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Restaurants across the country are finding that families like the Calderins, with more money than time, are a huge, hungry market for home-delivered meals. Delivery is still small, but it's growing far faster than the rest of the restaurant business. Last year it increased 9 percent, while takeout increased only 4 percent and in-restaurant dining declined 2 percent.
Pizza has been a favorite among homebodies for years and still accounts for most of the delivery business. But pasta, barbecued ribs, fried chicken, and Chinese food have also been making tracks. With the help of delivery services, even mid-scale and upscale restaurants are getting involved, expanding the choices to such things as Thai chicken curry or monkfish en papillote.
Restaurant Express, a delivery service in Newport Beach, Calif., is linked by computer to 36 white-tablecloth restaurants in the area. Its 25 tuxedo-clad waiters shuttle 400 to 450 orders a week. Average tab for a dinner for two: $30, including a $4 delivery charge. Entrepreneur John Pugsley, who started the business two years ago, plans to expand soon to 1,250 orders a week and hopes eventually to take the company national.
Behind the demand for home delivery, analysts say, is the trend toward an older, family-oriented population with more two-earner households. Couples are into ``cocooning'' at home after work, watching their VCRs and spending time with their children.
``Consumer demand for convenience is a trend that has been evident since the early '80s, and we see no sign of it abating at all,'' adds Anne Papa, spokeswoman for the National Restaurant Association.
In a recent Gallup survey for the association, 30 percent of consumers polled said they would use food delivery services if they knew they were available.
But operations that are carefully streamlined and conscientiously marketed can do well. Tony Roma's, a specialty restaurant chain owned by the Dallas-based Roma Corporation, has been successfully running baby back ribs from its restaurants in Los Angeles and south Florida. An important part of its strategy, says marketing director Alex Schreer, is mailing menus to homes in affluent neighborhoods. Dependable service keeps its customers calling back.
The Calderins have been ordering an average $60 of food from Tony Roma's in Coral Gables about every two weeks for the last three years. The longest they've had to wait is 25 minutes, and they've never had to reheat an order.
| 2019-04-19T08:27:21 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/1989/0303/fdel.html
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Direction (Q. 1-10) : In thefollowing passagethere are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each four words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate words.
A few years ago India was a grain-deficient country, but today it has become a grain- (1). country. This happened because the government (2) to buy ing huge quantities of grain and also because (3) production increased appreciably too.
Things have come to such a (4) that farmers don't know where to (5) their surplus produce and even the government's godowns are (6).
Thus, even if the government desired it cannot (7) to buy the surplus grain, essentially because it would not be able to störe it and building additional (8) facilities could cost several milion rupees.
Besides, the grain would most certainly (9) in a temporary storage facility or then would be (10) up by rodents.
(5). 1) loading 2) dumping 3) arrange 4) stock.
| 2019-04-24T16:32:03 |
https://www.onlinetest.ibpsexamguru.in/questions/PO-English-Language/Test-105
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A missile is fired vertically with an initial velocity of 400m/s. it is acted on by gravity.?
Let's say that down is negative, up is positive.
| 2019-04-23T00:51:04 |
https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20190321031419AAQjivb
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PARIS - A Muslim woman garbed in a head-to-toe swimsuit - dubbed a "burquini" - may have opened a new chapter in France's tussle between religious practices and its stern secular code.
Officials insisted Wednesday they banned the woman's use of the Islam-friendly suit at a local pool because of France's pool hygiene standards - not out of hostility to overtly Muslim garb.
Under the policy, swimmers are not allowed in pools with baggy clothing, including surfer-style shorts. Only figure-hugging suits are permitted.
Nonetheless the woman, a 35-year-old convert to Islam identified only as Carole, complained of religious discrimination after trying to go swimming in a "burquini," a full-body swimsuit, in the town of Emerainville, southeast of Paris.
She was quoted as telling the daily Le Parisien newspaper that she had bought the burquini after deciding "it would allow me the pleasure of bathing without showing too much of myself, as Islam recommends."
"For me this is nothing but segregation," she said.
The issue of religious attire is a hot topic in France, where head-to-toe burqas or other full-body coverings worn by some Muslim fundamentalists are in official disfavour.
France is home to western Europe's largest Muslim population, estimated at 5 million, and Islam is the nation's second religion after Roman Catholicism.
A 2004 law banning the wearing of Muslim head scarves at public schools sparked fierce debate. That legislation also banned Jewish skullcaps and large Christian crosses in public classrooms.
French lawmakers recently revived the issue of Muslim dress with a proposal that the burqa and other voluminous Muslim attire be banned.
President Nicolas Sarkozy, a conservative, backs the move, saying such garb makes women prisoners.
The "burquini" covers the arms to the wrists and the legs to the ankle and has a hood to cover neck and hair.
An official in charge of swimming pools for the Emerainville region, Daniel Guillaume, said the refusal to allow the local woman to swim in her "burquini" had nothing to do with religion and everything to do with public health standards.
"These clothes are used in public, so they can contain molecules, viruses, et cetera, which will go in the water and could be transmitted to other bathers," Guillaume said in a telephone interview.
"We reminded this woman that one should not bathe all dressed, just as we would tell someone who is a nudist not to bathe all naked," he said.
Guillaume said France's public health standards require all pool-goers to don swimsuits for women and tight, swimming briefs for men - and caps to cover their hair. Bathers also must shower before entering the water.
Guillaume said Carole had tried to file a complaint at a local police station, but her request was turned down as groundless.
Carole told the daily Le Parisien she would protest with the help of anti-discrimination groups.
Emerainville Mayor Alan Kelyor said he could not understand why the woman would want to swim in head-to-toe clothes.
"We are going back in civilization," he said by telephone. Women have fought for decades for equal rights with men, he said. "Now we are putting them back in burqas and veils."
The suits have a clear market.
Women "jump on the occasion so they can swim with their families. Otherwise, they end up staying on the beach and watching," said Leila Mouhoubia, who runs an online site from France that specializes in the sale of Islamic swimsuits. Sales, she said, are strong.
"I think it's forbidden (in France) because it presents an image of the Muslim woman (and) they have prejudices against Muslims," she said by telephone. "They want women to be undressed."
Mouloud Aounit, head of the anti-racism group known as MRAP, said the decision to ban Carole from the pool appeared fair, since pool authorities were observing regulations. But Aounit lamented that the incident was likely to fuel religious tensions.
"The rules must be the same for everybody, regardless of the colour of their skin or their religion," Aounit said. "The concern I have is that this case will again lead to stigmatization of the Muslim population in France."
The all-body suits, worn regularly by some women in Muslim countries, are growing popular in the West. They can be seen on female Muslim lifeguards on Australian beaches, in the United States and various European countries, from the Netherlands to Sweden - which OKed them after two women won discrimination cases last year.
Associated Press Writers Rod McGuirk in Sydney, Australia, Melissa Eddy in Berlin, Germany, Malin Rising in Stockholm, Sweden, Ian MacDougall in Oslo, Norway, and Toby Sterlin in Amsterdam, the Netherlands contributed to this report.
| 2019-04-26T00:41:46 |
https://www.metro.us/news/french-muslim-woman-barred-from-pool-for-donning-head-to-toe-burquini-swim-suit/tmWihl---a9uHj4D2P9wn2
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When asked about lobbying for compensation for lectures cancelled a social science student said ‘lecturers didn’t set the price tag, in fact, they marched against fees. Education isn't fifty quid a lecture, it doesn’t work like that.’ A striker reported 'The atmosphere across campus was vibrant with busy pickets and students delivering coffee and breakfast. I am in no doubt our employers got a clear message that the feeling here is very angry and determined.
In Bristol University hundreds of staff gathered for a 10.30 rally when a march of hundreds of militant students turned up chanting 'students and workers unite.' As one university worker said 'Within in half an hour a crowd of two thousand had gathered outside senate house'. UCU reps, students and other unionists bringing solidarity all called for staff and students to unite and fight against cuts and marketisation across the board.They then set off on an impromptu march into the centre, town stopping traffic and getting a huge amount of support from passers-by.
A student activist at Cardiff University said the atmosphere on campus was 'amazing'. 'Everyone is talking about the strike. Most students weren't going to classes.' He only knew one lecturer who had gone in to work. After picketing, hundreds of staff and students gathered for a rally addressed by Labour and Plaid Cymru Assembly members amongst others. He had helped organise a meeting the day before the strike through the Peoples Assembly and other organisations where UCU members were explaining the situation to students. About 60 people turned up and that meant there was a core of students who really knew the arguments. Student health workers who had tried to picket their building were forced to move by police and security because they were told it was NHS property. They ended up getting a fantastic reception when they formed 'a kind of flying picket' marching around the campus to boost activists across the university.
Despite problems at Birmingham University, where there has had to be a re-ballot, Aston university lecturers in Birmingham also had a very big picket with what an activist called 'a determined and defiant mood'. He said lots of students were taking the unions leaflets and almost all of the students they were talking to blamed the management rather than the union for the disruption.
At Glasgow University UCU activists had decided on a show of strength at one gate on the first day. Sure enough, more than one hundred turned out including a lot of students. One activist said it was 'the first time I have ever been on a picket where we actually stopped vans and lorries coming in. On top of that, we got loads of people hooting their support.' After picketing they marched into the centre of the city to join strikers and students from other Glasgow campuses and universities.
In her speech to the rally, Sally Hunt, General Secretary of the UCU reported a poll showing that three-fifths of students support the strikes, with students at universities affected by the strike showing more support. She also told the crowd of how this strike was headline news across all of the media, and how it would give strength to workers across all sectors to fight back. At a time, where the lack of union membership is often a source of dismay for many on the left, Hunt reported 5000 new members over the recent weeks, consisting mainly of new young lecturers, librarians, and administration staff. Not bad for a start.
| 2019-04-24T14:09:42 |
https://www.counterfire.org/news/19476-lecturers-strike-day-one-a-bad-day-for-the-casino
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https://sep.yimg.com/ay/yhst-33477391359232/burgundy-linckia-sea-star-linkia-species-burgundy-sea-star-6.jpgBurgundy Linckia Sea Star - Linkia species - Burgundy Sea Star Expert Only!!!
Taxonomy: Burgundy Linckia Sea Star belongs to the Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Echinodermata, Class Asteroidea, Family Ophidiasteridae and Genus Linkia.
Scientific names: The scientific name of Burgundy Linckia Sea Star is Linkia species.
Other common names: Burgundy Linckia Sea Star is also commonly known as Purple Sea Star and Tamarisk Sea Star.
Origin or natural range: The Linkia species originates from the Indo-Pacific region including Tonga and Fiji.
Size: Burgundy Linckia Sea Star may grow up to a size of around eight inches.
Color: As the name suggests, the Linkia species is mainly Burgundy in color with the variations of deep purple to deep magenta.
Aggression: Burgundy Linckia Sea Star is non-aggressive towards the marine aquarium invertebrates.
Compatibility: The Linkia species is reef compatible.
Venom status: Burgundy Linckia Sea Star is non-poisonous in nature.
Habit & Habitat: The Linkia species is solitary in nature.
Morphology: Burgundy Linckia Sea Star has five to six long and cylindrical arms.
Tank type: To host Burgundy Linckia Sea Star, you should have a six months old Reef Type Marine Aquarium. The six months old tank would generally ensure the algal growth in it for the nutrition of the sea star.
Keep sand or gravel, coral rubble, rocks and Live Rocks in your reef tank having the Linkia species.
Better place one Burgundy Linckia Sea Star in a marine aquarium.
Temperature of water: The temperature of your reef tank�s water should be maintained between seventy-two and seventy-eight degrees Fahrenheit.
Specific gravity of water: The specific gravity of your marine aquarium�s water should range within 1.023 to 1.025.
pH of water: The pH value of your reef tank�s water should scale between 8.10 and 8.40.
Illumination: The Linkia species requires ample lighting in the marine aquarium it inhabits.
Acclimation: Slowly acclimate Burgundy Linckia Sea Star to your reef tank�s environment through Slow Drip Method. The slow acclimation process of the Linkia species takes a minimum time period of two hours.
Diet: Burgundy Linckia Sea Star is Omnivorous in feeding habit.
Food content: The Linkia species eats detritus and phytoplankton, mainly Film Algae.
Supplements: You may supplement the diet of Burgundy Linckia Sea Star with dried seaweed and the meaty bits of clam.
The Linkia species eats Film Algae and therefore, keeps your marine aquarium free of Film Algae infestation.
Burgundy Linckia Sea Star eats detritus, thereby preventing the contamination of your reef tank�s water by keeping it free of perishable organic waste matter.
The Linkia species is easy to maintain.
Sudden fluctuations in the pH and the temperature of your marine aquarium�s environment may give pH shock and temperature shock, respectively, to the Burgundy Linckia Sea Star therein.
Copper and Nitrates in any form in your reef tank may prove lethal for The Linkia species.
Exposing Burgundy Linckia Sea Star to air may be fatal for it. Therefore, keep the Linkia species under water even while handling it.
Caution: Burgundy Linckia Sea Star may hurt clams, sponges and sea anemones. Therefore, do not keep the Linkia species with these marine aquarium invertebrates.
| 2019-04-25T19:51:37 |
https://www.freshmarine.com/burgundy-linckia-sea-star.html
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Is Alpaca yarn the best variety?
Looking for the best yarn to use for crocheting or knitting can be a good thing. The problem crafters may encounter is the best yarn often is hard to locate. This is when they need to have information on why Alpaca yarn is the best yarn for them to use for getting their crafts completed.
The main thing people will find about this yarn is everyone comments on how soft this yarn is. Typically yarn is soft, but it has some rough spots. With the Alpaca yarn, the roughness is removed and the products people produce with the yarn will remain smooth no matter what.
Another thing that makes Alpaca yarn the best is the hypoallergenic quality. Typically when people are allergic to wool or other cottons it is from the oils the animals or plants produce. The alpaca typically do not produce any of these oils, which makes them hypoallergenic. People can easily have a better time with the finished product because they are not constantly itching all the time or even worse, breaking out in a rash from the product.
Finding the perfect yarn to produce quality items with can be difficult for crafters. However, if they start to know about the quality present by using Alpaca yarn, the choice in yarns will be simple. Then people can finally start to use the highest quality of yarn and know the products they are producing will not make people sick, but instead will provide them with something comforting to wear all the time.
| 2019-04-21T18:59:27 |
https://craftworld.us/?q=article/alpaca-yarn-craft-projects&page=0
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I have a Minolta 70-210 f3.5-4.5 and I was asked if it had zoom creep. I hadn't tested this lens for that as I never really used this lens for anything other than shooting in an horizontal position. So When I was asked whether or not it had it, I found out it did and immediately went to work on how to repair it. I found a site on a Nikon lens where they had used a rubber wrist band to put over the seem between the zoom ring and the lens barrel. I wanted something that I could do without having to find a rubber band that would work properly. So here is what I did: Near the rear of the lens where the zoom ring and the barrel come together ther is a smal gap. I took some thread, I'm sure embroidery floss, dental floss (Probably non-waxed), and a variety of other very small diameter strings would work just fine too, and wrapped a couple turns of it into that gap and tied it into a knot. This string being in that gap provides just enough resistance to hold the lens in place while allowing the zoom ring to still be turned with little effort. It is also very hidden and hardly shows at all. This has stopped the lens from creeping at all and took all of 30 seconds to perform. I'm sure this fix could be applied to many different lenses.
Any idea how to fix zoom creep on a push-pull type zoom?
Literally it takes 30 seconds to perform so if you are worried about the string wearing out, which I agree could happen, just change the string ever so often before it wears out. I'm sure there are threads, such as Rayon or silk that would last a very long time. Also there are a couple more ideas, like using one of those rubber wrist bands or just a band of elastic to cross the gap and provide friction. This was just what I had available at the time and it seems to work great.
find one of those thick rubber bands used on produce and lobster claws. put it over the joint for the zoom.
Do you mean to use it like a cheap zoom lock? I'm guessing I couldn't leave it in place while I'm changing focal length.
for zooming out it should be okay, might have to slide it onto the outside barrel when zooming in, though..
I'll give it a try, I don't mind the creep when I'm shooting handheld, but I was trying to get a shot of the moon on a tripod, and it kept creeping in from 400 to about 220 or so.
I think the only way for me is to find a rubber band just tight enough to go half over the forward edge of the zoom ring and the adjacent barrel. Something clear would even be better, so I can see the FL scale.
What I've done on a couple of lenses takes longer than the string method, but looks good and works. I bought some black elastic used for sewing clothes. I used both 1.5 and 2 inch wide depending on which fits on the lens where the zoom ring meets the barrel.
I wrap the elastic around where the zoom ring and barrel meet and measure the length with a little overlap. It doesn't take much stretch to tighten the zoom and too tight will make it difficult to turn. Then I sew (or have a friend sew) both ends of the over lap and slide it over the lens.
Using this on my 70-210 f/3.5-4.5 the lens won't creep even with a cokin filter holder. CP filter, and lens hood mounted. My Sigma 135-400 also had a lot of lens creep, and using it with a large homemade hood and CP filter only made it worse. This method stopped any creep. The black elastic looks like it was designed for the lens, and it costs only a dollar or so.
But then you end up with a 70 or 210 prime! Darn, I hate when that happens.
| 2019-04-25T18:51:37 |
https://www.dyxum.com/dforum/how-to-fix-zoom-creep-minolta-70210-3-54-5_topic59459.html
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Keep the database updated and maintain an accurate record of all library resources.
Ensure the library catalogue provides reliable results for searchers.
Assess the effectiveness of current circulation and security procedures.
Make sure items are issued and returned.
Provide accurate statistics of losses. This may launch a request for a security system or staffing review.
Identify items that should be weeded, repaired or relocated.
Identify items with cataloguing record errors.
Inventories should be part of the library's yearly cycle. If held regularly, they will produce useful comparative statistics. The whole library can be inventoried every one or two years, or specific collections can be done in alternate years. Department of Education auditors recommend yearly inventories.
Talk with school administrators and choose the best time of the year. Ensure adequate staff are available. Holidays and pupil-free days are ideal.
Should you close the library? The process will be quicker and more accurate without constant interruptions or items constantly moved. TALIS Network libraries don't need to close.
Assess Workplace Health and Safety implications. Furniture may need to be moved. Boxes and computer cables may be trip hazards.
Ensure that school staff are aware that an inventory will be held, the timeframes and the impact on library access.
Make a plan. Identify collections to inventory and an order for the work. Don't forget collections stored outside the library.
Tidy your shelves. Automated libraries should shelve items in the correct collection, though not necessarily in strict shelf order. Manual libraries should have items in strict call number order.
Weed before the inventory to avoid double-handling.
Staffing - at least two or more staff will ensure the process goes more quickly and is more accurate.
Loans - you may or may not need to retrieve loans. TALIS Network libraries don't need to retrieve loans but manual libraries will.
Clear your mending box and shelve items on display.
Decide whether you will take the items to the computer, or take the computer to the shelves.
Identify the equipment you will need and ensure it is operational.
Set up labelled boxes for items that require follow-up eg repairs, checkins, relocations, editing, weeding.
Practise the process and ensure staff are confident before starting.
The inventory process will be dependent on your library management system. TALIS Network libraries have specific inventory instructions on the TALIS Support Website. Manual libraries need to check the items on the shelves against a shelf list.
In any inventory you need to work systematically within a collection: section by section, shelf by shelf. This will ensure items are not missed.
Generate lists of missing items.
Double-check the shelves so items aren't missed.
Try and identify other areas where the items might be – in the workroom, classroom, staffrooms.
If items are located, inventory them.
Once a final list of missing items has been created, either delete the items from the database or make them missing. This keeps your library catalogue up to date. Many libraries don't immediately delete items and instead make them Missing. This retains the items in the database, which is useful if they are found.
Action the boxes of items that you identified that need to be checked in, edited, deleted or repaired.
Share the list of missing items with your school administrators. The list may show trends or issues that require a change to library operations and/or staffing, or perhaps a budget increase.
Keep your results to compare with past and future inventories.
Replace some missing resources if appropriate.
| 2019-04-19T11:13:38 |
https://www.libraries.tas.gov.au/school-library/Pages/collections-inventory.aspx
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Here's big news that isn't reported this way: The two front-running Republican candidates for president believe gays and lesbians should be able to serve in our nation's armed forces.
That's what George W. Bush and John McCain are saying when they support the current "don't ask, don't tell" policy that lets homosexuals serve in the military as long as they don't disclose their sexual orientation.
Now, you might ask: But isn't that a "conservative" position? Don't both Al Gore and Bill Bradley favor ending "don't ask, don't tell" and allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly so they won't face harassment and discrimination?
Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes, the tribunes of social conservatism in the presidential race, don't think Bush and McCain are nearly conservative enough and would restore the old ban on gays in the military – which, after all, was the mainstream position in politics only a decade ago.
But neither Keyes nor Bauer is going to win the Republican nomination judging from what conservative Republicans are telling pollsters; Bush and McCain are the candidates of the conservative mainstream.
Attitudes on gay issues have changed so much that McCain answered, "Sure, absolutely," when moderator Tim Russert asked him during a debate in Grand Rapids, Mich., this week if he had served with a gay person during his time in the military. It's exceedingly unlikely a war hero presidential candidate would have said such a thing as recently as a decade ago – or that a moderator would even have thought to ask the question.
"It's extraordinary that 'don't ask, don't tell' is now the conservative position," says David Mixner, a prominent gay rights activist. "I think the American people are more comfortable with the idea that gay and lesbian soldiers serve with honor and distinction and have gotten over a lot of fears."
"This is a noticeable and, frankly, welcomed evolution of the two major presidential candidates," says Rep. Chris Shays, a Connecticut Republican sympathetic to gay rights. "They know there are patriotic Americans who served their country, who died for their country, who happened to have a different sexual orientation."
It's true that all the attitudinal studies show a large share of Americans are still uncomfortable with homosexuality. Many social conservatives for whom Keyes and Bauer speak believe that the acceptance now granted homosexuality bespeaks national moral decline.
But that is not the predominant view. David Smith, senior strategist at the Human Rights Campaign, the largest gay and lesbian political organization, says his group's polls show Americans divide roughly into three groups on gay rights issues.
"One-third of the country is firmly anti-gay," he says. "It's rock solid and it's not going to change." Another third is broadly sympathetic to gay rights. "They're our families, our friends – or us." The remaining one-third of Americans is especially important to politicians. "This middle group wants to be fair," Smith says. "They don't want to see gay people hurt or discriminated against. But they're unclear or unsure about public policy matters."
The middle third doesn't want gay rights issues to take center stage in the presidential campaign. "The middle people would much rather be talking about education, child care and health care," he says. "In the middle group, they're probably looking at this" – the arguments among presidential candidates about gays in the military – "and saying: 'Why are they talking about this still?' "
Keyes and Bauer don't appeal to this middle, but it almost certainly reacted badly to Gore's statement that he would use support for gays in the military as a "litmus test" in naming members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It's not surprising that Gore backed off that comment so quickly. The moderate group, Smith says, is largely against gay marriage but opposes job discrimination against gays and is more willing than in the past to provide gay couples with some of the legal protections married people enjoy.
The most important change in the past decade, Mixner thinks, is in the political thinking of Americans who remain uneasy with homosexuality. "A lot of the middle group once felt that they had to approve or be comfortable with gay people to support their rights," he says. "Now, I think, there's a realization that you don't have to approve or be comfortable to support individual rights. Nowhere in the Constitution does the word 'comfortable' appear."
That Bush and McCain are comfortable saying what they're saying about gays in the military, and that Gore and Bradley are willing to press even further, is the best evidence that Mixner is right.
| 2019-04-19T11:30:26 |
http://www.georgialogcabin.org/news/Republican-Candidates-Dont-Ask-Dont-Tell-Gays-Military/200001141057.shtml
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| 2019-04-26T00:56:13 |
https://www.officepooljunkie.com/help/pk-faq.php
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(CBS/AP) JACKSON, Miss. - Authorities said the Mississippi man charged with murdering the mayoral candidate Marco McMillian was driving the candidate's car when he crashed on a highway the day McMillian disappeared.
An investigation began Tuesday when McMillian's SUV crashed into another car on U.S. Highway 49 near the Coahoma and Tallahatchie county lines. Lawrence Reed, 22, was driving the car, but McMillian was not in it, according to sheriff's department spokesman Will Rooker.
McMillian's body was found the next day near the Mississippi River levee between Sherard and Rena Lara, Coahoma County Coroner Scotty Meredith said. Warren Strain, a spokesman with the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, said the autopsy was completed but toxicology and other test results are pending, and no cause of death will be released until the report is completed.
The Coahoma County Sheriff's Department said in a news release that Reed was charged in the death of 34-year-old McMillian, a candidate for mayor of Clarksdale. Campaign spokesman Jarod Keith said McMillian's bid was noteworthy because he may have been the first openly gay man to be a viable candidate for public office in Mississippi.
The sheriff's department has not released a possible motive for the crime.
Reed was taken to the Regional Medical Center in Memphis after the car wreck, and was listed in good condition on Thursday, a hospital official said. Little is known about him or how he was acquainted with McMillian.
Sissiretta Melton, 33, said she knew McMillian since they were in seventh grade in Clarksdale and described his death as "dramatic" for those who loved him and his community.
"It's just terrifying to everybody that knew him personally because you ask, 'Why?'" Melton said. "Why would it happen to someone like him?"
Melton said people knew early on that McMillian had a bright future and that he could have left Mississippi behind for good.
"He knew this town needed him," she said. "Kids here have nothing. We don't even have a decent movie theater. He wanted to bring those things here."
Keith also said McMillian had big plans for Clarksdale, a town of about 17,800 people best known as a hub of Blues music.
Although Keith said McMillian's sexual orientation was noteworthy in the conservative state, Melton took issue with the way McMillian has been characterized at times since his death, saying he was not one to flaunt his sexuality, but was comfortable with who he was.
"He was just a standup guy," she said.
Those who knew McMillian said he had connections across the country, and hoped to put those to use for Clarksdale.
McMillian forged ties while serving for four years as international executive director of the historically black Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. Photos on McMillian's website and Facebook page show him with a younger Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton and with U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat.
McMillian was also CEO of MWM & Associates, described on its website as a consulting firm for nonprofit organizations. In addition to his role at the fraternity from 2007 to 2011, McMillian had previously worked at Alabama A&M University and at Jackson State University.
I looked this story up because I was sure what I would find.
Black homosexual politition has car stolen by black man. And that is exactly what I found. I doubt he even knew the guy other than having just picked him up for some quicky.
| 2019-04-21T04:12:47 |
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I know my family is a long time removed from Italy but I have located 26 named individuals in the commune where some of my family was born. Should I just send a letter to all 26 and do I enclose money for return postage with a self-addressed envelope?
I am not sure just how I would find Italian stamps for the return envelopes.
When I was considering doing the same as you are, sending letters to all families in the given town with the surname you are researching, I contacted Riccardo to have an idea of what I should do.
So, I would definitely recommend sending a shout out to Riccardo and see if he can do the same for you. I highly recommend him.
I would include my e-mail address in those letters too. In fact, the only relativeswho contacted me were through e-mail. For some reason, it is easier for people to shoot out an e-mail than to write an old fashioned letter. Of course, like the US, I am sure some of the older people would prefer to write an old fashioned letter or don't have easy access to a computer. What I did was send out one letter by post. I got no response, so I sent out two e-mails by searching google and yahoo for the same surname as mine in the relevant towns. I got replies to those very quicky. I would do what Liz said, and only send out a few letters instead of mailing a whole bunch. Word of mouth will travel fast to others, if they are related. I think it was Nuccia who also said to include a small picture of yourself (to show good will and perhaps a family resemblance). That way they know you are earnest and not some nut.
Hello. I did the same thing. I sent 54 letters to Italy over a period of three months. All that responded did so with email. I wouldn't waste the time and money on return envelopes. But that is just my opinion. Most people are computer savvy these days and I even got some responses from some relatives that were in their 60s by email.
Hey, thanks everyone. I will still contact Riccardo about stamps but I never though of Googling for possible relative there. Hum.....I will do that. Maybe I can either add to my list or just use those I find on Google.
Thank you once again. You have all been very helpful.
Forgot to add: I am corresponding via email with a long lost relative on a part of the family I was never aware of. He is a very young 83 years old. He worked actively until about 5 or 6 years ago so came by his comfort with computers while still on the job and is very proficient.
Okay, what am I going wrong. All I am getting are websites for genealogy sites or forums related to the surname. I know I am putting it in wrong. The same thing with Yahoo.
One of my Italian cousins was listed with this. Also, I followed the trail with google. I found a web page of where a relative worked and wrote to their work place and asked them to pass the letter on. You sort of have to be creative and use trial and error.
Oh, and try www.yahoo.it and www.google.it Maybe you will get people instead of genealogy sites (of course the hits will be in Italian).
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Calculate the employment rate. Divide the number of employed people by the total labor force. Multiply this number by 100. The result of these calculations is the employment rate. Divide the number of employed people by the total labor force.
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| 2019-04-23T10:31:09 |
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So I feel a little judgmental about something I saw yesterday, wanted to share.
The hubs and I had an appointment yesterday afternoon and when it was over, we decided to go for lunch. We went to one of our regular places because the hubs likes the burgers and I like the fact they have the supersized wine. ;) 9 oz in fact, delivered in a gorgeous (large!) carafe alongside elegant stemware.
We found a nice booth at the back. I was enjoying my wine - along with a yummy Thai Beef-Ginger soup, a big salad and as many of the hubs' fries as I could steal. The restaurant has a bar set up in the middle of the room where after 5 pm, you often see friends or couples meeting up for drinks. This was about three in the afternoon. The bar stools were all empty - except for one woman in her forties, hunched over her iPhone, with - yes - a big honkin' carafe of white wine in front of her - but no food.
I motioned to her. "Bet she's an alcoholic," I whispered.
The hubs glanced over. "Why do you say that?"
"Well, she's sitting at a bar alone, with a huge glass of wine in front of her and no food -- in the middle of the afternoon. I've never even done that."
"Sat at a bar alone?"
"No! Not with a big glass, especially. And I always order food."
In fact, I'd been to that restaurant many times by myself to enjoy a glass of wine. But I've never grabbed a seat at the bar - especially with nobody else there - and 99% of the time, I order food. I told my husband as much.
"So just because someone doesn't order food, that means they're an alcoholic?"
But it made me think. I was being harsh on this stranger - whatever her circumstances. What if she was waiting for a friend? What if she was coming from a meeting with a divorce lawyer? (Who couldn't use a drink then?) What if this single glass of wine is the only treat she allows herself all week? What if - like me - she doesn't like to drink alone at home? I mean, if there's anyone who shouldn't judge people about their drinking, it's gotta be me, right? But apparently even Ms. Functional can be vulnerable to the judgmental attitude society has against addiction.
btw - I have to send out this little message: If you were the woman with the great Birkin bag and a pretty pink wallet with the loop closure who brought back three bottles of white wine to a Toronto liquor store a couple weeks ago because you were 'going on a cleanse and didn't want it around,' I was behind you in line. I wanted to ask a dozen questions about your situation ... but thought it would be a gross violation of your privacy. But if by any chance, you're out there - please get in touch! I'd love to hear how it's going!
[email protected] - Totally confidential natch!!
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Have you made Catfish With Dijon Sauce?
1. Rinse fillets and blot dry.
2. Combine butter, Worcestershire Sauce, and Lemon Pepper; mix.
3. Brush both sides of fillets with butter mixture and place on a sheet of heavy-duty foil or in a well-greased hinged fish basket.
4. Grill over medium-hot coals for 5-8 minutes; turn fillets and grill another 5-8 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork.
5. Combine sour cream, Dijon Mustard, and Worcestershire Sauce.
6. Heat 45 seconds in microwave or until warm. Serve 2 tablespoons sauce over each catfish fillet and garnish with lemon twists.
7. Oven Method: Broil 6-inches from heat for 10-12 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork; turning once.
This recipe contains potential food allergens and will effect people with Lemon, Fish, Butter, Malt, Mustard, Citric Acid allergies.
| 2019-04-23T23:54:22 |
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How is blogging goes on Blogger? You may come up with post ideas everyday and you wanna share them with your blog readers. I know, you enjoy blogging. But as you write a new post, an older post will get hidden from your homepage. Your homepage get the attention of visitors. Especially, new visitors. Hence if you can deliver more content on your blog's homepage, you can maximize exposure for multiple posts too. Do you?
You go write a post, format and publish. After publishing, your full post will appear on the homepage of your blog. Do you have such a blog where it show off full posts on homepage? It doesn't matter, if you are not publishing posts frequently, such as if you are a person who post weekly, monthly or so. So your posts remain certain amount of time on homepage and it will get more exposure as it remains more time on homepage. Remember, all your readers are not online always and busy with their own works. So they may visit your blog weekly or so. Yeah, I know what you thinking. If you post daily or frequently, they will miss out your posts too.
Also as you show full posts on homepage and more posts on it to grab more exposure, it will get heavy and lengthy than any other page. So readers will find it bulky and it will take more time to load your homepage. Even regular visitors will find it disturbing as it takes more time to load. As an alternative you can decrease number of posts shown on your homepage. But as the number of posts shown on homepage get decreased, the exposure for posts would be decrease too. So if you post frequently, you have to balance it all. You have to think about showing more posts on homepage while not affecting on page load time of your homepage or giving impression that your blog is bulky for visitors land on your blog.
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This is interesting Mayura, will it work on both the new formats (Dynamic views) and old? I have some blogs on each and wonder if it would work for both. Thanks for sharing again!
Owh... That's a good question :) Unfortunately, yet it doesn't work with Dynamic Views dear. So if you have a blog with Dynamic Views, you have to ignore this one. However blog with Dynamic Views are more faster too. But yet affects on performance if you publish lengthy posts in "Classic" view. I hope Blogger will work on it.
Thanks Mayura. I'll have to check it out with my nature one.
You're welcome dear :) Absolutely, if you post frequently on that one or have lengthy posts which keeps your readers waiting until loading all content, you should think about using jump breaks.
Woopies :) Thanks Brenda. Yeah, WordPress does it better creating snippets of post automatically, but it depends on number of characters. But I've seen some Blogger templates made that way too. They show off snippet of post on homepage without jump breaks. You may Google it ;) I ll let you know if I can find too.
You're welcome dear :) Glad to hear it was easy to follow and could make use of.
This helped me so much! I never knew what that was for! Awesomeness!
Awesome! :) You're very welcome and hope you will have fun using jump breaks dear.
Thank You very much you saved the day !
You're welcome mate ;) Glad you could use a help and started using jump breaks now.
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Coolie, indeed! ;) You're welcome, Kaarunya and have fun with jump breaks dear.
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Thanks. Do you have a reference for that notion? Is that in Grandis' work? We should have an entry on this.
Recently, after I carried this question to the CatTheory mailing list I received a reply by Peter Bubenik who wrote that together with David Spivak they are in the process of proving the "directed homotopy hypothesis" relating (oo,1)-categories and some flavor of directed topological spaces.
But even though I tried, I couldn't make him tell me what exactly it is they are proving and precisely which notions of equivalence etc they are using.
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The common reason given as to why there is no Talmud Bavli on most of Seder Zeraim or Seder Taharot (only the tractates of Berachot and Niddah are represented) is that the Amoraim were based in Bavel (Babylonia) and lived after the time of the destruction of the Temple. Therefore, the laws pertaining to the agriculture and land of Israel (Zeraim) did not apply, and neither did the laws of ritual purity (Taharot). Yet almost all of Kodashim has Talmud Bavli on it; the Amoraim clearly discussed Zevachim, Menachot, etc. even though there was no Temple. Now I am aware of the verse that says "U'Nshalma Parim S'fateinu," indicating a special concept of reward for discussing and studying sacrifices, even when they can't be brought (i.e. since there is no longer a Temple). However, we also are rewarded for studying laws that no longer apply like Zeraim and Taharot, so why did the Amoraim not discuss them the way they did Kodashim?
I think the answer to this lies in the Talmud's origins. It presents itself as a series of discussions, but it wasn't as if Abaye and Rava were having an argument while someone took notes. What really happened was that the positions of the Tannaim and Amaraim were incorporated within lectures given in Babylonian yeshivot and programs like yarchei kallah. These lectures followed the Mishna, but they didn't necessarily cover all the Mishna - just like today, different programs or academies would have a study cycle that covered different bits of it. The source material was transmitted and refined over literally hundreds of years until it became a huge, dense corpus of discussions that was the basis for the Talmud. It was eventually redacted (by the Savaraim) and that's the Talmud we have today.
So why is there no Talmud on most of Taharot? Well, recall the Talmud's origins - it documented the course of study in the Babylonian academies. If there were no courses on a chapter of the Mishna there would be nothing to be redacted, and if there only a few courses the material may have been too brief to justify its own tractate and been included elsewhere.
I realise that this answer just pushes the question back a step - why were there courses on most of Kodshim and not on Parah? I suspect it was a snowball effect that started because there was initially more demand for courses on particular tractates. This created a corpus of material on the tractates that had been studied, which justified further courses and eventually led to this material being redacted in separate tractates.
Incidentally, this very likely explains the mesechtot ketanot like Sofrim and Semachot: they contain material that was treated separately by only some yeshivot, so you end up with specialised tractates even though a lot of the discussion is included elsewhere in the Talmud. So from the fact that there is no masechta Parah we can surmises that there was no regular course of study on it. On the other hand, there was so much material on Nezikin that it had to be split into three courses (First Gate, Second Gate, Third Gate).
The simplest reason is that the main topic matters of Zeraim and Taharot are only pertinent to those who live in the land of Israel. Zeraim (apart from Berachot, which is included in the Bavli) deals with agricultural laws, all of which are primarily relevant for those residing in Israel. Taharot (aside from Niddah, which is included in the Bavli) also only really mattered in Israel, especially when the Beit haMikdash (temple) was still standing. Thus, (as Joe points out), the bulk of Zeraim and Taharot were not taught as units in Bavel (as opposed to the academies in Israel, the discussions of which became the source material for the Talmud Yerushalmi).
It is worth noting that mishnayot and beraytot from Zeraim and Taharot are quoted throughout the Talmud Bavli, whenever they are needed as related material for discussions germane to the topic at hand.
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Why did R. Zera want to forget the Talmud Bavli?
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The good news for television's network advertising sales executives is that this year's increases in unit price for commercial time are holding firm despite continued audience erosion. In fact, the price increases the networks are asking for the coming season are nearly as high as last year, when there was both a national election and the Olympic Games to attract advertisers and viewers alike.
But a question that has the whole advertising industry abuzz is the future of the split-30 commercial, which ABC, CBS, and NBC are now offering on an experimental basis.
The split-30 is simply a 30-second commercial that is divided into two equal parts. It allows a corporate advertiser with a multiple line of products to divide the 30 seconds of advertising time into separate messages for two products, with 15 seconds usually allotted to each.
Although many retailers like them, advertisers are concerned that 15-second spots may clutter commercial TV even more, disaffecting viewers at a time when audiences are falling off anyway.
Most networks deny they are selling 15-second commercials -- although CBS concedes it is now accepting them but only in conjunction with its ``Newsbreak'' and ``Sportsbreak'' features. ``We're just being realistic and recognizing the needs of the marketplace,'' says Jerome H. Dominus, vice-president of CBS for televison network sales.
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Alberto-Culver actively pursues the Puerto Rico market for many of its products. In 1980 and '81, Culver discovered it could double the number of its advertising messages without increasing its overall media costs by cutting in half its traditional 30-second commercials.
Local TV stations were eager to cooperate. The result was that Alberto-Culver was able to combine commercials for grooming aids such as its VO-5 deodorant and shampoo.
This broad-based marketing company also found it was able to get good results when it combined 15-second commercials for its Sugar Twin with commercials of a similar length for its line of grooming products.
So Alberto-Culver petitioned the three networks to accept its split 30-second commercials. Initially the networks declined. Then in 1983 after legal skirmishes involving CBS, one by one the networks acquiesced.
Although it has been accepting the split-30s for more than a year on an experimental basis, NBC is studying the whole question as to the future of the split-30s.
Many makers and marketers of multiproduct lines have already benefited from Alberto-Culver's precedent. Current users of the split-30 commercial on network television include Nabisco for its varied line of crackers and cookies and American Home Products for its Chef Ravioli, Brach candy, and Woolite brands.
Jeff Tolvin, ABC's director of business information, indicated, however, that overall demand for split-30s has not been great since they were first offered last season. Media specialists who follow the industry estimate that overall sales of the split-30s during this pre-season period are running about 5 percent of the total available at the three networks.
| 2019-04-25T03:04:33 |
https://www.csmonitor.com/1985/0826/fadv.html
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Will any antivirus cause damage to an SSD drive?
Jan is right. There is no increased risk from AV products to SSD as compared with other software, such as the OS or other applications.
99% of the work AV products do involves reading discs, which cannot harm discs of any kind. Writing is done 1) when updating the database (typically a few times per day), and 2) when removing an infection from a file (or removing a malicious file altogether), which is, after all, why you installed an antivirus product in the first place!
If you want to reduce the read/writes to your SSD thus preseving its life a little then you could move your User folder to another drive.
The process of doing this is not easy but achievable as outlined in the LifeHacker article listed below.
If, you should attempt this make sure you backup everything first. I would recommend that you create an image of your SSD so that in the event of anything going wrong you can at least get back to where you were.
I agree with what Jan said. There is no reason certain applications would mess up a SSD but doesn't mess up a HDD. the only difference is you are using "flash" memory, as opposed to writing it magnetically.
Those tools shouldn't pose any higher risk when used on SSDs than they do for traditional platter hard drives. SSDs may use different technology but basically all that stuff happens behind the controller. If you remove e.g. a boot sector virus it will be the same risk on a SSD as on a platter hard drive.
The only "different" risk I can think of would be a virus that was developed to actually make use of the SSDs technology and hides within the over-provisioning part which is not visible to Windows and (to my knowledge) not accessed and scanned by removal tools for the time being.
I think there will be damage to the SSD drives beacuse SSD drives have limited read/writes and as a fact every antivirus program now uses real time monitoring i.e it will be constantly monitoring files and scanning them.
| 2019-04-25T06:33:14 |
https://www.makeuseof.com/answers/will-any-antivirus-cause-damage-to-an-ssd-drive/
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What Did the Phoenicians Discover?
The use of window glass is considered by most people to be modern. Glass windows, however, have been found in the ruins of Pompeii. The rarity of such windows implies that glass must have been a luxury used only in the finer homes and buildings of that time.
Glass manufactured from silica, one of the most important and widespread elements in the earth's crust. In its mineral form silica is called quartz. A typical sandstone is usually composed of tiny grains of quartz held together by some material acting as a cement; often the cementing agent is also silica.
Sand particles are formed from the weathering and erosion of a parent rock, usually igneous (rocks formed from a molten state). Logically, then, in its early stages the sand will have particles of many other kinds of minerals mixed with the quartz grains, depending on the mineralogic content of the parent rock. Sand grains that lie along shores are usually subject to the endless wash of waves and often become remarkably pure in quartz content. The water dissolves or carries away the softer minerals, leaving behind the harder quartz grains. Sandstone made solely of quartz grains is used regularly in the manufacture of glass.
How the glass—making process originated has been lost in antiquity, but the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder stated that glass was discovered accidentally by some Phoenician merchants.
Pliny appears to have been a great admirer of the Phoenicians, crediting them with many discoveries, including the invention of trade. Doubtless he exaggerated, but scholars do recognize that they were the first traveling salesmen.
The Phoenicians traveled along the northern rim of the Mediterranean Sea, establishing colonies, trading posts, harbors for their ships, and sheds for their goods. They made many short—haul commercial trips, usually sailing by day and always within sight of land. The Phoenicians not only traded their own products but also trafficked in tin from Spain, copper ore from Cyprus, and whatever else was available and considered valuable. Their travels also included the coastal area of West Africa. Upon landing they spread their wares on the beach, whereupon they returned to their boats and raised a signal. Natives came out and laid gold beside the Phoenician goods as a barter price, after which they retired. The mutual comings and goings went on until both sides were satisfied. The Phoenicians would then sail away with the traded goods. Both Pliny and Herodotus reported that each dealer felt satisfied that he had not been cheated.
What particularly impressed the ancient world about the Phoenicians was their skill at long, daring sea trips. During the seventh century B.C., the Egyptian pharaoh Necho, searching for a viable connection between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean and having no notion of the size of Africa, sent some Phoenicians south of the Red Sea. For the next three years thy circumnavigated Africa — a feat that would not be repeated for nearly 2,000 years, until the time of Vasco da Gama.
The Phoenicians did stop each year at seed time to plant and harvest; then they continued their journey. When forced to sail at night, they navigated by a bright star in the constellation Ursa Minor. Then known as the "Phoenician Star," it is now called Polaris or, more commonly, the North Star. The intrepid explorers did not find a passage to the Mediterranean, simply because there wasn't one. A passage was created in 1869, currently called the Suez Canal.
According to Pliny, on a long—forgotten evening after landing on the coast of Palestine near the mouth of the Belus River, the Phoenicians set to the task of preparing their evening meal. Being unable to find proper rocks on which to set their pots, they obtained some cakes of saltpeter from their ship's cargo and placed their cooking vessels on them before lighting a fire. The heat from the flames caused the saltpeter and quartz sand on the shore to melt. These combined into streams of an unknown fluid, which hardened to a translucent substance later known as glass!
| 2019-04-18T20:46:17 |
http://fascinatingearth.com/node/766
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Anthony Davis is approaching ‘Decision’ time. He could learn from LeBron James’ story. - Hartford Courant Anthony Davis is approaching ‘Decision’ time. He could learn from LeBron James’ story.
Anthony Davis is approaching ‘Decision’ time. He could learn from LeBron James’ story.
The 31st and final meeting between LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, held Monday at Staples Center, was an assault on the senses - a dizzying double tribute to a future Hall of Famer and to a friendship that produced two titles and four NBA Finals trips.
With retirement beckoning after this season, Wade was honored with a polished montage and a standing ovation from the L.A. crowd, which included Denzel Washington, Will Ferrell and Jessica Alba. After a slow start, the 36-year-old Wade got going in the second half and had a shot to tie the game in the closing seconds. He missed, but hugged James as time expired. The former Miami Heat teammates then seamlessly pivoted into a nationally-televised joint postgame interview and a planned jersey swap that was meticulously documented by more than a dozen photographers who stormed the court.
A cynic might argue, convincingly, that the whole night was excessive. The Lakers and Heat have intertwined histories thanks to Pat Riley, Shaquille O'Neal and now James, but they don't harbor a true rivalry. If not for James' presence, the Lakers game would have been another quickly forgotten stop on Wade's "Last Dance" tour.
But just as the evening's stage-managed, celebrity-infused, oversaturated events were nearing their conclusion, James delivered an admission that justified all the pomp and circumstance.
"To accomplish what I really wanted to accomplish in this league - and that's winning at the highest level - I needed him," James said of Wade. "That's why I made the jump."
In James' version of his life, whether broadcast in Nike commercials or HBO specials or postgame sound bites, he's virtually always cast as the hero. He's often the only character. Yet here was James acknowledging his firm limitations in Cleveland and crediting Wade with a central role in helping him achieve championship validation.
Two days later and two thousand miles away, another No. 23 was overwhelming opponents and doing battle with the limitations of his surroundings. Like James, New Orleans' Anthony Davis is a franchise-changing No. 1 pick routinely disappointed by the franchise that was lucky enough to draft him.
On Wednesday, Davis torched the Thunder for 44 points and 18 rebounds - his league-leading fifth 40-point game of the season. He finished layups in traffic with triple-effort plays and he caught lobs over helpless defenders, including one that he redirected into the hoop with one hand while drawing a foul. He did the little things too, reading the defense to find open shooters, laying out horizontally to save a possession, and running the court in transition - all while logging 40-plus minutes for the ninth time this year.
His reward? A nail-biting 118-114 victory that featured a near-collapse at the end and improved the uneven Pelicans' record to 15-15. This has been the tired story for much of Davis' seven seasons in New Orleans: days spent turning in 40 minutes of greatness and nights spent dreaming of reaching .500.
For most of his career, he's been the sport's leading prodigy - a gifted and versatile big man who rode a high school growth spurt to uncharted anatomical and athletic territory. Believe it or not, Davis is already older than James was when he made "The Decision" to join Wade and Chris Bosh in 2010. Davis has reached the point of his career where he will be viewed - and judged - for what he is rather than what he might become.
No two situations are identical, but the parallels between James' first tenure in Cleveland and Davis's run in New Orleans are striking. Both players established themselves quickly as all-stars and, later, leading MVP candidates. Both have endured rotating casts of teammates, coaching changes and questionable front-office decisions. Both have tasted playoff success - James earlier and more often than Davis - before running into insurmountable superteams. If James felt he "needed" Wade to get past the late-2000s Celtics, then Davis surely must realize he needs another star - or two - to have any shot against the Golden State Warriors, who have eliminated him during both of his postseason trips.
Davis opened this season by declaring that he was "the best player in the game." Since then, he's backed up the talk by averaging numbers that rival O'Neal's peak production. Nevertheless, the team dynamic around him is so tenuous that the Pelicans and their fans are left counting down the days until the return of . . . Elfrid Payton? That's an unhealthy way to live, and it's no way to handle an all-timer's legacy.
The question that will define Davis' future is clear: Who will be his Dwyane Wade? Which established star or stars does he trust to welcome him to greener pastures, to maximize his fame, to make the most of his prime years, and to boost his championship hopes? Could it be Kyrie Irving in Boston? Golden State's constellation of talent? Or what about, in a tidy bit of role reversal, James in L.A.?
Davis isn't keen to discuss such matters publicly, but his actions have spoken loudly for him. Back in September, he signed with James' close friend, Rich Paul of Klutch Sports, as he edges closer to becoming a free agent in July 2020.
Despite the many similarities between James and Davis, there is one crucial difference: Davis has the benefit of operating in a post-"Decision" reality. If he chooses to leave New Orleans, the move could imperil the NBA's future in the city. After all, New Orleans ranks 25th in home attendance and might rank dead last without him. That's real pressure and a potential public-relations nightmare, but at least he's witnessed James' reputation survive burned jerseys and accusations of treason in Ohio.
If Davis decides he doesn't want to remain patient until 2020, he will enjoy significant leverage in trade discussions next summer. Post-"Decision," conventional wisdom now dictates that it's in a franchise's best interests to acquiesce to a star's trade request than to watch him leave for nothing. And if Davis were to force his way to a superteam, he would undoubtedly face less backlash than James did, as fans have become increasingly conditioned to superstar team-ups and increasingly willing to hold teams accountable for their organizational shortcomings. James, in essence, has become a shield for stars looking to shine as brightly as possible.
"Some people say you shouldn't be friends with your competitors," James said on Monday, referencing the criticism that he and Wade faced before, during and after their time together in Miami. "We didn't care about the narrative or what people created before us, or what people said during, or what people are saying now. We did it our way. It was an unbelievable ride."
That matter-of-fact pride and total satisfaction should be the lasting takeaway from the Staples Center spectacle. For Davis, like James before him, leaving the only NBA home he’s known is probably a scary thought. But there’s a far scarier proposition looming below the surface, one that peeked out when James admitted that he “needed” Wade to win a title and then again when he relished their shared success: What if he had never left?
| 2019-04-22T19:56:48 |
https://www.courant.com/sports/basketball/hc-sp-anthony-davis-nba-20181213-20181213-iodr3bbldnfszpx2x7sjadetqe-story.html
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How do I upload a spreadsheet or CSV of candidates to a Gem Project?
You can upload a CSV of candidates to a Gem Project by clicking Options>Upload CSV from your Project page.
From there, Gem will import the first few rows as a preview and ask you to specify which columns map to each Gem field (e.g. First Name / Last Name / School / Company / etc...). If your spreadsheet was downloaded from another Gem Project, Gem will automatically match the column names with each field.
Override fields for existing users. Checking this option will overwrite candidate fields (e.g. Name / Company / School) with the values from your CSV if the candidate already exists in Gem. Otherwise, Gem will only fill those in if the fields are blank or the candidate doesn't exist.
Autofill email addresses for each recipient. If you check this option, Gem will search and attach any email addresses Gem can find to each candidate you upload.
First row contains column names. Checking this option lets Gem know to skip the first row of your CSV because it contains column names.
Gem will upload in batches and report on progress as each batch finishes. It can take some time for large CSV's to create all the Gem people (especially if you autofill email addresses for each recipient), so bear with us.
My upload fails or only imports some candidatesIf your upload fails, it's likely because one of the rows in your spreadsheet is malformed. Try looking at your project for the last candidate that was successfully uploaded to know which row or rows in your spreadsheet may be causing trouble.
If Gem successfully finishes the upload, but doesn't upload every candidate, it may be because some of your candidates have invalid public LinkedIn URLs.
Need help importing a CSV into a Gem project? Feel free to reach out to the Gem team by emailing us directly at [email protected] or press "Chat with Us" in the Gem home page.
| 2019-04-21T16:38:50 |
https://help.gem.com/projects/adding-people-to-projects/import-csv-to-project
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Historically, what years have too much rain caused lower national production?
I assume it has only been the years where it was too wet early and too dry late but I don't know the history from a nation wide perspective.
I guess I'm just thinking about my road trip to buy equipment last year in Southern MN. At the time I had not been paying attention to weather nationwide and didn't even realize it was sopping wet up there.
The first 8 hours of the 10 hour trip were in the daylight and I saw nothing but beautiful crops the whole way. The last two hours were in the dark and I missed some stuff that had too much rain.
Since I had not seen the super wet spots (and really, even if I had), it really sobered me up. Made me question whether I should be buying more equipment because it squashed any hopes I had of a rally to sell more corn.
I got ripped pretty good when I posted about it on NAT though. NW IA and Southern MN guys were tired of looking at their drowned out spots and were pretty sensitive to my comments even though they were not intended to indicate they did not have problems. I figured on a marketing board people might like to hear how beautiful the crop looked in the majority of the areas so they could plan accordingly.
Next day I saw the drowned out stuff in MN and to a lesser degree, IA. Yeah, it wasn't going to be record breaking but it also didn't look as bad as what I was reading on NAT. Reading NAT I would have thought the southern half of MN and the Northern half of IA and the Northeast 1/4 of NE would only yield half of their normal yields but somehow even the most severely affected counties in Southern MN yielded about 75% of 2017 which is about what I expected after the second day of the drive.
This isn't to minimize what extreme Southern MN and Northern IA went through. 75% of expected yield is really painful. Probably took some weaker hands out. I feel really bad for that area.
I guess what I'm saying is, in spite of all of this rain, is there really any reason for concern? Can we realistically bet on higher prices because of too much moisture?
I guess I feel, from a weather perspective, unless we get a late season drought, the price risk is down because of all of the available moisture. I really feel like betting that too much rain will cause a significant rally is a suckers bet. As usual I'm wishing I was more heavily sold than I am and am considering selling more.
| 2019-04-24T17:10:52 |
https://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=847684&posts=36&start=1
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I am the most scatterbrained person I know. When I flew home for Christmas, I went to the wrong airport. Who does that?
Today I went to a restaurant to have dinner with friends. I was on time and waited ten minutes. I was about to text them when I quickly checked my calendar.
We had made plans to meet for dinner tomorrow, not today. Yikes! I'm a mess!
In other news, my work had a birthday cake for all of the December, January, and February birthdays. You may be wondering why such an insignificant event deserves mention.
My coworker bought a carrot cake from a bakery in Virginia, and it was amazing. I'm not exaggerating. It was epic, perhaps even life changing. It could have been the best carrot cake I have ever eaten.
I kept on praising the cake, and a coworker said, "I can tell Laura really likes it." She was right.
I made this quesadilla a couple of weeks ago. It was delicious. The ingredients are 16 ounces cherry tomatoes, 10 ounces white mushrooms, 1 to 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, 1/2 teaspoon dry oregano, 1 teaspoon dried basil, 1 teaspoon salt, 6 ounces spinach, corn tortillas, cheese, and red pepper flakes.
I put the mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, and extra virgin olive oil on a baking tray.
I added the salt, basil, and oregano. I stirred the ingredients to evenly distribute the oil and spices. I baked the vegetables for ten minutes at 400 degrees.
I added the spinach and baked the vegetables for another 5 minutes at 400 degrees.
In a skillet over medium-high heat, I placed about an ounce of shredded cheese on top of a corn tortilla. I used Monterrey jack.
I layered about a fourth of a cup of the roasted vegetables on the cheese. I sprinkled on a pinch of red pepper flakes.
I added another ounce of cheese and topped everything with another tortilla.
When the tortilla was golden and the cheese melted, I flipped the quesadilla and crisped up the other side.
I let it cool a little before slicing it into two and devouring.
This was a toothsome and delightful quesadilla.
The herbs and vegetables complemented each other.
The outside was crunchy, and there were bits of charred cheese.
| 2019-04-20T21:19:15 |
http://laurathayn.blogspot.com/2015/02/spinach-mushroom-and-spinach-quesadillas.html
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On a recent episode of 60 Minutes, Steve Croft interviewed an Ohio factory executive about (what else?) Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
The exec was concerned about the "trade deficit" with China, as he felt it was responsible for the depressed state of the economy in Ohio, the widespread job loss and wage reduction throughout the state, and the generally poor quality of life. According to him, China could hire workers for one-fortieth of the cost of his employees, so the Chinese were easily able to offer the same products his plant made, but for far less money - which meant that many industries like his throughout Ohio were being forced to shut down.
His solution: "[W]e need some tariffs or something."
Let me first stipulate: I am not indicting the American working man. Like most economic fallacies, the ideas of protectionism seem perfectly commonsensical at first blush. A series of duties, quotas and taxes on importing would stop foreign products from out-competing domestic ones, ensuring a ripe market for our own manufacturing and (more importantly) protecting jobs for those working in our manufacturing sector.
And anyway, such stuff is only fair, since those foreigners (the Chinese for example) are imposing quotas and tariffs on our products and taking all our manufacturing sector jobs through outsourcing -- so we ought to give them a taste of their own medicine, to induce them to open up their markets and quit undercutting us.
Certainly these ideas sound attractive to beleaguered factory owners and, especially, to trade unions. Unfortunately, they are all economic fallacies.
The idea that foreign companies will be somehow penalized by these tariffs is utterly false. Like all corporate taxes, the cost of these duties will simply be passed on to the consumer.
Consider this example: A Chinese manufacturer can produce a television for the retail price of $500, and the best American manufacturer can produce an equivalent one for no less than $600. Very sensibly he believes, a protectionist suggests that the government enact a $100 tariff on the importation of TVs from China in order to "even the playing field."
However, the Chinese manufacturer is not punished by this tariff in any way; he's not the one paying it. The American consumer who wishes to purchase a TV pays the tax.
Think about it: prior to the tariff, the consumer had a choice among different TVs at his local electronics store. Assuming he went to the store with $600 - and assuming that all other things were equal with regard to TV quality - he could leave with a Chinese TV and $100, or an American TV and no dollars.
After the tariff is imposed, he can only leave with a TV, Chinese or American, and zero dollars. Note that he is $100 poorer, not the Chinese TV manufacturer who still makes the same profit over his cost regardless. All that's happened here is that the tariff has transferred $100 to the government from the wallet of the citizen, in the name of "leveling the playing field."
And what if we raise the tariff so high that the American TV is actually cheaper, and outsells the Chinese manufacturer to the point of forcing him to leave the market? Well, then we're creating a monopoly, or at least oligopoly, and we know how well those have worked in the past. And, like all monopolies, as soon as the government protection disappears, so will the monopoly. The moment we drop the tariff, the Chinese manufacturer will be back, because he knows that there's money to be made in the American market.
How about the American TV manufacturer in the previous example? Has he really benefited? Well, arguably yes - he's the classic example of a special interest gaining a benefit for himself at the expense of everyone else. But we (and he) should understand that even the manufacturer will be hurt to some degree by the tariff he lobbied so hard for.
First, he's still being out-competed by the Chinese manufacturer who still has lower operating costs - the American has, at best, merely erected an impediment to the outside world which won't help him sell outside America. Like the moats and castles of old, the high, stone walls of his tariff will eventually become his (and our) prison - serving to isolate American markets while the unfettered world outside goes right along.
Also, the American manufacturer hurts himself in other more immediate ways. Consumers of his overpriced TVs now cannot afford to purchase other products that he may be making - say, DVD players or DVRs - because they've had to pay that money to the government so that they might be allowed to purchase a TV. The tariff has also hurt the manufacturer's retailer partners, because they too will not be able to sell further products to consumers who have spent their money to the government to pay the manufacturer's tariff.
Finally, on top of all this, the TV manufacturer has ignored the fact that he himself is a consumer of all products he does not manufacture in the marketplace. If the government "protects" all industries for which there is foreign competition (i.e., virtually every industry that exists), each producer will be hurt (in his role as consumer) by the artificially increased cost of others' products.
For example, in a tariff society, the wine maker must pay more for his presses, because the American machine-tool manufacturer has caused the government to artificially raise the cost of cheaper Mexican wine presses at the market. Meanwhile, the grocer must pay more for his wines, because the wine-maker has transferred his increased manufacturing costs to the grocer, his customer. In turn, the machine-tool manufacturer has to pay more when he buys a bottle of wine for his supper at the market, because the grocer will transfer his costs to his shoppers.
In the end, everybody is poorer proportionate to the tariff - and no one is, therefore, ever really helped. When the government raises the price of even one good in the market artificially, it can't help but systemically affect the entire market for the worse.
Bastiat is a guest writer for Scragged.com. Read other Scragged.com articles by Bastiat or other articles on Economics.
You forget the government is "helped" in the tariff schemes as it benefits for a short while at least (until people stop buying stuff because they can no longer afford to buy anything at all).
Almost every strike ordered by unions in the beginning against management was for a wage increase. Problem was the employees did not increase production or produce a better "widget" by doing the same task.
Facts are the price of all "widgets" are increased by the manufacturer, the employee pays more taxes in the higher tax bracket, their money buys less and Uncle Sam receives more money to waste on entitlements from everyone above pays, the CONSUMERS. And the beast goes on!
Minimum wage is for high school and college kids employed in menial jobs to earn their own money for expenses incurred by them. An increase in pay makes the kids feel richer, but their status is not advanced. Minimum wage is NOT for anyone trying to raise a family. This is one of the main problems that drive young families to divorce and to depend on Medicaid for medicine and welfare to feed, clothe and shelter their family.
I believe the free market round the world will eventually prevail and prices for products and services will rise and fall according to the free market. Minimum wages should be increased with the Cost Of Living Allowance increase every year. No strike needed.
In order for capitalism to succeed anywhere in the world is every able bodied citizen must be educated to their highest achievable level in their discipline, skill, craft or trade. The Apprentice to Journeyman to Master programs should be initiated and administered by every employer and paid according to the scale nationwide. No strike needed.
In 1886 Samuel Gompers founded the AFL, the American Federation of Labor. "To protect the skilled labor of America from being reduced to beggary and to sustain the standard of American workmanship and skill, the trades unions of America have been established."
In November 1935, John L. Lewis announced the creation of the CIO the Committee for Industrial Organization. In 1938 the CIO held its first constitutional convention and became the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
Commerce was disrupted by the Printers Strike of 1794 in NY; Cabinet Makers Strike in PA in 1796; Carpenters Strike in PA in 1797; Cordwainers Strike in NY in 1799; Pullman Strike in 1894; Coal Miners Strike in PA 1902. Almost all of the strikes were for good cause such as better wages, working hours, safety and ending child labor.
Unions were of necessity during the beginning of our country, but there has been a steady decline in both union membership and influence, because Employers are keeping their businesses union-free. Loyalty to organized labor decreased sharply, because more women and teenagers are accepting lower wages thereby defeating the purpose of organized labor.
Unions raised their wages substantially above the wages paid to nonunion workers. Union-made products became so expensive that sales were lost to less expensive foreign competitors and nonunion producers. Companies had to cut back on production, which caused some workers and members to lose their jobs. When factories close Union Leaders do not lose their job.
The recent shift in this country towards technology and service has made our economy less reliant in the types of industrial jobs that tended to be union strongholds. Today's worker tends to be more highly educated and in the professional, white collar class.
My view of protectionism is that it's basically a knee jerk reaction by those that do not want to compete in the marketplace. Don't think you can win? Don't want to even TRY to win? Then fix the rules so that you don't have to. The House Democracts are about this. They don't understand economics, like every other Democrat, and so they don't understand how to rally world markets to THEIR advantage. Hence, the only perceived chance they have it to quit early and say it's not fair, ergo the right to fix rules.
Why should we be concerned with foreign markets and how bad or good they are? A lack of protectionism requires Americans to shed their nationality over time and be concerned with cultures they otherwise would not be.
Ten years after this was written, and all y'all have Trump. Suddenly, tariffs are a wonderful thing!
Are they? We here at Scragged haven't said so.
I have no idea what Trump truly believes. Thus far, though, he's used the threat of tariffs effectively in the same negotiating style he's used his whole life: threaten extremes to get his opposite numbers to do what he wants them to do.
Will this work all the time? I have no idea. Yes, placing significant, long-term tariffs on products will do long-term damage. So far he hasn't done that, and there's no way of knowing if he actually will. Threats of tariffs, or even real short-term ones to force other countries to negotiate, could bring about more benefits than they do harm.
Yes, it's a risky strategy - but Trump was elected because the American people are sick of the same-old same-old. Whether or not this was a good idea, well, we'll all learn together.
| 2019-04-18T11:02:03 |
http://www.scragged.com/articles/protectionism-is-stupid-part-1
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Does carbohydrates cause acne? Yes, simple carbs can cause acne because they quickly get broken down into sugar. With complex carbs like whole grain pastas, breads, and rice, it takes the body much, much longer to break it down and the conversion to glucose is very slow which your body will use more efficiently over longer periods of time. Let's say for example you eat a simple carb food with 50 grams of carbs, that 50 grams of carbs is going to be converted into glucose within the hour. That's a lot of glucose in your body that will cause acne.
Then if you eat a complex carb food that has 50 grams of carbs, it will be broken down over a period of time, such as 10 grams an hour and your body will simultaneously be using the glucose as energy in the mean time so there isn't a build up of sugar in your body that can cause acne.
But, the real culprit is unstable blood sugar levels.
Now, it is true that eating simple carbohydrates increases blood sugar levels. And refined carbohydrates trigger even sharper increase. But the body is very good at regulating blood sugar levels. It has to, because too high or low levels are dangerous, and possibly even fatal.
Honey is a natural antibiotic and an anti-inflammatory agent. It is also has good moisturizing and anti bacterial properties thus making it ideal for acne treatment.
Now how does honey help us against acne breakouts. We use it as a mask. It doesn't dry, peel, or flake up the skin. Its effectiveness is as good as many topical acne products which drys up the skin but honey doesn't. In the video above, I will tell you the best recipe to make a honey and lemon, yogurt homemade face mask for acne treatment.
Here are the directions for making a honey mask. You can make it either purely alone or you can take 2 tablespoons honey, 2 tablespoons of fresh milk, one tablespoon of fresh yogurt and mix with a little lemon juice, lukewarm water. Leave the mask on your face for 20 minutes and rinse off with warm water. Throughout periods of the day at home, you can also dab honey directly on the blemish daily to help with inflammation and redness.
How to use epsom salt for acne? Before I answer that question, I would like to talk briefly about what epsom salts are, so you can see the role epsom salt plays in all of this.
Epsom salt, also known as magnesium sulphate, is used as a drying agent. It is similar to sea salt. You can find it at your local supermarket, and it's really inexpensive. The name dates back hundreds of years to the mineral abundant waters of Epsom, England.
It has a variety of medical uses taken in both oral and topical form. Using Epsom salt for acne though should be used solely as a topical solution. People will often fill up their bathtub and soak in Epsom salt to ease body aches and muscle pain. The same can be used as a treatment for stubborn chest and back acne.
It can also be applied to the face by mixing about 2 spoons of Epsom salt in 3 spoons of water. Clean your face first before applying the solution. It can be used daily.
Add ½ tablespoon of Epsom salt, 1 tablespoon of powdered milk, 1 tablespoon of freshly squeezed lime juice and 1 tablespoon of cognac to a bowl. Mix everything well. Apply the mask to the face and leave it to dry. Rinse with cold water and pat dry.
Also, when you are using Epsom salt for pimple cure, you can increase its potency by adding few drops of fresh lemon juice to the Epsom salt solution.
You've always known that carrots are good to be included in your diet. For sure, most have heard from your parents that carrots can make your vision clearer and that it is very good for the eyes. However, the other side of it is that it can help you fight acne breakouts. Carrots have Vitamin A that is ideal in making the skin beautiful and healthy.
It is considered as one of the richest in anti oxidant. Also, when taken, carrots can clean you body from harmful acids and materials that might be manifested on your skin. Another reason for you to use this is that it is always available in the market and that this is an easy and cheap acne remedy.
Mash the carrots and steam. Natural honey, 1 tablespoon, 1 tablespoon of olive oil and a few drops of lemon juice and mix. When you need to get the cream mix and add water. Now, wash your face with warm water and Pat dry, apply a mask can be. Leave for 15 minutes, rinse.
Having more carrots will up the amount of Vitamin A. The juice extracted from carrots is highly anti-inflammatory which helps to calm down your skin, cool inflammations and rashes and also including pimples and acne. But, too much of carrot juice can lead to bad results. So, don't overdo it but, try to take in balanced amounts.
How to Get Rid of Acne on Buttocks Home Remedies?
Acne on the buttocks are an annoyance that you are constantly reminded about every time you sit down, or go to the bathroom, or take a shower, or put on a bathing suit, or whatever. They're just there and you know it and you want them gone. I'm sure it's disheartening when you find that your buttocks is sometimes literally covered with zits, even between the buttocks cheeks at times!
These zits are unsightly and embarrassing, and they can also be very sore when they get inflamed - can't they? And you've tried everything to get rid of them. You've tried scrubbing and scrubbing them hard and long, you've tried popping them, you've tried different OTC and prescription medications, you've tried eliminating chocolate, just about everything you can think of, but they still seem to hang around.
Luckily these days there are lots of different, effective remedies that you can choose from. Here I have listed top two home remedies that I feel will help you in your search for a cure for your buttocks acne.
So, these bits of advice should enable you to answer that question "how to get rid of acne on buttocks home remedies?" It is really not a big deal to figure these things out.
Will My Yeast Infection Go Away on Its Own?
Will my yeast infection go away on its own? This is the question that most sufferers would like to get the answer. Well, the effect of yeast infections can range from barely noticeable to painful. For some people, unless you take deliberate effort to inspect your body, you wouldn't know that you already have a yeast infection until it has progressed. For others, the symptoms are much more visible. But whether your symptoms are loud or subtle, untreated yeast infections can become serious.
Since there are no guarantees of treatment with just mere waiting, it's still better to opt for constructive action. One relatively serious effect that can come from an untreated yeast infection is blood contamination. A yeast infection severely scratched can break and the infection can enter the bloodstream.
Looking for answer about will my yeast infection go away on its own? Please watch the video below and follow the steps carefully.
It may be a rather unacceptable thing to you that some healthy foods do cause acne. Either you want to accept that or not, there is nothing we can do about it. The truth still stands that you stand a very good chance of getting acne breakouts by eating certain foods. The foods we are talking about are even the common types of healthy foods that we come across every day. I am sure that your desire is to know what foods cause acne, sit back as I reveal to you the healthy food substances that have been implicated in this regard.
Some of the healthy foods that can cause acne are soy, nuts, agave, strawberries, shrimp, cereal and milk. This is because the mentioned foods can be easily converted to sugar by the body. Any attempt to ingest any of these foods will lead to the occurrence of pimples on your skin.
You may not be able to totally do without the healthy foods mentioned above. It is only very essential that you try hard to reduce how much of the food that you ingest.
Green tea contains antioxidants that neutralize free radicals, which can cause cancer and disease in the body. It's beneficial at helping to not only heal up acne, but to control the bacteria that cause acne.
Oatmeal has been used by many people to exfoliate their skin and dry patches. Also, it can be an ideal scrub. Oatmeal also has a natural vitamin E which is a very helpful material in making the skin healthy. Another factor that oatmeal can help you in acne breakout is that it has an anti-inflammatory property. It can even lessen the itch and redness of acne.
Aside from green tea and oatmeal mask, drinking green tea itself is recommended to have optimum results. Also, you can try cooling off green tea bags and applying them on your skin.
Homemade face masks for acne prone skin described above would definitely help in curing acne. But, they may not work always, and in certain cases the services of an expert or medication may be required.
| 2019-04-23T07:07:37 |
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What is another word for argues?
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Yet there is an incongruity in the composition of the Peruvian buildings which argues a very imperfect acquaintance with the first principles of architecture.
But, as the writer to the Hebrews argues, the words have no complete fulfilment in man considered apart from Christ.
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| 2019-04-23T22:08:16 |
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The fuel tank on my 2000 Ford F150 fell off while I was driving @ 30 or 35 mph the friction with the pavement caused the tank to leak and I had a full tank.. the cost of repairs was over $ 750.
The contact owns 2000 Ford E150. The vehicle was parked when the contact first noticed a strong odor of gasoline coming from the top of the fuel tank. The vehicle was taken to the dealer but not repaired. The vehicle was not repaired. The contact stated there was a fracture in the fuel tank. The failure mileage was 63,000.
| 2019-04-24T06:00:22 |
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When my cat cleans herself I can smell a bad breath from her mouth. I recently switched her to wet food, can this be the reason? Is it temporary or I should start feeding her dry food again? She didn't have this bad breath before. She's 3 years old.
That's true about canned food but the myth is that dry food cleans the teeth. That's not true, the only true diet that cleans the teeth is a raw food diet.
| 2019-04-26T08:31:16 |
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If he announces his Islam they will not give him a job; can he conceal his faith?
I embraced Islam about half a year ago. I'm very happy with all the changes in my life, that occured after having reverted, but I haven't been "registered" yet officially as a muslim. As I want to be a teacher on day, there is a big problem I face: Germany is not very tolerant towards muslim teachers, thus, it is very unlikely for me to get a job one day. I want to ask you now, if it is possible to hide my muslim faith, until I have my job? Can I practice it in private without telling it any governmental authorities?
He does not have to tell them about his being Muslim, and there is nothing wrong with him concealing his religion if he is afraid for himself.
| 2019-04-26T08:27:08 |
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Does 'David after the Dentist' tell us anything?
I'm not sure there is much we can learn for education - maybe the lesson is 'don't fight it', ie if you want media students to learn about remixing then give them whatever is popular.
Oh, okay, it's just funny.
I think you hit on one of the key problems I have with what is happening with the video - people are "cashing in" on David.
It's one thing to remix and recontextualize the video, but quite another thing when people then use that to make money off a kid in a vulnerable state.
Some of the remixes now have embedded video links to other sites, using David as a marketing tool to drive traffic to their sites. Some have Google ad overlay's and others have simply pulled down the video and re-uploaded it to their account, again in an attempt to make money off the kid.
What David After Dentist tells me is that YouTube needs to incorporate Creative Commons licensing to let people clearly exert some control over how their videos are used. That would at least give people some sort of legal recourse to prevent commercial exploitation of future David's.
Hi Clint, yes you're correct, there is a whole moral dimension to this too, which I deliberatly avoided (not because it isn't interesting, just because that wasn't the focus of my post). I used the term 'cashing in' in a loose sense, to mean YouTube remixers are getting their views boosted on the back of the popularity of the original, which creates a motivation in itself. But as you point out, there is a more literal cashing in too, with the advent of Google ads and the like.
when did David after the Dentist enter cyberspace?
I've seen this video several times and it's really recognizable 'coz of the humor it brought to the audience. But I never thought that you could extract a lesson from this video which is amazing, you are an analytical person. Bravo!
Well, in a sense, it tells us how to market something to people. That even a spur of the moment thing can be priceless, and useful to others.
| 2019-04-24T07:09:53 |
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Google Adsense Payment Method Change is Extremely Efficient! It takes only 3 Days!
How efficient is Google Adsense payment method change?
10/19: I created a new savings account on 10/19.
10/19: I changed the Adsense payment account to the new savings account in Google Adsense on 10/19.
10/20: Google said they'll make a small deposit soon. The deposit showed up on my new savings account on 10/20.
10/20 I verified my new savings account in Google Adsense on 10/20.
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In other words, it took Google Adsense only 3 days to change, verify, and send payment to my new savings account.
If that's not efficiency I don't know what is.
| 2019-04-19T20:45:57 |
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Mass is divided into three parts: the short first part is a general outline of the dutiful yet recondite life of Father Leduc, a sort of everyman priest; the short third part follows Whitman, an altar boy and lifelong friend of Leduc’s, through the terror of his childhood and adolescence with a violently abusive father. The long middle section is a gripping research narrative in which Scott-Coe traces what she can of Father Leduc whose penchant for drink and carousing has been protected by Church confidentiality. The result is Scott-Coe is even more intrigued by this “problem priest.” Throughout, she wonders what the relationship between Leduc and Whitman is and how it amounts to a condoning of male violence.
I was struck that while Scott-Coe could have foregrounded Whitman’s crime (though she does cover it), she chose to counter the typical true-crime metanarrative of rising action, conflict, and climax—and, instead, study the priest’s anonymity and shadowy influence on Whitman. I saw it as Scott-Coe’s way of posing troubling questions about how male-group alcoholism, male complicity in violence, military organizations, as well as abuse in religious and family contexts remain unexamined and ignored by the Church.
What thoughts do you have about the structural argument of the book?
RD: I immediately understood the trinity represented in the organization of Mass, but it took me longer to understand that secrets are also brought out of the shadows through the book’s structure. Perhaps that is why I found part one creepy, part two fascinating, and part three disturbing. Scott-Coe resists linearity and easy resolution; instead, we have a three-part spiral where the sections overlap and haunt us.
The bodies of the boy’s mother and his wife were not discovered until after the shooting stopped. Across the country, eleven hundred miles away, the father holed up in his house with the two other sons, and with a priest from the parish where his wife had been faithful until she moved away.
Do you think this atmospheric lyricism and narrative distance help soften a reader’s possible resistance to a difficult subject?
TL: Perhaps those things do soften resistance and make what is inherently distasteful less squeamish. More, I think, that Scott-Coe is creating a book out of an unknown—that is, Leduc’s buried or barely recorded life in the church. I know from my own work that when I don’t have enough material about a subject, I use or interrogate my perspective (voice, style, improvisation) as an added means to create interest.
I love the idea that using those generic terms—the man, the priest, the father, the boy, etc.—indict card-carrying members of the church, the military, the patriarchal family. We are meant to see these people in her book as individuals and representations (much as the media reduces everyone to a type). More insidious, we are meant to only partially notice the invisible guy wires of complicity staking these groups to the same tree. It’s quite a sleight-of-prose.
And, of course, ensnared are “the women.” Leduc marries Charles Whitman and Kathy in a “hasty wedding . . . a foreboding of the horrible ending. Kathy had been treated as a sacramental solution for deep-seated trouble she neither could have anticipated nor ‘cured.’” This is especially creepy, that the priest (Whitman was his altar boy) joins the violent Whitman clan to a non-Catholic bride who has no idea of their violence. There is an insistence throughout the book of dominance: this is how you’ll marry, this is what you’ll know, these are the institutions that will protect you and which will control you, especially your guilt and shame in the marriage, even unto your death.
And isn’t that the Church’s ploy: To ordain or appoint itself the arbiter of how personal suffering, even at the hands of the church itself, will be handled, which includes trapping it in the confessional or ignoring it outright. I’m thinking of this as the priest abuse horror rears its head again in America and travels up the chain of command from the bishops and cardinals to the Pope. This book shows us just how nefarious and underground the connection is—requiring exposure and justice.
RD: I want to return to the idea you explore about “an insistence throughout the book of dominance” and of how the hidden details of Leduc’s life, his service to the Catholic Church and in turn his relationship with Whitman, seems to shield archival materials about Leduc from access. Leduc and Whitman, as you suggest, control others, and their control wipes out the story of trauma. I mean, more clearly, that when Scott-Coe begins her research, she has to dig deeply, which is part of any research process. But even more unsettling, the priest seems unknowable, even as his connections to Whitman are knowable. It’s also completely believable that Leduc’s record of faith may be obscured, or veiled, by a Church that has hardly been transparent about its failures.
From a storytelling point of view, the disproportion was striking: other people emphasized Leduc as a crucial figure in Whitman’s life; Leduc himself references names (and approximate ages) of Whitman’s brothers and also identifies friends as well as two other priests (now deceased) connected to Whitman, suggesting more knowledge and contact than the average busy clergyman. The FBI expended resources and time to locate Leduc—in Alaska—and interview him.
This is all information about the priest. What was the dominance—or power imbalance—between Leduc, the priest, and Whitman, his former altar boy? Importantly, Scott-Coe notes, “in the materials written in Whitman’s own hand, the priest seems barely visible.” Who was a friend to whom, and why do I find this note so chilling? It is because of the danger I read in both priest and shooter. Each man is a part of the shadows of the Catholic Church.
How is it that I was actually ashamed of asking? That seemed to be the key. I believe now that it wouldn’t have mattered what questions I asked, how I framed them, or in what order. Priests I interviewed had described their own depressing brush-offs in scenarios where they sought dialogue with superiors.
We’ve talked about the fascinating middle section of Mass; that section is, as you suggest earlier, a “gripping research narrative.” In large part, the willingness of Scott-Coe to share her emotional response during her research experiences layers the book with resonance and fills it with power.
TL: Indeed, the higher up the Church hierarchy we go, the more secrecy and denial there is. It is the same with the infallibility pyramid: the cardinals are almost entirely infallible while the Pope is wholly infallible. That’s why there’s only one at the top. Such is the patriarchal religions’ placing God and a savior as divinely unknowable, a great mystery no one can ever figure out. How exactly does anyone regard all this without cynicism or, at least, a critical eye?
Here’s another fascinating implication of Scott-Coe’s book. The idea has to do with Christians putting the crucifixion at the center of their religious identity, the God-ordained moral assertion that for human pain to be explained and assuaged and to demonstrate his “love,” God sent his son to earth so that we would sacrifice him and use his death as penance for our sins. Justifying this narrative has been called “sacred murder,” the sacralizing of violence or, in Scott-Coe’s phrase, “making violence holy.” One consequence of sacred murder is to make Christianity into a death cult, one that places an image of torture at the center of its worship ritual. Thus, for artists to depict Christ’s suffering in its monumental gruesomeness remains an endless pageant of the religion’s representation (see Mel Gibson’s movie, The Passion of the Christ).
This idea has been appropriated in the way we regard mass killings: children are sacrificial victims of school shootings just as Austin residents were sacrificial victims of Whitman’s bullets in 1966—in part because Americans’ “gun rights” are guaranteed sacred by the Constitution. In a sick way, shooting victims are sacrificial because this template is at the heart of enacting the Christian religion. The truly innocent, Christ included, must die. Whitman desired to spare random, innocent people from the violence of the likes of him, Charles Whitman. And, get this: He, too, is a victim of violence, in his case the Church’s, the military’s, and his father’s.
As we’ve said, the other sacrificial victims are women, Whitman’s mother and wife, whom he killed and who needed to be killed first—crucified—to make his further violence holy, not that much different than a Muslim terrorist who suicides and kills the innocent as a means to martyrdom. Murder is bad enough without making it sacred.
I see no other way to read the big meaning of Scott-Coe’s book than as a morality tale about Catholic/Christian institutional violence, which is replicated by male brotherhoods throughout American society. I realize the hugeness of this claim; it may sound as if I’m indicting all Christians and all gun-owning Americans. But I think individual faith and individual actions are not at issue. What is at issue is the horrific consequences of not exposing the obvious links between Christianity, nationalism, and violence.
RD: I think what you write is profound—and accurate. I don’t read that you are indicting, as you write, “all Christians and all gun-owning Americans,” and I agree, as you also write, that “individual faith and individual actions are not at issue.” To clarify, though, while individual faith is not at issue, the individual act of killing is at issue. I agree that these mass shootings reenact ritual torture and a broader culture of violence. The issue, too, is that our denial is such that we refuse to expose obvious links; I think this is now breaking down. People need to read books like Mass to see these deep connections. Those links are so embedded in our culture that we look away; however, we are also conditioned to think of this level of violence as normal. Now the aftermath is ritualized, too.
Last year I was in a grocery store in the U.S. in an open-carry state and a man seemed to be shadowing me. It turned out he, a white guy, was waiting for his wife, but he had a handgun on his belt and wore a Confederate flag on his blue-jean jacket and dark shaded glasses. I couldn’t see his eyes, but I could see his handgun. I left my basket of groceries in an aisle and left the store.
How do we unpack denial? Denial is a key part of the North American insistence on positivity and a perverse insistence on my individual right as greater than the public right to safety. There has been so much pain, and the domestic terrorism is so clear, that I think we are now unpacking it. It is time for the legislators to catch up.
As we finish this conversation, I want to list recent mass shootings from October 27 to November 7, 2018: the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh with eleven people killed and seven injured; two African-Americans shot in a hate crime in a Kentucky Kroger by a man who tried to enter an African-American church first; two dead and five injured at a Tallahassee, Florida yoga studio; and the mass shooting at bar in Thousand Oaks, California (12 killed, including one young man who had survived the Las Vegas mass shooting in 2017, plus 10-12 injured). In 2018 so far, according to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 12,618 deaths from gun violence in the U.S.A.
Part of our reason to have this conversation about Jo Scott-Coe’s Mass, in addition to discussing an incredible book, is to build conversations around these issues, to figure out how to talk about horrific acts.
| 2019-04-26T02:10:47 |
https://thomaslarson.com/publications/criticism/349-eden.html
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List of 1111 baby girl / female names that are 4 letters long. Find out these 4 characters names only, names origins and their meanings. These 1111 - 4 letters names are divided into 22 pages.
1. AADI: in Hindu, it means "Beginning / female."
2. ABBA: in African, it means "Born on Thursday / female."
3. ABBY: in Biblical, it means "God is Joy / female."
4. ABEY: in African, it means "Leaf / female."
5. ABHA: in Hindu, it means "Beautiful and Shimmering / female."
6. ABIE: in Biblical, it means "God is Joy / unisex."
7. ABIE: in Biblical, it means "God is Joy / unisex."
8. ABLA: in African, it means "Born on Tuesday / female."
9. ABRA: in Biblical, it means "Mother of Many / female."
10. ADAH: in Biblical, it means "Beautiful Addition / female."
11. ADDO: in African, it means "King of The Road / female."
12. ADIA: in Swahili, it means "Gift / female."
13. ADIE: in German, it means "Noble / female."
14. ADIN: in Biblical, it means "Beautiful, Adorned / female."
15. AFAF: in Arabian, it means "chastity / female."
16. AFIA: in African, it means "Born on Friday / female."
17. AFRA: in English, it means "Female Deer / female."
18. AFYA: in African, it means "Health / female."
19. AIDA: in Latin, it means "Helper / female."
20. AIKA: in Japanese, it means "love song / female."
21. AIKO: in Japanese, it means "love child / female."
22. AILA: in Finland, it means "Light Bearer / female."
23. AIMI: in Japanese, it means "love beauty / female."
24. AINE: in Irish, it means "Pleasure, Delight / female."
25. AIRA: in American, it means "Of The Wind / female."
26. AKIA: in African, it means "First Born / unisex."
27. AKIA: in African, it means "First Born / unisex."
28. ALAK: in Indian, it means "World; Beautiful Tresses / female."
29. ALBA: in Latin, it means "White Hill / female."
30. ALDA: in Italian, it means "Long Lived / female."
31. ALEX: in Greek, it means "Protector of Mankind / unisex."
32. ALEX: in Greek, it means "Protector of Mankind / unisex."
33. ALIA: in Biblical, it means "Noble / female."
34. ALIZ: in Hungarian, it means "Kind / female."
35. ALKA: in Hindu, it means "Young / female."
36. ALLY: in American, it means "From a Noble Family / female."
37. ALMA: in Latin, it means "Soul / female."
38. ALPA: in Indian, it means "Small / female."
39. ALTA: in Latin, it means "Tall and Lofty / unisex."
40. ALTA: in Latin, it means "Tall and Lofty / unisex."
41. ALVA: in Latin, it means "Fair Complected / unisex."
42. ALVA: in Latin, it means "Fair Complected / unisex."
43. ALYN: in American, it means "Pretty / female."
44. AMAN: in Arabian, it means "Trustworthy / female."
45. AMBA: in Indian, it means "Goddess Durga / female."
46. AMES: in Latin, it means "Love / female."
47. AMLA: in Indian, it means "Pure / female."
48. AMMA: in Hindu, it means "Godlike / female."
49. AMNA: in Arabian, it means "honest; trustworthy / female."
50. AMOR: in Spanish, it means "Love / unisex."
| 2019-04-21T02:32:36 |
http://scbsfm.blogspot.com/2011/02/list-of-1111-baby-girl-names-with-4.html
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He's still salty about the Selena break-up.
The Weeknd just dropped his new, aptly-titled EP, My Dear Melancholy, and it features a lot of references to his personal relationships. Unsurprisingly, even Justin Bieber gets some shout-outs in The Weeknd's new songs.
To recap, The Weeknd had a very public relationship with Selena Gomez, which started in January 2017, before the couple announced their break-up in October 2017. Before their separation was public, though, Gomez was spotted hanging out with her ex-boyfriend Bieber, who she apparently reconnected with at church following her life-saving kidney surgery.
At the time, Us Weekly reported that "The Weekend is well aware Selena and Justin are talking. He doesn’t care." However, days later, Gomez and The Weeknd were over, and Bieber was back in the picture.
1. I Was Never There.
Even the title, "I Was Never There," seems to indicate that The Weeknd is scarred by the fact that Gomez went back to her ex, almost as if their relationship never even happened.
Basically, Bieber is "something toxic," and The Weeknd implies that Gomez doesn't "know what love is." She goes back to her ex again and again, and The Weeknd is left to self-medicate his sadness away. Presumably, he saw the latest Jelena break-up coming.
2. Call Out My Name.
I said I didn't feel nothing, baby, but I lied / I almost cut a piece of myself for your life / Guess I was just another pit stop / 'Til you made up your mind / You just wasted my time.
Not only does The Weeknd seem to say that he was prepared to give Gomez a kidney, he hints at the fact that he was "just another pit stop, 'til you made up your mind." Was Bieber on Gomez's mind throughout her relationship with The Weeknd?
Even though the song is more about Gomez, Bieber's presence is felt throughout.
In "Privilege," The Weeknd instructs Gomez to enjoy her "privileged life," presumably now that she has moved on with Bieber.
But later in the song, The Weeknd seems to have grown sick of hearing about his ex, and repeats the phrase, "I don't wanna hear that no more, no more," and reiterates the feeling that his relationship with Gomez was just a stop-over on her way back to Bieber: "They said our love is just a game, I don't care what they say." He's blocking out the tabloid reports once and for all.
Was Gomez filling the void with Bieber, and trying to make The Weeknd jealous because she's upset with him?
Basically, we can be pretty certain now that The Weeknd wasn't overjoyed when Gomez was spotted with Bieber right before their break-up.
| 2019-04-20T23:36:11 |
https://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/music/a19640368/the-weeknd-shades-justin-bieber-new-music/
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Quantum immortality: Is decline of measure compensated by merging timelines?
The standard argument against quantum immortality in MWI runs as following. One should calculate the expected utility by multiplying the expected gain on the measure of existence (roughly equal to the one's share of the world’s timelines). In that case, if someone expects to win 10.000 USD in the Quantum suicide lottery with 0.01 chance of survival, her actual expected utility is 100 USD (ignoring negutility of death). So, the rule of thumb is that the measure declines very quickly after series of quantum suicide experiments, and thus this improbable timeline should be ignored. The following equation could be used for U(total) = mU, where m is measure and U is expected win in the lottery.
However, if everything possible exists in the multiverse, there are many my pseudo-copies, which differ from me in a few bits, for example, they have a different phone number or different random child memory. The difference is small but just enough for not regard them as my copies.
Imagine that this different child memory is 1kb (if compressed) size. Now, one morning both me and all my pseudo-copies forget this memory, and all we become exactly the same copies. In some sense, our timelines merged. This could be interpreted as a jump in my measure, which will as high as 2power1024 = (roughly) 10E300. If I use the equation U(total) = mU I can get an extreme jump of my utility. For example, I have 100 USD and now my measure increased trillion of trillion of times, I supposedly get the same utility as if I become mega-multi-trillioner.
As a result of this absurd conclusion, I can spend the evening hitting my head with a stone and thus losing more and more memories, and getting higher and higher measure, which is obviously absurd behaviour for a human being - but could be a failure mode for an AI, which uses the equation to calculate the expected utility.
In case of the Quantum suicide experiment, I can add to the bomb, which kills me with 0.5 probability, also a laser, which kills just one neuron in my brain (if I survive), which - let's assume it - is equal to forgetting 1 bit of information. In that case, QS reduces my measure in half, but forgetting one bit increases it in half. Obviously, if I play the game for too long, I will damage my brain by the laser, but anyway, brain cells are dying so often in aging brain (millions a day), that it will be completely non-observable.
There is a quantum mechanical property which you may not be aware of. It is incredibly hard, if not impossible to cause two worlds to merge. (Clarification: It may be possible when dealing with microscopic superposed systems, but I suspect it would take a god to merge two worlds which have varied as much as you describe.) There is regular merging of "worlds", but that occurs on the quantum level between "worlds" that don't differ macroscopically.
This is because any macroscopic difference between two worlds is sufficient for them to not be the same, and it's not feasible to put everything back the way it was.
You right - I didn't mean the merge of quantum worlds, but mean the merge of personhoods, which could happen even in classical but infinitely large universe. I wanted to show that assuming the possibility of such merger has absurd consequences. However, this absurdity is also applicable to other calculations where the "measure of an observer" changes, as it happens in the one of important objections to the quantum immortality.
In the other words, we can't kill the quantum immortality idea by saying "the measure will decline to infinitely small values", as in fact, the measure could even grow if we properly calculate it.
What could be done to resolve this conundrum? We could ignore changes of absolute measure, and look only on relative measure, that is relation between shares of the different outcomes where observer is alive. For example, if QS thought experiment has 3 outcomes: a) non existence 0.9, b) winning 1000 usd with 0.09 с) losing 100 000 with 0.01 probability (e.g. injury) , we should in that case ignore (a) and compare expected utility of (b) and (c), which are +90 and -1000, so the game in this case has negative utility of -910.
Another solution is to accept that we could change our measure in the world by forgetting things, and to build something like a magic based on it. (This idea was discussed on LW as "flux universe" on a series of posts where a person had panic attacks based on idea that if he forgets parts of his personality before sleep, he would be never able to return back to his initial self.) This "magic" may look like: (1) a person learns that he has rare deadly disease. (2) he meditates and remove from his mind all clues about this fact (3) his observer-moment becomes so simple that it is equal to zillions of observer-moments of other peoples (4) if human mind is only numbers, they "merge", (5) now he returns to awake state, but his probability to be in the world-line where he has the rare disease is equal to the level of incidents of the disease in the population, that is very low. (6) Profit. But this thing seems more absurd than quantum immortality.
Another possible solution is to get rid of the idea of identity in favor of some form of open individualism. The problem here is that most human preferences are formulated in the way that they assume existence of the some form of identity: "I want a cake"
One way to avoid the absurd conclusion is to say that it doesn't matter if another mind is you.
Suppose I have a utility function over the entire quantum wave function. This utility function is mostly focused on beings that are similar to myself. So I consider the alternate me, that differs only in phone number, getting £100, about equal to the original me getting £100. As far as my utility function goes, both the versions of me would just be made worse off by forgetting the number.
Most human preferences has an embedded idea of identity as a receiver of the profit. However, the idea of "beings similar to me" assumes that there are "beings which are not enough similar to me for to be regarded as me" - but still have some of my traits. In other words, any definition of identity creates possibility of "pseudo-copies": if we define the identity wider, the circle of the pseudo-copies around it will become also wider, but will not disappear until we include all possible beings and end up with open individualism.
If we assume total "open individualism", it results in perfect effective altruism and the utility function will be akin "I prefer that total wellbeing of all sentient beings in the universe will increase on 100 pounds". However, this is not how most human preferences work, and there is also a risk of starvation.
So playing with the definition of identity will not help to escape the problem of existence of pseudo-copies, which could become "real me", if some information is erased from both of us.
For the sake of argument we assume that the information is erased sufficiently good for two pseudo-copies to be become exact copies - and this information is not immediately restored by interaction with the outside world. If we were digital minds, it will be simpler: I can generate a random string of data in advance and then delete bit by bit.
This assumes that there's some point where things sharply cut off between being me and not being me. I think it makes more sense for my utility function to care more about something the more similar it is to me. The existence of a single additional memory means pretty much nothing, and I still care a lot about most human minds. Something entirely alien I might not care about at all.
Even if this actually raises my utility, it does it by changing my utility function. Instead of helping the people I care about, it makes me care about different people.
Even if the cut-off is not sharp, something - which was completely not me - may become partly me after my simplification. Adding diffuse personality border is a correct step to the proper calculations of "me" and "not-me", if we ever come to this level, but this doesn't change the idea of the post: The simplification of the definition of "me" results in wider "bell curve" and thus larger share of all possible observer which are me.
| 2019-04-25T19:44:21 |
https://lw2.issarice.com/posts/5TYnquzAQPENyZXDa/quantum-immortality-is-decline-of-measure-compensated-by
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Feicfear inneall gluaisteáin atá in úsáid, cé is moite de "roundness" sorcóirí agus caitheamh "sorcóireach" ar bhosca an tsorcóra agus ar an díobháil bruscair ceann sorcóra, in éineacht le brú eitleáin, creimeadh uiscebhealaigh, chomh maith le scriúnna, lochtanna scealláin phíobáin agus mar sin de. D'fhonn cosc a chur ar an gcrann sorcóir nó an sorcóir a chur in ionad toisc go ndearnadh an sorcóir a dheisiú, dífhoirmiú an sorcóra, an leadránach sorcóra, nó an sorcóir a athsholáthar, ba chóir go gcuirfí roimhe an sorcóir agus go ndéanfaí iniúchadh seachtrach ar cheann an tsorcóra.
Is iad na sorcóirí na codanna bunúsacha den inneall, is é ceann an sorcóra ceann de na codanna móra den inneall. Tá an comhlacht sorcóir agus an sorcóir níos mó le hiarann teilgthe liath nó réitigh alúmanam (mar shampla Jetta, agus comhlacht sorcóir inneall samhlacha Santana d'iarann teilgthe liath déanta; ceann ceann sorcóra le haghaidh alúmanam a rinneadh; Tá comhlacht sorcóir inneall samhlacha Beverly agus ceann an sorcóra le haghaidh alúmanam) de shamhlú cruth struchtúir, an obair a rinne Shi téite agus i gcás an fhórsa chomh maith le comparáid casta, ní hamháin an comhionannas vótaí. Déanfaidh an Leas-fhéin féin frithchuimilt agus caitheamh, agus féadfaidh comhlacht sorcóra a bheith ann freisin mar gheall go bhfuil strus iarmharach ann agus dífhoirmiú a tháirgtear, damáiste a dhéanamh don vótaí Leas-chaidreamh frithpháirteach; Féadfaidh gach cuid de bharr brú teirmeach mar gheall ar theocht neamhunfhoirmeach a bheith ina chúis le scoilteanna, a d'fhéadfadh tionchar a bheith acu ar fheidhmíocht inneall, ar iontaofacht agus ar marthanacht.
| 2019-04-22T03:09:25 |
http://m.otq.delicoil.com/news/wire-thread-insert-in-the-car-application-of-c-593981.html
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Respondeo dicendum quod principium motivum inferius praecipue adiuvatur et perficitur per hoc quod movetur a superiori motivo principio, sicut corpus in hoc quod movetur a spiritu. Manifestum est autem quod rectitudo rationis humanae comparatur ad rationem divinam sicut principium motivum inferius ad superius, ratio enim aeterna est suprema regula omnis humanae rectitudinis. Et ideo prudentia, quae importat rectitudinem rationis, maxime perficitur et iuvatur secundum quod regulatur et movetur a spiritu sancto. Quod pertinet ad donum consilii, ut dictum est. Unde donum consilii respondet prudentiae, sicut ipsam adiuvans et perficiens.
I answer that, A lower principle of movement is helped chiefly, and is perfected through being moved by a higher principle of movement, as a body through being moved by a spirit. Now it is evident that the rectitude of human reason is compared to the Divine Reason, as a lower motive principle to a higher: for the Eternal Reason is the supreme rule of all human rectitude. Consequently prudence, which denotes rectitude of reason, is chiefly perfected and helped through being ruled and moved by the Holy Ghost, and this belongs to the gift of counsel, as stated above (Article 1). Therefore the gift of counsel corresponds to prudence, as helping and perfecting it.
| 2019-04-18T17:25:04 |
https://latinoffice.org/2016/01/14/prudence-and-counsel/
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What would you consider a pet to be? Birds? Mini-pigs? Most commonly, people are divided on the classification of pets they prefer. They're either dog people or cat people. It's almost like the two party system of Republicans and Democrats, you're either one kind or the other. Dog and cat people are very identifiable to the point where they demand it according to their pet preference. Dog people are one way while cat people are another. It isn't so hard to see that they're each very similar to how their pet preference acts. For instance, dog people are more outgoing while cat people tend to keep to themselves. Here are some things to take into consideration as to why or how this is the case.
There's an obscure toy that can be found everywhere, which is on the verge of gaining cult status called the “crazy cat lady.”'. The joke behind the doll is that it's funny because it's true. The doll itself is a woman who's wearing clothes that is covered with cat hair, she's unkempt and wild eyed. It's perhaps safer to say than to generalize that this isn't all cat people but for the most part is a good majority because of the fact that the owners don't want something that's needy. Owners might be more committed to the cat but when the cat turns away, the owners have no problem with it.
A lot of cat people identify certain personality traits to their felines by trying to figure out what the personality of their pets are. No one can really say, although cat people will stand firm by their convictions of what their cat's personalities are. For the most part however, most everyone is kept guessing when the cat isn't making an effort to approach their owner. This is the reason why litter boxes are more common in these homes because the cat can decide when they need to go without the owner's help. Usually food is already laid out, so the typical needs are already covered. When the cat approaches, it's really anyone's guess what they want.
People are also categorized in social groups of either introverted or extroverted. It's possible that the cat person's social patterns are more complex than one could point out. But more commonly, cat people are more introverted. As mentioned with the pattern of non-commitment, the fact that they have cats reflects their need to being left alone; to have as little association with other people as possible. Being withdrawn and picky is the most common personality trait.
There's no right or wrong reason why people gravitate to their classification of pets. Everyone has a preference and to default into certain behavioral patterns without little effort to make it look like what it isn't, is hard to do. Everyone has their comforts and for cat people, it's very specific.
| 2019-04-25T10:03:33 |
http://poetsunion.com/academic-essay-template-on-the-subject-of-cat-people
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Key moment: Speculative peak in early 1907 followed by a market crash in October. Stocks plunged about 50 percent from peak to trough.
Solution: Private-sector financier J.P. Morgan assembled a syndicate of bankers to lend $25 million to provide liquidity to help stem the panic.
Legacy: Crisis helped lead to the creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913.
Context: Post-World War I boom during the "Roaring '20s."
Cause: Speculation on new technologies fueled by borrowed money. Stocks were undermined by an economic slowdown and fear that Congress would pass the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act.
Key moment: After peaking Sept. 3, the Dow Jones industrial average plunged on Black Thursday, Oct. 24, prompting Wall Street traders to leap from windows. Over 71 days, the Dow fell 47.9 percent. The crash presaged the Great Depression, which stretched over the following decade.
Solution: Massive government intervention after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office helped somewhat. Among other things, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Securities and Exchange Commission were created in 1933. But it took the military buildup during World War II to finally put the Great Depression in the past.
Legacy: Government took a greater role in the economy.
Context: Five-year bull market after a decade of recessions and oil shocks.
Cause: Mounting speculation in stocks, luxury housing and commercial real estate undermined by tax law changes, a slowing economy, worries about insider trading and surging interest rates.
Key moment: Black Monday, Oct. 19, when the Dow fell 22.6 percent, its all-time worst one-day percentage drop.
Solution: Federal Reserve injected massive amounts of cash to clear the credit markets.
Legacy: Pumping cash into the system became the favored tool for curing market ills. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's reputation is established.
Context: Tech and telecom bubble deflated, and economy entered a recession in March.
Cause: An era of "irrational exuberance" drove stock market prices much higher than their underlying earnings could justify.
Key moment: Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, which brought down the twin World Trade Center towers and closed Wall Street. When the stock market reopened Sept. 17, the Dow plunged 7.1 percent.
Solution: At the urging of Greenspan, the Fed orchestrated a series of short-term interest rate cuts to 1 percent. President Bush asked for, and received, another round of tax cuts.
Legacy: Historically low interest rates and lax regulation fueled a housing bubble. Millions of subprime and other exotic loans to borrowers with often-sketchy credit are bundled up and sold worldwide as securities, inflating housing prices and building activity to unsustainable levels.
Cause: Trillions of dollars in toxic, unmarketable mortgage-backed securities declined in value with home prices, wiping out capital at financial institutions and freezing credit markets.
Key moment: Major stock indexes have plunged more than 20 percent since late 2007, punctuated by a 7 percent decline in the Dow on Sept. 29.
| 2019-04-19T22:54:21 |
https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/living/article29019997.html
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These are 7 Chakras Gemstones Yoga Earrings. They heal the different physical and mental problems. What are Chakras?
The subtle body is a part of a person which no one cannot see or touch, according to the Yoga tradition the energy flows here. In the subtle body there are 7 key points known as Chakras which are thought to be Vortexes of energy.
1)Clear Quartz - Crown (These are 3 big clear Quartz in the middle of the necklace) 2)Amethyst - 3rd Eye 3) Sodalite -Throat 4) Rose Quartz - Heart 5) Citrine - Solar Plexus 6) Carnelian - Sacral7) Hematite - Root.
To accentuate the beauty of other stones I used Rose Quartz gemstone in between that's why it has 5 Chakra gemstones.
Sometimes energy gets blocked in a Chakra which triggers physical, mental, or emotional imbalances which can result in the symptoms like anxiety, poor digestion and lethargy. To stimulate an imbalanced Chakra, a good Yoga Asana practice can free up energy which paves the way for the wonderful internal shift. Yoga is popular for this kind of Shift. With proper coaching, you can tap into the Chakras as a powerful way of mobilizing and shifting one's energy in the direction they want it to go.
As it has 5 colors it goes well with different color outfits.
| 2019-04-21T04:19:10 |
http://www.inspirationbeadworks.com/earrings-1/7-chakras-yoga-earrings
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(b) if another minister has been designated as the responsible minister for that designated project by the Lieutenant Governor in Council in the designation order made in respect of that project under section 3, that designated minister.
2 (1) The minister may recommend to the Lieutenant Governor in Council that a project be designated as a provincially significant project.
(ii) sets out the scope, intended operations, anticipated constraints and other details of the project.
3 (1) If the Lieutenant Governor in Council considers that a project in relation to which the Lieutenant Governor in Council receives a recommendation under section 2 is in the public interest and is or may be subject to a constraint, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may, by order, designate that project as a provincially significant project.
(iii) any constraints affecting the designated project.
(3) The proponent of a designated project must provide to the responsible minister, when and as required by that minister, any information relating to the designated project that the responsible minister may request.
4 (1) If the proponent of a designated project considers that the designated project is being or may be impeded by a constraint, the proponent must consult with the approval authority having responsibility for that constraint in order to arrive at a means by which the completion and operations of the designated project can be facilitated in a manner that is consistent with the reasonable requirements of the approval authority.
(2) The responsible minister may appoint a facilitator under section 8 to facilitate the consultations referred to in subsection (1) of this section.
(3) Once a facilitator becomes involved under subsection (2), the proponent and the affected approval authority must provide information as requested by the facilitator and must otherwise cooperate with the facilitator in fulfilling his or her responsibilities.
(b) submit the implementation agreement to the responsible minister for approval.
(5) If an implementation agreement is submitted to the responsible minister under subsection (4) (b), the responsible minister may approve the agreement if the responsible minister has been authorized, under section 3 (2) (b), to approve the replacement of the constraint identified in that agreement.
(ii) take, or cause to be taken, any actions that would normally be taken had the replaced constraints actually been complied with.
(b) if not specified in the implementation agreement, would normally apply had the replaced constraints actually been complied with.
(b) set out those replacement measures in an order.
(2) In developing the replacement measures referred to in subsection (1), the responsible minister must consult with the proponent, the affected approval authority and any facilitator appointed in respect of the designated project under section 8.
(3) A responsible minister who makes an order under subsection (2) may at any time propose an amendment to the order, and, in developing the amendment, the responsible minister must consult with the proponent, the affected approval authority and any facilitator appointed in respect of the designated project under section 8.
(ii) take or cause to be taken, any actions that would normally be taken had the replaced constraints actually been complied with.
(b) if not specified in the order, would normally apply had the replaced constraints actually been complied with.
(ii) other operations reasonably related to those identified operations.
(iii) the proponent must ensure that the designated project is undertaken and performed in accordance with that constraint.
7 (1) The responsible minister may, to ensure that the designated project is being undertaken and performed in accordance with section 6 (1) and (2) (a), monitor the designated project or cause the designated project to be monitored.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section, the responsible minister may appoint a monitor under section 8.
(c) on the conclusion of the investigation, prepare a report on the results of that inspection and provide a copy of that report to the responsible minister and the proponent.
(4) A proponent must, on the request of a monitor referred to in subsection (2), give to the monitor every assistance in connection with the inspection that the proponent is reasonably able to give.
(5) An oral or written statement or report made by a monitor or any other person in an investigation under this section has qualified privilege.
8 Without limiting any other provision of this Act, the responsible minister may at any time appoint facilitators, monitors, consultants and experts and set their remuneration and the terms of their appointments.
9 The responsible minister may order the proponent of a designated project to pay prescribed fees or prescribed charges for all or part of the costs that are incurred, for or in relation to any matter under this Act, by or on behalf of the government or a person appointed under section 8.
(c) recommend to the Lieutenant Governor in Council that the designation for the designated project be revoked.
(2) The responsible minister may rescind an order under this section if the responsible minister determines that there were insufficient grounds for making the order.
(b) an order directing the directors and officers of the proponent to cause the proponent to comply with or to cease violating the order under subsection (1) (a) or (b).
(4) On application by the responsible minister under this section, the Supreme Court may make an order it considers appropriate.
(5) An order or action of the responsible minister under this section is in addition to any offence, penalty or other liability that, in accordance with section 6 (2) (a) (iii) or (b) (ii), applies to the designated project.
(6) Section 5 of the Offence Act does not apply to this Act or the regulations.
11 (1) If there is a conflict between this Act and any other enactment, this Act prevails.
(b) the Environmental Assessment Act and the regulations made under that Act.
(c) prescribing fees and charges for the purposes of section 9.
| 2019-04-20T10:20:21 |
http://www.bclaws.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/03100_01
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The Lead: The Wesleyan University football team scored eight touchdowns in the first half, led by a terrific performance from sophomore quarterback Mark Piccirillo, as the Cardinals cruised to a commanding 59-14 win over Williams College Saturday afternoon to claim the Little Three title for the second time in the past four seasons, and the first since 2013.
The Cardinals dominated the first half from start to finish, scoring eight touchdowns and gaining 390 yards of offense, while forcing three fumbles and one interception.
Piccirillo was near perfect, as he went 14-of-19 for 288 yards and five touchdowns. He also rushed six times for 66 yards and a score. His favorite target was Mike Breuler '18, who caught four passes for 125 yards and three touchdowns. Additionally, Devon Carrillo '17 scored two rushing touchdowns on three attempts, and also caught six passes for 95 yards and one touchdown.
Wesleyan scored three touchdowns within the first 4:39 of play on just eight plays, setting the tone from the beginning.
After forcing a three-and-out, Piccirillo found a wide-open Breuler near the left pylon for a 32-yard touchdown to go ahead, 7-0.
Williams punted four plays later. After back-to-back long runs from Piccirillo and Dario Highsmith '20, respectively, Carrillo eventually ran untouched right up the middle to put Wesleyan ahead, 14-0.
The Ephs fumbled on their first play on their ensuing drive, and Wesleyan capitalized. On the next play, Piccirillo connected with Lou Stevens '17 near the visitor's sideline as he ran in untouched.
It was a similar story for the majority of the half. Williams did gain 76 yards on its next drive in 4:28, as Jansen Durham completed a 16-yard touchdown to Kellen Hatheway to cut the deficit to 14. However, Wesleyan responded roughly a minute later when Piccirillo connected with Ben Kurtz '17 for a six-yard score.
Williams' next three possessions resulted in a missed field goal, fumble, and interception as the Cardinals would increase its lead to 42-7.
The Ephs' second touchdown of the half featured an impressive play by Jensen. In shotgun formation, the freshman placed the ball behind his back as an Eph player ran behind him for the sweep. Jansen faked the handoff and shifted through the Wesleyan defense for a 17-yard touchdown run.
However, Wesleyan would score two more touchdowns in the final 1:01 of the second quarter to take a commanding 42-point lead into halftime.
The second half was a different story. The third quarter featured four drives, two ending in punts and one ending in downs.
Wesleyan increased its lead to 45 early in the fourth quarter as Ike Fuchs '17 capped off a nine-play, 38-yard drive with a 38-yard field goal.
The Cardinals gained the majority of their yards in the first half and finished with 508 yards of total offense (353 passing; 155 rushing). Wesleyan's defense held Williams to 329 yards (191 passing; 138 rushing), while forcing five turnovers (one interception; four fumbles).
Senior quarterback Steve Sobo '17 replaced Piccirillo in the second half and went 6-of-9 in the final 30 minutes of regulation for 65 yards. Durham finished 17-of-28 for 191 yards and one touchdown for the Ephs.
Piccirillo finished as Wesleyan's leading rusher, while Steve Bohling ran 18 times for 85 yards to lead Williams.
Defensively, Shayne Kaminski '18 led the Cardinals with seven tackles, while Cole Harris '18 and Brandon Morris '19 each recorded six. Grant Williams '19 registered a sack for Wesleyan as well. For the Ephs, Ben Anthony posted a game-high nine tackles.
With the win today, and after defeating Amherst College earlier in the season, 20-0, Wesleyan captured the Little Three title for the 14th time in program history.
The Cardinals have now won the Little Three title twice in the past four seasons (2016, 2013).
Williams leads the all-time series, 76-41-5, but it's been all Wesleyan in recent years. The Cardinals have won four straight against their archrival.
Today's win was Wesleyan's largest victory over the Ephs in the 122-game history of the rivalry. Prior to today, the Cardinals' largest win was a 35-0 victory in 1900. It's also the largest margin ever between Wesleyan and Williams – the Ephs defeated Wesleyan by 44 in 1973.
Placekicker Ike Fuchs '17 scored 11 points for Wesleyan as he went a perfect 8-for-8 on extra points. The eight PATs are a new program record, surpassing the previous mark of seven held by Sebastian Aguirre '14 against Tufts in 2013.
Head Coach Dan DiCenzo improves to 11-4 in two seasons at the helm of the Wesleyan football program.
Wesleyan wraps up its 2016 season next Saturday, Nov. 12 with a chance to earn a piece of the NESCAC Championship as it hosts undefeated Trinity College (7-0) in the "Battle of the Birds" at 12 p.m.
Williams ends its season on the road against its other Little Three rival, Amherst (3-4), beginning at 12 p.m.
| 2019-04-24T06:13:23 |
http://athletics.wesleyan.edu/sports/fball/2016-17/releases/20161105ocud55
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Your task will be, given a two-dimensional array of the elements described below, which represents a dungeon, to output or return a single number representing the amount of gold pieces the rogue can collect without waking up any monsters.
Monsters are represented by characters from the following regexp: [a-zA-Z*&].
The array shall not contain any characters not listed above, so you can assume that anything that is not a wall, an empty space, the rogue or a gold piece is a monster.
The rogue can enter the awareness area of a monster any number of times, the monster will only wake up if the rogue spends two consecutive turns near it.
You can get the input in any reasonable format, including a two-dimensional array, a flat array, a string or whatever else. If it makes your life easier, you may also take the dimensions of the array as well.
It's guaranteed that the rogue will not be near a monster at the beginning.
A full program or a function is fine.
This is code-golf, the score is the bytes count of your submission with fewer being better.
I use dots for empty spaces here for readability purposes, if you so desire you may use spaces (see above). Also note that this is a pure coincidence that the rogue is always in the upper-left corner, your code should handle any other valid position as well.
The rogue can grab the gold by moving in from the left.
The rogue can zig-zag between the monsters, never staying for more than one turn near each.
The tactics from the previous test case don't work here - the monster sensitivity areas overlap.
Of all the gold here, only three can be reached safely: the gold near the starting position can be got by moving down one and then back to the starting position. To escape from the top left corner the rogue has to move diagonally down-right twice. The gold in the middle poses no challenge. The outer gold guarded by g and b can be got by moving in diagonally from the place to the right of the middle gold and then back. The rest cannot be got: top-right gold is blocked by walls, and the bottom-right gold requires two turns in monster sensitivity areas.
The following test cases were generously donated by mbomb007.
This one is tricky. A path is b4-b5-c6-b7-c8-b8(grab).
The extra wall doesn't actually change anything, [bc]4-c5-b6-c7-b8(grab) is still a solution.
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| 2019-04-24T06:45:14 |
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/161075/roguelike-pathfinding
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In an Inbound Customer Service role, the candidate will make and receive calls to and from customers or clients providing answers to questions and queries related to the company's products or services. Using the often bespoke system inbound and outbound customer service agents will deal with incoming and outbound calls providing first class customer service on behalf of their company.
Often fast paced and target driven, inbound customer service agents will have a strong customer service background and exceptional listening and communication skills in order to assist all incoming calls effectively and efficiently.
What kind of person makes a good customer service agent?
Many contact centres will rely on both inbound and outbound customer service and sales agents to work within a team with a common goal requiring each agent to be a team player.
They will be motivated by a busy, interactive environment and be interested in assisting people. Sometimes dealing with complaints, a customer service agent will be able to remain calm in sometimes pressurised and stressful situations, all the time remaining professional and imparting the correct advice according to company policies.
| 2019-04-25T04:57:20 |
https://www.stafffinders.co.uk/job-listings/contact-centre-jobs/inbound-customer-service-jobs/
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Abductionis a 2011 American action thriller film directed by John Singleton and stars Taylor Lautner , Lily Collins , Sigourney Weaver , Maria Bello , Jason Isaacs , Michael Nyqvist , and Alfred Molina .
on September 23, 2011.Despite negative reception, the film was nominated for a Golden Reel Award for Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Film.
Nathan Harper ( Taylor Lautner ) is an 18-year-old high school senior living in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his parents Kevin ( Jason Isaacs ) and Mara ( Maria Bello ). He has been troubled by recurring nightmares and has been seeing psychiatrist Dr. Geraldine "Geri" Bennett ( Sigourney Weaver ) to diagnose them.
Nathan is teamed with Karen Murphy ( Lily Collins ) for a school research project on missing children. Nathan discovers he looks very much like an age-progression photo of a missing child, Steven Price. He investigates further and finds other clues that suggest his parents are not his biological mom and dad. When he approaches Mara about this, she reveals that she is not his biological mother. She goes off crying to get his father to help her explain it all to him.
Two men claiming to be from the Department of Juvenile Justice arrive at Nathan's home in the evening while Mara is on her way to get Kevin. Mara is suspicious and attacks the two, but is shot and killed by the intruders. Kevin is also killed, but not before subduing one agent, as well as yelling for Nathan to run. Nathan runs but returns for Karen, who is now captured by the remaining agent. Nathan overpowers the agent and rescues Karen, he attempts to find out who the man is, but is suddenly forced out of the house because a bomb planted there is about to detonate.
The blast injures Karen, so Nathan takes her to the hospital and attempts to contact the police. His call is intercepted by CIA operative Frank Burton ( Alfred Molina ) who tells Nathan he is in danger and will send two men to collect him. Nathan is suspicious and while he is trying to make sense of it all, Dr. Bennett appears and helps him and Karen to escape. While driving away, Dr. Bennett explains that Nathan's biological father Martin ( Dermot Mulroney ) stole an encrypted list of 25 corrupt CIA operatives from the Serbian terrorist Nikola Kozlow ( Michael Nyqvist ): Kozlow now plans on abducting Nathan to coerce Martin to hand over the list. Nathan had been given to his adoptive parents to protect him. Kozlow used the website to claim Nathan as the missing child Steven Price in order to find him. Dr. Bennett gives Nathan the address of a safe house in Arlington, Virginia and tells him to trust only his biological father Martin and a man named Paul Rasmus. Kozlow's men follow them, but Bennett is able to help them escape. Meanwhile, Burton is warned by his superior to end the situation as soon as possible once he learns of the involvement of Bennett, who is revealed to be a former CIA operative.
Arriving at the safehouse: the two obtain money, a gun, a photo of Nathan's biological mother Lorna Price ( Elisabeth Röhm ), and a cell phone. Karen tries to call her family, but her call is intercepted by Burton and the CIA forcing them to flee. Finding the address for his mother, the pair discover the address is a cemetery and that Lorna has died. Nathan and Karen visit her grave and find fresh flowers there, which according to the graveyard attendant, the sender is Paul Rasmus who lives in Nebraska. The two take an Amtrak passenger train to get there using fake IDs provided by their friend Gilly ( Denzel Whitaker ). En route they confess their feelings for each other and share a passionate kiss. They are unaware that they are followed by Kozlow's right-hand man who abducts Karen when she goes out for food. He leaves her bound and gagged with duct tape in a separate room, but she frees herself by using a piece of broken glass. Nathan fights the right-hand man and he throws him out the window. After the train stops the two make a run for it. Burton's team finds Kozlow's henchman and tracks them down.
Burton explains the data that Martin had stolen and Nathan biologicalizes that the phone from the safehouse contains that data and he surmises that Burton's name is on that list. As Burton tries to play that off, the agents are attacked by Kozlow's snipers. Nathan and Karen take off in a car before they can be caught. As they flee, the cell phone from Kozlow's man rings, the caller is Kozlow and he threatens to kill Karen's parents if Nathan does not hand over the data. Nathan gets Kozlow to agree to make the transaction at a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game at their home stadium, the PNC Park .
Nathan works with Gilly to obtain tickets and secures a gun to one of the seats with the intent to kill Kozlow. Martin calls Nathan and warns him off, but Nathan refuses to listen. When Kozlow arrives, Karen takes Kozlow's photo so Nathan can recognize him. The two meet and Kozlow tells Nathan how he killed his mother when Nathan was 3 after she refused to give up Martin's location. Kozlow grabs the gun from Nathan and demands the list, Nathan bolts and Kozlow gives chase, followed by CIA operatives who have seen them in the crowd. Nathan is able to escape and Kozlow is killed by Martin. Burton, his superior and his agents arrive. Burton asks for the cell phone, promising to give the decrypted results to his superior. However, Martin had warned his superior about Burton's corruption and takes the phone himself while Burton is taken into custody. Martin calls Nathan, apologizing for not being the father he should have been, Nathan asks him to show himself but Martin refuses. Bennett arrives with Karen and says she has arranged for Nathan to live with her until he decides what to pursue in his life. As the movie ends, Nathan and Karen go on a date in the empty PNC Park.
| 2019-04-25T07:03:54 |
http://www.dramastyle.com/mo_/Abduction/language/en
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Choose the option in which the usage of the word is inappropriate.
(3) The war led to a near doubling of prices.
(2) The minister visited the jail to see the breach at first hand.
(3) The situation is getting out of hand here.
| 2019-04-18T23:14:39 |
https://www.mbatious.com/topic/712/english-usage-previous-year-questions-cat-set-0002
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Activist had refused to talk about Hamas A Palestinian activist was sentenced Wednesday to more than 11 years in prison for refusing to testify before a grand jury in 2003 about the activities of the Palestinian extremist group Hamas.
Abdelhaleem Ashqar, 49, a business professor who lives outside Washington, contended he shouldn't have to give testimony that would aid the Israeli government in its strife with Palestinians.
"It is something I will not do as long as I live," Ashqar said in a nearly two-hour statement at his sentencing in U.S. District Court in Chicago. He said he refused "to live as a traitor or as a collaborator."
But U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve told Ashqar that no one -- regardless of his political beliefs -- can be excused from aiding a grand jury investigation after being given immunity from prosecution.
"You have disregarded your legal obligation," St. Eve told Ashqar. "In the 1 1/2 hours that you have spoken, I have not seen any remorse from you. ... I also have heard exactly the opposite."
As the judge spoke, Ashqar's wife, Asma, sobbed in the front row. Later, paramedics were called to treat Ashqar's mother-in-law after she collapsed in a court hallway.
The government had accused Ashqar and Muhammad Salah, 53, a former Bridgeview grocer, of being leading members of Hamas and conspiring to support terrorism from the United States.
But a jury acquitted the two in February of the most serious terrorism-related charges but convicted both of obstruction of justice. Ashqar also was convicted of criminal contempt.
After Wednesday's sentencing, St. Eve ordered Ashqar taken into immediate custody, agreeing with prosecutors who said he was a risk to flee. He had been confined to his Virginia home.
As Ashqar walked from the courtroom, his wife and young nephew cried and a few of his more than 50 supporters shouted protests.
The sentence of 11 years and 3 months in prison was severe for someone who refused to testify before a grand jury.
Ashqar's attorney, William Moffitt, said in court he knew of no case in which a defendant had been sentenced to more than 5 years for similar conduct.
But St. Eve agreed with prosecutors that Ashqar's crimes hindered an investigation into Hamas and, as a result, promoted terrorism.
That made him eligible for a more severe sentence under federal sentencing guidelines.
Afterward, Moffitt called Ashqar's sentence "far beyond the pale" and vowed to appeal.
At the hearing, Moffitt argued that Ashqar didn't act out of greed or self-interest.
"There is no motive here other than Dr. Ashqar's desire to end the occupation of his homeland," Moffitt said.
But U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald later called the sentence appropriate.
"No one -- whether they have a reason that's political or otherwise -- has a right to go before a grand jury and obstruct justice," he said.
"It's very important that people who obstruct justice pay a price," Fitzgerald said. When the case involves terrorism, "the price is higher -- and it should be higher."
In a long, often emotional speech, Ashqar recounted decades of what he said was brutal mistreatment of Palestinians, his family in particular.
Ashqar said that as a young man he had been arrested and beaten without cause. He blamed Israeli officials for the deaths of eight family members since 2002.
"We are determined to live in honor and dignity," Ashqar said as he paced back and forth, sometimes raising his arms or turning toward his supporters while making a point.
Ashqar said he eventually came to the U.S,. studied in Mississippi and taught at Howard University in Washington. He said he talked to FBI agents throughout the 1990s but never became the informant they wanted him to be.
The lengthy sentence sparked dismay and disappointment in Chicago's Muslim community, which followed the case closely, said Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Council of Arab-Islamic Relations' Chicago chapter.
"He is not a threat to this country," Rehab said. "He felt that he didn't want to be complicit in the persecution of other Palestinians."
But Assistant U.S. Atty. Reid Schar argued that Hamas' bombing and shootings in the Mideast had killed Americans, innocent victims caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.
He said Ashqar was a major Hamas figure who kept the group's archives, talked to top Hamas leaders and attended a high-level meeting in 1993.
"As we sit here, he holds -- in his head -- critical information" about the group, Schar said. But "he chose to protect Hamas members."
St. Eve said that she did not believe Ashqar had committed any terrorist acts or ever intended to do so. But she agreed with prosecutors and FBI officials who said they needed Ashqar's evidence.
At one point, St. Eve quoted Ashqar's own words from his grand jury appearance in 2003 after he had been told he would not be prosecuted for anything he said.
"I will never give evidence or cooperate in any way ... no matter what the consequences to me," Ashqar said at the time.
| 2019-04-23T20:12:47 |
https://www.cairchicago.org/blog/blog/2007/11/man-gets-11-years-for-not-testifying
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What are the worst examples of rent seeking?
Since expenditures to take a dollar from Bob and give it to Betty produce nothing, they are wasted from the point of view of the economy at large; they are zero-sum at best and are probably negative-sum. Do not allow the special privilege: but how? The same was repeated , and it quickly spread. The incidence who pays of the tax is split between consumers C and producers P as a function of the elasticities of demand and supply. A First look at Rent-Seeking Let's imagine that you and your spouse have three kids. At 20 pirates, there would be no profit remaining and no incentive to engage in the shipping trade.
Furthermore, the overall welfare effect of the licence is negative a deadweight loss since higher prices of taxis imply people spend less in other markets. If in this process some taxi drivers lose their jobs, they will get hired by the competition. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. They are based on negative signals that allow a business to prosper simply because this business had enough money to pay for its privilege of being the only service provider. When they receive the gain, they don't reciprocate back to society. When I David John Marotta was applying for college, I was told that hundreds of scholarships, many based on merit, were available.
Such laws have long existed for doctors, lawyers and others in highly skilled professions, but they are increasingly spreading to low- and mid-skill jobs as well. So might we conclude the following as economists : 1. Just one problem: We really. Rent-seeking is trying to get more money for yourself without increasing the overall amount of money available for everyone. This is the most thorough treatment on this subject that I have found anywhere.
A resident of a town could fish, fowl or forage its fields and streams and other common areas for free but not an outsider. My own background teaching Computer Science brings a precision, discipline, and automation to the financial planning process. These are primarily done by companies in order to make economic gains through government action. When the economy is poor, the burden of fixed rent-seeking costs on producers drives surpluses even lower. But when government bails out these risky banks, they give them a large advantage over their more cautious competitors. Standard neoclassical theory - It was thought that there was simply a transfer from a monopoly privilege: to the pressure group and from consumers who pay higher prices.
As you can probably imagine, this isn't the nicest thing to do. As abhorrent as it may seem, stockpiling a bunch of weapons is legal in this country. If property rights on the surplus the company seeks had been more stable, such roles for lobbyists would never have been created. In most exchanges both parties can produce the item they are trading more efficiently than they can produce what they are receiving. Perhaps now is a good time to look at an example to explain how this works. In cases like tax planning, not to participate in rent-seeking when doing so would clearly benefit you is just a needless personal sacrifice. Everything can be solved so cheaply, it's a no-brainer.
You might think that giving away money is free, but it is not. The most efficacious way to promote monopoly rents in an industry is to pass a law to restrict output and to license entry 1. While corruption in government is higher in some countries than others, no nation on Earth is completely free of it. Rent-seeking is basically going after income derived from an unfair advantage. But there are also indirect costs — which can be considered even worse.
Examples of Rent-Seeking The following are examples of rent seeking: 1. A public worker in 1960 averaged eighty percent the earnings of an average private one, a sacrifice in return for job security. The production of valuable goods and services is maximized with strong property rights when little is wasted in efforts to seize the surplus of others or to prevent others from seizing our surplus. License requirements are often examples of rent-seeking behaviors. There are no clear answers here.
You just destroyed the competition using the free market. On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal that General Growth Properties, a big mall owner, said Amazon plans to open 300 to 400 physical bookstores in coming years. Krueger did not attempt to estimate what percentage of these rents were dissipated in the attempt to get them. This is the amount of wealth that the tax takes away; from the industry. Incumbent businesses, meanwhile, are thriving — the U. Set in a world of tradition, class, privilege, political power, and differential organization costs, rent seeking most likely promotes more inequality in the distribution of income.
Rent-seeking is a normal impulse. When the night arrives for your date, you give instructions to the babysitter and head out. Since we do still see companies investing in new technology, etc. Rent-seeking has a pronounced impact on the distribution of income — the winner of the monopoly right becomes wealthier. But the old-fashioned way is hard! People with a specific set of skills get hired by the new entrants to the market who need these types of skills , while some re-specialize in another line of work.
| 2019-04-20T04:13:32 |
http://netteranatomy.com/rent-seeking-examples.html
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How to catch your audience from the very beginning!
Grabbing the attention of your audience is key to getting your message across. If you fail to do this immediately, you won't have the engagement of your audience. Your audience will move onto some other content without even giving your blog post or article or video a chance.
Let me tell you of a story of how this went incredibly wrong for someone, who lost her audience as well as her credibility because she failed to grab her audience's attention.
A few months back, I had this fantastic opportunity to travel to a big city and attend a large conference for entrepreneurs. There were a few thousand attendees, and we all met in a large auditorium at a big city venue.
The conference was a daylong event with different, world-class speakers stepping up every hour. I was excited along with everyone else to hear all the amazing speakers that had been lined up to share with us their entrepreneurial secrets to success and strategies.
Throughout the day, I could all feel the excitement build. Each speaker built upon the energy of the last, creating more and more enthusiasm. The MCs kept the crowd moving. The building was electric. Finally, near the end of the day, I knew the keynote speaker was coming up soon and I was so excited to hear her! She was the primary reason I bought tickets to the event! I was pumped to see her live and in person!
Finally, the moment was here! The last speaker left the stage, and it was empty. I knew the keynote would be on any second.
I waited for the MCs to come back and introduce her.
After all the amazing introductions all day, how could they top it? What song would they bring her out to? What would the lights do? Everyone in the audience was silent, waiting.
And then two people walked on stage. This was it. I was so ready!
They started taking turns reading a bio of the final speaker and strangely, disagreeing with much of what it said.
And then I realized, this was the final speaker!
All day long, we had this grand event, great introductions, great music, great energy, great speakers, all this excitement.
And then when the keynote speaker went on stage, all that energy just seemed to evaporate, and we were all just left in confusion. Was this a joke? I had never seen this person speak before, so I wasn't sure if she was trying to do something clever or innovative in her approach, but it did not work.
She began to ramble about something. I’m not even sure what.
I heard whispers in the audience, what was going on? What was she talking about? This was the famous ---?
But I realized what had happened.
In her possible attempt to do something different she failed to do anything at all.
And what did this cost her?
For me, it was confusion and the rapid depletion of all the energy that had been built throughout the day.
For the speaker, it cost her the ability grab onto the energy that had already been created and in the room. Instead, it was all sucked away.
She lost engagement and interest in her presentation. People cut off and were no longer paying attention because they were so baffled as to what was happening.
Most importantly, she lost credibility. Her inability to draw in her audience, reduced her impact, her potential reach as a thought leader.
This unfortunate failure in public speaking shines a light on what many people end up doing when presenting new information to their audiences--they just dive right in without any preparation or making sure that they have the attention of their audiences… Hooking them in.
Before people are going to listen to you, you have to make sure they are even looking at you!
To successfully ensure that your audience is with you, you have to give your audience a roadmap of where you’re going.
Say that you are giving a training session to some employees. You don't just jump in and start teaching. You introduce yourself and the topic you'll be discussing. If your audience knows why they are taking the training, then there's a better chance that they'll engage with your material (eLearningIndustry.com 2017).
This reminds me of how kindergarten teachers can get the attention of their students. They start to clap their hands and then the students know they should clap their hands and pay attention to what the teacher has to say.
So how do you play the hand clapping game with your audience?
We can take a page from educational psychologist Robert M. Gagné. His book, The Conditions of Learning, laid out the 9 Events of Instruction. These nine events help people who are delivering information to better engage with their audiences. So naturally, you can guess what the first event is--grab your audience's attention.
It's crucial to get that attention from the start because otherwise, they won't make it through your video--or even watch it. They won't read your excellent blog post if there isn't a great title or headline pulling your audience in. Your readers will scroll down to something else.
Remember that you want to gain their attention also as a way to prepare them for what information they will be receiving. So a snappy intro can both engage and inform your audience.
Here are a few ways that you can grab your audience’s attention from the start.
Create a title that grabs's the audience's attention. Whether it's a social media post, a blog or video make the first words that your audience READS catchy; something that they will WANT to read. What's in it for them? Let them know right away!
So that great headline can’t be: I’m so excited that I’m going to be talking to you about this today! That is all about you, and not about your audience. Your audience may not even know you, but even if they do, stating your excitement isn’t the way to engage and hook your audience in.
Go back to, WIIFM; what's in it for me [your audience]?
Kick off your content with a bold paragraph stating where you are taking your audience and what they can expect from your content. Let them know the path to success and give them confidence you will help them achieve it.
Internet marketer Jeff Bullas says that you can get 94 percent more traffic with articles and blog posts that have images than without.
If you're creating any digital content, consider using eye-catching images and video to enhance your written content and make it more engaging. Adding infographics to your written piece is another way to get your audience's attention all while giving them new information and using a variety of senses, which is very important for learning retention!
Four times as many consumers would prefer to watch a video about a product than to read about it (Forbes, 2017). Set your audience up with a video to active their engagement and get them excited about your content.
Provide additional resources for your videos, such as visual summaries (back to the graphics) or downloadable worksheets and summary documents.
The use of video is rising each year. HubPost states that 78 percent of people are watching videos every week, with 55 percent watching videos every day.
Think of every content piece you create; whether is free or people are paying for it; as an ad… nobody purchases products or services from a crappy ad. We buy from those that engage and entice our emotions. How can you do this with your content?
And remember: you're not giving this information just because. There's plenty of content out there online, and you don't want to become part of the background noise or have the "wahh wahhh wahhh" effect. You want to be a signal that your audience can recognize and respond to. You want to give vital information that can impact and empower the lives of those who are actively learning from you.
| 2019-04-20T15:15:12 |
https://lindsaykirsch.com/catch-audience-beginning/
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WASHINGTON likes nothing better than a juicy scandal. Ferreting out rogues and scoundrels is a legitimate function of government. But too frequently in Congress and the press, policy is pushed aside for personalities. Thus, the discussion these days about the savings-and-loan debacle is focused largely on seven men: Charles Keating, the wheeling-dealing head of California's Lincoln Savings & Loan, the most costly S&L failure to date; five United States senators who, as beneficiaries of large campaign contributions from Mr. Keating, went to bat for Lincoln with federal regulators threatening to close the thrift in 1987; and M.Danny Wall, the former chief thrift regulator who deferred action against Lincoln for two years, and who resigned Monday under a blizzard of accusations.
Make no mistake: The Lincoln affair is serious, and the conduct of these men is rightly under investigation. Mr. Wall's resignation is welcome - not because it's clear he did anything improper, but because he's too closely identified with the problem to be effective. As the thrift industry attempts to get back on sound footing and the government sweeps up the debris left by hundreds of bankrupt S&Ls, the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) needs to be led by a fresh and knowledgeable executive who can concentrate exclusively on the future.
Nonetheless, the investigation of what these men knew and when they knew it is a sideshow. Proceed it must, but the attention of policymakers should remain fixed on the bigger issues - namely, how to prevent any repetition of such a boondoggle, and how to to manage the cleanup.
The bailout bill enacted last summer makes a good start. It included tough new capital requirements for thrifts that went into effect yesterday. These ensure that thrifts will have a thicker cushion against financial adversity, and they cut down thrift operators' room to make speculative loans and investments. The OTS needs to carefully monitor compliance with these standards.
Alert oversight also is required over the operation of the Resolution Trust Corporation, the new agency created to dispose of nearly $300 billion in assets inherited by the government from busted thrifts. The agency must attempt to move properties promptly, to minimize federal carrying costs. Yet it must also try to avoid driving real estate prices through the floor in already depressed areas like Texas. Mismanagement, waste, and fraud - always a risk in a mammoth government operation - must be guarded against vigilantly.
The S&L collapse had many causes: a lax regulatory environment, congressional indifference strengthened by a free-spending thrift lobby, negligent or unscrupulous practices by thrift operators, and government's subsidy of risk through high deposit insurance. Policymakers shouldn't be diverted by soap operas involving a few individuals.
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Mr. K. I. has a very big movie collection. He has organized his collection in a big stack.
places it at the top of the stack.
Since the stack of movies is so big, he needs to keep track of the position of each movie.
printed on the movie box.
Your task is to implement a program which will keep track of the position of each movie.
print the number of movies that were placed above it before it was removed.
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Toyota Motor Corporation (Japanese: トヨタ自動車株式会社, Toyota Jidōsha Kabushiki-gaisha?, TYO: 7203), commonly known simply as Toyota, is a multinational corporation headquartered in Japan. At its peak, Toyota employed approximately 320,000 people worldwide. It is the world's largest automaker by sales.
On May 8, 2009, Toyota reported a record annual net loss of US$4.4 billion, making it the latest automobile maker to be severely affected by the 2007-2010 financial crisis.
In January 2010, Toyota announced recalling up to 1.8 million cars across Europe, including about 220,000 in the UK, following an accelerator problem. The US Transportation Department has opened an investigation into brake problems in Toyota vehicles. This is after the department received 124 reports from drivers about the issue, including four involving crashes.
The company said its recall could cost the company up to US$2 billion (GB£1.25 billion) in lost output and sales. Toyota later recalled the Prius model after problems were found in the ABS system. Many Toyota models were involved, covering 2007-2010 model years. The U.S. Sales Chief, James Lentz, was questioned by the United States Congress committees on Oversight and Investigations on February 23, 2010, as a result of recent recalls.
Vehicles were originally sold under the name "Toyoda" (トヨダ), from the family name of the company's founder, Kiichirō Toyoda. In September 1936, the company ran a public competition to design a new logo. Out of 27,000 entries the winning entry was the three Japanese katakana letters for "Toyoda" in a circle. But Risaburō Toyoda, who had married into the family and was not born with that name, preferred "Toyota" (トヨタ) because it took eight brush strokes (a fortuitous number) to write in Japanese, was visually simpler (leaving off the diacritic at the end) and with a voiceless consonant instead of a voiced one (voiced consonants are considered to have a "murky" or "muddy" sound compared to voiceless consonants, which are "clear"). Since "Toyoda" literally means "fertile rice paddies", changing the name also helped to distance the company from associations with old-fashioned farming. The newly formed word was trademarked and the company was registered in August 1937 as the "Toyota Motor Company".
In predominantly Chinese-speaking countries or regions using traditional Chinese characters, e.g. Hong Kong and Taiwan, Toyota is known as "豊田". In predominantly Chinese speaking countries using simplified Chinese characters (e.g. China), Toyota is known as "丰田" (pronounced as "Fēngtián" in the Mandarin Chinese dialect). These are the same characters as the founding family's name "Toyoda" in Japanese, which translate to "fertile rice paddies" in the Chinese language as well.
The Toyota Motor Company received its first Japanese Quality Control Award at the start of the 1980s and began participating in a wide variety of motorsports. Due to the 1973 oil crisis, consumers in the lucrative U.S. market began turning to small cars with better fuel economy. American car manufacturers had considered small economy cars to be an "entry level" product, and their small vehicles employed a low level of quality in order to keep the price low.
In 2007, Toyota released an update of its full size truck, the Tundra, produced in two American factories, one in Texas and one in Indiana. "Motor Trend" named the Tundra "Truck of the Year," and the 2007 Toyota Camry "Car of the Year" for 2007. It also began the construction of two new factories, one to build the RAV4 in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada and the other to build the Toyota Prius in Blue Springs, Mississippi, USA. This plant was originally intended to build the Toyota Highlander, but Toyota decided to use the plant in Princeton, Indiana, USA, instead. The company has also found recent success with its smaller models—the Corolla and Yaris—as gas prices have risen rapidly in the last few years.
In 1936, Toyota entered the passenger car market with its Model AA and held a competition to establish a new logo emphasizing speed for its new product line. After receiving 27,000 entries, one was selected that additionally resulted in a change of its monikor to "Toyota" from the family name "Toyoda." It was believed that the new name sounded better and its eight-stroke count in the Japanese language was associated with wealth and good fortune. The original logo no longer is found on its vehicles but remains the corporate emblem used in Japan.
Still, there were no guidelines for the use of the brand name, "TOYOTA", which was used throughout most of the world, which led to inconsistencies in its worldwide marketing campaigns.
To remedy this, Toyota introduced a new worldwide logo in 1989 in conjunction with and to differentiate it from the newly released luxury Lexus brand. There are three ovals in the new logo that combine to for the letter "T", which stands for Toyota. The overlapping of the two perpendicular ovals inside the larger oval represent the mutually beneficial relationship and trust that is placed between the customer and the company while the larger oval that surrounds both of these inner ovals represent the "global expansion of Toyota's technology and unlimited potential for the future."
1957 is the year the first Toyota vehicles were exported to the United States by the Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. However, it wasn't until Friday, June 9, 1967 that the first trademark application with the USPTO for TOYOTA was filed by Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Gaisha. The trademark application was filed for Automobiles and motor trucks in Class 19, Non-metallic Building Materials. It also indicates the first use of the trademark name was on March 29, 1958. The application also includes a reference that, "Toyota" translates in English to, "Richfield." This is likely a variation of the Toyoda family name translation of "fertile rice paddies." U.S. trademark registration was on January 30, 1968.
Toyota also submitted trademark application at the same time on June 9, 1967 for the first auto models imported to the United States Corona, and Crown. Registration was granted on January 30, 1968 and February 6, 1968 respectively.
Regarding Toyota's current "T" logo, a trademark was filed on Friday, September 15, 1989 with registration to Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha granted on October 12, 1993. The "T" design code is described by the USPTO with multiple descriptions for the geometric designed logo. Code 26032 for, "Plain single line ovals;" 260316 for, "Ovals touching or intersecting;" 260317 for, "Concentric ovals and ovals within ovals;" and 270301 for, "Geometric figures forming letter or numerals, including punctuation." The "T" trademark is filed in the Vehicles and Products for locomotion by land, air or water category for automobiles and structural parts thereof.
Toyota, Corona, Crown, and the "T" logo trademarks are all registered and renewed and owned by Toyota Motor Company, Ltd., Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, Japan.
Toyota's marketing efforts have focused on emphasizing the positive experiences of ownership and vehicle quality. The ownership experience has been targeted in slogans such as "Oh, what a feeling!" (1978-1985, in the U.S.), "Who could ask for anything more" (1986-1989), "I love what you do for me, Toyota!" (1990-1997), "Everyday" (1997-2000)", "Get the feeling!" (2001-2004), and "Moving Forward" (2004-present).
Toyota has long been recognized as an industry leader in manufacturing and production. Three stories of its origin have been found, one that they studied Piggly-Wiggly's just-in-time distribution system, one that they followed the writings of W. Edwards Deming, and one that they were given the principles from a U.S. Army training program (Training Within Industry). It is possible that all these, and more, are true. Regardless of the origin, the principles described by Toyota in its management philosophy, The Toyota Way, are: Challenge, Kaizen (improvement), Genchi Genbutsu (go and see), Respect, and Teamwork.
Toyota has introduced new technologies including one of the first mass-produced hybrid gas-electric vehicles, of which it says it has sold 1 million globally (2007-06-07), Advanced Parking Guidance System (automatic parking), a four-speed electronically controlled automatic with buttons for power and economy shifting, and an eight-speed automatic transmission. Toyota, and Toyota-produced Lexus and Scion automobiles, consistently rank near the top in certain quality and reliability surveys, primarily J.D. Power and Consumer Reports although they led in automobile recalls for the first time in 2009.
In the first three months of 2007, Toyota together with its half-owned subsidiary Daihatsu reported number one sales of 2.348 million units. Toyota's brand sales had risen 9.2% largely on demand for Corolla and Camry sedans. The difference in performance was largely attributed to surging demand for fuel-efficient vehicles. In November 2006, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas added a facility in San Antonio. Toyota has experienced quality problems and was reprimanded by the government in Japan for its recall practices. Toyota currently maintains over 16% of the US market share and is listed second only to GM in terms of volume. Toyota Century Royal is the official state car of the Japanese imperial family, namely for the current Emperor of Japan.
The Camry is assembled in several facilities around the world including Australia, China ,Taiwan, UAE, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Russia, Thailand, India, Vietnam and the United States.
Toyota has factories in most parts of the world, manufacturing or assembling vehicles for local markets. Toyota has manufacturing or assembly plants in Japan, Australia, India, Sri Lanka, Canada, Indonesia, Poland, South Africa, Turkey, Colombia, the United Kingdom, the United States, UAE, France, Brazil, Portugal, and more recently, Argentina, Czech Republic, Mexico, Malaysia, Thailand, Pakistan, Egypt, China, Vietnam, Venezuela, the Philippines, and Russia.
In 2002, Toyota initiated the "Innovative International Multi-purpose vehicle" project (IMV) to optimize global manufacturing and supply systems for pickup trucks and multipurpose vehicles, and to satisfy market demand in more than 140 countries worldwide. IMV called for diesel engines to be made in Thailand, gasoline engines in Indonesia and manual transmissions in the Philippines, for supply to the countries charged with vehicle production. For vehicle assembly, Toyota would use plants in Thailand, Indonesia, Argentina, South Africa and Pakistan. These four main IMV production and export bases supply Asia, Europe, Africa, Oceania, Latin America and the Middle East with three IMV vehicles: The Toyota Hilux (Vigo), the Fortuner, and the Toyota Innova.
Toyota Motor North America headquarters is located in New York City and operates at a holding company level in North America. Its manufacturing headquarters is located in Hebron, Kentucky, and is known as Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, or TEMA.
Toyota has a large presence in the United States with five major assembly plants in Huntsville, Alabama; Georgetown, Kentucky; Princeton, Indiana; San Antonio, Texas; Buffalo, West Virginia. A new plant slated to be built in Blue Springs, Mississippi has been put on hold owing to the financial crisis that erupted in late 2008. Toyota had a joint-venture operation with General Motors at New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI), in Fremont, California, which began in 1984 and ended in 2009. It still has a joint-venture with Subaru at Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. (SIA), in Lafayette, Indiana, which started in 2006. Production on a new manufacturing plant in Tupelo, Mississippi was scheduled for completion in 2010 but is currently on indefinite hold. North America is a major automobile market for Toyota. In these assembly plants, the Camry and the Tundra are manufactured, among others.
Worldwide sales of hybrid vehicles produced by Toyota reached 1.0 million vehicles by May 31, 2007, and the 2.0 million mark was reached by August 31, 2009, with hybrids sold in 50 countries. Toyota's hybrid sales are led by the Prius, with worldwide cumulative sales of 1.43 million by August 2009. Toyota's CEO has committed to eventually making every car of the company a hybrid vehicle.
On June 5, 2008, A123Systems announced that its Hymotion plug-in hybrid conversion kits for the Prius would be installed by six dealers, including four Toyota dealerships: Westboro Toyota in Boston, Fitzgerald Toyota in Washington D.C., Toyota of Hollywood in Los Angeles, and Madison Wisconsin-based Smart Motors.
Toyota is speeding up the development of vehicles that run only on electricity with the aim of mass-producing them in the early part of the next decade. Road tests for the current prototype, called "e-com", had ended in 2006.
The Tundra is a full-size pickup truck sold by Toyota that originally went into production in 1999 for the 2000 US model year. As of early 2010, the Tundra has captured 16 percent of the full-size half-ton market in the US.
The all new Tundra is assembled in San Antonio, Texas, US, while the Crew Max is assembled in Mooreland, Indiana, US. Toyota Motor Corporation assembled around 150,000 Standard and Double Cabs, and only 70,000 Crew Max's in 2007.
In addition to the Tundra, Toyota also produces the Tacoma, with a smaller body and smaller engine than its bigger brother. The Tacoma is also produced at the company's San Antonio facility.
Outside the United States, Toyota produces the Hilux in Standard and double cab, gasoline and diesel engine, 2WD and 4WD versions. The BBC's Top Gear TV show featured 2 episodes of a Hilux that was virtually indestructible.
Toyota has been involved in many global motorsports series. They also represent their Lexus brand in other sports car racing categories. Toyota also makes engines and other auto parts for other Japanese motorsports including formula Nippon,Super GT, formula 3 and formula Toyota series. Toyota also runs a driver development programme known as TDP (Toyota Young Drivers Program) which they made for funding and educating future Japanese motorsports talent. Toyota Motorsport GmbH, with and headquarters in Cologne, Germany) was previously responsible for Toyota's major motorsports development including Formula One. Toyota Motorsport GmbH also developed cars for World Rally Championship and Le Mans Series. Toyota enjoyed success in all these motorsports categories. In 2002, Toyota entered Formula One as a constructor and engine supplier, however despite having experienced drivers and a larger budget than many other teams, they failed to match their success in other categories, with five second places their best results. On 4 November 2009 Toyota announced they were pulling out of the sport due to the global economic situation.
Toyota Racing Development was brought about to help develop true high performance racing parts for many Toyota vehicles. TRD has often had much success with their after market tuning parts, as well as designing technology for vehicles used in all forms of racing.TRD is also responsible for Toyota's involvement in NASCAR motorsports.
In 2004, Toyota showcased its trumpet-playing robot. Toyota has been developing multitask robots destined for elderly care, manufacturing, and entertainment. A specific example of Toyota's involvement in robotics for the elderly is the Brain Machine Interface. Designed for use with wheelchairs, it "allows a person to control an electric wheelchair accurately, almost in real-time", with his mind. The thought controls allow the wheelchair to go left, right and forward with a delay between thought and movement of just 125 milliseconds.
In 2007, Toyota's Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) fleet average of 26.69 mpg-US (8.813 L/100 km; 32.05 mpg-imp) exceeded all other major manufactures selling cars within the United States. Only Lotus Cars which sold the Elise and Exige powered by Toyota's 2ZZ-GE engine did better with an average of 30.2 mpg-US (7.79 L/100 km; 36.3 mpg-imp). In recent years, there has been some competition between Toyota, General Motors and Volkswagen for the unofficial title of 'worlds largest automaker' by sales volume.
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Toyota is a city in Aichi in Japan, close to Nagoya. Toyota is - unsurprisingly - the seat of the headquarter of the namesake car company and several car factories.
It was in fact named after the car company (and not the other way round).
Toyota is rather difficult to reach by public transport. Despite being close to the Tokaido-Shinkansen, it has no Shinkansen station, and it does not even have direct connections to nearby Shinkansen stations. The closest Shinkansen stations are Toyohashi, Mikawa-Anjo and Nagoya, with Nagoya having the fastest connections to Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka. Toyota's main train station is called Toyota-shi, and approximately one hour from any of the Shinkansen stations, requiring changing trains at least once.
The most direct route to Toyota city is to take the JR Chuo Line from Nagoya city to Kozoji. Change to the Aichi Loop Line and take that to Toyota. Be warned that the Aichi Line only runs about once or twice an hour.
Toyota is, untypical for Japan, a car city with a very good road network and very sparse public transportation.
There is a really nice bridge that looks like it is constructed out of dinosaur bones. It makes for some interesting pictures and a nice stroll in the afternoon.
Rickey's (on the 1st floor of the multi-purpose Vits building 100 m south of Toyotashi station, open until 2AM) is the only Western pub in town, and as such usually well-frequented by locals and Toyota expats from all over the world.
(uncountable) The Toyota Motor Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer of cars.
(countable) A brand of car manufactured by Toyota.
トヨタ: Toyota Motor Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer of cars.
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) (In Japanese: トヨタ自動車株式会社; Toyota Jidōsha Kabushikigaisha) (TYO: 7203.T), (NYSE: TM), (LSE: TYT), is an automobile maker in Japan. It is based in Toyota, Aichi. Toyota provides financial services and works with many other kinds of business as well. It makes cars and trucks under the brand names Toyota, Hino Truck, Scion and Lexus. The company owns most of Daihatsu. Toyota automobiles are well-known for lasting a very long time. Their North American offices are in Torrance, California. The Calty Design Center, a place where Toyota cars are designed is in Newport Beach, California and there is a factory in Georgetown, Kentucky. Another factory that is run by both Toyota and General Motors is in Fremont, California. It is called "NUMMI," or New United Motor Manufacturing Incorporated.
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I see what you mean that if the 'finished' version of one is later the 'original' is later too, but that pre-supposes that the two have no common 'original'. That would mean that pieces with similar moves in similar positions were created independently in India and China. Most contributors (apparently including yourself) consider this unlikely.
I have already acknowledged that FIDE Chess is a bigger change from Chaturanga than post-Cannon Xiang Qi is from pre-Cannon Xiang Qi, but I do not see it following that the game that needed more change had already been greatly changed from another game. Surely it is more likely that the game that needed less change was the one that had the most prior change.
To call Xiang Qi an improvement on Chaturanga is not to put down China compared to Europe, which also improved on Chaturanga. To call Chaturanga a worsening of Xiang Qi is to say that India cannot even improve a game, let alone create one from scratch. Why should anyone change a game to make it worse? Repositioning pieeces to 'make them work properly' seems far more likely than repositioning pieces that already work properly so that they do not.
A better argument for Chatruranga being derived from Xiang Qi is the Pawn, which does look like an improvement. I concede that this strengthens the case for Chaturanga being derived from Xiang Qi, as does your evidence of pre-pre-Cannon Xiang Qi. How did you find out about that game? On the other hand, does anyone know whether there was a pre-Pawn Chaturanga with a front rank more like Xiang Qi or Shogi? I have read discussions on the Rook having a precursor (the Dabbaba - and where would that come from in a Chinese-origin theory) but never the Pawn.
| 2019-04-23T00:27:35 |
https://www.chessvariants.com/index/listcomments.php?id=28312
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Growth Why should a toothbrush last forever?
Why should a toothbrush last forever?
It began with an e-mail from an eight-year-old boy who liked a product called Kid's Floss, and asked the manufacturer a simple question: "Isn't there a way to make it with less plastic?"
That query sent the owners of Locin Industries Ltd., a Vancouver-based maker and distributor of personal care products, on a four year journey to offer North Americans a way to reduce the volume of plastic that ends up in landfills, lakes and oceans. EcoBrushes and EcoFlossers are biodegradable and their handles are made from a mix of corn, wheat, tapioca and potatoes that is designed to decompose into organic material.
"There was something about getting that question from someone under the age of 10 and having to come up with an answer," recalls Jane Nicol, marketing director of Clean Idea, a unit of Locin. "It was certainly motivating."
A family-owned business owned by Ms. Nicol and her sister, Sue Collins, and co-managed with their respective spouses, Brad Collins and Andrew Horembala, the company began pursuing the idea after Mr. Collins read about advances in consumer-products packaging in the form of biodegradable films for wrapping foods and vegetable-based containers.
"I thought, 'Gee, wouldn't it be great if we could use something like that for our oral care products?'" recalls Mr. Collins, who is vice-president in charge of manufacturing. "That's when the work began."
Finding materials that would be durable and not break down (nor disintegrate in someone's mouth) took more than two years. "We had to make sure the toothbrush would accept the bristles and wouldn't break," says Mr. Collins. "They had to be able to run through the machines properly, that sort of thing."
After scouring the market, Clean Idea invested in manufacturing technology from the United States and sourced the raw materials in that market and Canada. Mr. Collins won't say how much the firm spent on research and development, except that it was "a lot. But we saw it as an investment in our future.
"We didn't think we'd make millions of dollars," says Mr. Collins. "But we would like to lead the trend. Most consumer-products companies will slowly but surely start greening their sourcing and manufacturing methods. We'd like to be at the forefront and set our feet in the right direction for the planet."
Since last fall, EcoBrushes and EcoFlossers have been available at Shoppers Drug Mart, London Drugs, Care in Store and, in the U.S., Amazon.com. The products, which are manufactured in Taiwan, are also distributed to dentists by wholesalers.
Other hybrid products on the market are made with a mixture of petroleum plastic with an additive so they will break down faster than regular brushes. "But our product does not utilize petroleum plastic," says Mr. Collins.
While the bristles must be made of plastic to meet dentists' specifications, the toothbrush handle will decompose in several months. The handle that holds the dental floss will also decompose, although the floss itself will not. In a commercial composter, the pellets that are used as raw material in the handles will break down in about 180 days. "But in the finished form it will take longer," admits Ms. Nicol.
"What it is made of, and will turn into, is always better than petroleum plastic products," says Mr. Collins. Adds Ms. Nicol: "They will never disappear. They're permanent."
While plastic is cheap, it is also virtually indestructible. Canadians toss out an estimated 100 million toothbrushes annually.
"A toothbrush needs to last the life of the product," says Ms. Nicol. "It doesn't need to last forever."
Research on the effects of plastic leaching into water and food was one of the motivating factors for the company. "Certain things such as BPA (bisphenol A), phthalates and estrogen-mimicking chemicals are affecting flora and fauna. Even before they break down, there are nasty environmental impacts," says Mr. Collins.
With the proliferation of so-called "green" products, it's not surprising that some consumers have become cynical. "Consumers want a product that really works," says Mr. Collins. "And they may be prepared to pay a little more for a green product, but not a lot more, especially in these times."
Thus far, Locin's Clean Idea has sold several hundred thousand EcoBrushes. "Our toothbrushes are priced right. They're priced head-to-head with leading brands and maybe even under them," says Mr. Collins, adding that the brushes retail for about $2.99. "Once they give it a try, they will stick with it."
EcoBrushes has turned into an opportunity to get into a new product line and put Clean Idea head-to-head against bigger, established manufacturers such as Colgate-Palmolive, Procter & Gamble (makers of Oral-B brushes) and Johnson & Johnson (Reach). Until their introduction, the firm earned its revenue from non-Canadian made beauty products and over-the-counter cough and cold remedies.
Now the products have become part of the company's mission to position itself in the greening of the consumer products market. "There is a sea change happening," says Ms. Nicol. "Consumers look at everything from the packaging to the shopping bags they carry. You can see it at the checkout. People are bringing their own bags. Who would have thought that could happen 10 years ago? But it did."
While the firm is a niche player in a big industry, Ms. Nicol is confident that it can differentiate itself and be a model for other small companies. "We have this point of difference, but they [large competitors]haven't made that change," says Ms. Nicol, adding that Clean Idea's target is 1 per cent of the toothbrush market.
"It's one of those times when it's an advantage to be a small company," she adds. "We are fairly agile and can make decisions quickly."
| 2019-04-23T02:31:47 |
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-growth/why-should-a-toothbrush-last-forever/article4260658/
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Bob Greenberger is a writer and editor.
Quite often when I am at conventions, fans tend to be complimentary (or silent) about my work. I rarely get into interest, constructively critical conversations. I get such little feedback, I miss that sort of give and take. As a result, my work has never been influenced through fan interaction.
Through the years it's fascinating to run into people who recall I ran a letter of theirs in a comic book or gave an office to when they were younger. The most interesting of those may be a chance encounter with Marc Guggenheim, now producing Arrow and The Flash for the CW, who recalls seeing me give library talks on Long Island back in the 1980s.
I am a voracious reader, always wanting to read the next work from someone I like or someone I've been meaning to sample. As a result, I do not allow myself the time to reread works much as I should since I am a far different person than the teen who first read Asimov or Tolkien. No one author, therefore, can claim the mantle of chief influencer.
Great question. It would have to be someone widely read and fascinating to have a discussion with. My first two thoughts would be Isaac Asimov or Groucho Marx.
Urm, someone narrow minded with a limited world view. It might come down to someone like Iraq's Al-Maliki.
A well-stocked iPad with tons of books, obviously. A supply of peanut M&Ms and my Mets cap.
The satisfaction of a job well done, with evidence of growth from the previous assignment.
For me the author or what I hope for the reader to achieve? In the case of the former, I have a broad range of interests so I like being able to delve into subjects, do the research, and synthesize it for the target audience. In terms of fiction, telling a good story that entertains. For the reader, I hope they learn something they didn't previously know and feel their time was not wasted.
Born: July 24, 1958, 5:30 a.m. EST in Brooklyn, NY.
Resides: Live in Maryland, teaching high school English at Owings Mills High School.
Over the last thirty years I have written predominantly for the media tie-in market, notably the Star Trek franchise, along with Iron Man, Batman, After Earth, Zorro, and many others. I have written a smattering of comic book stories, from Superman to Scooby-Doo. My novelization of Hellboy II: The Golden Army won the Scribe Award for Best Novelization. My nonfiction work ranges from young adult historic works to The Essential Batman Encyclopedia.
| 2019-04-24T04:59:17 |
http://festivale.info/questions/robert_greenberger2.htm
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Did medieval scholars argue over how many angels could dance on the head of a pin?
When people want to express total pointlessness, they sometimes say a thing is as silly as "arguing over how many angels could dance on the head of a pin." This argument is supposed to have taken place between Byzantine theologians or medieval scholars, or somebody. But I'm beginning to think the fathers (and mothers) of the church are getting a bad rap. Try as I might, I can't find any source that identifies when this argument took place, who discussed it, and what they said. Did this arcane debate really occur, or is this a case of ecclesiastical leg-pulling?
I see from your letterhead that you’re a minister, Dave. What’s the matter, you couldn’t query the home office?
Let’s get a couple things straight. First, you’re misquoting the saying in question. According to unimpeachable sources, it’s not how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, it’s how many can do it on the point of a needle — which, of course, makes more sense. Second, the earliest citation I can find is from a book by Ralph Cudworth in the 17th century, which is suspiciously late in the day.
Insight on this question is provided by Isaac D’Israeli (1766-1848), the father of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli. Isaac was an amateur scholar who published a series of books called Curiosities of Literature (the first volume appeared in 1791), which were quite popular in their day. D’Israeli lampooned the Scholastic philosophers of the late Middle Ages, notably Thomas Aquinas (c. 1224-1274), who was famous for debating metaphysical fine points.
Aquinas wrote several ponderous philosophical tomes, the most famous of which was called Summa Theologica, “summary of theology.” It contained, among other things, several dozen propositions on the nature of angels, which Thomas attempted to work out by process of pure reason. The results were pretty tortured, and to later generations of hipper-than-thou know-it-alls, they seemed a classic example of good brainpower put to nonsensical ends.
For example, D’Israeli writes, “Aquinas could gravely debate, Whether Christ was not an hermaphrodite [and] whether there are excrements in Paradise.” He might also have mentioned such Thomistic puzzlers as whether the hair and nails will grow following the Resurrection, and whether or not said Resurrection will take place at night.
Not to drag this out, but you see what’s going on: wise guys at work. All the items quoted above are burlesques of actual treatises in Aquinas’s Summa. Fact is, Aquinas did debate whether an angel moving from A to B passes through the points in between, and whether one could distinguish “morning” and “evening” knowledge in angels. (He was referring to an abstruse concept having to do with the dawn and twilight of creation.) Finally, he inquired whether several angels could be in the same place at once, which of course is the dancing-on-a-pin question less comically stated. (Tom’s answer: no.) So the answer to your question is yes, medieval theologians did get into some pretty weird arguments, if not quite as weird as they were later portrayed.
| 2019-04-21T11:44:52 |
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1008/did-medieval-scholars-argue-over-how-many-angels-could-dance-on-the-head-of-a-pin/
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Q: I work at a pediatric practice, and we receive a lot of holiday cards from our patients, many of which feature family photos. We hang them up because the patients love to see themselves displayed in our lobby. We have reached out to a HIPAA security officer at a nearby hospital who told us it is not a HIPAA violation to display holiday cards received from patients. Is this accurate?
Small- to medium-size clinics often operate under the assumption that their outsourced IT shop or managed services provider (MSP) is providing a robust security solution, but this is not always the case. MSPs aren't necessarily falling down on the job, though; remember that just because something is outsourced doesn't mean the vendor will manage all of the risk. In the end, if you want additional services from your MSP, it costs money. RapidFire Tools® offers a solution MSPs can use to address risks that many small- to medium-size clinics may falsely assume are already managed.
Privacy and information security programs in healthcare organizations have developed and matured to meet the requirements of HIPAA and other federal and state laws. In some organizations, providers and managers struggle to keep pace with the changes. Expanded focus on EHR technology and new threats to the security of personally identifiable information (e.g., healthcare, financial, educational, employment) will further affect privacy and information security programs in the future.
| 2019-04-23T07:59:21 |
https://revenuecycleadvisor.com/archives?pub=279&volume=14&issue=11
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Who was Lisa Lynn Masters, the Gossip Girl and Ugly Betty actress who has killed herself in Peru?
A TRAGIC actress who starred in Gossip Girl and Ugly Betty has killed herself during a modelling trip to Peru.
Hotel workers found Lisa Lynn Masters dead inside her room at the Nuevo Mundo hotel in Lima just before midnight on Thursday.
The 52-year-old actress, who had been battling depression, was found hanged inside the room’s wardrobe, police said.
Two letters were found in her room which discussed her mental health issues, as well as Diazepam and anti-depressants.
Who was the tragic actress? Here's what we know so far.
Lisa was born in Nebraska but grew up in North Carolina.
She became a news reporter after graduating from Appalachian State University in Broadcasting with a minor in Modern Dance.
Lisa later moved to New York to model and attended Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism to earn her Masters Degree.
She abandoned her pursuit of news journalism and instead took a career in acting and writing.
What did Lisa Lynn Masters star in?
The actress started her career after being cast as a reporter in The Siege in 1998 starring Bruce Willis and Denzel Washington.
Her scenes were later edited out the movie but undeterred she went on to appear as a quirky museum curator in Ugly Betty.
Lisa also played Carol Wainwright in The Stepford Wives alongside Nicole Kidman and had a role in Gossip Girl and Law and Order.
She was also in over 30 commercials and played a doctor on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
Was Lisa Lynn Masters married?
The model and actress wed New York-based healing arts practitioner William Brooks in March 2004.
Friends have set up a GoFundMe page to raise cash to bring her body back to the United States, as well as to pay for funeral expenses.
The money raised on the page will also help to support her husband.
The page reads: “Our dear friend Lisa Masters passed away tragically and unexpectedly,’ Mason wrote in a post on the page.
“Lisa’s genuine warmth, generosity and tenacious strength will be deeply missed.
"Lisa’s beloved husband William is shocked and grieving her sudden loss.
"In the midst of this mourning, William faces daunting financial challenges, including the substantial funeral and transport expenses for Lisa in and between Peru and the United States."
How did Lisa Lynn Masters die?
The 52-year-old was on a modelling job in Peru when she was found hanged inside her wardrobe at the Nuevo Mundo hotel in Lima.
Lisa had been suffering with depression prior to her death on Tuesday.
Officers said they had found anti-depressants, Diazepam and two letters which revealed her mental health issues in her hotel room.
Investigations are currently being coordinated with the embassy, Peru21 reports.
FREEZE FRAME What is the Mannequin Challenge, how did it start and who has done it?
| 2019-04-18T10:47:40 |
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2212015/who-was-lisa-lynn-masters/
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Or... Could a built-in "help" system be knowledge management?
The Act-KM group has been talking about Microsoft's infamous Clippy and how the MS Office and other "help" systems potentially relates to knowledge management.
Most people love to complain about Clippy, and I am happy to join in the fight on that front. Primarily, he is intrusive when I don't want him, and of no use when I really need help. On the other side, Clippy usually appears with context-specific assistance, geared toward getting me through a specific task.
As with many expert users, I turn off this kind of non-expert help and head for the F1 key when I am uncertain on how to do some arcane function. On the other hand, when I am a novice at something (like bookkeeping for my company), I find help systems incredibly frustrating because I don't know the terminology in the program. And in the case of bookkeeping, I don't even know the terminology of the profession.
But knowledge management? In an ideal world, a KM system gives you what you need, when you need it, and in a language that makes sense in your world. The "what you need" might be information in the form of a "how to," but it also might be references to related materials or even to people who might be able to help. Yes, this is all information, but if it fits with what you need, it leads to knowledge to get the job done.
Of course, people have been looking for this holy grail of tools for quite a while. Maybe we'll have the capability someday to turn F1 into an intelligent tool that supports knowledge management. For now, it is the realm of fiction (Snow Crash) and vision (Apple's Knowledge Navigator).
| 2019-04-23T20:09:53 |
https://www.jackvinson.com/blog/2006/09/06/f1-as-the-knowledge-management-key
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Can a Muslim inherit from a kaafir relative when he dies, or vice-versa? What do the Muslims say about people of different religions (other than Islam) inheriting from one another?
Difference of religion is one of the factors which prevent inheritance. A kaafir cannot inherit from a Muslim, according to scholarly consensus, and a Muslim cannot inherit from a kaafir, because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: A Muslim does not inherit from a kaafir and a kaafir does not inherit from a Muslim. (Reported by al-Bukhaari, 6262).
If a kaafir becomes Muslim before the legacy is shared out, then according to Imaam Ahmad he is allowed to inherit, to encourage him in his Islam. As regards the kuffaar inheriting from one another, according to Imaam Abu Haneefah and Imaam al-Shaafa'i, and according to one opinion narrated from Ahmad, they can inherit from one another even if they belong to different religions, because Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): And those who disbelieve are allies to one another [al-Anfaal 8:73], and because despite the differences in their religions and sects, they are as one in their enmity towards the Muslims.
| 2019-04-18T11:14:14 |
https://islamqa.info/en/answers/2815/difference-of-religion-and-its-effect-on-inheritance
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What can we learn from Liberal Arts and Sciences alumni?
A recent study on Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) alumni, conducted by the University College Deans Network in cooperation with ROA, revealed interesting trends. In this text, I will summarise the most important findings of this study and will ideally help students appreciate the LAS education more by providing an insight into what the future holds for a University College graduate.
LAS programs are known for their depth and width, their focus on academics meanwhile facilitating community involvement and allowing students to develop their diverse interests. Three main aspects which alumni value the most are the interdisciplinarity, the level of the academic program and its quality. In fact, 90% of the alumni were so satisfied with the LAS education that, in retrospect, if they were given the opportunity to have completed another bachelor’s degree, they would not. LAS prepares us for further education through the challenging workload and provides us with essential skills. Alumni have stated that excellent academic skills and intellectual curiosity, reflexivity and an open mind were the key two skills they have taken away from their education and used most often in their current workspace. This goes to show that current students should value this program and the possibility to gain deep knowledge in diverse subjects more.
During the LAS education students are exposed to different backgrounds and nationalities enabling people to engage with one another and learn while doing so. Through this, 74% of alumni established a valuable network during their studies, mostly benefitting from it socially but partly also professionally. Taking this as an indication, it would be advisable to start socializing and networking as your fellow pupils will specialize in many different topics, meaning that you will have contacts in a plethora of academic disciplines.
After having completed the LAS bachelor, 89% of alumni continued their education by completing a master. Astonishingly, less than one third indicated that a University College helped them (to a very large extent) in finding a suitable master. However, we can notice that University Colleges are trying to better themselves in this sector by providing information sessions in partnership with companies and other universities. Nonetheless, a majority of alumni have attended or are attending highly ranked universities, but interestingly enough, alumni that have finished their master’s education already, compared to those that are still studying, have attended a larger amount of the top 100 universities (ranked by the Times Higher Education). Compared to this difference, a common trend that has arisen over the years is that specializations are beginning to spread out and cover a wider range of fields, but the top three interests for further education still lie with law, psychology and international relations.
However the process of getting into a master’s degree can be tricky for some. Meanwhile most of the LAS alumni get directly accepted to their educational program, some have to fulfill certain prerequisites. For example, currently 9% of alumni are completing a pre-master program and 25% of alumni were asked to take an extra course. In this case, it would be interesting to see if there is a field which predominantly expects students to take a pre-master or additional course, as this information might affect current LAS students and their decision-making when considering future master programs. Furthermore, it is common knowledge that most alumni find such courses “easy,” which indicates that the University Colleges and we as the UCSRN need to work on the recognition of our degree, as evidently students would not need such a pre-course.
The majority of alumni (93%) are currently working for an employer, as a freelancer, own their own company or have a Ph.D. contract. Most of them have spread around the country and the globe, as a majority of alumni can be found in the Netherlands, Germany, the U.K. and the U.S.. Those employees, which makes up the largest sum of our alumni, are employed in the research related sector or hold an advisory position. Maybe some of the current LAS students now feel inspired to take additional statistics and research method related courses. This might be further motivated when we address the issue of income: when entering the job market most alumni make less than 2.000€ a month, but there is hope. Alumni who have graduated more than five years ago, at present, receive a monthly income of at least 4.000€.
Ultimately, as an LAS student our future looks fruitful and exciting. We built our own paths, created a network of international scholars and pupils, and got to develop invaluable skills needed to have a bright future.
| 2019-04-22T02:31:31 |
https://ucsrn.nl/2018/10/15/uc-las-alumni-survey-reflection/
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Step 1: Prepare the shrimp and marinade: Rinse the shrimp under cold running water, then drain them and blot dry with paper towels.
Step 2: Combine the scallions, ginger, garlic, Scotch bonnet, soy sauce, 2 tablespoons of honey, and the peanut oil in a large bowl and whisk to mix. Add the shrimp, tossing to coat. Let the shrimp marinate in the refrigerator, covered, for 1 hour.
Step 3: While the shrimp marinates, prepare the sugarcane skewers: Using a long sharp knife, cut the sugarcane swizzle sticks into 3-inch lengths, slicing them sharply on the diagonal to make a sharp point. You will need one skewer for each shrimp.
Step 4: Make the rum glaze: Combine the 1/3 cup of rum, the tomato paste, brown sugar, 1 tablespoon of honey, lime juice, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, Tabasco sauce, allspice, and cloves in a small heavy saucepan and bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring until blended and the sugar melts. Reduce the heat to medium and let simmer until a syrupy glaze forms, 3 to 5 minutes. Remove the rum glaze from the heat, stir in the remaining 1 tablespoon of rum, and season with salt and pepper to taste.
Step 5: Remove the shrimp from the marinade and discard the marinade. Using a metal skewer, make a “starter” hole in each shrimp. Thread one shrimp on each sugarcane skewer, starting with the pointed end.
Step 6: Set up the grill for direct grilling and preheat to high.
Step 7: When ready to cook, brush and oil the grill grate. Arrange the shrimp on the hot grate and grill, turning with tongs, until nicely browned on the outside and firm and pink inside, about 2 minutes per side. Brush the shrimp with the rum glaze as they cook.
Step 8: Transfer the shrimp to serving plates or a platter. Spoon any remaining rum glaze over the shrimp and serve at once.
| 2019-04-23T09:28:14 |
https://barbecuebible.com/recipe/shrimp-grilled-on-sugarcane-with-dark-rum-glaze/
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Misbah - Pakistan's most Successful Test Captain?
This second test against Australia being played in Abu Dhabi is Misbah's 31st test as captain of Pakistan, which puts him level with Inzamam as the third most capped test captain of Pakistan.
Only Javed Miandad (34) and Imran Khan (48) have captained Pakistan in more test matches than Misbah has.
Both, Miandad and Imran are also Pakistan's most successful test captains with 14 test wins apiece.
The last test win over Australia was Misbah's 13th test win as captain.
That is quite an achievement considering that Miandad and Imran are Pakistan's most successful test captains in Pakistan's history.
With the amount of criticism that Misbah receives, it will be quite a slap on the critics faces when he ranks alongside both Miandad and Imran as Pakistan's most successful test captain.
With the ongoing test match against Australia being played and another three to be played against New Zealand next month, Misbah could well become Pakistan's most successful test captain before the end of the year!
What is interesting to note is that Misbah has won a greater percentage of tests as captain than Miandad and Imran did. However, Wasim Akram is the more successful test captain in terms of % wins, winning 48% of his tests as captain of Pakistan.
Misbah has also lost a greater % of tests as compared to Miandad and Imran, however that could also have to do with the higher number of tests that used to end in draws during the 80s.
Miandad, Imran, and Akram also rank above Misbah in terms of W/L ratio in tests as Pakistan captain.
I won't be surprised, however, if Misbah improves on those aspects, i.e. % wins and W/L, considering the way Pakistan are playing and that they face New Zealand in the UAE next.
I have been completely against Misbah as Pakistan's ODI captain. However, I have always maintained that he is the right man to lead Pakistan in test matches, and achieving this record, which may happen as soon as in the next 4 days, will be one huge feather in Misbah's cap.
| 2019-04-18T10:52:31 |
http://www.wellpitched.com/2014/10/misbah-pakistans-most-successful-test.html
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Is Michael Bivins Gay ?
Michael Lamont Bivins is a singer, rapper and occasional actor, best known as the founding member of the R&B group New Edition and the hip hop group Bell Biv DeVoe. He is CEO of his own label Sporty Rich Enterprises. He manages and produces for MC Brains, Boyz II Men, Another Bad Creation and 702. He is the son of Shirley and Gerard Bivins.
Michael Lamont Bivins was born on 10th August 1968 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He holds an American nationality and belongs to black ethnicity.
Bivins is a pop singer and rapper as well as a founding member of 'New Edition' and 'Bell Biv DeVoe'.
Michael is one of the founding members of 'New Edition' as well as 'Bell Biv DeVoe' with Ricky Bell and Ronnie DeVoe. The group is credited with being one of the pioneers of the new jack swing sound. In 1990, their debut album named 'Poison ' peaked at number five on the Billboard 200 chart.
Michael also discovers, manages, and produces for Another Bad Creation, MC Brains, Boyz II Men, and 702, all of them were signed to his Motown distributed label Biv 10 Records.
In 2006, Michael worked in the basketball film 'Crossover' in the character of Heart Attack. He also manages Artist Development at Making the Band 4 and CEO and founder of 'Sporty Rich Enterprises'.
Michael is also a television and movie personality and has his own label called 'Sporty Rich Enterprises'. He won ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards for Most Performed Songs.
Michael stands at the height of 5 feet 5 inches. He is one of the successful singers who has an estimated net worth amount of nearly $40 million. He is also the founder of the R&B pop group New Edition.
Concerning about Michael personal marital and girlfriend status, Bivins is married to Teasha Bivins, the CEO of Bivins Reality Group and Lifestyle.
The couple dated for a couple of years and turned the love relation into marital relationships. The couple has seven kids, Michael Bivins Jr., Savi Bivins, Shi Bivins, Star Bivins and the name of his other children is unknown.
She is the first and current wife of Michael. Details about their marriage are kept out of media's reach. They are often spotted together at various events and functions.
SON : Michael Bivins, Jr.
He is one of Michael's son, who was born safe and sound.
She was born healthy. Her images can be viewed on the internet.
She is one of Michael's daughter, who loves to dance with her parents.
She was born safe and healthy. Her date of birth is unknown.
| 2019-04-24T17:52:32 |
https://marriedwiki.com/wiki/michael-bivins
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If your system is no longer bootable due to a virus attack or for some other reason (e.g. after you change SATA controller mode in BIOS or Motherboard) then you have to use an offline registry editor to make the appropriate modifications in Windows registry in order to boot Windows normally. This article contains detailed instructions on how to load and edit Windows registry without booting to Windows (Unbootable Windows system).
To modify Registry offline you need an OFFLINE registry Editor. For this task, I prefer to use two offline registry editors. One of them can be found in the Windows Recovery Environment on any Windows 7 or Windows Vista installation DVD and the other can be found on the Hiren's boot CD. So let's start.
Method 2: Offline Modify Registry using Hiren's BOOTCD.
Method 1: Modify Registry OFFLINE using Windows Installation DVD.
1. Place the Windows Installation DVD on your CD/DVD drive and boot your computer from the Windows installation DVD.
Power On your computer and press "DEL" or "F1" or "F2" or "F10" to enter BIOS (CMOS) setup utility.
(The way to enter into BIOS Settings depends on the computer manufacturer).
Inside BIOS menu, find the "Boot Order" setting.
(This setting is commonly found inside "Advanced BIOS Features" menu).
At “Boot Order” setting, set the CD/DVDRW device as the first boot device.
Save and exit from BIOS settings.
2. At the first screen press Next.
3. At the next screen, select "Repair your computer".
4. At System Recovery Options (1st screen) click Next.
5. At Choose a recovery tool screen, choose Command Prompt.
6. At command window, type "regedit" (without quotes) & press Enter.
7. Highlight the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key.
8. From File menu, select Load Hive to load the offline registry file you need.
9. Then type a Key Name for the offline registry database (e.g. "Offline") and press OK.
10. Now under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key, you should have a new key, named after the name you typed previously (e.g. 'Offline" in this example).
11. Now perform all the modifications you want under this key. When you finish with the modifications, highlight the key you created previously (e.g. the "Offline"key ) and from the File menu, choose Unload Hive to write back the changes you made to the offline Registry.
12. Close the Registry editor, the Command prompt window and Restart the computer.
13. Remove the Windows Installation DVD from the CD/DVD drive and let Windows start normally.
Method 2: Modify Registry OFFLINE using Hiren's BOOTCD.
2. When the Download is complete, right-click on “Hirens.BootCD.15.2.zip” file to extract it.
Step 2: Burn Hirens BootCD into an optical disk.
Note: If you don't have a CD/DVD drive on your computer (e.g. if you own a netbook) then follow this guide: How to put Hirens BootCD into a USB stick.
1. In “Hirens.BootCD.15.2” folder, find the “Hiren's.BootCD.15.2.ISO” disc Image file and burn it to a CD.
Step 3: Boot with Hirens.BootCD.
At “Boot Order” setting, set the CD-ROM drive as first boot device.
2. Put the Hirens Boot CD on the infected computer's CD/DVD drive in order to boot from it.
3. When the "Hiren’s BootCD” menu appears on your screen, use your keyboard arrows keys to highlight the “Mini Windows Xp” option and then press "ENTER"
Step 4. Modify Remote Registry.
1. From “Mini Windows XP” desktop, double-click at HBCD menu icon.
2. From Programs menu, select Registry > Registry Editor PE.
3. At Browse for folder screen, select the Windows directory where Windows are installed in (usually "C:\Windows") and choose OK.
4. Select the related registry hive in each window appears on the screen and then press Open. (You have to do that for all registry hives: SAM, SYSTEM, SOFTWARE & SECURITY).
5. If you want to edit a remote user profile (HKEY_CURRENT_USER) then you have to choose Yes at the following screen (otherwise select No).
7. If you want to select another remote profile to edit press Yes otherwise press No to continue.
8. At the Registry Editor PE's information window, press OK.
9. Double click to expand the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key and you should see four (4) folders marked with the _REMOTE_ prefix on their name. These _REMOTE_ keys contains the remote registry settings so expand them and make all the modifications you want.
10. In the same way you can edit the remote user profile settings, found under HKEY_USERS key, with the prefix _REMOTE_.
11. Finally when you finish with the modifications, close the registry editor and the modifications will be uploaded automatically to the remote registry.
The method 1 works for Windows 10?
Didnt get what to modify, you say "Now perform all the modifications you want under this key", bit what do I hace to modify? Thanks in avance!
@dakm: The tutorial only shows the way to offline modify the registry if you want to solve a problem relevant to registry. You should know the problem and what to modify in registry.
| 2019-04-24T10:01:12 |
https://www.wintips.org/how-to-edit-and-modify-registry-offline/
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Washington (CNN) - The Navy SEAL who says he shot and killed Osama bin Laden says he is worried the Pentagon might prosecute him for publicly telling his story of the May 2011 raid on the al Qaeda leader's compound in Pakistan.
But Robert O'Neill said the value of sharing the details of the mission for the families of the September 11, 2001, victims and military veterans killed in the ensuing wars makes that risk worthwhile.
"I think I did this in a way that doesn't violate any tactics or any rules," he said in an interview on CNN's "The Lead" with Jake Tapper.
Being prosecuted, he said, "does concern me, and if it comes up, I'll address it."
In his most extensive live television interview to date, O'Neill said he realized the power of his story while speaking with a group that included about 20 families of victims of the September 11 attacks. He said it was the first time he'd really spoken about the mission, and that men and women cried and told him "it was closure for them."
At that moment, he said, he realized the importance of sharing what he could - and that he needed to find a way to do so "with respect for the tactics, for the safety of our troops and for the Department of Defense."
Responding to criticisms from former administration officials and current servicemembers that he shouldn't be talking publicly, O'Neill said, "I think it's important historically for this to get out there."
"We were the end of a long, long time of grieving," he said. "We were everybody on that mission. You know, we were the Port Authority, the police department, the NYPD, the FDNY, we were the American people, the 9/11 families, and we were able to go there - and just that I was able to be a part of that is just the greatest honor that's ever been asked of me."
O'Neill described many of the details of the mission - and his preparation beforehand.
He said he was "about a 90 percent chance that we weren't going to come back." Among the possible threats: Pakistan's military, unaware of the mission, could shoot the two helicopters down. Bin Laden's house could be wired with explosives. Others in the house could be wearing suicide vests.
"The house getting blown up, possibly getting shot down, suicide bombers, and then possibly running out of gas was a concern," he said. "The chances of us not coming back were a lot greater than the chances we were coming back."
He said he called his family members beforehand - not offering details on what he was doing, but knowing that they'd soon find out no matter how the mission ended. He also wrote letters to his young children, only to be delivered if he didn't survive at a later date when, for instance, he wasn't there for their weddings.
After the mission started, O'Neill described landing outside bin Laden's compound on the second of two helicopters, after the first one had crash-landed. He said he was the eighth SEAL in line as they moved from the compound's first floor to its second.
On that floor, six ahead of him split off to take out bin Laden's son, clear other rooms and identify potential threats. He was now second in line headed to the third floor, where they expected to find bin Laden.
As the group reached the third floor, he said, the SEAL in front of him dove on top of an "unknown" person - it turned out to be a woman - to absorb what they feared could be a blast from a suicide vest. He said he thought "let's get this over with" as he entered the room expecting to be blown up by bin Laden.
That's when O'Neill identified the al Qaeda mastermind.
"I shot him twice in the head, he fell on the floor," he said. "I shot him one more time, and I killed him."
The magnitude of what he'd done didn't register immediately. O'Neill first worried about eliminating other potential threats - moving a woman and child out of the way, and then clearing the room.
"It wasn't until the room was cleared and there were more SEALs in the room that it kind of hit me. I had a moment of pause," he said.
A friend put his hand on O'Neill's shoulder.
"I said, 'Hey, what do we do now?'" O'Neill said. "He said, 'Now we go find the computers.' I said, 'OK, I'm back.'"
The 90-minute flight back to the U.S. air base in Afghanistan was stressful, too, as the SEALs counted down the time until they exited Pakistan's airspace.
Then, they could exhale. One SEAL laid next to bin Laden's body to measure his height - part of confirming his identity. The group hadn't brought a tape measure.
Later, O'Neill sat feet from bin Laden's body, eating a breakfast sandwich and watching a flat-screen television, while watching President Barack Obama announce to the world that the United States had killed bin Laden.
"I think," he told CNN, "I was part of a team full of heroes."
| 2019-04-26T16:33:59 |
http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2014/11/14/ex-seal-who-shot-bin-laden-tells-how-it-felt-to-kill-most-wanted-man-in-the-world/
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What Day Of The Week Was February 24, 2019?
February 24, 2019 was the 55th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 310 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.
| 2019-04-26T16:57:00 |
https://www.dayoftheweek.org/?m=February&d=24&y=2019&go=Go
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1. Cook quinoa according to package instructions.
2. In a large skillet over medium heat, add 1 Tbsp oil and 1 Tbsp doenjang paste. Add spinach to skillet, and cook until wilted.
3. In a large bowl, combine cooked quinoa, bean sprouts, sliced bamboo shoots, daikon radish, carrots, green onions and cooked, seasoned spinach.
4. In a small bowl, prepare vinaigrette by whisking together remaining oil, doenjang paste, soy sauce, seasoned rice wine vinegar, ginger and honey until they emulsify.
5. Add vinaigrette to quinoa mixture and toss until well coated.
6. Drizzle prepared Simple Gochujang Sauce over quinoa mixture.
| 2019-04-25T03:48:07 |
https://www.martinbros.com/recipes/recipedetail?id=414
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Proposer une durée de réparation??
The reed switch allows your laptop to automatically awake and sleep when opened and closed.
Use a coin to turn the battery locking screw 90 degrees to the right.
Remove the long black Phillips screw next to the memory card.
Remove the small EMI finger beneath the black screw.
On the keyboard, remove the F1, F2, F11, and F12 keys.
This is scary - take a deep breath before continuing. Place your index finger under the upper left corner of the key and lift up until you hear a click. Then, transfer your finger to the left edge of the key and lift up to pull the key off.
You're freeing the two tabs on the left of the key from the two small holes in the plastic scissors mechanism.
When replacing the keys in the keyboard, place the key directly over the slot where it will go and press down until you hear the key click into place.
Use your fingernail or a small flathead screwdriver to peel up the gray stickers covering each of the screws.
Remove the two short Phillips screws.
Lift the keyboard by the 'esc' and 'eject' keys and gently lift up until the keyboard is vertical.
Grasp the keyboard connector ribbon near the connector and disconnect it from the logic board.
Remove the three small Phillips screws from within the battery compartment.
Turn the computer 90 degrees clockwise and remove the two medium-length Phillips screws from the casing.
Turn the computer 90 degrees clockwise again, and remove only the bottom screw on either side of the hinge.
Turn the computer 90 degrees clockwise just one more time, and remove the two Phillips screws on the exterior wall of the battery compartment.
Remember these two screws are longer and have shoulders.
Turn the computer over and open it up.
Six 2.5 mm Phillips on either side of the keyboard area.
Five 4.5 mm Phillips on the left half of the keyboard area.
One 7 mm hex in the upper left corner of the upper case (a T6 Torx driver will do the job nicely).
One 15 mm Phillips in the upper middle of the keyboard area.
One 16.5 mm hex in the upper right of the upper case (again, a T6 Torx driver will work well).
Peel up the two pieces of foil tape on the left side of the keyboard area.
The connectors at the ends of the cables are attached very firmly to the sockets on the logic board. Pulling directly on the cable will either separate the cable from its connector or the socket from the logic board.
Carefully disconnect the microphone and power cables from the logic board. Using your fingernails or a dental pick, carefully pry the connectors from their sockets. Make sure you're pulling only on the connector and not on the socket.
Use the orange plastic loop to disconnect the trackpad cable.
Starting at one of the upper corners near the screen, work around the frame, separating the upper case from the lower case.
Lift the upper case off the computer.
Remove the single Phillips screw from the reed switch board on the right side of the computer.
Deroute the cable connecting the reed switch board to the DC-to-DC board.
Disconnect the reed switch cable from the DC-to-DC board.
Une autre personne a terminé cette réparation.
| 2019-04-26T12:33:13 |
https://fr.ifixit.com/Tutoriel/PowerBook+G4+Aluminum+12-Inch+867+MHz+Reed+Switch+Replacement/205
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Great work really, amazing especially to have a fully integrated theme in all parts of the desktop!
Is it possible to make it so that when closing a window through the tooltip (i.e. hover a task and then click on the "x" to close the window), focus is then kept on the tooltip instead of going back to the window that was previously in focus?
example: I'm using vlc, I want to close the pdfs I was looking before. I hover the okular task, and close the first. but then the tooltip closes and focus is back on vlc, so I have to hover okular on the taskbar again (depending on how many instances are open and how big the thumbnails, the task might even be very far on the screen!) and close the second, and so on. Wouldn't it be better, instead, to just have the tooltip updated and be able to click on the x one after each other, as you can currently in the Present Windows effect or, in taskbar, in one famous proprietary OS?
The extension is great and improving version after version.
There seems to be some problem, though, with the GoogleSharing extension: this shows a button on the toolbar with some text in. The text is green when the extension is enabled and working, red when it is not.
When using Oxygen KDE theme, though, the text is always in black, no status color is shown (while it correctly works if no theme is applied..haven't tried other themes).
when a app tab gets an "update" (for example, a new message arriving on facebook, a new tweet and so on), they normally get colored in firefox, but it seems this doesn't happen with oxygen-kde.
is there an option I couldn't find, am I getting something wrong, or is it a "bug"?
sorry to just break balls again but...why not compress it in a format that SystemSettings is able to automatically install, instead of xz?
Hey! This theme is just great, only problem is that Lancelot, notifications and other plasma dialogs (for example network-manager and all the tooltips/widgets/dialogs activated from the system tray, or the Box Switch dialog or whatever they're called) are sometimes difficult to see due to high transparency, so it really depends too much on the back standing window or the desktop background.
Do you think anything can be done?
Ehm, how did you archive the source?
bunzip2: kpartsplugin-20110823.tar.bz2 is not a bzip2 file.
it seems to be a kpart's missing feature, it's not possible to use shortcuts at all (at least in okular and some other apps' kpart), no matter if in firefox plugin loader or rekonq or whatever.
are you still mantaining this script?
It should be updated as hal is getting deprecated: it's no more in use in KDE 4.6 (so for instance Kubuntu 11.04 doesn't install hal) in Gnome and in Xfce 4.8.
Very very nice theme!! One of the most beautiful i've seen.
| 2019-04-25T00:20:08 |
https://www.opendesktop.org/u/poomerang/
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Conventional thin film nanocomposite (TFNC) membranes are based on porous membranes produced by the phase inversion method. The top barrier layer in these membranes has smaller pores with a torturous pathway and together with fairly low porosity for the supporting layer, resulting in a relatively low flux. In this study, a high flux ultra-filtration cellulose nanofiber-based (CN) membrane which consists of a three-tier composite structure, consisting of a TEMPO-oxidized cellulose nanofiber top layer, an electrospun poly(acrylonitrile) (PAN) scaffold and a non-woven polyethylene terephthalate (PET) support was used as a substrate for the thin film nanocomposite membrane preparation. The properties of the cellulose nanofiber-based membrane were fully characterized. The barrier layer of this membrane was prepared by interfacial polymerization (IP) of m-phenylenediamine (MPD) and piperazine (PIP) with trimesoyl chloride (TMC) on top of the CN membrane. The interfacial polymerization between MPD and TMC was investigated by studying the effects of the MPD concentration change, reaction time and curing temperature. Besides, the addition of PIP into the aqueous phase greatly improves the permeate flux without sacrificing the rejection ratio. When the MPD and PIP concentration were 1.5% and 0.5%, respectively, the thin film nanocomposite membrane with CN substrate exhibited a rejection of 94.6% and a permeate flux of 30.5 L/m2h, about 2 times higher than that of only 2% MPD concentration. Such thin film nanocomposite membrane has about 30% lower permeate flux than the commercial membrane, Dow FilmtecXLE-440 with a comparable rejection ratio (~95%) due to the thicker barrier layer produced by a manual preparation process. In addition, the A and B values of this TFNC membrane were 4.3 ?? 0.1 L/(m2*h*bar) and 1.54 L/m2h, compared with the commercial membrane, Dow filmtec XLE-440, 6.9 L/m2h*bar and 3.06 L/m2h, respectively. The filtration performance of this thin film nanocomposite membrane under various applied pressures (100~800 psi) was also studied.
| 2019-04-24T04:45:43 |
https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/handle/1951/59795
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Bringing about positive changes in your life is hard. Everyone knows this. But everyone also desires them. So it is seductive to believe – particularly if you have no credible way to actually bring them about – that merely wishing for them will make it so. There are many people who will try to sell you on the idea that the world is your personal genie, only with an infinite number of wishes. Of course, if this were so, there would be no unfulfilled wants or needs. The pied pipers will tell you that you are simply not wishing hard enough. If you think this account is implausible, there is now a scientific account of what works and what doesn’t when it comes to make your wishes a reality.
What is more plausible – that the world is your personal wish genie, or that your blind faith in the power of positive thinking constitutes the very chains that ultimately hold you back?
There is a downside to wishful thinking about wishful thinking or positive thinking about positive thinking. It is the sacred mission of science to replace fairy tales and superstitions with a scrupulous account of what is and is not the case. Whether that account is popular or not.
TLDR: Wishful thinking is not enough. As usual, reality is deeply ironic.
Of course all of this only applies *if* you desire to achieve personal goals and contribute in ways that is valued by society. If that is not the case, none of this applies and you are of course still free to *enjoy*. But I would argue that most (but of course not all) people have a desire to achieve and contribute, of course manifesting in different ways.
| 2019-04-20T16:55:17 |
http://pensees.pascallisch.net/?p=1861
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Emotional Intelligence is a concept that takes some effort to explain. One of the first aspects in the concept is emotional awareness. While emotional awareness can be explained, it needs to be experienced. Here's an example of training games to help you experience emotional awareness.
Emotional Intelligence: A training game for emotional awareness - My Colored Hat.
Preparation: Make paper hats of different colours. There should be as many hats as there are participants. You can choose to have anywhere from four to six colours. So if you have chosen to have six colours and there are thirty participants. There will be five hats of the same colour in the stack of hats.
In this training game each colour is designated to represent a feeling. For instance, if you have decided to play with feelings, you can have white for peaceful/tranquil, blue for joyful, green for envy/jealousy, red for irritation/anger, purple for rich/plenteous, orange for creative.
Emotional Intelligence, Process of this training game: The participants have to be told the meaning of each colour. Then they pick up a hat of their choice and stand in a circle. Once each of the participants is wearing a hat, they are expected to describe their feeling.
If it is a positive feeling they express it and give themselves permission to enjoy it.
If it is a negative feeling, they acknowledge it, and decide to bag (bracket) it for the present. They also decide to pick it up after the sessions are over and do something positive to deal with it. The objective of this training game is to replace the negative feeling with a positive one.
Emotional Intelligence - Game 2 - My Emoticon: Project the following handout and ask participants to identify how they are feeling that day from the handout.
Then let them pair-up with their partner and make their face to look like the emoticon that they have chosen.
Debrief: 1. It is harder and more stressful to make a face resembling a negative emotion. It is easier, relaxing and much more fun to copy a happy face.
2. You usually feel the emotion that is expressed on your face.
3. You can control your emotions and so determine the manner in which you will spend your day - with ease or with stress, the choice is yours.
| 2019-04-26T04:05:36 |
http://www.experiential-learning-games.com/emotionalintelligence.html
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What an was she born?
true ou false: She Was A Guest Mentor on The Voice US in 2011?
True ou False: Sia was a backup singer for Jamiroquai?
True ou False: On the 'Chandelier' musique video Maddie has the phrase "Don't think" Written on her left hand.
In which récent films have Sia's songs been featured in?
True ou False: "Lentil" is a song she wrote about one of her dogs?
True ou False: Sia Co-Wrote Lea Michele's Song "If toi Say So"?
Guess the song: "Be my friend, hold me emballage, emballage, wrap me up, unfold me I am small, and needy Warm me up, and breathe me"
What is the name of Sia's first Christmas album?
| 2019-04-18T15:01:15 |
http://fr.fanpop.com/clubs/sia/quiz
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0.999999 |
If airplanes can't use reverse thrust in flight, what am I hearing?
I've flown on a few commercial flights, and on several of them I recall a phase of the flight during descent when the engine seemed to go idle (or at least, the engine noise subsided substantially) and then all of the sudden, the engine got really loud and I could feel the plane slowing down substantially, as in, I felt the same as if I was in a car that was slowing down suddenly. This seemed to last between 5 and 15 seconds, or possibly slightly longer, and then the engines got more quiet and the noticeable deceleration stopped.
Living under an incoming flight path for a few years I have also noticed many times that a plane will be going overhead by the fact that suddenly the engine will get few loud for about the same amount of time.
This seems to be rather common, and I always assume this was reverse thrust. But today I am reading two separate questions: "Is it possible to use reverse thrust while airborne?" and "Why can't most jets safely use reverse thrust while airborne?", the answers to both of which seem to imply that using reverse thrust while airborne is very rare.
So what have I experienced / heard? I'm pretty sure it's not an airbrake, because far as I can tell a speed brake is a more passive device that doesn't involve the engine, and it would seem to defeat its purpose to spool up the engine while using it. I've never been in a seat where I could actually see the back of an engine to tell if a reverser was deployed, but I think at least in some cases the speed brakes were also deployed; from in front of the wing this made it impossible to see the back of the engine.
Update: Everyone is saying speed brakes... how long are these usually deployed for?
It is normal for engines to spool up during the approach. The initial part of the approach, from cruise level down to approximately 10 miles from the airport, is flown at flight idle power. This is the most efficient way to get down. In the final part of the approach, flaps and landing gear add so much drag that the engines need to be well above idle power.
At low speeds required for landing, the wing of the aircraft will not produce enough lift to sustain flight. To compensate for the low speed, flaps are extended. They do not only increase the lift, they also increase the drag. When the flaps are extended, suddenly the drag increases, resulting in a deceleration. Extending the landing gear has a similar effect.
Normally the flight crew will limit the time that they fly at low speed and high drag. The first couple of degrees of flaps deployment are relatively efficient;they do not add a lot of drag but allow the aircraft to fly slower. When the aircraft is about 7 to 10 nautical miles from the runway, the crew will transition the aircraft to landing configuration for the final approach. Often there is a horizontal segment before the aircraft starts a 3 degree glide path down to the runway. The crew will ensure that enough flaps (drag) is added before they start this final segment, otherwise they have difficulty reducing speed (they usually try to prevent use of speed brakes in that part of the flight). Often there is a sequence of flap and gear extension before the final descent segment starts. This causes the aircraft to decelerate from the efficient high speed configuration (flaps 2 or less on the B737) to the landing configuration. At the end of that configuration sequence the aircraft has a lot of drag and is decelerating rapidly towards the final approach speed. To stop the deceleration extra power is commanded which spools up the engines and stops the deceleration. To reduce the spool up time of the engines, the engine control system (FADEC) will give a short burst of power. This what you hear while still decelerating. When the engines are spooled up they start to produce thrust which is the end of your deceleration.
This youtube video shows how it happens. When at 28:20, the aircraft (Boeing 737) is flying horizontally, flaps 2, and is about to start decelerating and descending for landing. Keep a look at the thrust levers(right bottom corner of the screen) and the airspeed (on the left of the artificial horizon).
It begins at 28:28 when the captain ask for flaps 5, and reduces the thrust in order to reduce to final approach speed. 15 seconds later he asks for gear down and flaps 15. The speed is now reducing rapidly. Starting at 28:50 the thrust levers are moved forward, until they are reduced again at 29:08. This is the power boost you hear. In 40 seconds the aircraft is transformed from low drag / low thrust to landing configuration.
When outside the aircraft, you may be hearing the engines spool up. During approach and landing, the pilots are extending flaps and landing gear. This and the maneuvering can cause the autothrottle to spool up the engines to compensate for added drag, or the pilots may be manually adjusting the throttle, to maintain or reach a certain speed. Speed brakes are generally used when the airplane is higher and faster on approach, and when heard from the ground, the plane is more likely to be lower and slower, using throttle to adjust speed.
My guess would be that you're feeling accelerations more upwards rather than to the rear. It is common when flying a plane to need to adjust descent rate for various parts of the approach, either because different phases of the approach actually need different descent rates or to correct your glide path. When you need to decrease your rate of descent (or even level out) for a part of the approach, you do that by temporarily adding engine power. This will also usually be accompanied by pitching up a bit. I'm guessing that the forces you're feeling are the descent rate slowing down rather than the actual forward speed slowing down (though you might be doing some of that, too, if they pitch up enough.) I've experienced this commonly on commercial flights during approaches. We also make use of the engine to slow a descent/correct a glide path when flying light aircraft. Once the desired descent rate has been achieved, engine power will be reduced again, so this results in the few-to-several-second-long bursts of engine power that you're describing.
As fooot mentioned, when the gear and flaps are dropped, engine power is also added to compensate for the increased drag in order to maintain airspeed. However, this is not generally just a brief burst of power as in the above case of needing to arrest a descent rate.
As others have mentioned, there is some noise when spoilers (speed brakes) are being used to quickly slow down the aircraft in flight, but, at least in my experience, this sounds nothing even remotely like the engines spooling up. I would certainly not expect that you'd hear this from the ground.
It is, however, rather certain that you are not feeling thrust reversers. As far as I know, these are never intentionally deployed in flight on current commercial airliners (as UFO mentions, the DC-8 was actually certified for that, but I doubt you hear many DC-8s flying over these days.) There have been a few cases where malfunctions have caused them to deploy in flight, but I don't remember hearing about any cases of them being intentionally deployed in flight on current-model airliners.
Quite not possible because of the nature of reverse thrust (may not be as directional and controllable as required.) Can't say of future developments, but as of now, spoilers are the maximum possible "Airborne Braking" that can be deployed.
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| 2019-04-20T03:22:12 |
https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/12997/if-airplanes-cant-use-reverse-thrust-in-flight-what-am-i-hearing/13006
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The United States and NATO, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia want regime change in Syria. They want President Assad out of power. Now here is the strangest of things. It is anything but clear as to who are the Friends and Foes in the conflict.
For example, the U.S. is supporting the Kurds who are being bombed by Turkey who seems to be supporting ISIS who is being bombed by the U.S. who is supporting the Rebels who are fighting against the Assad regime who is fighting ISIS who is fighting the Kurds who are being supported by the U.S. who is using bases in Turkey who is bombing the Kurds who are...(and the laughable cycle goes on). In the meanwhile, hundreds of lives are being lost and an unmanageable refugee situation has developed.
- The U.S. and NATO are supporting the rebel forces.
- The rebel forces are fighting against Assad.
- The rebel forces are fighting against ISIS.
- Assad is fighting against the rebel forces.
- Assad is fighting against ISIS.
- The U.S. and NATO are bombing ISIS.
- The Kurds are fighting against ISIS.
- The U.S. is giving the Kurds air support.
- Turkey is bombing the Kurds.
- ISIS is fighting against the Kurds.
- Turkey is giving the U.S. permission to use its base to bomb ISIS.
| 2019-04-23T14:24:35 |
http://www.riccouchman.com/2015/07/lunacy-absolute-lunacy-comedic.html
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Microsoft needs to decide if it wants a business model like Apple's or Google's in smartphones, and fast.
Microsoft's new Windows Phone, the HTC One (M8). If it looks familiar, that's because it's the same as the Android HTC One announced in March. Source: HTC.
Last week Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) shook up the smartphone world when it unveiled the HTC One (M8) with the handset's namesake manufacturer. In addition, the company said 17 third-party Windows Phones are in production or will be announced shortly. And while Microsoft should be commended for moving forward with its smartphones, investors should not confuse movement with progress. As is, Microsoft's Windows Phone strategy makes no sense.
In a push to become a "devices and services" company and diversify away from its current revenue generators -- the Windows operating system and Microsoft Office -- Microsoft paid $7.2 billion for Nokia's device business. Analysts were encouraged by the purchase because it signified Microsoft was serious about operating system and hardware integration -- something that hasn't been done well outside of Apple.
However, other moves have proved contradictory to this integration thesis. First, after announcing its Nokia bid, Microsoft decided it would no longer charge a fee to hardware makers to put Windows on devices smaller than 9 inches. While the fee before the cut was only $15 per unit, this was a large step for a company that makes the majority of its revenue from licensing fees. In addition, the aforementioned 17 third-party phones seem at odds with a company looking to monetize its own hardware.
Does Microsoft want a "walled-garden" approach like Apple?
If Microsoft wants a walled-garden approach (aka a closed platform) to compete with Apple at the high end -- a tall order -- the company should focus its efforts on the Nokia deal and ignore third-party original equipment manufacturers. In the end, quality and hardware/software integration are hard to replicate when working with numerous OEMs.
Apple has been the only smartphone company to do well with the walled-garden approach. With phones designed from the bottom up with a focus on functionality and user experience, the smartphone market has been good to Apple and its iPhone line. Over the last four quarters, Apple has sold nearly $100 billion worth of iPhones -- good for over 50% of its revenue haul.
Or does Microsoft want to continue its current licensing strategy?
On the other end of the spectrum is something akin to Microsoft's current business model. If one looks to its existing strategy in computers, the goal is to present a cohesive operating system and let OEMs design and manufacture the hardware.
This strategy has been rather successful for Microsoft and made Windows the dominant operating system in computers. However, one reason for this dominance was due to first-mover advantage and continued network effects.
Obviously, the first-mover advantage can't be replicated, but when it comes to network effects, the operating system that most benefits is Google's Android -- an OS that OEMs and developers flock to due to its nearly 80% global market share.
Microsoft's announcement of the new HTC phone was inauspicious, considering the HTC One for Microsoft is merely a repurposed version of HTCs Android phone. Does Microsoft really want to compete with Google's operating system at this juncture?
Whitman appeared to be discussing tablets --particularly Microsoft's Surface product -- and Microsoft's poor Windows 8 rollout, but the delicate relationship between OEMs and operating systems is in the very least similar. If OEMs perceive Microsoft's Nokia line of phones as a threat to their success, they could abandon the relationship.
Microsoft finds itself in the midst of a turnaround. Shares of the newly invigorated company are up nearly 40% over the last year on the back of a new CEO and a continued push into the cloud. However, Microsoft needs to solve its mobile phone strategy. As is, its illogical strategy paints a picture of a company at odds with itself.
| 2019-04-20T15:17:46 |
https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/08/27/microsofts-windows-phone-strategy-makes-no-sense.aspx
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Bassist Maxime Bibeau and celebrated US composer Missy Mazzoli are seated in the subterranean rehearsal studio of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, surrounded by music stands and instrument cases, remembering their first meeting.
"You were in the middle of writing an opera," says Bibeau. "I'm sorry to say that you looked very stressed."
"Don't say that," says Mazzoli, laughing. She doesn't look too stressed now.
The opera, Proving Up, has just had its premiere in Washington, playing to full houses and rave reviews. And now, just two weeks later, the New York based composer and performer is in Australia for the premiere of Dark with Excessive Bright, a new concerto for double bass and string orchestra.
But back to that first meeting in 2016. Bibeau was there to discuss ideas for a new work to mark his 20 years as principal double bass with the ACO.
It was when Bibeau told Mazzoli about the remarkable instrument he plays – a 450-year-old creation of master luthier Gasparo da Salo – that inspiration struck.
"Imagine what it would sound like if it were possible for the instrument to accumulate all the melodies and sounds and events that it had lived through for 450 years and then to spin it into its own piece," he said. And so Mazzoli set out to tell stories from the life of a 450-year-old double bass.
Mazzoli is no stranger to storytelling.
Her first opera, Song from the Uproar, premiered to great acclaim in 2012. Her second opera, Breaking the Waves, based on the film by Lars von Trier, was described in Opera News as "among the best 21st century operas yet".
Proving Up, a ghost story set in pioneer America, has just opened in Washington, and she's now working on a new commission for Opera Philadelphia. It's a genre she has clearly embraced.
"I fell in love with music videos as a kid," she says. "I grew up in an isolated community in Pennsylvania and was not going to see operas at all, but I was obsessed with MTV. Those videos in the late '80s, early '90s, were operatic in their scope! I've always wanted to tell stories and I've always been interested in longform work and creating an immersive experience for the audience, so opera is a natural fit."
But is it difficult to move from writing for voices to instrumental composition?
"It didn't feel like that much of a leap to write a concerto coming off an opera," says Mazzoli. "The solo bass becomes a character. I conceive melodies and harmonies and texture in very human terms. They become forces which are either working with each other or against each other. Or there's a struggle inherent in the work itself, between the soloist and the orchestra, or between Max and the instrument."
The result, she explains, is heavily influenced by the baroque era, when the instrument was made, but incorporates contemporary sounds.
"I imagine it accumulating little bits from different centuries as it goes on, so that it extends all the way up to the present day."
Bibeau and the Australian Chamber Orchestra will give the world premiere of Dark with Excessive Bright, co-commissioned by Bruce and Jenny Lane for the ACO, and the UK-based Aurora Orchestra on an Australia-wide tour.
Tognetti Tchaikovsky Brahms plays in Wollongong on February 1, Canberra on February 3, Melbourne on February 4 and 5, Adelaide on February 6, Brisbane on February 12 and Sydney on February 10, 11, 13 and 14.
| 2019-04-23T20:54:04 |
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/missy-mazzolis-new-concerto-tells-stories-of-maxime-bibeaus-ancient-double-bass-20180201-h0rprc.html
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| 2019-04-22T16:20:36 |
http://hbcba-edu.cn/Alysyn7799
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Can Sarri arrest 'mentally soft' Chelsea slump?
It took 19 games for Maurizio Sarri to suffer defeat as Chelsea manager, but a stunning start to life at Stamford Bridge has quickly turned sour with the Italian lambasting his side's mental fortitude after Saturday's 2-0 defeat at Arsenal.
A fourth loss in 11 league games leaves Chelsea at serious risk of missing out on the Champions League for a second consecutive season for the first time since Roman Abramovich bought the club in 2003.
Sarri's men are still in pole position for a top-four finish, but now lead Arsenal and a resurgent Manchester United by just three points.
Moreover, Chelsea still have to visit United, as well as title-chasing Liverpool and Manchester City in their final 15 games of the league campaign.
The trend since the Blues lost for the first time under Sarri at Tottenham at the end of November suggests Chelsea will not maintain their slender advantage.
Under Abramovich, Chelsea managers don't tend to be given time if unsuccessful in their first season.
Sarri insisted he is still up for the fight, even if he accused his players of lacking the same heart.
"It seems to me that, as a group of players, they're not aggressive from a mental point of view. They don't have a ferocity in their mentality," said Sarri.
"It's difficult to change. You have to try and influence their mentality and it could take some time, or it could change with a new player coming in or an older head assuming more responsibility and driving the team on."
Sarri does seem set to get what he wanted in the signing of Gonzalo Higuain on loan from Juventus for the rest of the season to offer some much needed firepower.
However, while the former Napoli boss pointed the finger at his players, his tactics have also come under the spotlight in recent weeks.
Chelsea's early-season form owed much to the goals of Eden Hazard with Sarri claiming the Belgian was capable of scoring 40 this campaign.
Instead, Hazard has just 12 as his goals have dried up since he has been wedged into a centre-forward role due to Sarri's lack of faith in Alvaro Morata and Olivier Giroud.
In keeping with their performances of late, Chelsea enjoyed 64 percent possession against Arsenal but had just one tame shot on target to show for it.
Removing Hazard from his favoured position wide on the left of a front three has made it easier to crowd out Chelsea's most dangerous player.
Meanwhile, as Sarri demands more aggression, his most tenacious player, N'Golo Kante, is also out of position.
Kante shone in winning back-to-back Premier League titles with Leicester and in his first season at Chelsea, as well winning the World Cup with France, as a relentless holding midfielder.
However, Sarri prefers the passing of Jorginho, who he brought with him from Napoli last summer, at the base of his midfield and Kante shunted further forward.
Hazard has voiced his frustration at playing out of position and keeping him happy is a club priority as he enters the final 18 months of his contract, with Real Madrid interested in a cut-price swoop come the summer.
Teenager Callum Hudson-Odoi also seems set to snub the offer of a new deal to join Bayern Munich after becoming frustrated at his lack of first-team opportunities under Sarri.
The Italian needs to find answers quickly to arrest Chelsea's slump with the finance and prestige of Champions League football paramount to his and Chelsea's future.
Arsenal boss Unai Emery recently revealed the financial restrictions he is working under with no money available to sign players on permanent transfers this month.
Two seasons without Champions League football is part of the reason for penny pinching at the Emirates. Now Chelsea run the risk of facing a similar fate.
| 2019-04-19T18:27:21 |
https://www.france24.com/en/20190120-can-sarri-arrest-mentally-soft-chelsea-slump
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Write your own 'The Predator' review.
The director has confirmed that the film will be a sequel and not a remake because he was interested in exploring the rich mythology established in the original franchise, but it has also been described as an inventive sequel, that will not stick strictly to previous canon. The slogan in the teaser poster, "You'll never see him coming", is a reference to Iron Man 3 (2013), also directed by Shane Black. In 'Iron Man 3' the character of The Mandarin uses the line, "You'll never see me coming..." Arnold Schwarzenegger won't participate in this sequel.
| 2019-04-24T15:48:26 |
https://www.movienco.co.uk/films/the-predator/
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Actinidia callosa peel (kiwi fruit) ethanol extracts protected neural cells apoptosis induced by methylglyoxal through Nrf2 activation.
CONTEXT: Methylglyoxal (MG) is a reactive dicarbonyl compound generated as an intermediate of glycolysis during the physical glycation in the diabetic condition. MG itself has been commonly implicated in the development of diabetic neuropathy. Several active compounds in Actinidia callosa have been found to inhibit glycation and MG-protein reaction.
OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the protective effects of A. callosa (kiwi fruits) peel ethanol extracts (ACE) on MG-induced Neuro-2A cell apoptosis.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: The Neuro-2A cells pre-treated by ACE (50-200 μg/mL) or allyl-isothiocyanate (AITC) (50 μM) for 6 h, in turn, the cells were treated with MG (250 μM) for 24 h.
RESULTS: ACE or AITC treatment markedly inhibited the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and the elevation of caspase-3 and capase-9 levels induced by MG in Neuro-2A cells. ACE and AITC elevated Bcl2 and inhibited Bax expressions in MG-induced Neuro-2A cells. ACE elevated Nrf2 transcriptional activity and nuclear translocation in MG-induced Neuro-2A cells. Nrf2 down-stream molecules including HO-1 and GCL were elevated by ACE or AITC treatment in MG-induced Neuro-2A cells. The protective effects of ACE on MG-induced Neuro-2A apoptosis were attenuated while Nrf2 knockdown.
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: We established the first evidence that ACE might contribute to the prevention of the development of diabetic neuropathy by blocking the MG-mediated intracellular glycation system.
| 2019-04-20T00:24:03 |
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/kiwi-fruit-peel-extracts-might-contribute-prevention-development-diabetic-neur
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I make a healthier version of Potatoes Romanoff browned with cheese. The main difference with this one is using yogurt instead of sour cream and with slightly less cheese. A great dish to serve on thanksgiving.
1Parboil (Partially cook) or bake your washed and scrubbed potatoes till a fork can be poked with relative ease through the largest potato. Either leave the potatoes in fridge overnight or throw in the freezer for a couple hours to chill.
2Once the potatoes have chilled, shred the potatoes into a large mixing bowl.
3Add the shallots, spices, 1/2 cup of cheese, and yogurt to a mixing bowl with the shredded potatoes, and lightly toss. Add to casserole dish and add remaining 1/2 cup of cheese to top of dish.
4Put in the oven at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes. Once cheese has slightly browned, serve.
| 2019-04-19T07:27:55 |
http://bacheloronabudget.tv/recipe/cheesy-potatoes-romanoff/
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Groups that monitor government transparency and the use of federal funds are especially troubled by the trend of members on the powerful House and Senate appropriations committees -- which are in charge of setting specific money expenditures -- earmarking taxpayer money to fund lawmaker-created non-profit organizations. Rogers and Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., who like his Kentucky counterpart hails from an economically strapped region struggling to bring in new industry, stand out as prime examples of this practice, said William Allison, senior fellow at the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit group that advocates for transparency in government.
"You're using federal money to create organizations that wouldn't exist," Allison said. "They're hiring people -- sometimes bringing in political supporters. Sometimes (those supporters) promote the lawmaker as much as the group, because they're out in the community and people identify the group with the member. It amplifies the member and it raises a lot of questions."
Taxpayer advocacy groups also say such practices are an abuse of power, an example of Rogers using his political clout to channel millions in federal homeland security funds into pet projects for his district.
"When we see a member of Congress using tax dollars to create such non-profit entities, we call it phony philanthropy," said David Williams, vice president of policy for Citizens Against Government Waste, a Washington-based group that tracks federal pork. "It's easy to spend someone else's money; it's much harder to spend your own. If you set up a non-profit advocacy and they're advocating a point of view, then every citizen is advocating that view whether they agree with it or not."
One example among Rogers' earmarks is Operation UNITE. Critics say that while the program, which was created by Rogers and is poised to receive roughly $13 million in earmarks to ramp up anti-drug initiatives, has been effective, UNITE focuses too heavily on law enforcement and arrests and doesn't channel enough money into treatment and rehabilitation.
Environmentalists take issue with Rogers' continued push for increased coal-to-liquid fuels research funding, such as his $2 million earmark to the University of Kentucky's Center for Applied Energy Research. Instead, they say, greater funding should be sought for such alternative fuel sources as solar and wind power. Coal mining companies have donated heavily to the state's congressional delegation, and the mining industry is Rogers' top industry donor, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which analyzes the influence of money in politics.
Rogers stands behind his earmarks.
"Unelected and uninformed earmark crusaders do not represent the interests of my district," Rogers said. "And I don't know of anyone who has suggested that funding for any of these programs is improper."
President Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., blasted the earmark process during the 2008 presidential campaign as an unsavory method of conducting government business.
In an effort to create greater government transparency, House members were instructed to post earmark requests on their Web sites in April. The Senate will follow suit in May.
Lawmakers must publicly disclose the amount requested and the proposed recipient, along with addresses and an explanation of the project. Members also must make a written pledge that neither they nor their spouses will benefit financially from the earmark.
However, such lines are often murky.
Rogers' earmark requests include $6 million to Somerset-based Progeny Systems to develop a biometrics-based submarine access control system, $8 million to the Outdoor Venture Corp., also in Somerset, for tents that can be relocated and reconstructed by two people in 20 minutes, and $16 million to the McKee, Ky.-based Phoenix Products Inc. for aircraft drip pans.
Progeny employees gave more than $13,000 to Rogers through his campaign and his political action committee, HALPAC. Outdoor Venture Corp. president James Egnew and his wife, Azalie, contributed more than $20,000 to Rogers' campaigns; Peggy and Thomas Wilson, owner and manager of Phoenix Products, have given roughly $15,000.
Rogers sees the connection as coincidental. He says he's "never been shy about working to bring jobs to southern and eastern Kentucky" and is merely doing what he was elected to do.
"Our decisions on which projects and programs to sponsor have absolutely nothing to do with campaign contributions, period," Rogers said. "Our screening process is exactly the same for every project request we receive. The companies you mention employ over 200 hard-working citizens in one of the poorest regions of the country and are working on critical programs that ultimately protect our brave men and women in uniform fighting for freedom overseas."
Some of Rogers' earmarks support groups and causes with missions with national impact, such as the $10 million request for the Justice Department's prescription drug monitoring program, which operates in 41 states.
Rogers helped launch the program in 2002 with the help Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., and has since worked to secure more than $48 million to develop or enhance prescription drug monitoring. The competitive grant, supported by the Justice Department through its own budget submissions, is known as the Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program.
"Even the most biased activist would have to admit that providing funding for organizations that have collectively created over 10,000 jobs, trained over 8,500 hospitality workers, provided over 18,000 individuals with technology training, offered education grants to 1,700 teachers, or helped provide important tools to our rural law enforcement and first responder agencies nationwide is taxpayer money well spent," Rogers said.
Intent is one thing, using political heft to micromanage a region's economic currents at the possible expense of other congressional districts is another, Allison said.
"This is a country of 435 districts, all with their needs. With him sitting on appropriations he has a greater ability to steer these funds," Allison said. "If he is actually helping create the organizations and steer money to them, that's much more problematic. There's not enough distance between the member and the organization that's set up."
| 2019-04-21T14:35:35 |
https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/living/article29043145.html
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A guy comes into a bar and asks the barman for twelve-year-old scotch. The barman thinks "This guy is pretty pretentious" and proceeds to pour him a drink of six-year-old scotch. He gives it to the customer who takes a drink, exclaiming, "This isn't twelve-year-old scotch, this is six-year-old scotch" The barman thinks, hey this guy knows what he's talking about, and the two of them get into a conversation about where the customer is from etc.. At one point an old guy, who was sitting at the other end of the bar comes over with a glass and hands it to the customer. The latter takes a drink, and spits it out. "This is piss!" he yells. The old guy nods and says, "Yeah, but how old am I?"
An old guy walks into a bar and asks for a bottle of forty-year old Scotch. The bartender, not wanting to give up the good liquor, pours a shot of ten-year Scotch and figures that the guy won't be able to tell the difference. The guy downs the Scotch and says: "This Scotch is only ten years old! I specifically asked for forty-year old Scotch." Amazed, the bartender reaches into a locked cabinet underneath the bar and pulls out a bottle of twenty-year old Scotch and pours the man a shot. The guy drinks it down and says, "That was twenty-year old Scotch. I asked for forty-year old Scotch." So the bartender goes into the back room and brings out a bottle of thirty-year old Scotch and pours the guy a drink. By now a small crowd has gathered around the man and is watching anxiously as he downs the latest drink. Once again the guy states the true age of the Scotch and repeats his original request for forty-year old Scotch. The bartender can hold off no longer and disappears into the cellar to get a bottle of prime forty-year old Scotch. Soon, the bartender returns with the bottle and pours a shot. The guy downs the Scotch and says, "Now this is forty-year old Scotch!" The crowd applauds his discriminating palate. An old drunk who had been watching the proceedings with interest, raises a full shot glass of his own and says, "Here, take a swig of this." The guy takes the glass and downs the drink in one swallow. Immediately, he chokes and spits out the liquid on the barroom floor. "My God! That tastes like piss," he yells. "Great guess," says the drunk. "Now, how old am I?"
The following supposedly a true story.
This guy walked into a little corner store with a shot gun and demanded all the cash from the cash drawer. After the cashier put the cash in a bag, the robber saw a bottle of scotch that he wanted behind the counter on the shelf. He told the cashier to put it in the bag as well, but the cashier refused and said, "Because I don't believe you are over 21." The robber said he was, but the clerk still refused to give the scotch to him because he didn't believe him. At this point the robber took his drivers license out of his wallet and gave it to the clerk. The clerk looked it over, and agreed that the man was in fact over 21 and he put the scotch in the bag. The robber then ran from the store with his loot. The cashier promptly called the police and gave the name and address of the robber that he got off of the license. They arrested the robber two hours later.
A guy walks into a bar and rudely demands a shot of 12-yr old scotch. The bartender thinks "this guy doesn't know the difference," so he pours a shot of 2-year old scotch. The patron takes one sip and spits it out. He promptly hollers at the bartender "I said 12-year old scotch, you bozo!" Still unimpressed the bartender pours some 6-year old scotch. The patron takes a sip... same reaction. But the bartender still doesn't believe the patron knows the difference. So he pours a shot of 10-year old scotch. Again, same reaction from the patron. Finally, the bartender is convinced. He pours the patron a glass of 12-year-old scotch. The patron takes a sip and is most satisfied. All the while this has been going on, a drunk at the end of the bar has been watching. He slides a shot glass down the bar to the patron and says: "Shay mishter, tashte this!" The patron obliges... he promptly spits it out. "That tastes like pee!," he shoots back at the drunk. The drunk replies: "It ish. Now how old am I?"
| 2019-04-19T15:21:08 |
http://www.jokerz.com/alcohol/scotch-jokes
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Task: Primary Robotino wants to produce S2 at a T2. For this he assigns a sub-task to a secondary robotino. The subtask is to get an S0 to the T2. The primary robotino gets the S1 by getting an S0 -> T1 which produces an S1.
| 2019-04-26T16:11:32 |
https://trac.fawkesrobotics.org/wiki/Projects/LabRoCoCo2013?action=diff&version=3
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How much does it cost to go to school for a Psychology, General major and what are the most affordable colleges? The average annual out-of-state cost for a bachelor program in Psychology, General is $40,432 with an estimated average four year degree total cost of $161,728. The most affordable bachelor program is offered by United States Military Academy at an annual $0 out of state total cost. This represents a 100% discount from the national average program cost. University of Central Florida has the nation's most popular bachelor program for Psychology, General with 963 degrees awarded per year.
For two year Psychology, General associate programs, the average total cost per year is $19,689 with an average two year total program cost of $39,378.
| 2019-04-22T12:44:33 |
http://www.collegecalc.org/majors/psychology-general/
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The UK has been warned of the potential for a drug crisis, like the one the US is currently facing with opioids like Fentanyl, spreading across the Atlantic unless lessons are learnt quickly.
According to Ambassador William Brownfield, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, the US crisis "came on very suddenly and very unexpectedly" and the same could easily happen in Britain.
Speaking to ITV News' Julie Etchingham he said: "we are talking about a product which can very easily cross the Atlantic Ocean in a device as small as a business sized envelope, and carry a thousand doses".
He said: "Our experience suggests that Fentanyl moves very, very, quickly. Once criminal trafficking organisations figure it out, and determine both how low cost and how easy it is to transport, and how they are able to develop a market for it, it can move from a non-issue to a crisis in the shortest possible time."
He added: "I would suggest that from the British perspective you look at a country - we, ahead of any other, Canada, perhaps second to us at this point in time - and the experiences that we have had and the lessons that we have learned on dealing with Fentanyl.
"How to detect it, how to protect you own law enforcement and investigatory personnel as they deal with an incredibly toxic and illegal product, how to be aware when Fentanyl and its analogues are in fact the cause of death, how to educate the public as to how dangerous this is."
Some 52,000 deaths in the US were reportedly attributed to opioid use in 2015 and these numbers appear to be rising year on year, prompting questions over what can be done to halt this unprecedented drug epidemic - and stop it spreading to other countries.
Ambassador Brownfield warned "three years ago this was a non-issue in the USA" and "today it's the worst drug crisis that we are confronting."
To many it is the speed at which prescription opioids, heroin and Fentanyl have overtake cocaine and marijuana to become the US' three greatest drug challenges that is most alarming and makes it harder to tackle.
According to Ambassador Brownfield: "It is a battle in which we certainly are not winning. I would suggest it's a battle in which we are learning lessons in the most difficult way possible which is to say by the number of human lives lost."
What is the US opioids crisis and how could it affect the UK?
Opioids first came to prominence in the late 90s and early 2000s when US pharmaceutical firms reacted to demand for stronger faster acting pain relief drugs and lobbied to persuade doctors to prescribe synthetic forms of heroin for pain relief.
Because many people first became exposed to opioids after being prescribed by their doctor that means those hooked on the drug are not stereotypical addicts, many are middle class professionals.
The issue is that when prescriptions ran out, those who had become addicted to the drug turned to the streets to pick up cheaper and dangerous illegal substitutes and this created a black market.
Ambassador Brownfield explains that dealers "have taken what was basically a pure heroin product - which was fairly expensive to producer and transport -added Fentanyl analogues to it - which is extremely inexpensive to producer and transport - and now we have a crisis."
In the UK a couple of police forces have already become aware of Fentanyl as an issue on their patch and highlighted it as drug as potentially involved in drug overdose deaths.
Ambassador Brownfield says now it the time for the UK to halt any potential issues in their track.
He said: "We're talking about a situation in which in two years time, people might look back to you and say you were amazingly prescient in terms of identifying a problem before we realised the problem was here."
| 2019-04-23T06:18:47 |
https://www.itv.com/news/2017-07-07/uk-warned-it-could-face-opioid-crisis-unless-it-learns-lessons-from-us-experience/
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Why antidepressants don't work sometimes?
The most commonly prescribed antidepressants, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), lift the fog of depression for many people. But for around a third of people with major depressive disorder, SSRIs don't make much of a difference. Now, researchers have pinned down a possible reason why--the neurons in at least some of these patients' brains may become hyperactive in the presence of the drugs. The study appeared in Molecular Psychiatry .
"This is a promising step toward understanding why some patients don't respond to SSRIs and letting us better personalize treatments for depression," says the study's senior author.
When brain cells signal with serotonin, the neurotransmitter is released from one cell, binds to receptors on neighboring cells, and is then transported back into the first cell. SSRIs increase levels of serotonin available for signaling by blocking the transporter that normally moves serotonin back inside cells, in a process known as reuptake.
The researchers studied the range of responses to SSRIs in 803 patients with MDD. From this group, they selected three patients who achieved complete remission of their depression symptoms with SSRIs, as well as three patients with no improvement in their depression after taking SSRIs for eight weeks. The researchers isolated skin cells from all of these patients and from three healthy control subjects. They used stem cell reprogramming techniques to turn the skin cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), and from there into neurons.
"What's exciting is that we could look directly at human cells, neurons that are not usually accessible in living patients," says the first author of the new paper. "We can finally tap into the potential of looking at neurons from individuals whose medication histories, genetics and response profiles we know."
The researchers studied how the neurons derived from each person responded to increased levels of serotonin, mimicking the effect of SSRIs. When serotonin was present, some neurons derived from SSRI non-responders had significantly higher activity on average compared to the neurons of healthy individuals or SSRI responders.
Further experiments pointed the team toward two particular serotonin receptors (out of seven known in the human brain), 5-HT2A and 5-HT7. When these receptors were blocked with a chemical compound, the neurons of non-responders were no longer hyperactive in the presence of serotonin, suggesting that drugs targeting these receptors may be effective alternates to SSRIs in some patients, but more research is needed.
The methods used in the new paper can be more broadly applied to other subsets of patients with depression, the researchers say.
"I hope this opens the door to many more studies of individuals who are extreme cases in terms of how they respond to treatments," says the first author. "In turn, that will help us understand major depression in the broader population."
| 2019-04-26T16:39:32 |
http://sciencemission.com/site/index.php?page=news&type=view&id=health-science%2Fwhy-antidepressants-don
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What do Wood-type people look like?
There is such kind of people who live an unhappy life and are not nice-looking, featuring yellow and dark facial color, big brandy nose, oily face and nose; they always feel dry and bitter taste in mouth. Females are prone to get gynecological diseases while males are prone to prostatitis which can hardly be cured. This kind of people is violent-tempered and always loses temper. The cultured are relatively good while the uncultured will beat others or destroy things if they are offended. Born with the general type constitution, this kind of people will be competent and useful to family and society with an indomitable spirit if the constitution is well adjusted. On the contrary, they and people around them will live a miserable life. This is the typical wood-type people with damp-heat constitution in TCM.
Born with the wind element, wood people are just like the wind, thus quick-witted and competent. Since wind is changeable, wood types generally have unstable personality: sometimes like the storm, sometimes like the breeze; sometimes mild, sometimes stubborn. They often offend and contradict the leadership, never obey others easily.
Wood people are wise and reliable and they can cooperate with others; at work, they are motivated, confident, earnest, generous, righteous, comprehensive, compassionate and good at diplomacy.
In general, they are bold and sometimes audacious in the extreme and short-tempered. Some of them with poor self-cultivation may have the criminal mentality and certain aggressiveness.
Wood-type people always make others feel they are generals. Males are very manly while females are also a little masculine.
Whether in black, white or yellow face, wood people tend to have unclean, oily and dark skin, even pustule and furuncle on the face, chest and back. Also, they have brandy nose, red lips, yellow teeth, red gingiva and eyes, and always feel dry, bitter taste and bad breath in mouth; their tongues are red with yellow coating and they have strong body odor and perspiration.
In terms of body type, this kind of people is always tall; some are not very tall but have straight back, thus seemingly very powerful. Wood people are active and intelligent and some of them may have a heavy feeling in walking due to the heavy dampness; they basically have weak physical condition.
Wood people always listen to others with a smiling face but hesitate in speech and think while talking; they often chatter and love to talk much theory to show they are educated. However, they tend to talk about monotonous topics with warped views.
They love sour and salty rather than spicy taste; blue, green and dark rather than white or plain colors; like to study and think. Meanwhile, wood people follow the rules and work seriously; love criticism, landscapes, outing, music, swimming and fishing, etc.
Wood means ascending and represents life vitality, featuring fluent and gentle attributes. Since woods always grow upward, wood-type people tend to be energetic and lucky. If they can calm down, they will have even better luck; on the contrary, they will have bad luck and find it hard to do anything.
From the perspective of public administration, wood types are proactive and always take the lead, which often make others jealous of them. The little conflicts are very common but they should beware of breeding disasters out of accidental conflicts.
When it comes to entrepreneurship choices, wood people are suitable for some high-strength and high-intelligence jobs due to their outstanding vigor. At the same time, they have the diplomat's quality.
For the wood types, they'd better not get involved in handling a dispute because they may escalate the dispute due to their hot temper. Since they have good physical strength and strong explosive power, however, they often occupy the overwhelming superiority in sports and wars with strong confrontation.
The career of wood people generally goes well but they may suffer a setback due to their suspicion and caprice. Such people tend to yield to the blow of failure, thus leading to the low ebb of career or failure of recovering after a setback; they may even give themselves up as hopeless and do some stupid things to ruin their future.
The unstable character and hot temper of wood people often lead to the breakup and unstable marriage. If they get married with the compatible water types, however, they will have a happy love and marriage and benefit the bodies of both sides.
Male wood people are masculine and they can generally win the love of females if they can persist to pursue despite their rugged faces. Female wood people also look like tomboys who are not elegant, so they often have an unhappy love and marriage because of poor look and hot temper.
Wood-type people are prone to poor eyesight, yellowish white of the eye, flat feeling in the mouth, headache, chest distress, palpitation, neuralgia, hepatopathy, cystipathy, hernia, irregular menstruation, trance, depression, arthritis, and tumour.
Wood people tend to have heat constitution and always suffer from many diseases related with damp-heat caused by strong liver-fire and affliction from external pathogenic dampness. Since the liver adjusts the blood flow, wood people are prone to blood stasis. The liver also adjusts the mind, so wood-type people may suffer from nervous and mental diseases caused by the hurt of emotions. If they can restrain the liver-fire and clear the dampness, they can live a long life with indomitable vitality.
| 2019-04-19T03:14:25 |
https://www.yourchineseastrology.com/five-elements/wood-personality.htm
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I'm a bit of a BBQ buff. How do I find TCC apartments with a great grill?
I definitely can't blame you for wanting some good, old fashioned grilling going on at some TCC apartments! There is nothing that competes with heading out into that beautiful Florida sunshine, breaking out your "Kiss the Chef" (or equally cheesy) apron, grabbing all your grilling gear and getting your grill on. You might just work up a sweat - Florida's summers can be rather brutal - but you know you'll push through anyway because you can't beat the satisfying feeling you get when you chomp down on a burger or brot you grilled up all by yourself. But I'm getting ahead of myself - the first step is finding apartments near TCC that have the grill of your dreams!
The most efficient and effective way of finding TCC apartments that have great grills is to check out RentTally.com. The apartment guide can practically figure out what you're looking for before you know; it lets you search by countless features (in fact, over 300 of them). What you'll want to do is mosey on over to the "Find Your Apartment" on the main page - you'd be hard pressed to miss its big, red glory. You'll be brought to a results page that can be a little intimidating. Don't fret. Work your way down until you get to "Community Features" in the sidebar. Click the blue, plus sign, and you'll have the option to only search for apartments near TCC that have a community BBQ grill. If you say yes, your search will automatically refine to only include TCC apartments with the kind of grill you might just drool over - try not to drool on your computer screen though!
However, as every BBQ lover knows, sometimes you don't want to hit the grill yourself (especially if that Florida sunshine has made way for some grey skies). Sometimes, it's best to leave the grilling to the professionals - but you only want the best of the best BBQ that Tallahassee has to offer. Fortunately, Tally has oodles of savory joints to bring you that brisket or those ribs that you've been craving. You can easily search for apartments near TCC that are also near the best BBQ restaurants in town. Head on back to the RentTally.com homepage and click the "Find Your Apartment" button. On the left-hand side of the results page, find an option that reads "Distance from a Location." Click on the blue, plus sign to play with this feature, then type the address of the BBQ joint you want to be closest to. Adjust the distance you're willing to be away - you can go with anywhere between 0 and 50 miles. Once you're done, the search will adjust to only include TCC apartments that fall within that range.
Every BBQ buff deserves to find a grill worthy of him (and to have a nearby restaurant that serves really good brisket). Good luck with the hunt!
| 2019-04-24T10:50:17 |
https://www.renttally.com/help-finding-apartments/tcc-grill
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What Is a Project Acceptance Form?
A project acceptance form is a document that, when executed, signifies formal, written acceptance of the entire project. It acknowledges that all project requirements have been met and that all deliverables are complete.
Where there are formal acceptance procedures, note that each phase becomes acceptance before the final project acceptance document is signed. By the time each phase is accepted, project acceptance is typically little more than a formality.
Project acceptance does trigger events; however. An executed project acceptance document provides the project manager with authority to formally close the project.
Who Prepares the Project Acceptance Form?
The project manager prepares the project acceptance document and presents it to the person responsible for validating whether all phases have been accepted and whether the project acceptance criteria are met.
Inputs to preparing a project acceptance form include the phase acceptance documents for each project phase. Inputs might also include a deliverables list, organizational process assets and enterprise environmental factors.
Typically, the project acceptance form is presented to an authorized representative of the buying organization after all project activities are complete, after all testing is finished, after training is administered, if any, and after the project is handed over to operations.
Once the project is formally accepted, the project manager can finalize all activities across the project management process groups to formally close that project.
| 2019-04-19T06:54:40 |
https://www.mypmllc.com/project-management-resources/free-project-management-templates/project-acceptance-form/
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Huge week this week. Aaron and I discuss winning big at the casino, new houses, and the release of an all new version of Kitchen Sync!
App releases are always crazy, but the release of Kitchen Sync has been particularly nuts. Let me give you the TL;DR. Over the past three weeks, this app has gotten rejected from Apple for "bugs," then approved (with no code update) after I asked them for more information, and everything has gotten delayed twice because of two separate west coast trips.
But after all that, I finally hit the "release" button Wednesday morning. 10 minutes later, I got a call from my son's day care telling me that he was sick and that I had to come pick him up. So I got to spend KS Release Day running back and forth from the doctor's office, and coding for my day job with him on my lap.
Needless to say, I couldn't be happier that this app is finally in the App Store and available for all to enjoy. Please check it out, let me know what you think, and tell all your friends and family about how great it is regardless of what your actual opinion is.
| 2019-04-18T11:00:18 |
http://www.techdown.fm/home/2016/2/18/63-hitting-the-eject-button
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Should you do running drills ?
Q - Hey Coach. I was recently up at the Metro track Centre at York University and noticed a group of athletes doing a variety of different drills, going about 20 metres, then stopping, then walking back, then going again. I think they were mainly university sprinters.
I'm in my 40s, and run half (PB 1:55) and full marathons. Is there any point in doing these sorts of drills?
A - There can indeed be a point in incorporating mobility drills in to your training as they help increase basic athleticism. Specifically, they can help to increase agility, coordination, running posture, as well as balance. And so doing is likely to improve running efficiency by improving muscle recruitment/activation patterns.
Additionally, improved athleticism may reduce the ever present risk of injury by strengthening and enhancing the ability to recruit the accessory and stabilizing muscles.
Many of my clients have taken up road racing in there mid-30's and 40's after a relatively sedentary lifestyle, even as far back as high school, and thus may be lacking in athleticism. So I often include the prescription of running drills in their programs.
If the drills are new to you, you can get instruction youtube videos such as the one posted by the fine American runner, Lauren Fleshman, who has run 14:58.48 (yikes !) for 5 km. on the track. See her video here.
So give them a whirl...guaranteed to also improve your prowess on the dance floor.
You may have also observed athletes doing drills that involve some actual jumping as opposed to shallow skipping, or hopping. These exercises are generally termed plyometrics and they are employed to enhance muscle strength and power (i.e.,the ability to move the limbs quickly against resistance).
But for the record I almost never recommend plyometrics for adults because of the high risk of injury.
| 2019-04-20T22:15:18 |
http://www.servicesforrunners.com/qa/should-you-do-running-drills
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