никогда не забудете"
Представители Черногории на конкурсе Евровидение этого года, участники группы Highway, вернулись из Лондона, где приняли участие в промо-концерте London Eurovision.
"Было здорово. Первое впечатление, что аудитория там немного отличается от амстердамской, где мы выступали две недели назад. Она намного лучше приняла нашу песню, возможно, потому что британцам нравится подобная музыка. Мы дали намного больше интервью различным порталам и радио-программам. В общем, мы довольны,", говорит Марко Пешич.
Как сообщалось ранее, выступление группы в Лондоне посетила представительница издательского дома знаменитого продюсера Саймона Коуэлла, основателя X Factor. "Это - менеджер, работающая с ним. В ее задачу входит мониторинг всех финалистов X Factor со всей Европы. Она сказала, что была восхищена нашим выступлением и была очень удивлена, что у нас до сих пор не подписан контракт с издателем. Проблема заключается в том, что у лейбла Sony, который весьма интересовался нами еще когда мы принимали участие в вышеупомянутом конкурсе, не имеет представительского офиса в Черногории, потому нам приходится работать с их представителями в других странах региона", объясняет Пешич.
Участники группы "Highway", которые представят Черногорию на конкурсе Евровидения в Швеции, этим утром стали гостями прямого эфира утреннего шоу хорватского телевидения HRT "Dobro jutro Hrvatska". "Этот визит стал частью промо-мероприятий в поддержку песни. Мы благодарим наших коллег из HRT, которые позволили нам выйти в прямой эфир из Дубровника, что позволило нам сократить затраты, и в то же время сделать крупное промо нашей песни в самой популярной утренней програме Хорватии", говорит Сабрия Вулич. Промо-мероприятия с участием "Highway" завершатся на этой неделе их участием в концерте в Лондоне.
Также на этой неделе "The Real Thing" наконец достигла высшей строчки чарта MTV Adria Domaćica. "Мы были невероятно обрадованы этой новости. Мы узнали о ней во время саундчека в Амстердаме. Мы просто рады тому, что зрители все еще продолжают голосовать за нашу песню, значит она им очень нравится. Надеемся, что это знак того, что страны региона поддержат нас и в голосовании на самом Евровидении", говорит Марко Пешич.
Ранее на этой неделе в помещении Черногорского радио прошла радиоконференция "Удачи в Стокгольме", посвящанная конкурсу этого года и представителям Черногории Highway. В Студии 98 вместились участники коллектива, представители СМИ и большое количество поклонников группы. На мероприятии также выступил генеральный директор телеканала РТЦГ Раде Войводич. С группой Highway на конференции присутствовал и новый глава делегации канала РТЦГ Иван Максимович.
Представитель Сан-Марино на конкурсе Евровидение этого года, Серхат Хаджипашалиоглу посетил Черногорию, где принял участие в совместной пресс-конференции с представителями этой страны группой Highway.
Серхат рассказал прессе, что у него двойная ответственность, поскольку он представляет две страны на самой большой сцене Европы. "Для меня - это большая честь, но в то же время и обязательство, поскольку Турция не принимает участия в конкурсе этого года. Это значит, что как гражданин Турции, я несу двойную ответственность, я буду представлять Сан-Марино, но и Турция также будет со мной на сцене, рассказал Хаджипашалиоглу. Он также поведал о том, что получил полную поддержку со стороны своих соотечественников, что, по его словам, является большой привилегией. "После того, как я был выбран представителем Сан-Марино, мы провели пресс-конференцию как в Сан-Марино, так и в Турции. Я счастлив тому, что жители моей страны отлично отреагировали на эту новость и поддержали мое решение выступить за Сан-Марино. Иметь поддержку своего народа - большая привилегия", говорит Серхат.
Он также похвалил песню "The Real Thing" представителей Черногории группы "Highway", назвав ее "особой" и пожелав им успеха. "В своей карьере я всегда обращал внимание и поддерживал различные вещи. Я не люблю музыку, созданную методом "copy+paste". Мне нравится своеобразный стиль Highway и то, что они предлагают для Европы особенный трек. Как вы знаете, часто на конкурсе Евровидение исполняются похожие песни. Это - прекрасная возможность привнести в него что-то новое. Потому, я уважаю ваше решение выбрать эту песню, и я рад, что вы остались преданы своему стилю. Я надеюсь, что все мы хорошо проведем время в Стокгольме", завершил он.
В эти дни представители Черногории группа Highway вместе с командой шведского телевидения снимают свою визитку для Евровидения. Съемки проходят в Подгорице, на баскетбольной площадке Budućnost в парке Njegošev, в музыкальной школе "Vasa Pavic", а еще часть будет снята на старой дороге между Котором и Негуши.
В прошлое воскресенье группа Highway посетила Белград, где работала над концепцией сценического представления своей песни в Глобен-Арене. "Мы должны были сделать скетч нашего номера, и отослать его продюсерам Евровидения, чтобы они знали, что, кого и с какой точки снимать в какой момент времени. Режиссером нашего выступления является Игорь Босорович, а продюсером - Мирко Вукоманович, с которыми мы и репетировали его в Белграде", говорит Марко Пешич газете Вести. Помимо четырех членов группы Highway, на сцене будут и два бэк-вокалиста. "Это - наши друзья с X Factor - Никола Марьянович и Мария Лазич. Никола - замечательный исполнитель, он был солистом группы Sane, сейчас работает с Songkillers, а Мария известна как член группы Anđelina", рассказывает Пешич.
"Когда я услышал песню "The Real Thing", то я был удивлен, но после нескольких прослушиваний она мне очень понравилась. Необычная и не свойственная для этого конкурса", говорит Никола Марьянович. "Но я не буду делать каких-либо прогнозов, потому что всегда, когда я пытаюсь что-то угадать, все получается наоборот"
Во время посещения столицы Сербии группа также использовала возможность для продвижения своей песни, посетив ряд теле и радиостанций. "Реакция на нашу песню была весьма положительным. Лучший комментарий мы получили на Белградском радио, где нам сказали, что мы совершенно отличаемся от всех других. Я особенно доволен тем, что комментарии на Youtube к песне в большей степени положительны, практически нет негативных. Мы также побывали на MTV и надеемся на получение поддержки от них. Мы понимаем, что жители Сербии не смогут проголосовать за нас в полуфинале, но было бы глупо не использовать возможность раскрутки своей песни, пока мы находимся здесь", говорит Пешич.
Highway также будут раскручивать свою песню в Боснии и Хорватии, а затем отправятся на вечеринки Евровидения в Амстердаме и Лондоне. "Популярность, которую мы заработали благодаря участию в X Factor достаточна для нас и очень помогает нам, но что делает нас еще более счастливыми, это то, что благодаря нашему участию в этой программе, ее создатель Саймон Кауэлл пообещал, что представители его продакшн-компании побывают на нашем выступлении в Лондоне. Они стараются отслеживать прогресс всех выходцев из X Factor, и в Лондоне мы можем рассчитывать на их поддержку," говорит Пешич.
В ближайшие дни пройдет съемка посткарда для Евровидения. "Шведская команда прибудет в Черногорию 19го марта, и 20го будет полностью посвящено съемкам. Они попросили нас сообщить им интересные места, и мы попытаемся вписать это в концепцию, что есть у них," объясняет Пешич.
Несмотря на то, что последние дни были достаточно занятыми, Марко и другие члены группы Highway послушали некоторые из песен, с которыми им предстоит "скрестить свои мечи" в Стокгольме. "Сначала мы уделили внимание тем песням, что выставлены на конкурс странами бывшей Югославии, и я с гордостью считаю, что у всех бывших Югославских стран прекрасные песни. У Нины Кральич очень необычный трек и необычный вокал, у представительницы Сербии Саньи Вучич также отличная песня, и она напоминает стилистику Эми Уайнхаус. Представители Боснии и Герцеговины уже входят в число фаворитов, и Калиопи, как всегда - мастер своего дела. Единственная песня, которую я пока не послушал - это представителя Словении, но обещаю сделать это в ближайшие дни," обещает Марко.
Группа также выпустит клубный ремикс на свою композицию The Real Thing. Глава делегации Черногории Сабрия Вулич говорит, что несмотря на смешанное мнение слушателей, они гордятся песней. "В любом случае мы можем гордиться тем, что заставило нас выставить молодую группу из Подгорицы на конкурс Евровидение в Стокгольме. Старое выражение говорит "на вкус и цвет товарищей нет", что особенно применимо к песне The Real Thing. Она приносит с собой новое звучание и новую энергетику, необычную для нашего региона, привыкшего к легкой музыке и печальным песням о любви. Здесь мы слышим серьезное звучание, и потому мы не удивлены, что песня не пришлась по вкусу абсолютно всем. Важно другое - она не оставляет никого безразличным", комментирут Вулич.
"Был очень большой период ожидания, проект длился уже четыре месяца. Мы вложили массу энергии, усилий и работы. И этот вечер - венец нашей работы. Как у вас была возможность услышать, наша песня отличается от всего, что можно услышать, не только на конкурсе Евровидение, но и вообще в мире. Наша песня очень энергичная, и потому мы постараемся создать эффектное сценическое выступление в Стокгольме, " сказал член Highway Марко Пешич после презентации "The Real Thing".
На вопрос Vijesti.me о том, что он ожидает от конкурса Евровидение, Пешич проявил скромность: "Мы ожидаем первое место,", ответил он, усмехнувшись. Марко говорит, что группе уже удалось достичь своей цели отличиться от других. "Мы хотели представить что-то новое, и тем самым запомниться. Я думаю, что с песней "The Real Thing" нам удалось добиться этого". Пешич считает, что Евровидение должно оставаться разнообразным. "Если бы это был только фестиваль поп-музыки, то его бы, наверное, назвали "Конкурс на лучшую поп-балладу". Евровидение известно своим разнообразием жанров. Действительно, превалирует там все-таки поп-музыка, потому некоторые слушатели, которые нацелены видеть там только песни в этом жанре, могут быть шокированы, услышав нашу песню. Сейчас мы ждем первого полуфинала, 10 марта, и наша первая цель - попасть в финал, продолжив мини-традицию, установившуюся в Черногории в последние два года. В финале мы постараемся показать все, на что мы способны, и уже что будет - то будет", говорит он.
"Мы уже вызвали сильную реакцию и комментарии от одной крайности до другой. Есть и те, кто считает нашу песню феноменальной, некоторые британские продюсеры даже написали нам, что мы изобрели новый жанр. Конечно, были и негативные комментарии, и те люди, которым песня не понравилась, но после нескольких прослушиваний все-равно большинство понимают ее суть", объясняет Марко Пешич. Группа продолжит свою подготовку в Белграде, где будет оттачивать хореографию и вокальное мастерство, в марте, помимо Сербии, с промо-туром посетит еще Боснию и Герцеговину и Хорватию, а в апреле побывает на вечеринках Евровидения в Амстердаме и Лондоне.
Телевидение Черногории завершает подготовку шоу-презентации песни группы Highway "The Real Thing", которое выйдет в эфир из отеля Splendid в Бечичи в эту пятницу в 20:00 местного времени. Специальными гостями шоу станут прошлогодний представитель Черногории Кнез, представители Боснии этого года Далал и Дин, а также все еще ждет подтверждения участие представительницы Албании Энеды Тарифы. В программе также будет представлен видеоклип на конкурсную песню, а также рассказ "making of" о его съемках.
Презентация песни черногорской группы Highway и видеоклипа на нее пройдет 4го марта. Видеоклип был снят режиссером Джулианом Вудом в студии Депо в Белграде, и, по словам участников группы, будет отражать ту же концепцию, что можно будет увидеть позднее и на сцене Евровидения. "Мы хотели показать всю энергию, присущую группе, а также подчеркнуть те эффекты, которые происходят от особой формы композиции", рассказывает Марко Пешич. Ранее сообщалось о том, что съемки видеоклипа пройдут в Которе, но из-за плохой погоды в регионе, группа была вынуждена изменить месторасположение съемок и концепцию клипа.
Видеоклип на песню группы Highway будет снят в середине февраля в различных точках Котора, его режиссером станет Бане Милатович. Презентация песни пройдет вскоре после этого в начале марта. Глава делегации Черногории Сабрия Вулич также подтвердил участие группы Highway в промо-концертах в Амстердаме и Лондоне. "Это - очень важные мероприятия. Если вы вспомните, что в прошлом году в финале были все участники концерта в Амстердаме, то вы поймете - насколько важно выступить на нем", заявил Вулич MNE Magazine.
Предлагаем вашему вниманию видеозапись первого ТВ выступления группы Highway в качестве квартета с участием Бояна Йововича. Коллектив стал гостями программы Kod Mila на RTV Atlas, где, помимо длинного интервью, также исполнил две песни - Bar na kratko и I Need A Dollar.
Тем временем, на этой неделе видеоклип на песню "Sam" возглавил хитпарад Domaćica – Top liste на MTV Adria. "Мы рады тому, что люди со всей бывшей Югославии признали качество нашей песни и клипа. Наша цель продолжить дарить удовольствие слушателям нашими песнями", обещает Марко Пешич.
Highway завершат успешный год выступлением на площади Республики в Подгорице 31го декабря. "Мы подготовили репертуар, отличающийся от других групп. Зрители получат возможность услышать как наши собственные песни, так и мировые рок-хиты. Мы можем пообещать вам очень энергичное и захватывающее выступление", говорит Пешич.
Он надеется, что новый год станет таким же успешным для группы. Работа над песней для Евровидения продолжится после новогодних праздников. "Песня в рок-стиле, и все, у кого была возможность услышать ее демо-версию, соглашаются с тем, что она может захватить зрителей с самого первого прослушивания. На Евровидении мы будем петь на английском языке, и песню будут исполнять четыре вокалиста". Работа над песней должна завершиться к концу февраля, и ее презентация пройдет в специальном телешоу в конце февраля - начале марта.
Группа Highway, которая представит Черногорию на предстоящем конкурсе Евровидение, больше не трио. К Петару Тошичу, Луке Войводичу и Марко Пешичу присоединился Боян Йовович. Бывший участник групп "No Name" и "Neon" решил, что после двух групп и сольной карьеры, его музыкальная дорога ведет в "Highway", чья популярность продолжает расти не только в Черногории, но и во всем регионе, что очевидно из достигнутого на этой неделе четвертого места в хит параде Domaćica на MTV Adria.
"Я слышал, что эти парни настроены очень серьезно. Мне нравится та музыка, которой они занимаются, поскольку она выделяется, и так как им требовались клавишник и вокалист для расширения группы, концертов и участия в Евровидении, я принял решение присоединиться к ним," говорит Йовович, который начал свою карьеру в качестве солиста и клавишника в самой популярной черногорской группе "No Name", представлявшей Сербию и Черногорию на Евровидении 2005. После "No Name", как сольный артист, он выпустил несколько хит-синглов, но всегда продолжал считать работу в группах особенной, потому присоединился сначала к "Neon", а затем к "Highway". "Меня всегда привлекали истории музыкальных групп, хотя, конечно, это намного сложнее, ведь пять-шесть человек должны постоянно соглашаться на каждый шаг. Но в мире группы всегда значительно популярнее сольных исполнителей," говорит Йовович.
За время своей сольной карьеры Боян также развил в себе таланты автора песен, и позднее работал над композициями и для других артистов. Он планирует показать эту сторону своего творчества и в составе "Highway". "Я уже держу в уме две песни. После того, как мы закончим работу над песней для Евровидения, мы продолжим запись альбома, который планируется к выходу в конце 2016 года. Я очень доволен этим планом, и тем, что "Highway" серьезно относятся к работе," признается Йовович.
Боян отрицает, что его присоединение к группе - это разовый шаг для Евровидения. "Я ощущаю себя полноценным членом коллектива. Сейчас мы все вместе работаем над будущими планами, нам многое предстоит сделать," рассказывает Йовович. "Мне нравится то, что Петар, Лука и Марко готовы спрашивать, принимать советы и критику. Несмотря на популярность, которой они добились за короткое время, они не ведут себя как всезнающие звезды. Я на 10 лет старше их, имею 11-летний опыт выступлений на сцене, так что мой опыт может только помочь. Я хорошо нахожу с ними нахожу общий язык, и я думаю, что мы вместе легко сможем обговорить некоторые идеи," говорит Йовович, который продемонстрирует свои вокальные данные уже на Евровидении. "Пока это сюрприз, но вы узнаете все подробности в начале года. Было бы несправедливо мне рассказывать об этом раньше, чем всем остальным. Недавно мы побывали в Загребе, где сделали несколько записей, и наши голоса прекрасно подошли друг к другу," рассказал Йовович в интервью черногорской газете "Вести".
"Я предпочитаю заниматься только одной вещью в одно время, потому, раз я работаю в "Highway", то я не думаю о своей сольной карьере. Было бы контр-продуктивным работать с группой и развивать свою сольную карьеру в то же время. С "Neon" я недавно выступал только потому, что это был один из их концертов в честь воссоздания группы, и мы все еще дружим с другими ее участниками," объясняет он. Боян добавляет, что никогда не сожалел о том, что покинул "No Name", которая прекратила свое существование вскоре после его ухода. "Основателями "No Name" были Марко Перич и я, вместе с автором песен Миньей Перичем. Миньо был именно тем, кто больше всего верил в группу, и подталкивал нас к совершенствованию. Но после ухода Марко мы каким-то образом утеряли смысл для продолжения, и потому я также решил выйти из "No Name", где большинство из участников думали о своих сольных карьерах, а не о группе. Я не сожалению о данном решении, и до сих пор нахожусь в прекрасных отношениях с другими участниками коллектива. Но когда дело доходит до такой стадии, то лучше принять решение и остановиться, чем продолжать мучаться, и начать заниматься сольной карьерой, не пытаясь усидеть на двух стульях," говорит Йовович.
Боян, который уже получил большую зрительскую поддержку и добился большого успеха со своей первой группой, верит, что и "Highway" заслуживает подобного отношения. "Я думаю, что все должны поддержать группу "Highway", потому что то, что она делает, полностью отличается от всего, что существует в балканской музыке. Сегодня это не так легко," говорит Йовович.
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The objective of representation and metric learning is to build new spaces of representations to improve the performance of a classification, regression or clustering algorithm either from distance constraints or by making use of fine decomposition of instances in complete samples. We address this topic both from a theoretical standpoint and a practical one by providing new methods and algorithms in metric learning or deep learning.
Transfer learning/domain adaptation is a research topic which addresses the problem of transferring some knowledge or some models from a given source task to a related but different target one. The Data Intelligence team works on different subproblems among which: avoiding negative transfer, scalability, lifelong learning, adaptive online learning.
We develop specific machine learning methods for the special topic of fraud and anomaly detection. A particularity of this topic is to deal with highly unbalanced datasets in a context where fraudsters strategies evolve over time. Our work targets applications in bank fraud detection and anomaly detection in medicine and accident prevention.
Natural Language Processing (NLP) uses a lot of machine learning techniques in various tasks nowadays. In our team, we contribute to this field according to three main directions. First, we work on the development of new learning models for language learning taking into account contextual and semantic information to facilitate and improve learning. Second, we focus on methods for learning new Word Embeddings (word representations) that can be used by NLP methods. Third we investigate Deep Learning techniques for Text Summarization.
The information collected in digital form is growing not only in quantity but also in complexity. This means that in many domains, we are trying to capture different aspects about objects of the real world. We can have some aspects represented in tabular form, unstructured text, graphs modeling relationships between objects, images of various complexity: schemas or photographic pictures for instance and, we can have information in different media. This leads to revisit usual mining methods to be able to analyze large collections of complex data. We address this issue by finding relevant representations and similarity measures and designing methods well-suited to solve efficiently mining tasks such as prediction, clustering, classification or pattern extraction.
The extraction of relevant visual patterns in images and videos are essential to characterize the structure of the object considered. These patterns can be used to define new representations, to propose some data summarizations/characterizations or to detect some particular elements in images or videos or even perform some classification or tracking tasks. We are particularly intested in the extraction of subsequences of graph-based patterns for object tracking in videos.
The quantity of information available on the Web (concept of Big Data) and the presence of dynamic web data requires fine tuned information retrieval systems to propose relevant documents to a specific user query. However, it is generally difficult for classic systems to index efficiently all the web and their answers are not specific enough to user needs. We propose to investigate Social and Personalized Information Retrieval to tackle these drawbacks.
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What planning applications appeared before the council this week?
Here are the latest planning applications to appear before Calderdale Council this week.
New coal shed ( Rail Prior Notification): Land Off Hebden Bridge Railway Station, Station Road, Hebden Bridge.
Conversion of mill building to form 8 residential apartments including internal and external works. Removal of areas of external render. Creation of roof terrace. Demolition of existing brick and render structure to west elevation and replacement with four single storey, flat roofed garages. Construction of two single storey, flat roofed garages to the northern elevation: Marshalls Mill Dean Clough Mills, Cross Hills, Halifax.
Fell three trees and prune two trees (Tree Preservation Order): 21 Clough Lane, Rastrick.
Prune one tree (Tree Preservation Order): Cygnet Lodge, 60 Rastrick Common, Brighouse.
Prune one tree (Tree Preservation Order): Blue Bell Cottage, 39 Towngate, Midgley, Sowerby Bridge.
Fell one tree and prune four trees (Tree Preservation Order): The Willows, 7 Woodfield Drive, Greetland.
Raise paving in back yard to provide ramped wheelchair access: 19 Milton Place, Halifax.
Replacement of existing shed with detached oak framed garden studio: Rowan Cottage, Sowerby Lane, Luddenden Foot.
Front dormer and raised decking to side: 16 Fair Mount, Walsden, Todmorden.
Alterations to existing horizontal lock gearing to the tail gates at Lock 31: Light Bank Lock 31 Tow Path Rochdale Canal Holmcoat Lock To Boundary At Warland, Sowerby Bridge.
Conversion of garage to provide bedroom and bathroom: 10 Jubilee Way Todmorden.
Prune one tree (Tree Preservation Order): Land North Of 1B Heath Lea Old Well Head, Halifax.
Dormer to front: 89 Gibraltar Road, Halifax.
Formation a detached dwelling - amended design of Plot 03 following approval of application ref: Cherry Tree Farm School Lane, Illingworth.
Removal of existing conservatory, construction of new single storey side and rear extension: 65 Green Park Road, Halifax.
Rear extension and replacement dormer: 10 Overdale Mount, Sowerby Bridge.
Replace existing conservatory with single storey extension to rear of property: 90 Godfrey Road Halifax.
Proposed menage for domestic use: Higher Stoodley Cottage Lee Bottom Road, Todmorden.
Balcony to rear: Flat 2 29A Huddersfield Road Brighouse.
Residential development of two semi-detached houses: 11 Jubilee Street, North Ovenden, Halifax.
Detached dwelling (Amended scheme to 16/01409): 4 Blackbrook Court, Brighouse.
Residential development of two semi-detached houses: 11 Jubilee Street, North Ovenden Halifax.
Two storey extension to side and rear: 21 Burned Grove Shelf, Halifax.
Demolition of existing extension and construction of new side and rear extension: 37 Ashfield Road, Greetland .
Creation of 13 flats and associated office areas: School House, 56 Hopwood Lane, Halifax.
Prune one tree (Tree Preservation Order): 2 Sandyfoot, Barkisland.
Change of use of land to form domestic garden area including construction of outbuilding, decking and access track (Lawful Development Certificate): 1 Hazelgrieve Hall Farm Rishworth Road, Barkisland.
Non Material Amendment to application 16/01249 - Change of roof design from hipped roof to gable: 59 Highfield Avenue, Bailiff Bridge.
Submission of information to Discharge Conditions on application 14/01426- condition 2: 11 Eaves Mount, Eaves Avenue, Hebden Bridge.
Internal and External Alterations (Listed Building Consent): 12 Lower Hathershelf, Mytholmroyd.
Prune one tree (Tree Preservation Order): The Gables, 11 Woodfield Drive, Greetland.
Prune one tree (Tree Preservation Order): 29 Carr Field Drive, Luddenden.
Prune trees (Tree Preservation Order): Bankhouse Wood, Dudwell Lane, Halifax.
Prune one tree (Tree Preservation Order): 26 Heathfield Rise, Rishworth.
Extension, new shop-front and shutters: 1 Club Houses, Ovenden.
Variation of Condition 1 of Planning Application 16/01132/FUL to amend plans: Land Adjacent To Oak Bank, Excelsior Close, Ripponden.
Prune trees (Tree Preservation Order): 121 Ravenstone Drive, West Vale.
Three externally illuminated fascia signs and two externally illuminated projecting signs (Advertisement Consent): 2 Crown Street, Halifax.
Steel framed tractor and machinery store: Chapel Farm 2 Upper Greenroyd, Mount Tabor.
Replacement stable: Upperland Farm, Rocks Lane Causeway Foot, Halifax.
Condenser units to roof enclosed by safety railings and covered canopy to east elevation: 2 Co Op Shopping Parade, Denholme Gate Road, Hipperholme.
Discharge of conditions on planning application 16/01071 - Condition numbers 1, 2 and 3: South Lodge, Skircoat Moor Road, Halifax.
Submission of information to Discharge Conditions on application 16/00343- condition 6: Land North West Of Quarry House, Ramsden Street, Wheatley.
Proposed re-positioning of reception building and compound, motor van waste point, 6 new service pitches and service point and re-surfacing of access gravel link road: Lower Clough Foot, Cragg Road, Mytholmroyd.
Submission of information to Discharge Conditions on application 16/00746 - condition 3: Lidl Uk Carr House Road, Shelf.
Submission of information to Discharge Conditions on application 16/01014 - Condition 2: 28 Elmfield Terrace, Halifax.
Demolition of existing conservatory and build new single storey extension: 53 Sun Way, Southowram.
Demolition of existing bungalows to facilitate residential development of five dwellings: 31 Upper Washer Lane, Halifax.
Submission of details to discharge condition on planning permission 13/01460/HSE - Condition 1: 4 Lily Hall, Heptonstall Road, Hebden Bridge.
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How do you celebrate the successful moments in your life?
If you're a rapper, you're probably going to celebrate the release of your latest album by walking into a jewelry store and splurging on an iced-out set of "grills."
If you're Drake, however, that's just not going to cut it.
According to Car Scoops, Drake celebrated the release of Views, which dropped on April 29, by purchasing a sweet ride to flaunt his wealth. The Toronto native now has keys to a brand new McLaren 675LT, which is priced at $350,000.
Oh, and did I mention only 500 of these were made? Now that's how you celebrate success -- by buying a lavish new car that screams it!
Drake also owns a fleet of other luxurious cars including a Maybach, a couple of Bentley coupes, a few Rolls-Royce vehicles, a Lamborghini and his world famous $1.5 million Bugatti he's only driven a total of five times, according to his lyrics on "9" from Views.
First place, first place, man we can't be tied for it. I only drove it five times, paid 1.5 for it.
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Abstract: Tree ensembles can capture the relevant variables and to some extent the relationships between them in a compact and interpretable manner. Most algorithms for obtaining tree ensembles are based on versions of Boosting or Random Forest. Previous work showed that Boosting algorithms exhibit a cyclic behavior of selecting the same tree again and again due to the way the loss is optimized. At the same time, Random Forest is not based on loss optimization and obtains a less compact and less interpretable model. In this talk we present a novel method for obtaining a compact ensemble of trees that grows a pool of trees in parallel with many independent Boosting threads and then selects a small subset and updates their leaf weights by loss optimization. Experiments on real datasets show that the obtained model has usually a smaller loss than Boosting, which is also reflected in a lower misclassification error on the test set.
by showing that, under certain conditions, the posterior concentrates around the true regression function at a rate which is independent of the number of predictors. Our approach has additional benefits over Bayesian methods for constructing tree ensembles, such as allowing for fully-Bayesian variable selection.
Abstract:Quantile regression with functional response and scalar covariates has become an important statistical tool for many neuroimaging studies. In this paper, we study optimal estimation of varying coefficient functions in the framework of reproducing kernel Hilbert space. Minimax rates of convergence under both fixed and random designs are established. We have developed easily implementable estimators which are shown to be rate-optimal. Simulations and real data analysis are conducted to examine the finite-sample performance. This is a joint work with Zhengwu Zhang, Linglong Kong, and Hongtu Zhu.
Abstract: This talk presents a method for solving a Gaussian process (GP) regression with constraints on a regression domain boundary. The method can guide and improve the prediction around a domain boundary with the boundary constraints. More importantly, the method can be applied to improve a local GP regression as a solver of a large-scale regression analysis for remote sensing and other large datasets. In the conventional local GP regression, a regression domain is first partitioned into multiple local regions, and an independent GP model is fit for each local region using the training data belonging to the region. Two key issues with the local GP are (1) the prediction around the boundary of a local region is not as accurate as the prediction interior of the local region, and (2) two local GP models for two neighboring local regions produce different predictions at the boundary of the two regions, creating discontinuity in the output regression. These issues can be addressed by constraining local GP models on the boundary using our constrained GP regression approach. The performance of the proposed approach depends on the “quality” of the constraints posed on the local GP models. We present a method to estimate “good" constraints based on data. Some convergence results and numerical results of the proposed approach will be presented.
Abstract: High dimensionality has become a common feature of ``big data” encountered in many divergent fields, such as neuroimaging and genetic analysis, which provides modern challenges for statistical analysis. To cope with the high dimensionality, dimension reduction becomes necessary. Principal component analysis (PCA) is arguably the most popular classical dimension reduction technique, which uses a few principal components (PCs) to explain most of the data variation.
I first introduce Multiscale Weighted PCR (MWPCR), a new variation of PCA, for neuroimaging analysis. MWPCA introduces two sets of novel weights, including global and local spatial weights, to enable a selective treatment of individual features and incorporation of class label information as well as spatial pattern within neuroimaging data. Simulation studies and real data analysis show that MWPCA outperforms several competing PCA methods.
Second we develop statistical methods for analyzing tree-structured data objects. This work is motivated by the statistical challenges of analyzing a set of blood artery trees, which is from a study of Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA) brain images of a set of 98 human subjects. The non-Euclidean property of tree space makes the application of conventional statistical analysis, including PCA, to tree data very challenging. We develop an entirely new approach that uses the Dyck path representation, which builds a bridge between the tree space (a non-Euclidean space) and curve space (standard Euclidean space). That bridge enables the exploitation of the power of functional data analysis to explore statistical properties of tree data sets.
Abstract: Prediction of a spatial Gaussian process using a “big dataset” has become a topical area of research over the last decade. The available solutions often involve placing strong assumptions on the error process associated with the data. Specifically, it has typically been assumed that the data is equal to the spatial process of principal interest plus a mutually independent error process. Further, to obtain computationally efficient predictions, additional assumptions on the latent random processes and/or parameter models have become a practical necessity (e.g., low rank models, sparse precision matrices, etc.). In this article, we consider an alternative latent process modeling schematic where it is assumed that the error process is spatially correlated and correlated with the spatial random process of principal interest. We show the counterintuitive result that error process dependencies allow one to remove assumptions on the spatial process of principal interest, and obtain computationally efficient predictions. At the core of this proposed methodology is the definition of a corrupted version of the latent process of interest, which we call the data specific latent process (DSLP). Demonstrations of the DSLP paradigm are provided through simulated examples and through an application using a large dataset consisting of the US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey 5-year period estimates of median household income on census tracts.
Abstract: We introduce a nonparametric graphical model whose observations on vertices are functions. Many modern applications, such as electroencephalogram and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), produce data are of this type. The model is based on Additive Conditional Independence (ACI), a statistical relation that captures the spirit of conditional independence without resorting to multi-dimensional kernels. The random functions are assumed to reside in a Hilbert space. No distributional assumption is imposed on the random functions: instead, their statistical relations are characterized nonparametrically by a second Hilbert space, which is a reproducing kernel Hilbert space whose kernel is determined by the inner product of the first Hilbert space. A precision operator is then constructed based on the second space, which characterizes ACI, and hence also the graph.
The resulting estimator is relatively easy to compute, requiring no iterative optimization or inversion of large matrices.
We establish the consistency the convergence rate of the estimator. Through simulation studies we demonstrate that the estimator performs better than the functional Gaussian graphical model when the relations among vertices are nonlinear or heteroscedastic. The method is applied to an fMRI data set to construct brain networks for patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Abstract: Clinical trials are the key evidence drivers for the pharmaceutical industry. These trials use a set of statistical methods particular to the setting and regulatory environment. In the context of oncology clinical trials an overview of selected methodological topics will be presented including multiplicity, dose escalation methods, Simon designs, and interim analyses.
Abstract: Escalation With Overdose Control (EWOC) is a Bayesian adaptive dose finding design that produces consistent sequences of doses while controlling the probability that patients are overdosed. EWOC was the first dose-finding procedure to directly incorporate the ethical constraint of minimizing the chance of treating patients at unacceptably high doses. Its defining property is that the expected proportion of patients treated at doses above the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) is equal to a specified value α, the feasibility bound. Topics to be discussed include: two-parameter logistic model, use of covariate in prospective clinical trial, drug combinations, and Web-EWOC, a free interactive web tool for designing and conducting dose finding trials in cancer https://biostatistics.csmc.edu/ewoc/ewocWeb.php.
Abstract: Mediation analysis is an important tool in the behavioral sciences for investigating the role of intermediate variables that lie in the path between a randomized treatment/exposure and an outcome variable. The influence of the intermediate variable on the outcome is often explored using structural equation models (SEMs), with model coefficients interpreted as possible effects. While there has been significant research on the topic in recent years, little work has been done on mediation analysis when the intermediate variable (mediator) is a high-dimensional vector. In this work we introduce a novel method for mediation analysis in this setting called the directions of mediation (DMs). The DMs represent an orthogonal transformation of the space spanned by the set of mediators, chosen so that the transformed mediators are ranked based upon the proportion of the likelihood of the full SEM that they explain. We provide an estimation algorithm and establish the asymptotic properties of the obtained estimators. We demonstrate the method using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study of thermal pain where we are interested in determining which brain locations mediate the relationship between the application of a thermal stimulus and self- reported pain.
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What would you do for peace? The decision to sign the peace agreement with the FARC was an historic decision for Colombia. Now, with a more unified country, Colombia can create a more prosperous and inclusive economy.
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Canaan is stated in Ge 10:6 to have been a son of Ham and brother of Mizraim, or Egypt. This indicates the Mosaic period when the conquerors of the XVIIIth and XIXth Egyptian Dynasties made Canaan for a time a province of the Egyptian empire. Under the Pharaoh Meneptah, at the time of the Exodus, it ceased to be connected with Egypt, and the Egyptian garrisons in the South of the country were expelled by the Philistines, who probably made themselves masters of the larger portion of it, thus causing the name of Philistia or Palestine to become synonymous with that of Canaan (see Ze 2:5). In the Tell el-Amarna Letters, Canaan is written Kinakhna and Kinakhkhi. The latter form corresponds with the Greek (Chna), a name given to Phoenicia (Hecat. Fragments 254; Eusebius, praep. Ev., i.10; ix.17).
In Nu 13:29 the Canaanites are described as dwelling "by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan," i.e. in the lowlands of Palestine. The name was confined to the country West of the Jordan (Nu 33:51; Jos 22:9), and was especially applied to Phoenicia (Isa 23:11; compare Mt 15:22). Hence, Sidon is called the "firstborn" of Canaan (Ge 10:15, though compare Jud 3:3), and the Septuagint translates "Canaanites" by "Phoenicians" and "Canaan" by the "land of the Phoenicians" (Ex 16:35; Jos 5:12). Kinakhkhi is used in the same restricted sense in the Tell el-Amarna Letters, but it is also extended so as to include Palestine generally. On the other hand, on the Egyptian monuments Seti I calls a town in the extreme South of Palestine "the city of Pa-Kana'na" or "the Canaan," which Conder identifies with the modern Khurbet Kenan near Hebron. As in the Tell el-Amarna Letters, so in the Old Testament, Canaan is used in an extended sense to denote the whole of Palestine West of the Jordan (Ge 12:5; 23:2,19; 28:1; 31:18; 35:6; 36:2; 37:1; 48:7; Ex 15:15; Nu 13:2; Jos 14:1; 21:2; Ps 135:11). Thus, Jerusalem which had Amorite and Hittite founders is stated to be of "the land of the Canaanite" (Eze 16:3), and Isa 19:18 terms Hebrew, which was shared by the Israelites with the Phoenicians and, apparently, also the Amorites, "the language of Caaan." Jabin is called "the king of Canaan" in Jud 4:2,23,24; but whether the name is employed here in a restricted or extended sense is uncertain.
As the Phoenicians were famous as traders, it has been supposed that the name "Canaanite" is a synonym of "merchant" in certain passages of the Old Testament. The pursuit of trade, however, was characteristic only of the maritime cities of Phoenicia, not of the Canaanitish towns conquered the Israelites. In Isa 23:11 we should translate "Canaan" (as the Septuagint) instead of "merchant city" (the King James Version); in Ho 12:7 (8), "as, for Canaan" (Septuagint), instead of "he is a merchant" (the King James Version); in Ze 1:11, "people of Canaan" (Septuagint), instead of "merchant people" (the King James Version); on the other hand, "Canaanite" seems to have acquired the sense of "merchant," as "Chaldean" did of "astrologer," in Isa 23:8, and Pr 3:1:24, though probably not in Zec 14:21, and Job 41:6 (Hebrew 40:30).
The history of Canaan begins with the paleolithic age, paleolithic implements having been found in the lowlands. Our first knowledge of its population dates from the neolithic period. The neolithic inhabitants of Gezer were of short stature (about 5 ft. 4 inches in height), and lived in caves--at least in the time of the first prehistoric settlement--and burned their dead. Their sacred place was a double cave with which cup-marks in the rock were connected, and their pottery was rude; some of it was ornamented with streaks of red or black on a yellow or red wash. In the time of the second settlement a rude stone wall was built around the town. The debris of the two neolithic settlements is as much as 12 ft. in depth, implying a long period of accumulation.
The neolithic population was succeeded by one of Semitic type, which introduced the use of metal, and buried its dead. The name of Amorite has been given to it, this being the name under which the Semitic population of Canaan was known to the Babylonians. Gezer was surrounded by a great wall of stone intersected by brick towers; at Lachish the Amorite wall was of crude brick, nearly 29 ft. in thickness (compare De 1:28). A "high-place" was erected at Gezer consisting of 9 monoliths, running from North to South, and surrounded by a platform of large stones. The second monolith has been polished by the kisses of the worshippers; the seventh was brought from a distance. Under the pavement of the sanctuary lay the bones of children, more rarely of adults, who had been sacrificed and sometimes burnt, and the remains deposited in jars. Similar evidences of human sacrifice were met with under the walls of houses both here and at Taanach and Megiddo. In the Israelite strata the food-bowl and lamp for lighting the dead in the other world are retained, but all trace of human sacrifice is gone. At Lachish in Israelite times the bowl and lamp were filled with sand. The second "Amorite" city at Gezer had a long existence. The high-place was enlarged, and an Egyptian of the age of the XIIth Dynasty was buried within its precincts. Egyptian scarabs of the XIIth and XIIIth Dynasties are now met with; these give place to scarabs of the Hyksos period, and finally to those of the XVIIIth Dynasty (1600 BC). Hittite painted pottery of Cappadocian type is also found in the later debris of the city as well as seal-cylinders of the Babylonian pattern.
Meanwhile Canaan had for a time formed part of the Babylonian empire. Gudea, viceroy of Lagas under the kings of the Dynasty of Ur (2500 BC), had brought "limestone" from the "land of the Amorites," alabaster from Mt. Lebanon, cedar-beams from Amanus, and golddust from the desert between Palestine and Egypt. A cadastral survey was drawn up about the same time by Uru-malik, "the governor of the land of the Amorites," the name by which Syria and Canaan were known to the Babylonians, and colonies of "Amorites" engaged in trade were settled in the cities of Babylonia. After the fall of the Dynasty of Ur, Babylonia was itself conquered by the Amorites who founded the dynasty to which Khammurabi, the Amraphel of Ge 14:1, belonged (see HAMMURABI). In an inscription found near Diarbekir the only title given to Khammu-rabi is "king of the land of the Amorites." Babylonian now became the official, literary and commercial language of Canaan, and schools were established there in which the cuneiform script was taught. Canaanitish culture became wholly Babylonian; even its theology and gods were derived from Babylonia. The famous legal code of Khammu-rabi (see HAMMURABI, CODE OF) was enforced in Canaan as in other parts of the empire, and traces of its provisions are found in Gen. Abram's adoption of his slave Eliezer, Sarai's conduct to Hagar, and Rebekah's receipt of a dowry from the father of the bridegroom are examples of this. So, too, the sale of the cave of Machpelah was in accordance with the Babylonian legal forms of the Khammu-rabi age. The petty kings of Canaan paid tribute to their Babylonian suzerain, and Babylonian officials and "commerical travelers" (damgari) frequented the country.
We must ascribe to this period the foundation of Jerusalem, which bears a Babylonian name (Uru-Salim, "the city of Salim"), and commanded the road to the naphtha springs of the Dead-Sea. Bitumen was one of the most important articles of Babylonian trade on account of its employment for building and lighting purposes, and seems to have been a government monopoly. Hence, the rebellion of the Canaanitish princes in the naphtha district (Ge 14) was sufficiently serious to require a considerable force for its suppression.
The Pharaohs of the XVIIIth Dynasty expelled the Hyksos and conquered Palestine and Syria. For about 200 years Canaan was an Egyptian province. With the Egyptian conquest the history of the second Amorite city at Gezer comes to an end. The old wall was partially destroyed, doubtless by Thothmes III (about 1480 BC). A third Amorite city now grew up, with a larger and stronger wall, 14 ft. thick. The houses built on the site of the towers of the first wall were filled with scarabs and other relics of the reign of Amon-hotep III (1440 BC). At Lachish the ruins of the third city were full of similar remains, and among them was a cuneiform tablet referring to a governor of Lachish mentioned in the Tell el-Amarna Letters. At Taanach cuneiform tablets of the same age have been discovered, written by Canaanites to one another but all in the Babylonian script and language.
Gaza and the neighboring towns, however, still remained in their hands, and with the recovery of Egyptian power under the XIXth Dynasty allowed Seti I to march once more into Canaan and reduce it again to subjection. In spite of Hittite attacks the country on both sides of the Jordan acknowledged the rule of Seti and his son Ramses II, and in the 21st year of the latter Pharaoh the long war with the Hittites came to an end, a treaty being made which fixed the Egyptian frontier pretty much where the Israelite frontier afterward ran. A work, known as The Travels of the Mohar, which satirizes the misadventures of a tourist in Canaan, gives a picture of Canaan in the days of Ramses II. With the death of Ramses II Egyptian rule in Palestine came finally to an end. The Philistines drove the Egyptian garrisons from the cities which commanded the military road through Canaan, and the long war with the Hittites exhausted the inland towns, so that they made but a feeble resistance to the Israelites who assailed them shortly afterward. The Egyptians, however, never relinquished their claim to be masters of Canaan, and when the Philistines power had been overthrown by David we find the Egyptian king again marching northward and capturing Gezer (1Ki 9:16). Meanwhile the counry had become to a large extent Israelite. In the earlier days of the Israelite invasion the Canaanitish towns had been destroyed and the people massacred; later the two peoples intermarried, and a mixed race was the result. The portraits accompanying the names of the places taken by Shishak in southern Palestine have Amorite features, and the modern fellahin of Palestine are Canaanite rather than Jewish in type.
The position of Canaan made it the meeting-place of the commercial routes of the ancient world. The fleets of the Phoenician cities are celebrated in the Tell el-Amarna Letters, and it is probable that they were already engaged in the purple trade. The inland towns of Canaan depended not only on agriculture but also on a carrying trade: caravans as well as "commercial travelers" (damgari) came to them from Cappadocia, Babylonia and Egypt. Bronze, silver, lead, and painted ware were brought from Asia Minor, together with horses; naphtha was exported to Babylonia in return for embroidered stuffs; copper came from Cyprus, richly chased vessels of the precious metals from Crete and corn from Egypt. Baltic amber has been found at Lachish, where a furnace with iron slag, discovered in the third Amorite city, shows that the native iron was worked before the age of the Israelite conquest. The manufacture of glass goes back to the same epoch. As far back as 2500 BC, alabaster and limestone had been sent to Babylonia from the quarries of the Lebanon.
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Gershman SJ, Blei DM, Niv Y. Context, learning, and extinction. Psychol Rev. 2010;117(1):197-209.
A. Redish et al. (2007) proposed a reinforcement learning model of context-dependent learning and extinction in conditioning experiments, using the idea of "state classification" to categorize new observations into states. In the current article, the authors propose an interpretation of this idea in terms of normative statistical inference. They focus on renewal and latent inhibition, 2 conditioning paradigms in which contextual manipulations have been studied extensively, and show that online Bayesian inference within a model that assumes an unbounded number of latent causes can characterize a diverse set of behavioral results from such manipulations, some of which pose problems for the model of Redish et al. Moreover, in both paradigms, context dependence is absent in younger animals, or if hippocampal lesions are made prior to training. The authors suggest an explanation in terms of a restricted capacity to infer new causes.
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Hyperspace is the most physical and empiric medium through which ships travel faster than light (ftl), making interstellar exploration and civilisation possible. It is intermediate between realspace and paraspace, and accessed through hyperdimensional rotation, which means a ship rotates through an additional dimension or dimensions of space and time and finds itself in an ontologically distinct reality frame.
It is also a generic term for higher dimensional (hyperspace and hypertime) realities superimposed on the mundane dimensions of spacetime, but invisible and intangible to us.
It differs from realspace primarily in having one or more dimensions of ontological zone along which movement is possible. Also, in addition to the usual three dimensions of space and one of time, there may also be one or more additional dimensions of space (hyperspace) and/or time (hypertime). as a sort of counter physical space.
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What could be less romantic than standing next to your fiancée in a jewelry store, negotiating with a salesperson about how much you are willing and able to spend on a diamond engagement ring?
You maintain the surprise of "popping the question", one of the most memorable events in a couple's life together. Often, the person proposing feels ill equipped to choose a ring for their partner. By purchasing the diamond first (and having it set in a solitaire presentation setting), the element of surprise is retained while the anxiety of choosing the right ring is lost.
You remain in control. Buying a diamond is not a romantic process. It is a significant investment that requires careful research and budgeting. Standing with your fiancée in front of a salesperson is a poor environment for thoughtful decision making. By purchasing the diamond first (the largest component of the total cost of an engagement ring), you can privately decide what best fits your budget and needs.
Greater satisfaction for your partner. Chances are, your significant other does not enjoy the pressure of having to decide how much you should spend on a diamond either. Instead, allow them to focus on choosing a setting that they love, whether contemporary or antique, gold or platinum, set with sapphires or rubies, etc…, knowing that from a financial standpoint, you have already taken care of the most important part of the purchase. Often, the recipient will decide to keep the presentation setting permanently, since the classic solitaire showcases a diamond better than any other style and works with every wearer's personal style.
Better selection. Even a very large jewelry store will have no more than a few hundred diamonds to choose from. Many will have fewer than twenty. Lumera has over 50,000 diamonds to choose from, guaranteeing that you will find the exact shape, size, quality, and price that works best for you. The diamond you purchase can later be set in virtually any ring, creating a one of a kind style that you won't see on anyone else's finger.
The ability to customize your ring. A custom jeweler would be happy to take a diamond you purchase from Lumera or elsewhere and design a ring to showcase it. Consider allowing your fiancée to design something original, instead of settling for what the jewelry store has in the case. The design process can be both romantic and creative, especially with the cost of the diamond removed from the process. If you originally proposed using a solitaire setting, the jeweler can even use the gold from that setting in the creation of a custom design.
Purchasing the diamond separately saves you money. By purchasing the diamond from a diamond seller such as Lumera, you will pay 20-40% less than you would at a traditional jewelry store. The savings on the diamond may actually pay for the setting.
At Lumera, we recommend the diamond first approach because it typically leads to happier, more satisfied customers, who pay less for what they want. If you have questions or need help with your engagement diamond purchase, please call 1-888-6LUMERA or contact us at [email protected]. You can also chat online; a representative will usually respond immediately during store hours.
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Answer a few questions to learn what type of fighter you are. Some people prefer to fight more strategically than on impulse. Maybe you fight on video games or love action movies..
Have you ever been in a fight before? Is there someone in particular that will call you when they're in trouble? Are you stronger or faster?Would you ever fight,anyway?
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What is Chicken Salad Chick?
Chicken Salad Chick is a fast-casual dining concept in the Southeastern United States with 15 unique chicken salad flavors. Chicken Salad Chick was born out of founder Stacy Brown’s kitchen in Auburn, Alabama. Chicken Salad Chick has now grown to over 30 locations in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
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Input text: Amaryllis. There is a clear hanging mirror 6 inches above the flower. The mirror is facing down. There is a clear pale blue hedge in the mirror. The hedge is facing up. There is a tiny flat clear hedge above the flower. It is facing up. There is a yellow light in the mirror. There is a red light above the flower.
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Which search engine should be crowned king of Mobile Safari?
In the search engine game, it’s all about eyeballs. Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft rake in billions each year from search ads, and now those companies are competing to be the default search engine in Mobile Safari on your iPhone and iPad.
It's easy to change Safari's default search engine.
Until now it’s always been Google, but according to a report in The Information (subscription required), that deal expires in 2015. Its sources say Apple’s Eddy Cue has entertained pitches from both Yahoo and Microsoft, maker of Bing. Currently, Bing actually powers Yahoo’s search in return for a cut of its ad revenue, although Yahoo and Bing do compete to get your eyeballs in the first place. Bing is used by both Siri on iOS and Spotlight on your Mac.
Being the default search engine for millions of iOS devices is a big deal. Most people probably don't bother changing the default, but it is possible: Open up Settings > Safari, and the very first option is Search Engine. Tap that to switch from Google, the default, to either Yahoo, Bing, or privacy-friendly DuckDuckGo (a new option in iOS 8).
You’re still able to navigate to any search engine, of course. The default search engine is what Safari will use when you type your search query directly into the Search/URL bar at the top.
To get a sense of how different those search engines actually are, I ran three searches with each. I searched the term “Yosemite,” as well as “San Leandro pizza” for some local interest, and of course “Taylor Swift,” because who can get enough?
Yosemite: Google returned an ad for Apple’s latest OS as the first result, followed by a Maps result for Yosemite National Park. The next three results were also for the park: Its home page, its Wikipedia entry, and the official guide to lodging and activities. Apple’s Yosemite page is next, followed by news results, images, and “in-depth articles” from sources like National Geographic, Outside, and Ars Technica. Pretty comprehensive, and definitely well organized—I especially like how all of these sections can be expanded for more results.
Bing did a better job of labeling Apple’s Yosemite ad, along with an ad for the actual park. Tabs across the top of the page let you jump from Web to Images, Videos, and News, which is a nice touch. The results were mostly the same as Yahoo’s (which isn’t surprising), but I thought Bing organized them a little better.
DuckDuckGo has a neat tabbed design for search results, and I give it bonus points for being the only search engine to recognize the existence of Yosemite Sam. The ads are clearly marked, and I even like the use of favicons next to each URL. The main list of results was just websites (Apple’s Yosemite OS was way down the list, an embarassing 25th, after two results for Yosemite the obscure 2014 movie. Weird. But the tabs let you easily jump to Images, Videos, About, Places, and even Products, which returned a grid of results from Amazon.
San Leandro pizza: I ran these searches near my house in San Leandro, CA (it’s the new Oakland! OK, not really), so I thought this search might be illuminating on how well the different search engines could find local results.
Google did great, telling me where the pizza places were, when they opened, often how much I’d expect to spend (in a basic $ to $$$$ way, not with actual numbers), and a rating based on user reviews. I liked how it presented results three at a time—just enough to fill one screen—and then let me swipe through horizontally to see more.
I like how Google told me when the pizza places were open, but Yahoo's interactive map is a lot better (and there's a filter option for "open now" too).
Searching Yahoo gave me a map of the results right up top, with a horizontally scrolling list of pizza joints, with addresses and Yelp scores. I love how as I scroll through the list, the map updates, highlighting the one I’m looking at. The opening times aren’t listed, but you can filter the results by Best Match, Highest Rated, Distance, and price—and flip the “Open now” switch to show only places ready and waiting to feed you. The next results were ads and Yelp pages.
Bing’s results were topped with ads, then a map of results—the map isn’t as attractive as Yahoo’s, though, and I couldn’t find any filtering options to sort the results by price, distance, or rating, which both Google and Yahoo provided. A banner along the top cajoled me to join Bing Rewards, which incentivizes you to stay signed into your Microsoft account when you search Bing. You’ll earn credits toward gift cards for places like Starbucks, Burger King, and Amazon, or you can donate them to charity.
Bing's map is pretty ugly, and DuckDuckGo doesn't bother with a map but did find my two favorites right away, probably because they rank the best on Yelp.
DuckDuckGo defaulted to the Places tab, and offered horizontally scrolling Yelp reviews, sorted by rating—which surfaced my two favorite pizza places immediately. But if you want a map of locations, you’re out of luck. The Images and Videos tabs didn’t return much of interest—who searches for pizza just to look at pictures of pizza? People on diets, maybe?
Taylor Swift: Searching Google for Ms. Swift first brought up news, then her home page, images, and then Listen Now ads for Rhapsody, Google Play, and iTunes. I could also jump to her various social media profiles, or tap one of her album covers to search for more info about that album. Regular results and in-depth articles came later.
Google found more recent Taylor Swift news than Yahoo.
Yahoo served up Taylor Swift news, then images, Wikipedia, web results, and more YouTube videos. Nothing about her albums or links to stream them on various services. Tapping “More Videos” returned more than a dozen of her music videos on YouTube, which is almost better than a link to a streaming service, since YouTube is free.
Bing led the search results with two giant ads that took up more than half of the screen, followed by videos on Vevo, then news, then regular web results, with images and the Wikipedia entry kind of sprinkled in—you’ll see a couple of websites, then images, then a couple more websites, then Wikipedia, then more websites. It’s kind of a mess, but again, the tabs along the top of the page let you jump to Images, Videos, and News, filtering out the rest of the cruft.
Bing's ads were too big, and results were pretty jumbled until I filtered them with the tabs. DuckDuckGo's Lyrics tab has potential, but was ultimately disappointing.
I was initially intrigued about the Lyrics tab on DuckDuckGo’s results for Taylor Swift, but it just picked her song “Red” seemingly at random, and only the first verse was shown, with a link to MetroLyrics to get the rest. The Videos tab is great, though, with results from Vevo and YouTube, along with the view counts for each so you can easily tell the viral hits from the, uh, deeper cuts.
I’m sticking with Google mostly out of habit, but this experiment has made me wish I didn’t need a default, since the search engines each have their own strengths and weaknesses based on what you’re searching for. Instead, I’d like to be able to enter a term and then choose on the fly which search engine to use: DuckDuckGo if I’m shopping (or want to stay private), Google if I’m after images, Yahoo for local business, and so on.
What search engine do you use in Mobile Safari? If Apple changes the default away from Google next year, will you just go in and change it right back? Holler at me (not literally) in the comments.
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Best form of business for partner with conditional ownership?
Currently, I have an s-corp and I am the only member of the entire corporation. However, I will soon be bringing on a partner on board. Now, say my company sells 10 products. When I bring my partner in, I want him to only have a 50% share of the profits of one single product, and 0% share in any other products. What kind of business structure would best accomodate that? An LLC or an s-corp? Should his share be distributed as a salary, or as a revenue share? Also, any expenses or costs he pays are only associated with that single product, and not any other products. It is a tricky situation, but I'm sure I'm not the only one to come across a problem like this, and I'm sure there is a nice solution out there somewhere. What do you suggest?
As stated on many questions: I'm not a lawyer and you should absolutely talk to one in order to draw up the actual agreements, especially given the trickiness of this situation. A little expense and extra time up front will likely save you a lot of headaches later on.
So, with that said.... My gut would be that the best structure would be to bring him on as a consultant (and pay him a revenue share as a contractor) with the exact terms laid out in a Letter of Agreement (LOA) that states exactly what expenses he is responsible for, what revenue he gets and, most importantly, HOW those numbers are determined.
The trickiest point is the fact that you have this whole exisiting business but he is only getting a cut of the profits of one product. How do you determine what the profits are? Does it count only the marginal cost, or does it also factor in 10% of the company's overhead (since it is one of 10 products. You need to make sure that kind of thing is worked out and understood between the two of you and then documented in the LOA.
3 How do I go from 100% ownership to partnership?
1 How much ownership/equity if any do I give a relative that wants to be a part of my start up?
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1 If I attend a hack-a-thon event to work on a prototype, how much ownership do I give up?
1 What is the difference between a Business Partner and Co-Founder?
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Affairs: Couple Counselling can help!
Helping couples recover from affairs is approximately half of my workload.
Whether you're on the receiving end of a full-blown affair, an emotional betrayal, or a foolish "indiscretion", it's normal to feel a mixture of hurt, anger, and betrayal.
It can take some time for these feelings to go away, especially if your partner is unsupportive.
I provide a safe place where you can both begin to come to terms with what has happened, and begin to feel as if there is hope for recovery.
I help the spouse who has suffered the affair to begin to express their feelings openly, and I help to make sure they feel heard and understood by their partner.
In addition to helping the spouse who has had the affair understand how it really is for their partner, I also help them come to terms with their own feelings.
I help explore ways to rebuild trust, and have a look at what - if anything - was wrong before the affair happened.
I help couples begin to rebuild their relationship, and to repair their relationship in the aftermath of the affair.
You need a counsellor who has the courage and experience to deal with this type of work.
Often, the person who had the affair says "Let's move on", or "Let's put it behind us". I help couples to avoid making this mistake, and to face up to the tasks necessary for recovery. Research shows that many counsellors avoid this essential work.
I will keep you both on track, and help you avoid the fatal trap of allowing the affair to be "Swept under the carpet". An affair pushed under the carpet will always come back later to cause trouble.
Although recovering from an affair can be quite difficult, it is definitely "do-able". A good counsellor will help you make a quick start to your recovery, and keep you on track while you do it.
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Best Answer: Play up your skills, there's little difference between hospitality and retail, with the exception of the final product, and some of the skills involved. I'll give you examples in both the resume and cover letter.
You get the drift here. Show them numbers. :) I always hate that part, but I definitely noticed a difference when I started including hard numbers.
My name is Jane and I'm interested in your retail sales position. While I don't have a lot of retail experience, I am extremely skilled in dealing with customers, ensuring client satisfaction and getting along well with others.
In my current position, I am in charge of a large waitstaff during conventions and other events. I have often worked extensive hours and dealt with dissatisfied or demanding clients all while maintaining composure and a professional demeanor. Nearly all of my clients are satisfied and I have received numerous compliments from co-workers and supervisors.
What led me to apply for your position is that I am truly interested in your product. In my free time, it is a hobby that I study, read industry standard magazines, watch television programs and really just all around enjoy it.
I hope that helps somewhat. Often, in retail, they are looking for people who aren't focused on money making, but enjoy their product and can connect with customers in such a way that enhances the customer experience and the store's sales.
Source(s): Just landed a retail job; have been instrumental in the hiring process in previous retail and office positions; have worked in many retail environments.
When an interviewer asks you to tell them what you can do that other candidates can’t, they aren’t asking you to evaluate the skills of your fellow candidates. You probably don’t know them. The hiring manager uses this question to figure out some elements of your character. How do you handle awkward situations Are you good under pressure Will you badmouth your peers to make yourself look better during the interview As you answer the question, the interviewer gets a sense of your values and your ability to self-evaluate.
Since the hiring manager isn’t really looking for you to evaluate the other candidates, you want to stay calm, positive and talk about what makes you unique.
Focus on what you do, rather than what your peers don’t do.
Talk about skills that qualify you for this particular position.
Start with a disclaimer that you don’t know what the other candidates’ skills are.
Assure the interviewer that you have attributes that will benefit the company.
There are certain pitfalls that you want to make sure to avoid when you answer this question.
Don’t bash your peers. Keep the answer positive.
Beware crossing the line from confidence to arrogance.
Avoid talking about values that clash with the company’s values. For instance, if the company is all about teamwork, don’t brag about being good at working alone.
Be careful not to get nervous when answering this tricky question.
Keep your answer polite and void of arrogance, and you will do well.
I don’t know what skillsets everyone else is bringing to you, but I bring an unmatched level of understanding to the customer service position. I think it’s important to be able to put yourself in the customer’s position. This helps avoid misunderstandings and confrontations. It also helps me provide great customer service, which I know is the backbone to this company.
Obviously I can’t speak to the qualifications of everyone else, but I do know that I am organized and persistent. This company values achievements, and I think that my organization and persistence will lead me to reach the goals that are set in place for this position.
It’s really important that as you answer this question you keep in mind what the hiring manager is truly looking for. They want to know that you share the same values as the company does. They want to know that you are trustworthy. Answer the question politely and confidently, and they will see just that.
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Did a "top prosecutor" reveal that he has evidence that Hillary Clinton colluded with Ukraine during the 2016 U.S. election? No, that's not true: Ukraine's top prosecutor said he has evidence that officials in Ukraine released damaging information about Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort with the intentions of helping Clinton's campaign, but he did not make any reference to evidence that Clinton was in collusion with the Ukranians.
A top prosecutor has demanded Hillary Clinton be investigated for colluding with Ukraine in her bid to win the White House in 2016. In an interview with The Hill, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yurii Lutsenko said he has found evidence of a top law enforcement official saying his agency leaked the Manafort financial records to help Clinton's campaign.
The misleading report is one of several published based on an interview by Hill.TV on March 20, 2019, in which Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko told Hill.TV's John Solomon "that he has opened a probe into alleged attempts by Ukrainians to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election."
Lutsenko is probing a claim from a member of the Ukrainian parliament that the director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), Artem Sytnyk, attempted to influence the 2016 vote to the benefit of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
View the video of Solomon's interview with Lutsenko at this link.
Lutsenko referenced an audio recording of Ukraine officials discussing their intentions to release "black-ledger files that exposed Trump campaign chairman's wrongdoing in Ukraine" during Manafort's involvment in Urkrainian politics. Lutsenko did not say anything about evidence showing Hillary Clinton or anyone with her presidential campaign had contact with them or knowledge of what they were doing.
Amid Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, a Ukrainian lawmaker is demanding Hillary Clinton be investigated for colluding with Ukraine in her plight to win the White House.
Nowhere in the Hill.TV interview or the text story did Lutsenko "demand Hillary Clinton be investigated."
President Trump took notice of Solomon's interview with Lutsenko in a segment with Fox News host Sean Hannity and in a tweet.
Paul Manafort served as Trump's campaign chief from May to August 2016. He had previously worked for nearly a decade as a consultant to Ukraine's Party of Regions and its standardbearer, Viktor Yanukovych, according to NBC News. Manafort has been sentenced to serve more than seven years in prison for convictions partly relating to his political work in Ukraine.
Short of colluding with Clinton, the Ukrainian leakers motive could possibly have been to embarass Manafort because of his work for their enemy, Yanukovych.
A conservative news site that reposts content from other sites without attribution and publishes conspiracy theories.
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Mention the name Joe Kuharich to most Eagles fans and you'll get a roll of the eyes, maybe even a groan. Kuharich was the Eagles' head coach and general manager from 1964 through 1968, one of the bleakest periods in the team's history. It ended with the Philly fans famously chanting "Joe Must Go" and, yes, throwing snowballs at Santa Claus.
In his role as general manager, Kuharich made some awful trades, including dealing away future Hall of Famers Sonny Jurgensen and Tommy McDonald as well as Pro Bowl Eagles Timmy Brown, Maxie Baughan, and Irv Cross. So when he traded for a 34-year-old running back named Ollie Matson, most Eagles fans assumed it was another Kuharich blunder.
Actually, Joe got this one right.
Matson was an All-Pro early in his career with the Chicago Cardinals but he had a lot of miles on him when he arrived in Philadelphia. He was coming off his worst season – 13 rushes for 20 yards with Detroit in 1963 – and most people had written him off. When Kuharich dealt starting left tackle J.D. Smith to the Lions for Matson and defensive lineman Floyd Peters, Matson was seen as a throw-in.
"Don't worry, Ollie has a lot left," Kuharich said. No one believed it but it proved to be true.
Matson rushed for 404 yards and five touchdowns that season. When Timmy Brown was injured against the Giants on October 18, Matson came off the bench and ran for 100 yards on 19 carries as the Eagles won the game, 23-17. He had a 54-yard run and scored two touchdowns. It was a rare occasion when Kuharich had a chance to gloat.
"I knew what we were getting in Ollie Matson," Kuharich said. "He is the finest football player I've ever seen or coached. He's still in great shape and he proved today he can still produce."
Kuharich coached Matson at the University of San Francisco where he earned All-America honors in 1951. As a senior, Matson led the Dons to an undefeated season and the following year, he qualified for the U.S. Olympic team. He won a silver medal in the 4x400-meter relay and a bronze medal in the 400 meters at the Helsinki Games, stunning the track coaches who felt the 6-2, 220-pound Matson was too big and too battered by football to compete with the world's best sprinters.
"They told me I was wasting my time when I went to the (Olympic) trials," Matson said. "I had to lengthen my stride for one thing. Running with the football, you take short, choppy steps. You're cutting side to side. In track, you need a long fluid stride. But speed is speed, I've always had that. It was just a matter of adapting."
Matson was selected in the first round of the 1952 draft by the Cardinals. They were bottom feeders since losing the NFL title game to the Eagles in 1948 and even with Matson doing everything – he played halfback on offense, cornerback on defense, and led the league in kick returns – the Cardinals had just one winning season in the next seven years.
In 1959, the Cardinals traded Matson to the Los Angeles Rams for nine – that's right, nine – players. When Matson joined the Rams, he was photographed kneeling on the practice field with nine helmets in a circle around him. It was similar to the Minnesota Vikings' blockbuster trade for Herschel Walker, and like the Walker deal, it proved to be a bust. One player, even one as talented as Matson, couldn't fix the hapless Rams.
In 1963, Matson was dealt to Detroit where he rode the bench while the Lions limped to a 5-6-1 finish. For Matson, that was 10 losing seasons in 11 years. He was the ultimate hard-luck guy, a five-time Pro Bowl selection who found himself in one hopeless situation after another and his trade to the Eagles seemed to fit the pattern.
The Eagles were coming off a 2-10-2 season and no one in town except for owner Jerry Wolman had much confidence in Kuharich. In trading for Matson, Kuharich appeared to be reaching back in time hoping to rekindle the glory days of USF. It didn't help that Matson showed up wearing high-top football cleats which had gone out of fashion years earlier.
Matson was asked if he still had the speed that made him famous.
"Could I win an Olympic medal today? Probably not," he replied. "But what I've lost in speed I've gained in experience. I'm a much smarter football player today than I was years ago. I've played a lot of different positions (including flanker) so I know how to use the speed I have. Whatever coach (Kuharich) wants me to do, I'll do it."
Matson spent three seasons with the Eagles and played well when called upon. Brown was the lead back but Matson was often used as a change-up who combined power with outstanding hands. His last big game came in 1966 when in a driving rain he caught the winning touchdown pass from quarterback King Hill in a 35-34 upset of San Francisco. The game was played in Kezar Stadium where Matson earned All-America honors as a collegian.
Matson retired at the end of that season. The Eagles were 9-5 in 1966, the best record of Matson's career, so he went out on a high note at age 36. Years later in an NFL Films interview, Timmy Brown called Matson one of his heroes. "He was the ultimate professional," Brown said. "Always prepared, always in shape, a great teammate. He inspired me. He inspired a lot of guys."
Matson was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1972. Fittingly, he asked Joe Kuharich to be his presenter.
An award-winning writer and producer, Ray Didinger was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1995. He has also won six Emmy Awards for his work as a writer and producer at NFL Films. The five-time Pennsylvania Sportswriter of the Year is a writer and analyst for NBC Sports Philadelphia. Didinger will provide Eagles fans a unique historical perspective on the team throughout the year for PhiladelphiaEagles.com. You can read all of his Eagles History columns here. He is also the author of The Eagles Encyclopedia: Champions Edition which is in bookstores now.
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The current number-one song, as of the chart dated for December 10, 2016, is "Blue Ain't Your Color" by Keith Urban.
Billboard began compiling the popularity of country songs with its January 8, 1944 issue. Only the genre's most popular jukebox selections were tabulated, with the chart titled "Most Played Juke Box Folk Records". The chart length was not standardized; a given week had anywhere from two to eight positions.
The "best sellers" chart – started May 15, 1948 as "Best Selling Retail Folk Records". This chart had anywhere from 10 to 20 positions during its ten-year life, with the number of positions varying each week.
A "jockeys" chart – started December 10, 1949 as "Country & Western Records Most Played By Folk Disk Jockeys". This chart had anywhere from eight to 15 positions, varying from week to week.
The names of each chart changed slightly during each chart's life. The "jukebox" chart – which by 1956 was known as "Most Played C&W in Juke Boxes" – ended on June 17, 1957. The "best sellers" and "jockeys" charts continued until October 13, 1958.
Starting with the October 20, 1958 issue, Billboard began combining sales and radio airplay in figuring a song's overall popularity, counting them in one single chart called "Hot C&W Sides". The chart began with a standard length of 30 positions each week. The name of the chart, and the number of positions varied through the years: Its name was switched to "Hot Country Singles" on November 3, 1962; it was expanded to 50 slots on January 11, 1964; then 75 on October 15, 1966; and finally 100 beginning July 14, 1973.
On January 20, 1990, the Hot Country Singles chart was reduced back to 75 positions and began to be compiled entirely from information provided by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, a system which electronically monitors radio airplay of songs. Four weeks later, on February 17, the chart was retitled "Hot Country Singles & Tracks". Beginning with the January 13, 2001 issue, the chart was cut from 75 to 60 positions, and effective April 30, 2005 the chart was renamed "Hot Country Songs".
From its inception in 1973 through August 2009, American Country Countdown used this chart in its programming, using the top 40 singles/tracks on it for each week.
The Hot Country Songs chart methodology was changed starting with the October 20, 2012 issue to match the Billboard Hot 100: digital downloads and streaming data are combined with airplay from all radio formats to determine position. A new chart, the Country Airplay chart, was created using the previous methodology (airplay exclusively from country radio stations). Following the change, Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" shot up to number one on the new chart; it would begin the longest run at No. 1 on the country chart since the 1960s. However, its length of stay at No. 1 was soon surpassed by Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise". It has likewise remained buoyed by a new remix featuring Nelly; it has had the longest stay at number one of any song in the country chart's history (24 weeks).
↑ Jessen, Wade (August 1, 2013). "Florida Georgia Line's 'Cruise' Sets Record For Longest No. 1 Run On Hot Country Songs". Billboard. Retrieved August 18, 2013.
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The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: Carnaval do Rio de Janeiro) is a festival held every year before Lent and considered the biggest carnival in the world with two million people per day on the streets. The first Carnival festival in Rio occurred in 1723.
The typical Rio carnival parade is filled with revelers, floats, and adornments from numerous samba schools which are located in Rio (more than 200 approximately, divided into five leagues/divisions). A samba school is composed of a collaboration of local neighbours that want to attend the carnival together, with some kind of regional, geographical and common background.
There is a special order that every school has to follow with their parade entries. Each school begins with the "comissão de frente" ("Front Commission" in English), that is the group of people from the school that appear first. Made of ten to fifteen people, the "comissão de frente" introduces the school and sets the mood and style of their presentation. These people have choreographed dances in fancy costumes that usually tell a short story. Following the "comissão de frente" is the first float of the samba school, called "abre-alas" ("Opening Wing" in English). These are followed by the Mestre-sala and Porta-Bandeira ("Master of Ceremonies and Flag Bearer" in English), with one to four pairs, one active and three reserve, to lead the dancers, which include the old guard veterans and the "ala das baianas", with the bateria at the rear and sometimes a brass section and guitars.
The Samba school parades were held in the Praça Onze was known the birthplace of samba carioca called Pequena Africa. Future Estácio de Sá, together with Portela and Estação Primeira de Mangueira paraded for the first time in the city in 1929. In 1930, five schools were already parading. With the works of in Avenida Presidente Vargas the parade moved there, from 1942 to 1945 the parade was held in São Januário. From 1952 temporary stands for the public to watch the parades were built, and in 1961 paid tickets made their debut to take advantage of the rising international and national interest and the increasing tourist arrivals. In 1974, due to the works of the subway, that year's parade was held and broadcast on the first time on color television from Avenida Presidente Antônio Carlos. In 1978, the parade was transferred to the Marquês de Sapucaí Avenue, where it remains up to this day. In 1983, the then governor Leonel Brizola, commissioned the architect Oscar Niemeyer the project of a permanent local stadium for the parades in that area, because until then the bleachers were assembled at the time of the carnival and then removed.
With the increase in the number of schools taking part, which made the parade more long and tiring for the public, in 1984 the parade started to be carried out in two days: Sunday and Monday for the major schools, Friday and Saturday for the lower level schools. In the first year were proclaimed the champions of each day parade and supercampeã, who was the hose, a result of the Desfile das Campeãs held the following Saturday. However, this practice has not been successful, which is why the Mangueira became only supercampeã of history.
The schools of the Special Group under LIESA march for two days (Sunday and Monday), while the A Series schools march on Friday and Saturday under LIERJ, which also has the B Series, which marches on Fat Tuesday. Both organizations were under the AESCRJ banner before it lost organizing rights, thus also providing for the establishment of new organizations like LIESB and Samba é Nosso for the lower level divisions. The Série A champion school which advances directly as a participant in the Special Group for the next year's Carnival marches last on Carnival Monday while the Special Group champion marches for one more time on the Saturday after Ash Wednesday.
As of 2018, however the LIESB does not have conditions to take the parade of the Série E, and handed over the management of this series and its schools to ACAS, which now operates the series as a rookie level organization for samba schools.
The Carnival began on Friday and ends on Ash Wednesday, but the Winners' Parade happens on the Saturday after the carnival ends. The winning school and runners' up of the Special Group, as well as the A Series champion, all march past one final time on this night.
In 1984, the government decided to give Rio Carnival its new home in theSambadrome. Today, some of the most famous events of Rio Carnival are ticketed events. There are different types of Sambadrome tickets that are available for purchase. Grandstand tickets are general admissions tickets that are available on a first-come, first-served basis and are not allocated ahead of time. Frisas are open air box seats located along the samba runway. Camarotes are luxury boxes situated between the frisas and the grandstands. Sector 9 is the tourist sector which are the same as grandstand tickets, with the difference being that they are allocated so people have assigned seats.
Carnival ticket prices can vary depending on the ticket type, sector and season. The cheapest sectors are 12 and 13. Tickets can be bought in advance through international brokers, or through local travel agents in Rio de Janeiro. 'Purchase of a ticket' normally means purchase of a voucher which is then exchangeable for the ticket close to the date. Ticket sales are organised by LIESA, who will often also make tickets available at late notice via a venue (often a bank) announced the day before. LIESA prices for grandstand tickets vary from Rs5 to Rs500 for the Tourist Sector (2014 prices) (Rs500 = approx. US$250). LIESA publish the base price of the tickets, and agents and brokers charge more (sometimes significantly more) but offer considerable convenience and other benefits.
As the parade is taking place in the Sambadrome and the balls are being held in the Copacabana Palace and beach, many carnival participants are at other locations. Street festivals are very common during carnival and are highly populated by the locals. Elegance and extravagance are usually left behind, but music and dancing are still extremely common. Anyone is allowed to participate in the street festivals. Bandas are very familiar with the street carnival especially because it takes nothing to join in on the fun except to jump in. One of the most well known bandas of Rio isBanda de Ipanema. Banda de Ipanema was first created in 1965 and is known as Rio’s most irreverent street band.
Incorporated into every aspect of the Rio carnival are dancing and music. The most famous dance is carnival samba, a Brazilian dance with African influences. The samba remains a popular dance not only in carnival but in the ghettos outside of the main cities. These villages keep alive the historical aspect of the dance without the influence of the western cultures.
Music is another major part of all aspects of the carnival. As stated by Samba City, "Samba Carnival Instruments are an important part of Brazil and the Rio de Janeiro carnival, sending out the irresistible beats and rhythms making the crowd explode in a colourful dance revolution fantasy fest!" The samba that is found in Rio is Battucanada, referring to the dance and music being based on percussion instruments. It "is born of a rhythmic necessity that it allows you to sing, to dance, and to parade at the same time." This is why the batucada style is found in most all of Rio’s street carnivals.
Street parades, blocos, and bandas take place throughout the city of Rio during Carnival, the most famous and largest carnival celebration of the world. There can be more than 300 bandas taking place at any given point in time. While the biggest street party takes place right outside the Sambadrome, the largest organized street dance is typically found on Cinelândia Square in Rio’s Centro. In 2012, more than 2 million revelers took to the streets of Rio de Janeiro to participate in the Cordão da Bola Preta bloco. According to police estimates, more than 5 million people attended a bloco during Rio Carnival 2012 and there was not one reported incident of crime.
When the Sambadrome was built in 1984, it had the side-effect of taking street parades from the downtown area to a specific, ticketed performance area. Some samba schools have since been motivated by an agenda that focuses on regaining public space, and using the carnival tradition to occupy the streets with parades or blocos. Many of these represent a local community of the area but are open to all.
Several of the Rio street carnival blocks that hold the parties are affiliated to the Rio de Janeiro State Street Carnival Blocks Federation (FBCERJ), established in 1965.
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"I'm buying a new computer and I don't want to reinstall all my applications on the new computer. Is there any way I can copy applications, software, and settings from my old computer to a new PC?"
One of the slowest parts of upgrading to a new computer is having to re-install software. There is one solution I recommend for moving applications to a new computer. While I have found a handful of situations where it won't work, in most cases every application on your old computer will be moved, including your preferences, and you'll be back up and running in no time.
The solution I recommend for moving applications to a new computer is PCMover. It's not free, but the time you save is well worth the price. Buying PCMover allows you to install it on the old computer and the new computer, transfer applications and important settings from the old PC to the new PC, along with any files you want to move.
The only instances I've seen where PCMover won't work is for software that relies on a unique machine ID from the old computer in order to run. In those cases, you typically have to install the software on the new computer and re-register it with the company that makes the software.
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Who does a property manager work for?
When you decide that it's time to take a step back and hire a property management company to help you with your properties, remember that you are doing exactly that: you are hiring them. They are an employee of yours, and as such, you'll want to conduct thorough interviews to make sure that you are hiring the best company for your business. Not every model works for every landlord, so check them out and make sure your money is going to the right company that will work well with you.
There are a few things that you'll want to check when you sit down for the interviews. It's best, like when hiring anyone, that you have everything in order before the actually meeting. You'll want to make sure that they have the experience needed to do what you need them to do. Check into their past. Name changes, holes in their resume, and anything that seems to be sketchy just may be. You don't want to hire a company that is constantly trying to cut corners or make themselves look better than they really are. These are the companies that will land you into more trouble than it's worth.
When choosing your company, make sure their qualifications line up. Are they licensed to practice property management? You'll want to make sure that the company's employees continue in their education. They should always be working on certification and keeping their knowledge up to date. If they do not follow the laws in the area for landlord-tenant relationships, it won't only come back on them, it'll come back on you. Laws are ever-changing and always being tweaked by the government officials that don't send out alerts to all landlords and property managers. It's the manager's (and the landlord's) responsibility to keep up with these and make sure you're on top of any new changes. If you're not (and if they're not) you might find yourself and your property in violation of the law.
Following up on what type of work they do for the other landlords they've worked with is important. You'll want to know if they have a specialty that they work with, where they manage (locally or nationally), what types of properties they've managed, etc etc Look for references, check them, and dig as deeply as you can if you find that you're interested in pursuing them as your property management company. It may take a little extra work at the beginning, but it's worth it in the end.
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This hammer is perfect for (bang! Bang!) bringing down on someone's head, and making sure that they are dead. If you're the type to spend late nights all alone with a test tube, you'll notice that the head of the hammer is magnetic. Thus, if you rotated it in a coil of wire, you'd make electricity! It's almost like magnetism and electricity are the same thing.
In combat, Sound Effects change from the usual WHACK! BAM! ZOT! to BANG BANG! BANG BANG! BANG BANG!
You beat it with Maxwell's Silver Hammer until its insides are out and its outsides are in, dealing X damage. BANG BANG! BANG BANG! BANG BANG!
You hit for X damage with Maxwell's Silver Hammer, while Rose and Valerie cheer you on from the gallery. Uh, that gallery over there. BANG BANG! BANG BANG! BANG BANG!
You give Maxwell's Silver Hammer a magical mystery tour of your opponent's innards, doing X damage. BANG BANG! BANG BANG! BANG BANG!
Bang, bang! You bring Maxwell's Silver Hammer down upon its head for X damage. BANG BANG! BANG BANG! BANG BANG!
Your mother should know that you just did X damage with Maxwell's Silver Hammer. BANG BANG! BANG BANG! BANG BANG!
You give it a ticket to ride the pain wagon, smacking it for X damage with Maxwell's Silver Hammer. BANG BANG! BANG BANG! BANG BANG!
You say you wanna cause contusions? Well, y'know... you just hit for X damage. BANG BANG! BANG BANG! BANG BANG!
When a Pope dies, according to legend, he is gently struck on the head with a silver hammer to make sure he is dead.
The item's description refers to James Clerk Maxwell, who formulated the Maxwell equations which unified electric and magnetic forces into the broad field of electromagnetism.
"Maxwell's Silver Hammer" is the name of one of the group's songs.
The song is quoted in the first sentence of the description, and the second ("Joan was quizzical; Studied pataphysical / Science in the home / Late nights all alone with a test tube. / Oh, oh, oh, oh.").
A couple of the attack messages have their inspiration from the song as well, specifically the lyrics "Bang! Bang! Maxwell's silver hammer / Came down on her head / Bang! Bang! Maxwell's silver hammer / Made sure that she was dead" and "Rose and Valerie, screaming from the gallery / Say he must go free (Maxwell must go free) / The judge does not agree and he tells them / So, o, o, o."
The "insides are out and its outsides are in" attack message is a reference to "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey".
"Your Mother Should Know" is a song from the Magical Mystery Tour album.
"Ticket to Ride" is a song from the Help! album.
The attack message that starts with "You say you wanna cause contusions? Well, y'know..." is a play on the lyrics from "Revolution", which is on The White Album.
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What does it take for you to be in a position to present a really good research paper about ethical issues? There are a lot of students who normally have a difficult time dealing with papers like this one. The challenge for a lot of them comes in the fact that they barely have the knowledge of what they need to do in order to make this paper as awesome as is expected of them by their teachers. Indeed it is possible to get professional help from this website, something that so many students tend to take rather lightly.
There is always a lot that you can do when you start writing your paper after doing a lot of research. Once you can do that, you will find it a lot easier to get through this task. By finding as much information as possible about the subject you are studying, there is always a good chance that your work on this paper will not be as hard as you would have thought in the first place.
At times all you need to do is to get some people around you together and discuss the paper with them. This allows you to share ideas with one another, and make sure that you are heading in the right direction.
In each and every paper that you are working on, it helps a great deal if you know how to use examples to support your literary effort.
The best way for you to make your paper more sensible is to come up with solutions to problems, because this makes it really easy to put your work into context.
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The following events and venues match your search for "DOKKEN". To sort the list, click on the column header. To find tickets for the given event, date & time, click the tickets link in that row. To find events taking place at a matching venue, click that venue name.
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Given the current economic state and widespread availability of technology, your organization may be exposed to the threat of "corporate raiding": competitors luring employees – and your company's valuable trade secrets and proprietary business information – away. There are plenty of examples to choose from. In May 2009, Lockheed Martin Corp. won a $30 million jury verdict against L-3 Communications Corp. over the use of Lockheed's proprietary data and trade secrets. Also in 2009, a Kansas electronics design and manufacturing company was awarded nearly $17.5 million in actual and punitive damages in a lawsuit alleging misappropriation of trade secrets. And a $5.8 million settlement was recently reached in a corporate raiding case in Delaware between two office supply companies, one of which allegedly hired away a slew of employees and took confidential information from the other. Regardless of the cost, corporate raiding has seemingly become a mainstream business practice. How can you prevent the illegal pilfering of your employees and valuable business information?
In the absence of any agreement between employer and employee to the contrary, employees are entitled to compete in business with their former employers. Covenants not to compete are employment agreements whereby the employee promises not to compete with the employer upon termination of employment for a specific period of time and within a particular geographic area. A growing number of employers use non-competition agreements to protect trade secrets, intellectual property interests, and consumer goodwill. Generally, courts disfavor non-competition agreements because they restrain trade, but they can be enforced in many states if certain requirements are met. Most jurisdictions will enforce a restrictive covenant that's restricted by a reasonable time period – generally one or two years – and geography. However, in states like California and others, restrictive covenants are not enforceable. Non-competition agreements may also be prohibited or limited for certain professions, such as health care providers.
Another way to protect your employees and/or customer relationships is to require employees to sign a non-solicitation agreement obligating the employee to refrain from soliciting your employees for a set, reasonable period of time after his departure. This helps prevent the common corporate raiding scenario of a competitor hiring someone and using that person to recruit other employees. An alternative to traditional restrictive covenants includes a forgivable loan, which acts as a hiring bonus in the form of a loan that does not have to be repaid if an employee remains with the employer for a certain amount of time. If the employee leaves the company before that time, the employee must repay the balance to the company.
To safeguard their trade secrets, companies also use confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements. To do so effectively, employers must be clear with employees that their business strategies, customer lists, software programs, etc. are confidential trade secrets that permit their business to enjoy an advantage over its competitors. This requires them to expend money and effort to guard the secrecy of such information and otherwise ensure that it cannot be easily acquired or duplicated by others.
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What are the top duties in your current position?
A great way to prepare for your interview is to reflect on the main tasks in your current position and how that experience would make you a strong candidate for the job for which you are applying. The interviewer wants to know if you have the knowledge and skills required to be successful in this position. Make sure you are familiar with the job description before your interview! You will want to draw on that valuable information.
"The top duties in my current position are to deliver exceptional customer service, attempt to upsell every existing client at every touch point, and conduct 50 outbound cold calls per week. I understand that the primary skills you are seeking are in cold calling, up-selling, and customer service. I see a great match between my current job duties and this particular position."
"In my current role, being a solid organizer is the name of the game. I am the administrative support for the VP and President of the company. My day includes arranging their schedules, booking their travel, ordering lunch for meetings, and more. I do it all!"
"Some of the top duties I perform in my current position include succession planning, strategic planning and talent reviews across the organization. Together with other leaders, we work closely to drive such top initiatives. I see in your job posting that you mentioned KPI tracking and strategic planning a few times. I am certainly well versed in those areas."
"Currently, my position focuses both on helping to strategize content as well as its execution. I am responsible for taking a broad category, for instance, "new recipe blog post" and developing the recipe, writing the post, and sharing the content. This approach applies to social media and email marketing as well. I have a small amount of direction and then am left to develop the content, write, edit, schedule, and post it, as well as shoot the photos and work on any graphics included in the campaign."
"My top duties include scheduling my team's shifts, projections, and forecasting, directing the merchandising of apparel and accessories, and assisting with buying decisions. I know that my current position aligns perfectly with the skill set you mentioned in your job posting."
"Currently, I am responsible for the development of a new territory via a combination of both inside and outside sales. I handle the full sales cycle, from prospecting to customer acquisition, and order placing to negotiation on the individual sales themselves. I would say my top priorities in my job are customer service, prospecting and pitching, and closing the sale. I'm comfortable with the entire sales process, front to back, and believe those are the skills your organization is looking for."
"My primary duty is to ensure the physical and educational well-being of my students. In an average day, I am teaching, marking, being a mentor, and also coaching the girls' volleyball team on the side. I play an active part in my school and the community."
1. Have you requested extra responsibilities in any of your previous roles?
4. Do you prefer doing work on a routine day-to-day basis or do you prefer mixing up your routine occasionally?
Manage cash flow of the deposits that we received and apply them to the correct advisor. Request check requests and apply the charges properly. Communicate with our advisors.
In my current position my top duties are vary quite a bit, all of my jobs require different responsibilities. Currently I am a Personal support worker where my duty is to care for my client, I am also a waitress where my duties are to care for my customers, I also am doing my placement at LifeLabs at the moment and my top duties as a student are to carry out the tasks asked from me as best as possible in each department that I am learning from.
I case manage up to 76 customers in finding employment.
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Supercompensation is the idea that exercise initially weakens the body, but it repairs itself to become stronger.
There is a natural human belief that if some is good, more is better. This idea is all too often false, and can be destructive with training. There's an old adage that "running does not make you a fitter, it's the rest that follows running that makes you fitter". Getting the right balance of running and rest is a critical part of your training.
It's well accepted that exercise is a critical part of improving fitness, and there are many different Endurance Adaptations that occur. The primary mechanism for these adaptations is that exercise causes damage and this damage is repaired to be stronger than before the exercise. This is seen in the fatigue that occurs after exercise, and the need for rest. The term for this mechanism is Supercompensation, and is a key principle for creating training programs. One way of evaluating a training program is Training Monotony which looks at the variation in daily training stress. Higher values of Training Monotony indicate that each day's training is similar, while lower values indicate greater variations. Higher levels of Training Monotony are associated with reduced benefits and a greater risk of Overtraining Syndrome. This need to optimize the ratio and timing of exercise and rest has been known for many years. Weight training regimes have exercised particular muscle groups on alternating days and most endurance training programs have used harder days and easier days.
A common approach to optimizing Supercompensation and Training Monotony is to have 3 or fewer hard training days combined with a number of easier days. For this approach to work, the easy days need to be sufficiently easy. Carl Foster said "for best results make your hard days very, very hard and your easy days very, very easy". Running on the easy days is often referred to as "junk miles" as the only result of these miles is impaired recovery. If the benefits of training go down as the effort on easy days increases, why run at all on the easy days? So far I have found no evidence to indicate there is any training benefit from running on the easy days. In fact, all the evidence supports Supercompensation and Training Monotony, therefore I recommend running only 3-4 days of the week for optimal results.
The correct balance of exercise stress, rest, and the timing of the two is important for achieving improved fitness.
There are various patterns of running that I would generally recommend. I'll use an abbreviation for the patterns, where each day is a character, with 'R' for a running day and 'x' for a day off or a cross training day. So "RxRxRxx" would be running the first, third and fifth days with the other four off.
3 days/week (RxRxRxx). This is the pattern used by FIRST, which is the only marathon training plan I've found that has performed scientific studies to evaluate its effectiveness. Running 3 days/week requires that every day is hard, and typically involves a Long Run and two speedwork days. The ratio of running to rest gives 2 days of rest, and these typically follow the long run.
4 days/week (RxRxRRx). Having two back to back running days allows for one training day that has incomplete recovery. Typically these two back to back days are used for long runs, so that the second day simulates a longer distance Long Run.
4 days/week (RRxRRxx). It is possible to arrange 4 days/week as two sets of back to back days, but this is not common. If all the running days are Long Runs then fatigue will build up over the five RRxRR days, and the two consecutive rest days will be needed for recovery.
3.5 days/week. Running every other day is a great pattern, but logistically it is hard to organize.
If your running is not hard enough to require 48 hours recovery, you may be better off running more often.
If you are just Starting to run then you may not running hard enough to require the days off. However, I believe that 3 days/week is probably optimal.
If you are running for fun and not pushing your body hard, then running 5-6 days a week may work for you.
If you have DOMS, such as after a long race, more frequent Recovery Runs may help.
During a Taper it may be appropriate to increase frequency while dramatically reducing intensity and duration. Currently there is insufficient evidence to reach a recommendation.
One of the complaints concerning running 3 or 4 days/week is that every run is hard and therefore there is no running for fun. Sometimes a short, easy run can provide mental benefits, and these can be worthwhile overall, even if these "mental health runs" degrade the overall training program effectiveness.
Running hard or long everyday will build up cumulative fatigue as the body does not have sufficient time to recover. If this is kept up too longer, then some type of failure will occur; either injury or some form of Overtraining. However, it is possible to run for a number of days consecutively, building up deeper cumulative fatigue, and then taking a longer rest period. This is one of the principles of the Three Phase Taper.
Running 3 or 4 days/week does not mean running at most once per day. It can be effective or necessary to run more than once per day while running fewer days per week. Running more than once in a day can provide some of the training stress of a single longer run.
Running is different to many other forms of exercise because a large portion of the training stress is eccentric, and eccentric exercise tends to require a longer recovery period. Performing some non-eccentric cross training such as cycling may be possible between running days without unduly compromising recovery. The research performed with the FIRST training program suggests that this cross training may be useful.
The FIRST plan is based around running three days a week, and is the only plan I am aware of that has undergone scientific evaluation about its effectiveness. Hal Higdon's Advanced II Marathon plan has 6 days of running, but two days are trivial. Jeff Galloway uses four days/week. The Runner's World beginners plan is four days/week. (The RW intermediary & advanced are 5 days.) Jack Daniels defines just two work outs a week, and leaves it up to you how you fit in the other miles.
A study of six untrained subjects looked at how training frequency effected both recovery and gains in fitness. The study compared intermittent cycle training three times per week (low frequency) with training five times per week (high frequency). The low frequency training had a recovery time of 0.9 days, but the high frequency had a recovery time of 3.6 days. In addition, the high frequency training produced lower benefits from the training effort.
'Active Recovery' can refer to doing low intensity exercise between the work periods of Interval Training, which is effective.
Doing gentle exercise immediately after intense exercise as a Cooldown may have some benefits. There is anecdotal evidence that walking for 20-30 minutes after a Long Run reduces muscle soreness.
I did my first ultra in 2005 using a fairly conventional pattern of running. I would run six days a week, with two days as the long run back-to-back days. Around July 2008 I started to focus on making my hard days harder and my easy days easier. Gradually this became more extreme, and I won my first race in April 2009. In August 2009 I started running 4 days/week and I found my performance continue to improve. I tried running more frequently for six months and found it ineffective and counterproductive.
I have found the most effective pattern for me is to run four days a week. I aim to run 16-27 miles, which gives me lots of long running, with enough rest to support that mileage.
Two of my runs are back to back. The idea is that I have not fully recovered from Friday when I do the Saturday run, so I am doing a Long Run on tired legs. I do this because I cannot afford the time that it would take to run the distances that would otherwise be required. I consider Friday/Saturday to be a single training unit, though not as effective as the mileage would be if I could do it on a single day.
If I were training for the marathon distance or shorter, I would train three days per week. For these shorter races it would not be as difficult to get an adequately long Long Run.
I will occasionally do extra "mental health runs", but I keep these short, typically only 10-15% of the length of my usual runs.
During the Overload part of a Three Phase Taper I will normally run long distances 6-7 days per week.
My frequency for reduced training part of the Taper tends to vary. Sometimes I will run more frequently, but with a dramatic reduction in duration.
If I'm recovering, either from a race or injury, I will often run short distances more frequently. This sometimes includes recovering from Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness.
Occasionally I will run twice a day, but typically the second run is for Heat Acclimation Training rather than to fit in extra miles.
This is a histogram of how frequently I've been running in 2013. As you can see, I normally run 4 days/week, though I sometimes run more frequently as noted above.
Running 3-4 days a week is not just tough physically; it's tough mentally as well. Obviously it is tough to run hard enough to need the 48 hours recovery. However, the feeling that days off mean not doing enough, or that a rest day will cause fitness to dissipate is corrosive.
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Giant in the Playground Forums > Gaming > Homebrew Design > Magic Items Contest!
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1.) You will be creating at least 5 items, one from each of the following categories, plus 2 others from any category.
1a.) You may create more items if you wish. *A series of items like bracers of armour that have multiple versions but at different modifiers will count as only one item.
2.) All items created must be thematically linked. The theme is up to you, but it must be clearly stated at the start of your entry post. *Stating that all items were created by the same person is not enough of a theme; they should all relate to the same type of person, place, effect, motif, etc. Feel free to include flavour text for how the spells were created and for what purpose.
4.) All items will need to list the relevant details as per standard descriptions, including magical aura, CL, feats & spells required for construction and cost as appropriate for the item.
Website Staff Award (this will not be voted on by the general public, but judged by Amber, Rich and the Mods).
Edited to include psionic items.
Up to and including artifacts? What about Epic level items? Or is this more of magic for the common people?
I'd say whatever you think would be suitable.
Even though personally, I think rule 1 is pointlessly restrictive. A suit of armor (cuirass, pauldrons, greaves, gauntlets etc.) plus fitting weaponry could make a great set, but you can't do it because it wouldn't have a ring, rod, etc. Similarly, a full outfit for a powerful magus (who'd find actual hand-to-hand combat beneath him) would be interesting, but can't be done because of the mandatory weapon inclusion. Ah, too bad.
In the hope that more people will be able to benefit from the submissions, I'm going to rule that the 5 items will need to be non epic and not including artifacts. You shouldn't be surprised to see the item within the relevant section in the DMG.
If you wish to create more items, feel free to do so. These can be epic level items and artifacts and may well help you with votes for "Best Set".
I also disagree with the restrictions on item types. It makes it much harder to actually design a "set" of items, and pulls the contest more into the realm of "multiple items with no thematic connection but held together by a thin thread of cheesy plot because the creator HAS to have a wand included in his set of equipment that was once wielded by a powerful warrior." I suppose I can roll with it, however, since I have to.
Appologies if you feel rule 1 is pointlessly restrictive. I will disagree though.
I designed these rules so that a broad range of magical items would be created. If you wish to create designed primarily for a fighter, you still can. For example 2 weapons, a suit of armour, a ring and a helm (as they appear within wonderous items).
Your archmage? Many of those will still carry a weapon of some sort, even if it's a dagger. You only need to design one weapon, the rest can be from the other section.
It should at least encourage a series of simple weapons that an archmage, might actually consider useful to take along with him.
Alright, I can live with it I suppose.
One more question: Can we use psionic items? For example, can we have a dorje in place of a rod/staff/ring? Or a psicrown in place of a wondrous item?
Thinking about it, yes psionic items can be entered.
I'd leave out dorjes out of the 5 for the same reason I left wands, potions and scrolls out. They just allow an existing spell/power to be cast. *I'd also say the same for psionic tattoos and power stones. *As before, if you want to add them as extra "flavour" to your entry feel free.
I'd say that Psicrowns are more similar to staffs than generic wondrous items, so they can go in that category.
I'll edit the rules to reflect this change.
If you wish to create designed primarily for a fighter, you still can. For example 2 weapons, a suit of armour, a ring and a helm (as they appear within wonderous items).
Yes, but that still doesn't address the issue of sets where the common feature is NOT the identity of the owner. What about, say, 5 magical elemental bows created by the same mystic fletcher? (Or 5 swords by a mystic blacksmith, or 5 staves/rings by a mystic enchanter, etc.) Certainly a set that follows a strong theme, but no way to fit it around the rules. "Set" doesn't necessarily mean they're used by one single person.
I also think that rule #1 is a bad idea. That rules out both the item set ideas that have been shared so far: White Blade's biblical set doesn't include a weapon (unless he, say calls Araon's staff a weapon rather than a staff), while his katana set is.. well, composed entiraly of katanas.
The Regalia of Evil from the Book of Vile Darkness has a crown, a rod, and an orb but no weapon or armor. Monte's various Rods of Branding, from the Complete Book of Eldritch Might, are all rods. The Orbs of Dragonkind are all orbs. All awesome item sets.
At the risk of seeming like I'm sucking up (only mildly) or angering anyone (not intended), I have no problem with rule # 1 at all. *In fact, with a little imagination it becoems quite easy to fulfill the requirements of the contest while staying within its confines and making a plausible set of items, completely cheese, dairy and lactose free! *Creating a set of five identical items with different properties is not as challenging, IMHO.
Oh, sorry, one more question: May we have multiple entries? Not more than one sets of armor in a set, but say two complete sets different in makeup, theme and everything?
Guys your making a big deal out of nothing, you only have ti have one of each catogory, then its free rain as many as you want. I'll get my entrey up soon, but I am still debating wether to use the weapon that murdered able, or david's sling..
I didn't think running a contest cause this much grief so quickly!
There are many different variations I could have gone for with a design some magic items; Design a set of weapons, Staffs for all comers, Rods and Rings etc etc etc.
Rather than just go design 5 magical items I figured that a little restriction would mean that you'd have to push yourselves slightly by having to think about bringing in an item you wouldn't maybe have done.
Also it makes it easier to compare between entries than 5 katanas vs 5 rings. My initial thoughts were just wonderous items, but I thought that would be restrictive against those with ideas for weapons. One just for weapons would cut out all the other items people might want to do.
My comprimise was to give you some flexibility (ie the spare two items), but also make you think about some of the other kinds of magic items there are. and integrate them.
Sorry, but I really didn't think you'd all be so unhappy with the choice. I rather hoped you'd rise to the challenge.
Oh, sorry, one more question: *May we have multiple entries? *Not more than one sets of armor in a set, but say two complete sets different in makeup, theme and everything?
No problems with that at all. As many seperate entries as your imagination allows.
More challenging, yes: in the sense that it rules out some possibly cool ideas and makes the writer come up with new ones which may or may not be better than what he had in mind origionaly, but will more closely resemble the entry of the poster next to him. I'm not sure that that's a good thing.
I may still enter, but my first two sparks of inspiration (a set of rings linking the members of an elite assemblage of mages, and a set of thematicaly-related weapons and sheilds) will have to be discarded, and while I'm sure I will come up with something I'm not sure it will be as cool.
I would go with Kane's weapon. I mean, it was the first weapon used to kill a human, ever. Making David's sling magical might be a streatch, but in even a low-fantasy world how could the first murder weapon ever not be tainted with residual evil?
Edit: Er..... White Blade did I just remove your post by accident or was that you??
You can have mortal-level magic items that are completely unique, you know. The only disadvantage is that they can be broken or negated by other mortal magics. So, if I were you, I would make the least of the items as magic items with high caster-levels and call the big ones (like the holy grail and such) artifacts.
Yes, basicly I was joking. *That was a dramatization, I'm realy quite willing to agree to disagree. *Things would get pretty weird otherwise.
The truth of the statement was this: debate is second nature to me, especialy when I'm pretty sure I'm right (which is essentialy all the time). *So, if I disagree you, don't take it personaly. *It doesn't mean I'm angry or that I'm trying to be hostile or anything, I just disagree.
You haven't caused me any greif. *I'm happy that you got the contest going. *And most of all, I'm sorry that you took my comments as flack, because I didn't mean them as a complaint and didn't mean any harm or slight at all by them.
This doesn't half get confusing. *::) My posting above about joking was in response to White Blades post on artifacts that dissappeared.
I've still got to say, I'm suprised at the response. *I really am. *It would appear that the contest I have put up is very different to the one you all imagined.
If you really don't like the contest then feel free to not enter. *If you think you can come up with something interesting please do so.
I LOVE The restrictions on this contest!!! It is always better to challenge writers and have every entry touch on a number of mechanical bases! After all, it's just a contest, and they should be able to rise to the challenge anyway!
Hydro, stop trying to break Baron's brain.
Sorry about that. Just a newbie and had brain-explosion jump into my head and a short term memory. That and I didn't read the rest of the posts.
Joking or not joking with me, I just wanted to get it started anyways.
White Blade is (mostly) joking (I think). At this point, I think Baron's rules are pretty much what it's going to be, and even if they should change, your entry would probably still work.
In any case, you may want to link your entry in your post, or at least identify it.
It wouldnt be much of a challenge if we could do whatever we wanted, now would it?
Yes, it WOULD be a challenge still. The challenge should arise from the need to create believable, interesting, novel, useful entries with high quality writing and rules, and not from having to conform to an ultimately arbitrary set of restrictions.
Or to put it in another way, such restrictions WOULD pose a challenge, but this challenge does not necessarily translate into QUALITY.
Rules are as they are.
Feel free to have a ten minute sulk about them, before trying to create wonderous magical items.
And no, no Wondrous Items for me, I'll just skip this competition with these rules. Funny it was me who suggested it in the first place.
Let's be clear: I wholeheartedly approved Baron's guidelines BEFORE he posted them. Difficult guidelines help separate the wheat from the chaff. If restrictive rules squash your creativity, then how creative are you, really?
Let's not forget that the first contest here required you to base a class off of your screen name--about as byzantine a requirement as I can think of.
I'm quite certian that we are all creative enough to create a set of magic items spread out across multiple item types one way or another. That isn't the point.
In my opinion, the "base your class off of your screen name" restriction made the contest more fun and interesting, even if the resulting entries weren't as good as those of a general "design a class" contest would have been.
In my opinion, the restrictions in this contest make the contest less fun and interesting, and the entries won't be as good as those of a general "design an item set" contest would have been.
I agree that restrictions can be a good thing, but only if they somehow add more to the contest than they take away.
I'll be entering, but I'm still working on what. Hey Premier, if you've got an idea for a set that doesn't fit into the contest why don't you post it for us in the Gaming forum?
Let's be clear: I wholeheartedly approved Baron's guidelines BEFORE he posted them.
Difficult guidelines help separate the wheat from the chaff.
I would agree with that, if you were talking strictly about quality- or format requirements, but in this case, my beef is with the content limitations. Sure, there should be rules to make sure that the entries reach a certain level of quality - descriptions and statistics should be detailed enough to be usable, there should be a minimum X number of items, etc. etc. However, the rule in question is NOT such a rule. A set of, say, five helmets could be just as well- or poorly done as a set of 1 helmet, 1 armor, 1 sword, 1 ring and 1 staff, so this limitation does NOT actually set some sort of minimum quality bar - unless you believe that a set of items of various types is inherently better then a set of similar type items - which I'm sure you don't.
If restrictive rules squash your creativity, then how creative are you, really?
I feel this to be besides the point of this debate. Nobody here has argued that the rule is "too hard" for them; they argued that it prevents them from creating something - possibly VERY creative and original - for no good reason. Again: How is a set of 5 different items supposed to be inherently more creative than a set of 5 similar ones?
Yes, and it was great fun. However, and perhaps this is my greatest beef with the whole matter, it worked as advertised. It was a contest called "Screen Name Contest", and you had to do a writeup for your screen name - perfect unity of name and function. It was NOT called "Fantasy Name Contest" with a restrictive bylaw in the rules stating that you can use any fantasy name as long as it's your screen name and nothing else.
I think I'll telll the mods why we are giving them so much slack at least why I am.
This wasn't an orphan project, we liked it before the mods came in, we were all very intrested and considered making it unoffically before the mods announced they were making it offical. And while challenges are good, there is a point of too much, for instance I have no beef with the main rules, but I was going to make a actuall set of artiacts. They were banned from the thing on a post other than the main on.
In the spirt of good sportsmenship (and I don't want the mods to never use one o the non mod ideas again) I'll make a item set.
Tools of the Battlemage (http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Contests;action=display;num=11073782 10) is up.
Oriental Objects (http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Contests;action=display;num=11073828 53;start=0#0) Is up and fufills requirements.
Utilities for the Aspiring Vampire (http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Contests;action=display;num=11074807 29) is up.
I have posted [Magic Items] Al-Kithrim's Comforts of Home (http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Contests;action=display;num=11074876 59) for your consideration.
I'm not boycotting, I'm just stumped for ideas.
Accessories of the prepared trickster are now available for a gander.
Items of Intellect (http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Contests;action=display;num=11076500 55). I sure as hell hope that intelligent items is a valid theme.
Just jumping in late on the argument. I love the restrictions. They give me something for my ideas to grow around. You'll be seeing a set from me in a bit.
As promised, equipment of the Darellan Elves is up. I'd love to hear any input, good or bad, as I'm still new to designing magic items.
I would like to participate in a contest like this, but I don't have the foggiest idea how to determine some of the info that folks include, such as caster level, the needed spells, price, cost, etc.
Is this all in the DMG somewhere and I've just missed it?
Any help for a n00b would be greatly appreciated.
Yes, it's in the back of the 3.0 dmg, right after the core magic items (and presumably somewhere similar in the 3.5 one).
Thanks Hydro, I will check it out.
im in a similar position to ax, this is my fist time at actually designing something so any fedback would be most welcome!
I have just entered my "Weapons of The Fellowship".
Anyway.. same problem as the others I just notice. Having little clue how to properly calculate the costs and creation stuff. I can get halfway a little, but some of the DMG texts confuse me a bit.
Well, once I get my entry up I'll see if I can go around and give you guys all a hand.
Oh, and welcome to the forums dude! ^_^Thanks!
Does the thematic link have to be apparent to the characters who might use these items? For example, I've got an idea rattling around in my head of basing my items off of items, ideas, metaphors, etc. from some operas by a particular composer. Does that qualify as a thematic link, or would the characters using these items have to be able to recognize them as a group of some kind?
Does the thematic link have to be apparent to the characters who might use these items? *For example, I've got an idea rattling around in my head of basing my items off of items, ideas, metaphors, etc. from some operas by a particular composer. *Does that qualify as a thematic link, or would the characters using these items have to be able to recognize them as a group of some kind?
Hmmm. I'll say yes that's OK. If you could get some in game rationale in though, it might make it easier for people to justify adding a set of items into their game.
Could you twist things slightly so that the metaphors etc were from an in game wizard/bard maybe?
If you can't, still go ahead, but ensure there is an obvious connection for the items please.
After quickly glancing through the entries, it seems no one has stolen my idea... albeit they would have had to of stole it before i HAD the idea in the first place... But I digress.. Mwahahaha.
Question: We can post them and then continue to edit during the course of the month correct?
Also would a Bracer of armor like item be a Armor item or a wonderous item for this purpose? My guess would be Wonderous.... but I'd just like to be sure.
... and bracers are indeed wondrous items.
Here is my entry. I hope it is sufficiently thematically, erh, themed.
The thread for the Sentinel's Devices is now useless flotsam. Lock away, or whatnot.
The Dark Sorcery of an Enslaved Mind (http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Contests;action=display;num=11089442 90) A little late, though.
Do we need to give the prices on all the items? Not everyone has.
As we're moving towards the close of the competition, can people please do any tidying up of their entries please.
Put all the items into single post at the beginning of the thread, put the costs with each item, etc etc.
Just to make it easy for people to read them and judge them.
So we do need cost? What if we're noobs who don't know how to figure cost?
We haven't started voting yet have we?
It's not too hard to work out.
I think voting starts on the 28th.
What if we're noobs who don't know how to figure cost?
Here (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/creatingMagicItems.htm#magicItemGoldPieceValues) ya go. Enjoy. If you still have problems pricing, ask individually in the thread you've created for your items: I expect many of us will be more than happy to help you out.
Putting costs, auras, etc lets a DM see your brilliant idea for an item and just drop it into their game easily.
No voting hasn't started yet, I was just asking for people to make their entries in preparation for the voting which starts on the 1st of March.
These are done. These are my fun items entry.
An entry for your consideration, designed for the Arcane Tank: a mage who casts spells while wearing heavy armor.
Sigh, last night I just came up with my items only to discover the contest ended on the same day.
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If this story, BREAKING on the Reuters web site, is true: ~ “North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un pledged his commitment to denuclearization and to meet U.S. officials, China said on Wednesday after his meeting with President Xi Jinping …” ~ then it is a HUGE step forward for regional peace and security.
It also means that Xi Jinping has trumped US President Donald Trump, who is now, reduced to the role of “bit player” in the Korea nuclear standoff; further, his trade war against China will look, at best, mean spirited. IF this is true, IF it can be brought to fruition then it means that Xi Jinping is the real “peacemaker” and China, not America, is the “indispensable nation” in Asia.
The next logical step, for China, is to foster less hostile relations between Pyongyang and Seoul, as a prelude to reunification. The next logical step for America is to completely rethink its Asian strategy.
That puts the diplomatic ball in President Trump’s court. Kim will likely offer “denuclearization” in a form that President Trump cannot accept but that might appeal to South Korea. President Trump risks being isolated and cast into the role of deal-breaker ~ neither of which are likely to bother him. But Xi Jinping will emerge as a sincere peace-maker.
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You have a computer that runs Windows 7. The computer has System Protection enabled.
You need to retain only the last System Protection snapshot of the computer. All other snapshots must be deleted.
A. Run Disk Cleanup for Programs and features.
B. Run Disk Cleanup for System Restore and Shadow Copies.
C. From the System Protection Restore settings, select Turn off System Restore.
D. From the System Protection Restore settings, select Only restore previous versions of files.
Shadow copies are automatically saved as part of a restore point. If system protection is enabled, Windows 7 automatically creates shadow copies of files that have been modified since the last restore point was created. By default, new restore points are created every seven days or whenever a significant system change (such as a driver or application installation) occurs.
You plan to deploy an image of the computer.
You create an answer file named answer.xml.
You need to ensure that the installation applies the answer file after you deploy the image.
Which command should you run before you capture the image?
A. Imagex.exe /append answer.xml /check.
B. Imagex.exe /mount answer.xml /verify.
C. Sysprep.exe /reboot /audit /unattend:answer.xml.
D. Sysprep.exe /generalize /oobe /unattend:answer.xml.
To prepare the reference computer for the user, you use the Sysprep utility with the /generalize option to remove hardware-specific information from the Windows installation and the /oobe option to configure the computer to boot to Windows Welcome upon the next restart. Open an elevated command prompt on the reference computer and run the following command: c:\windows\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe /oobe /generalize /shutdown Sysprep prepares the image for capture by cleaning up various user-specific and computer-specific settings, as well as log files. The reference installation now is complete and ready to be imaged.
You have a computer that runs Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2).
You need to upgrade the computer to Windows 7.
A. Start the computer from the Windows 7 installation media and select the Upgrade option.
B. Start the computer from the Windows 7 installation media and select the Custom (advanced) option.
C. From Windows Vista, run Setup.exe from the Windows 7 installation media and select the Upgrade option.
D. From Windows Vista, run Setup.exe from the Windows 7 installation media and select the Custom option.
7. A similar compatibility report is generated during the upgrade process, but the version created by the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor is more likely to be up to date.
Sysprep is a tool designed for corporate system administrators, OEMs, and others who need to deploy the Windows?XP operating system on multiple computers. After performing the initial setup steps on a single system, you can run Sysprep to prepare the sample computer for cloning. Sysprep prepares the image for capture by cleaning up various user-specific and computer-specific settings, as well as log files. The reference installation now is complete and ready to be imaged.NOT ImagexImageX is a command- line tool that enables original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and corporations to capture, to modify, and to apply file-based disk images for rapid deployment. ImageX works with Windows image (.wim) files for copying to a network, or it can work with other technologies that use .wim images, such as Windows Setup, Windows Deployment Services (Windows DS), and the System Management Server (SMS) Operating System Feature Deployment Pack.NOT DismDeployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) is a command-line tool used to service Windows?images offline before deployment. You can use it to install, uninstall, configure, and update Windows features, packages, drivers, and international settings. Subsets of the DISM servicing commands are also available for servicing a running operating systemNOT WpeutilThe Windows PE utility (Wpeutil) is a command-line tool that enables you to run various commands in a Windows PE session. For example, you can shut down or restart Windows PE, enable or disable a firewall, set language settings, and initialize a network.
You have a new computer that does not have an operating system installed.
You have a virtual hard disk (VHD) that contains an installation of Windows 7.
You start the computer from the Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE).
You create a partition on the computer and copy the VHD to the partition.
You need to configure the computer to start from the VHD.
You now want to apply this customized image to the hard disks of two new computers you have purchased without operating systems.
You boot each computer in turn from the Windows PE media and use ImageX to install the image. Your final step, to make the image bootable, is to use BCDboot from Windows PE to initialize the BCD store and copy boot environment files to the system partition. When you reboot each new computer, it will boot into Windows 7 and will have the same settings configured and applications installed as your original computer. Take care you are not violating any licensing conditions.
Your network contains 100 computers that run Windows XP.
You need to identify which applications installed on all of the computers can run on Windows 7. You must achieve this goal by using the minimum amount of administrative effort.
The Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 5.6 enables software developers, independent software vendors (ISVs), and IT professionals who work in a corporate environment to determine, before deployment within the organization, whether their applications are compatible with a new version of the Windows operating system. ACT also enables such individuals to determine how an update to the new version will affect their applications.
– Verify your application’s, device’s, and computer’s compatibility with a new version of the Windows operating system, including determining your risk assessment.
– Verify a Windows update’s compatibility, including determining your risk assessment.
– Become involved in the ACT Community, including sharing your application assessment with other ACT users.
– Test your applications for issues related to User Account Control (UAC) by using the Standard User Analyzer (SUA) tool.
– Test your Web applications and Web sites for compatibility with new releases and security updates to Internet Explorer? by using the Internet Explorer Compatibility Test Tool.
Your network consists of a single IPv4 subnet. The subnet contains 20 computers that run Windows 7.
You add a new computer named Computer1 to the subnet.
You discover that Computer1 has an IP address of 169.254.34.12.
You cannot connect to other computers on the network. Other computers on the network can connect to each other.
You need to ensure that you can connect to all computers on the network. What should you do?
A. Turn off Windows Firewall.
C. Configure a static TCP/IP address.
D. Run Netsh.exe interface ipv4 install.
When you assign a static IP address, you need to tell the computer the IP address you want to use, the subnet mask for this IP address, and, if necessary, the default gateway to use for internetwork communications. An IP address is a numeric identifier for a computer. Ip addressing schemes vary according to how your network is configured, but they’re normally assigned based on a particular network segment.
Your network consists of an Active Directory domain named contoso.com.
You have a computer named computer1.contoso.com.
Your network is configured to use only IPv6.
You need to request that a DNS record be created to enable users to connect to your computer by using the name dev.contoso.com.
Which type of record should you request?
The resolution of host names to IPv6 addresses is accomplished through DNS (apart from link-local addresses that are not stored by DNS and resolve automatically). The procedure is the same as for IPv4 address resolution with the computer name and IPv6 address pair being stored in a AAAA (quad-A) DNS resource record, which is equivalent to an A or host record for IPv4. Reverse DNS lookup that returns a computer name for an IPv6 address is implemented by a pointer (PTR) DNS resource record that is referred to the IPv6 reverse lookup zone (or tree) ipv6.arpa, which is the equivalent of the in-addr.arpa reverse lookup zone in Ipv4.
AAAAAn AAAA (quad-A) resource record resolves a host name to an IPv6 address.AAn A (address) resource record resolves a host name to an IPv4 address.HINFOHost information (HINFO) resource record. Specifies the type of CPU and operating system in the cpu_type and os_type fields, respectively, for the host DNS domain name in the owner field. Well-known CPU and operating system types that are most often used are noted in RFC 1700. This information can be used by application protocols such as FTP, which use special procedures when communicating with computers of a known CPU and operating system type.
The NAPTR represents a Naming Authority Pointer. NAPTR records map between sets of URNs, URLs and plain domain names and suggest to clients what protocol should be used to talk to the mapped resource. Each NAPTR record contains a service name, a set of flags, a regexp rule, an order value, a preference and a replacement. Multiple records can be chained together in a cascade to rewrite URIs in fairly sophisticated, but deterministic ways. These cascading rules have been standardized in RFC2915 and RFC3403.
Your network has a main office and a branch office. The branch office has five client computers that run Windows 7. All servers are located in the main office. All servers have BranchCache enabled. Users at the branch office report that it takes several minutes to open large files located in the main office.
You need to minimize the amount of time it takes for branch office users to open files located in the main office. The solution must also reduce the amount of bandwidth used between the two offices.
A. At the main office, configure the Quality of Service (QoS) Packet Scheduler on all servers.
B. At the main office, configure the servers to use Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS).
C. At the branch office, configure the client computers to use BranchCache Hosted Cache mode.
D. At the branch office, configure the client computers to use BranchCache Distributed Cache mode.
Distributed Cache ModeDistributed Cache mode uses peer caching to host the branch office cache among clients running Windows 7 on the branch office network. This means that each Distributed Cache mode client hosts part of the cache, but no single client hosts all the cache. When a client running Windows 7 retrieves content over the WAN, it places that content into its own cache. If another BranchCache client running Windows 7 attempts to access the same content, it is able to access that content directly from the first client rather than having to retrieve it over the WAN link. When it accesses the file from its peer, it also copies that file into its own cache. The advantage of distributed cache mode is that you can deploy it without having to deploy a server running Windows Server 2008 R2 locally in each branch office. The drawback of Distributed Cache mode is that the contents of the cache available on the branch office LAN depend on which clients are currently online. If a client needs a file that is held in the cache of a computer that is shut down, the client needs to retrieve the file from the host server across the WAN.Hosted Cache ModeHosted Cache mode uses a centralized local cache that hosted on a branch office server running Windows Server 2008 R2. You can enable the hosted cache server functionality on a server running Windows Server 2008 R2 that you use for other functions without a significant impact on performance. This is because if you found that files hosted at another location across the WAN were being accessed so frequently that there was a performance impact, you would use a solution like Distributed File System (DFS) to replicate them to the branch office instead of using BranchCache. The advantage of Hosted Cache mode over Distributed Cache mode is that the cache is centralized and always available. Parts of the distributed cache become unavailable when the clients hosting them shut down.Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)The Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) has two role services: the Compact Server and the IIS Server Extension. The Compact Server is a stand-alone HTTP or HTTPS file server, whereas the IIS Server Extension is an Internet Information Services (IIS) plug-in that requires a server running IIS. IIS Server ExtensionThe BITS IIS Server Extension lets you configure a server that is running IIS to allow BITS clients to perform background, resumable file uploads to IIS virtual directories. On completion of a file upload, the BITS Server can notify a Web application of the newly uploaded file. This allows the application to process the uploaded file. The Web application can then optionally reply to the client responsible for the upload.Compact ServerThe BITS Compact Server is a stand- alone HTTP or HTTPS file server, which allows applications to host files for BITS clients to download, and allows the asynchronous transfer of a limited number of large files between computers.QoS Packet SchedulerThe Quality of Service Packet Scheduler is a Windows platform component that is enabled by default on Windows Vista and Windows XP computers. It is, however, not enabled by default on Windows 2003 computers. This scheduler is designed to control the IP traffic for various network services, including Real Time Communications traffic. This component must be installed and enabled if the QoS markings described earlier for audio and video traffic are to be implemented by the IP stack.
You create an Encrypting File System (EFS) recovery key and certificate.
You need to ensure that your user account can decrypt all EFS files on the computer.
A. From Credential Manager, add a Windows credential.
B. From Credential Manager, add a certificate-based credential.
C. From the local computer policy, add a data recovery agent.
D. From the local computer policy, modify the Restore files and directories setting.
Recovery Agents are certificates that allow the restoration of EFS encrypted files. When a recovery agent has been specified using local policies, all EFS encrypted files can be recovered using the recovery agent private key.
You should specify a recovery agent before you allow users to encrypt files on a client running Windows 7.
You can recover all files that users encrypt after the creation of a recovery agent using the recovery agent’s private key.
You are not able to decrypt files that were encrypted before a recovery agent certificate was specified.
1. Log on to the client running Windows 7 using the first account created, which is the default administrator account.
3. This creates two files: Recoveryagent.cer and Recoveryagent.pfx. Cipher.exe prompts you to specify a password when creating Recoveryagent.pfx.
4. Open the Local Group Policy Editor and navigate to the \Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Public Key Policies\Encrypting File System node. Right-click this node and then click Add Data Recovery Agent. Specify the location of Recoveryagent.cer to specify this certificate as the recovery agent.
5. To recover files, use the certificates console to import Recoveryagent.pfx. This is the recovery agent’s private key. Keep it safe because it can be used to open any encrypted file on the client running Windows 7.
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make things very easy and fast.
1. Always unplug the appliance immediately after using.
2. Do not place or store appliance where it can fall.
3. Do not place in or drop into water or other liquid.
4. If an appliance falls into water, unplug it immediately. Do not reach into the water.
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Prosecutors have offered to buy Scott Peterson's truck to use in his murder trial.
CNN's Kimberly Osias reports on the date set in the Scott Peterson murder trial.
MODESTO, California (CNN) -- Prosecutors in the murder case against Scott Peterson said Friday they want to buy his truck, which they contend he used to ferry the bodies of his wife and unborn son to San Francisco Bay, where they washed ashore in April.
Over objections from prosecutors, Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Al Girolami has ordered that Peterson's truck, which police seized 11 months ago, be returned to him.
At at hearing Friday, Peterson -- who has been making $600 monthly payments on the Ford F-150 pickup -- smiled broadly but said nothing during the discussion over the prosecution's request to buy his truck at fair market value.
But his attorney, Mark Geragos, said, "So now the prosecution is in the used-car business."
The judge said he did not want to get involved, leaving it to defense attorneys and prosecutors to decide whether the truck will be sold. Geragos said the defense is willing to entertain an offer to buy the truck.
Girolami earlier agreed with the defense that the prosecution had had sufficient time to examine the truck and said prosecutors could use an identical truck for any demonstration to jurors.
In last week's court filing opposing the motion by Geragos to return the truck, prosecutors disclosed that they believe it was used to transport Laci Peterson's body to a warehouse rented by Scott Peterson and then on to San Francisco Bay. His blood was found in the cab, which investigators believe could have been the result of a struggle.
Deputy District Attorney Rick Distaso said he needed to keep the truck to show jurors how he believes it was used to transport Laci Peterson's body. He argued that photographs would not suffice.
Last week, Geragos said that if the prosecution believed it needed to keep the truck as evidence, "I'm perfectly willing to sell them the truck."
A "cementlike" material found in the truck bed has been sent to the Justice Department for testing, and Distaso said prosecutors needed to retain the truck in case additional samples were needed.
Geragos also said he would file his request seeking a change of venue on Monday, rather than Friday, as had been expected. He has argued that massive publicity in Stanislaus County has precluded the possibility that his client can get a fair trial in Modesto.
Also Friday, Girolami gave his consent to a telephone survey of people who have already served on a jury in the county this year and who would be ineligible to be on one in the Peterson case.
The prosecution wants to survey people in Sacramento and Los Angeles counties, too, and compare the results with those from Stanislaus County.
Peterson's trial is set to begin January 26. However, hearings in early January on the change of venue motions and motions to dismiss the charges could alter the timetable.
Peterson, 31, is charged with murder in the deaths of his wife and their unborn son. Laci Peterson, 27, who was eight months' pregnant, disappeared from Modesto last Christmas Eve.
With the first anniversary of their deaths approaching, Dr. Benjamin Spindler, medical director of the Delta Blood Bank, said his group had been contacted by a friend of Laci Peterson's family to hold a memorial blood drive from December 21 until December 24.
CNN Correspondent Rusty Dornin and Producer Chuck Afflerbach contributed to this report.
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Lower the Drinking Age from 21 to 18!
Back in the mid-1980's, the minimum legal drinking age was raised on a state and national level from 18 to 21. The theory behind this move was that raising the drinking age would prevent drinking and thereby lower drunk driving accidents among 18, 19, and 20-year-olds.
After some 30 years into this experiment, it has been proven that the higher drinking age of 21 has not led to less drinking among the target age group. Many studies have show, for example, that binge drinking has become more and more of a problem for this age group, especially on college and university campuses.
Furthermore, though organizations such as MADD--Mothers Against Drunk Driving--were among the primary instigators of forcing both state and national legislatures to raise the drinking age from 18 to 21, it has been shown that the real reasons for the decrease in drunk driving fatalities is primarily due to the following factors: 1) Increased public awareness of the problem of drunk driving, 2) increased police focus on drunk driving, 3) increased judicial penalties for those found guilty of drunk driving, and 4) automotive improvements such as shoulder harness restrictors, anti-lock brakes, and airbags, among others, all of which were either very rare or non-existent on most cars in the mid-1980's, but which are now standard on almost all cars today.
In the USA today, 16-year-olds are given the ability to drive, while 18-year-olds are able to legally marry. 18-year-olds can also enlist in the military, and do fight and sometimes die for their country. But when these young veterans come back home after a tour of duty, they are not even legally allowed to order a glass of beer or wine with their dinner. Surely this is an absurd and preposterous situation.
When you take a look at the minimum legal drinking age in other countries around the world, you'll find that the vast majority--roughly 77%--have drinking ages of 18, or sometimes even lower, as it is not uncommon to find a number of European countries that set their drinking age at just 16.
Keeping the drinking age at 21 is both unfair and unjust. This denies young adults privileges and rights to which they should be entitled. Not only is this abnormally high drinking age fostering a general disrespect for the law among many young adults, but it is not even effective in the sole area--reducing drunk driving fatalities--which it claims as it's "raison d'etre."
To sum up, keeping the drinking age at 21 is more or less a form of prohibition, and any student of US history should know that Prohibition was a dismal failure. If young adults can legally marry at 18, and join the military at 18, there is no good reason why the drinking age should not be restored to 18 as well. If you agree, please sign this petition, and contact your political representatives to let your opinion be known on this important issue. Thanks for your support.
US Congress: Lower the Drinking Age from 21 to 18!
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Roger B. Myerson is an American economist and winner of the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, along with Leonid Hurwicz and Eric Maskin. Myerson's award-winning research deals with mechanism design theory. His contributions to mechanism design theory analyze rules for coordinating economic agents efficiently when they have different information and thus, challenges trusting each other.
Roger B. Myerson was in Boston in 1951, he earned a PhD in applied math from Harvard. He was a professor of economics at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management for 25 years and then became a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, where he is currently listed as a Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor of Economics. He is the author of "Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict", published in 1991 and "Probability Models for Economic Decisions", published in 2005 and the author of several professional journal articles, including "Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Decisions, American Political Science Review, Mathematics of Operations Research, and International Journal of Game Theory."
Myerson has a PhD from Harvard University and taught for 25 years in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University before coming to the University of Chicago in 2001. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He has received several honorary degrees, and he received the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize in 2009. He was awarded the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in recognition of his contributions to mechanism design theory, which analyzes rules for coordinating economic agents efficiently when they have different information and difficulty trusting each other.
Myerson has contributed primarily to economics and political science fields, especially in game theory. For example, he refined Nash’s equilibrium concept and developed techniques to characterize effects of communication between rational agents with differing information. Many of his incentive constraints fundamentals and concepts in economic communication are now widely used in economic analysis, such as the revelation principle and the revenue-equivalence theorem in auctions and bargaining. His applied game-theoretic tools are also used in the field of political science to analyze how political incentives can be affected by different electoral systems and constitutional structures.
Myerson's revenue equivalence theorem, now widely used in auction design, was his major contribution to mechanism design theory. Mechanism design theory explains how institutions can achieve social or economic goals given the constraints of individuals' self-interest and incomplete information.
A. Michael Spence is an American economist who has served as professor at Harvard and Stanford and won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Robert M. Solow is an American economist who spent his career at MIT and received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1987.
Paul Krugman is an economist from the United States who received the 2008 Nofel Prize in Economic Sciences, and a member of the G30.
William Vickrey is a Canadian economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1996.
A professor of economics at the University of Minnesota and winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics, along with Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson, for his research on mechanism design. His theory says that competition is not really perfect because some individuals cheat, and that taking individuals' self-interest into account when designing business transactions can improve outcomes.
Paul Samuelson was an economics professor at MIT who received the Nobel Prize in 1970 for his contributions to the field.
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The Fire Signs of the zodiac are Leo, Sagittarius and Aries, whose symbols are on the right.
These are 3 of the 12 signs of the zodiac, the 12 sun signs being divided into the 4 groups of Air, Earth, Fire and Water. (The groups are sometimes called 'triplicities' because each group contains 3 sun signs.) The fire signs, together with the air signs, are the yang, positive, extrovert, i.e. self-expressive masculine signs.
Inspired, some might say 'fired-up"
What do the astrological fire signs have in common ?
People born under the fire signs of leo, sagittarius and aries are often described as out-going, enthusiastic, and often dramatic. They frequently prefer to do things on a grand scale and/or may be described as having a 'larger than life' personalities.
In terms of right- vs left-brain (intuition vs intellect), fire signs are broadly considered to be intuitive, hence they make quick decisions based largely on 'gut-instinct' or sensitivity to their emotional guidance. That does not necessarily imply 'quiet, peaceful, intuitive' personality types. On the contrary, many fire sign people are impulsive in the sense of being given to sudden bursts of action-packed enthusiasm for pursuits or activities they enjoy or believe to be worthwhile. Periods of high-energy, sometimes to the point of 'burn-out' reflect the element of fire itself.
While fire signs have many positive attributes including being passionate determined and focussed, these can sometimes overflow into the forms of less attractive characteristics such as being occasionally over-determined, forceful, inflexible or bossy. In extreme situations they may even be considered selfish and egotistical, 'unable to back-down' when others would prefer them to, which may work-out well or otherwise.
Just like fire itself, people born under the fire signs are sometimes said to be at risk of 'igniting', that is suddenly reacting very strongly in ways that may surprise and overwhelm others. For this reason they may be considered emotionally volatile as well as impulsive. Such characteristics might affect individuals only in specific types of situations, or alternatively whenever they feel that their position and authority is being challenged or undermined.
Different articles, books, websites etc. emphasize different characteristics depending on the situation being described e.g. astrology signs for love and romance readings, career forecasts, business characteristics or tendencies and so on.
In can be helpful to consider the differences between the fire signs in terms of the three modalities of astrology, namely cardinal, fixed and mutable.
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Dining at the Disneyland Resort combines my favorite things: Great food and Disney fun! When I have a trip planned, I immediately start to plan out where we will enjoy each of our meals!
To dine at any of the restaurants within Disneyland Park or Disney California Adventure Park you will need a valid theme park admission ticket. However, for those days you do not plan to visit a park, you can enjoy all the amazing dining locations at the Downtown Disney District and at the Disneyland Resort Hotels.
One of my family's favorite locations is Goofy's Kitchen at the Disneyland Hotel. You are welcome to dine here without ever entering a theme park. This location is popular, so make sure to book a Dining Reservation. In the Downtown Disney District, some of my favorites include Rainforest Café and Naples Ristorante. For a real treat, try Steakhouse 55 at the Disneyland Hotel. All of these locations are available to all guests without theme park tickets, but reservations are suggested.
Wherever you decide to dine, I hope you enjoy your delicious meals!
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Face-to-face As they are about to walk out of your store or office, ask them.
Call them on the phone If you have their phone number, and their permission, you can call them after their visit and ask how satisfied they are.
Mail them a questionnaire This technique has been used for a long time. The results are predictable.
And ask the customer loyalty questions"
How likely are you to recommend our company to others.
Also ask what the customer liked and didn't like about the product, your service, and your company. How Often Should You Conduct A Customer Satisfaction Survey The best answer is "often enough to get the most information, but not so often as to upset the customer". In real terms, the frequency with which you conduct a customer satisfaction survey depends on the frequency with which you interact with your customers. My state renews drivers licenses for five-year periods. It would be silly for them to ask me each year what I thought of my last renewal experience. Conversely, if I survey the commuters on my rapid transit system once a year, I will miss important changes in their attitudes that may be driven by seasonal events. What To Do With Answers From A Customer Satisfaction Survey Regardless of how I ask my customers for their feedback, what I ask them in the customer satisfaction survey, and when I survey them, the most important part of the customer satisfaction survey is what I do with their answers. Yes, I need to compile the answers from different customers. I need to look for trends. I should look for differences by region and/or product. However, I most need to act on the information I get from my customers though the survey. I need to fix the things the customers have complained about. I need to investigate their suggestions. I need to improve my company and product in those areas the mean the most to the most of my customers. I need to not change those things that they like. Most importantly I need to give them feedback that their answers were appreciated and are being acted upon. That feedback can be individual responses to the customers if appropriate, or it can simply be fixing the things that they tell you need to be fixed.
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1876 The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
1920 Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. To date, Chapman is the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
1935 The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 at Crosley Field.
1939 The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, in Brooklyn, New York.
1941 Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.
1941 Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record.
1951 The "Shot Heard 'Round the World", one of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history, occurs when the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning off of the Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games.
1958 Walter O'Malley's Los Angeles Dodgers host the first Major League Baseball game played on the West Coast of the United States.
1972 Hank Aaron becomes the first player in the history of Major League Baseball to sign a $200,000 contract.
1973 The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.
1981 A 42 day-long strike of Major League Baseball ends.
1981 Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
1986 Roger Clemens then of the Boston Red Sox sets a major league baseball record with 20 strikeouts in nine innings against the Seattle Mariners.
1989 Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
1991 Pitcher Dennis Martinez of the Montreal Expos throws the 15th perfect game in Major League Baseball history, a 2-0 win against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
1994 Major League Baseball players go on strike. This will force the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
1994 The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.
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Does vitamin e increase strength?
The effectiveness rating is a measure of how well vitamin e is able to increase strength. The overall rating for this claim is 1 out of 3. There is little if any research to warrant the use of Vitamin E to increase strength. Using Vitamin E to increase strength will probably not yeild any positive results and is likely a waste of money.
There is one study in the database on vitamin e; the confidence rating is 20. A score above 80 means the effectiveness rating for this supplement is reliable. A score under 80 means there is insufficient evidence to ensure a reliable effectiveness rating.
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To the Windward Islands belong Tapamanu or Majaiti (Wallis's Sir Charles Saunders's Island and Spanish Pelada); Moorea or Eimeo (Wallis's Duke of York Island and Spanish San Domingo); Tahiti - Cook's Otaheite (probably Quiros's Sagittaria; Wallis's King George's Island, Bougainville's Nouvelle Cythere and Spanish Isla d'Amat); Tetuaroa - "The Distant Sea" (?
I 1519 a third expedition, under Hernando Cortes, the conque or of Mexico, came into collision with the natives of the isla d of Cozumel.
Pechardo, Geografia de la isla de Cuba (4 tom., Havana, 1854); M.
Poey et al., Repertorio fisico-natural de la isla de Cuba (2 vols., Havana, 1865-1868), and F.
De Castro,"Pruebas paleontologicas de que la isla de Cuba ha estado unida al continento americano y breve idea de su constitution geologica," Bol.
De Castro and P. Salterain y Legarra, " Croquis geologico de la isla de Cuba," ibid.
Coleccion de informes, memorias, proyectos y antecedentes sobre el gobierno de la isla de Cuba (Madrid, 1875); Vicente Vasquez Queipo, Informe fiscal sobre fomento de la poblacion blanca (Madrid, 1845); Informacion sobre reformas en Cuba y Puerto Rico celebrada en Madrid en 1866 y 67 por los representantes de ambas islas (2 tom., New York, 1867; 2nd ed., New York, 1877); and the Diccionario of Pezuela.
For the history of the Cuban international problem consult Jose Ignacio Rodriguez, Idea de la anexion de la isla de Cuba a los Estados Unidos de America (Havana, 1900), and J.
Lopez de Letona, Isla de Cuba, reflexiones (Madrid, 1856); F.
The main islands and groups, beginning from the north-west, are as follows: Little and Great Abaco, with Great Bahama to the west; Eleuthera (a name probably corrupted from the Spanish Isla de Tierra), Cat, Watling, or Guanahani, and Rum Cay on the outer line towards the open ocean, with New Providence, the Exuma chain and Long Island forming an inner line to the west, and still farther west Andros (named from Sir Edmund Andros, governor of Massachusetts, &c., at the close of the 17th century; often spoken of as one island, but actually divided into several by narrow straits); and finally the Crooked Islands, Mayaguana and Inagua.
It overlooks the Jardin de la Isla, a beautiful garden laid out for Philip II.
Though probably sighted by Antonio d'Abreu, i 5 i 1, New Guinea was apparently first visited either by the Portuguese Don Jorge de Meneses, driven on his way from Goa to Ternate in 1526 to take shelter at " Isla Versija " (which has been identified with Warsia, a place on the N.W.
The Isla del Carmen, which partly shuts in the Laguna de Terminos (Campeche), is one of Santo y Gulf ?
Of Perth near the union of Tay and Isla), which is the most northerly of the ascertained Roman encampments in Scotland and seems to belong to the age of Agricola.
This long and wide depression, though it looks like one great valley, strictly speaking, includes portions of the valleys of the Tay, Isla, North Esk and South Esk, all of which cross it.
Towards the south margin of the Highlands notable instances of true canyons in the Old Red Sandstone are to be seen where the Isla and North Esk enter that formation.
The mountains at the head of Glen Clova and Glen Isla, for instance, sweep upwards into a broad moor some 3000 ft.
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The King's Island (Isla del Rey, so called as the landing-place of Alphonso III.
JOSE FRANCISCO DE ISLA (1703-1781), Spanish satirist, was born at Villavidanes (Leon) on the 24th of March 1703.
Isla's gifts were first shown in his Triunfo del amor y de la lealtad: Dia Grande de Navarra, a satirical description of the ceremonies at Pamplona in honour of Ferdinand VI.'s accession; its sly humour so far escaped the victims that they thanked the writer for his appreciation of their local efforts, but the true significance of the work was discovered shortly afterwards, and the protests were so violent that Isla was transferred by his superiors to another district.
Dabbene, " Viaje a la Tierra del Fuego y a la Isla de los Estados," Bolet.
KEITH, a police burgh of Banffshire, Scotland, on the Isla, 534 m.
The burgh includes Old Keith and New Keith on the east bank of the Isla, and Fife-Keith on the west bank.
ANTILIA or Antillia, sometimes called the Island of the Seven Cities (Portuguese Isla das Sete Cidades), a legendary island in the Atlantic ocean.
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Oily fish such as Sardines are my number one, favorite “superfood” for preventing auto-immune, neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases.
Sardines rightly deserve their label as a “superfood” and are a great source of many commonly deficient nutrients including Vitamin B12, Vitamin D3, protein, long-chain Omega-3 fatty acids(EPA/DHA), bioavailable calcium and selenium, iodine, Co-Enzyme Q10 and many others.
When you study the nutritional composition of oily fish such as sardines, it’s not difficult to see why they pack such a potent punch for treating and preventing autoimmune, neurodegenerative and especially cardiovascular diseases, according to scientific research.
Auto-immune, neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases share many of the same common root causes, some of which include systemic inflammation, oxidative/nitrosative stress, hyperhomocysteinemia, lowered antioxidant status, mitochondrial dysfunction and micronutrient deficiencies.
In this article, I will explain the four main reasons, why I believe sardines to be an excellent “superfood” to consume for individuals with auto-immune, neuro-degenerative and cardiovascular diseases.
Systemic inflammation plays a key role in the development of auto-immune, neuro-degenerative and cardiovascular diseases.
Research has found that long-chain Omega-3 fatty acids have potent anti-inflammatory and immuno-modulatory properties.
Long-chain Omega-3 fatty acids help to regulate inflammation in the body through a variety of mechanisms, such as inhibiting the production of inflammatory producing substances such as prostaglandins, leukotrienes and cytokines.
Sardines are one of the best dietary sources of long-chain Omega-3 fatty acids such as EPA(eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA(docosahexaenoic acid).
A single can serving of sardines provides around 60% of the daily recommend intake for Omega-3 fatty acids.
Western diets are deficient in omega-3 fatty acids, and have excessive amounts of omega-6 fatty acids compared with the diet on which human beings evolved and their genetic patterns were established.
Omega-3 fatty acids have also been shown to support cardiovascular health through a variety of mechanisms, such as lowering triglycerides, cholesterol, blood pressure and reducing blood clotting.
Sardines are one of the richest dietary sources of Vitamin B12, which research has found to be an extremely common nutrient deficiency in individuals with auto-immune, neuro-degenerative and cardiovascular diseases.
Vitamin B12 is one of the many nutrients required by the methylation process, for the re-methylation and breakdown of homocysteine.
Elevated levels of the non-protein amino acid homocysteine and hypomethylation function, due to nutrient deficiencies such as Vitamin B12, Vitamin B6 and folate, have been implicated to play a role in multiple auto-immune and neuro-degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s.
Homocysteine hasn’t only been shown to play a role in the pathophysiology of both auto-immune and neuro-degenerative diseases, but research also now considers elevated homocysteine to be a leading independent cardiovascular disease risk factor.
A single can serving of sardines provides well over 100% of the daily recommended intake for Vitamin B12.
A number of studies have now also found that vegetarians and in particular vegans are at significant risk of developing Vitamin B12 deficiency and hyperhomocysteinemia.
Sardines are a rare dietary source of Vitamin D3, which is still an extremely common nutrient deficiency in the general population according to research.
One can of sardines provides around 50% of the daily recommended intake of Vitamin D.
A number of studies have now linked Vitamin D deficiency with an increased risk of developing auto-immune, neuro-degenerative and cardiovascular diseases.
Vitamin D3 has potent immuno-modulatory properties and plays a role in the maintenance of immune system homeostasis.
Vitamin D deficiency is a highly prevalent condition and is independently associated with most cardiovascular disease risk factors and to CVD morbidity and mortality.
Research has found that mitochondrial dysfunction and Co-Enzyme Q10 deficiency to play a role in the pathophysiology of many serious health problems such as Alzheimer’s Disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME and cardiovascular diseases/heart failure.
Increased oxidative/nitrosative stress, systemic inflammation and lowered antioxidant status, results in damage to the mitochondria, which eventually leads to mitochondrial dysfunction and cellular energy disorders.
Co-Enzyme Q10 is a fat-soluble, vitamin-like nutrient found in the mitochondria, which is heavily involved in cellular energy(ATP) metabolism.
Co-Enzyme Q10 is an extremely important nutrient for cardiovascular health and research has found Co-Q10 to be helpful for the treatment of many cardiovascular diseases such as CHF(Congestive Heart Failure).
Co-Enzyme Q10 has potent anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, which can be helpful for normalizing inflammatory, oxidative and nitrosative stress disorders, which is part of the pathophysiology of heart disease.
Individuals with heart disease have routinely shown in studies to have lower plasma, tissue and myocardial levels of Co-Enzyme Q10.
Oily fish such as sardines are considered to be one of the best dietary sources of Co-Enzyme Q10. Once again vegetarians and in particular strict vegans are at risk of low intake of Co-Enzyme Q10, as animal food sources tend to be the most reliable Co-Q10 dietary sources.
Vitamin D: modulator of the immune system.
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translated by William Scott Wilson. Kodansha International, 2003.
Heiho kadensho (the title of Wilson's translation is "The Life-Giving Sword," which is one of the sections in the book) is one of the most famous and influential texts of Japanese martial arts. It was written by Yagyu Tajima-no-kami Munenori, the youngest son of Yagyu Sekishusai Munetoshi, founder of Yagyu Shinkage-ryu hyoho (strategy and swordsmanship).
The system was to become one of two official schools of swordsmanship for the Tokugawa shogunal family as a result of Tokugawa Ieyasu's meeting and match with Sekishusai, wherein the latter was able to disarm Ieyasu (who was no mean swordsman himself). On being asked to serve as his instructor in swordsmanship, Sekishusai recommended Munenori, who served the first three Tokugawa rulers.
After personally saving the life of Hidetada, the second Tokugawa shogun, Munenori was given increasingly important responsibilities as a political advisor and inspector of the entire shogunal government, even as he continued to teach martial arts. He was a personal friend of Takuan Soho, also a confidante of the Tokugawa shogunate, and sought in this book to combine the technical refinements of Shinkage-ryu and the philosophical and psychological insights of Zen Buddhism.
Within Shinkage-ryu, it is said that there are three types of martial arts: for the foot soldier, for the warrior retainer (bushi), and for the great lords who rule the land. What characterizes this third level of martial art is the sublime level of strategic (and tactical) thinking. What was important for a bushi who might find himself in individual combat with a skilled opponent was even more so for the generals and lords responsible for the fates of thousands of men and entire provinces. By mastering particular skills and techniques, one can understand the more general principles of martial arts; by mastering the arts of war, one can realize the principles of proper governance and provide for the good of the nation. Even today, executives and senior officials in the Japanese government and judiciary study the art for this reason.
"Heiho" is a word that can be construed in a number of ways: as martial arts and strategy in a general sense, and as swordsmanship in particular. "Kadensho" means "Writings on Family Transmission." Taken together, then, the Japanese title means "Writings on [The] Family Martial Transmission." It was never intended to be read by people who were not members of the ryu or, possibly, direct retainers of the Yagyu family. As such, the material in this book was of great technical importance and confidential in nature; people who received a copy would have been skilled practitioners and trusted members of the ryu. The prestige of Munenori and his school were so great, however, that his work spread throughout Japan quite rapidly and has been a treasured classic of the martial arts ever since.
Wilson's translation is divided into the original three sections of Heiho kadensho. The first, "The Shoe-Presenting Bridge" (J.: Shinrikyo) is a mokuroku (catalogue) of principles and techniques, and lists all the techniques of the honden waza (original Shinkage-ryu transmission) by Kamiizumi Ise-no-Kami (founder of the ryu) to Yagyu Sekishusai Munetoshi. "The Death-Dealing Sword" (J.: Settsuninto) continues with a discussion of technical aspects of swordsmanship and begins to examine the psychological aspects of the Shinkage-ryu school. The last section of the book is "The Life-Giving Sword " (J.: Katsujinken).
This part of the book continues the discussion of technique and goes further into the psychology and philosophy of the martial arts, both as an art for combat and a means of personal transformation. Throughout the work, the influence of Takuan Soho, and especially his Fudochi shinmyoroku, is evident. Munenori's own work is in part a re-explication of Takuan's thought from the standpoint of a master swordsman.
Much has been written about the supposed connection of Shinkage-ryu swordsmanship and Zen, especially given the close relationship between Yagyu Munenori and Takuan Soho, author of Fudochi Shinmyorku, Taiaki, and Reiroshu, essays about the psychological and philosophical aspects of swordsmanship/combat. A good deal of Heiho kadensho is also written in "Zen language" as well. In fact, however, according to Yagyu Nobuharu Toshimichi, the 21st-generation headmaster of Yagyu Shinkage-ryu, these documents use Zen terminology and constructs because the subject matter is so abstract and difficult and Zen was one of the very few systems that had language sophisticated enough to deal with it.
The final part of Wilson's book is a reprint of an e-mokuroku (illustrated scroll) written in 1601 by Yagyu Sekishusai. It was given to his friend, the famous Noh actor, Konparu Shichiro Ujikatsu in recognition of the latter's understanding of the principles of martial arts through his mastery of the Noh drama. It consists of a series of illustrations and brief written explanations of the techniques, these having been written over a hundred years later by Matsudaira Nobusada, a senior exponent of the Shinkage-ryu. It may be noteworthy how very closely this scroll resembles the one given to Sekishusai by Kamiizumi, the original of which is still in the possession of the headmaster of the school.
The Life-Giving Sword is an excellent book. I have some quibbles with a few places, where Wilson glosses the names and terminology a little differently from the way it is done withn the Shinkage-ryu, but these are not major flaws. His notes provide a wonderful (and necessary!) context to the text and make what is very hard even for Japanese reading in the original language to understand, both interesting and enjoyable. There is another translation of Heiho kadensho, The Sword and the Mind, by Hiroaki Sato.
Of the two, I prefer the one by Wilson. Taken together, the two books provide an excellent introduction to Munenori's work.
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What is this? First post.
I am making the leap from working as a video game artist to working on my own game full time. This blog will detail the process of building that game. I got started in game development when I was a kid making small games with friends, and for the last 15 years I have been contributing art to titles ranging from indie games to AAA titles. As games have become more complex, the role of one artist has become progressively narrower. Building my own game allows me to get back into the large scale decision making and sense of ownership that is lost when you are a single person on a team of hundreds. I am also very excited by the idea of building a game for VR that isn’t an adaptation of something that was designed for screens. VR comes with many advantages, but it also has limitations, and games designed for screens first do not take them into account. Rendering in stereo is expensive and traversing large spaces with touch controllers is clumsy.
*Being able to see spacial relationships helps people understand how complicated assemblies fit together.
*The best stereo rendering from headsets happens in the user’s nearfield vision.
*A game about working on cars takes place in a relatively small space, making locomotion less of an issue.
*The small space means there are fewer objects to render and enables me to build extremely high quality models while still running at the high framerates that VR demands.
I am also planning to build the game for flat screens, but my development prioritizes VR over screens.
This is my testing environment in Unreal. The garage is temporary, I needed a space as I test out lighting and rendering features. Most things posted in this blog, with the exception of individual finished car parts, are placeholder or work in progress.
The second prong of development is utilizing that functionality to create a fun game. The game needs to be flexible enough that it’s approachable to people with no experience working on cars and challenging to seasoned home mechanics. Finding the fun is going to be a fluid process but I am expecting that the game will have some sort of reward system (likely managing a shop’s income) and that it will teach some basic skills that can be used to diagnose problems efficiently. Games have lasting appeal when they allow for creative problem solving, so my goal is to give players a relatively simple set of tools and let them solve problems. I want to avoid falling into the trap of making this game a tedious room-scale VR clicking simulator. Part of that is allowing for problem solving, but it also needs to not automate too much of the assembly and repair process.
I’ve licensed the Bauer LTD. Catfish. The Catfish is a kit car that combines 1990-2005 Mazda Miata running gear with a stiff tube chassis and original body work. Depending on the parts installed on the car, The Catfish weighs around 1500 lbs. and can accomodate a range of engines. Later in development I would also like to include other chassis, drivetrains, and aftermarket parts.
This is so great! Is this “game” accurate enough to train on and learn how to build Bauer Catfish? I think this has a great deal of potential for automotive technology training and education much like what is going on with medical training in virtual reality. Where can one try this program?
So you are basically just ripping off “My Summer Car” then! Your company logo and name are ironic,the fingers being cut off a thief for digital mistakes.
Ok so idk if u got the idea from “My Summer Car” hell i know i did. But man WOW it looks amazing please god keep up the good work. I would love to be on an email list for updates about this game. You are doing what i wanted to do. Can’t wait to see the full game.
Not going to lie kinda want to invest into this keep up the great work.
I’ve been teaching my 14 year old grandson about how cars work. I asked him to ask his friends questions about how an engine works. His friends have no clue what he is talking about. This is a great concept. Good luck in designing it.
I just wanted to say this looks absolutely amazing. The concept is awesome too. I wish there were more games that helped you build actual skills like this. I am very excited about it. It’s probably very hard doing this by yourself but don’t give up on it! We need games like this!
As a fellow car-enthusiast and programmer, this looks awesome! I would love to be able to play this when it is released.
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On October 29, 2016, producer Andrew Form indicated that no plans were underway for a third film. Michelangelo was orange mask and nunchucks. Please by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. He was previously portrayed by in the first film. Eventually she and Casey are arrested. It is very beautiful fighting and adventure game.
On April 23, was cast as scientist , replacing , who played the role in the 2014 film. Its combat wants to be Arkham City's Combat, but it just doesn't feel good at any point. As the Turtles prepare to take on Shredder and his new crew, they find themselves facing an even greater evil with similar intentions: the notorious Krang. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows thrives on Blu-ray with a fun and high-energy Dolby Atmos soundtrack. Game file password is ofg.
It's almost all noise and visual mayhem, with an honest effort at folding in relevant themes of identity and purpose into the story. They wrestle with the opportunity to selfishly look after their own interests or create the best them they can be rather than forge on as fate has seemingly destined. Its likely that Paramount will announced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 very shortly, especially since Megan Fox and the four main Turtle actors all have a three-picture deal in place. The turtles are, or at least were, once upon a time, defined by only two things: the color of their mask and the weapon they wield. The apps are synchronized with your account at Blu-ray. Knowing Shredder will try and get it back, April tries to get it first and she asks Vern to help. The best thing about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Out Of The Shadows is the visuals and graphical effects added in the night more.
April tells the turtles, who try to stop it but can't. Despite the turtles' interference, Shredder escapes when Stockman uses a device. In the melee, the mutagen ends up with the police. Additional filming occurred in on January 30, and ended on February 1. If you like ninja games.
This article's plot summary may be. On June 20, 2018, it was reported that Paramount Pictures will once again reboot the series with Bay, Fuller and Form returning to produce the film and Andrew Dodge writing the script. Switching between characters during combat can be kinda fun, but gets old quickly, and the only other part of the game, the traversal, suffers from the same lack of fluidity that plagues the combat. Explosions are met with prodigious, but balanced, bass. Features Of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Out Of The Shadows Free Download Following are the main features of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Out Of The Shadows that you will be able to experience after the first install on your operating System. But boy oh boy, have things really gone nuts lately. On April 27, joined the cast as the Shredder, replacing Tohoru Masamune from the first film.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows takes you back to how it all began. Either they all found it so good that they had to make an 7 out of the 8 people who left a positive review have only reviewed this game. With seamless drop in, dropout co-op, along with team combo moves and relentless combat, this is game fans have been waiting for. Detail, likewise, doesn't hugely impress at first glance, at least not beyond the 1080p transfer. Seeing no way to reach the Technodrome as the police pursue them, the turtles debate over taking the mutagen to become human and fight openly.
He gives Shredder some mutagen which he uses to transform two criminals who were also in the transport with him, Rock Steady and Bebop, into mutants. The turtles are able to hurl the ship's beacon back through the portal, taking Krang and the rest of the Technodrome with it, as April, Casey, and Vern shut the portal down. They only give you a little clue where to go, plus the enemies weapons just freezes in mid air. This is an interesting action game with a great storyline about the characters which were just simple creature and through some experiment. On April 30, was cast in an unspecified role. Filming in Buffalo began on May 4, 2015, along the and ended May 17, 2015. In an interview, stated that he would be returning as , but for unknown reasons, he ultimately did not appear in the final film.
The results are fine, if not a bit underwhelming. But Michelangelo tells Raphael who feels that Leonardo doesn't respect them. It is the game based on the crime fighting by Ninja Creatures. For more about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows 4K and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows 4K Blu-ray release, see published by Martin Liebman on September 14, 2016 where this Blu-ray release scored 3. Then he'll grow up and wonder what he was thinking. Wrecked vehicles skid through the stage with weight, but finesse.
Support the game guys and gals, it is the best bang for your buck at the price point it stands. This film has more spirit and a little more of a serious thematic underlay. On February 25, 2016, and announced a sweepstakes for the film. The story is ridiculously simple: Shredder escapes and the turtles must save the day from a villain even more powerful, sinister, and hellbent on destruction than the foursome's favorite foe. In March 2016, it was announced that would voice in the film. In the ensuing battle, the turtles' existence is revealed to the police, who react with fear and hatred, and April and Casey are arrested while helping the brothers escape with the mutagen. The triumphant track produces an effortlessly wide, flair-filled, and engagingly cinematic assault on the ears.
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Snowdon in Caernarfonshire is the highest mountain of the British Isles outside Scotland, climbing to 3,560 feet above sea level. It is the heart of the great massif called Snowdonia, which forms the major part in turn of the Snowdonia National Park.
Snowdon, despite its height, is not a difficult climb, and has been described as "probably the busiest mountain in Britain". There are however several routes to the top; the Llaberis Path taken by most visitors is an easy climb on a well worn, broad path, but others are more challenging scrambles to the top. The whole mountain is designated as a national nature reserve for its rare flora and fauna.
Snowdon boasts some of the best views in Britain, and the summit can be reached by a number of well-known paths, the most demanding of which is the Snowdon Horseshoe. The summit can also be reached on the Snowdon Mountain Railway, a rack and pinion railway opened in 1896 which carries passengers the 4.7 miles from Llanberis to the summit station. The summit also houses a visitor centre called Hafod Eryri, built in 2006 to replace one built in the 1930s.
The name Snowdon is from the Old English for "snow hill", a name appearing as Snawdun in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 1095. The Welsh name, Yr Wyddfa, means "the tumulus", which may refer to the cairn thrown over the legendary giant Rhitta Gawr after his defeat by King Arthur. As well as other figures from Arthurian legend, the mountain is linked to a legendary afanc (water monster) and the Tylwyth Teg (fairies).
Snowdon stands at 3,560 feet. A 1682 survey estimated that the summit of Snowdon was at 3,720 feet above sea level; in 1773, Thomas Pennant quoted a later estimate of 3,568 feet above sea level at Caernarfon. Recent surveys give the height of the summit as 3,560 feet, making Snowdon the highest mountain in Wales, and the highest point in the British Isles outside Scotland. Snowdon is one of three mountains climbed as part of the Barmouth Three Peaks Yacht Race, and for the landlubber the National Three Peaks Challenge.
Snowdon offers some of the most extensive views in the British Isles. On exceptionally clear days, Ireland, Scotland, England, and the Isle of Man are all visible, as well as 24 counties, 29 lakes and 17 islands. The view between Snowdon and the peak of Merrick, Kirkcudbrightshire is the longest theoretical line of sight in the British Isles at 144 miles.
The unique environment of Snowdon, particularly its rare plants, have led to its designation as a national nature reserve.
In addition to plants that are widespread in Snowdonia, Snowdon is home to some plants rarely found elsewhere in Britain. The most famous of these is the "Snowdon lily", Lloydia serotina, which is also found in the Alps and in North America. It was first discovered by Edward Lhuyd in Wales, and was later named in his honour by R A Salisbury.
The rocks which today make up Snowdon and its neighbouring mountains were formed in the Ordovician era. At that time, most of modern-day Wales was near the edge of Avalonia, submerged beneath the ancient Iapetus Ocean. In the Soudleyan stage of the Caradoc age, a volcanic caldera formed, and produced ash flows of rhyolitic tuff, which formed deposits up to 1,600 feet thick. The current summit is near the northern edge of the ancient caldera; the caldera's full extent is unclear, but it extended as far as the summit of Moel Hebog in the south-west.
Snowdon and it surrounding peaks have been described as "true examples of Alpine topography". The summits of Snowdon and Garnedd Ugain are surrounded by cwms, rounded valleys scooped out by glaciation. Erosion by glaciers in adjacent cwms caused the characteristic arêtes of Crib Goch, Crib y Ddysgl and Y Lliwedd, and the pyramidal peak of Snowdon itself. Other glacial landforms that can be seen around Snowdon include roche moutonnée|roches moutonnées, glacial erratics and moraines.
The English name "Snowdon" comes from the Old English snaw dun, meaning "snow hill", as Snowdon often has a covering of snow (and this name was in use during the Mediæval Warm Period). Although the amount of snow on Snowdon in winter varies significantly, 55% less snow fell in 2004 than in 1994. The slopes of Snowdon have one of the wettest climates in Great Britain, receiving an annual average of more than 170 inches of rain and snow.
A number of lakes are found in the various cwms of the Snowdon range.
Llyn Llydaw, at 1,430 feet, 110 acres, lies in Cwm Dyli, Snowdon's eastern cwm, and is one of Snowdonia's deepest lakes, at up to 190 feet deep. Various explanations of its name have been put forward, including lludw ("ash"), from ashen deposits along the shore, to Llydaw ("Brittany"). It contains evidence of a crannog settlement, and was the location of a 10 ft x 2 ft dugout canoe described in the Cambrian Journal in 1862. The lake is significantly coloured by washings from the copper mines nearby, and is used by the Cwm Dyli hydroelectric power station, which opened in 1906. The lake is crossed by a causeway, built in 1853 and raised in the 20th century to prevent the causeway from flooding frequently.
Glaslyn, at 1,970 feet, 18 acres, lies higher up Cwm Dyli than Llyn Llydaw. It was originally called Llyn y Ffynnon Glas, and has a depth of 127 feet. For a long time, it was said to be bottomless, and is also the setting for various myths.
Llyn Ffynnon-y-gwas, at 1,430 feet, 10 acres, lies in Cwm Treweunydd, Snowdon's north-western cwm, and is passed by the Snowdon Ranger path. It was enlarged by damming for use as a reservoir for use by slate quarries, but the level has since been lowered, and the lake's volume reduced.
Other lakes include Llyn Du'r Arddu below Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, at 1,901 feet, 5 acres, Llyn Teyrn near Pen-y-pass at 1,237 feet, 5 acres, and several smaller pools.
The Snowdon massif includes a number of spectacular cliffs, and holds an important place in the history of rock climbing in the United Kingdom. Clogwyn Du'r Arddu is often colloquially known as 'Cloggy' among climbers, and was the site of the first recorded climb in Britain, in 1798. It was carried out by two botanists, Reverends Peter Williams and William Bingley, while searching for rare plants. It is now considered to be one of the best cliffs in Britain for rock climbing.
Y Lliwedd was also explored by early climbers, and was the subject of a 1909 climbing guide, The Climbs on Lliwedd by J. M. A. Thompson and A. W. Andrews, one of the first in Britain.
Snowdon was used by Edmund Hillary and his group during preparations for their successful 1953 expedition to climb Mount Everest.
The first recorded ascent of Snowdon was by the botanist Thomas Johnson in 1639. However, the 18th-century historian Thomas Pennant mentions a "triumphal fair upon this our chief of mountains" following Edward I's conquest of Wales in 1284, which could indicate the possibility of earlier ascents.
A number of well-established footpaths lead to Snowdon's summit from all sides, and can be combined in various ways. The circular walk starting and ending at Pen-y-Pass and using the Crib Goch route and the route over Y Lliwedd is called the Snowdon Horseshoe, and is considered "one of the finest ridge walks in Britain". The routes are arranged here anticlockwise, starting with the path leading from Llanberis. During winter, all these routes become significantly more difficult and many inexperienced walkers have been killed over the years attempting to climb the mountain via the main paths.
The Llanberis Path is the longest route to the summit, and has the shallowest gradient. It follows the line of the Snowdon Mountain Railway fro Llanberis. It is considered the easiest and least interesting route to the summit of Snowdon. The Llanberis Path is the route used by the annual Snowdon Race, with a record time of less than 40 minutes recorded from the start to the summit.
The section of the Llanberis Path beside the railway near the summit has been called the "Killer Convex"; in icy conditions, this convex slope can send unwary walkers over the cliffs of Clogwyn Du'r Arddu. Four people died there in February 2009.
The Snowdon Ranger Path begins at the youth hostel beside Llyn Cwellyn, to the west of the mountain, served by the A4085 and Snowdon Ranger railway station. This was formerly the Saracen's Head Inn, but was renamed under the ownership of the mountain guide John Morton. It is "probably the oldest path to the summit".
The route begins with zigzags through "lush green turf", before reaching a flatter boggy area in front of Llyn Ffynnon-y-gwas. The path then climbs to Bwlch Cwm Brwynog, and then snakes along the ridge above Clogwyn Du'r Arddu towards the summit. This path meets the railway, the Llanberis Path, the Crib Goch path, and the combined Pig Track and Miners' Track all within a short distance, just below the summit.
The Rhyd Ddu path, also called the Beddgelert Path, leads from the village of Rhyd Ddu, west of Snowdon, gently up on to Llechog, a broad ridge dropping west from the summit. It is considered one of the easier routes to the summit, with the advantage that the summit is visible from the start, but is one of the least used routes. It climbs at a shallow gradient to Bwlch Main, shortly southwest of the summit, from where it climbs more steeply, meeting up with the Watkin Path at a site marked with a large standing stone a few hundred yards from the summit. An alternative start begins at Pitt's Head on the A4085 road.
The Watkin Path is "the most demanding route direct to the summit of Snowdon". It is the highest relative ascent as it starts at the lowest elevation of any of the main routes. The path was first conceived by Edward Watkin, a railway owner who had attempted to build a railway tunnel under the English Channel, and had a summer home in Nant Gwynant near the start of the path. It was originally designed as a donkey track and opened in 1892.
The start of the Watkin Path has been described as "the prettiest beginning" of the routes up Snowdon. It begins at Bethania on the A498 and climbs initially through old broadleaved woodland. After leaving the woods, the path climbs past the waterfalls of the Afon Llan to the glacial cirque of Cwm Llan, crossing a disused incline from an abandoned slate quarry. It then reaches Plas Cwmllan, formerly the home of the quarry manager for the South Snowdon Slate Works beyond, and later used for target practice by commandos during the Second World War. Near Plas Cwmllan, is the large boulder known as Gladstone Rock, which bears a plaque commemorating a speech given in 1892 by William Ewart Gladstone, the then 83-year-old Prime Minister, on the subject of Justice for Wales. The slate workings in Cwm Llan were opened in 1840, but closed in 1882 due to the expense of transporting the slate to the sea at Porthmadog. Various buildings, including barracks and dressing sheds, remain.
From the slate quarries, the Watkin Path veers to the north-east to reach Bwlch Ciliau, the col between Snowdon and Y Lliwedd, which is marked by a large orange-brown cairn. From here, it heads west to meet the Rhyd Ddu Path at a standing stone shortly below the summit of Snowdon.
Scenes from Carry On... Up the Khyber were filmed on the lower part of the Watkin Path in 1968, with the Watkin Path representing the Khyber Pass in the film. One of the stars of the film, Angela Douglas, unveiled a plaque at the precise location where filming took place in 2005 to commemorate the location filming and it forms part of the North Wales Film and Television Trail, run by the Wales Screen Commission.
The route over Y Lliwedd is more frequently used for descent than ascent, and forms the second half of the Snowdon Horseshoe walk, the ascent being over Crib Goch. It is reached by following the Watkin Path down to Bwlch y Saethau, and then continuing along the ridge to the twin summits of Y Lliwedd. The path then drops down to Cwm Dyli to join the Miners' Track towards Pen-y-Pass.
The Miners' Track begins at the car park at Pen-y-Pass, at an altitude of around 1,148 feet. It begins by skirting Llyn Teyrn before climbing slightly to cross the causeway over Llyn Llydaw. It follows the lake's shoreline before climbing to Glaslyn, from where it ascends steeply towards Bwlch Glas. It is joined for most of this zigzag ascent by the Pig Track, and on reaching the summit ridge, is united with the Llanberis Path and Snowdon Ranger Path. Derelict mine buildings are encountered along several parts of the path.
Nobody knows for sure why this path is called the Pyg Track. It's possible that it was named after the pass it leads through, Bwlch y Moch (translated Pigs' Pass) as the path is sometimes spelled 'Pig Track'. Or, maybe because it was used to carry 'pyg' (black tar) to the copper mines on Snowdon. Another possible explanation is that the path was named after the nearby Pen y Gwryd Hotel, popular amongst the early mountain walkers.
The traverse of Crib Goch is "one of the finest ridge walks in Britain", and forms part of the well-known Snowdon Horseshoe, a circuit of the peaks surrounding Cwm Dyli. The path follows the Pig Track before separating off from it at Bwlch y Moch and leading up the side of Crib Goch. All routes which tackle Crib Goch are considered mountaineering routes or scrambles.
The Snowdon Mountain Railway is a narrow gauge rack and pinion mountain railway that travels for 4.7 miles from Llanberis to the summit of Snowdon. It is the only public rack and pinion railway in the United Kingdom, and after more than 100 years of operation it remains a popular tourist attraction. Single carriage trains are pushed up the mountain by either steam locomotives or diesel locomotives. It has also previously used diesel railcars as multiple units. The railway was constructed between December 1894, when the first sod was cut by Enid Assheton-Smith (after whom locomotive No.2 was named), and February 1896, at a total cost of £63,800 in the money of the day.
The first building on the summit of Snowdon was erected in 1838 to sell refreshments, and a licence to sell intoxicating liquor was granted in 1845.
Having become increasingly dilapidated, this building was described by Charles Prince of Wales as "the highest slum in Wales". Its state led to a campaign to replace the building. In April 2006, Snowdonia National Park Authority with the support of the Snowdonia Society agreed a deal to start work on a new café and visitor centre complex.
Copa'r Wyddfa: yr ydych chwi, yma, Yn nes at y nefoedd" (The summit of Snowdon: Here you are nearer to Heaven).
The name Hafod Eryri was chosen from several hundred put forward after a competition was held by the BBC. Hafod is Welsh for an upland residence, while Eryri is the Welsh name for Snowdonia.
In Welsh folklore, the summit of Snowdon is said to be the tomb of Rhitta Gawr, a giant. This is claimed to be the reason for the Welsh name Yr Wyddfa, literally meaning "the tumulus". Rhitta Gawr wore a cloak made of men's beards, and was slain by King Arthur after claiming Arthur's beard. Other sites with Arthurian connections include Bwlch y Saethau, on the ridge between Snowdon and Y Lliwedd, where Arthur himself is said to have died. A cairn, Carnedd Arthur, was erected at the site and was still standing as late as 1850, but no longer exists.
According to the folklore, Arthur bade Bedivere throw his sword Excalibur into Glaslyn, where Arthur's body was later placed in a boat to be carried away to Afallon. Arthur's men then retreated to a cave on the slopes of Y Lliwedd, where they are said to sleep until such time as they are needed. Merlin is supposed to have hidden the golden throne of Britain among the cliffs north of Crib y Ddysgl when the Saxons invaded.
Glaslyn was also the final resting place of a water monster, known as an afanc (also the Welsh word for beaver), which had plagued the people of the Conwy valley. They tempted the monster out of the water with a young girl, before securing it with chains and dragging it to Glaslyn. A large stone known as Maen Du'r Arddu, below Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, is supposed to have magical powers. Like several other sites in Wales, it is said that if two people spend the night there, one will become a great poet while the other will become insane. Llyn Coch in Cwm Clogwyn has been associated with the Tylwyth Teg (fairies), including a version of the fairy bride legend.
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↑ "National Three Peaks Challenge". 25 February 2011. http://www.thethreepeakschallenge.co.uk/national-three-peaks-challenge/. Retrieved 28 April 2011.
↑ "Snow 'disappears' from Snowdon". BBC News. 20 December 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/4112137.stm.
↑ "Race records". Snowdon Race. http://snowdonrace.co.uk/services/servicesView.aspx?serviceid=12&folder=4. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
↑ "Walker's mountain hike 'madness'". BBC News. 30 July 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8177483.stm.
↑ Jack Geldard (February 2009). "Editorial: Recent Deaths on Snowdon". UK Climbing. http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=1653. Retrieved 29 April 2011.
↑ "Carry On plaque unveiled". BBC News. 30 September 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/4296396.stm.
↑ Jonathan Brown (May 26, 2009). "Makeover for 'highest slum in Wales'". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/makeover-for-highest--slum-in-wales-1690633.html. Retrieved April 13, 2011.
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the ELSE, then goes the next numbered program line.
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Is Nikon D70 a good camera.
absolutely good camera. it's a very good camera at it's price range and for it's performance.
How do you define good?
What is your objective when taking photographs? If you are just talking about candid shots and totally tasteless composition, then any P & S will do, and it will cost you at least a 1000 dollars cheaper (excluding the amount u will save on lenses), which u can spend on more storage, a computer to edit your shots and also a dry-cabi and then some.
For better advice, u might want to be more specific as to what you want to understand about the camera's capabilities and whether it will suit your needs.
if you r prepared to throw a min. of $4K, a teckie and you admire some nice photos you seen and don't mind the extra 'chore' of lugging a big camera and accessories bag - GO FOR IT - cannot be wrong.
If you are richer - then maybe look higher .
If you are less rich and only want to take nice picture for record only - then wise to think again - the latest higher end P&S are very good. And with Photoshop, you also can do many wonderful things.
If you are serious on taking photography as a hobby, this cam will made a very ideal starting point.
Comment slightly too strong. Art of composition is by brainware - not the hardware.
2k plus for the kit set is just the beginning....looking at all the lenses and accessories? can u really resist the temptation?
I used to use a P & S camera... after i sold the P & S and got myself D70 and never turn back!
Well when you buy into a SLR/DSLR you don't buy a camera you buy a system. Therefore it all depends on what you wanted. Luckily you can take your time and slowly think and developed it into what you wanted. In any case you will still have to spent but with some decipline you can do it slowly and surely. It is quite different with Pro-consumer camera as a DSLR/SLR will not be obsolete so fast and normally will still give you many years of service even if it becomes obsolete. It is the lens that you will have to be selective as many good ones are sometimes more expensive than the body itself and that is where your money will go to.
Sorry for the "strong comment".
Initially, i thought that this posting was a farce.... much like flame bait for another war.
Yes Sir, Captain Concuss, SIR!!
Would you ( who have the D70) suggest to get the D70 body alone or the kit with lense. If you plan to buy more lenses in the future, does it mean you wouldnt really need the lense fron the kit?
I would get the Kit.. if you didnt already have lenses.. and even if you did I would get the Kit.. the 18-70 is an awesome lens.. covering 27-105.. a very good focal range in my opinion..
are you using the canon eos 300d?
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The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) and all those who chose to accompany them into exile – notably Eugene Botkin, Anna Demidova, Alexei Trupp and Ivan Kharitonov – were shot in Yekaterinburg on 17 July 1918. The murder of the Tsar was carried out by the Ural Soviet which was led by Yakov Yurovsky. In the opinion of historians, the murder had been ordered in Moscow by Vladimir Lenin and Yakov Sverdlov to prevent the rescue of the Imperial Family by approaching White forces during the ongoing Russian Civil War.
There are several accounts on what happened and historians have not agreed on a solid, confirmed scope of events. By Yurovsky's (the chief executioner) account in the early hours of 17 July 1918, the royal family was awakened around 2:00 am, told to dress, and led down into a half-basement room at the back of the Ipatiev house. The pretext for this move was the family's safety—that anti-Bolshevik forces were approaching Yekaterinburg, and the house might be fired upon.
In 1979, the bodies of Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, three of their daughters, and those of four non-family members killed with them, were discovered near Sverdlovsk by amateur archaeologist Alexander Avdonin. In January 1998, the remains excavated from underneath the dirt road near Yekaterinburg were officially identified as those of Nicholas II and his family (excluding one of his daughters and Alexei). The identifications, performed by separate Russian, British and American scientists using DNA analysis concur and were found to be conclusive.
In July 2007, 46-year-old builder Sergei Pogorelov (part of a team from an amateur history group who spent free summer weekends looking for the lost Romanovs) said that after stumbling on a small burned area of ground covered with nettles near Yekaterinburg he had discovered bones that belonged to 'a boy and a young woman roughly the ages of Nicholas' 13-year-old hemophiliac son, Alexei, and a daughter whose remains also have never been found.' In March 2009, results of the DNA testing were published, confirming that the two bodies discovered in 2007 were those of Alexei and his sister Maria.
Nicholas II was the last Emperor of Russia, Grand Duke of Finland, and titular King of Poland. His official short title was Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias. Like other Russian Emperors he is commonly known by the monarchical title Tsar (though Russia formally ended the Tsardom in 1721). He is known as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church and has been referred to as Saint Nicholas the Martyr.
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I just upgraded to Flight Deck STI shifters and a 9-speed cogset. When I'm on the small ring, I get chain rub if I use the smallest three cogs. With downtube shifters, I would get rid of chain rub by manipulating the shifters. How the heck do I get rid of chain rub with STI shifters? I know not to use a little/little chain combination, but I'd rather not give up the other two cogs.
The small chainring on a triple crankset is only intended to be used with the largest few cogs. Using the small chainring with the <i>smaller</i> cogs is forcing the derailleurs to work at their limits. In addition, the gear ratios from these extreme gear combinations are duplicated by other combinations which use the middle and large chainrings. Bottom line is that the small chainring is only intended to be used for steep climbs, using the 3-4 largest rear cogs. On a shallow climb or flat, use the middle or large chainrings.
Ah, I see. Since you don't have a triple, your problem is chain alignment, which can be quite a bit off even on brand new stock-equipped bikes. I had this problem on one of my bikes until I got a new bottom bracket and the bike shop owner who installed it adjusted the chainline with a special guage. With a double crank and a 9-speed cogset, the center cog should be perfectly straight behind the MIDLINE between the two chainwheels. You may have to find a specialty high-end bike shop to do the adjustment, which will probably requires some shims. Once the chain alignment is set up properly you should be able to use all but your smallest cog with your small ring, although in a few cases, if you have unusually short chainstays, you MIGHT not be able to use the second-smallest cog. You definitely will be able to use the third-smallest cog when your bike is set up properly.
The situation may be hopeless. That new Ultrega drivetrain went onto a Trek 460. The rings & cranks were replaced, but there may be only so much room on this frame to 'tweak' things.
It sounds like your bottom bracket (the crank axle assembly) needs to be moved over to the right (moving the crankset outwards) a bit to get the small chainring to line up better with the smaller cogs. Some bottom brackets are adjustable from side to side, and others may be able to accept shims to move them over. Check with your bike shop. If your bottom bracket isn't adjustable, you may be able to get a new, better model that is adjustable. Or, a bottom bracket in a slightly larger (wider) size may do the trick. Bottom brackets do tend to wear out every few years, so you might need a new one soon anyway.
Another thought: if you have a "spoke protector" in between your cassette and your spokes this is unnecessary for a road bike, and removing it might allow your cassette to move inwards a little bit and help with better chain alignment. Just make sure that your rear derailleur limit screws are adjusted correctly after removing the spoke protector.
Thanks for the advice. My LBS isn't exactly local - it's a 100 miles away - but I make the trip relatively frequently.
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We present a new approach to extending oblivious transfer with communication complexity that is logarithmic in the security parameter. Our method only makes black-box use of the underlying cryptographic primitives, and can achieve security against an active adversary with almost no overhead on top of passive security. This results in the first oblivious transfer protocol with sublinear communication and active security, which does not require any non-black-box use of cryptographic primitives.Our main technique is a novel twist on the classic OT extension of Ishai et al. (Crypto 2003), using an additively key-homomorphic PRF to reduce interaction. We first use this to construct a protocol for a large batch of 1-out-of-n OTs on random inputs, with amortized o(1) communication. Converting these to 1-out-of-2 OTs on chosen strings requires logarithmic communication. The key-homomorphic PRF used in the protocol can be instantiated under the learning with errors assumption with exponential modulus-to-noise ratio.
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Grégoire (born Grégoire Boissenot on 3 April 1979 in Senlis, France) is a French singer-songwriter and composer. He has released three albums to date and has a number of successful singles in France, Belgium and Switzerland.
In December 2007, Gregoire signed a contract with the young label My Major Company, which gives subscribers the possibility to become music producers. Grégoire's first album was produced by 347 producers, of which forty feature in the music video of his first single, "Toi + Moi". The song was subsequently aired by the NRJ and RTL radio stations and became a hit in Belgium, Switzerland and on the French digital chart.
"Toi + Moi" is a 2008 pop song recorded by French singer Grégoire. It was his debut single off his album of the same name and was released in October 2008. It achieved huge success in francophone countries.
In 2008, Grégoire was nominated at the NRJ Music Awards in the category 'French revelation of the year'. A second single, "Rue des Étoiles" went to radio in November 2008 and was released in December, then a third single, "Ta Main", whose music video was shot in March 2009 with the actress Inès Sastre. In September 2009, a fourth single started to be aired, "Nuages". The music video was broadcast on television, but the song was only available digitally.
"Rue des Étoiles" is a 2009 song recorded by French singer-songwriter Grégoire and produced by Franck Authié under My Major Company label. It was the second single from his debut album Toi + Moi and was released in February 2009. The song became a top ten hit in Belgium (Wallonia), and achieved minor success in Switzerland. It was heavily played in Russia.
"Ta Main" is a 2008 song recorded by French singer-songwriter Grégoire and produced by Franck Authié under My Major Company label. It was the third single from his debut album Toi + Moi and was released in April 2009. It became a hit in Belgium, and in France where it was much aired both on radio and on television.
Grégoire had four brothers. As indicated in the music video, the song "Ta Main" was dedicated to Ludovic (1969-2002) and Nicolas (1974-2007), his two deceased brothers. Grégoire holds a BA in Applied Languages (LEA) English and German.
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This article presents the discography of the French pop rock singer Calogero.
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↑ "Grégoire" (in French). Enfoires.com. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
↑ "Le Top de la semaine : Top Albums – SNEP (Week 48, 2017)" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique . Retrieved 5 December 2017.
↑ "Le Top de la semaine : Top Singles Téléchargés - SNEP (Week 4, 2017)" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique . Retrieved 28 January 2017.
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I am self-employed and finding myself totally priced out of the health insurance market. I'm too small to have a group policy, and the insurance companies will no longer provide individual traditional fee-for-service coverage. I'm finding myself being forced into HMOs. which I think deliver bad care and rip off the consumer. What am I supposed to do?
You might consider a Health Savings Account (HSA) or Medical Savings Account (MSA). An HSA or MSA is health insurance, which consists of a high deductible medical coverage coupled with an individual savings account that is basically a medical IRA. Generally speaking, an HSA/MSA policy can allow a family to sock away up to several thousand dollars per year, tax deferred. Withdrawals can be made only to pay for medical services not paid for by the high deductible policy.
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